The legend of Shakspeare's crab tree : with a descriptive account, showing its relation to the poet's traditional history / by Charles Frederick Green (late of Stratford-on-Avon) ; illustrated by a series of nine lithographic prints, from sketches taken by him at the spot.

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Creator:: Green, Charles Frederick
Title(s):: The legend of Shakspeare's crab tree : with a descriptive account, showing its relation to the poet's traditional history / by Charles Frederick Green (late of Stratford-on-Avon) ; illustrated by a series of nine lithographic prints, from sketches taken by him at the spot.
Additional Title(s):: Shakespeare's crab tree.
Published/Created:: London : Printed for the author by Metchim and Burt, printers, 20 and 55, Parliament Street, Westminster, 1857.
Physical Description:: 50 p., [10] leaves of plates : ill., map ; 29 cm.
Holdings:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
PR2915 .G74 1857+ Copy 1 Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Rare Books and Manuscripts
PR2915 .G74 1857+ Copy 2 Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:: Copyright Not Evaluated
Full Orbis Record:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/3331585
Classification:: Books
Notes:: Tinted lithographs by and after Charles Frederick Green.
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Abbey, J.R. Scenery of Great Britain and Ireland in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 320
BAC: British Art Center has two copies. Copy 1 is the Abbey copy. Bound in original blind-stamped blue cloth, with title stamped in gilt on front cover. Book plate: W.H. Reece. Copy 2 bound in publisher's printed blue boards. At foot of cover: "Price seven shillings and sixpence".
Subject Terms:: Mecham and Burt -- Printer.
Reece, W.H. -- Bookplate.
Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616 -- Homes and haunts.
Stratford-upon-Avon (England) -- Description and travel.
Warwickshire (England) -- Description and travel.
Form/Genre:: Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1857.
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Contents of plates: Shakspear's crab-tree
The Crab tree and its environs
"Piping" Pebworth
"Dancing" Marston
"Haunted" Hillboro'
"Hungry" Grafton
"Dodging" Exhall
"Popish" Wixford
"Beggarly" Broom
"Drunken" Bidford.

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