"All the etchings are by the author."--Author's note, v. 1., Essays on Shakespeare's female characters; published also under title: Shakespeare's heroines., and From the Coleridge family's Chanter's House Library, Ottery St. Mary, Devon, with presentation inscription to Jane Fortescue Seymour from John Duke Coleridge, dated 1863.
Publisher:
Saunders and Otley,
Subject (Name):
Seymour, Jane Fortescue--Presentation inscription from J.D. Coleridge and Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616--Characters--Women
Manuscript on paper of an Anonymous comedy in five acts in prose, based on various amorous plots, the scene being laid in Florence.
Description:
Binding: Nineteenth century. Quarter binding, marbled paper over cardboard and parchment spine. On the spine red leather title label with gold-tooled inscription: “COMMEDI / MANOSCRITT / XVI SECOL”., No decoration., and Script: One hand, writing Humanistica Cursiva. Corrections by a contemporary hand very close to the scribe's hand.
Subject (Geographic):
Florence (Italy)--Fiction
Subject (Topic):
Italian drama (Comedy), Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library