A Census of Shakespeare's Plays in Quarto, 1594-1709Yale University Press, 1916 - 153 pages |
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... June , 1779 , nineteen months before his death , he handed over his Shakespeare collection to Trinity College , Cam- bridge . As recorded in Mr. Greg's catalogue of this , the quarto editions of the plays number just fifty , of which as ...
... June , 1779 , nineteen months before his death , he handed over his Shakespeare collection to Trinity College , Cam- bridge . As recorded in Mr. Greg's catalogue of this , the quarto editions of the plays number just fifty , of which as ...
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... June , 1779. On the twentieth of the preceding January David Garrick had died , bequeathing , by a will made 24 September , 1778 , all his " collection of old English plays to the Trustees of the British Museum for the time being for ...
... June , 1779. On the twentieth of the preceding January David Garrick had died , bequeathing , by a will made 24 September , 1778 , all his " collection of old English plays to the Trustees of the British Museum for the time being for ...
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... June , 1834 , which included fourteen First Editions , but lacked both the Hamlets of 1603 and 1604 , Richard II of 1597 and both issues of 1608 , Henry IV of 1598 , Titus of 1594 and one issue of Troilus . In Part 4 of the Sale , held ...
... June , 1834 , which included fourteen First Editions , but lacked both the Hamlets of 1603 and 1604 , Richard II of 1597 and both issues of 1608 , Henry IV of 1598 , Titus of 1594 and one issue of Troilus . In Part 4 of the Sale , held ...
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... June , 1779 ) copy . 1632 , and other plays . Pressmark , S. 31 . 7 % x 5 " . Stamp on verso title . Bound in brown calf with Henry IV , [ 7 HAMLET , 1611 . The Tragedy of Hamlet | Prince [ 2 ] A CENSUS OF SHAKESPEARE QUARTOS.
... June , 1779 ) copy . 1632 , and other plays . Pressmark , S. 31 . 7 % x 5 " . Stamp on verso title . Bound in brown calf with Henry IV , [ 7 HAMLET , 1611 . The Tragedy of Hamlet | Prince [ 2 ] A CENSUS OF SHAKESPEARE QUARTOS.
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... ( June , 1834 , No. 5470 ) copy . Purchased , 1834. Bound in russia , gilt tooling . Pressmark , Malone 866 . BOSTON PUBLIC . 6 % x4 % " . The Nixon ( May , 1818 , No. 671 ) , Heber ( December , 1834 , No. 2021 ) , Barton ( sold , May ...
... ( June , 1834 , No. 5470 ) copy . Purchased , 1834. Bound in russia , gilt tooling . Pressmark , Malone 866 . BOSTON PUBLIC . 6 % x4 % " . The Nixon ( May , 1818 , No. 671 ) , Heber ( December , 1834 , No. 2021 ) , Barton ( sold , May ...
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Page xvii - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue : but if you mouth it, as many of our players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.
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Page xiii - It had bene a thing, we confesse, worthie to have bene wished, that the author himselfe had liv'd to have set forth and overseen his owne writings; but since it hath bin ordain'd otherwise, and he by death departed from that right, we pray you do not envie his friends the office of their care and paine to have collected and publish'd them...
Page 69 - As it hath been sundrie times publikely acted by the right honourable, the Lord Chamberlaine his seruants. Written by William Shakespeare. LONDON Printed by VS for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley. 1600.
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Page 45 - A | Pleasant | Conceited Comedie | called, | Loues labors, lost. | As it was presented before her Highnes | this last Christmas. | Newly corrected and augmented | By W. Shakespere.
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