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Tragedy of King Lear / by William Shakespeare.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Roycroft 112
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
- Standardized Title:
- King Lear
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lear, King of England (Legendary character).
- Fine bindings--New York (State)--East Aurora--Specimens.
- Fine bindings.
- Fine books--New York (State)--East Aurora--Specimens.
- Fine books.
- Lear, King of England (Legendary character)--Drama.
- Lear.
- Inheritance and succession--Drama.
- Inheritance and succession.
- New York (State)--East Aurora.
- Fathers and daughters--Drama.
- Fathers and daughters.
- Kings and rulers--Drama.
- Kings and rulers.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Specimens.
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection)
- Physical Description:
- 147 pages ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- East Aurora, N.Y. : Roycroft Shop, 1904.
- Notes:
- The text body is set in Scotch Roman and printed on Roycroft handmade water marked paper. The regular edition was bound in paper over boards with a suede spine. The watermark incorporates W. W. Denslow's trademark Sea Horse with the Roycroft cross and orb. The other variants of this book include a special limited edition of 100 bound in 3/4 or full Levant and printed on Japan vellum which was illumined, numbered and signed in Elbert Hubbard's name, an edition of 18 printed for The Roycrofters Dramatic Club ...----cf. Roycroft Books [online resource]
- "So here endeth the tragedy of King Lear ... now done into a printed book by The Roycrofters, at their shop, which is in East Aurora, Erie County, New York. MCMIV"--Colophon.
- Local Notes:
- Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Roycroft Press imprints presented to the Penn Libraries in 2012.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy bound in 1/2 suede over marbled boards.
- Cited in:
- McKenna, P. Roycroft, 100
- Ogle, David. On a high shelf, OB-092-04
- Other Format:
- Online version: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. King Lear. Tragedy of King Lear.
- OCLC:
- 1125706
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