shakespeare enclosure common field welcombe de ingleby c m (1 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Very good-. First Edition. Number 22 of 50 numbered copies printed for private subscription. Folio (15" x 12"), pp xiii, 19 pp, + 8 leaves of plates, in original quarter-leather binding with gilt lettering on spine. Some scuffing to the leather and the edges of the boards, uneven sunning and light soiling to the cloth. Front hinge starting, but binding remains sound, contents clean. A scarce work containing facsimiles and a transcript of eight pages of the diary of Thomas Greene, as well as an Introduction and notes by Ingleby. Greene lived and worked in Stratford-Upon-Avon at the same time as Shakespeare, was his tenant for some years, and worked with him directly in opposing the proposed enclosure of the open fields at Welcombe (which adjoined Stratford, and which would have affected Shakespeare's personal land holdings). The six mentions of Shakespeare in the diary provide rare contemporary documentation of Shakespeare's whereabouts on specific dates, and, in one case, of a conversation with the bard.