Identity area
Reference code
Add. MS a/355/2/2
Title
Note from R. W. Chapman to R. B. McKerrow
Date(s)
- 25 Feb. 1926 (Creation)
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1 single sheet
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Scope and content
(Oxford?)—Cites an advertisement for an 18th-century edition of Shakespeare issued in a choice of seven bindings.
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Transcript
25/2/26
Stockdale in 1785 advertised a one-volume Shakespeare in royal octavo {1} at the following prices:—
[The items in the following list are braced together on the right-hand side:]
Boards 15s.
Calf 17s. 6d.
Calf gilt 18s.
Russia 19s.
Vellum 21s.
Morocco extra 25s.
Tortoiseshell 63s.
This is much more elaborate than anything I have noted. It shows that publishers’ binding had gone far!
RWC
R. B. McKerrow Esq.
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Marked ‘noted’ at the head by McKerrow.
{1} No. 346 in Murphy’s Shakespeare in Print (2003).