Bible. English. The Bible translated, 1576 - blank leaf following Old Testament front page, owners' notes
Births and deaths recorded in a Bible of Shakespeare's time.
Family notes recording the birth of a son to Edward Lumley in 1695, and the death of Mary, the wife of a later owner, Robert Mason, in 1780 ...
Bible. English. The Bible translated, 1576 (Geneva version) - notes on verso of front flyleaf .
An owner’s family notes in their Bible from Shakespeare's time.
This Bible has notes by a number of former owners whose signatures appear on the title-page. On the flyleaf a late Victorian owner ...
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 ...
Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron, 1620 - title page, book 2
A Shakespeare source with a fine binding.
This volume's fine binding given to it by a nineteenth-century owner, is in green Morocco goatskin, with fine gold-tooling, including decoration along the ...
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 ...
Henri Estienne, A mervaylous discourse upon... Katherine de Medici, 1575 - inside frontboard
Thomas Phillipps' ownership of a book Shakespeare may have owned.
The great nineteenth century collector of manuscripts and books, Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), marked his books MHC for his ‘Middle ...
John Gerarde, The Herball, 1597 - hand drawn detail added to title page.
Garden detail replaced in an amateur way by an owner of a volume contemporary with Shakespeare.
This copy of the first edition of Gerade’s Herball has original hand-colouring of all the illustrations ...
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 ...
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1600 [1619] - binding view
A smart 19th century binding on a Shakespeare 'quarto'.
The ‘quarto’ editions of Shakespeare’s work were published as slim pamphlets. The original binding of this volume, would probably ...
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1600 [1619] - bookplate
An owner’s bookplate in a Shakespeare ‘quarto’.
The ownership of books is frequently indicated by a label or ‘bookplate’ created for an individual owner. The label of ...
William Shakespeare, Mr William Shakespeares comedies, histories and tragedies..., 1623, 'First Folio' - binding front board
The ‘'cottage-roof'’ style binding for a Shakespeare ‘First Folio’.
Lord Ashburnham’s binding for his copy of the Shakespeare 'First Folio' is simple, but elegant, created ...
William Shakespeare, Mr William Shakespeares comedies, histories and tragedies..., 1623 , 'First Folio', - binding view
A ‘folio’ owned by The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.
The tooling on the spine of this copy of the Shakespeare 'First Folio' matches the restraint of the work on the front and back boards ...