The Shakespeare Phrase Book (Signed)
The Shakespeare Phrase Book (Signed)
John Bartlett
Boston Little, Brown, 1882
[Inscribed by John Barlett] Signed and inscribed on the first free end page, "John Glenn, with cordial regards of John Bartlett." Bound in publisher's cloth. Very good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. 1034 p. From the library of John Glenn, (1858-1950), of the prominent Baltimore family. Glenn was director of the Russell Sage Foundation, a noted philanthropist, and Johns Hopkins trustee. Copyright 1880, 1882 printing.
Barlett (1820-1905) was a notable writer and publisher who also ran the university bookstore at Cambridge, Mass. His Familiar Quotations is now in its seventeenth edition and is still published by Little, Brown.