Remarks on the life and writings of William Shakspeare : written for Whittingham's edition of his plays in 1814 : revised and much enlarged in March 1818 : with a list of essays and dissertations on his dramatic writings
1818
Remarks on the life and writings of William Shakspeare : written for Whittingham's edition of his plays in 1814 : revised and much enlarged in March 1818 : with a list of essays and dissertations on his dramatic writings
1818
"Not for sale."--Title page Includes bibliographical references ("Essays and dissertations on the writing of Shakespeare": pages [44]-52) Boston Public Library. Catalogue of the Barton Collection Cataloged Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy G.3940.12 is the third of three items bound together in a volume titled "Britton--William Shakespeare." This volume is quarterbound in green morocco and papier tourniquet. The armorial bookplate of the Barton Library is present on the front pastedown. T.P. Barton's instructions to his binder are laid onto the rear pastedown. This copy is interleaved, with occasional annotations, some in Britton's hand, including a bibliographical note on the blank sheet bound-in after page 52. Also bound into this volume are [1]: a note, from Britton to John Russell Smith, dated Oct. 18, 1855, and [2]: Tributary lines to John Britton, Esq., author of "Architectural and cathedral antiquities of Great Britain," &c. &c. / by Thomas Clark. Each of these items are also cataloged separately Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copies cataloged under call no. G.3940.15, nos. 8, 10, and 11 are corrected proofs of this edition
