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Shakespeare Weekend

Volume Three of The Plays of Shakespeare published by Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co. in the mid to late 1860s finishes off the set with a collection of Shakespeare’s tragedies and The Story of Shakespeare’s Life written by editors Charles (1787-1877) and Mary Cowden Clark (1809-1898). Similarly to Cowden Clark’s annotations, The Story of Shakespeare’s Life is written for an audience new to Shakespeare and is a thorough account of his life, heralding him as a “shining example to the whole human brotherhood”.  

Englishman Henry Courtney (H.C.) Selous (1803-1890) illustrated all three volumes with his distinctive attention to minute detail and dense landscapes. Following his father’s portrait and miniature painting career, Selous attended the Royal Academy in 1818 where he exhibited his first work Portrait of a Favourite Cat. Twenty-two years later he would switch gears into historical painting and never look back. His illustrations for The Plays of Shakespeare add an emotive visual layer to the plays, benefiting young and novice readers who may not have experienced Shakespeare in a theatre.  

The Plays of Shakespeare are a collected edition of the serialization of plays originally published in one of Cassell, Petter, & Galpin’s weekly papers over the course of many years. Met with great success, some seventeen editions have been published. Our early copy is half-bound in red leather with Shakespeare’s portrait embossed in gold on the cover. 

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-Jenna, Special Collections Graduate Intern 

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🦆 Ostrich farming in South Africa London, Paris & New York, Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co.,[pref. 1881]

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n0_w1150 by Biodiversity Heritage Library Via Flickr: European ferns /. London ;Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co.,[1879-1881.]. biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49719102

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Paxton's Flower Garden, (detail) Biodiversity Heritage Library, By London, Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co.,1882-1884

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Paxton’s Flower Garden (detail),

Biodiversity Heritage Library, London Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co.,1882-1884

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Illustrations taken from ‘Flower Painting in Water Colours’ by F. Edward Hulme.

Published 1880 by Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co.

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Hamlet and Ophelia

Painted by J D Watson, engraved by S Smith

Hamlet (Act III, Scene 1)Hamlet: "I loved you not." Ophelia:" I was the more deceived."

Cowden-Clarke, Charles and Mary, eds. The Plays of William Shakespeare. The Tragedies.

Illustrator: H.C. Selous. London: Cassell, Petter, Galpin and Co.

c. 1830.

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Gustave Doré created these engravings for the Cassell and Co. edition of John Milton's Paradise Lost, an epic poem about the rebellion of Satan and the fall of Adam and Eve. Two images show Satan being cast out of heaven and exploring earth. The other image shows a congregation of angels.

Images from: John Milton's Paradise Lost. London :Cassell, Petter, and Galpin ..., 186-?

Call Number: PR3560 .A2 V3 1860

Catalog record: https://bit.ly/2Eij9Jm

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“The Governor Ben-Auda” Image taken from page 158 of “Morocco: its people and places .Translated by C. Rollin-Tilton. With illustrations”. By Edmondo De Amicis. Publisher: Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co. London, 1897. 

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Image taken from page 370 of 'Morocco: its people and places ... Translated by C. Rollin-Tilton. With ... illustrations'

Image taken from: Title: "Morocco: its people and places ... Translated by C. Rollin-Tilton. With ... illustrations" Author: AMICIS, Edmondo de. Contributor: TILTON, Caroline. Shelfmark: "British Library HMNTS 10094.ee.16." Page: 370 Place of Publishing: London Date of Publishing: 1879 Publisher: Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co. Issuance: monographic Identifier: 000070870 Explore: Find this item in the British Library catalogue, 'Explore'. Open the page in the British Library's itemViewer (page image 370) Download the PDF for this book Image found on book scan 370 (NB not a pagenumber)Download the OCR-derived text for this volume: (plain text) or (json) Click here to see all the illustrations in this book and click here to browse other illustrations published in books in the same year. Order a higher quality version from here. from BLPromptBot https://ift.tt/2OJjewn

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<strong>n141_w1150 <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/">by Biodiversity Heritage Library</a></strong> <br /><i>Via Flickr:</i> <br />European ferns /.

London ;Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co.,[1879-1881.]. biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49719157

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Shakespeare Weekend

The Plays of Shakespeare was published by Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., likely in the late 1860s or early 1870s and consists of three volumes each arranging the plays into comedies, histories, and tragedies with many illustrations as Cassell's Illustrated Shakespeare. Englishman John Cassell (1817-1865) was a tea and coffee merchant who pivoted into publishing in 1848 with the weekly newspaper The Standard of Freedom and expanded to the Illustrated Family Paper in 1853. When Cassell was unexpectedly called to pay back an advancement to his paper supplier, he turned to printing firm partners George Petter (1823-1888) and Thomas Galpin (1828-1910) for financial support. The three men went into a full partnership in 1859 and found great success in publishing illustrated editions of classic literature, including the popular Illustrated Family Bible. 

It is from their illustration craze that The Plays of Shakespeare was born. Edited and annotated by Charles (1787-1877) and Mary Cowden Clark (1809-1898) and illustrated with wood engravings from drawings by H.C. Selous (1803-1890), the three-volume collection is brimming with detailed illustrations of the plays geared toward families and young readers. Volume Two contains Shakespeare’s historical plays. 

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-Jenna, Special Collections Graduate Intern 

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Image from 'Round Africa; being some account of the peoples and places of the Dark Continent', 000500177

Author: BRUCE, Charles Author of “The Story of a Moss Rose.”

Page: 243

Year: 1882

Place: London

Publisher: Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co.

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n7_w1150 by Biodiversity Heritage Library Via Flickr: Paxton's flower garden London ;Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co.,1882-1884. biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45779198

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Hardy Azaleas Seedling Varieties Paxton's flower garden London Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co.,1882-1884.Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Paxton's Flower Garden, Biodiversity Heritage Library, London Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co.,1882-1884