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Handmade Shakespeare book cabinet by John Drinkwater

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c.1920s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Handmade bookcase housing the following Shakespeare pocket editions:

A Midsummer Night's Dream
As You Like It
Coriolanus
Hamlet
Julius Caesar
King John
King Henry IV Part II
King Henry V
King Lear
King Richard II
King Richard III
Macbeth
Measure for Measure
Much Ado About Nothing
Shakespeare's Hamlet Prince of Denmark
Shakespeare's Macbeth
Shakespeare's Pericles
Shakespeare's Timon of Athens
The Merchant of Venice
The Tempest
Twelfth Night
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Venus and Adonis

Volumes inscribed "Tanya from Big John July 1928" and "Tanya from John D 1931". Includes handwritten label "John Drinkwater made this bookcase of is Shakespeare collection when in Birmingham (or Nottingham) & gave it to Tanya Moiseiwitsch" and small image of a pencil drawing of Drinkwater's profile

"John Masefield, O. M.: The Queen's Poet Laureate: A Bibliography and Eighty-First Birthday Tribute" by Geoffrey Handley-Taylor

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1960

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published by The Cranbrook Tower Press, London. Signed limited edition copy number 100A of 999. Inscribed "May 17th 1966: Daisy Kennedy Drinkwater: (and, later on, for Tanya Moiseiwitch Krish)"

"Oliver Cromwell: a play" by John Drinkwater

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1954

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published by Sidgwick & Jackson Limited, London

"Robert E Lee: a play in nine scenes" by John Drinkwater

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1948

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published by Sidgwick & Jackson, London

"Birmingham Repertory Theatre: The Playhouse and the Man" by Thomas C Kemp

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1943

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published by Cornish Brothers Limited, Birmingham

"Behold, This Dreamer" by Walter de la Mare

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1939

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published by Faber and Faber, London. Inscribed "Tatty & Felix from John"

"This Troubled World" by John Drinkwater

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1933

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published by Columbia University Press, New York. Inscribed "Tanya with love from John Drinkwater: Highgate Easter 1933"

"Summer Harvest: Poems 1924-1933" by John Drinkwater

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1933

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published by Sidgwick and Jackson Limited, London. Inscribed "To Tanya with love from John Drinkwater November 1933"

"The Mabinogion" translated by Charlotte Guest

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1932

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published by J M Dent and Sons Limited, London. Inscribed "Daisy darling from John her Jonathan [?] September 1932"

"Poetry and Dogma" by John Drinkwater

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1931

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published text of the Arthur Skemp Memorial Lecture at the University of Bristol delivered on 29 January 1931. Inscribed "Tanya from Big John Drinkwater 2.7.31"

"The Poems of Sidney Godolphin" edited by William Dighton

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1931

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published by The Clarendon Press, Oxford. Inscribed "Tanya from John Drinkwater Nov 1934"

"The Riddle and Other Stories" by Walter de la Mare

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1928

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published by Faber and Faber, London. Inscribed "Tanya Moiseiwitch love from John"

"The Week-End Book" edited by Vera Mendel, Francis Meynell and John Goss

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1931

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published by The Nonesuch Press, London. Inscribed "For darling Tanya with lots of love from Auntie Jeff Christmas 1930. One horrible omission me enrages - no mention of J D within these pages"

"Anthology of Modern British Poetry" selected by Levin L Schückling

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1931

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published by Berhard Tauchnitz, Lepizig. Inscribed "For Tanya with love from Big [?] John Drinkwater"

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