The Spirit of the Plays of Shakspeare exhibited in a Series of Outline Plates, illustrative of the story of each play ... With quotations and descriptions. L.P
Frank Howard's five-volume series of outline plates retelling each Shakespeare play scene by scene, engraved and published by T. Cadell in London in 1833 for readers and theatre-goers following the texts. The plates are pure contour line without shading or hatching, showing grouped figures in drapery, crowns, swords and banners against blank grounds, ready for tracing, silhouetting or filling with flat colour.
