An Inquiry into the Authenticity of Various Pictures and Prints, which, from the Decease of the Poet to Our Own Times have been Offered to the Public as Portraits of Shakspeare [Shakespeare]: Containing a Careful Examination of the Evidence on which they Claim to be Received; by which the Pretended Portraits have been Rejected the Genuine Confirmed and Established. Illustrated by Accurate and Finished Engravings, by the Ablest Artists, from Such Originals as were of Indisputable Authority
by BOADEN, James
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Lewes, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Printed for Robert Triphook, 1824.. First edition. 8vo. (iv), viii, 206, (2) pp. Early drab cloth spine with a handwritten spine label, later armorial bookplate of a Francis Harold Barnes to the verso of the front free endpaper. Frontispiece and 4 plates, all portraits. Slight wear to the head of the upper joint, else very good.
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- Bow Windows Bookshop (GB)
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- 45335
- Title
- An Inquiry into the Authenticity of Various Pictures and Prints, which, from the Decease of the Poet to Our Own Times have been Offered to the Public as Portraits of Shakspeare [Shakespeare]: Containing a Careful Examination of the Evidence on which they Claim to be Received; by which the Pretended Portraits have been Rejected the Genuine Confirmed and Established. Illustrated by Accurate and Finished Engravings, by the Ablest Artists, from Such Originals as were of Indisputable Authority
- Author
- BOADEN, James
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: Printed for Robert Triphook
- Date Published
- 1824.
- Keywords
- Art
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Bow Windows Bookshop has a large general stock of old and fine books and maps. Owned in partnership by Ric Latham and Jonathan Menezes, we buy and sell all manner of titles from early leatherbound volumes to modern first editions. We exhibit at bookfairs in the UK and North America and issue regular printed catalogues. Located in the beautiful county town of Lewes in the south-east of England, we are open six days a week. All our books are described as accurately as possible and we abide by the Code of Good Practice of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association
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