Giambattista Geraldi Cinthio, Hecatommithi, 1580 - binding
A continental binding contemporary with Shakespeare.
Vellum was occasionally used for decorative bindings, especially on the continent of Europe. This binding, probably from Venice, has neat gilded ...
Giambattista Geraldi Cinthio, Hecatommithi, 1580 - printer's device, title page volume 2, detail.
A printer's device on a Shakespeare Italian sourcebook.
Many of the books to be found on the bookstalls of cosmopolitan Elizabethan London were imported from the printing houses of France, and Italy. ...
Giambattista Geraldi Cinthio, Hecatommithi, 1580 - title page, Vol 2.
A source in Italian for Shakespeare.
It is not known whether Shakespeare ever travelled abroad, but several Italian sources for his plays had no published English translation at the time he was writing. ...
Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron, 1620 - Book 2, p.112r.
A ribald tale in a Shakespeare sourcebook
Shakespeare’s wide range of reading gave him a knowledge of many Italian writers and their work that he might potentially use in his plays, or poems. ...
Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron, 1620 -Book 2, title page
A Shakespeare source translated into English.
The two volumes of the Decameron in the English translation by John Florio came from the workshop of the same printer, Isaac Jaggard, who was responsible ...
Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron, 1620 [and] 1625- binding, spine detail
A Shakespeare source with a fine binding.
The finely detailed gold tooling on Boccaccio's Decameron, in the Shakespeare Centre Library, is the work of a skilled member of the nineteenth-century London ...
Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron, 1620, [&] 1625 - binding view
A Shakespeare source with a fine binding.
The elegant binding of this volume dates from the late nineteenth-century and replaced whatever original leather was given to the volume in 1625 when it was ...
Giovanni Boccaccio, The Modell of witt [Decameron Book 1], 1625 - title page, p.A2r.
Italian stories provide source material
Giovanni Boccaccio is known chiefly for Decameron, which was written in 1353. This is a collection of a hundred tales told by ten people who have taken refuge ...
John Fletcher and William Shakespeare, The Two Noble Kinsmen, [London], 1634 - title page
Shakespeare collaborates on writing a play.
Towards the end of his career in London Shakespeare collaborated with the younger playwright, John Fletcher in the writing of Henry VIII in 1612, and then ...
John Gerarde, The Herball, 1597 - title-page
An owner of a volume contemporary with Shakespeare has replaced a missing title-page.
The decorative title-pages of books have occasionally been damaged, or removed by their owners. This copy of ...
Leamington Advertiser, Warwick Observer and Beck's Weekly List of Visitors
A copy of the Leamington Advertiser, Warwick Observer and Beck's Weekly List of Visitors, dated 25 September 1864.
Leamington and Warwick Times
A Leamington and Warwick Times advertising poster printed on the first page of the newspaper, 28 March 1874.
Leamington Daily Circular
The Leamington Daily Circular newspaper from the 10th May 1899. The front cover displays adverts, including one for Chandler's Jewellers.
Leamington Spa
A framed broadsheet entitled Lemington Spa, c.1800. The broadsheet uses an analogy with the spa waters to create a satire on the political situation with France, 1st January 1800.
Leamington Spa Courier
A copy of the Leamington Spa Courier newspaper, town edition, Saturday 18th December 1897.
Leamington Spa Courier
A copy of Leamington Spa Courier dated 21 October 1882. The edition contains an account of the stone-laying ceremony at the New Municipal Buildings in 1810.
Leamington, Warwick, Kenilworth and District Daily Circular
A copy of the Leamington, Warwick, Kenilworth and District Daily Circular, dated 18 December 1912.
Leamington, Warwick, Kenilworth and District Daily Circular
A copy of the Leamington, Warwick, Kenilworth and District Daily Circular, dated 13 April 1904.