A print from a disbound book of England & Wales published 1900. Blank on the reverse, this has been trimmed from the original page size to fit boarded envelope, scan shows the trimmed page being sold.
Suitable for framing, the average page size is approx 10.75" x 8.25" or 27.5cm x 21cm, including text and border.
Average image size approx 9" x 6.5" or 23cm x 16.5cm
This is an antique print not a modern copy or reproduction and can show signs of age or previous use commensurate with the age of the print, please view the scans as they form part of the description.
1900 is the printing date, the original date of creation can be earlier.
All prints will be sent bagged and in a boarded envelope for maximum protection.
While every care is taken to ensure my scans or photos accurately represent the item offered for sale, due to differences in monitors and internet pages my pictures may not be an exact match in brightness or contrast to the actual item.
Text description beneath the picture (subject to any spelling errors due to the OCR program used)
SHAKESPEARE'S HOUSE, STRATFORD-ON-AVON.
The house in which Shakespeare was born is in Henley Street, and after many vicissitudes and alterations, was purchased by public subscription in 1847, and as far as possible restored to its original condition. it is a parcel-timbered plain building, which now stands detached, the adjoining house having also been purchased and pulled down. The ceiling and walls of the room in which the poet was born are covered with pencilled autographs and inscriptions, from all classes and every part of the world. The site of the house called "New Place," in which Shakespeare lived later, was also purchased in 1861, but the house had been pulled down in 1759 by the then owner, the Rev. F. Gastrell, in spite at a dispute about rates! The creature was obliged to skulk away in the night afterwards in order to avoid the popular indignation.