Binding: Bound in contemporary white cloth with faded title in gilt on red label on spine. Imperfect: frontispiece wanting. Autograph on front pastedown "For Misses Clark's school library 1115". Additional notes under Western bookplate."1115" shelfmark? repeated on titlepage. Small note written upsidedown on verso of final page: "Ann Arbour August 5th 1845"
"The ten Chromolithographs drawn on stone and printed by Vincent Brooks. The thirty-two Woodcuts engraved and printed by Edmund Evans." Gilbert’s mock-up of this volume now in the collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library (ART Vol. d53). (From Folger)
Added t.-p. : Bibliotheca Shakspeareana von 1564 bis 1871. Eine Shakespeare bibliographie aller länder der welt mit bibliographischen einleitungen in englischer sprache, von Franz Thimm. 2. ausg. London und Leipzig, F. Thimm, 1872.
With reproduction of original title-pages. No more published. Not identical with the editor's "Shakespeare's centurie of prayse," pub. the same year. (From Omni, Same appears in Folger) Postscript to general introduction to Shakspere allusion-books, signed: C.M. Ingleby, bound by mistake in New Shakspere society, Transactions no. 2 (1874, pt. II) (From Folger) [Blake: Same issue here; RA may have been taking copy-specific notes from Folger, need to keep an eye on this. Should still check our copies to see if they are signed though.