Shakspeare's songs and sonnets / illustrated by John Gilbert

William Shakespeare

RA Collection: Book

Record number

22/163

Author

Imprint

London: Sampson Low, Son, and Co., 47 Ludgate Hill., MDCCCLXII

Physical Description

30 pages, [12] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 36 cm.

General Note

At the foot of the 2nd Content page: “The ten Chromolithographs drawn on stone and printed by Vincent Brooks. The thirty-two Woodcuts engraved and printed by Edmund Evans.”
“These Songs and Sonnets, by the “Immortal Bard,” have been chosen as much for the opportunity they afford for picturesque treatment by the Artist, as for their literary excellence. St. John’s Wood, November 1861. J.C.”
With a half-title.

Copy Note

The rear pastedown carries the binder's ticket of Leighton Son & Hodge.

Binding Note

Brown cloth decorative boards stamped in blind and gold, bevelled boards; gilt edges. Lettered in gilt on spine: "Shakspeare's songs & sonnets"

Subject

Illustrated books

Contributors

Sir John Gilbert RA, illustrator
Vincent Brooks, lithographer
Edmund Evans, wood-engraver, printer
Sampson Low, Son and Company (London), publisher
Leighton, Son and Hodge, binder