The Development of Shakespeare as a Dramatist
by BAKER, George Pierce
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Macmillan Company. Very Good. 1907. Hardcover. George Pierce Baker traces the advancement of William Shakespeare in the world of English theatre. With numerous plates showing buildings, scenes and playhouses, as well as several maps including a fold out color map of London in 1588. --- In dark green ribbed cloth with gilt-stamped Shakespeare coat of arms to front cover; titling in gilt to spine and top edge gilt. --- With prior owner's signatures to front free endpaper and to title page, chafing to cloth at spine head, dampstains to cloth at tail of spine, and with a 5-inch tear to the color map of London, else a tightly-bound, sound copy.; Small Octavo - 7-1/2 to 8 in. tall; x, 329, (4, ads) pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 85512
- Title
- The Development of Shakespeare as a Dramatist
- Author
- BAKER, George Pierce
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Publisher
- The Macmillan Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1907
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- >>Biography, Autobiography, Memoir;
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