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- Collection: Past is Prologue : The Bard
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Illustrations of Shakspeare [sic]
These nineteenth-century wood engravings with captions demonstrate a type of storytelling akin to today’s graphic-novels. Every play has six vignettes with a line from the play followed by scene number.
The Plays of William Shakespeare in Fifteen Volumes with Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators to Which are Added Notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens
This landmark edition contains 150 illustrations and is commonly referred to as “Steevens’ own edition.” Literary editor and Shakespearian expert George Steevens (1736-1800) was a renowned scholar of Elizabethan literature and accumulated a large…
Miss F. A. Kemble
An item from the Fanny Kemble Playbill Collection documenting Kemble's early years on the English stage.
The First and Second Volumes of Chronicles
Raphael Holinshed intended his “universal cosmographie” to serve as both a comprehensive geographical and historical description and a testament to the growing influence and prestige of English scholarship. This edition was heavily censored after…