Author:
Title: Boydell's Graphic Illustrations of the Dramatic Works of Shakespeare
Publication Information: London: Published by Mssrs. Boydell and Co, Cheapside, 1804
Call #: Dayton Collection 822.33 77B 693 g
Book Size: 43 cm (H); 32 cm (L);' 4 cm (spine)
Cover: dark morocco (leather), gilt stamp edging on front and back covers; the spine has a gilt floral pattern with the title in gilt as well
Inside Book Covers:
Paper Edges: gilt
Illustrations: the bulk of the text
Comments:
- the text was sold in sheets, then bound
- includes a biography of Boydell
- includes a descriptive listing of the play and scenes being depicted series of engravings. Note extended title: "consisting of a series of Prints forming an elegant and useful companion to the various editions of works Engraved from pictures purposely painted by the very first artists and lately exhibited at the Shakespeare Gallery"
- probably the smallest folio size
Pedagogical Uses/Notes:
- 19th-Century British Text Production
- Canonicity of Shakespeare
- Marketing of Illustrations and Engravings
