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Shakespeare's Household Words: a selection from the wise saws of the immortal bard
1859, Griffith & Farran
in English
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Edition Notes
Date taken from McLean, Ruari. Victorian book design and colour printing, 1972.
Chromolithographed decorative t.p.
Black lithographed text with chromolithographed red rules and wide decorative borders.
Preliminary plate with full-page chromolithographed border around central mounted oval collotype showing a bust of Shakespeare. Plate is unsigned and without imprint.
Interleaved.
McLean, Ruari. Victorian book design and colour printing, p. 134.
MASS copy 1: Bound in light red-brown pebble-grain cloth blocked in gold and blind with white and blue paper onlays blocked in gold. Covers with signature: "JL" [i.e. John Leighton]. Spine with imprint: "Griffith and Farran". Boards with bevelled edges; a.e.g. With teal green glazed endpapers.
MASS copy 2: Bound in red pebble-grain cloth blocked in gold and blind in the same design as copy 1. Covers with white, green and black paper onlays blocked in gold. Covers with signature: "JL" [i.e. John Leighton]. Spine with imprint: "Griffith and Farran". Boards with bevelled edges; a.e.g. With teal green glazed endpapers. With binder's ticket: "Bound by Bone & Son, 76, Fleet Street, London.".
MASS copy 3: Bound in brown morocco blocked in gold, black and blind. Boards with bevelled edges; a.e.g. Board turn-ins blocked in blind. With marbled endpapers. With presentation inscription dated Dec. 1859.
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