[Victorian printed Shakespeare ephemera] Illustrated 'Description' of Shakespeare's Birthplace, together with tickets of admission to it, and to Ann Hathaway's Cottage, and a letterhead of the Shakespeare Memorial, carrying notes of books.
A nice collection of Victorian Shakespeare ephemera. All four items with text clear and complete, on lightly-aged and worn paper. The 'Description' is printed in red, on both sides of a piece of paper 13.5 x 18 cm, with both vertical edges perforated. 'This may be retained as a Souvenir' along one edge. Dated at end 'RICHARD SAVAGE, Secretary and Librarian to the Trustees. | 1896-6.' Along head of first page: 'The Committee request that no Gratuities be offered to the Attendants.' Numbered 22989 in black. Engraving, 5.5 x 7.5 cm, of the building on the recto, and 'Ground Plan' and 'First Floor Plan' on the reverse. The two tickets ('Shakespeare's Birthplace | "Museum Ticket."' and 'Ann Hathaway's Cottage, Admission Ticket, Sixpence'), both roughly 13 x 8 cm, are both printed in black on one side, perforated and signed in type by Savage, with the date 1895-6. Both with stamped numbers. The letterhead ('Shakespeare Memorial, | Stratford-on-Avon' in gothic type) is a 12mo bifolium, with the details of two books in manuscript on the first page. It has, as have the other three items, '25.10.95' in manuscript at the foot.