Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
This facsimile edition of Macbeth is taken from the large and handsome book known simply as the ‘First Folio’, the earliest collected edition of Shakespeare’s ‘Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies’. It was printed in 1623, seven years after his death. Eighteen of Shakespeare’s plays had already been published in the small, cheap format known as quartos during his lifetime, including such favourites as A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet. The First Folio added another eighteen, including Macbeth, The Tempest and Twelfth Night all of which are indispensable to the modern repertory. Without the First Folio only half of Shakespeare’s dramatic output would have survived.
Macbeth is one of Shakespeare’s tragedies, drawn again from Holinshed’s ‘Chronicles, although much altered. The First Folio edition is the first ever printing of the play, which is thought to date from 1603 to 1607.
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Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
This facsimile edition of Hamlet is taken from the large and handsome book known simply as the ‘First Folio’, the earliest collected edition of Shakespeare’s ‘Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies’. It was printed in 1623, seven years after his death. Eighteen of Shakespeare’s plays had already been published in the small, cheap format known as quartos during his lifetime, including such favourites as A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet. The First Folio added another eighteen, including Macbeth, The Tempest and Twelfth Night all of which are indispensable to the modern repertory. Without the First Folio only half of Shakespeare’s dramatic output would have survived.
Hamlet is one of Shakespeare’s most enduring and famous tragedies, and the version in the First Folio is one of three early and very different versions that exist. It was written around the turn of the 17th century and the part of Hamlet has always attracted the most illustrious actors.
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Anthony and Cleopatra
by William Shakespeare
This facsimile edition of Anthony and Cleopatra is taken from the large and handsome book known simply as the ‘First Folio’, the earliest collected edition of Shakespeare’s ‘Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies’. It was printed in 1623, seven years after his death. Eighteen of Shakespeare’s plays had already been published in the small, cheap format known as quartos during his lifetime, including such favourites as A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet. The first Folio added another eighteen, including Macbeth, The Tempest and Twelfth Night all of which are indispensable to the modern repertory. Without the First Folio only half of Shakespeare’s dramatic output would have survived.
Anthony and Cleopatra is one of Shakespeare’s most famous tragedies and has been performed on stage and screen many times. It draws extensively from Plutarch’s Lives of Noble Greeks and Romans. Cleopatra must surely rank as one of the most compelling of Shakespeare’s creations. The play was written some time between 1603 and 1607.
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Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Remarkable for its rarity, it is thought to be one of only thirteen copies to have survived to the twenty-first century. Purchased from Dr Richard Farmer by Earl Spencer for £8 in 1798, and bound in an elegant green morocco binding by Roger Payne, it found its way to Manchester in 1892 when Enriqueta Rylands purchased the Spencer Collection of books.
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A Medieval Bestiary
This amazing book was produced in the first decade of the 13th century, and is one of the earliest bestiaries to feature vivid paintings of animals.
This enhanced eBookTreasures facsimile edition of selected pages from the original manuscript and contains text and audio interpretation on every page.
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The Bedford Hours
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Henry VIII’s Psalter
This is is an enhanced eBookTreasure edition and contains interpretative text and audio on selected pages.
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Sultan Baybars’ Qur’an
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The Tyndale New Testament
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A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol is surely the best-known and best-loved Christmas story of all time.
This eBookTreasures facsimile edition is a reproduction of an incredible illuminated copy, produced by the artist Alan Tabor in 1916. Every page is handwritten in the gothic style and the whole book is filled with illustrations of Scrooge, the ghosts, the Crachits and many others. It has been produced by digitally photographing the original handwritten manuscript, donated by Alan Tabor’s widow to the John Rylands Library in 1958.
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