Word: folios
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...exposition itself. The art of the Theatre is more historical than contemporary in import, as Gordon Craig, Lovat Eraser and others of the modern theorists are absent. There are contemporary drawings of David Garrick, and stage designs by John Webb and Inigo Jones, 1650, a Shakespeare first folio, the program of an amateur performance of the Merry Wives in which Dickens and Cruikshank took part, and delightful models of the old theatres which help to swell the interest in this section. The pictures merely serve for a comparison of English Art with itself. Particularly, a comparison of the immediate predecessors...
Milton's political and theological pamphlets are especially rich in first editions, Anti--Episcopal treatises, and Pamphlets on the Revolution, including his famous "Areopagitica". There is also a facsimile of the second folio edition of Shakespeare's plays, published in 1932, containing Milton's "Epitaph on Shakespeare", his first production to appear in print...
Those who are interested in rare old books and early editions will find a great deal of pleasure in examining the exhibit in the Treasure Room of Widener Library this week. The books laid out there include complete facsimiles of the first four folio editions of Shakespeare's plays, dated 1623, 1632, 1664, and 1685, as well as specimens of a still earlier edition of the quarto plays...
...most interesting volume is the facsimile of an original Shakespearian book of the first edition. The original, which was printed in 1623, is owned by the Library but will not be on display. Two Elizabethan editions and a photo-lithographic copy of the first folio of 1623 will, also be on exhibition. This collection is shown in connection with the lecture on "Shakespeare" to be given by Professor Kittredge on Wednesday...
...Pierian Sodality Orchestra will play the festival music and march at the Shakespearian Tercentenary Anniversary of the publishing of the First Folio in 1623, which will be commemorated by a ball and festival in the Copley Plaza this evening. The festivity is to be held under the auspices of the Frances Jewett Repertory Theatre Club for the benefit of the Repertory Theatre of Boston...