1847 1847 The Family Shakspeare, in One Volume; in Which Nothing is Added to the Original Text, but Those Words and Expressions are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read Aloud in a Family.

Description

Illustrated, Leather Binding, Pleasing Copy

Bound in a handsome full morocco binding with gilt.  

Ninth edition.

Illustrated with a steel engraving at the beginning of each play, and a vignette of Shakespeare to the title page. 

Shakespeare prepared for family reading, presenting the full plays with the omission of selected words and expressions considered unsuitable for the domestic drawing-room.

Edited by Thomas Bowdler (1754-1825), whose “bowdlerised” editions became highly influential in 19th-century publishing, shaping Victorian attitudes to family reading and literary morality.

With the bookplate of Lanto M. Synge (1937-2021) to the front paste down, noted V&A curator and leading authority on historic textiles and decorative arts.