[Rarebooks] fs-Shakespeare's Will

Joe Luttrell rarelaw at meyerbos.com
Thu Jun 23 22:49:05 EDT 2005


May we offer,

[SHAKESPEARE].  J. Hain Friswell (ed.).  A Photographic
Reproduction of Shakespeare's Will, Taken by Special Permission of
the Judge of the Court of Probate and Divorce.  Sampson, Low, Son
& Marston, Ludgate Hill, London, 1864.  Later wraps, the original
drab wraps bound in, somewhat crinkled and some foxing, the
tissue-guarded three photographic plates faded but legible. [70187
L77] PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=70187
                                                          $ 450.00

The rare (and possibly the earliest) facsimile reproduction of
Shakespeare's will, long bruited and debated, and regarded "[a]s
the most personal and the richest in biographical detail of the
surviving Shakespeare documents"; two copies in RLIN.

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