Shakespeare's Household Words
Subtitle: a selection from the wise saws of the immortal bard
By: illuminated by Sam Stanesby.
Contributors: Stanesby, Samuel.; Leighton, John, 1822-1912.; Ashbee & Dangerfield; Bone & Son
Publisher: Griffith & Farran
Published: 1859
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 30
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Quotations, maxims, etc; Illumination of books and manuscripts -- Specimens
Genres: Quotations, maxims, etc.; Specimens.
Other titles: Shakespeare's household words :
Notes: Date taken from McLean, Ruari.  Victorian book design and colour printing, 1972.

Chromolithographed decorative t.p.

Black lithographed text with chromolithographed red rules and wide decorative borders.

Preliminary plate with full-page chromolithographed border around central mounted oval collotype showing a bust of Shakespeare.  Plate is unsigned and without imprint.

Interleaved.

McLean, Ruari.  Victorian book design and colour printing, p. 134.

MASS copy 1: Bound in light red-brown pebble-grain cloth blocked in gold and blind with white and blue paper onlays blocked in gold.  Covers with signature: "JL" [i.e. John Leighton].  Spine with imprint: "Griffith and Farran".  Boards with bevelled edges; a.e.g.   With teal green glazed endpapers.

MASS copy 2: Bound in red pebble-grain cloth blocked in gold and blind in the same design as copy 1.  Covers with white, green and black paper onlays blocked in gold.  Covers with signature: "JL" [i.e. John Leighton].  Spine with imprint: "Griffith and Farran".  Boards with bevelled edges; a.e.g.  With teal green glazed endpapers.  With binder's ticket: "Bound by  Bone & Son,  76, Fleet Street,  London.".

MASS copy 3: Bound in brown morocco blocked in gold, black and blind.  Boards with bevelled edges; a.e.g.  Board turn-ins blocked in blind.  With marbled endpapers.  With presentation inscription dated Dec. 1859.