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A Midsummer Nights Dream, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, 1939
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`Boke of Scraps relating to Shakespere his House'
ER1/129. `Boke of Scraps relating to Shakespere his House : a collection made by Theodosius Purland, Ph.D, 1847-1864. The volume consists of newspaper cuttings, printed matter, letters, conditions of sale, advertisements, circulars, playbills etc. relating to the sale by auction of Shakespeare's Birthplace and to the funds raised for its purchase in 1847; contains material up to 1864. Folio 45 recto, Playbill: Henry V and Rob Roy. Performed at Tghe Royalo Olympic Theatre, Friday August 26th, 1847. Fundraising performance. Dimensions (H, W): Playbill 510 x 260mm.
Binding 320 x 260 x 90mm
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The Graphic Gallery of Shakespeares Heroines - Anne Page by William Ernest Henley
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SBT SC4 35 7 Shakespeare Memorial Theatrefrom Bancroft Gardens
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SBT SR 90 1 Latham Latham's Falconry 1615 83428755 title page book 2
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An embroidered Sweet Bag, late sixteenth-century
SBT 1992-86. A late sixteenth-century sweet bag; dark pink silk satin ground, embroidered with yellow and pink silk flowers and green/yellow foliage in silk and metal threads, the border and background are also embellished with silver spangles; lined with gold/pink silk; seven-colour plaited drawstring and cord; the drawstring has acorn terminals worked in metal threads; the bottom of the bag has three tassels attached to loops covered with metal thread; the two corners of the bag have intertwined bullion thread motifs.
Face 1 - detail view.
Dimensions: Bag - 110mm (H) x 250mm (max W) 125mm (opening)
Cord - 325mm
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Poster advertising the Sale of the Birthplace, Thursday, 16th Se
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Shakespeare First Folio facsimile engraving by John Swaine
SR OS 37 (8300002X). Shakespeare First Folio, 1623. Mr. VVilliam Shakespeares comedies, histories, & tragedies. Published according to the true originall copies. Editors' dedication signed: Iohn Heminge. Henry Condell. Printed at the charges of W. Iaggard, Ed. Blount, I. Smithweeke, and W. Aspley. 1623.
The Binding is 1/2 calf with marbled paper boards, probably bound for Robert Bell Wheler before c.1850. This First Folio was acquired by Robert Bell Wheler (1785-1857) c.1820; it was bequeathed to his sister Miss Anne Wheler, who donated it to the Shakespeare Museum in 1862.
This fragmentary copy is recorded in the Lee Census 143, Class IIIB; West No. 38; Introductory pages are missing. Lacks 65 leaves incl. preliminaries, Tempest, Othello, parts of Two Gentlemen of Verona, Lear, Antony and Cleopatra, Cymbeline; 12 shorter leaves introduced from other copies(?); facsimile portrait engraved by John Swaine; several leaves misbound; minor tears repaired; some MS. ink marginal notes.
Frontispiece, facsimile portrait engraved by John Swaine.
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First Folio frontispiece engraving by Martin Droeshout, 1623
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