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Shakespeare's comedy of The tempest (Quarto)

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Type of record: Book

Title: Shakespeare's comedy of The tempest (Quarto)

Other titles: Tempest

Level: Item

Classmark: BC Gen quarto SHA

Creator(s): Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Additional creator(s): Dulac, Edmund (1882-1953) (Illustrator); Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur Thomas (1863-1944) (Author of introduction, etc); Peter Harrington, London (Bookseller); JW Robinson Co, Los Angeles (Bookseller)

Related people: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

Publication city: London

Date(s): [1908]

Language: English

Size and medium: xxiv, 143 pages

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/748697

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991020014395605181

Description

Frontispiece and 39 colour plates tipped in on mounts.


Introduction ("The story of The tempest") by A.T. Quiller-Couch.

Features

Leeds University Library copy at Brotherton Collection Gen quarto SHA: loose excerpt from Peter Harrington, London sale catalogue for this item.


Bindings


Leeds University Library copy at Brotherton Collection Gen quarto SHA: original blue cloth, gold tooled on cover and spine, brown dust jacket with colour plate on front cover.

Provenance

Leeds University Library copy at Brotherton Collection Gen quarto SHA: Gifted in 2022 in memory of David Lindley (1948-2021), Professor of Renaissance Literature. Printed bookseller's label on rear pastedown: From the books of JW Robinson Co, Seventh [and] Grand Los Angeles.

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