Shakespeare and His Birth-Place: Containing A Biography of the Poet, and a Guide to Stratford-Upon-Avon and Its Vicinity

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Published by T. Nelson and Sons, London, 1859

About this Item

This scarce guide to Stratford-Upon Avon details the relationship between Shakespeare and his hometown. A first edition of this travel handbook for Stratford-Upon-Avon published by T. Nelson, featuring a detailed biography of Shakespeare. With eleven colour-tinted plates, collated and complete. Following an introduction to Shakespeare's ancestry, childhood, youth, and public life, the volume offers a history of the playwright's home town and the poet's associations with specific buildings. Prior owner's bookplate to the front pastedown. The book previously belonged to John Hewetson. With a sixteen-page catalogue of publisher's adverts to the rear. In the publisher's original green cloth binding. Externally, generally smart. The cloth is discoloured to the bottom edge of the front board. Lightly rubbed to the boards, more so to the spine, which is bumped to the head and tail. Internally, generally firmly bound, with a little strain at pages 80 to 81, and pages 96 to 97. Aside from some light spotting to the front and the rear of the volume, pages are bright and clean. Very Good.

Seller Inventory # 857N26

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Shakespeare and His Birth-Place: Containing A Biography of the Poet, and a Guide to Stratford-Upon-Avon and Its Vicinity
• Publisher: T. Nelson and Sons, London
• Publication Date: 1859
• Binding: Cloth
• Illustrator: None
• Edition: First edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Book Type: book