Item #JHP001 The Executive Committee of Shakespeare's Birth-Place and Mr. Halliwell-Phillips: A Correspondence. James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps.

The Executive Committee of Shakespeare's Birth-Place and Mr. Halliwell-Phillips: A Correspondence

Price: $100.00

Soft Cover. Brighton: Printed By John George Bishop, 1887. 1st Edition. Good.

First edition, first printing. A good copy, with the original front cover in the publisher's paper cloth, with some smudging along the edges, slight chipping on the hinge, lacking the rear cover panel, with a loss to the bottom corners of the first pages of text, pages starting to break from the binding, although the signature is still intact, otherwise clean and uncut pages. A nineteenth century pamphlet containing reproduced letters between James Orchard Halliwell-Phillips, a noted 19th century British Shakespearean scholar and founder of the Percy Society, and members of the executive committee of Shakespeare's birthplace at Stratford-upon-Avon, specifically the librarian Richard Savage. Item #JHP001