Festival Programme for Royal Spa Centre Literary Evening
This is a programme for a literary evening held at the Royal Spa Centre, Leamington Spa on the 10th May 1984.
First World War Next of Kin Plaque: Official Letter
A letter from Warwick Record Office which accompanies a victory medal issued to Private Henry Harold Burford, 16th June 1921. The medal was awarded posthumously to Private Burford. He died at Passchendaele ...
First World War Recruitment Letter
A typed letter from Whitehall, dated April 1915. The letter requests a response to the demand for more men to go to war. It include discussion on recruiting from shops and trades.
First World War Recruitment Letter
A handwritten letter from Downing Street requesting the householder to complete a form regarding the members of the household in order to produce a register for possible recruits, November 1914.
First World War Recruitment Letter
A letter from the War Office by the Director-General of Recruiting, requesting recruits.
First World War Recruitment Letter Envelope
A brown printed envelope addressed to the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, for householders to return information regarding the members of their families.
Ford Sports Club Letter
A letter sent to Mr L.P James from the General Secretary of Ford Sports Club on 1st March 1956. The letter was attached to the Rules and Bye-Laws of Ford Sports Club - 1952, but has since been torn off. ...
Gasparo Contarini, The commonwealth and government of Venice, 1599 - Prefatory sonnet, p. A4r detail.
An Elizabethan courtier promotes a book known to Shakespeare.
In 1599 one of Sir John Harington's poems praised the diplomat lawyer, Lewes Lewkenor's first translation into English of the Italian Garpar ...
Gasparo Contarini, The commonwealth and government of Venice, 1599 - 'Ayre of Venice', p.192
A source for Shakespeare’s knowledge of Venice.
Shakespeare’s tragedy of Othello begins in Venice, where the Moor is general of the Doge’s forces, and Desdemona is the daughter of ...
Gasparo Contarini, The commonwealth and government of Venice, 1599 - binding
A hard-wearing vellum binding of Shakespeare's time.
This volume is in its original binding of flexible vellum, with a hand-sewn spine. Vellum (a kind of leather from very young, still-born, or foetal ...
Gasparo Contarini, The commonwealth and government of Venice, 1599 - Book 5 - p. 125 detail.
The law of Venice inspired Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice.
The trial in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice (4,1, lines 15-36) of Antonio for non-repayment to Shylock of his loan, and ...
Gasparo Contarini, The commonwealth and government of Venice, 1599 - p.133.
A Shakespeare contemporary writes about Venice.
The lawyer Lewis Lewkenor travelled in Europe, perhaps as a spy working against the English Catholics. He translated Contarini's book on Venice, first ...
Gasparo Contarini, The commonwealth and government of Venice, 1599 - printer's ornament, p. 98, N4v.
A woodcut as decoration.
Woodcuts used to ornament Elizabethan texts were frequently ornate and often symbolic of ideas contained within the text with which they are associated. The cherubs with lute ...
Gasparo Contarini, The commonwealth and government of Venice, 1599 - title page.
A handbook on Venice for Shakespeare's contemporaries.
In 1599 Sir Lewis Lewkenor translated from the Italian Gaspar Contarini’s Della Republica et Magistrati de Venetia. This was the first book ...
Gasparo Contarini, The commonwealth and government of Venice, 1599 - To the Reader - p. A4r.
A Shakespeare contemporary travels to Venice.
Sussex born lawyer, Sir Lewis Lewkenor (c. 1556-1626) was remotely related to the Combe family of Stratford-upon-Avon, which might, perhaps, have resulted ...
Geoffrey Chaucer, Workes, 1602 - binding in fine leather
A ‘morocco’ binding chosen by a ‘collector’.
The scarlet goatskin and gold tooling of this binding, created by Francis Bedford, was finished in the late nineteenth-century ...
Geoffrey Chaucer, Workes, 1602 - Family tree, p. A6r.
The author's family tree illustrates a Shakespeare sourcebook.
In this finely printed edition the preliminary pages of Chaucer’s Works include a portrait of the author, surrounded by an elaborate ...
Geoffrey Chaucer, Workes, 1602 - The Knight's Tale, Fol. 1, B1r.
The source for Shakespeare and Fletcher's play The Two Noble Kinsmen.
Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, in which pilgrims each contribute a story to entertain their fellow travelers, begins with the ...