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[Pamphlet] What is the Shakespeare Mystery? An Address delivered to the Birmingham and the Stratford-on-Avon Rotary Clubs

Author: 
[Horace Nickson, Rotarian] "Rotarian Horace Nickson's Startling Address".
Publication details: 
Reprinted from 'Rotaria', October 1930.
£56.00

7pp., 8vo, printed paper wraps, grubby, stapled, contents good only. No other copy traced on COPAC etc.

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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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[Victorian printed Shakespeare ephemera] Illustrated 'Description' of Shakespeare's Birthplace, together with tickets of admission to it, and to Ann Hathaway's Cottage, and a letterhead of the Shakespeare Memorial, carrying notes of books.

Author: 
Richard Savage, Secretary and Librarian to the Trustees, Shakespeare Memorial, Stratford-upon-Avon [Ann Hathaway's Cottage; William Shakespeare]
Publication details: 
The first three items dated 1895-6. All items dated in hand 25 October 1895. ['Description' by Edward Fox, Printer, 1, High Street, Stratford-upon-Avon.]
£150.00
London Society for promoting Christianity among the Jews, Cambridge University A

A nice collection of Victorian Shakespeare ephemera. All four items with text clear and complete, on lightly-aged and worn paper. The 'Description' is printed in red, on both sides of a piece of paper 13.5 x 18 cm, with both vertical edges perforated. 'This may be retained as a Souvenir' along one edge. Dated at end 'RICHARD SAVAGE, Secretary and Librarian to the Trustees. | 1896-6.' Along head of first page: 'The Committee request that no Gratuities be offered to the Attendants.' Numbered 22989 in black.

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