Shakespeare's works.

Creator:

Knickerbocker Leather & Novelty Co., publisher
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616

Published/Created:

New York :
Knickerbocker Leather & Novelty Co.,
[ca. 1895]

Physical Description:

24 v. ; each 80 mm., in box 14 x 19 cm.

Notes:

Title from box; 24 v. in leather box, as originally issued. From the Geraldine Page papers.
Issued in black leather box. Individual volumes are bound in different colored leather. Each volume includes a portrait of Shakespeare.
Comedy of errors and Venus and Adonis are bound in one volume (p. 1-147 and [149]-252, respectively), each with a separate title page.
Published ca. 1895. Cf. Studies in bibliography, v. 58, p. 220.
As you like it -- Antony and Cleopatra -- The Comedy of errors -- Venus and Adonis -- Hamlet -- Julius Caesar -- King Henry IV, parts I and II -- King Henry V -- King Henry VI, parts I, II and III -- King Henry VIII -- King Lear -- Macbeth -- Measure for measure -- Merchant of Venice -- Merry wives of Windsor -- Midsummer-night's dream -- Much ado about nothing -- Othello -- Romeo and Juliet -- Taming of the shrew -- The tempest -- Twelfth night.

Variant Titles:

Plays. Selections

Topics:

Miniature books--Specimens

Topics:

Page, Geraldine--Ownership

Language:

English

Genre:

engravings (AAT)
Frontispieces (Illustrations)
Plays
portraits (AAT)

Format:

Mixed Material

Rights:

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Access Restrictions:

Public

Related Exhibit or Resource:

Remembering Shakespeare

Call Number:

Za P144 Zz895S

Orbis Record:

9673290

Yale Collection:

Beinecke Library

Digital Collection:

Yale Collection of American Literature

oid pointer:

1378516

OID:

10001684

PID:

digcoll:3711997