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Call Number:

PH-02340

Collection Name:

The Shakespeare birthday book

Creator:

unidentified photographer

No. of Items:

14 items

Span Dates:

1876

Description:

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. The Shakespeare birthday book. Compiled by Mary F.P. Dunbar. London, Hatchards, 1876. Inscribed: Chryssa Mitchelle Nenes (?) February 2nd, 1876. Photographically illustrated book containing fourteen mounted albumen prints. Titles follow:

964:3631:0001 -- Shakespeare;

964:3631:0002 -- Shakespeare’s Birthplace Stratford-On-Avon;

964:3631:0003 -- Shakespeare’s Courtship;

964:3631:0004 -- Shakespeare Brought Before Sir Thomas Lucy;

964:3631:0005 -- The Merchant of Venice;

964:3631:0006 -- The Taming of the Shrew;

964:3631:0007 -- King Lear;

964:3631:0008 -- A Midsummer-Nights Dream;

964:3631:0009 -- Shakespeare and his Contemporaries;

964:3631:0010 -- Hamlet;

964:3631:0011 -- King Henry VIII;

964:3631:0012 -- Merchant of Venice;

964:3631:0013 -- Othello;

964:3631:0014 -- King Lear.

Accession No(s):

964:3631:0001-0014; Gernsheim, Helmut, 1913-, former owner.

Location(s):

PR 2771 S52 1876 HRC-P (964:3631:0001-0014)
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