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The picturesque beauties of Shakspeare : being a selection of scenes from the works of that great author / engraved under the direction of Charles Taylor.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Collection C92.2 Sm4
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smirke, Robert, 1752-1845.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Illustrations.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
- Genre:
- Illustrated works.
- Physical Description:
- 41 unnumbered leaves, 40 plates ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Publish'd at C. Taylor's ... and at Mr. Taylor's bookseller ..., [1783-1787]
- Notes:
- Forty plates illustrating As you like it, Macbeth, Hamlet, Merry wives of Windsor, Much ado about nothing, Twelfth night, Merchant of Venice, Cymbeline, Winter's tale, and Romeo and Juliet (4 plates for each play) each with a leaf of quotation. Engraved by Charles and Isaac Taylor, jun. (one each by William Sharp and Joseph Thornthwaite) from drawings by Robert Smirke and Thomas Stothard. Plates dated 1783-87.
- OCLC:
- 9862695
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