Shakespeare Celebration, 1909

Excerpt from Shakespeare Celebration, 1909: Descriptive Catalogue of an Exhibition Held in the Ancient Guild Hall, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Monday, 19th April, to Saturday, 8th May, Illustrating an Inventory Dated 1595 The ancient carved bellows, illustrating this passage, contains in the brass nozzle a small chamber in which 'sweet wood or herbs could be inserted with a morsel of live charcoal, so that by working the bellows the fragrant smoke would be diffused into the room. The Plague Pan (no. It may be assumed, was used for herbs, the smoke, which would escape through the holes in the lid, being accounted disinfectant. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.