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The Works of Shakspere Revised from the Best Authorities; With a Memoir, and Essay on His Genius... also, Annotations and Introductory Remarks on The Plays, by Many Distinguished Writers: Illustrated with Engravings on Wood, From Designs by Kenny Meadows.
The Works of Shakspere Revised from the Best Authorities; With a Memoir, and Essay on His Genius... also, Annotations and Introductory Remarks on The Plays, by Many Distinguished Writers: Illustrated with Engravings on Wood, From Designs by Kenny Meadows.
  • The Works of Shakspere Revised from the Best Authorities; With a Memoir, and Essay on His Genius... also, Annotations and Introductory Remarks on The Plays, by Many Distinguished Writers: Illustrated with Engravings on Wood, From Designs by Kenny Meadows.
  • The Works of Shakspere Revised from the Best Authorities; With a Memoir, and Essay on His Genius... also, Annotations and Introductory Remarks on The Plays, by Many Distinguished Writers: Illustrated with Engravings on Wood, From Designs by Kenny Meadows — photograph 2.
  • The Works of Shakspere Revised from the Best Authorities; With a Memoir, and Essay on His Genius... also, Annotations and Introductory Remarks on The Plays, by Many Distinguished Writers: Illustrated with Engravings on Wood, From Designs by Kenny Meadows — photograph 3.
  • The Works of Shakspere Revised from the Best Authorities; With a Memoir, and Essay on His Genius... also, Annotations and Introductory Remarks on The Plays, by Many Distinguished Writers: Illustrated with Engravings on Wood, From Designs by Kenny Meadows — photograph 4.
  • The Works of Shakspere Revised from the Best Authorities; With a Memoir, and Essay on His Genius... also, Annotations and Introductory Remarks on The Plays, by Many Distinguished Writers: Illustrated with Engravings on Wood, From Designs by Kenny Meadows — photograph 5.
  • The Works of Shakspere Revised from the Best Authorities; With a Memoir, and Essay on His Genius... also, Annotations and Introductory Remarks on The Plays, by Many Distinguished Writers: Illustrated with Engravings on Wood, From Designs by Kenny Meadows — photograph 6.
  • The Works of Shakspere Revised from the Best Authorities; With a Memoir, and Essay on His Genius... also, Annotations and Introductory Remarks on The Plays, by Many Distinguished Writers: Illustrated with Engravings on Wood, From Designs by Kenny Meadows — photograph 7.
  • The Works of Shakspere Revised from the Best Authorities; With a Memoir, and Essay on His Genius... also, Annotations and Introductory Remarks on The Plays, by Many Distinguished Writers: Illustrated with Engravings on Wood, From Designs by Kenny Meadows — photograph 8.
  • The Works of Shakspere Revised from the Best Authorities; With a Memoir, and Essay on His Genius... also, Annotations and Introductory Remarks on The Plays, by Many Distinguished Writers: Illustrated with Engravings on Wood, From Designs by Kenny Meadows — photograph 9.
  • The Works of Shakspere Revised from the Best Authorities; With a Memoir, and Essay on His Genius... also, Annotations and Introductory Remarks on The Plays, by Many Distinguished Writers: Illustrated with Engravings on Wood, From Designs by Kenny Meadows — photograph 10.

The Works of Shakspere Revised from the Best Authorities; With a Memoir, and Essay on His Genius... also, Annotations and Introductory Remarks on The Plays, by Many Distinguished Writers: Illustrated with Engravings on Wood, From Designs by Kenny Meadows

Shakspere, William and Barry Cornwall (Ed.) · London

Author
Shakspere, William and Barry Cornwall (Ed.)
Date
1846
Place
London
Publisher
William S. Orr and Co.
Language
English
Binding
4to.(6.5" x 10") 3 volumes. half brown pebbled leather with corners, fancy gilt rule to all leather edges, over brown cloth boards. Spine with five gilt decorated raised bands, gilt author to gilt rule bordered second compartment, gilt vol#/subtitle to gilt rule bordered fourth compartment, triple gilt rule frame with fancy gilt corners to each other compartment, fancy gilt rule to head and foot of spine. Title page in black and red. All edges marbled, marbled endpapers. Illustrated with many full plate engravings and hundreds of in-text illustrations. Edgewear, predominantly rubbing to edges, corners bumped and rubbed. Covers scuffed, soiled in places, with lighter spots to front cover of Vol.I. 2" x .5" inkstain to lower portion of first few pages of vol.I, affecting frontispiece and title page, not affecting image or text. Vol. II with 6 lines of neat manuscript notes from prior owner to first free flyleaf. Vol. III with dampstains to top of the first few plates only, not affecting image. Overall, a beautiful set of Shakespeare.
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History & Americana
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S.I.6305

The Works of Shakspere Revised from the Best Authorities; With a Memoir, and Essay on His Genius... also, Annotations and Introductory Remarks on The Plays, by Many Distinguished Writers: Illustrated with Engravings on Wood, From Designs by Kenny Meadows

Author: Shakespeare, William (b.1564-1616) 4to.(6.5" x 10") 3 volumes. Shakespeare, William 1846 London. William S. Orr and Co. half brown pebbled leather with corners, fancy gilt rule to all leather edges, over brown cloth boards. Spine with five gilt decorated raised bands, gilt author to gilt rule bordered second compartment, gilt vol#/subtitle to gilt rule bordered fourth compartment, triple gilt rule frame with fancy gilt corners to each other compartment, fancy gilt rule to head and foot of spine. Title page in black and red. All edges marbled, marbled endpapers. Illustrated with many full plate engravings and hundreds of in-text illustrations. Edgewear, predominantly rubbing to edges, corners bumped and rubbed. Covers scuffed, soiled in places, with lighter spots to front cover of Vol.I. 2" x .5" inkstain to lower portion of first few pages of vol.I, affecting frontispiece and title page, not affecting image or text. Vol. II with 6 lines of neat manuscript notes from prior owner to first free flyleaf. Vol. III with dampstains to top of the first few plates only, not affecting image. Overall, a beautiful set of Shakespeare.

From Wiki: Bryan Waller Procter (pseud. Barry Cornwall) (21 November 1787 – 5 October 1874) was an English poet who served as a Commissioner in Lunacy. His principal poetical works were: Dramatic Scenes and other Poems (1819), A Sicilian Story (1820), Marcian Colonna (1820), Mirandola, a tragedy performed at Covent Garden with Macready, Charles Kemble and Miss Foote in the leading parts (1821), The Flood of Thessaly (1823) and English Songs (1832). He was also the author of Effigies poetica (1824), Life of Edmund Kean (1835), Essays and Tales in Prose (1851), Charles Lamb; a Memoir (1866), and of memoirs of Ben Jonson and William Shakespeare for editions of their works.

Joseph Kenny Meadows, (November 1790–August 1874) better known as Kenny Meadows, was a British caricaturist and illustrator. He is best known for the drawings that he contributed to Punch and for his illustrations of scenes from Shakespeare's plays. Much of his work was drawn in a humorous bohemian style. Meadows often read Shakespeare and memorized many passages. He published a volume of illustrated scenes from Shakespeare in 1843. Though he and several of his friends considered this work to be his masterpiece, some reviewers criticized his interpretations of several characters. It was particularly well received in Germany, however. He continued working on depictions of scenes from Shakespeare for his entire life.

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