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Creator:
Green, Charles Frederick
Title(s):

The legend of Shakspeare's crab tree : with a descriptive account, showing its relation to the poet's traditional history / by Charles Frederick Green (late of Stratford-on-Avon) ; illustrated by a series of nine lithographic prints, from sketches taken by him at the spot.

Additional Title(s):

Shakespeare's crab tree.

Published/Created:
London : Printed for the author by Metchim and Burt, printers, 20 and 55, Parliament Street, Westminster, 1857.
Physical Description:
50 p., [10] leaves of plates : ill., map ; 29 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
PR2915 .G74 1857+ Copy 1 Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Rare Books and Manuscripts
PR2915 .G74 1857+ Copy 2 Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Tinted lithographs by and after Charles Frederick Green.
Subscriber's copy.
Abbey, J.R. Scenery of Great Britain and Ireland in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 320
BAC: British Art Center has two copies. Copy 1 is the Abbey copy. Bound in original blind-stamped blue cloth, with title stamped in gilt on front cover. Book plate: W.H. Reece. Copy 2 bound in publisher's printed blue boards. At foot of cover: "Price seven shillings and sixpence".
Subject Terms:
Mecham and Burt -- Printer.
Reece, W.H. -- Bookplate.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Homes and haunts.
Stratford-upon-Avon (England) -- Description and travel.
Warwickshire (England) -- Description and travel.
Form/Genre:
Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1857.
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  • Contents of plates: Shakspear's crab-tree
  • The Crab tree and its environs
  • "Piping" Pebworth
  • "Dancing" Marston
  • "Haunted" Hillboro'
  • "Hungry" Grafton
  • "Dodging" Exhall
  • "Popish" Wixford
  • "Beggarly" Broom
  • "Drunken" Bidford.

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