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The story of the memorial fountain to Shakespeare at Stratford-upon-Avon ... Also accounts of the Herbert and Cowper window, Westminster abbey; the Milton window, St. Margaret's church, Westminster; and the bishops Andrewes and Ken Reredos, St. Thomas's church, Winchester, England--gifts of Geo. W. Childs;

Davis, Lucius Clarke, ed · 1890 · Cambridge, Riverside press · 8 pictures

A commemorative volume edited by Lucius Clarke Davis and printed at the Riverside Press in Cambridge in 1890, recording George W. Childs's gifts of the Shakespeare memorial fountain at Stratford-upon-Avon and memorial windows and reredos in England. The plates are joined by engraved headpieces and tailpieces: symmetrical scrollwork with winged mermaids, grotesque masks, perched birds, stars and a heraldic lion in a cartouche, usable as rules, spot ornaments and frames.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 · Milton, John, 1608-1674 · Childs, George William, 1829-1894 · Monuments

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