Just your standard 19th century edition of The Family Shakespeare. Yawn. But wait, what’s that image painted along the book’s edges? Why tis Elizabeth I and Stratford-on-Avon! And further tissing reveals Shakespeare & the Anne Hathaway House! This book is part of our amazing Dorothy McIlvain Scott Collection. Grab your best Elizabethan pantaloons and head over to the Peabody and explore this and other books in the collection!
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yay for fore-edge paintings!
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