John Heminge and Henry Condell : friends and fellow-actors of Shakespeare, and what the world owes to them / by Charles Clement Walker.

John Heminge and Henry Condell : friends and fellow-actors of Shakespeare, and what the world owes to them / by Charles Clement Walker.

[London] : [C.J. Clay & Sons], 1896.

[London] : Swan Electric Engraving Co.

3 preliminary leaves, [3]-26 pages, 7 unnumbered plates : frontispiece ; 22 cm

Printed for private circulation only, and distributed at unveiling of monument.

On leaf preceding frontispiece: "July 15, 1896. Unveiling the monument to John Heminge and Henry Condell, friends and fellow-actors of Shakespeare, at St. Mary the Virgin, Aldermanbury, London, by the Rt. Hon. the lord mayor of London. Presented to ... by Charles Clement Walker."

Plates attributed to "Swan Electric Engraving Co.," a photogravure firm located in London.

Great Britain -- England -- London, -- manufacture place, -- publication place.

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Red cloth boards, stamped in gold. All edges gilt. Illustrated bookplate on green paper: 1902 Ex-libris Angli poetae Richardi Caroli Jackson, F.S.A., London. Manuscript annotation on bookplate: My presentation plate. Manuscript annotation in red and black ink on preliminary leaf [1]: Richard C. Jackson hys book [Vth?] May [MCMIIJ?]. [three dots in inverted triangle] Presented to me by my ever to be remembered gentle friend Sir Theodore Martin K.C.B., on the occasion of reading over to him the completed arrangements with respect to the National Memorial to SHAKESPEARE (London's) which I am trying to found on the Bankside, Southwark, this 5th day of May above written. This is the author's presentation copy, with his letter to Sir Theodore, asking his kind advise [sic] upon several matters. Manuscript annotation in black ink on preliminary leaf [2]: What is Education? Carlyle said to me, when a boy, "He had no fear for the future greatness of England, as long as the youth of the country read the Bible & Shakespeare." Richard C. Jackson, F.S.A. Pasted-in ahead of presentation leaf: letter (one sheet folded to four pages) from Charles Clement Walker to Sir Theodore Martin, dated July 21, 1896. Presentation leaf is filled out to Sir Theodore Martin K.C.B. in Walker's hand.

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