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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 ...

Geoffrey Chaucer, Workes, 1602 - title page, p.a1r

A Shakespeare source in England’s mediaeval poetry. Geoffrey Chaucer’s works, written in the time of Richard II, at the end of the 13th century, were known and admired by Elizabethan contemporaries ...

Geoffrey Chaucer, Workes, 1602 - The Booke of Troilus begins. Fol.143, Bb5r

Chaucer’s Troilus, a source for Shakespeare. Shakespeare’s debt to the work of Geoffrey Chaucer is primarily to the poem Troylus & Creseyde, which is a direct source for the play of Troilus ...

George Eliot, Adam Bede decorative binding.

Illustrated edition by Gordon Browne. Publisher unknown. Printed by W and R Chambers Ltd London and Edinburgh. George Eliot (born Mary Ann Evans) was a local authoress based in the Coventry and Nuneaton ...

George Eliot, Agatha, 1st Edition - title page

This poem was written after a visit to a peasant's cottage in Germany with Lewes. George Eliot (born Mary Ann Evans) was a local authoress based in the Coventry and Nuneaton district, from 1819-1880. Full ...

George Eliot, Brother and Sister, 1st Edition - title page

These poems draw on her relationship with her brother Isaac and their childhood growing up in Nuneaton. George Eliot (born Mary Ann Evans) was a local authoress based in the Coventry and Nuneaton ...

George Eliot, Impressions of Theophrastus Such... , frontispiece with portrait

George Eliot (born Mary Ann Evans) was a local authoress based in the Coventry and Nuneaton district, from 1819-1880. An original engraving of this portrait is held by the National Portrait Gallery, ...

George Eliot, Impressions of Theophrastus Such..., - portrait

George Eliots' portrait and title page of 'Impressions of Theophrastus Such'. The watercolour drawing by Caroline Bray, (1814-1905) dates to around 1842. The original is in the collections of the National ...

George Eliot, Impressions of Theophrastus Such..., 1st Edition - title page

George Eliot finished the manuscript in 1878 but it wasn't published until 1879, as she wanted to leave a respectful time between Lewes' death and it's publication. This was her last work before she died. George ...