Leamington, Warwick, Kenilworth and District Daily Circular
A copy of the Leamington, Warwick, Kenilworth and District Daily Circular, dated 17 December 1912.
Leamington, Warwick, Kenilworth and District Daily Circular
A copy of the Leamington, Warwick, Kenilworth and District Daily Circular, dated 14 December 1912.
Leamington, Warwick, Kenilworth and District Daily Circular
A copy of the Leamington, Warwick, Kenilworth and District Daily Circular, dated 15 July 1904.
Leamington, Warwick, Kenilworth and District Daily Circular
A copy of the Leamington, Warwick, Kenilworth and District Daily Circular, dated 16 July 1904.
Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso, 1634 - binding view.
A contemporary expensive decorative binding on a Shakespeare source text
The fine gold tooling, and leather spine label are original to this volume, indicating a wealthy first owner who commissioned ...
Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso, 1634 - title page, prelim.p.1r.
An English translation of a Shakespeare source.
Shakespeare also knew the work of the Italian Renaissance poet Ludovico Ariosto. Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso was published in Italy in 1516, and ...
Mary Ann's Coventry home
Illustration of Bird Grove, Foleshill, Coventry taken from 'Impressions of Theophrastus Such'. From 1841 to 1849, this was the home of Mary Ann and her father.
The drawing dates to around 1843, but ...
Michel de Montaigne, The Essayes, 1603 - binding front board
A binding contemporary with Shakespeare, with its owner's blind-stamp mark, dated 1603.
The plain leather boards of this volume are the original binding created for its first owner, whose personal ...
Michel de Montaigne, The Essayes, 1603 - title page
A French text translated by an associate of Shakespeare.
English born, John Florio, son of a protestant Italian refugee, was tutor to Lady Jane Grey, and later to Shakespeare’s patron Henry Wriothesley, ...
Nuneaton. Midland Daily Tribune building, bomb damage
Bomb-damaged Midland Daily Tribune building, taken from Vicarage Street, Nuneaton. Old mill (with chimney) right. Courtauld's Tower (with clock) on skyline. 1940s
Nuneaton. Tom Price, editor of the Nuneaton Observer
Mr Tom Price, editor of The Nuneaton Observer, sitting at his desk, Bond Gate , Nuneaton. May 29th 1969
Plutarch, The lives of the noble Grecians and Romaines, 1603 - binding view
A notable binding contemporary with Shakespeare.
A royal coat-of-arms was stamped in gold on this volume in the seventeenth century. The same gilded ownership coat-of-arms adorns the back as the front ...
Plutarch, The lives of the noble Grecians and Romaines, 1603 - binding, front board
The front board of a Shakespearian sourcebook.
The original owner of this book probably purchased it from the printer, a friend of William Shakespeare, Richard Field, or from his publisher Thomas Wight. ...
Plutarch, The lives of the noble Grecians and Romaines, 1603 - detail, printer and publisher imprint
The imprint of Shakespeare’s fellow Stratfordian.
Richard Field, who was two years older than Shakespeare, was son of Henry Field, a Stratford tanner. In September 1579, at the age of seventeen ...
Plutarch, The lives of the noble Grecians and Romaines, 1603 - title page, printer's device
A printer’s ornament known to Shakespeare.
Each Elizabethan printer used a personal ‘device’ on the title page of his work. Richard Field, the printer who came from Stratford, used ...
Plutarch, The lives of the noble Grecians and Romaines, 1603 - title page.
Shakespeare’s source for stories of Greece and Rome.
Shakespeare’s contemporary, the lawyer and scholar Sir Thomas North (?1535 - 1601) translated the biographies of fifty Greek and Roman ...
Plutarch, The lives of the noble Grecians and Romaines, 1612 - title page.
A favourite book of William Shakespeare, printed by a fellow Stratfordian.
North’s translation of Plutarch’s Lives was first printed by Thomas Vautrollier in 1579. The book's success led ...
Portrait of Mr Richardson
A black and white photograph by Sarney of Mr Richardson, editor of the Leamington Advertiser. 103mm x 63mm