To John Mansell Smith, presentation album [graphic]

Stratford-upon-Avon : [s.n.], 1922.

96 p : ill.

paper

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Great Britain -- England.

FAST ACC 271248 (quarto)

From dealer's description: "Shakespeare-themed presentation album from Stratford residents to John Mansell Smith 'in grateful recognition of his many services to the Stratford-upon-Avon Brotherhood... November 1922'. There is a soft brown leather binding to this small oblong quarto with the Brotherhood's emblem, a pair of clasped hands set within a sycamore leaf, in gilt to the upper board. Brown marbled end-papers and calligraphic dedication and emblem to the first two leaves followed by nearly a hundred pages of inscriptions which include drawings of the 'Radcliffe Library, Oxford' and a pen and ink drawing of Holy Trinity by Frank Holte as well as an engraving of New Place and many inscriptions, frequently with Shakespearean sources. The first inscription from the President of the association used 'heart as sounds as a bell' from Much Ado about Nothing with further excerpts from Shakespeare by Edward Fox and D S Murray, a quotation from Henry IV Pt II and from 'Winefred V Barker' a gouache of 'Titania's Bower (A Midsummer Night's Dream)' showing a drowsy recumbent Titania accompanied by her fairies. As well as the Shakespeare gobbets there is Bacon from R Latimer Greene, Ruskin, Tennyson and many more. Further research would no doubt reveal the roles played in and around Stratford by many of the 90 or so signatories. Fred Winter who ran the town's Department Store offers the wisdom of Polonius 'To thine own self be true...' a watercolour of the 'War Memorial' by M Cattell is a reminder of the recent cataclysm of the Great War." Ordered from Modern First Editions D9318, 2019-07-01, email quote.

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