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 : 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 / by James Boaden.
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 : 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 / by James Boaden.
Created/published
London : Printed for Robert Triphook, 1824 (B. M'Millan, printer)
Description
iii, 143 p., [5] leaves of plates : ports. ; 29 cm
"Illustrated by accurate and finished engravings, by the ablest artists, from such originals as were of indisputable authority." Plates are the Jansen portrait, Droeshout engraving, Stratford bust, Chandos portrait, and Marshall engraving. The larger of two editions issued in 1824.
Exhibited
Copy 2. Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 1992. Fine and Historic Bookbindings (catalog entry 13:2) Copy 2 Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2014. Shakespeare's the Thing. Opening: Closed.
Cited/described in
Folger Shakespeare Library. Fine and historic bookbindings, 13.2
Red cloth boards, reinforced at spine. Edges untrimmed.
Folger accession
cs853
Call number
ART Vol. f111 copy 2
Folger-specific note
In a Cosway binding by Riviere & Son.
Call number
ART Vol. f111 copy 3
Folger-specific note
Extra-illustrated, with copious manuscript annotations by George Scharf, Secretary and Keeper of the National Portrait Gallery; ALS from Alex. Macmillan to Scharf, other miscellaneous items tipped in.
Call number
ART Vol. b70 copy 4
Folger-specific note
Extra-illustrated.
Call number
ART Vol. b70 copy 5
Folger-specific note
Extra-illustrated. Bound with: Rider, W. Views in Stratford-upon-Avon and its environs. Warwick : J. Merridew and W. Rider, 1828.
