SHAKESPEARIANA

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[ Shakespeariana collection of Prof. Wilhelm Wetz of Freiburg. ] Printed catalogue by Joseph Baer & Co. of 'English Langugage and Literature including a Collection of Shakesperiana partly from the Library of the late Professor W. Wetz of Freiburg'.

Author: 
Shakespeariana; Wilhelm Wetz (1858-1910), Professor at the University of Freiburg [ Joseph Baer & Co., Ancient and Modern Booksellers, Frankfurt, Germany; William Shakespeare ]
Publication details: 
Joseph Baer & Co. Ancient and Modern Booksellers, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Catalogue No. 592. No date. [1911.]
£120.00

209pp., 8vo. In printed wraps, with contents page on inner front cover. Aged and with worn spine, on browned high-acidity paper. The catalogue contains 4510 items, with around 10% (472 items, numbered 2041-2513) under the headings 'Shakespeare' (2041-2208) and 'Shakespeariana' (2209-2513), and including sections of 'Separate Plays' (2082-2137) and 'Translations' (2143-2208). The catalogue also contains sections on other notable authors, including Ossian, Bulwer-Lytton, Macaulay, Thomas Moore and Ruskin. No other copy traced, either on OCLC WorldCat or on COPAC.

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[Two printed items.] 'Correct Detail of the Ceremonies attending the Shakspearean Gala, celebrated at Stratford-upon-Avon' and 'Ode upon dedicating the Town Hall, and erecting a Statue to Shakspeare, during the Jubilee at Stratford-upon-Avon.

Author: 
J. Jarvis, Reporter to the London Journals [John Bacon; The Shakespearian Gala, Stratford-upon-Avon, 1827; Garrick's Jubilee, 1769; Hallam Fordham]
Publication details: 
First item ('Correct Detail'): Stratford-upon-Avon: Printed for, and published by, J. Bacon, Chapel-street; and by J. Onwhyn, Catherine-street, Strand, London. [1827.] Second item ('Ode'): Stratford-upon-Avon: Printed at the Shakspearean Press. 1827.
£235.00

Both items bound together in nineteenth-century worn brown-cloth 8vo binding, with 'THE JUBILEE 1827' in gilt on the spine. Ownership inscription on front pastedown of the actor and theatrical writer Hallam Fordham, dated Oxford 1942. ONE: Full title: 'Correct Detail of the Ceremonies attending the Shakspearean Gala, celebrated at Stratford-upon-Avon, on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, April 23, 24, and 25, 1827; Together with some Account of "Garrick's Jubilee," in 1769; By J.

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Everything New? Or Nothing New? A Satirical Comicality, Relating to Men, Manners, Incidents, and Novelties of the Day. [...] To which is added, The Shakespeare Tercentenary Prologue, As Spoken by the author, April 23, 1864.

Author: 
William Scribble, Esq.' (pseudonym of William Smyth (1813-1878), Irish portrait painter, satirist and friend of William Makepeace Thackeray)
Publication details: 
Dublin: William Robertson, 35, Lower Sackville-street, And may be had of Wiseheart, and all Booksellers. 1864. [Goodwin, Son, and Nethercott, Printers, 79, Marlborough-street, Dublin.]
£225.00

12mo: 24 pp. In original pink printed wraps: the front wrap bearing the title; the recto and verso of the rear carrying newspaper reviews of works by 'Scribble'. Stitched. On aged and spotted paper. Wraps heavily worn. A worn presentation inscription can be made out at the head of the title: 'Dr <?> With the Authors Best regards'. Pp.1-2: Introduction and Author's Preface (the latter dated 'Dublin, May, 1864.').

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