Entered on the Stationers’ register 2 May, 1608, as by "Wylliam Shakespeare". Evidence available is not sufficient to ascribe the play to him - cf. Camb. Engl. lit., etc.
At head of title: ... Shakspere's plays. and George Gissing's copy, with his autograph and manuscript notes, inscribed by him: "Acted at Lind. [Lindow] Grove Xmas 1873." Bookplate: George Matthew Adams.
Publisher:
Ireland & Co.,
Subject (Name):
Gissing, George,--1857-1903--Autograph and Gissing, George,--1857-1903--Ms. notes
Manuscript copy, in an unidentified seventeenth-century hand, of a text of Macbeth very similar to the Sir William Davenant version published in 1674. Ten pages supplied in a modern hand.
Description:
Binding: 18th century marbled boards; contemporary cloth case., Formerly owned by Sir William Turner., and Several additions on slips of paper attached to the pages with sealing wax are possibly in the hand of Sir William Turner.
Subject (Name):
D'Avenant, William,--Sir,--1606-1668, Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616, Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616.--Macbeth, and Turner, William,--Sir,--1615-1692--Ownership
Phelps, Samuel, 1804-1878 Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Sinclair, Henry
Published / Created:
1823?]
Call Number:
Ig 6i 823a
Image Count:
3
Alternative Title:
Macbeth
Description:
Apparently detached from the edition: Plays ... accurately printed from the text of correct copies left by Steevens and Malone ... London: Printed for the trade, 1923. and Title in manuscript on cover. Manuscript notes throughout.
Barton, Cutts, d. 1780 Craven, Elizabeth Craven, Baroness, 1750-1828 Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Published / Created:
1778
Call Number:
Osborn pc158
Image Count:
5
Alternative Title:
Selections
Description:
Men and women of the time described (under initials) by passages from Shakespeare. Attributed to Rev. Barton Cutts by Halkett and Laing; also attributed to Lady Craven, cf. note to Dyce collection copy; also attributed to Sir Henry Bate and Lady Dudley, cf. Jaggard's bibliography.
Publisher:
Printed, and sold by D. Brown, and all the booksellers in town and country,