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Publicado por Clarendon Press / Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1916
Librería: About Books, Henderson, NV, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine condition. No jacket. First Printing of the First Edition. Oxford : Clarendon Press / Oxford University Press , 1916. A handsome copy. Near Fine condition. Clean, square, tight, & unmarked. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Original blue cloth, gilt. Gilt stamping is still bright and shiny. Volume 1 only (of 2). First printing, with "In the Tercentenary Year" and "1916" on the title page. 100 illustrations, mostly full-page plates inserted. With the handsome armorial bookplate of H. Stanton (designed by "HAW" in 1913) with the Latin phrase: EXALTAVIT ME IN PETRA. "The purpose of this book is to describe the habits of the English people during Shakespeare's lifetime." Volume I begins with ODE ON THE TERCENTENARY COMMEMORATION OF SHAKESPEARE by Poet Laureate, Robert Bridges (See McKay 48). Includes sections on: The Age of Elizabeth; Religion; The Court; The Army; The Navy; Voyages and Exploration; Land Travel; Education; Scholarship; Handwriting; Commerce and Coinage; Agriculture and Gardening; Law; Medicine; The Sciences; Folklore and Superstitions; The Fine Arts; Heraldry; Costume; The Home; London and the Life of the Town; Authors and Patrons (by D. Nichol Smith); Booksellers, Printers and the Stationers' Trade (by R. B. McKerrow); Actors and Acting; The Playhouse; The Masque; Sports and Pastimes; Rogues and Vagabonds; Ballads and Broadsides; Shakespeare's English. . First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine condition/No jacket. 8vo. xxiv, 546pp.