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Steam-driven Shakespeare or making good books cheap : five Victorian illustrated editions / Alan R. Young.
Making good books cheap : five Victorian illustrated editions
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Author
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Date published
2017
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Publisher
New Castle, Delaware : Oak Knoll Press, 2017.
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Subject
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Criticism, Textual.
Publishers and publishing Great Britain History 19th century
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Accession number
83429517
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Class
95.3/YOU
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Physical description
234 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
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Content: Introduction -- The transformation of the publishing industry and the alliance of a pioneer printer and a pioneer publisher -- Charles Knight and the making of the pictorial edition of the works of Shakespeare -- Robert Tyas and the making of the works of Shakespeare revised from the best authorities -- George Routledge and the making of the plays of Shakespeare -- John Cassell and the making of the plays of Shakespeare ("Cassell's illustrated -- Shakespeare") -- John Dicks and the making of Dicks' complete edition of Shakespeare's works -- Afterword.
Presented by Paul Edmondson.