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Kellett, Jan, compiler.
Shakespeare's Harvest: Quotations from His Plays with Illustrations from Old Herbals. Malvern: De Walden Press, 1999. 14 leaves.
2 1/2" x 2 1/8".
49 copies.
Accordion fold. Severn hand-colored illustrations. Bound in brown leather stamped in gold in a black leather case with a gilded sterling silver clasp in the shape of an alpine strawberry. Laid in a blue cardboard box lined in white cloth. Title of book on label on box.

Love.
[ North Chatham, NY]: Honeybee Press, [2004]. 8 leaves.
2" x 1 5/8".
[The letterpress is a line from Midsummer Night's Dream.]
#44 of 100 copies.
Printed on English boxwood with hand-colored engravings by Sandy Connors. Bound in blue decorated paper.

The Miniature Book Collection of Shakespeare's World.
Montreal: Roger Huet, 2000.
Consists of:

  • Hentzner, Paul. Atmosphere Theatre in 1598. 28 pp. Marbled end papers. Bound in black leather, gilt. Huet, Vanessa. Actors in Sixteenth Century England. 30 pp. Marbled end papers. Bound in dark blue leather, gilt.
  • Huet, Vanessa. Collected Insults of Shakespeare. 31 pp. Marbled end papers. Bound in brown leather, gilt.
  • Huet, Vanessa. Elizabethan Playwrights. 31 pp. Marbled end papers. Bound in red leather, gilt.
  • Huet, Vanessa. The Elizabethan Theatre Companies. 31 pp. Marbled end papers. Bound in green leather, gilt.
  • Huet, Vanessa. The Life of William Shakespeare. 31 pp. Marbled end papers. Bound in dark blue leather, gilt.
  • Huet, Vanessa. Quotations from Shakespeare. 31 pp. Marbled end papers. Bound in dark brown leather, gilt.
  • Huet, Vanessa. Theatres in Shakespeare's Time. 31 pp. Marbled end papers. Bound in black leather, gilt.
  • Huet, Vanessa. Who Wrote Shakespeare's Plays? 31 pp. Marbled end papers. Bound in dark brown leather, gilt.
  • Lupton, Donald. Speech on Theatre. 30 pp. Marbled end papers. Bound in green leather, gilt.
  • Nashe, Thomas. A Poet's Complaint (1592). 31 pp. Marbled end papers. Bound in black leather, gilt.
  • Willis, R. A Play in the Countryside in 1639. 30 pp. Marbled end papers. Bound in ivory leather, gilt.

    • 1" x 7/8".
    Housed in a suede-lined rosewood case.
    199 copies.

    The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments.
    New York: Oxford University Press, American Branch (printed in Glasgow by David Bryce), [1911]. 676 pp.
    1 7/8" x 1 3/8".
    Brown leatherette ("The binding is a representation of the poet's family Bible in the Shakespeare memorial.")
    Chained to a custom built lectern (pasted on the base is a note on chained books).
    The "Bryce Shakespeare Bible"--so-called because between the Old and New Testament is a "Note on the Shakespeare Family Records" by W. S. Brassington, along with a facsimile of Shakespeare records in the parish register at Holy Trinity Church.


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    The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments.
    Glasgow: David Bryce; London: Henry Frowde, n.d. 676 pp.
    1 3/4" x 1 1/4".
    Light brown leatherette ("The binding is a representation of the poet's family Bible in the Shakespeare memorial.") Tucked into a leather flap on the back pastedown is a miniature magnifying glass. Enclosed with the original box (stained), the label on which reads: "Smallest Bible in the World with Shakespeare's Family Records in Facsimile from the Parish Register, Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon."


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    Polonius' P's & Q's.
    Berkeley: Poole Press, 2002.
    2 11/16 x 2 3/8".
    Designed by Maryline Poole Adams.
    #11 of 45 copies.
    Opens 360 degrees to form a three-dimensional carousel (ca. 13 cm. diameter) of six pop-up/peepshow scenes. Each scene has two pop-up and one background colored illustrated panels on paper; all six scenes are mounted in a black cloth binding with printed paper title label and balsa stage onlay, and fore-edge fastener; housed in a balsa, board illustrated paper model of the Globe Theater.

    Blair, J. Talfourd, ed.
    The Illustrated Pocket Shakespeare.
    8 volumes.
    Glasgow: Bryce, n.d.
    3 1/2" x 2 11/16".
    Bound in red leatherette, gilt. (spines darkened and some damaged).
    Housed in a filigree brass case with figures and scenes from Shakespeare thereon (with a worn purple silk lining in the interior).

    Players in Shakespeare.
    San Francisco: Juniper von Phitzer, 2000.
    2 1/2 x 2 1/2".
    Made up of 2 accordion folds (on the left and on the right) decorated with pasted on illustrations of Shakespeare characters (12 to each accordion fold). In the middle is a fold-down stage with a pop-up silhouette of two players; architectural backdrop. The accordion folds and stage are mounted on a strip of dark blue leather which, when closed, forms the binding of the book; one cover has a cut-out portrait of Shakespeare, the other, a royal blue piece of leather with the title in gilt. Housed in a black paper slipcase, with the title on one side and the publications details on the other.
    33 copies.
    Presenting the Seven Ages of Man by Mr. William Shakespeare as Rendered Movingly by Mrs. Maryline Poole Adams.
    Berkeley: Poole Press, 1994.
    2 1/2 x 2 1/8".
    45 copies.
    Pop-up book. Enclosed within a in a book-box model of the Globe Theater.
    Bradbury, p. 185 #30

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