Carved wooden casket [realia]
Burdett-Coutts, Angela Georgina, 1814-1906, former owner.; Burdett-Coutts, W. (William), 1851- former owner.; Folger, Emily C. J. (Emily Clara Jordan), 1858-1936, former owner.; Folger, Henry Clay, 1857-1930, former owner.
1864

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Title
Carved wooden casket [realia]
Created/published
[England], [between 1864 and 1866]
Description
1 box
Associated name
Burdett-Coutts, Angela Georgina, 1814-1906, former owner.
Burdett-Coutts, W. (William), 1851- former owner.
Folger, Emily C. J. (Emily Clara Jordan), 1858-1936, former owner.
Folger, Henry Clay, 1857-1930, former owner.
Note
Presumably the prototype for the casket carved from Herne's oak by William Perry (Folger Wood no.14). Designed to hold Burdett-Coutts's Shakespeare First Folio and quarto edition of Shakespeare's poems (Folger STC 22273 Fo.1 no.05 and Folger STC 22344 copy 1, respectively) which she had acquired indirectly from the George Daniel sale, sold by Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 20 July 1864, lot nos. 1416/1457.
Provenance
From the collection of the Baroness Burdett-Coutts auctioned by Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 15 May 1922, lot no. [401A], not mentioned in the sale catalog. Bought by the Folgers through the Rosenbach Co., Philadelphia, by Philip H. Rosenbach for £5.5.0.