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
Imperfect: title page wanting and supplied in facsimile; leaf A2 mutilated and restored.
Publisher:
Printed by Iohn Norton, and are to bee sold by William Sheares, at his shop at the great South doore of Saint Pauls-church; and in Chancery-lane, neere Serieants-Inne