THE HALLIWELL- PHILLIPPS SHAKESPEAREAN RARITIES THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES A CALENDAR OF THE HALLI WELL-PHILLIPPS COLLECTION' OF SHAKESPEAREAN RARITIES. A CALENDAR OF THE SHAKESPEAREAN RARITIES, DRAWINGS & ENGRAVINGS, FORMERLY PRESERVED AT HOLLINGBURY COPSE, near BRIGHTON, that quaint wigwam on the Sussex Downs which had the honour of sheltering more record and artistic evidences connected with the personal history of the Great Dramatist than are to be found in any other of the World V libraries. " But now he's gone, and my idolatrous fancy Must sanctify his relics." Second Edition. - — Enlarged. Edited by Ernest E. Barer, F.S.A. LONDON LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. AND NEW YORK: 15 EAST 16 th STREET 1891 PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION, Since the preparation in 1SS7 of the first edition of this Calendar, which was printed for private circu- lation and for presents only, the literary and more especially the Shakespearean world, has had to deplore the loss of its highly-talented editor, the late J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps, Esq., F.R.S., &c. The deceased scholar, by his Will, proved in the spring of 1889, left very special directions as to the disposal of the Shakespearean treasures, which were cata- logued in the volume, and as they are still in the hands of his executors, and as the copies of the Calendar have been exhausted, it appears to be a very proper step not only to print a second edition, but also to quote the clause in his Will which relates to the sale of the many perfectly unique rarities, and to the mode in which they are to be dealt with. The clause is as follows : — "And whereas my collection of Shakespearean rarities, described in a printed catalogue, entitled ' A Calendar of the Shakespearean Rarities, preserved at Hollingbury Copse, near Brighton,' 8vo., 1887, is unrivalled and of national interest, and being desirous of its being kept in this county, I direct my Trustees to offer it to the Cor- poration of Birmingham, in the county of Warwick (where as the leading town of Shakespeare's native county such a collection would be appropriately located), on condition of the said Corporation paying for it to my Trustees the sum of £7,000 sterling. And in case the said Corporation do not accept this offer within one year after my decease, then I give to my Trustees the last mentioned collection upon trust, to deposit it at the Chancery Lane Safe Deposit until they can sell it for the sum of £10,000, or more, or if such price be not obtained within twelve years after my decease, then upon trust, &c, &c." VI. The Corporation of Birmingham, notwithstanding the stronsf recommendation of their Free Libraries Committee to acquire the literary treasures, were unable, mainly owing, I think, to legal difficulties, to see their way to accept the offer contained in the Will, and to make the purchase of the collection, which, therefore, now temporarily awaits a purchaser at the higher sum named. The circumstances having, of course, considerably changed since the compilation of the first edition, I have thought it well to vary the original plan and to enlarge the volume considerably by notes de- scriptive of the various items, and also to particularise the bindings. Many of the books contain memo- randa, written in them by their late owner, pointing out their special Shakespearean interest, and the reason of their being included in the collection ; these memoranda I have for the most part copied in full, and I have drawn largely from the seventh (1887) edition of the well-known " Outlines of the Life of Shakespeare," for the notes. In conclusion, I would express a sincere wish that this really national collection of Shakespearean deeds, books, and illustrations may find a permanent home in the native land of the Great Dramatist ; and I feel sure every Englishman will fully endorse this and agree with the remark made by Punchy when referring to it last September, that " The World is the richer for his words, and certainly to the country of his birth belong the records of his deeds." Ernest E. Baker. Weston-super-Mare, April, 1 89 1. PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. For nearly half a century I have been an ardent Shakespearean collector, being most likely the only survivor of the little band who attended the sale of the library of George Chalmers somewhere about the year 1840. But for a long time, attempting too much in several directions with insufficient means, and harassed, moreover, by a succession of lawsuits, including two in the Court of Torture — I mean Chancery, — I was unable to retain my accumula- tions : and thus it came to pass that bookcase full after bookcase full were disposed of, some by private contract, many under the vibrations of the auc- tioneer's hammer. This state of affairs continued till February, 1872, but since that period, by a strict limitation of my competitive resources to one subject, — the Life of Shakespeare, — I have managed to jog along without parting with a single article of any description, nor is there a probability that the collec- tion described in the following pages will ever be dispersed. When the reader, or, rather, I should say, the inspector, of this calendar bears in mind that, exclu- sive of the Blight sketches, all but the whole of this collection has been formed within the last fifteen years, and that it already stands pre-eminent amidst the libraries of the world in no less than four of the most important divisions of Shakespeareana, the product will be regarded with no small astonishment by those who know how exceedingly difficult it is, and how very rarely, as a rule, it is possible, to Vlll. obtain even a single document of the sixteenth or seventeenth century, or a single original drawing of the eighteenth, that is perceptibly illustrative of the poet's biography. Half-a-dozen of either would be infinitely more difficult to obtain"" than an impene- trable fifty-thousand-volume library t of modern books on the works of the great dramatist. The four divisions to which allusion has here been made * The market has been swept and the day has now gone by for reasonable expectations to rise beyond the endless acquisition of modern Shakespeareana and the occasional gleaning of an important rarity. So it was with no small amusement that those who are conversant with such matters observed the alarm that was expressed by more than one journal at a recent movement which was supposed to involve the danger of the Shakespearean interests of London being sacrificed to those of Warwickshire. Perhaps the worthy critics imagined that the dulcet tones of a committee of solicitation would attract early editions and title- deeds from the firmament, — it is difficult to understand how else they could be gathered to an extent that would allure metropolitan students to the bank of the Avon. At the same time it is only fair to recognise the local utility of the collection that is now being formed in the elegant library which Stratford owes to the generous liberality of Mr. Charles Flower. t It may be well, in view of the present tendency to herald numerical supremacy as a test of value, to observe that no ambition of the kind has stimulated the gathering of the collection which is described in the succeeding pages. The whole, indeed, is comprised in about two hundred volumes, a striking contrast to the seven thousand that are already accumulated in the recently-formed Shakespearean Library at Birmingham ; but victory in these cases is not always with the largest battalions, and the accomplished Shakespearean Director of that town, Mr. Sam. Timmins, would be the first to acknowledge that at least 50 per cent, of its modern acquisitions could be consigned to the waste-paper basket without the slightest prejudice to the interests of literature or to the honour of the great dramatist. I speak feelingly, in the hope that the Shakespeare drag-net may be relieved of its weeds and sand, for if a much larger percentage of my own writings in this kind could be eliminated, the opera- tion would add very much to my complacency. Perhaps, however, in my own individual case, it is better as it is ; — " our virtues might be proud, if our faults whipped them not." IX. are, — I. Early engraved portraits of Shakespeare. 2. Authentic personal relics. 3. Documentary evi- dences respecting his estates and individuals who are connected with his biography. 4. Artistic illus- trations of localities connected with his personal history. 1. The most important of these is of course the copy of the Droeshout portrait (No. 220) of Shake- speare in its original proof state before it zvas altered by an inferior hand into the vitiated form in which it has been so long familiar to the public. This is the earliest engraved portrait of the great dramatist, and differs so materially from the later impressions that it gives a new and more pleasing idea of his features. Here we have the most reliable likeness of Shakespeare in existence, the only one which has not been injuriously tampered with, while, at the same time, the evidences of its genuineness and its antiquity are incontestable, and it is most unfortunate that the appliances of modern art are inadequate to its satisfactory reproduction. The collection includes several other impressions of the engraving in various states of the plate, as well as all the known engraved portraits of the great dramatist up to that which was published by Rowe in 1 709 ; but scarcely any have been admitted that were issued after that year, none of the latter being of real value, and very few that can be fairly said to be of the slightest interest. 2. Very few authentic personal relics of the great dramatist, that is to say, articles that were at one time indubitably in his own possession, are known to be in existence. They are, in fact, restricted to the will, now preserved at Somerset House, and to a small number of title-deeds, for there is not a single other domestic memorial of any description the genuineness of which is not open to either doubt or suspicion. But that the title-deeds of his unmort- gaged estates, those that are dated previously to the X. twenty-third of April, 1616, were once in his own hands, does not admit of rational question ; docu- ments of this kind having been, in his day, jealously guarded by their owners, never being entrusted, as now, to the custody of solicitors. Of these title- deeds there are no fewer than six in the present collection, the four New Place indentures, Nos. 143 to 146, and the two (No. 140) original indentures of a fine between the poet and Hercules Underhill that was levied in the year 1602. To these may in all probability, though not with absolute certainty, be added the original conveyance (No. 148) of Shakespeare's Blackfriars estate, 1613, which was unquestionably on the table when the poet executed the concurrent mortgage, and as it must have been formally passed over to him, it is altogether most unlikely that he did not touch it with his own hands. This was the deed that was enrolled in Chancery soon after the purchase, the official endorsement still remaining in a perfect state of preservation, and it was for many years one of the leading treasures of the Sainsbury collection. It subsequently passed into that of the late Sir W illiam Tite, who very kindly, on December the 20th, 1872, transferred the purchase to me. I after- wards had the good fortune to acquire the other Shakespearean ornament of the Sainsbury hoard, the original deed (No. 149) transferring the house in the Blackfriars in trust to follow the directions of the poet's will, a document that was executed in 161 8, and handed over to his daughter Susannah. A record of later date respecting the same estate, the exemplification of a fine that was levied in 1647, will be observed at No. 124. 3. Amongst these may be noticed, in addition to the six interesting title-deeds above-mentioned respecting New Place, the series of documents relating to the same estate, Nos. 125 to 131 ; two XI. deeds (Nos. 133, 258) each having the autograph of the poet's Sir Thomas Lucy, the first with a perfect impression of the seal exhibiting the three luces; the deed (No. 142) of 1596, witnessed by- John Shakespeare ; a large number of records of Hathaway families, including several relating to a house at Stratford that undoubtedly belonged to relatives of the poet's Anne, two of them mention- ing the boundary of his estate ; the Clopton cartulary (No. 1) in which is found the earliest discovered notice of any part of Shakespeare's property ; other documents with the very rare signatures of John a' Combe ; Thomas Greene, the poet's cousin ; Walter Roche, his schoolmaster ; Francis Collins, his solicitor ; Thomas Combe, to whom he left his sword ; and Shakespeare Hart. There are also two with the autographs of the Earls of Southampton and Essex. 4. It is very difficult to meet with pictorial illustrations of the Life of Shakespeare that belong to even a small antiquity. With the exception of the very few engravings to be met with in periodicals, in editions of the poet's works, and in Ireland's Warwickshire Avon, and which are sufficiently common, any of the kind which were executed before the commencement of the present century are of exceedingly rare occurrence. The Bodleian Library, so rich in English topography, has none ; while in that enormous literary ware- house, the British Museum, there are hardly any of the slightest interest. There are, indeed, only two large and important collections of drawings and engravings illustrative of Shakespearean biography. One of these, that now preserved at the Birth-Place, was formed by the late Mr. W. O. Hunt and myself in years gone by, when we ransacked Stratford-on-Avon and its neighbour- hood for every relic of the kind. The other, the xu. present one, is all but entirely the result of pur- chases from other localities. Each collection is, at present, of unique interest, and is likely to remain so. It is not probable that another, of equal value to either, could now be formed, and even many of the engravings and lithographs of forty or fifty years of age are of great rarity, obtain- able only by accident. The biographical student should guard against the too easy rejection of comparatively modern illustrations. Every representation of an old build- ing, however recent, if taken from nature and before its alteration, is of a definite and permanent value. Thus, for example, the only perfect evidences of the state of the back of the Birth Place pre- viously to its restoration were preserved in a number of photographic plates executed in 1854, now in the museum of that institution, but so faded that they are all but valueless ; and had I not had the precaution of having had copies made of them before many of the details had disappeared, those evidences would have been lost for ever. The copies are in the unrivalled series of Birth-Place illustrations calendared in the follow- ing pages. No early views of the above-mentioned portions of the building have yet been discovered, and even late unpublished sketches of the street- exterior are of such immense rarity that I thought myself fortunate in obtaining Shepherd's water- colour view (No. 668) taken about the year 1830, and Neale's large pencil sketch (No. J^2>) taken in July, 1820. As for original drawings of the last century, many readers will be surprised to hear that only three are known to exist, the so-called one in the British Museum being a mere variation of the published engraving of 1769. Two of those three are in the present collection, Greene's sketch, No. 654 and Ireland's view taken in 1792, No J33 Xlll. Some years ago there was a fourth, a large sketch by Jordan, but it perished with the rest of the Staunton library in 1879. A facsimile tracing, in the volume described at No. J2>Z^ ls now i ts unique representative. The collection of printed Shakespeareana has been mainly restricted to books that were issued before the Restoration of Charles the Second in 1660, the few belonging to a later period owing their admission to their being in some way either illustrative of the poet's biography, or of practices in the representation of his dramas that may have been adopted from those that had been current at the Globe or Blackfriars. Amongst the articles in this division may be mentioned the all but unique surreptitious edition of Pierce Penilesse, 1592, in which there is the earliest allusion to any of the works of Shakespeare that has yet been discovered ; the drama of Promos and Cassandra, the foundation-play of Measure for Measure, 1578; the Destruction of Troy, partially used by Shake- speare in the construction of Troilus and Cressida, 1596; the History of Tom Drum, 1598, alluded to in All's Well that Ends Well ; the unique work by Morley, 1600, with the only known contem- porary copy of the original music to a song in As You Like It; the Rape of Lucrece, 1624; Love's Labour's Lost, 1598. To these may be added the unique 156S impression of Lily's Shorte Introduction to Grammar, being the edition pro- bably used at the Stratford school during the poet's sojourn at that institution. The critical study of the poet's text being alto- gether outside the scope of my design, the few early editions of his works that are herein men- tioned have been admitted, generally speaking, by the merest accident. The unique portion of the first edition of the First Part of Henry the XIV. Fourth, 1598, No. 19, is one of the chief excep- tions. But early notices and the foundation-stories •of the plays are included, these belonging to the history of his work. Amongst the numerous articles that illustrate the history and topography of Stratford-on-Avon may be mentioned the Clopton cartulary, No. 1 ; the ground-plan of the College, temp. Hen. 8, No. 221 ; the interesting perambulation of the town, 1591, No. 222 ; two curious old levies, No. 248 ; the earliest books of the manorial court that are known to exist, Nos. 67 and 68 ; a plan of the town made in 1759, the earliest complete one yet discovered, No. 580 ; and Fisher's original drawings of the singularly curious paintings discovered on the walls of the Guild Chapel in 1804. These last-mentioned works are of considerable value, the published copies not being strictly accurate, and they are now unique, the only replicas that were made having been lost in the disastrous accident that befell the Staunton collection. Shakespeare having been as much of a Londoner as he was a Stratfordian, great attention has been paid to the acquisition of plans and views relating to the contemporary metropolis. Amongst these one of the most interesting is Norden's engraving of London Bridge, 1597, described at No. 238. It is the earliest authentic large view of the bridge in the state in which it must necessarily have been familiar to the great dramatist. Braun's plan of the city, 1574, in the original state of the plate before the Royal Exchange was introduced, No. 529, is of great rarity, as is also Harrison's view, 1604, No. 292, while the edition of Visscher, No. 162, is unique. It having been decisively ascertained that Shake- speare was intimately acquainted with Windsor, a considerable number of views of that town have XV. been admitted. Heme's Oak has also received its due meed of attention. In Collier's map, 1742, No. 324, there is the first extrinsic notice of the tree, and a description of the earliest known view, an original drawing by Rooke, will be found at No. 420. Some of the manuscripts of the Rev. Joseph Greene, who was master of the grammar-school of Stratford-on-Avon from 1746 to 1787, and who was the first antiquary the town has produced, are of considerable interest, and include valuable informa- tion nowhere else to be found. They were purchased by me, in 1873, from his descendant, the late Richard Greene, F.S.A. About the same time I acquired from the late Joseph Lilly, the well-known bookseller, a copy of the first edition of Dugdale's Antiquities of Warwickshire, 1656, which had be- longed to Richard Greene of Lichfield, a person who was intimately connected with Stratford-upon-Avon, and who had illustrated that fine old work with original drawings made by himself and others between the years 1760 and 1769. It was thus that I became possessed of the inestimable earliest repre- sentation of the Birth-Place known to exist, and of various drawings executed during that period, all of which are unique ; but a sketch of the Jubilee Amphitheatre of 1769, the only contemporary one that has yet been discovered, I gave to the Birth- Place Museum as an article of essential local interest. With that exception the whole of the original illus- trations that were found in the volume have been added to the present collection. There is a variety of articles not readily classified, such as the unique copy of the Return from Parnas- sus, 1602, No. ^y, the only manuscript of the time of Elizabeth in a private library in which any of the works of Shakespeare are mentioned ; several early manuscript miscellanies of Shakespearean interest; the important original plan of Middlesex executed XVI. by Norden about the year 1593, No. 352 ; and the first, also the unique, edition of Foole vpon Foole, 1600, No. 751. Amongst the pieces of theatrical interest may be mentioned the all but unique tract of 1588, No. 56, containing the notice of The Theatre ; the original edition of Roscius Anglicanus, No. 61 ; the old play- bill, one of the earliest known, No. 229 ; the rare tract by Field on the accident at Paris Garden, 1583; the unique fragment of a contemporary prompt-copy of Marlowe's Massacre of Paris, No. 287 ; Gosson's Playes Confuted, No. 285 ; the original certificate respecting the Blackfriars Theatre, No. 198 ; the annotated copy of Spenser identifying Tarlton as the " pleasant Willy," No. 3 ; the interest- ing document respecting the locality of the Globe Theatre, No. 245 ; the earliest engraving of Shake- spearean characters in a theatre, No. 764. The artistic portion of the present collection, although so singularly extensive, is not the result of a mere desire for accumulation. It has been formed with the definite purpose of illustrating the Life of Shakespeare by representations of every morsel that could be found of his own contemporary England, — that is to say, of every object that he himself was likely to have seen. Deeply impressed by the rapidity with which these vestiges were disappearing, I engaged Mr. J. T. Blight, F.S.A., a very accom- plished draughtsman, to make sketches in furtherance of this design during the years from 1862 to 1868. Not only was every corner of Stratford-upon-Avon and its neighbourhood explored, but we followed as far as we could the routes known to have been taken by the poet in his various journeys, anxiously searching for remains that could be positively assigned to his own times, and carefully excluding those which had passed through the hands of the modern restorer. XVI 1. I made the acquaintance of Mr. Blight at his native town of Penzance in i860, an acquaintance which soon ripened into a warm friendship that terminated only with his death to the world through a grievous and incurable malady. A thorough good J fellow in every sense of the word, he was also a most agreeable companion, his conversation teeming with quaint and original thought, while he wisely refrained, out of working-hours, from that perpetual chatter on literature and art which some students consider it necessary to maintain, but which, to say the least, does not always act as a restorative. As an archaeological draughtsman he was unrivalled in accuracy, taking infinite pains with unlimited patience to secure the representation of the minutest details. That accuracy has added immeasurably to the value of the numerous sketches from his pencil that enrich the present collection, and it is not too much to say, so many of the objects of his work having since been either modernised or destroyed, that no artistic monograph Life of Shakespeare could be complete without the insertion of a large proportion of his drawings. A large work on the lines above indicated could hardly fail to be welcome to the student, but, as is so often the case, the time occupied in gathering together the necessary artistic and literary material has practically excluded the collector himself from the opportunity of making an effective use of his accumulations. As our Brighton whip, in the old days of coaching, used to say, " Tempus will fudgit," and it has fudgited with me until there is but a little working slice of it left. That slice is insufficient for the due execution of such an undertaking. In a very few years, half a century will have elapsed since my first work on Shakespeare was published, and the termination of that period must also, if I survive, be that of my student-work. If the fate of the R XV111. Archbishop of Grenada is to be escaped, this should be the resolve, not merely of those who have traversed the higher walks of literature, but of the lesser votaries, who, like myself, lay claim to nothing beyond a capacity for research and the ability of utilizing its products. Little autobiographical reflections of this kind might anyhow be excused in a privately-printed brochure of very limited circulation, but they are in fact given as the most effectual method of advising a younger enthusiast that he can, without lack of courtesy to the originator, carry out an important design. When such a one arises with the large means that will be requisite to complete the work in a satisfactory manner, the artistic and other materials that are briefly described in the following pages cannot fail to prove of essential service. J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps. Hollingbury Copse, Brighton, 29 June, 1887. A CALENDAR. 1. The original cartulary, compiled in the time of Henry the Eighth, of the Cloptons of Stratford-on- Avon and Clopton. A folio volume in the ancient vellum covers with leather fastenings. This manuscript, the most important record of the family known to exist, contains numerous interesting notices of Stratford-on-Avon, including two respecting that which was afterwards the Shakespearean estate of New Place. The dates run from 13 13 to 15 15. 2. Collections respecting the Free-school of Stratford-on-Avon, by the Rev. Joseph Greene, the head-master ; the original manuscript written about the year 1760. 4to. Green Levant morocco, super extra, lettered along the back in a compartment, broad rich inside borders, French filletted sides, gilt leaves, by F. Bedford. " Some of the manuscripts of the Rev. Joseph Greene, who was master of the Grammar School of Stratford-on- Avon from 1746 to 1787, and who was the first antiquary the town has produced, are of considerable interest, and include valuable information nowhere else to be found." — Preface to first edition of " The Calendar." 3. Spenser's Faerie Qveene, 1609, and the Shepheards. Calender, 161 1. Old half calf neat. This contains manuscript notes, some of which are extremely interesting, especially the one which identifies Tarlton as the "pleasant Willy." They were written B 2 either in or about the year 1628, as appears from the memorandum at the bottom of the first title. The printed book is not complete, but this is a matter of no import- ance, its special value resting solely on the manuscript additions. 4. The Rape of Lucrece, by Mr. William Shakespeare. Newly Reuised : London, printed by I. B. for Roger Iackson, and are to be sold at his shop neere the Conduit in Fleet-street, 1624. — 1 2 mo. Purple morocco, neat, gilt leaves. Of great rarity, not more than one or two other copies being known to exist. I gave Quaritch forty guineas for this most excessively rare edition in November, 1885. 5. A paper in the hand-writing of the Rev. Joseph Greene, Master of the Grammar School of Stratford -on-Avon. 1767. This contains the only account of Shakespeare's resi- dence of New Place that has been recorded from the spoken words of a person who had actually seen the building, one Richard Grimmitt, who was born at Stratford in January, 1683: "This Richard the younger said he in his youth had been a playfellow with Edw. Clopton, senior, eldest son of Sir John Clopton, knt., and had been often with him in ye great house near ye chapel in Strat- ford call'd New Place ; that, to ye best of his remembrance, there was a brick wall next ye street, with a kind of porch at that end of it next ye Chapel, when they cross'd a small kind of green court before they enter'd ye house, which was bearing to ye left and fronted with brick, with plain windows consisting of common panes of glass set in lead, as at this time." 6. The View of the House where Shakespear dy'd, since pulled down by Frank Gastrill. A drawing by T. Sharp, of mulberry-tree notoriety, taken by him from some older sketch, c. 1770. 7. New Place, Chapel, Guild-hall, &c, drawn by R. B. Wheler, engraved by F. Eginton, 1806. — Stratford-on-Avon, Street View, Shakespeare's Hall, New Place Garden, Guild Chapel, &c, published by Henry Merridew, Coventry. These Nos., 5, 6, and 7, are in one volume. Maroon morocco, half extra, gilt leaves. 8. The most excellent Historie of the Merchant of Venice, with the extreame crueltie of Shylocke the I ewe towards the said Merchant in cutting a just pound of his flesh, and the obtaining of Portia by the choice of three Chests. As it hath beene divers times acted by the Lord Chamberlaine his Servants. Written by William Shakespeare. London, printed by M. P. for Laurence Hayes, and are to be sold at his shop on Fleetbridge. 1637. — Quarto. Red morocco, super extra, gilt leaves, by C. Lewis. 9. The True Tragedie of Richarde Duke of Yorke, and the death of good King Henry the sixt, with the whole contention betweene the two Houses, Lancaster and Yorke, as it was sundry times acted by the Right Honourable the Earle of Pembroke his seruantes. Printed at London by \V. W. for Thomas Millington, and are to be sold at his shoppe vnder Saint Peters Church in Cornewall. 1600. — Ouarto. Green Levant morocco, super extra, gilt leaves, by F. Bedford. Two leaves in sheet E are in facsimile. This is the second edition of the surreptitious copy of the Third Part of Henry the Sixth. Only about six copies known. My duplicate of this very rare play sold in 1857 for £6, at Sotheby's. 10. The First Part of the True and Honourable History of the Life of Sir John Oldcastle, the good Lord Cobham. Written by William Shakespeare. 4to. 1600. Purple Turkey morocco, plain, gilt leaves, by C. Lewis. Although this drama is known not only to have been composed by other dramatists, but also to have belonged to a theatrical company with whom Shakespeare had then no manner of connection, it was unblushingly announced as his work by the publisher, Thomas Pavier, a shifty bookseller, residing at the grotesque sign of the Cat and Parrots, near the Royal Exchange. Two editions were issued in the same year by Pavier, the one most largely distributed being that which was assigned to the pen of the great dramatist, and another to which no writer's name is attached. — Outlines, I., 180. ii. A Wittie and Pleasant Comedie called the Taming' of the Shrew. As it was acted by his Maiesties Seruants at the Blacke Friers and the Globe. Written by Will. Shakespeare. London, printed by W. S. for Iohn Smethwicke, and are to be sold at his Shop in Saint Dunstones Church- yard vnder the Diall. 163 1. — Quarto. Olive morocco, super extra, blind and gold panelled sides after the antique, gilt leaves, by F. Bedford. Most of the incidents of this drama, as well as those of its exquisite Induction, are taken from an old farce which was written at some time before May, 1595, and published in that year under the nearly identical title of the Taming of a Shrew. This latter work had then been acted by the Earl of Pembroke's servants, and was probably well known to Shakespeare when he was connected with that company, or shortly afterwards * * * The period at which he wrote the new comedy is at present a matter solely of conjecture. — Outlines, I., 232-233. 12. The xv. Bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, enty- tuled Metamorphosis, translated oute of Latin into Fnglish meeter by Arthur Golding, gentleman, a worke very pleasaunt and delectable. With skill, heed, and judgement, this Worke must be read, For else to the Reader it stands in small stead. Imprynted at London by Willyam Seres. 1567. — 4to. Purple morocco, half extra. One of the few books that can be positively asserted to have been at least partially read by Shakespeare, several passages from it being adopted in the Tempest. First edition very rare. On the whole, a very fine copy : the nicest I have seen for sale. 13. The Life and Death of King Richard the Second, with new Additions of the Parliament Scene and the Deposing of King Richard. As it hath beene acted by the Kings Majesties Servants at the Globe. By William Shakespeare. London, printed by Iohn Norton, 1634. — Quarto. Olive morocco, half extra. 14. An Apology for Actors containing three briefe Treatises. Written by Thomas Heywood. 4to. 1612. Purple morocco, Harleian panelled sides, gold borders inside. In the year 161 2 the third edition of the Passionate Pilgrim made its appearance, the publisher seeking to attract a special class of buyers by describing it as con- sisting of " Certain Amorous Sonnets between Venus and Adonis." These were announced as the work of Shakespeare, but it is also stated that to them were " newly added two love-epistles, the first from Paris to Helen, and Helen's answer back again to Paris ;" the name of the author of the last two poems not being mentioned. The wording of the title might imply that the latter were also the compositions of the great dramatist, but they were in fact written by Thomas Heywood, and had been impudently taken from his Troia Britanica, a large poetical work that had appeared three years previously, 1609. " Here, likewise," observes that writer, speaking in 161 2 of the last-named produc- tion, " I must necessarily insert a manifest injury done me in that worke by taking the two Epistles of Paris to Helen, and Helen to Paris, and printing them in a lesse volume under the name of another, which may put the world in opinion I might steale them from him ; and hee, to doe himselfe right, hath since published them in his owne name ; but as I must acknowledge my lines not worthy his patronage under whom he hath publisht them, so the author I know much offended with M. Jaggard that (altogether unknovvne to him) presumed to make so bold with his name." — Outlines, I., 236, 237. The wrong catch words may be noticed, but this copy is quite perfect as may be seen by reference to the Shakespeare Societies' reprint. 15. The Most Royall and Honourable Entertaine- ment of the famous and renowned King Christiern the Fourth, King of Denmarke, who, with a fleet of gallant ships, arriued on Thursday the 16 day of July, 1606, in Tylbery-Hope, neere Grauesend. By H. R. At London, 1606. — England's Farewell to Christian the fourth famous King of Denmarke, with a relation of such shewes and seuerall pastimes presented to his Maiestie, as well at Court the fift day of August last past, as in other places since his Honourable passage thorow the Citie of London. By H. Roberts. Printed at London for William Welby, 1606. — Quarto. In one volume. Calf extra, gilt leaves, by W. Pratt. Shakespeare's company played three times before the King of Denmark during the visit herein chronicled. See the reprints in Nicholls' Progresses. 16. Pierce Penilesse his Supplication to the Diuell, describing the ouer-spreading of Vice and suppression of Vertue. Pleasantly interlac'd with variable delights, and pathetically intermixt with conceited reproofes. Written by Thomas Nash, gentleman. London, imprinted by Richard Ihones, dwelling at the Signe of the Rose and Crowne, nere Holburne Bridge, 1592. Purple cloth. This is such a beautiful perfect copy, and so precisely in its original state, that I do not like to venture upon a formal modern binding. It is the first and surreptitious edition of Pierce Penilesse, the one entered by Jones at Stationers' Hall on August 8th, 1592. A second and authorized edition appeared in the same year, but it was not published, as appears from its preface, until after the death of Greefi, on September 3rd. The First Part of Henry the Sixth was produced on March 3rd, 1583, and the curious notice of its theatrical popularity at folio 26 renders the present tract of singular interest, that notice being the earliest allusion in our printed literature to any one of the works of Shakespeare. Only one other perfect copy of this tract, that which was in the Ouvry collection, is known to exist. The curious notice referred to is as follows : — " How would it have joyed brave Talbot (the terror of " the French) to thinke that, after he had lyen two ' hundred yeare in his toomb, he should triumph againe " on the stage, and have his bones new embalmed with the " teares of ten thousand spectators at least, at severall ' times, who, in the tragedian that represents his person, " imagine they behold him fresh bleeding." 1 7. Palladis Tamia, Wits Treasury, being the second part of Wits Common Wealth, by Francis Meres, Maister of Artes of both Universities. At London, printed by P. Short for Cuthbert Burbie, and are to be sold at his shop at the Royall Ex- change, 1598. — 121110. Brown Levant morocco, super extra, gilt leaves, by F. Bedford. This curious and interesting little volume contains the earliest list of Shakespeare's works known to exist, thus : — " As the soule of Euphorbus was thought to live in " Pythagoras ; so the sweete soule of Ovid lives in melli- ' fluous and honytongued Shakespeare, witnes his Venus ' and Adonis, his Lucrece, his sugred Sonnets among " his private friends, &c. "As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for " Comedy and Tragedy among the Latines ; so Shake- " speare among the English is the most excellent in both " kinds for the stage ; for Comedy, witnes his Gentlemen " of Verona, his Errors, his Love Labors lost, his Love ' labours wonne, his Midsummer's night dreame, and his " Merchant of Venice ; for Tragedy his Richard the 2, " Richard the 3, Henry the 4, King John, Titus Andronicus, " and his Romeo and Juliet. " As Epius Stolo said, that the Muses would speak with 8 " Plautus tongue, if they would speak Latin : so I say that " the Muses would speak with Shakespeare's fine filed " phrase, if they would speake English." 1 8. The Battell of Alcazar fought in Barbarie betweene Sebastian King of Portugall, and Abdel- melec, King of Marocco. 4to. Lond. 1594. Calf, half extra. This is one of the very few contemporary plays that are distinctly quoted by Shakespeare. This rare play is burlesqued by Pistol in the Second Part of Henry the Fourth — "Then feed and be fat, my fair Calipolis."— Halliwcll, 1866. 19. A fragment of four leaves only, but unique, no other vestige of a copy having yet been discovered, of the first edition of the first part of the Hystorie of Henry the Fourth. 1598. Red Turkey morocco, with broad borders of gold, the whole of which arc beautifully hand tooled. The last line is the only existing record of the true reading in Poins's speech — " How the fat rogue roar'd !" The reason of these leaves being clumsily mended and unskilfully inserted arises from my considering them to be so precious that 1 would not trust them out of my own hands, the binders merely supplying the cover. There can be little doubt but that they are a portion of the first and hitherto unknown edition of the First Part of Henry 4th, published by Wise early in the year 1598. The edition of 1 598, as hitherto known and styled the first, was no doubt published later in the same year. I gather that this is the first not only from the orthography of the word "Hystorie" in the head-line — the other reading " Historic" — but from the circumstance of the word fat in the last line of the present fragment not being found in any other copy. Omission is one of the commonest errors of our early printers, and it is something at this late day to recover even a single lost word written by Shakespeare. When Wise entered this play on the registers of the Stationers' Company in February 1597-8, he spoke of it as containing the " conccipted mirth of Sir John Falstaffe." The title- page of the complete edition of 1598 has "With the humorous conceipts of Sir John Falstaffe." The title 9 belonging to this fragment if ever discovered might possibly agree with the wording of the copyright entry. These leaves were found at Bristol some years ago in the binding of a copy of Thomas' Rules of the Italian Grammar. Quarto, 1567. J. O. Halliwell, May 25th, 1867. 20. The First Booke of Ayres, or Little Short Songs to Sing and Play to the Lute, with the base Viole. Newly published by Thomas Morley, Bachiler of Musicke, and one of the Gent, of her Maiesties Royall Chappel. Imprinted at London in litle S. Helen's by William Barley, the assigne of Thomas Morley, and are to be sold at his house in Gracious Streete, 1600. — Folio. Purple morocco, panelled sides, half extra. Although imperfect, this book is unique, and it is of peculiar value and interest as containing the only known contemporary copy of the original music to the song, " It was a lover and his lass," in As You Like It. 21. 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. Imprinted at London by W. W. for Cutbert Burby, 1598. — Quarto. First edition. Blue Levant morocco, super extra, gilt leaves, by F. Bedford. This is the earliest work of Shakespeare in which his name occurs on a title-page. Three leaves of the text are in facsimile, but all the rest, including the title, is in an exceptionally fine condition, as clean and fresh as when it first issued from the press. According to the Barton report of the Boston Library, there is no copy of this edition in the United States. It is a volume of most excessive rarity. Daniels' copy, slightly wormed, fetched ^346. 22. The Birth of Merlin, or the Childe hath found his Father. As it hath been several times acted with great applause. Written by William Shake- spear and William Rowley. London, printed by Tho. Johnson for Francis Kirkman and Henry IO Marsh, and are to be sold at the Princes Arms in Chancery- Lane, 1662. — Quarto. Half straight grained morocco neat. " Publishing evidence of authorship of this nature and " late period is all but worthless — in Kirkman's case " absolutely so — and it is in the highest degree improbable ' that Shakespeare ever wrote any work in conjunction with " William Rowley, who did not join the King's Company " during the lifetime of the great dramatist." — Outlines, II., 413. 23. A Letter whearin part of the entertainment vntoo the Oueenz Maiesty at Killingwoorth Castl in Warwik Sheer in this Soomerz Progress, 1575, iz signified ; from a freend officer attendant in the Coourt vnto hiz freend a Citizen and Merchaunt of London. Small octavo. Black-letter edition. Red straight grained morocco elegant, the sides richly tooled with gold, tooled insides and joints, gilt gaufre edges, by Herring. Quaritch prices this at £21. A very rare and interesting volume ; there is no copy in the Granville library, and Mr. Hazlitt only mentions three collections which have it. It is questionable whether it was printed in England. From this work Sir Walter Scott derived all the information concerning the pageantry and revels with which Queen Elizabeth was received at Kenilworth. The original black- letter edition. 24. The Teares of the Isle of Wight shed on the Tombe of their most noble, valorous and louing Captaine and Governour, the right Honourable Henrie, Earle of Southampton, who dyed in the Netherlands, Nouemb. 10, at Bergen-vp-Zone. Printed at London by William Iones, dwelling in Red-crosse-streete, 1625. — Quarto. Olive morocco, super extra, gilt leaves, by F. Bedford. This was published at the end of a sermon to which it properly belongs. 25. The right excellent and famous Historye of Promos and Cassandra, wherein is showne the un- 1 1 sufferable abuse of a lewde Magistrate, the vertuous behaviour of a chaste Ladye, &c, the worke of George Whetstones, gent. Imprinted at London by Richarde I hones, and are to be solde ouer agaynst Saint Sepulchres Church, without Newgate, August 20, 1578. Green straight grained morocco, panelled sides with corner and centre ornaments. This is the play whence Shakespeare derived the plot of Measure for Measure. Only three other copies known. 26. The Historie of Henry the Fourth, with the Battell at Shrewsbury betweene the King and Lord Henry Percy, surnamed Henry Hotspur of the North. With the humorous conceits of Sir Iohn Falstaffe. Newly corrected by William Shake- speare. London, Printed by John Norton, and are to be sold by Hvgh Perry at his shop next to Ivie- bridge in the Strand, 1639. — ato. Brown morocco, super extra, blind and gold panelled sides, after the antique, gilt leaves, by F. Bedford. 27. The Raigne of King Edward the Third, as it hath bene sundry times played about the Citie of London. Imprinted at London by Simon Stafford for Cuthbert Burby, and are to be sold at his shop neere the Royall Exchange, 1599. Brown morocco, half extra. ' In an anonymous and popular drama entitled the Reign " of King Edward the Third, produced in or before the year " 1 595, there are occasional passages which by most " judgments will be accepted as having been written either " by Shakespeare or by an exceedingly dexterous and " successful imitator of one of his then favourite styles of " composition." — Outlines, L, 125. 28. Timbre de Cardone ende Fenicie van Messine, a Dutch play on the story of Much Ado about Nothing acted in Holland in the 12 year 1618, with a wood-engraving of one of the scenes. Brown Levant morocco, super extra, gilt leaves, by F. Bedford. Mr. E. W. Gosse, in a long and interesting article on this drama which appeared in the Athenaeum of 10 Nov. 1877, observes : — "In the year after Shakespeare died, the Dutch poet wrote his tragi-comedy of Timbre de Cardone, in which it appears to me that he made large use of his reminiscences of Much Ado about Nothing. The next year saw its publication. — This excessively rare play, which was at one time thought to have entirely disappeared, and which has never been reprinted, is so interesting, both intrinsically and to Shakespearean scholars, that I may be permitted to describe it somewhat minutely. The title runs: — 'J. J. Starter's Blyeyndich-Truyrspel van Timbre de Cardone ende Fenicie van Messine,' or, in English, ' J. J. Starter's Tragi-comedy of Timbre de Cardone and Fenicie of Messine.' The title-page has an engraving of Gironde pointing out the supposed tomb of Fenicie to Timbre in the church. The imprint states that the play is printed ' for Jan Jensen Starter, Bookseller at the Sign of the English Bible, in Leeuwarden, 161 8, 4to.' There is an interesting prologue, in which Starter refers with modest enthusiasm to his great contemporaries, and deprecates comparison with them." It is not in the enormous collection of old Dutch plays at Leyden, the printed catalogue of which forms three volumes octavo. 29. Lily's Shorte Introduction of Grammar gene- rally to be used, compiled and set forth for the bringing up of all those that intende to attaine the knowledge of the Latine tongue. zLto. Lond. 1568. Brown Levant morocco, super extra, blind and gold panelled sides, after the antique, by F. Bedford. An impression which is either unique or of very extreme rarity, being unnoticed by all the bibliographers. It is, in all probability, either this edition or that of 1567, also in this collection, which was in use at the Stratford grammar school when Shakespeare was gathering his " little Latin and less Greek " at that establishment. That the great dramatist had imbibed something from this book is clear i3 from his quoting a line from Terence in the form in which it is given in this volume, not in that in which it appears in the work of the ancient poet. 30. Microcosmos, the Discovery of the Little World, with the Government thereof. By John Davies. At Oxford, printed by Ioseph Barnes, and are to bee solde in Pleetestreete at the signe of the Turkes head by Iohn Barnes, 1603. 4-to. 1st edition. Old sprinkled calf half extra. At p. 215 are the curious allusions to Shakespeare and Burbage, the identification proved by their initials in the margin : — " Players I love ye and your qualitie." — W. S. " As ye are men that pass in time abus'd. "And some I love for painting poesie, etc." — R. B. This edition is excessively rare. Dr. Grosart speaks of the Huth copy as being "almost unique." 31. Poems, written by Wil. Shake-speare gent. Printed at London by Tho. Cotes, and are to be sold by Iohn Benson, dwelling in St. Dunstans Church-yard, 1640. i2mo. Red morocco, super extra, full gilt back, panelled sides, broad rich inside borders, gilt leaves, by F. Bedford. With both title-pages, one being undated, and with Marshall's original engraved portrait of the author, an interesting variation of Droeshout's work. t.2. The History of the Two Maids of Moreclacke (Mortlake), with the Life and simple manner of John in the Hospitall. Written by Robert Armin, 1609. Red straight grained morocco, by Roger Payne. The woodcut on the title-page is one of the few pictorial examples that we have of the stage costume of Shake- speare's time. Only four other copies known. Armin was one of the actors of the Globe Theatre and a colleague of Shakespeare. " The first positive appearance of Armin's name in " connection with the theatre, is in King James' license of i4 " 1603, along with Shakespeare's and Burbage's, and the " others." — Dr. Grosart. 1 1 OJ 1 Loues Labours Lost, a wittie and pleasant Comedie, as it was acted by his Maiesties Seruants at the Blacke-Friers and the Globe. Written by William Shakespeare. London, printed by W. S. for Iohn Smethwicke, and are to be sold at his Shop in Saint Dunstones Churchyard vnder the Diall, 163 1. — Quarto. Half purple morocco neat. Sold at Halliwell's sale, May, 1856, for £g, lot 333, and purchased by Sir William Tite. 34. The Booke of Honor of Armes, wherein is discoursed the causes of Ouarrell and the nature of Iniuries, with their repulses. Also the meanes of satisfaction and pacification. No date, but entered on the Stationers' registers in 1589. — Quarto. Olive morocco, super extra, blind and gold panelled sides after the antique, gilt leaves, by F. Bedford. A book, so far as observations on " lies " are concerned, similar to the one mentioned in the next article. 35. Vincentio Saviolo his Practise. In two Bookes. The first intreating of the use of the Rapier and Dagger. The second, of Honor and honorable Quarrels. 4to. London, printed by John Wolfe, 1595. Brown sealskin morocco, super extra, full gilt back, broad rich inside borders, French fiiletted sides, gilt leaves, by F. Bedford. This is the work to which Touchstone in As you Like it, Act V., Sc. 4, makes such obvious allusion, his reference being to that division which is headed, " Of the manner " and diversitie of Lies." These are, " Lies certaine ; " " conditional lies ; " " lies in general ; " " lies in particular ; " and " foolish lies." It appears that Saviolo was an Italian fencing master, born at Padua, patronised and employed by Lord Essex. — Payne Collier. i5 36. The head of Shakespeare in an oval, 1,655 evidently copied from the Droeshout print, only reversed. Under it is a representation on the stage, with the figures of a man and woman, the latter in the act of stabbing herself. Will: Gilbir- son, John Stafford excud. — A modern reproduc- tion of this engraving is sufficiently common, but the present is a very fine specimen of the extremely rare original. Only four other copies known. Maroon morocco, half extra, gilt leaves. 3J . A manuscript of the Return from Parnassus " as it was acted in St. John's Colledge in Cambridge, anno 1602." — 4to. Old half calf. This is the only manuscript of the time of Elizabeth in a private library in which any of the works of Shakespeare are mentioned. It is of great interest and literary value as the record of a more accurate text than the hitherto only known early copy, the edition of 1606. The title in the manuscript is " The Progresse to Parnassus," the reason for the adoption of either title being obscure. I purchased this manuscript at the Townley sale at Sotheby's, June 28th, 1883, Lot 122. My commission for it to Mr. Pearson of Pall Mall was no less than ten guineas, but no one at the sale understood its value, and it was bought for £y i$s. 6d. It is a most valuable contemporary copy probably under what was the original title of the Return from Parnassus, 1601, with very important varia- tions in one of the interesting notices of Shakespeare. 38. The Auncient Historie of the Destruction of Troy, containing the founders and foundation of the said Citie, besides many admirable and most rare exployts of chivalric and martiall prowesse, with incredible events compassed for and through the love of ladies. — ztto. London, printed by Thomas Creede, 1596. Half brown morocco, half extra. This is the edition which was used by Shakespeare for a C i6 portion of the story of Troilus and Cressida. Only one other copy known, and both are imperfect. See No. 72 for the edition of 1607. 39. M. William Shake-speare, his True Chronicle History of the life and death of King Lear and his three Daughters ; with the vnfortunate life of Edgar, sonne and heire to the Earle of Glocester, and his sullen and assumed humour of Tom of Bedlam, as it was plaid before the Kings Maiesty at White- Hall vppon S. Stephens night in Christmas Hollidaies. By his Maiesties Seruants playing vsually at the Globe on the Banck-side. Printed for Nathaniel Butter. 1608. — 4to. Blue Turkey morocco plain, by C. Lewis. The first edition. 40. The history of Tom Drum's vaunts, and his rare entertainment at Mistress Farmer's house, the faire widow of Fleete Streete. A fragment of Deloney's Historie of the Gentle Craft. 1598. Half brown morocco neat, red leaves, by F. Bedford. Alluded to in All's Well that Ends Well. No other copy known. Lafen : Mine eyes smell onions, I shall weep anon Good Tom Drum (to Parolles) : Lend me a handker- chief—All's Well, V. 3. 41. Hollands Leagver, or an Historical Discovrse of the Life acid Actions of Dona Britanica Hollandia, the Arch-Mistris of the wicked women of Evtopia ; wherein is detected the notorious Sinne of Pander- isme, and the execrable Life of the luxurious Impudent. London, printed by A. M. for Richard Barnes, 1632. — Quarto. Red morocco neat. Curious references to the Globe Theatre and other Shakespearean localities. With the original engraved frontispiece. Exceedingly rare. Payne Collier in his Annals, 1879, mentions this pamphlet: — "The author speaks of three famous amphi- " theatres," the Globe, the Hope, and the Rose, " which " stood so near situated that the eye might take view of " them from the lowest turret." Of the Globe only he remarks that " half the year a world of beauties and brave " spirits resorted unto it," referring to its continued popularity as a theatre devoted to the representation of regular dramatic productions. 42. The original correspondence and papers of the Rev. Joseph Greene, Master of the Grammar- School of Stratford-on-Avon, 1746 to 1787, including numerous documents concerning the restoration of the poet's monumental effigy in 1 748, the prologue to Othello acted by John Ward's Company in aid of the restoration fund, with an autograph letter from Ward to Greene respecting the monument, &c. 4to. MS. Brown morocco, extra panelled sides. 43. Complaints. Containing sundrie small Poemes of the World's Vanitie, by Ed. Spencer. London. Imprinted for William Ponsonbie, dwelling in Paules Churchyard at the signe of the Bishops Head, 1591. — Quarto. Calf, extra, gilt leaves. At Sig. F 2, are the lines so long considered, I think erroneously, to refer to Shakespeare. 44. The Garden of the Muses. Printed at London by E. A. for Iohn Tap, and are to be sold at his shop at Saint Magnus corner, 16 10. Brown Levant morocco, extra, gilt top. This work was first issued in 1600 under the title of Bel-vedere, or the Garden of the Muses ; for some unex- plained reason the Bel-vedere was afterwards dropped. The chief collector of the materials for this work was John Bodenham, of whom little more is known than that he also exercised his taste in the selection of the produc- tions contained in England's Helicon, 1600 (Lot 803). They are, however, essentially different ; for England's Helicon consists of entire poems by various authors whose names are given, while Bel-vedere is made up of single C 2 i8 lines and couplets (more being studiously avoided) taken from the works of a long list of poets, whose names are not found in connection with any of the extracts. Bodenham confined himself to productions in ten-syllable verse, for none longer nor shorter are to be found in his volume. In what he calls " the conclusion," which precedes the index, he gives a hint that he was assisted in the undertaking : — " The gentleman who was the cause of this collection " (taking therein no mcane paines him-selfe besides his " friend's labour) could not be pers waded but determinately " aimed at this observation," viz., the rejection of anything that could not be brought into a line or couplet. In order to adhere to this plan, if sometimes four consecutive lines presented themselves, forming two com- plete couplets, Bodenham did not scruple absurdly to separate them by lines from a different author. We have a remarkable instance of this practice on pp. 178, 179, where we meet with the following : — There's nought so vile that on the earth doth live, But to the earth some speciall good doth give. Good is the end that cannot be amended. Where good is found we should not quit with ill. There's nought so good, but, stain'd from that faire use, Revolts to vice, and stumbles on abuse. The two first and two last lines everybody will recollect in Romeo and Juliet, Act II., Scene 3, and they are consecutive, both in reason and in fact, but it did not suit Bodenham's friends' views so to print them. — Payne Collier's Bibliographical Account of Early English Literature. 45. The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tra- gedie of Romeo and Juliet, as it hath been sundry times publikely Acted by the Kings Majesties Servants at the Globe. Written by W. Shake- speare. Newly corrected, augmented, and amended. London, Printed by R. Young for John Smethwicke, and are to be sold at his Shop in St. Dunstans Church-yard in Fleetstreet under the Dyall, 1637. — 4to. Red Levant morocco, extra gilt leaves, by W. Pratt. 19 46. The Late and much-admired Play called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. With the true Relation of the whole History, adventures, and fortunes of the said Prince. Written by W. Shakespeare. Printed at London by Thomas Cotes, 1635. — 4to. Half calf neat. 47. A Declaration of egregious Popish Impostures, to with-draw the harts of her Maiesties Subiects from their allegeance, and from the truth of Christian Religion professed in England, vnder the pretence of casting out deuils. At London, printed by lames Roberts dwelling in Barbican, 1603. Sprinkled calf half extra, red leaves, by William Nutt. Shakespeare, in his tragedy of Lear, has made Edgar, in his feigned distraction, frequently allude to a vile imposture of some English Jesuits, at that time much the subject of conversation ; the history of it having been just then composed with great art and vigour of style and com- position by Dr. S. Harsnet, afterwards Archbishop of York, bv order of the Privy Council in the above named work. The imposture was in substance this : while the Spaniards were preparing their Armada against England, the Jesuits were here busy at work to promote it by making converts ; one method they employed was to dispossess pretended demoniacks. by which artifice they made several hundred converts among the common people. — Halliwell's folio Shakespeare. 48. Colin Clovt's Come Home Againe. By Ed. Spencer. London, printed for William Ponsonbie, 1595-— 4to. Olive morocco, super extra, gilt back, French filletted sides, borders of gold inside, by F. Bedford. At sig. C 2 is the allusion to Shakespeare under the name of Aetion : — " And there, though last not least, is Aetion, A gentler Shepheard may nowhere be found ; Whose Muse, full of high thoughts' invention, Doth, like himself, Heroically sound." 49. The True Chronicle Historie of the whole 20 Life and Death of Thomas Lord Cromwell, as it hath beene sundry times publikely Acted by the Kings Maiesties Seruants. Written by W. S. London, printed by Thomas Snodham, 1613. — Quarto. Purple morocco, gilt leaves, half extra. This enumeration of dramas on the incidents of the same reign may be concluded with a notice of the Chronicle His- tory of Thomas Lord Cromwell, which was first published as "written by W.S." in 1602. It had then most likely been recently produced by Shakespeare's company, an entry of the copyright in the August of that year mentioning the play "as yt was lately acted by the Lord Chamberleyn his servantes." An assignment of the copyright was entered in December, 161 1, the second impression, however, not appearing till 1613, the author of the play in both instances being denoted by the above-mentioned initials. The drama of Lord Cromwell was attributed to Shakespeare by the publisher of the third folio in 1664, but it is hardly necessary to observe that it has no pretensions to the claim of so high a distinction. — Outlines, II., 293. 50. Every Man in his Humor, as it hath beene sundry times publickly acted by the right Honor- able the Lord Chamberlaine his seruants. Written by Ben. Iohnson. Imprinted at London for Walter Burre, and are to be sould at his shoppe in Paules Church-yarde, 1601. — Quarto. Half brown morocco neat, by F. Bedford. One of the most interesting of the recorded events of Shakespeare's life occurred in the present year. In September, 1598, Ben Jonson's famous comedy of Every Man in His Humour was produced by the Lord Chamber- lain's company, and there is every probability that both writer and manager were indebted for its acceptance to the sagacity of the great dramatist who was one of the leading actors on the occasion. — Outlines, I., 170. 51. Englandes Mourning Garment, worne here by plaine Shepheardes in memorie of their sacred Mistresse Elizabeth, Oueene of Vertue while shee liued, and Theame of Sorrow, being dead. Printed at London by V. S. for Thomas Millington, and are 21 to be sold at his shop vnder Saint Peters Church in Cornhil. — Quarto. By Henry Chettle. Calf, super extra, gilt leaves, by F. Bedford. Of Shakespeare he speaks as follows by the name of Melicert, whom, on sig. B 3, he had already introduced : — " Nor doth the silver-tongued Melicert Drop from his honied Muse one sable teare To mourne her death that graced his desert, And to his laies open'd her royal eare ; Shepheard, remember our Elizabeth, And sing her rape done by that Tarquin Death." (Payne Collier's Bibliographical Catalogue.) This, the first edition, was issued without a date ; the second edition was published in 1603, also by Millington. This copy is perfect, with the exception of the Shep- herd's Spring Song at the end comprising two leaves. One of the British Museum copies is also imperfect at the end, these circumstances leading to the suspicion that it was a separate and later insertion. 52. The original manuscript poetical common- place-book of Matthew Day, a prominent inhabitant of Windsor in the first half of the seventeenth century. — Quarto. Whole bound morocco, half extra. He was five times mayor of that town, and died in 1661. It includes, amidst a large number of other pieces, verses of " Shakespeare on the King " ; lines on persons buried at Windsor ; on Richard Pipe ; on the Cornell tree in the Little Parke ; Randolph on the losse of his little finger ; Paul his Temple triumphant, or a new walke there vp the steppes, by Tho, Dekker ; a new Ballad of the Dauncing of the Ropes, by Tho. Decker ; on the goodwif's ale, &c. Bought at Payne Collier's sale, 1884 ; Lot 906. My commission for it to Pearsons was £1$ 10s. od. 53. The Whole Contention betweene the two Famous Houses, Lancaster and Yorke. With the Tragicall ends of the good Duke Humfrey, Richard Duke of Yorke and King Henrie the sixt. Diuided into two Parts, and newly corrected and enlarged. 22 Written by William Shakespeare, gent. Printed at London for T. P. — Ouarto. Brown morocco, half extra, gilt leaves. " T. P. was Thomas Pavier, the publisher of other plays ; but it is scarcely necessary to observe that the wording of the title-page is of no value in the determination of the authorship." — Halliwell-Phillipps' Budget, 1880. There is no date in the original, but it was printed in 1619. 54. The Merry Conceited Humors of Bottom the Weaver. As it hath been often publikely Acted by Some of his Majesties Comedians, and lately privately presented by several Apprentices for their harmless recreation with great Applause. London, printed for F. Kirkman and H. Marsh, 1661. — Ouarto. Red Levant morocco, super extra, gilt leaves, by F. Bedford. 55. A Yorkshire Tragedie, not so New as La- mentable and True. Written by W. Shakespeare. Printed for T. P., 16 19. — Quarto. Olive morocco extra gilt leaves. Almost simultaneously with the contemplated publica- tion of the admirable tragedy last mentioned (Antony and Cleopatra), an insignificant piece, of some little merit but no dramatic power, entitled the Yorkshire Tragedy, was dishonestly introduced to the public as having been "written by William Shakespeare." — Outlines, I., 223. 56. A Trve Report of the Inditement, Arraign- ment, conuiction, condemnation, and execution of Iohn Weldon, William Hartley and Robert Sutton, who suffred for High Treason in seuerall places about the Citie of London on Saturday the fifth of October, anno 1588. Imprinted at London by Richard Iones, 1588. — Ouarto. Red straight grained morocco, blind and gold entirely over the back and sides, after the old pattern. This curious little tract is of the highest degree qf rarity. 23 Hartley was executed "nigh the Theater" in Shore- ditch. 57. The Merry Divel of Edmonton, as it hath beene sundry times Acted by his Maiesties Seruants at the Globe on the Banke-side. At London, printed by G. Eld for Arthur Iohnson, dwelling at the signe of the White Horse in Paules Churchyard over against the great North Doore of Paules, 161 7. — Ouarto. Half brown morocco neat, by F. Bedford. This entertaining comedy is mentioned in the Blacke Booke, 1604, and was entered at Stationers' Hall in October, 1607, to Arthur Johnson, who published it in the following year, 1608, under the title of, The Merry Devil of Edmonton, as it hath beene sundry times acted by his Majesties Servants at the Globe on the Banke-side ; that is, by Shakespeare's company. The copyright of what appears to have been a rival and lost drama on the same history was claimed by other publishers in April, 1608, and was attributed by them to the pen of one T. B. In this latter play the death of Fabel was introduced, while the enumeration of the other incidents forbids us to suppose that it could be a continuation of the former production. The earliest attribution of a piece on this subject to the great dramatist is found in the registers of the Stationers' Company under the date of September, 1653, when a publisher named Moseley inserted, " The Merry Devile of Edmonton by Wm, Shakespeare," in an entry which includes palpable misrepresentations respecting the author- ship of other compositions. The evidence of Moseley is clearly not reliable, but there appears to have been a vague idea, in the latter part of the seventeenth century, that the play might have been written by Shakespeare. It is attributed to him in an early manuscript note in a copy of the edition of 1655, and also by a bookseller named Kirkman in 1671. Langbaine, ed. 1691, p. 541, judiciously discredits the last-mentioned authority. — Outlines, II., 415. 58. The Malcontent, augmented by Marston. With the Additions played by the Kings Maiesties Servants. Written by Ihon Webster, 1604. At London, printed by V. S. for W T illiam Aspley, and 24 are to be sold at his shop in Paules Churchyard. — Quarto. Half brown morocco, neat, gilt leaves, by F. Bedford. The induction in which the Shakespearean actors are introduced is extremely curious. See good remarks on the induction in Collier's Memoirs of Actors, pages 26, 27, 154, 155- 59. Satiro-Mastix, or the Vntrussing of the Humorous Poet. As it hath bin presented publikely by the Right Honorable the Lord Chamberlaine his Seruants, and priuately by the Children of Paules. By Thomas Dekker. London, printed for Edward White, and are to bee solde at his shop neere the little North doore of Paules Church, at the signe of the Gun, 1602. — Ouarto. Half red morocco, neat. " Insteed of the trumpets sounding thrice before the " play begin, it shall not be amisse, for him that will read, " first to behold this short Comedy of Errors, and where ' the greatest enter, to give them, instead of hisse, a gentle " correction." There is also a notice of Justice Shallow. " The proximity of the Hope, while yet a bear-garden, " to the Rose is to be gathered from the following ironical " passage in Dekker's Satiromastrix, 1602, in allusion to " it: — 'Thou hadst a breath as sweet as the Rose — that " grows by the bear-garden.' " — Payne Collier. 60. One of the volumes of Ireland's pseudo- Shakespearean library, in the same binding, green morocco, in which it was sold at his sale in May, 1801, lot 566. Green, straight-grained morocco, half extra. Some of the forged notes are very quaint, especially a delicious one at p. 9, — " werte notte for those who dydde give mee thys booke, I would reade noe more ont." 61. Roscius Anglicanus, or an Historical Review of the Stage after it had been suppress'd by means of the late unhappy Civil War, giving an Account 25 of its rise again, of the times and places the Gover- nours of both the Companies first erected their theatres, the names of the principal Actors and Actresses, &c. i2mo. Lond. 1708. Half brown, straight-grained morocco, neat. Very rare, wrote Dr. Bliss. 62. The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke, newly imprinted and inlarged, according to the true and perfect copy lastly Printed. By William Shake- speare. London, printed by W. S. for Iohn Smethwicke, and are to be sold in his Shop in Saint Dunstans Church-yard in Fleet-street vnder the Diall. — Quarto. Red morocco, super extra, by F. Bedford. 63. The Late and much admired Play called, Pericles, Prince of Tyre. With the true Relation of the whole History, aduentures, and fortunes of the saide Prince. Written by W. Shakespeare. Printed for T. P., 16 19. — Quarto. Red morocco, super extra, gilt leaves, by W. Pratt. Practically perfect, though I suspect the two top words of title-page are in facsimile. 64. The Two Noble Kinsmen, presented at the Blackfriers [by the Kings Maiesties servants with great applause. Written by the memorable Worthies of their time, Mr. John Fletcher and Mr. William Shakspeare, gent. Printed at London by Tho. Cotes for Iohn Waterson, and are to be sold at the signe of the Crowne in Pauls Church-yard, 1634. — Ouarto. Red morocco, super extra, gilt leaves, by F. Bedford. " There is not the slightest contemporary hint that he " (Shakespeare) ever entered into the joint authorship of " a play with anyone else. No intimation of anything of " the kind occurred until nearly twenty years after the " poet's death, when a publisher named Waterson issued " the Two Noble Kinsmen in 1634, as the united com- 26 " position of Fletcher and Shakespeare." — Outlines, II., 409. 65. The most excellent Historie of the Merchant of Venice, with the extreame cruelty of Shylocke the Jew towards the said Merchant in cutting a just pound of his flesh, and the obtaining of Portia by the choyce of three Chests. As it hath been diverse times acted by the Lord Chamberlaine his Servants. Written by William Shakespeare. London, printed for William Leake, and are to be solde at his shop at the signe of the Crown in Fleetstreet, between the two Temple Gates. 1652. — Ouarto. Purple morocco, half extra. This is one of the rarest, if not the rarest, of the late Shakespearean quartos. 66. The Retvrne from Pernassvs, or the Scourge of Simony. Publiquely acted by the Students in Saint Iohns Colledge in Cambridge. At London, printed by G. Eld for Iohn Wright, and are to bee sold at his shop at Christchurch Gate, 1606. — Ouarto. Half green morocco, neat. The well-known allusions to Shakespeare occur at sig. B 2 and sig. G 2. In this impression the word lazy is omitted in the verses on his poems. The following con- temporary manuscript note occurs upon the title-page, — "to my lovinge Smallocke, J.D." " A character named Ingenioso, a University student, " asks another, one Judicio, the opinions of the latter " on various writers, each name being supposed to be " preceded by the words, — What's thy judgment of" " Ing. William Shakespeare. " JUD. Who loves Adonis love, or Lucre's rape, His sweeter verse containes hart-robbing life ; Could but a graver subject him content, Without loves foolish languishment." — Outlines, II., 153. 67. The original Presentments and Orders made 27 at the Court Leets of Stratford-on-Avon from 1682 to 1743. Half dark brown morocco,, neat. A manuscript volume, in folio, of extreme interest in its notices of the condition of the town and the usages of the inhabitants during that period. It includes occasional allusions to Shakespearean localities and autograph signa- tures of some of the Hatha ways. 68. The original court-book, with presentments, of Old Stratford from 1684 to 1697. Dark blue morocco, half extra. Manuscript, in folio, with the primitive vellum covers. It includes curious notices of the Shakespearean common- fields. Nos. 67 and 6S are "The earliest books of the manorial " court that are known to exist." — Preface to Calendar. 69. The Droeshout engraved portrait of Shake- speare, an unnoticed impression which was issued by Herringman in 1672 from the plate used in the third folio of 1664. No other copy known. Brown Levant morocco, super extra, blind and gold panelled sides, after the antique, gilt leaves, by F. Bedford. 70. A Treatise concerneinge the tenure of Coppy holders, teachinge bothe Lorde and Tennant how demeane them in all sortes, very necessarye for eyther of ther vses to be had and understood. Old vellum, sides tooled with gold. Dedicated by its author, Philip Chapman, " to the Right Worshipfull Sir Thomas Lucye, knight, his singuler good master, and the right vertuous and his very good lady, the Lady Constance his wife." This was the son of the poet's Sir Thomas. A minute beautifully-written manuscript, in the original impressed vellum binding. i8mo. Temp. Jac. I. 71. Tragi-Comaedia, being a Brief Relation of the strange and wonderfull hand of God discovered at Witny in the Comedy acted there February the third, where there were some slaine, many hurt, with severall other remarkable Passages. By John 28 Rowe of C.C.C. in Oxford, Lecturer in the Towne of Witny. Oxford, printed by L. Lichfield for Henry Cripps, 1653. — 410. Half brown morocco, gilt leaves, neat, by F. Bedford. A singularly curious account of an accident that hap- pened at the White Hart Inn, Witney, during the performance of the comedy of Mucedorus by some itinerant players. The omission of pages 49 and 50 is a mere oversight on the part of the printer, as clearly appears from the signatures. See No. 186 for a copy of the Play of Mucedorus. 72. The Ancient Historie of the Destruction of Troy, conteining the Founders and Foundation of the said Citie. Translated out of French into English by W. Caxton. Newly corrected, and the English much amended, by William Fiston. London, printed by Thomas Creede, 1607. — Ouarto. Brown morocco, super extra, gilt leaves, by F. Bedford. Having the edition of 1596-7 (No. 38), the one used by Shakespeare, I thought it only worth while to retain the title-pages and Shakespearean portion from a very imperfect copy of this later impression of 1607. 73. A Declaration of egregious Popish Impos- tures to withdraw the harts of his Maiesties Subiects from their allegeance, and from the truth of Christian Religion professed in England, vnder the pretence of casting out of deuils. At London, printed by lames Roberts, dwelling in Barbican, Anno Dom. 1604. 4to. Brown morocco, super extra, full gilt back, broad rich inside borders, French filletted sides, gilt leaves, by F. Bedford. A re-issue of extreme rarity. It was from this book that Shakespeare adopted the names of spirits men- tioned in his tragedy of Lear. Not mentioned by Lowndes, or, as far as I know, by any other bibliographer. See No. 47. 29 74- A Shorte Introduction of Grammar generally to be vsed, compiled and set forth for the bringing vp of all those that intende to attaine the knowledge of the Latine tongue, 1567 ; Brevissima Institutio, 1567. 4to. Purple morocco, half extra. Of extreme rarity, and probably unique in this fine perfect state. Either this or the next year's edition, copies of both of which are in this collection, was most likely the one in use at the Stratford school in the poet's boyhood. This edition is not mentioned in Herbert or Ames. See No. 29 for the copy of the edition of 1 568. 75. Remains of a Greater Worke concerning Britaine, the inhabitants thereof, their Languages, Names, Surnames, Empreses, Wise Speeches, Poesies and Epitaphes. At London, printed by G. E. for Simon Waterson. 1605. — 4to. Red Levant morocco, half extra. This work contains one of the very few contemporary notices of Shakespeare : — " These may suffice for some poeticall descriptions of " our auncient poets ; if I would come to our time, what " a world could I present to you out of Sir Philipp Sidney, " Ed Spencer, Samuel Daniel, Hugh Holland, Ben Johnson, " Th Campion, Mich. Drayton George Chapman, John " Marston, William Shakespeare and other most pregnant " witts of these our times, whom succeeding ages justly " admire." 76. The cover of an old book containing lines from the Lover's Complaint and the Passionate Pilgrim in a hand-writing of the time of Charles the First. i2mo. Brown morocco, half extra. yy. The History of Titus Andronicus, the re- nowned Roman General, who, after he had saved Rome by his Valour from being destroyed by the barbarous Goths, and lost two-and-twenty of his valiant sons in ten Years War, was, upon the Emperor's marrying the Queen of the Goths, put to Disgrace and banish'd ; but being recall'd, the Emperor's Son by a First Wife was murder'd by the Empress's Sons and a bloody Moor, and how, charging it upon Andronicus's sons, tho' he cut off his hand to redeem their lives, they were murder'd in Prison. How his fair daughter Lavinia, being ravish'd by the Empress's Sons, they cut out her Tongue and Hands off, &c. How Andronicus slew them, made Pyes of their Flesh, and presented them to the Emperor and Empress ; and then slew them also. With the miserable Death he put the wicked Moor to ; then, at her Request, slew his Daughter and himself to avoid Torments. Newly translated from the Italian copy printed at Rome. London, printed and sold by C. Dicey in Bow Church-yard, and at his wholesale Warehouse in Northampton. Brown Levant morocco, super extra, gilt leaves, by F. Bedford. Of singular rarity. It is probably a chap-book version of the prose tale of Titus Andronicus, which was popular in Shakespeare's time, but of which no copy is now known to exist. y8. The original memorandum book of Thomas Sharp, the clock-maker of Stratford-on-Avon, who purchased the wood of Shakespeare's mulberry-tree when it was cut down in the middle of the last century. This manuscript came afterwards into the hands of Sharp's only surviving assistant, Thomas Gibbs, whose note at p. 186 shows how he came into the possession of some pieces of the mulberry- wood, the few remaining portions of which were purchased by me at the sale of his effects in the year 1866. i2tno. Brown morocco, super extra, by F. Bedford. 79. A small piece of the wood of Shakespeare's mulberry-tree, interesting as being an unworked 3i fragment as it must have originally appeared, nearly all the bark still remaining. This is one of the few bits of the wood that are mentioned in the preceding article as having been in the possession of Thomas Gibbs at the time of his decease. He died in 1866, aged 84. 80. A small tea-caddy, one of the best specimens extant of Sharp's carved-work from the wood of the poet's mulberry-tree, with the original stamped note, — " Shakespear's Wood, Sharp, Stratford-on- Avon." Sharp purchased the wood about the year 1 759, and traded in relics made from it until his death in 1799, but the present specimen has every appearance of belonging to one of the earlier years of that period. Five inches long, 3^ wide, 4 deep. 81. An interesting account of Shakespeare's Birth-Place written by the late F. W. Fairholt immediately after his first visit to the spot in the year 1839. It is wholly in his autograph and unpublished. Svo. Maroon morocco, half extra. 82. New Shreds of the Old Snare, containing the Apparitions of two new female Ghosts. By John Gee, Master of Arts, late of Exon Colledge in Oxford. London, printed for Robert Mylbourne, 1624. — 4to. Half blue morocco, neat. Curious allusions to Hamlet and the Midsummer Night's Dream at p. 20. St,. The Manner of the Proceedings of Robert Earle of Essex, and Henry Earle of Southampton, with their Arreignement. The Speaches of Ro: Earle of Essex, with his Poem, before his execution. Letters, together with their answeres, sent vnto the Earle of Essex by my Lord Keeper and others. Diuers Speeches against the Earle of Essex and his D 32 proceedings in Ireland. 1601. Written by Francis ap Rice, and by him approued of. Half brown morocco, neat, by F. Bedford. A neatly written contemporary manuscript, some of the most curious portions of which are unpublished. See Outlines, I., 195. 84. The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards, in two Parts ; acted at the Theater Royall. Written by John Dryden, Servant to Flis Majesty. In the Savoy. 1672. — 4to. Purple morocco, half extra, gilt top. Contains the traditional account of Shakespeare's treat- ment of the character of Mercutio and various other notices of the great dramatist. " An interesting tradition respecting one of the characters " in this tragedy (Romeo and Juliet) is recorded in 1672 " by Dryden, who observes that the great dramatist ' showed " ' the best of his skill in Mercutio, and he said himself that " ' he was forced to kill him in the third act, to prevent being " killed by him.' The eminent narrator of this little anecdote " ingenuously adds — ' but, for my part, I cannot find he was " 'so dangerous a person ; I see nothing in him but what " ' was so exceedingly harmless that he might have lived " ' to the end of the play, and died in his bed, without " ' offence to any man.' " — Outlines, I., 129. 85. Titus Andronicus, or the Rape of Lavinia. Acted at the Theatre Royall. A Tragedy alter'd from Mr. Shakespears Works by Mr. Edw. Ravens- croft. London. 1687. — 4to. Dark blue Levant morocco, neat, gilt leaves, by F. Bedford. The address to the reader contains the assumed tradi- tional notice of the original authorship. " When the work was published in 1687 the adapter " makes this curious statement : — " I think it a greater theft to rob the dead of their " praise, then the living of their money. That I may not " appear guilty of such a crime, 'tis necessary that I should " acquaint you that there is a play in Mr. Shakespear's " volume under the name of Titus Andronicus from whence ■J 1 '' I drew part of this. I have been told by some anciently " conversant with the stage, that it was not originally his, " but brought by a private Author to be acted, and he only " gave some master-touches to one or two of the principal " parts or characters : this I am apt to believe, because 'tis " the most incorrect and indigested piece in all his works. " It seems rather a heap of rubbish then a structure," the words his and he referring to the Great Dramatist. " Ravenscroft adds that the original prologue had then " been lost, but Langbaine, who has preserved the " lines above quoted in his Account of the English " Dramatick, 1691, p. 465, seems to question the truth of " that assertion, plainly holding the opinion that the " former writer was not distinguished for his literary " integrity. However that may be, it is clear that so " late a tradition respecting the authorship of the earlier " play cannot fairly be held to outweigh the decisive " testimonies of Shakespeare's own contemporaries." — Outlines, II., 262. 86. The Orator, handling a hundred seuerall Discourses in forme of Declamations ; some of the Arguments being drawne from Titus Livius and other ancient Writers, the rest of the Authors owne inuention ; part of which are of matters happened in our Age. Written in French by Alexander Siluayn, and Englished by L. P. London, printed by Adam Islip, 1596. — Declamation 95, of a Jew who would for his debt haue a pound of the flesh of a Christian, and the Christian's answere. — 4to. Purple morocco, half extra, red top. 87. Macbeth, a Tragedy, with all the Altera- tions, Amendments, Additions, and New Songs. As it is now Acted at the Dukes Theatre, 1674. — Quarto. Half blue morocco neat, gilt leaves, by F. Bedford. 88. The Tempest, or the Enchanted Island, a Comedy, as it is now Acted at His Highness the d 2 34 Duke of York's Theatre, 1670 and 1674. Two vols. — 4to. Half olive morocco neat, gilt leaves, by F. Bedford. The other half straight grained morocco neat. These editions differ materially from each other, but they both contain the interesting notice of the performance of the drama at the Blackfriars. The later issues follow, I believe, the second of these editions. Dryden gives us two interesting pieces of information respecting the comedy of the Tempest, — the first, that it was acted at the Blackfriar's Theatre ; the second, that it was successful. His words are, — " the play itself had formerly been acted with success in the Black- Fryers." Preface to the Tempest or the Enchanted Island, A. D. 1670. This probably means that the comedy was originally produced at the Blackfriar's Theatre after the Children had left that establishment, and it is alluded to in a list of " some of the most ancient playes that were play'd at Blackfriers," a manuscript dated in December 1660. It is not at all improbable that the conspicuous position assigned to this comedy in the first folio is a testimony to its popularity, for that situation is unquestionably no evidence of its place in the chronological order. — Outlines, II., 309. 89. The Comical Gallant, or the Amours of Sir John Falstaffe, a Comedy, as it is Acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury-lane by his Majesty's Servants. By Mr. Dennis. London, printed and sold by A. Baldwin near the Oxford Arms in Warwick-lane, 1702. — 4to. Half blue morocco, gilt leaves, neat, by F. Bedford. With a dedication in which there is the earliest traditional account of the causes which led to the composition of the Merry Wives of Windsor. A copy of a scarce alteration of the Merry Wives of Windsor, seldom found in good condition. The author of this variation, John Dennis, is the first narrator, in the Dedication to it, of the tradition of the Merry Wives of Windsor having been written by Shakespeare at the request of Queen Elizabeth. " This comedy," he observes, " was written at her command, and by her direction, and she was so eager to see it acted that she commanded it 35 to be finished in fourteen days ; and was afterwards, as tradition tells us, very well pleas'd at the representation." —J. O. Halliwell. 1866. 90. Verginia, Comedia di M. Bernardo Accolti Aretino, intitolata la Verginia, con un Capitolo della Madonna, nuouamente corretta, et con somma diligentia ristampata. Stampata in Vinegia per Nicolo di Aristotile detto Zoppino, 1535. Red cloth. A play on the story that was dramatised by Shakespeare in All's Well that Ends Well. i2mo. 91. Epitia Tragedia di M. Gio. Battista Giraldi Cinthio, nobile Ferrarese. In Venetia, appresso Giulio Cesare Cagnacini, 1583. Brown morocco, super extra, gilt leaves, by F. Bedford, after the old Venetian style. A play on the story that was afterwards dramatised by Shakespeare in Measure for Measure. i2mo. 92. Naps upon Parnassus, a sleepy Muse nipt and pincht, though not awakened ; such voluntary and jovial Copies of Verses as were lately receiv'd from some of the Wits of the Universities in a Frolick, dedicated to Gondibert's Mistress by Captain Jones and others. London, printed by express Order from the Wits, for N. Brook at the Angel in Cornhill, 1658. Russia, blind tooled sides. First edition. At sig. B 5 is a singularly quaint allusion to Shakespeare's Falstaff: — "To his ingenuous friend, the author, on his incomparable Poems. — Carmen Jocoserium. To thee compar'd our English Poets all stop, And vail their Bonnets, even Shakespear's Falstop."* * It should have been Falstaff, if the rhyme had permitted it. 93. Le Notti di M. Gio. Francesco Straparola da Carauaggio. In Vinegia, 1560, appresso Fran- cesco Lorenzini de Turino. — Small 8vo. Purple straight grained morocco, tooled borders inside, gilt leaves 36 With the autograph and manuscript notes of Gabriel Harvey, the former being on the title-page of the second part. Interesting in connection with the history of the foundation story of the Merry Wives of Windsor, a proof that one copy at all events of this book had found its way into England in Shakespeare's time. 94. The Pleasant and Delightful History of Dorastus and Fawnia pleasant for Age to shun drowsie Thoughts, profitable for Youth to avoid other wanton pastimes, and bringing to both a desired content. By Rob. Green, Master of Arts in Cambridge. London, printed by W. O. for G. Conyers at the Ring in Little Britain. The lower part of the imprint cut off. A curious wood- cut on the title-page. This is a chap-book version of the foundation story of the Winter's Tale. The History of Dorastus and Fawnia, where is declared the cruelty of Pandosta to his fair Bellaria ; and how the child Fawnia was put into a boat to be drown'd, but was taken up by the sea-side out of the boat by a shepherd ; and how he brought up the fair Fawnia to keep sheep, and how Dorastus fell in love with the fair Fawnia, &c. London, printed for J. Blare at the Looking-glass on London Bridge. A quaint wood-cut on the title page. Substantially perfect, but the right hand of title is slightly cropped. An extremely rare edition of this popular Shakespearean tale. i2mo. In one volume. Red morocco, half extra. Two old chap books on the story of the Winter's Tale. The abridged one at the end is of the utmost rarity. 95. Cornelianvm Dolium. Comaedia lepidissima, optimorum judiciis approbata, et theatrali coryphceo, nee immerito, donata, palma chorali apprime digna. Auctore T. R. ingeniosissimo hujus sevi Heliconio. Londini, apud Tho. Harperum, et vseneunt per Tho. Slaterum et Laurentium Chapman, 1638. — 121110. Red straight grained morocco, by Roger Payne. With Marshall's frontispiece of the man in the tub. In 37 this curious old Latin play there is an interesting notice of Shakespeare's " wanton book," that is to say, his Venus and Adonis. 96. Epigrams Six Bookes, also the Socratick Session, or the Arraignment of Julius Scaliger, with some select Poems, by S. Sheppard. London, printed by G. D., and are to be sould by Tho. : Bucknell at the Golden Lion in Duck-lane. 165 1 . — Small 8vo. Old Russia, by Roger Payne. Presentation copy from J. Gaisford, Shakespearean allusion, page 150, as follows : — " In memory of our famous " Shakespeare." Secret spirit whiles thy lyre Ecchoed o're Arcadian plaines, Even Appollo did admire, Orpheus wondered at thy strains, &c. Also page 251. Shakespeare now clearly was alow'd His sun quite shrunk beneath a cloud. 97. Cesar Tragedie, par Iaques Grevin de Cler- mont en Beauuaisis. A Paris, par Nicolas Bonfons, rue neuue nostre Dame, a l'enseigne sainct Nicolas, 15/8. Brown morocco, half extra, gilt leaves. A French tragedy on the subject of Julius Caesar, anterior to that of Shakespeare. 98. An Account of the Lady Lucy, write to a pertickular friend of hers, Mrs. Moore. — i2mo. Calf, half extra. This Lady Lucy was the wife of the second Sir Thomas of Charlecote. It was drawn up by Mrs. Elizabeth Lucy, one of her descendants. See an account of this manuscript in Hunter's Illustrations of Shakespeare, i. 61, 62. " I have seen a manuscript account of this lady written " by the wife of one of her descendants, in which, among " many high commendations, it is said that in the family of " Walsingham she was noted for her ' courteousness and " ' decent sober carriage,' " &c, &c. 3S 99. The Passionate Pilgrim, by W. Shakespeare. At London, printed for W. laggard and are to be sold by W. Leake at the Greyhound in Paules Churchyard, 1599. Light brown morocco, half extra, gilt leaves A facsimile tracing made by E. W. Ashbee from the original printed copy preserved in the Capell collection. With the exception of two sonnets and a few verses taken from the already published comedy of Love's Labour Lost, Jaggard's collection does not include a single line that can be positively ascribed to the pen of the great dramatist, but much that has been ascertained to have been the composition of others. The entire publication bears evident marks of an attempted fraud, and it may well be doubted if any of its untraced contents, with perhaps three exceptions, justify the announcement of the title-page. — Outlines, I., 179 100. Histoires Tragiques extraictes des oevvres Italiennes de Bandel, et mises en nostre langue Franeoise par Pierre Boaistuau, surnomme Launay, natif de Bretaigne. A Paris, par Benoist Preuost, rue Frementel, a l'enseigne de l'estoille d or pres le cloz Bruneau, 1559. — Small Svo. Blue morocco, super extra, full gilt back, broad rich inside borders, French filletted sides, gilt leaves, by F. Bedford. Very rare. Includes the story of Romeo and Juliet. 101. The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, as it is now acted at His HiQ-hness the Duke of York's Theatre. By William Shakespeare. London, 1676. — 4to. Half brown morocco neat. This is the rarest of these quarto editions of Hamlet which were issued after the Restoration, and has only been known of late years. It has the first edition of the follow- ing curious address to the reader : — This Play being too long to be conveniently acted, such places as might be least prejudicial to the Plot cr Sense are left out upon the Stage ; but that we may no way wrong 39 the incomparable author, are here inserted according to the original Copy with this Mark. Betterton played Hamlet, Marcellus was undertaken by Lee, and the part of Ophelia by Mrs. Betterton. — J. O. Halliwell, 1866. 102. Original drafts of advertisements, letters, and conditions of sale drawn up on the occasion of the projected auction of Shakespeare's Birth-Place in the year 1805. — Fol. MS. Half brown morocco neat. 103. Marc Antonio e Cleopatra, tragedia del R. don Celso Pistorelli da Vicenza. In Verona, per Sebastiano dalle Donne, et Giouanni frattelli, 1576. — 1 2 mo. Half green morocco neat. 104. The Barrons Wars in the raigne of Edward the Second, with Englands Heroicall Epistles, by Michaell Drayton. At London, printed by I. R. for N. Ling, 1603. — 121110. Light brown morocco, super extra, lettered along the back, gilt leaves, by F. Bedford. This is a portion of the excessively rare first edition of Drayton's poem, which has the singular imitation of a passage in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. See page 61. 105. Julius Caesar, a Tragedy, as it is now acted at the Theatre Royal. Written by William Shake- speare. London, 1691. — 4to. Half brown morocco neat. First edition. 106. Stanzas on the Shakespeare Hunt at Strat- ford-upon-Avon, December the 2d, 1793, illustrated with Notes ; humbly inscribed to Charles Henry Hunt, esq., by John Jordan. Half brown Levant morocco neat, gilt leaves, by F. Bedford. Some of the Shakespearean notes are biographical. Autograph manuscript. Fol. 40 io;. The Merry Deuill of Edmonton, as it hath been sundry times acted by his Maiesties Seruants at the Globe on the Bancke-side. London, printed by T. P. for Francis Falkner, and are to be sold at his Shoppe neere vnto S. Margarites-hill in South- warke, 1631. — 4to. Half brown morocco neat, gilt leaves, by F. Bedford. See note to No. 57. 108. Ben Johnsons Ode to Himself; Randolph's Answer to B. J., ode ; the Ode in Latine by Mr. Stroude ; the same by Thomas Randolph. — i2mo. Half brown morocco neat. An early MS. copy with two separate Latin versions of the poem, which contains the curious allusion to the drama of Pericles. 109. The Hogge hath Lost his Pearle, a Comedy divers Times publikely acted by certaine London Prentices. By Robert Tailor. London, printed by Richard Redmer, and are to be solde at the West dore of Paules, at thesigneof the Starre, 1614. — 4to. Half red morocco neat, gilt leaves. There is a curious allusion in the Prologue to the drama of Pericles, as follows : — "And if it prove so happy as to please, We'll say 'tis fortunate, like Pericles." Mr. Malone observed : — " By fortunate, I understand highly successful." 1 10. Euphues Golden Legacie found after his death in his Cell at Silexedra, bequeathed to Philavtvs Sonnes, nursed vp with their Father in England. Fecht from the Canaries by T. L. Gent. Imprinted at London for Iohn Smethwick, and are to be sold at his shop in Saint Dunstanes Church- yard in Fleet Streete, vnder the Dyall, 1623. Black morocco neat. Black-letter. The eighth edition of the popular founda- tion-story of As You Like It. 4i i 1 1., An Abstract of the several Deeds and Writings relating to the Title of one part of a messuage or tenement and premises in Stratford- upon-Avon, formerly called the Swann Inn and now the White Lyon Inn, belonging to Mr. John Payton, 1770. Half blue morocco neat. This property adjoins the poet's Birth-Place, and the abstract commences with a notice of a feoffment, dated in 1 591, in which there is an allusion to John Shakespeare. Fol. MS. 1 1 2. Draft Abstracts of Title to the White Lion Inn and to grounds which adjoin Shakespeare's Birth-Place, c. 1822. Half blue morocco neat. These abstracts are of considerable importance in tracing the history and boundaries of the garden belonging to the Birth-Place. Fol. MS. 113. Rex Platonicus, sive de potentissimi principis Iacobi Britanniarum regis, ad illustrissimam Acade- miam Oxoniensem, adventu, Aug. 27, anno 1605. Narratio ab Isaaco Wake, Pvblico Academise ejus- dem Oratore. Oxoniae, excudebat Iosephus Bar- nesius, anno Dom. 1607. — 4-to. Brown Levant morocco, super extra, blind and gold panelled sides after the antique, gilt leaves, by F. Bedford. A beautiful copy with the original rly leaves. This work enters into the early Shakespearean series by the notice pages, 18, 19, of the interlude of Macbeth performed before James 1st, at Oxford, in 1605, and which is conjectured by some critics, I think very improbably, to have suggested the subject to the great dramatist. The leaf from Ver- tumnus at the end contains a fuller account of the Oxford performance. 114. A copy of Shakespeare's Will made about the year 1747 by the Rev. Joseph Greene, of Stratford-on-Avon, taken apparently from an early official copy that had been collated with the original 42 by one Gilbert Roth well, a notary public. — 4to. MS. Light brown morocco, lettered along the back, panelled sides. The following is a copy of a paragraph which appeared in " Notes and Queries " relating to the above : — " The Probate of Shakespeare's Will. The Rev. Thomas Green, of Stratford-on-Avon, found there in 1747 a copy of Shakespeare's Will, and his transcript of that copy is amongst the Lansdowne MSS. In my collection at Hollingbury Copse there is an earlier copy of the Will in exactly the same form ; the latter is, I believe, the earliest copy out of Somerset House known to exist. It is headed ' E. registro Curiae Prerogative Cant. Extract.' Then follows a complete copy of the Will. At the end, after the Probate close, is the following note : — ' Concordat, cum registro, facta collacione per me Gilbertum Rothwell Notarium Publicum." Will you kindly allow me to enquire if this is a transcript of the original Probate, or merely that of an office copy ? When did Rothwell live ? He was no doubt one of the officials of the pre- rogative Court.— j. O. H. P." 1 15. Original documents respecting Warwickshire families of the name of Shakespeare, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. — 4to. MS. Purple morocco neat. 116. A Levy of Knolle Manor, co. Warw. — A manuscript of the seventeenth century containing notices of persons of the name of Shakespeare. In octavo. Morocco, half extra. 117. Troilus and Cressida, or Truth Found Too Late, a Tragedy, as it is acted at the Duke's Theatre, to which is Prefix'd a Preface containing the Grounds of Criticism in Tragedy. Written by John Dryden, Servant to His Majesty. London, 1679. — With the rare poetical address to the author by R. Duke. — 4to. Half Levant morocco neat, gilt leaves, by F. Bedford. 43 Dry den's Preface includes much of Shakespearean interest. The verses by R. Duke at the end of this copy were particularly printed after the work had been issued, and are excessively rare. 1 1 8. Julius Caesar, a Tragedy, as it is now acted at the Theatre Royal. Written by William Shake- speare. London, n.d. — This edition was printed about the year 1695. Mottled calf extra, by Riviere & Son. A very curious old play-house copy. I bought this volume at the Harman sale at Sotheby's, 23rd January, 1885, for £2 6s. The MSS. notes appear to me to belong to Garrick's period, making a prompt copy of that age. — J.O. H.P. 119. La Hadriana, Tragedia Nova, di Lvigi Groto Cieco d'Hadria. Nuouamente ristampata. In Venetia, appresso Fabio et Agostin Zopini fratelli, 1586. Half brown morocco, gilt leaves, by F. Bedford. My old friend Mr. J. G. Waller, F.SA., who has care- fully studied this play with the intention of reprinting it, tells me of its excessive rarity, even in Italy, and of his belief from a number of very close parallels that Shake- speare was acquainted with it in some way or other when writing Romeo and Juliet. If so, it was probably used by the author of some earlier English play on the subject, the latter being the one familiar to Shakespeare. — J. O. H. P., June, 1882. 120. Othello, the Moor of Venice, a Tragedy, as it hath been clivers times acted at the Globe and at the Black- Friers, and now at the Theatre Royal, by his Majesties Servants. Written by William Shakespear. London, 1687. — 4to. Half bound light morocco neat. 121. The Example, as it was Presented by her jyiajesties Servants at the private House in Drury- Lane. Written by lames Shirly. London, printed 44 by Iohn Norton for Andrew Crooke and William Cooke, 1637. — 4to. Old half calf neat. A quotation at sig. C 4 from Henry the Fourth. 122. An Account of Plays acted at the New Theatre Royal in Lincolns Inn Fields and at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane, 1 7 14 to 1723. — 4to. Brown morocco, blind tooled sides, borders of gold inside. The original manuscript chronicle of theatrical per- formances, including a large number of notices of theatrical and Shakespearean interest. 123. The Correspondence of the Harts respecting matters connected with Shakespeare's Birth-Place, a collection of original letters, 1793 to 1806. — 4to. MS. Dark brown morocco, half extra. Original sig. of Thomas Hart, born 1729, died 1793, inserted. William Hart, who was carrying on the business of a hatter at the premises now known as the Birthplace, and who was the husband of the poet's sister Joan, was buried at Stratford-on-Avon on April the 17th, 1616. — Outlines, I., 267. The following, Nos. 124 to 131, are in a tin deed box lettered outside, and were purchased in 1886 from J. E. Severne, Esq., of Wallop Hall, County Salop. No. 124 relates to Shake- speare's Blackfriars Estate, while the others form a series of very interesting documents relating to New Place. The Blackfriars Deed. 124. The original Exemplification, on vellum, of a Fine that was levied in Michaelmas Term, 23 Car. I., 1647, on Shakespeare's London estate, therein described as unum mcsiiagutm cum per- 45 tinentiis in parochia Sancte Anne, Blackfriers, 29 November, 23 Car. I. The New Place Deeds. 125. Counterpart of a Lease, dated 1 December, 1675, granted by Sir Edward Walker, knight, Garter Principall Kinge of Armes, to Joseph Hunt, of Stratford-upon-Avon in the county of Warwick, gent., of "all that messuage with thappurtenances comonly called or knowne by the name of the New Place, scituate, lyinge and beinge in Stratford-upon- Avon aforesaid, in the said county of Warwicke, in a certaine streete there called the Chappell Streete." The original indenture signed by Joseph Hunt. 126. Conveyance from Edward Clopton, of Strat- ford-upon-Avon, esq., to Hugh Clopton, of Clopton in the county of Warwick, esq., of "all the said seate or pew scituate in the Parish Church of Stratford aforesaid belonging to the messuage called the New Place," 1 May, 1701. — The original indenture signed by Edward Clopton, witnessed by Sir John Clopton and Nathaniel Mason. 127. Lease for Possession on the Marriage of Hugh Clopton, esq., with Miss Mil ward, 25 Sep- tember, 1702, of "all that messuage or tenement, scituate, lyeing, and being in the Chappell Street and Chappell Lane, within the burrowe of Stratford- upon-Avon in the county of Warwick, comonly called or known by the name of the New Place, late in the tenure of John Wheeler, gent.," with farms and lands at Clopton, &c. The original indenture signed by Sir John Clopton, Hugh Clopton, Thomas and Anne Mil ward. 128. Articles of Agreement Tripartite, made, concluded, and fully agreed vpon this six and twentieth day of September, annoque Domini 1 702, betweene Sir John Clopton, of Clopton in the county of Warwicke, knight, of the first part, Hugh 4 6 Clopton, of Clopton aforesaid, in the said county of Warwick, esq., of the second part, and Thomas Millward of Cudworth, in the said county of Warwicke, esq., of the third part. Mentions at length the new mansion then recently erected on the site of Shakespeare's residence at New Place. — The original deed signed by Sir John Clopton, Hugh Clopton, and Thomas Milward. 129. A counterpart of the deed last mentioned, the original signed by Sir John Clopton, Hugh Clopton, and Thomas Milward, 1702. 130. Lease for a year from Edward Clopton, esq., of Stratford-upon-Avon, to Aston Ingram, of Little Woolford, in the county of Warwick, esq., of "all that peece or parcell of ground, lyeing and beeing within the borrough of Stratford-upon-Avon, called or known by the name of the Great Garden, and which did formerly belong to New Place, and is adjoyning to the now dwelling-house of him, the said Edward Clopton, and conteynes by estimation about three quarters of an acre, bee the same more or less," 21 March, 1705. — The original indenture signed by Edward Clopton. 131. Release from Edward Clopton, esq., of Stratford-upon-Avon, to Aston Ingram, esq., of " the Great Garden, which formerly did belong to New Place," 22 March, 1705. — The original inden- ture signed by Edward Clopton, with his receipt for the consideration-money, ^140, endorsed. It refers to the same piece of land which is described in the preceding article. 132. A shorte and pithie Discourse concerning the engendring, tokens, and effects of all Earth- quakes in generall, particularly applyed and con- ferred with that most strange and terrible worke of the Lord in shaking the Earth, not only within the Citie of London, but also in most partes of all Englande, which hapned vpon Wensday in Easter weeke last past, which was the sixt day of April, almost at sixe a clocke in the euening, in the yeare of our Lord God, 1580. Written by T. T. the 13. of April, 1580. - At London, printed by Richarde Iohnes, 1580. — 4to, Green morocco, half extra, gilt leaves. In black-letter with a wood-cut on the title-page. This is the earthquake alluded to by the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet. " But, as I said, On Lammas-eve at night, shall she be fourteen ; That she shall, marry : I remember it well, 'Tis since the earthquake now eleven years ;" —Act I., 3. 133. An indenture dated 14 May, 3 Elizabeth, between William Clopton of Clopton, co. Warwick, esquyer, and Thomas Lucy of Charlecote, co. Warwick, esquyer. The latter, afterwards knighted, was the Sir Thomas and Justice Shallow of the great dramatist. With his signature and the seal of the three luces, the whole being in a fine state of preservation, as perfect and bright as when the deed was executed in 1 561 . The only other specimen, I believe, of his signature accompanied with an impression from the three-luces seal that is in private hands is one in the library of the Marquis of Bath. This deed is in a glazed case. The following Nos. 134 to 139 are all contained in one massive case, glazed : — 134. An original indenture of 161 1 with the signature of John Greene, the individual to whom the latest recorded words of Shakespeare were addressed. It is attached as a witness to a legal endorsement of 161 2, 135. An original Stratford-on-Avon indenture of 1605, with the signatures of Abraham Sturley and E 4 8 Richard Tyler, the latter having been one of the legatees named in the original draft of the poet's will. " Item I gyve and bequeath to Mr. Richard Tyler " th'elder xxvj viij to buy him a ringe." Mr. R. Tyler's name was afterwards crossed through, and Hamlett Sadler's was substituted. 136. An autograph signature of Shakespeare's John a' Combe as a witness to an indenture referring to properties at Stratford-on-Avon, 1593. In July, 1614, John a' Combe, one of the leading inhabi- tants of Stratford-on-Avon died, bequeathing the poet the then handsome legacy of £$. — Outlines, I., 244. 137. A fine specimen of the autograph of Thomas Greene, the poet's intimate friend, as a witness to an indenture respecting estates at Old Stratford, Shottery. CvC 161 3. 138. An indenture, dated 27 March, 1604. between Sir George Carewe and William Walker, respecting estates in the parish of Stratford-on-Avon, with the signature of Abraham Sturley, the writer of the two letters of 1598 in which there are the curious allusions to Shakespeare. The two letters referred to above, from Abraham Sturley to Richard Ouiney, dated 24 January, 1597-8, and 4 November, 1598, are copied verbatim in Outlines, II., 57-9- 139. A mortgage indenture of 1564 with the signature of William Clopton, who was the owner of New Place in the middle part of the sixteenth century. The following Xos., 140, 141, and 142, are con- tained in one glazed case : — 140. The two original indentures of a fine that was levied on New Place between Shakespeare and Underhill in the year 1602. Quite perfect, and in the same condition in which they must have been when in the poet's own hands. 49 r 4 r • -^ n original deed, executed in the year 1605, with the rare autograph, as a witness, of Francis Collyns, who was also one of the witnesses to Shakespeare's will and the poet's solicitor. There is a facsimile of the signature of Francis Collyns in Outlines, I., 252. 142. The original settlement executed on the marriage of Robert Fulwood of Little Alne and Elizabeth, the sister of Richard Hill, rector of Hampton Lucy, 1596. It was witnessed by John Shaxpere, in all probability the poet's father. See an account of this document in Outlines, II., 246, 247. The New Place Title Deeds. Nos. 143 to 146 are contained in one glazed case. 143. The original conveyance-deed of New Place from William Clopton of Clopton to William Botte of Stratford-on-Avon,20 Februarys Elizabeth, 1563- 144. An indenture made 20 December, 6 Elizabeth, 1563, between Willian Clopton of Clop- ton, co. Warwick, esquier, and William Bott of Stratford-on-Avon, relating to the manor of Clopton, " parcell of the premisses cauled the Newe Place," &c. 145. Indentur of certen covenauntes bytwen William Clopton esquyer and Elsabeth Cole, hys syster, for hyr marryage money, 20 July, 24 Henry viii, 1532, charged, inter alia, on "a mesuage or tenemente sett and beyng in Stratford callyd the Newe Place." 146. An Indenture of bargayne and sale of the Newe Place from William Bott and Elizabeth his wife to William Underhill, 1 September, 9 Eliz., 1567. Mutilated. It was from this Underhill that Shakespeare purchased the estate in 1597. See also No. 140. E 2 5o " The ancient title deeds of New Place, which form so distinguished a feature of the present collection, were discovered in 1886 by Mr. Richard Sims, of the British Museum, in the private archives of Wallop Hall, county Salop. The discovery of these indentures has added little or nothing of moment to our previous knowledge of the history of the estate, but they are inestimable as personal relics of the great dramatist. Ancient deeds are almost the only articles that, with proper care, maintain their precise original condition for indefinite periods." — J. O. H. P. 147. An Indenture between Richard Castell of Stratford-on-Avon and Thomas Combe of Old Stratford, to which is attached, on an endorsement dated in 1655, the extremely rare signature of Thomas Combe, the gentleman to whom Shake- speare bequeathed his sword. " Item. I gyve and bequeath * * * to Mr. Thomas " Combe my sword." In a glazed case. 148. The original conveyance to Shakespeare of the house in the Blackfriars that he purchased in the year 16 13,— made "betweene Henry Walker, citizein and minstrell of London, and William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon in the Countie of Warwick, trentleman." o Quite perfect, and in a beautiful state of preservation. In glazed case. I have made the following extracts from this interesting conveyance : — This Indenture made the tenthe day of March, in the yeare of our Lord God, according to the computacion of the Church of England, one thowsand six hundred and twelve, and in the yeares of the reigne of our sovereigne Lord James, by the grace of God King of England, Scot- land, Fraunce and Ireland, defender of the faithe, &c, that is to saie, of England, Fraunce and Ireland the tenth, and of Scotland the six and forfTth, Betweene Henry Walker, citizein and minstrell of London, of th'one partie, and William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon in the 5i countie of Warwick, gentleman, William Johnson, citizein and vintener of London, John Jackson and John Hemmyng of London, gentlemen, of th'other partie ; Witnesseth that the said Henry Walker, for and in consideracion of the somme of one hundred and fortiepoundes of lawfull money of England to him in hande, before th'ensealing hereof, by the said William Shakespeare well and trulie paid, whereof and wherewith hee, the said Henry Walker, doth acknow- ledge himselfe fullie satisfied and contented, and thereof, and of every part and parcell thereof, doth cleerlie acquite and discharge the said William Shakespeare, his heires, executours, administratours and assignes, and every of them by theis presentes, hath bargayned and soulde, and by theis presentes doth fullie cleerlie, and absolutlie bar- gayne and sell unto the said William Shakespeare, William Johnson, John Jackson, and John Hemmyng, their heires, and assignes for ever, All that dwelling-house or tenement, with th'appurtenaunces, situate and being within the precinct, circuit and compasse of the late Black Fryers, London, sometymes in the tenure of James Gardyner, esquiour, and since that in the tenure of John Fortescue, gent., and now or late being in the tenure or occupacion of one William Ireland, or of his assignee or assignes, abutting upon a streete leading downe to Pudle Wharffe on the east part, right against the Kinges Majesties Wardrobe ; part of which said tenement is erected over a great gate leading to a capitall mesuage which sometyme was in the tenure of W'illiam Blackwell, esquiour, deceased, and since that in the tenure or occupacion of the right Honourable Henry, now Earle of Northumberland ; and also all that plott of ground on the west side of the same tenement, which was lately inclosed with boordes on two sides thereof by Anne Bacon, widow, soe farre and in such sorte as the same was inclosed by the said Anne Bacon, and not otherwise, and being on the third side inclosed with an olde bricke wall ; which said plott of ground was sometyme parcell and taken out of a great peece of voyde ground lately used for a garden ; and also the soyle whereupon the said tenement standeth ; and also the said brick wall and boordes which doe inclose the said plott of ground ; with free entrie, accesse, ingresse, egresse and regresse, in, by and through the said greate gate and yarde thereunto the usuall dore of the said tenement ; and also all and singuler cellours, sollers, romes, lightes, easiamentes * * * which said dwelling- 52 house or tenement, and other the premisses above by theis presentes mencioned to bee bargayned and soulde, the said Henry Walker late purchased and hadd to him, his heires and assignes, for ever, of Mathie Bacon, of Graies Inne in the countie of Midd., gentleman, by indenture bearing date the fifteenth day of October, in the yeare of our Lord God one thowsand six hundred and fower, and in the yeares of the reigne of our said sovereigne lord king James, of his realmes of England, Fraunce and Ireland, the seconde, and of Scotland the eight and thirtith ; to have and to holde the said dwelling-house or tenement, shopps, cellors, sollers, plott of ground and all and singuler other the premisses above by theis presentes mencioned to bee bargayned and soulde, and every part and parcell thereof, with th'appurtenaunces, unto the said William Shake- speare, William Johnson, John Jackson and John Hem- myng, their heires and assignes, for ever, to th'onlie and proper use and behoofe of the said William Shakespeare, William Johnson, John Jackson and John Hemmyng, their heires and assignes forever * * * * In witnesse whereof the said parties to theis indentures interchaungablie have sett their seales. Yeoven the day and yeares first above written. — Henry Walker. — Sealed and delivered in the presence of Will. Atkinson ; Robert Andrewes, scr. ; Edw. Ouery ; Henry Lawrence, servant to the same Scr. In the Preface to a facsimile edition of this deed, issued in 1884 (of which fifty copies only were preserved), Mr. Halliwell-Phillipps wrote : — " Early documents illustrative of the life of Shakespeare are of the highest degree of rarity. By far the largest and most important collection of them in private hands is that at Hollingbury Copse, the quaint bungalow on the Brighton Downs, which has the honour of sheltering, amongst others, the valuable relic here given in facsimile. It is the conveyance deed of the Metropolitan property which Shakespeare bought in the year 161 3, and is of indubitable authenticity, having the official endorsement made in Chancery when the indenture was enrolled in that Court shortly after the purchase. This deed of convey- ance was formerly one of the leading treasures of the Sainsbury collection of manuscripts and autographs. It was put up to auction in London about thirty years ago, but the reserved price (a very large one) was not attained. After the owner's death it was again submitted to public 53 competition, and was then bought for the late Sir William Tite, M.P., a gentleman of large wealth, who had given an unlimited commission for it. It remained in Sir William's possession for several years, and until, at my urgent solicitation, he very kindly and generously transferred the purchase to me. The day on which I exchanged my cheque for the old indenture — December the 20th, 1872 — is an epoch in my Shakespearean life. 149. The original deed transferring the legal estate of the house last-mentioned, 10 February, 161 7-8, in trust to follow the directions of Shake- speare's will, subject only to the remaining term of a lease granted by the poet to one John Robinson. In glazed case. Extracts from this deed as follows : — This indenture made the tenth day of February, in the yeres of the reigne of our sovereigne Lord James, by the grace of God kinge of England, Scotland, Fraunce, and Ireland, defendor of the faith, &c, that is to say, of England, Fraunce, and Ireland the fifteenth, and of Scotland the one and fiftith ; between John Jackson and John Hemynge, of London, gentlemen, and William Johnson, citizen and vintiner of London, of thone part, and John Greene, of Clementes Inn in the county of Midd., gent, and Mathew Morrys, of Stretford-upon-Avon in the county of Warwick, gent., of thother part ; wit- nesseth that the said John Jackson, John Hemynge and William Johnson, as well for and in performance of the confidence and trust in them reposed by William Shake- peare, deceased, late of Stretford aforesaid, gent., and to thend and intent that the landes, tenementes and heredi- tamentes, hereafter in theis presentes mencioned and expressed, may be conveyed and assured according to the true intent and meaning of the last will and testament of the said William Shakespeare, and for the some of fyve shillinges of lawfull money of England to them payd, for and on the behalf of Susanna Hall, one of the daughters of the said William Shakespeare, and now wife of John Hall of Stretford aforesaid, gent., before thensealling and delivery of theis presentes, have aliened, bargained, sold and confirmed, and by theis presentes doe, and every of 54 them doth, fully, cleerely and absolutely alien, bargaine, sell and confirme unto the said John Greene and Mathew Morry, their heires and assignes for ever All that dwelling howse &c. &c. [as in the last-mentioned Indenture] * * * In witnes whereof the parties aforesaid to theis presente indentures have interchaungeably sett their handes and sealls. Yeoven the day and yeres first above written, 1 617. — Jo; Jackson. — John Heminges. — Wm. Johnson. Sealed and delyvered by the within named John Jackson in the presence of Ric. Swale ; John Prise. Sealed and delyvered by the withinamed William Johnson in the presence of Nickolas Harysone ; John Prise. Sealed and delyvered by the withinamed John Hemynges in the presence of Matt : Benson ; John Prise. Memorand. that the xj. th daye of Februarye in the yeres within written, John Robynson, tenant of the premysses withinmencioned, did geve and delyver unto John Greene withinnamed, to the use of Susanna Hall within-named, sixe pence of lawefull money of England, in name of attornement, in the presence of Matt: Benson ; John Prise. Per me Rychardnm Tyler. 150. An original deed of conveyance granted by the Earl of Southampton, Shakespeare's friend and patron, with a fine specimen of his autograph signature. In a glazed case. It refers to property at Romsey, near Southampton, and it was executed by the earl in the year 1603, a few weeks after his release from his imprisonment in the Tower of London. 151. An inscribed pane of glass presumed to have been in one of the windows of New Place during the life-time of the poet. So much deception has been practised in advancing the claims of Shakespearean relics that it is impossible to be too cautious in investigating the testimonies by which those claims are supported. All that is known respecting the present one may thus be briefly stated. It was thus first publicly mentioned in Fairholt's Home of Shakespeare, 1847, p. 27, — "there is an apparently genuine relic of New Place at present (1847) in the possession of the Court 55 family who own Shakespeare's house. It is a square of glass, measuring nine inches by seven, in which a circular piece is leaded, having the letters W. A. S. for William and Anne Shakespeare, tied in a true lover's knot, and the date, 1615, the year before the poet's death, beneath. A relative of the late Mrs. Court, whose ancestor had been employed to pull down New Place, had saved this square of glass, but attached little value to it. He gave it to her, but she had an honest dislike to the many pretenders to relics, and never showed this glass unless it was expressly requested by the few who had heard of it. She told her story simply, made no comments, and urged no belief. The letters and figures are certainly characteristic ; they are painted in dark brown outline, tinted with yellow ; the border is also yellow. The lead is decayed, and the glass loose." The late Mr. Fairholt, one of the best judges in such matters that ever lived, was of a decided opinion that the glass is a genuine work of art of the Shakespearean period. If so, it may be taken for granted that it is an authentic Statford relic, for it is incredible that any one should have pounced elsewhere upon a glass with the three desirable initials, brought it from a distance into the town, and then invented a New Place story without a commercial or any other sort of intelligible object. But how came the piece of glass to be in the possession of the tenant of the Birth-Place ? An explanation has recently presented itself in a passage in a manuscript compiled in the year 1796, and now in the Bodleian (MS. Malone 40); the writer, after mentioning the Clopton painted glass, which, as is well known, was taken by Shakespeare Hart from the Chapel (amongst other refuse from alterations that had been ordered in that building) and inserted in a window of the Birth-Place, says, — " there are several more scraps of painted glass dispersed in other windows of the said premises." Now when New Place was pulled down in the year 1701, Shakespeare Hart was at all events the leading, if not the only, glazier in the town, and it is most likely, if the New Place glass is correctly so designated, that it had been inserted by him in a Birth-Place window, remaining there till 1796, getting afterwards into Mrs. Court's hands through some alterations or repairs in the window in which it had been placed, a more likely hypothesis than her statement as recorded by Fairholt and perhaps mis- understood bv him. There is thus somewhat more than a 56 possibility of its genuineness as a Shakespearean relic, but it is unlikely that evidence leading to a decisive opinion will now ever be accessible. Unless, however, its genuine- ness as a work of art of the year 1615 be disputed, — and no suspicion in this direction has yet transpired, — even the few known details of its history appear to be explicable only on the assumption that it is a genuine relic of William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway. 152. An original trust-deed with the signature of Shakespeare Hart, great-grandson of the poet's sister. In glazed case. He spells his name mos oddly — Shaxpeer Hart — a curious evidence of the local pronuncia- tion of the first name. There are several examples of his signature at Stratford-on-Avon, but this is nearly the only one in private hands. 153. An original deed of 1578, with the extremely rare signature of Shakespeare s schoolmaster, Walter Roche. In glazed case. It relates to a tenement in Ely Street, Stratford-on-Avon. 154. Le Cinqvanta Novelle di Massuccio Saler- nitano intitolate il Novellino Nvovamente con somma diligentia reviste, corrette, et stampate. — Sm. Svo. Red morocco, half extra. Without date or place, but about 1560. The Shake- speare tale like Romeo and Juliet relates to Mariotto Miguanelli and a girl named Gionozza. See it at p. 239, nov - 33- Quite perfect, but pages 251 and 258 are dropped in the foliation. 155. Two Bookes of Epigrammes and Epitaphs, dedicated to two top-branches of Gentry, Sir Charles Shirley, baronet, and William Davenport esquire. Written by Thomas Bancroft, ato. Lond. 1639. Half red Russia neat. The two epigrams on Shakespeare are numbered 11S and 1 19. 57 156. The Antiquity and Power of Parliaments in England, written by Mr. Justice Doddridge and several other learned Antiquaries. London, printed for William Leake and John Leake at the Crown in Fleet-street, between the two Temple-Gates, T679. I2IHO. Maroon morocco, half extra. With a list of books which is curious as showing that Leake had then still on sale his Merchant of Venice of 1652 and his Othello of 1655. 157. Paroemiologia Anglo-Latina, in usum Scho- larum concinnata ; or Proverbs English and Latine, methodically disposed according to the commonplace heads in Erasmus his Adages, very use-full and delightfull for all sorts of men on all occasions. More especially profitable for Scholars for the attaining Elegancie, sublimitie, and varietie of the best expressions. London, Imprinted by Felix Kyngston for Robert Mylbourne, and are to be sold at the signe of the Vnicorne neere Fleet bridge, 1639. i2mo Red morocco, half extra. This rare little volume enters into the Shakespearean series by reason of the very curious allusion to the old play of Hamlet at p. 71 : — " A trout, Hamlet, with foure legs." The author was master of the free-school at Lincoln. 158. Gli Inganni Comedia del Signor N.S., recitata in Milano l'anno 1547, dinanzi alia Maesta del Re Filippo. Nvovamente ristampata, et con- somma diligenza corretta. In Vinegia, 1587. 1 2 mo. Morocco, half extra. The plot of this comedy resembles that of Twelfth Night. 159. Greene's Groatsworth of Wit bought with a Million of Repentance, describing the Folly of 53 Youth, the falshood of make-shift Flatterers, the Misery of the Negligent, and Mischieves of deceiving Curtezans. Published at his dying request, and newly corrected, and of many errors purged. London, printed for Henry and Moses Bell, 1637. 4to. Red morocco, half extra, gilt leaves. A later edition of the work, originally published in 1592, which contains the singular and first distinct notice of Shakespeare in printed literature. " Robert Greene, a popular writer and dramatist, who " had commenced his literary career nine years previously, " died on the 3rd of September, 1592. In a work entitled " the Groatsworth of Wit, written shortly before his death, " he had travestied, in an interesting sarcastic episode ' respecting some of his contemporaries, a line from one of " Shakespeare's then recent compositions, ' O, tiger's heart, " ' wrapp'd in a woman's hide.' This line is of extreme " interest as including the earliest record of words com- " posed by the great dramatist." — Outlines, I., 98. The line is thus introduced : — " Yes, trust them not for there is an upstart crow, " beautified with our feathers, that, with his Tyger's heart " wrapt in a Players hide, supposes he is able well to " bumbast out a blanke verse as the best of you ; and " being an absolute Johannes Factotum, is in his owne " conceit the onely Shake-scene in a countrie." 160. The English Treasury of Wit and Lan- guage, collected out of the most and best of our English Drammatick Poems, methodically digested into Common Places for Generall Use. By John Cotgrave, gent. London, printed for Humphrey Moseley, and are to be sold at his Shop at the sign of the Princes Armes in S. Pauls Churchyard, 1655. Small 8vo. Olive morocco, super extra, blind and gold panelled sides after the antique, gilt leaves, by F. Bedford. This little volume contains numerous extracts from the works of Shakespeare, some with textual variations. 161. Three Weekes, three daies, and three 59 houres, Observations and Travel from London to Hamborgh in Germanic, amongst Jewes and Gentiles, with Descriptions of Townes and Towers, Castles and Cittadels, artificiall Gallowses, naturall Hangmen ; and dedicated for the present to the absent Odcombian knight-errant, Sir Thomas Coriat, Great Brittaines Error and the Worlds Mirror. By Iohn Taylor. London, printed by Edward Griffin, and are to be sold by George Gybbs at the signe of the Flower-deluce in Pauls Churchyard, 1617. 410. Half calf neat. A curious allusion to the size of " our English Sir Iohn " Falstaff" at sig. C. 162. Londinum Florentissma Britannise Urbs, emporiumque toto orbe celeberrimum. Visscher excudit. Brown Levant morocco, super extra, double panelled sides after the antique, gilt leaves in the round, by F. Bedford. A long view of London from Whitehall to Rotherhithe, showing the Globe and the other theatres. This is the second edition of Visscher's celebrated view, undated but published about the year 1625. No other copy known. In the preface to a facsimile edition, with a very limited issue, of a portion of this view, published in June, 1884, Mr. Halliwell-Phillipps relates in an amusing way the manner in which he became possessed of this treasure, as follows : — Upon a very sultry day, many years ago, happening to be in the anomalistic condition of having nothing whatever to do and paying exclusive attention to the job, I was sauntering along the heated pavements of London in the neighbourhood of Leicester Square. The chief recreation of the morning had consisted in witnessing a representation of Punch and Judy, a good performance of which has ever been to me a source of irresistible attraction ; but a greater incident was at hand, one which has fixed the history of the day in indelible memory. I even ventured to mark it with a white stone, notwithstanding my recollection of 6o Sancho Panza's sagacious advice to be as a rule contented with an impression evolved from " good brown ochre." There was no necessity for restricting display in the proclamation of triumph. Reaching a house in an adjoin- ing street, a carpet was hanging over the first floor balcony, and there were bills in the window announcing a coming sale, not only of furniture, but of pictures and curiosities. Here was a welcome oasis in the lonesome desert of idleness. There would have been a relief elicited by the inspection had all the articles been worthless. But there was a jewel in the dustheap. In the midst of a collection of the veriest rubbish was an engraved view of Old London in a black frame, the whole measuring about eight feet in length. Although it was begrimed and covered with dust, it required no great penetration in a lover of old engravings to see that it was in all probability a valuable relic. And so it turned out to be when the dirt and some old varnish had been removed. It was not only an original early work by Visscher, executed about the year 1625, but an unique edition, differing from all the other known engravings of London by the same artist. The saleroom was filled with furniture dealers ; there was no one who appeared to take the smallest interest in the lot, and the hammer fell to me at fifteen shillings. This was a high price as things went, but in those days I was fool enough to be a bit of a dandy, and the unwashed company were probably disinclined to allow a " swell " to march off with anything for the nominal value of the frame. 1 63. Abstracts of Title, made about the year 1782, of the house in Chapel Street, Stratford-on- Avon, which belonged in the seventeenth century to the Hathaways, relatives of the poet's wife. Red morocco, panelled sides, half extra. They commence with the notice of a feoffment of 8 April, 1647, in which the eastern boundary is given as "the land of Mr. Hall," that is, the garden of New Place. 164. Caius Julius Caesar Tragsedia, ex Plutarcho, Appiano, Alex. Suetonio, D. Cassio, Joh. Xiphilino, &c, maximam partem concinnata, et adversus omnem temerariam seditionem atque tyrannidem ita con- 6i scripta, authore M. Casparo Brulovis, Pomerano. Publice exhibita in Acaderniae Argentor. theatro, 1616. Small 8vo. Roan, half extra. 165. An Abstract of Title, 1590 to 1723, of the Fetherstonhaugh London estates. Dark blue morocco, super extra, panelled sides, by F. Bedford. It contains much valuable information respecting Shake- speare's house in the Blackfriars nowhere else to be found, the original deeds, with the exception of one or two, not being known to be in existence. The following Nos., 166 to 172, are in a folio volume lettered "Manuscripts of the Hatha- way Family." Purple morocco, super extra. 166. Bond of Susanna Hathaway to Richard Wilson for the performance of covenants, 9 Sep- tember, 1692. The original document, with Susanna Hathaway 's seal and autograph. 167. Original document respecting the Shake- speares of Lapworth, 1658, signed by Humphrey Shakespeare. 168. Bond of Thomas Hathaway, citizen and joiner of London, for the performance of covenants in an indenture made between Jane Hathaway of Stratford-on-Avon, late wife of Thomas Hathaway, late of Stratford-on-Avon, joiner, deceased, and Thomas Hathaway, son and heir of the said Thomas Hathaway, 14 December, 1662. The original document, with signature of Thomas Hathaway. 169. A Letter of Attorney of Jane Hathaway of Stratford-upon-Avon, relict of Thomas Hathaway, 62 late of Stratford aforesaid, joyner, deceased, 28 February, 1 690-1. The original document, with the mark and seal of Jane Hathaway. 170. An Indenture respecting the Hathaway house in Chapel Street, Stratford-on-Avon, 14 November, 1662. The original document, but slightly defective. 171. An autograph signature and note of Lord Hunsdon, 1584, the patron of Shakespeare's com- pany in the early years of his theatrical career. 172. An original copy of court-roll in which there are notices of the Shakespeares of Shrewley, co. Warwick, 1605. 173. II Sacrificio de Gl' Intronati, celebrato ne i Givochi d'vn Carnevale in Siena, et Gl' Ingannati, comedia de i Medesimi. In Venetia, 1554. i2mo. This is the curious Italian drama the plot of which so greatly resembles that of Twelfth Night. Dark red morocco, extra, gilt leaves. " And that it was on the model of this play, and not on " any of the Ingannis, that Shakespeare formed the plan " of the serious parts of the Twelfth Night, will appear " evidently by the following analysis of the main parts u of the story." (Then follows the analysis.) — Hunter's Illustrations of Shakespeare, Vol. I., p. 393. 174. Gli Inganni Comedia, dell' illvstriss. Signor Cvrtio Gonzaga. In Venetia. 1592, Old calf, half extra. With engravings of some of the scenes, An Extract from the Diary of fohn Jlfauuingham, a barrister of the Middle Temple, London, 160 1-2 / from the original in the British Museum, HIS. Harl. 5353 : — Febr : 1601. — 2. — At our feast wee had a play called Twelve Night, or what you will, much like the Commedy of Errores, or Menechmi in Plautus, but most like and neere to that in Italian called Inganni. A good practise in it to make the steward beleeve his lady widdowe was in 63 love with him, by counterfayting a letter as from his lady in generall termes, telling him what shee liked best in him, and prescribing his gesture in smiling, his apparaile, &c., and then, when he came to practise, making him beleeve they tooke him to be mad, &c. — Outlines, II., 82, where a facsimile of the entry is given. 175. Jordan's version of Shakespeare's adventure under the crab-tree near Bidford. The orio-inal manuscript and the one mentioned in Ireland's Confessions, 1805, p. 34. 8vo. Green Levant morocco, super extra, lettered along the back in a compartment. French filletted sides, broad rich inside borders, gilt leaves, by F. Bedford. " As I have before mentioned Jordan the Stratford poet, " I shall give the following transcript from his own " manuscript, still in my possession, without any alteration " of language, spelling, &c , having merely to state that we " took a ramble to Bitford, mentioned in the account so " delivered, where Mr. S. Ireland made a very correct " drawing of Shakespeare's crab-tree, and another of the " town of Bitford ; both of which appeared in his Warwick- " shire Avon." Then follows an account of " our Bard and " his compainions getting so intollerably intoxicated." — Ireland's Confessions. 176. Select Observations on English Bodies, or Cures both Empericall and Historicall performed upon very eminent Persons in desperate Diseases. Written in Latine by Mr. John Hall, physician, living at Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire. i2mo. Lond. 1657. Purple morocco, half extra. The first and very rare edition of the medical cases attended to by Shakespeare's son-in-law. 177. A pleasant and fine Conceited Comedie taken out of the most excellent wittie poet Plautus, chosen purposely from out the rest as least harmefull and yet most delightfull. Written in English by W. W. Lond. 1595. 4to. Maroon morocco, half extra. There is no evidence that Shakespeare ever saw this F 6 4 production, but Collier may be right in conjecturing that its publication was suggested through the popularity of the Comedy of Errors. Wants the last leaf. Only two other copies known. 178. The Tragedy of Hoffman, or a Reuenge for a Father, as it hath bin diuers times acted with great applause at the Phenix in Druery-lane. London, printed by I. N. for Hugh Perry, and are to bee sold at his shop, at the signe of the Harrow in Brittaines-burse, 1631. By Henry Chettle. — Ouarto. Half brown morocco, neat, gilt leaves, by F. Bedford. " Some degree of resemblance to Hamlet suggests itself " both in the general motive of Hoffman and in the " madness of the heroine." — Ward's History of English Dramatic Literature, Vol, I., p. 232. 179. An ./Ethiopian Historic written in Greeke by Heliodorus, very wittie and pleasaunt. Englished by Thomas Unclerdoune. Imprinted at London by Henrie Wykes for Fraunces Coldocke, dwellinge in Powles Churche-yarde at the signe of the Greene Dragon. — Ouarto. Straight grained morocco, blind tooled sides, gilt leaves. An edition of extreme rarity. A story in this work is alluded to in Twelfth Night, v. I. 180. The Famous Tragedy of the Rich lew of Malta, as it was played before the King and Oueene in his Majesties Theatre at White-Hall by her Majesties Servants at the Cock-pit. Written by Christopher Mario. London, printed by I. B. for Nicholas Vavasour, and are to be sold at his Shop in the Inner Temple neere the Church. 1633. Ouarto. Half brown morocco, neat, gilt leaves, by F. Bedford. There cannot be much doubt that Shakespeare had either witnessed a representation of, or acted in, this tragedy at the Rose Theatre. No earlier edition known. " Elze, whose opinions are always entitled to a respectful 65 ' hearing, maintains with earnestness (Sh. Jahrbuck, VI., ' 133, 1 871) that ' the prototype of Shylock, beyond all con- ' 'jecture, is to be found in Marlowe's Jew of Malta, without ' 'which, in all probability, the Merchant of Venice would ' ' never have been written.' Elze is not to be understood ' as asserting that Shakespeare copied Marlowe ; on the ' contrary, Shakespeare observed Barabas in order to ' know what to avoid in Shylock." — Furness' Variorum Shakespeare, Vol. VII., 322. 181. The story of the drunkard, similar to that which is dramatized in the Induction to the Taming of the Shrew, from Barckley's Discovrse of the Felicitie of Man, 1598. Half brown morocco, neat, gilt leaves, by F. Bedford. 182. A manuscript list of the common fields in Snitterfield, 1765, as they existed previously to the enclosure. Half light brown morocco, neat. Useful for the identification of the Shakespearean properties. Quarto. 183. A pleasant Comedie of Faire Em, the Millers Daughter of Manchester, with the Loue of William the Conqueror, As it was sundry times publiquely acted in the Honourable Citie of London, by the right Honourable the Lord Strange his Seruants. London, printed for Iohn Wright, and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the Bible in Guilt-spur street without New-gate, 1631. Quarto. Half calf neat. "A comedy first published in 1631, but acted many ' years previously by Lord Strange's servants. It has ' been attributed to the great Dramatist from being found in ' a collection of Quarto plays lettered Shakespear, Vol. I., ' formerly belonging to Charles II., and so described, ' no doubt, from the binder's title, in an old manuscript ' catalogue of that Sovereign's library. The volume is ' therein mentioned as containing — Shakespeare's Puritan ' Widow, Sir John Oldcastle, Cromwell's Life, Devell F 2 66 " of Edmonton, London Prodigall, Mucedorus, Millers " Daughter, Love Labour Lost." — Outlines, II., 414. 184. A Woman is a Weather-cocke, a new Comedy, as it was acted before the King in White- Hall, and diuers times Priuately at the White-Friers by the Children of her Maiesties Reuels. Written by Nat: Field. Printed at London for Iohn Budge, and are to be sold at the great South doore of Paules, and at Brittaines Bursse, 16 12. — Quarto. Olive morocco, sides stamped with gold, to an old pattern. Field was one of Shakespeare's most eminent colleagues. " He, Field, belonged to the Blackfriars company and " Fleckno speaks of him as a person of great distinction. " * * * Only one edition of this work is known." — Collier. 185. An Heptameron of Ciuill Discourses, con- taining the Christmasse Exercise of sundrie well Courted Gentlemen and Gentlewomen, &c. A worke intercoursed with Ciuyll Pleasure to reaue tediousnesse from the Reader, and garnished with Moral! Noates to make it profitable to the Regarder. The Reporte of George Whetstone, gent. At London, printed by Richard Iones, at the signe of the Rose and Crowne neare Holburne Bridge, 3 Feb. 1582. — Quarto. Sprinkled calf, extra, red leaves, by F. Bedford. This rare volume includes the foundation story of Measure for Measure. 186. A most pleasant Comedy of Mucedorus, the King's Son of Valentia, and Amadine, the King's Daughter of Aragon. With the merry Conceits of Mouse. 4to. Lond. 1668. Half calf neat. An inferior but popular old comedy, the earliest known edition of which appeared in the year 1598. It was first attributed to Shakespeare by Kirkman in 1671, and it is also mentioned as his production in Winstanley's Lives, 6 7 1687, p. 132. Langbaine, ed. 1691, p. 542, merely refers to some of these previous assignments without expressing a decisive opinion on the subject. — Outlines, II., 415. 187. The Waking Mans Dreame, from the Admirable Events of John Peter Camus, 4to. Lond. 1639. Half brown morocco, neat, gilt leaves, by F. Bedford. This is part of the book containing the story with the induction to the " Taming of the Shrew." 188. The Anatomy of the English Nvnnery at Lisbon in Portvgall, dissected and laid open by one that was some-time a yonger Brother of the Covent. 4to. Lond. 1622. Half roan neat. This tract goes into the Shakespearean series from the exceedingly curious notice of Venus and Adonis on page 17. This is the first and a very rare edition. The colla- tion agrees with that given by Hazlitt in his new book, ] 867, page 516. It was entered at the Stationers' register in May, 1622, a conclusive proof that the date of 1621 given in some lists is erroneous. It has a passage containing an unquoted notice of two remarkable publications — Shakespeare's " Venus and Adonis"and "Peele's Jests," both of which the author accuses the confessor of the nunnery of reading. Shakespeare's exquisite poem is spoken of as an " idle pamphlet " : — '■'•And when he is merrily disposed (as that is not seldom) then must his darting Kate Knightly play him a merry fit, and sister Mary Brooke, or some other of his late-come wags, must sing him one bandy song or other to digest his meat. Then after supper it is usual for him to reade a little of '' Venus and Adonis' the ''Jests of George Peele,' or some other scurrilous booke ; for there are few idle pamphlets printed in England which he hath not in the house." — Payne Collier Bibliographical Catalogue, 1865. 189. Remaines concerning Britaine, but es- pecially England and the Inhabitants thereof. Reviewed, corrected, and encreased. Printed at London by Iohn Legatt for Simon Waterson, 1614. Purple morocco, extra. 68 Perfect, but the pagination is dropped between pages 1 8 1 - 1 90. In this edition there was first printed the tract on the Excellencie of the English Tongue that includes the curious notice of Shakespeare. " Will you read Virgil ? take the Earle of Surrey ; " Catullus ? Shakespeare, and Barlowe's fragment ; " &c, &c. 190. The White Divel, or the Tragedy of Paulo Giordano Vrsini, Duke of Brachiano, with the Life and Death of Vittoria Corombona, the famous Venetian Curtizan. Acted by the Oueenes Maiesties Seruants. Written by Iohn Webster. London, printed by N. O. for Thomas Archer, and are to be sold at his Shop in Popes Head Pallace, neere the Royall Exchange, 161 2. — Quarto. Morocco, half extra. This is one of the very few books printed in Shake- speare's lifetime, which contains a nominal notice of the great dramatist, which is in the address to the reader. 191. The Philosophers Satyrs, written by M. Robert Anton of Magdalen Colledge in Cambridge. London, printed by T. C. and B. A. for Roger Iackson, and are to be sold at his shop in Fleet- street, ouer against the great Conduit, 1616. — Quarto. ~01d calf. The earliest work in which there is an allusion to Shake- speare's tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra. The following is from Notes and Oueries of January 22, 1887 :— Anton's Philosophers, Satyrs 161 6. Mr. Hazlitt's colla- tion of this book gives 48 leaves. My copy, formerly Narcissus Luttrill's and afterwards Heber's, contains 52 leaves, and as it includes "A dialogue betwixt Nature and Time," consisting of 8 pages, the latter not being in Malone's copy, hence most probably arises the discrepancy. The signatures to this dialogue run from b 3 to b 6, and are placed between B 2 (misprinted C 2) and B 3. Colla- tions of other copies are desirable. — J. O. H. P. 6 9 This very curious and scarce poem, brim full of quaint conceits, deserves to be better known. The title and the odd way of printing are against it, but the persevering author the next year issued it under a new title, " Vice's Anatomie scourged and corrected in new Satires." At p. 46 is the following curious notice of the representation of Antony and Cleopatra on the stage : — Why doe our lustfull theaters entice, And personate in lively action, vice ? *r* 'ff v|c ^ There shall they see the vices of the times, Orestes incest, Cleopatres crimes. It is also clear from the context that Shakespeare's play of the Comedy of Errors is alluded to. — Halliwell, 1866. 192. A Collection of Poems, being all the Mis- cellanies of Mr. William Shakespeare. London, printed for Bernard Lintott. This edition was pub- lished in 1709. Sprinkled calf extra, by F. Bedford. An interesting and unique copy, with Dr. Farmer's manuscript notes, collations, and cuttings from contem- porary newspapers. In a preliminary note is the curious account of the letter said to have been written to Shake- speare by James I. 193. M. William Shake-speare, his True Chronicle History of the Life and Death of King Lear and his Three Daughters. With the Vnfor- tunat Life of Edgar and his sullen assumed humour of Tom of Bedlam. As it was plaid before the Kings Maiesty at Whit- Hall vpon S. Stephens night in Christmas Hollidaies. By his Maiesties Servants, playing vsually at the Globe on the Bank-side. London, printed by Jane Bell, and are to be sold at the East-end of Christ-Church, 1655. — Quarto. Calf extra, with Harleian panelled sides, gilt leaves. The following Nos., 194 to 218, are in a large folio volume, lettered " Early Shakespearean Miscel- lanies." Dark green morocco, lettered along the back in a compartment, broad borders of gold upon the sides, also same in the insides, gilt leaves. 194. An indenture, 20 February, 18 James I., 1 62 1, between the Urles and Sandells of Shottery, one of the latter being Fulke, the son, I believe, of Shakespeare's marriage-bondsman. Witnessed, amongst others, by Edmund Hathaway, a marksman. 195. A conveyance of 9 September, 1692, from Susanna Hathaway, spinster, grand-daughter of Thomas Hathaway, heretofore of Stratford-on- Avon, joiner, to Richard Wilson of St. Giles's, Cripplegate, of the house in Chapel Street that belonged to the relatives of Shakespeare's Anne Hathaway. The original, with the vendor's signature. The " land now or heretofore of Mr. Hall," that is, the New Place Great Garden, is mentioned as one of the boundaries. 196. A black-letter fragment of the Hundred Mery Talys, a book of stories mentioned by Shakespeare. It is part only of the curious anecdote of John-a- Droyns. 197. A copy of verses by R. P. Jodrell on the mulberry-tree planted by Shakespeare and cut down by the Rev. Francis Gastrell. 198. The original certificate from the Justices of the Peace of Middlesex respecting the Black- friars Theatre, 20 November, 1633, a report on the value of the property, its tenure by the Burbages, &c. This interesting document, first noticed in Collier's New Facts, 1835, p. 27, has been pronounced a forgery without the shadow of a reason. It is, in my opinion, of unques- 7* tionable authenticity, and T will back that opinion with the observation that should the officials of the British Museum and our national Record office collectively arrive at a different conclusion, I will cheerfully give fifty guineas to the funds of any charity that they may do me the favour to indicate. 199. A terier of the halfe yard land at Shottery which Giles Roberts houlds of John Hatheway, May, 1647. 200. Counterpart lease, 27 May, 1647, of land at Shottery, from John Hathaway, yeoman, and Elizabeth his wife, to Giles Roberts of Luddington. 201. Shakespearean scraps from original copies of the following works. — Decker's Satiro-Mastix, 1602 ; list of books sold by Ga. Bedell and Th. Collins, 1656; Brath wait's Strappado for the Divell, 16 [5; Sheppard's Epigrams, 1651 ; Mar- ston's Parasitaster, 1606 ; Cranley's Converted Courtezan, 1639; the Returne from Pernassus, 1606; Brome's Joviall Crew, 1652; A Helpe to Discourse, 1640 ; Letters of Sir Tobie Mathews, 1660 ; Swan's Speculum Mundi, 1643 ; The Hogge hath lost his Pearle, 16 14; the Palace of Pleasure; Eastward Hoe, 1605; Every Man out of his Humour, 1600; Nash's Pierce Penilesse ; Whetstone's Heptameron, 1582; Ben Jonson's Execration against Vulcan, 1640; Decker's Dead Terme, 1608. 202. Autograph letter of Thomas Warton, 1770, respecting the Wilmecote Shakespearean tradi- tions. 203. Administration of the Effects of Robert Hathaway, late of Shottery in the parish of Old Stratford, granted to his widow Sarah in 1728. 204. Probate copy, with an annexed memoran- dum, 1692, of the will of Richard Hathaway of ?2 Shottery, in the parish of Old Stratford, yeoman, 26 November, 1684. 205. A deed of 1692 in which three members of the same family, a London stationer, his uncle and mother, have written their surnames on the same day in three various orthographies. 206. Facsimiles of extracts from the Henley Street deeds, 161 1 to 1639; of the entry respecting the funeral of Shakespeare's daughter Anne ; of manuscript notes from a copy of the Second Part of Henry the Fourth, 1600; of the mark-signature of Joseph Phillips of the Falcon tavern, Stratford - on-Avon ; and of Ouiney's letter to Shakespeare, October, 1598. 207. A bond for the performance of covenants, with the signatures of Shakespeare Hart and William Shakespeare Hart, 1727. 208. A facsimile tracing, beautifully executed by E. W. Ashbee, of the conveyance-deed of Shake- speare's Blackfriars estate, 161 3. 209. The music to the song of " My flocks feed not/' from the madrigals of Thomas Weelkes, 1597 ; a version of one of the poems introduced into the Passionate Pilgrim. 210. Two facsimiles of extracts respecting Shake- speare the shoemaker, 1589, 1592 ; Where the bee sucks, from the Musical Companion, 1672 ; facsimile of attestation to a Henley Street deed of 1573 ; memorandum in the autograph of R. B. Wheler respecting Anne Hathaway's cottage ; two Shake- spearean scraps from the Workes of Ben Jonson, ed. 1616. 211. Original title-page of the Puritaine or the Widclow of Watling-streete, 1607 ; autograph of Jonson on the fly-leaf of an edition of Martial, 1 619, one of Ben's favourite authors; title and 73 preface to Shakespeare's Poems, 1640 ; notice of Shakespeare from the last leaf of Hey wood's Apology for Actors, 161 2. The Puritaine was licensed by Sir George Buck, entered by Eld at Stationers' Hall in August, 1607, as " a booke called the comedie of the Puritan Wydowe," and issued by that printer in the same year under the title of, The Puritaine or the Widdow of Watling-streete ; acted by the Children of Paules ; written by W. S. This play is attributed to Shakespeare in the third folio of 1664, as also by Winstanley in 1687 and by several later writers. — Outlines, II., 416. 212. A plan of Oxford, c. 1640. 213. A deed respecting the Hathaway house in Chapel Street, Stratford-on-Avon, 20 March, 1696, The New Place boundary mentioned. Signed by Susanna Hathaway. 214. An indenture, 30 April, 8 James I., 16 10, respecting land at Shottery. Witnessed by Francis Collins, the poet's friend and solicitor. — Another indenture, 10 October, 1605, with two finer examples of Collins's signature. 215. A Mappe of Penbrokeshire, Glamorgan- shire, Monmouthshire, Glostershire, Somersetshire, Dorsetshire, Devonshire, and Cornwall, part of Wiltshire, etc. An edition of Hollar's map of 1644, with the roads inserted by a later hand, the earliest, I believe, in which there is a delineation of the road to Barnstaple, a town visited by Shakespeare's company in 1605. 216. An early, perhaps the earliest, title-page in which a quotation from Shakespeare is introduced, that of Pendragon or the Carpet Knight his Kalendar, 1698 ; a biographical notice of Shake- speare from an Historical Dictionary of England and Wales, 1692 ; Shakespearean scraps from Har- ington's Ariosto, 1 59 1, and Davenant's Works, 74 1673 ; the dimensions of Stratford-on-Avon Church, a paper by the Rev. Joseph Greene, c. 1762 ; Shakespearean notices in a list of books printed for Thomas Bennet, 1697, and in the induction to Bar- tholomew Fair. 217. An attestation from a deed of the year 1555, relating to a messuage in the village of Packwood, co. Warwick, one Christofer Shaxspere being one of the witnesses. 218. A deed of 1647 respecting the Hathaway house in Chapel Street, Stratford-on-Avon. The original indenture signed by the Lanes. Nos. 219 and 220 are in a large folio volume, lettered " The Proof Engraving of Droeshout's Portrait of Shakespeare, 1623," and bound like the previous volume. 219. The engraved portrait of Shakespeare by Droeshout on a copy of the title-page of the second folio edition of the poet's works, 1632. This is one of the only four impressions known of the title-page of the edition of 1632 before the spelling of the word coppies was altered, a circumstance which, although apparently trivial, is of value as showing that it includes one of the earliest impressions from the plate after it had been used for the first folio. 220. The engraved head of Shakespeare on the title-page of the first collective edition of his plays, 1623, Martin Droeshout sculpsit, London. The original engraving by Droeshout before it was altered by an inferior hand ; of extreme rarity, and the earliest engraved portrait of Shakespeare in existence. The following observations upon this proof-engraving are from the pen of the late F. W. Fairholt, F.S.A. :--" The portrait in this state of the engraving is remarkable for clearness of tone ; the shadows being very delicately rendered, so that the light falls upon the muscles of the face with a softness not to be found in the ordinary im- pressions. This is particularly visible in the arch undc /D the eye, and in the muscles of the mouth ; the expression of the latter is much altered in the later states of the plate by the enlargement of the up-turned moustache, which hides and destroys the true character of this part of the face. The whole of the shadows have been darkened by cross-hatching and coarse dotting, particularly on the chin ; this gives a coarse and undue prominence to some parts of the portrait, the forehead particularly. In this early state of the plate the hair is darker than any of the shadows on the head, and flows softly and naturally ; in the retouched plate the shadow is much darker than the roots of the hair, imparting a swelled look to the head and giving the hair the appearance of a raised wig. It is remarkable that no shadow falls across the collar ; this omission, and the general low tone of colour in the engraving, may have induced the retouching and strengthening which has injured the true character of the likeness, which, in its original state, is far more worthy of Ben Jonson's com- mendatory lines." — The late Mr. William Smith, Director of the National Portrait Gallery, whose knowledge of early engraving was unrivalled, thus wrote to me in reference to a suggestion that the variations were caused by an accident to the plate, — " I was unwilling to answer your note until I had made another careful examination of your engraving, as well as of the very fine impression in the usual state which we have recently purchased for the National Por- trait Gallery. This I have now done, and I can find no traces of any damage whatever. I fully believe that, on what is technically termed proving the plate, it was thought that much of the work was so delicate as not to allow of a sufficient number of impressions being printed. Droeshout might probably have refused to spoil his work, and it was retouched by an inferior and coarser engraver," Nos. 221 to 228 are in a large folio volume of similar size, lettered " Documents relating to Stratford-on-Avon," and bound like the two previous volumes. 221. A rough ground-plan on vellum of the College at Stratford-on-Avon, with the adjoining 7 6 roads, made very early in the sixteenth century. The site of the tyth bainie is shown. This is by far the earliest plan of any part of the town that is known to exist. 222. A presentment made att a leete there (Stret- ford Burgus) holden the vij.° daye of Aprill, anno xxxiij. Elizabeth regine, 1 591 . This very curious perambulation of the borough of Stratford is quoted in the sixth chapter of Knight's Biography of Shakspere as being then, 1843, in the posses- sion of Mr. R. B. Wheler, but there is a mistake in thinking that the old boundary elm, a sketch of which is given in that work and which was cut down in 1847, was the identical tree mentioned in the present document. It stood, however, on the same site, that is to say, on the bank between the turnpike road and the foot-path to Birmingham, just beyond the lane to Clopton. 223. A grant from James de Clopton to Walter de Cokefeld of a messuage and lands at Clopton and in la Grave. A deed of the time of Henry III. One of the witnesses is noted as Richard de Peyto, showing at how early a period the surname of Peto was known in the neighbour- hood of Stratford-on-Avon. 224. A grant from Peter de Montefort to Isabel, daughter of Stephen Norton, clericus, and Edmund de Middeltone, her son, of a messuage and lands within the manor of Clopton, temp. Hen. III. The boundaries, which are given with unusual minute- ness, including notices (with the names) of upwards of thirty fields or common-lands, go far to prove, in con- junction with the memorandum of 16 14 respecting Shake- speare's outlying property, that the poet held nothing at Clopton. 225. A lease with the autograph of Richard Hyll, the woollen-draper, penned a few months before his death in 1593. This individual, whose singular metrical epitaph is yet 17 to be seen in Stratford Church, was intimately acquainted with the poet's family, having been bail for his father in some law proceedings that were instituted against him in 1587. 226. A lease for twenty-one years, dated 22 November, 1562, from William Clopton of Clopton, esquire, to William Smythe of Stratford-on-Avon, haberdasher, of a close of land " in the lordshyp of Cloptone, beneythe the park next unto the coman fyldes ther, now in the tenure and occupacyon of the said William Smyth." The consideration paid for the lease was ^"31, the reserved annual rent being "only on cowple of capons." Witnessed by William Bott, the purchaser of New Place. Signed by William Smythe, the deed itself being in the autograph of Henry Higford, the steward of the Stratford Court of Record. This latter circumstance invests the document with no little degree of interest, the accounts drawn up by the poet's father in 1564 and 1565 being in the same handwriting. It is also worth notice that John Shakespeare acted as one of the Chamberlains when William Smythe nominally held the office in the year last- mentioned. 227. A lease from Sir George and Lady Carewe, 27 March, 2 James I., 1604, to William Courte of Stratford-on-Avon, gentleman, of land near the Wier Brake. With the signature of William Courte, who was one of Shakespeare's neighbours in Chapel Street and concerned with others in the tithe-suit that was instituted by the poet about the year 1609. 228. Another lease from the same, 27 March, 1604, to John Lane of Stratford-on-Avon, gentle- man, of " all that close called Crosse on the Hill," &c. Witnessed, with their autographs, by the William Courte, mentioned in the preceding article, and by Abraham Sturley, the individual who was interesting himself in the poet's investments in the year 1598- 7S Nos. 229 to 235 are in a large folio volume of similar size, lettered "A Shakespearean Play- Bill, temp. William III.," and bound like the previous folios. 229. A play-bill of the time of William the Third, announcing a performance of Dryden's Troilus and Cressida on October the 28th, 1697. This is the earliest authentic play -bill of a Shakespearean character which is known to exist. Play-bills, or " billes " for players," as they are termed in the Stationers' Registers for 1587, were in ordinary use throughout the time of the great dramatist, but none earlier than the reign of William the Third are known to be in existence. Even any of the latter are of extreme rarity. The names of actors do not appear to have been inserted before the time of George the Second, the frequently-quoted bill of the Humorous Lieutenant, 1663, being an undoubted forgery. 230. Shakespearean scraps from original copies of the following works, — Drayton's Elegies, 1631 ; Randolph's Hey for Honesty, 165 1 ; a Declaration of the Treasons of the Earl of Essex, 1601 ; Kirk- man's list, 1 67 1 ; Blurt Master Constable, 1602 ; Goulart's Histories of our Time, 1607 (this curious and rare book contains the story of the Induction to the Taming of the Shrew) ; Suckling's Fragmenta Aurea, 1648 ; Cokain's Small Poems of Divers Sorts, 1658; Sharpe's Noble Stranger, 1640; Marston's Malcontent, 1604 ; Cawdray's Treasurie or Store-house of Similies, 1600; Sir Thomas Smithes Voiage and Entertainment in Rushia, 1605 ; the Palace of Pleasure; Play ford's Musical Com- panion, 1667 ; Scarron's Comical Romance or Facetious History, 1676; Cartwright's Poems, 1651. 231. Itinerant players acting on a scaffold in what is generally said to be a view of Old Smith- field, An engraving from Scarron's Comical Romance, 1676, 79 " printed for W. Crooke at the Green Dragon without " Temple Barr." 232. A plan of the city of Bath. Speed, 1610. 233. Four pages from a prompter's copy, temp. Car. II., of the tragedy of Macbeth, with numerous alterations of the original text. 234. The title-page of the second folio edition of Shakespeare's Plays, 1632, with the Droeshout portrait. This copy differs from that in No. 219, the word copies being rightly spelt and the notice " at his shop " being omitted in the imprint. 235. Copies of the Droeshout portrait from the folios of 1663 and 1685. The first came to my hands in an illustrated copy of the octavo variorum, the compiler of which had reduced the width of the engraving by a barbarian clipping of the sides. Nos. 236 to 244 are in a large folio volume lettered " Norden's View of London Bridge, a.d. " 1 597." and bound like the previous folios. 236. Paul's Cross, a wood-engraving in the title- page of Three Looks over London, 1643. 237. A woodcut facsimile of Shakespeare's Rime he made at the Myter in Fleete Streete, from a manuscript compiled about the year 1640. 238. The View of London Bridge from East to West (Norden), — to the Right Honorable Sir Ric. Salstonstall, Lord Mayor of the Cittie of London. He was mayor in 1597, the obvious date of this undated engraving, which is slightly pared on the lower margin. An inferior variation of it was published in 1624, but no other copy in this first state is known to exist. Mr. William Rendle, the historian of Southwark, thus writes respecting this engraving in Notes and Queries of June the 5th, 1886 — "Now visiting my friend Mr. Halliwell- " Phillipps, I have been favoured by him with the sight of " a large plate, Norden's London Bridge, in his possession, 8o " as beautiful as it is rare. The ordinary copy, in its main " features like this one, is so different in some other ' respects that I am tempted to send you the particulars. ' I suppose it to be the one referred to in the 1624 print " thus, ' I described it in the time of Oueene Elizabeth, but " ' the plate having bene neare these twenty yeares " ' imbezeled and detained by a person, till of late " ' unknown, and now brought to light,' &c. From its " clearness and sharpness, it must be one of the earliest, if " not the earliest, impression, and from the writing on it, so " exactly like Norden's, probably his own copy. Cropped " at the bottom it yet shows its date by the dedication to " the ' Right Honorable S r Ric' Saltonstall, Lord May r of "'the Citti of London,' as 1597, as the ordinary copy " dedicated to Sir John Gore implies 1624. — We face the " eastern side of the bridge, and looking through the arches, " see the Bankside with its continuous houses. As in the " later print, boats are upset and people are struggling in " the water, but in this the features and costume of the " many more people in many more boats are very clear ; " there are boats sharp at both ends, sharp at one end, " boats with one or two persons, one with five. Midstream " are four wide, large, rounded boats, empty, one covered " with a sort of caged work, possibly, I think, bumboats or " for conveyance of goods generally, the caged one perhaps " for lively cattle, or it may be for the securing pressed " men for the tenders at the Tower close at hand. — The " arms of the earlier print have the lion one side, a dragon " the other, with, underneath, ' Semper eadem ' ; in the " 1624 copy the dragon gives place to the unicorn, and the " ' Semper eadem ' to ' Diev et mon droit.' The writing is "as follows : —At the top, ' Pontis Londinensis facies " ' orientalis, Joanne Norden descriptore.' South end, " where the ' Bear-at-the-Bridge-foot ' was, ' Southewark- " ' Bridge-gate.' Immediately over the heads on poles, '■ ' the Draw-bridge.' By Nonsuch, ' Capella S. Thomas ' ; " further on ' S. Marie Lock. Newe fish street.' Then " ' Longitudo hujus Pontis est prope 800 pedes. Altitudo " ' est 60 ped. Latitudo est 30 pedes. Domus institorum " ' et mercatorum, hie qui omnis generis merces vendunt. " ' Sunt supra ioo,' &c." This is the earliest separate large view ot the bridge known to exist, and there is no other that can be confidently assigned to the period of Elizabeth. Si 239. Braun's plan of London, 1574. Uncoloured and in an earlier state than the copy No. 313. 240. Profil de la Ville de Londre, cappitalle dv Royavme Dangleterre. Undated, but published, I believe, at Paris in 1641. This long view includes the Swan and Globe Theatres, and was therefore taken from a much earlier one. 241. The engraved title-page to Sir Richard Baker's Chronicle of the Kings of England, 1643, including a miniature view of London and South- wark that exhibits two of the Bankside theatres. 242. A plan of Westminster, London and South- warke, W. Hollar fecit. Dedicated to Sir Robert Vynar by Richard Blome, 1673. 243. The Kingdome of Great Britaine and Ireland, graven by I. Hondius, and are to be solde by I. Sudbury and George Humble in Popes Head Alley in London, 1610. With a view of London showing the old Globe Theatre in the foreground. Coloured, 244. Londinum Celeberrimum Anglian Emporium, published at Amsterdam by Dancker Danckerts, 1640. A view of London showing the Swan, the Bear Garden, and the Globe. Nos, 245 to 264 are in a large folio volume lettered " Miscellaneous Shakespearean Relics," and bound like the previous folios. 245. Proceedings " att a Session of the Sewers holden in Southwark," July and October, 1653, respecting the one " in Maide Lane nere the place where the Globe playhouse lately stood." This interesting document establishes the exact locality of the theatre, G 2 82 246. Original documents in which there are references to the Shakespeares of Kingswood, a hamlet of Lap worth, 1658- 1673. The earliest of them has the autograph of Humphrey Shakespeare, considered by Malone, ed. 182 1, ii. 62, to have been the son of John, the shoemaker of Stratford. — An indenture relating to land at Packwood, co. Warwick, 1528, in which there is a notice of Cristofer Shakspeyre. 247. An indenture respecting the Falcon in Southwark, 11 April, 32 Hen. VIII., 1541. A tavern, said, but on very uncertain grounds, to have been frequented by Shakespeare. 248. A levie and taxacion for the reliefe of the poore in the parishe of Old Stratford, in the countie of Warwicke, by the churchwardens and overseers for the poore there, whose names are heervnder written the xiij.th daie of Aprill, 1640, with the mark-signature of John Hathaway. — A levie made the tenthe daie of August, 1635, by Roger Barnard and Thomas Harris, churchwardens of the parish of Old Stratford, towardes the repaire of the Parishe Church there, with autograph of Edmund Hathaway. These two manuscripts, which contain several entries of Shakespearean interest, were amongst those which were lately discovered by Mr. Sims of the British Museum in the archives of Wallop Hall, co. Salop. 249. A document on vellum respecting lands in Kent leased to Sir Robert Sidney, with the signa- ture of Robert, Earl of Essex, 1596. There can scarcely be a doubt that this nobleman, the object of the graceful compliment in Henry the Fifth, was on friendly terms with the great dramatist. 250. A deed of covenant, 10 October, 1647, for the levy of a fine on the land where the Bear in Bridge Street, Stratford- on-A von, formerly stood, §3 and on the house in Chapel Street that had been purchased by Thomas Hathaway, a lineal descen- dant from the parents of Shakespeare's wife. 251. A deed with the mark-signature of John Richardson of Shottery, 16 10, the son perhaps of one of Shakespeare's marriage-bondsmen.— A levy made by the inhabitants of Lapworth, 1650, including notices of the Shakespeares of that parish. — Shake- spearean scraps from an original copy of Gayton's Pleasant Notes upon Don Quixot, 1654. 252. John Jones and Mary his wife, the widow and relict of John Hathaway, to Robert Hathaway of Shottery, a receipt for a legacy bequeathed to Mary by her first husband, 6 August, 1 703. 253. A collection of Shakespearean scraps from Camden's Remaines, 1605 to 1636. 254. An inventory of the goods and chatels of Robert Hathaway (here spelt Athaway) of Shotrey, in the parish of Old Stratford, lately deceased, 1728. An important document. See Outlines of the Life of Shakespeare, ed. 1887, ii. 192. 255. Deed of gift of personal effects from Sarah Hathaway, widow of Robert Hathaway of Shottery, to Susannah Taylor, her daughter, wife of William Taylor, 1752. 256. An indenture and bond, March, 1604, respecting land near Stratford-on-Avon, with two signatures of Richard Tyler, a contemplated legatee under Shakespeare's will. The bond is witnessed by Abraham Sturley, the person who interested himself in the poet's business arrangements of 159S. 257. Facsimile of an entry respecting Sir Thomas Lucy, 1595; manuscript notes by R. B. Wheler on the Charlecote traditions ; a fragment from the Rev. 8 4 Joseph Greene's revised copy of Rowe's Life of Shakespeare, the portion referring to the Charlecote adventure, c. 1750 ; facsimiles of the signatures and attestation to the poet's will, Neele sculpsit ; the second nominated allusion to Shakespeare in our printed literature, the original leaves from Poli- manteia, 1595. 258. An original deed with the rare signature of the Sir Thomas Lucy of Charlecote, the individual who owes his celebrity to his inconsiderate treatment of the youth who was afterwards to be the national dramatist of England. This indenture was executed in December, 17 Elizabeth, 1574, and it bears also the signatures of Sir Thomas's two brothers, Timothy and Edward. 259. The conveyance of a piece of land, 20 April, 14 James I., 16 16, from Sir Thomas Lucy of Charlcott, in the county of Warwick, knight, to James Combe of Hyneleadon, in the county of the cittye of Glocester, yoman, with the signature of the former. This Sir Thomas was fond of literary society, but there is no good evidence in favour of the oft-repeated assertion that he was on friendly terms with the great dramatist. He was the grandson of the poet's Justice Shallow, who, as well as the intermediate Sir Thomas Lucy, is mentioned in the present indenture. 260. Memoranda in the autograph of Philip, Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery. They are of great curiosity, including four notices of one " Squeal of Cotswold," who appears to have been a very indifferent character ; singular evidences of the poet's introducing the name of a local celebrity of his own day into an historical drama. 26 r. A large plan of the basement of a house adjoining northwards to New Place. 262. Indenture, 14 June, 12 Elizabeth, 1570, 85 respecting lands at Snitterfield and Fulbrooke, with a signature of Bartholomew Hales. Witnessed amongst others by Thomas Perkes and Alexander Webbe, the poet's uncle. 263. A Plan of the Town and Borough of Stratford-upon-Avon by W. R. Swanwick. En- graved by J. Tolley, Birmingham. Published by J. Ward, Stratford. 264. Indenture of lease, 10 November, 17 James I., 1619, of a piece of land called Little Rushbrooke, situated at Bridgetown, Stratford-on-Avon, with the signatures of Lord and Lady Carew of Clopton. A traditional anecdote respecting them is believed to have been in the poet's thoughts when he makes Prospero speak so enigmatically of the loss of his daughter. Nos. 265 to 273 are in a large folio volume, lettered "Shakespearean Illustrations," and bound like the previous folios. 265. A very large plan of Stratford-on-Avon, divided into four sheets, executed about the year 1780. It should be noticed that some of the memoranda are of a more recent date than that of the drawing itself. 266. A view of the interior of the chancel of Stratford Church, published at Birmingham in December, 1827. Drawn by H. Hutchinson ; engraved by W. Radclyffe. Two copies, one of them in the rare state before the insertion of the carved roof. 267. Ancient bedroom in George's farm-house at Grendon Underwood; Elizabethan houses at Aylesbury. Two sketches taken by Blight in September, 1865. 268. Charlecote House, river front. Drawn by J. V. Barber. Engraved by W. Radclyffe, Pub- lished at Birmingham, September, 1824. 86 269. Charlecote House and Gateway, front view. Drawn by J. D. Harding. Engraved by W. Rad- clyffe. Published at Birmingham, March, 1827. 270. Tracings of the inscriptions under Shake- speare's monumental effigy and on his tomb-stone, taken by Mr. William Butcher, jun., in 1885; with a rubbing of the former. 271. A water-colour sketch of the exterior of Stratford Church, executed about the year 1 840. 272. The monumental effigy, engraved by I. S. Agar from an original drawing by A. Wivell in the possession of John Cordy, esq. Published by Geo. Lawford, November, 1825. A proof. 273. Shakespearean scraps from an original copy of Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, 1628. 274. An Account of the English Dramatick Poets, or Some Observations and Remarks on the Lives and Writings of all those that have publish d Comedies, &c. By Gerard Langbaine. Oxford, 1 69 1. — Octavo. Olive morocco, super extra, blind and gold panelled sides after the antique, gilt leaves, by F. Bedford. With a few MS. notes by Oldys. Account of Shakespeare at pp. 453-469- 275. A Brief Account of Stratford-upon-Avon, with a particular Description and Survey of the Collegiate Church, the Mausoleum of Shakespeare. i2mo. Stratford, printed by E. Walford, n.d. Half morocco, neat. This, which is the earliest guide-book to Stratford, was published about the year 1791. 276. An account of the discovery of John Shakespeare's Confession of Faith, with notes on other Shakespearean traditions, by John Jordan, 1 790. Folio. Autograph manuscript. Half red morocco, neat. 87 2 77- A volume of miscellaneous poems, many of which are quaint and curious, collected, apparently by an Oxford student, chiefly between the years 1633 and 1639. Maroon morocco, neat. This interesting manuscript includes, at ff. I2.b, 26, two of Shakespeare's sonnets, the seventy-first and thirty-second. Also, at f. 20, " Take, oh take, those lipps awaie," with additional verses. Allusions to Pericles and Julius Caesar, the latter termed " the tragcedy of Brutus and Cassius," at f. 62. " On the Earle of Penbrookes death, or Earlc uppon Earle," f. 85. Sold by W. J. Thorns at Sotheby's, February, 1877, Lot 1692. 278. A manuscript collection of verses and epitaphs made in the time of Pope. It includes, at p. 2, the verses on John-a-Combe, here stated to be " by Shakespear." 4to. Whole bound morocco, neat Sold by W. J. Thorns at Sotheby's, February, 1877. 279. Essayes of Certaine Paradoxes. The second Impression, inlarged. London, printed for Richard Hawkins, and are to be sold at his Shop neare Serjeants-Inne in Chancery-Lane. 161 7. Quarto. Whole morocco, neat. The allusions to the Richard the Third plays will be found at sigs. C 3 and E 3 Perfect. See Collation in Hazlitt. 280. A Bright Burning Beacon forewarning all wise Virgins to trim their lampes against the comming of the Bridegroome, conteining a generall doctrine of sundrie signes and wonders, specially earthquakes both particular and generall; a discourse of the end of this world ; a commemoration of our late Earthquake the 6. of April, about 6. of the clocke in the euening, 1580. Newly translated and collected by Abraham Fleming. Imprinted at 88 London by Henrie Denham, dwelling in Paternoster Rowe at the signe of the Starre. — 121110. Red morocco, extra, gilt leaves, by F. Aitken. A very rare and curious little work relating to the great earthquake alluded to by Shakespeare in Romeo and Juliet. See also No. 132. 281. A Godly Exhortation by occasion of the late iudgement of God shewed at Parris-Garden the thirteenth day of Ianvarie, where were assembled by estimation aboue a thousand persons, whereof some were slaine, and of that number, at the least, as is crediblie reported, the thirde person maimed and hurt. Giuen to all estates for their instruction concerning the keeping of the Sabboth day. By John Field, minister of the word of God. i2mo. At London, printed by Robert Walde-grave, dwell- ing without Temple-barre, for Henry Carre in Paules Churchyard, 1583. Blue morocco, after the Roger Payne style. This is a tract of the highest degree of rarity ; the only copy I have heard of as being in any public library is that in the University Library of Cambridge. The British Museum has, I find, a copy, but it must have been bought in late years. 282. An extract from Rowe's Life of Shakespeare, revised by the Rev. Joseph Greene of Stratford-on- Avon about the year 1750. Exceedingly important in the question of the identification of the Hathaway cottage at Shottery. 8vo. Manuscript. Green Levant morocco, super extra, lettered along the back in a compartment, French filletted sides, broad rich inside borders, gilt leaves, by F. Bedford. 283. England's Parnassus, or the choysest Flowers of our Moderne Poets, with their Poeticall Com- parisons. Descriptions of Bewties, Personages, Castles, Pallaces, Mountaines, Groues, Seas, Springs, Riuers, &c. Whereunto are annexed other various discourses, both pleasaunt and profitable. Imprinted 8 9 at London, for N.L., C.B., and T. H, 1600. — Small octavo. Blue Levant morocco, super extra, gilt back, Harleian panelled sides, broad rich inside borders, gilt leaves, by F. Bedford. " An interesting collection that includes numerous " extracts from the works of Shakespeare. This copy, " which belonged successively to Theobald and Oldys, is " perhaps unique in one small matter, the two fly-leaves " of sheet A preceding the title-page. In common with " two other copies in the British Museum, it has not the " verses commencing, ' Fame's windy trump,' which have " been said, I am sure erroneously, to form a genuine " portion of the work." This opinion was afterwards confirmed ; for in the Halliwell-Phillippssale, 1889, was sold an imperfect copy of this book in which he had written, " The present fragment, :< taken from a very imperfect copy, contains the whole of " the last sheet with the blank last leaf, the latter being " important as showing that the verses commencing, " ' Fame's windy trump ' could never have formed part of " the original work." In spite of all its errors, " England's Parnassus " is a work of much interest and value. — Payne Collier's Biblio- graphical Catalogue, 1865. 284. Mount Tabor, or Private Exercises of a Penitent Sinner, serving for a daily Practice of the life of Faith, &c, written in the time of a voluntary retrait from secular affaires. By R. W. esquire. Published in the yeare of his age 75, anno Dom. 1639. Dark blue Levant morocco, super extra, gilt back, rich inside borders, French filletted sides, gilt leaves, by F. Bedford. Some of the "exercises" of this author, who was born in the same year with Shakespeare, are strikingly illus- trative of the boy and school life of exactly the poet's own time. At p. 1 10 is the well-known chapter "upon a stage- play which I saw when I was a child." This narrative by Willis is given in cxtcnso in Outlines, I., 41, 43. 90 285. Playes confuted in hue Actions, prouing that they are not to be suffred in a Christian common weale ; by the waye both the Cauils of Thomas Lodge and the Play of Playes written in their defence, and other objections of Players frendes, are truely set downe and directlye aunsweared. By Steph. Gosson, Stud. Oxon. London, imprinted for Thomas Gosson, dwelling in Paternoster Row at the signe of the Sunne, n.d. — [2mo. Purple morocco, half extra. Perfect, and the spare leaf at the end, if it belongs, as it appears, to the book, is unique. The original black-letter edition. Much has been said, at various times and in various works, of Gosson's " School of Abuse," written mainly against theatrical performances and published in 1579, but very little notice has been taken of the still more rare and curious work before us, in which he followed up his attack and replied to his adversaries. * * * We can only spare room for a brief quotation respecting the moral conduct of a portion of the auditory at playhouses, in or about the year 1580: — In the playhouses at London it is the fashion of youthes to go first into the yarde, and to carry their eye through every gallery ; then, like unto ravens, where /hey spye carion, thither they fiye, andpresse as nere to the fairest as they can. Instead of pomegranates they give them pippins ; they dally with their garments to passe the time ; they minister talke upon al occasions, and eyther bring them home to their houses upon small acquaintance, or slip into taverns when the plaics are done. There was no denying such charges, and accordingly Gosson's opponents were careful not to touch them. He ends thus : — Playes are the inventions of the Devil, the offrings of Idolatrie, the pompe of worldlings, the blossomes of vanitie, the roote ofapos- tacy, the foode of iniquitie, ryot and adulterie : detest them. Payne Collier's Bibliographical Catalogue, 1865. 286. Original sketches taken by J. P. Neale in 1825 of parts of the Church of the Holy Trinity, Stratford-on-Avon, with others of the font and the 9i base of the market-cross, the two latter relics then in the possession of Captain Saunders. Green Levant morocco, super extra, lettered along the back in a compartment, broad rich inside borders, French filletted sides, gilt leaves, by F. Bedford. 287. A fragment of an original contemporary manuscript of Marlowe's Massacre at Paris, con- taining a number of passages that were omitted in the old printed edition. Green Levant morocco, super extra, lettered along the back in a compartment, broad rich inside borders, French filletted sides, gilt leaves, by F. Bedford. This interesting relic, which was first noticed in Collier's History of Dramatic Poetry, 1831, iii. 133, is the only vestige of the tragedy in the state in which it left the hands of the author, and is important as a striking evidence of the extent to which texts of some of our early dramas were mutilated in the copies that were used by the printers. 288. An impression of Droeshout's engraved portrait of Shakespeare, issued by Henry Her- ringman and Thomas Dring in the year 1673. No other copy known. Green Levant morocco, super extra, lettered along the back in a compartment, broad, rich inside borders, French filletted sides, gilt leaves, by F. Bedford. 289. Births, marriages, and burials of the Shakespear family, faithfully transcrib'd from the register-book of the parish of Stratford-on-Avon, with a note respecting the Hathaway house at Shottery, by the Rev. Joseph Greene, 1 769-1 770. The accuracy of the extracts from the register is certified by the Rev. Stephen Nason, the then vicar. — 4to. Green Levant morocco, super extra, lettered along the back in a compartment, broad rich inside borders, French filletted sides, gilt leaves, by F. Bedford. H ere follow a series of twenty-one large folio volumes, whole dark green morocco, broad 92 borders of gold upon the sides, also in insides, gilt leaves, by Hayes, each labelled down the back in a compartment " Artistic Records of the Life of Shakespeare," and numbered consecutively from I. to XXI. Vol. I. 290. The Last Judgment, or the Day of Doom, copied by Fisher in 1804 from paintings discovered on the west side of the wall that divides the nave and chancel of the Guild Chapel. — Miracles of the Holy Cross, two paintings on the north side of the Chancel, Fisher del. The original drawings, coloured, and, like the other ones by the same artist in this collection, more accurate than the published reproductions. They are now unique, the only replicas that were made having perished with the rest of the Staunton library. 291. The tombs of Sir Thomas Lucy (the poet's Justice Shallow) and his son, from the monuments in Charlecote Church. W. Hollar fecit, 1656. 292. The Arches of Triumph erected in honour of King James the First at his Majesties entrance and passage through his honourable Citty of London, upon the 15th day of March, 1603-4. Five of the original very rare contemporary engravings by William Kip, Stephen Harrison, and another, including the one which has the view of London. There is authentic record evidence that Shakespeare was in the procession on this interesting occasion. 293. Thomas Lucie, miles, the grandson of the poet's Sir Thomas, a monument on the south side of the chancel in Charlecote Church. P. Lombart sculpsit Londini, 1656. 294. A plan of Shrewsbury, from Speed's Theatre of Great Britaine, 1610. 93 295- The monumental effigy of Shakespeare with the verses underneath and those on the grave-stone. Dugdale, 1656. 296. Exterior of Stratford Church. An un- coloured lithograph by J. Salmon, from a drawing by Mrs. Dighton. Published at Stratford-on- Avon, 1835. 297. A south-east view of the exterior of Stratford Church. A large original drawing in water-colours by J. C. Buckler, 1823. 298. A large pen-and-ink drawing of the exterior of Stratford Church, showing the tower and southern side of the western end, executed about the year 1762. This and the next-mentioned drawing were in Richard Greene's illustrated copy of Dugdale, but it may be suspected, from the style, that they were not executed by him. 299. A Mappe of Kent, Sovthsex, Surrey, Mid- dlesex, Barke and Southamptonshire and the He of Vight, and part of Essex and Wiltshire, etc. W. Hollar, 1644. See No. 308. 300. A large pen-and-ink drawing of the north exterior side of Stratford Church, executed about the year 1 762. 301. The Mappe of Norfolke, Svffolke, Cam- bridgeshire, Bedford, Hartford, Buckingham, Oxford, Northampton, Warwick, Huntington and Lecester- shires, and Rutland, part of Lincolne, Nottingham, Darbye, Glocester and Barckshires, and of the County of Essex. W. Hollar, 1644. 302. The Font at which Shakespeare was baptized. A coloured lithograph by J. Salmon from a drawing by Mrs. Dighton. Published at Stratford-on-Avon, 1835. 94 Vol. II. 303. A large sketch taken by Blight in 1864, of the Wier Brake. — The kitchen and chimney-corner of Shakespeare's Birth- Place, from a sketch taken by Fairholt in August, 1839. 304. A view of the town and castle of Windsor from a painting at Greenwich Hospital executed about the year 1690. 305. Charlecote Church, from a sketch by Saun- ders, taken differently from No. 621. 306. A view of Exhall ; St. Christopher, the hood-mould termination of the doorway leading from the chancel to the charnel-house, Stratford Church ; a street in Wixford ; a portion of the so-called Arden House at Wilmecote. All sketched by Blight in 1863. 307. The Road from Glocester to Coventrey, by Iohn Ogilby, esq., His Majesties Cosmographer, containing 58 miles 2 furlongs, viz., from Glocester to Cheltenham, to Winchcomb, through Broadway to Campden, to Stratford, to Warwick, to Coven- trey, 1675. 308. A Mappe of Kent, Sovthsex, Surrey, Mid- dlesex, Barke, and Southamptonshire, &c. Hollar's map of 1644, with roads added by a later hand. " Printed, coloured, and sold by Iohn Garrett, at the South Entrance of the Royall Exchange in London." See No. 299. 309. Warwici Comitatvs Descriptio, quam primus aedidit Christophorus Saxton anno 1576, nunc de integro correcta, aucta et restituta ; cui adduntur (praeter 60 locos qui priore desiderabantur) singula hundreda, viae notiores, in vsum itinerantium ac- comodatae et alia non infimae notae nonnulla, anno 1603. — Near the corner is — Printed and sovld by P. Stent. This is the earliest map of Warwickshire in which the 95 roads are marked, Stent having, I believe, put or stamped his name as publisher to a plate of older date than the period at which he flourished. 310. Pen-and-ink views of Islip Church, co. Oxon, from photographs that were taken before the exten- sive alterations that were made about the year i860. Islip was in one of the routes from Stratford to Oxford. 311. A pen-and-ink view of Middle-row, Strat- ford-on-Avon, from a photograph taken just pre- viously to its removal in 1857. 312. The Counti of Warwick, the Shire Towne and Citie of Coventre described. Performed by Iohn Speede, and are to be solde in Popes-heade ally against the Exchange by Iohn Sudbury and George Humble, 16 10. No roads marked. There is a plan of Warwick in the left-hand corner and one of Coventry in the right. 313. Londinum Feracissimi Angliae Regni Metro- polis. An uncoloured copy of Braun's plan of London, 1574. 314. The title-page of Colloquia Physica Nova et Admiranda, 1614, with the autograph of Ben Jonson. 315. La Ville de Londres, an edition of Braun's map published at Paris in 1579. It was taken from an engraving that was in the first and rare state of the plate, before the Royal Exchange was introduced. 316. A New Description of Kent divided into the fyue Lathes therof, and subdivided into Baylywickes and Hundredes, with the parishe Churches conteyned within euery of the same Hundredes. All which, for better vnderstandinge, are distinguished with varyetye of coloures : comprehendinge as w r ell the cities, the vsuall market lownes and the portes with their members lying in Kent ; as also such of the H 9 6 howses of the nobylitie and gentrye as the plott coulde conueniently receaue. Wherin moreover the nature of the soyle, whether playne, hyllye or wooddye, is more diligentlye observed, and the tractes of ryuers, rylles and creekes, with the trend- inge of the sea-shore, be more naturally described then heretofore it hath ben done. By the travayle of Phil : Symonson of Rochester, gent. Printed and sovld by P. Stent at the White Horse in Gilt- spure street, 1659. At the top is a view of Dover by Hollar, and one of Rye by Sir Anthony Van Dyck, the latter showing the sea up to the town. 317. Anne Hathaway's Cottage, Shottery, drawn and etched by W. Rider. Published in November, 1827. A proof. 318. A front view of Charlecote House, in litho- tint by F. W. Hulme from a sketch by J. G. Jackson. Published by Chapman and Hall in September, 1845. The back of Charlecote House, from a drawing by Saunders. 319. Sketches taken by Blight, 1863 to 1865, of the well at Anne Hathaway's Cottage ; the barn at the pseudo-Asbies farm-house at Wilmecote; a room on the basement at Anne Hathaway's Cottage, the one which is the furthest from the road, with the original stone-bench for the milk-pans ; exterior, north side chancel, Stratford Church ; interior of the door-way leading from the tower to the roof of the nave of the Guild Chapel ; the basement wall of Nash's house. 320. Inside of charnel-house, Stratford Church, looking south, from a sketch by R. B. Wheler; Luddington Chapel, from a sketch by Dugdale ; a large pike (or luce) from an old painting at Charlecote. 97 32i. Interior of Anne Hathaway's Cottage, drawn and etched by W. Rider. Published in November, 1827. A proof. 322. The room in which Shakespeare was born, an uncoloured lithograph from a drawing by Mrs. P. Dighton. Published at Stratford-on-Avon in the year 1835. 323. Plan du Chateau et Pare de Windsor, dans la Conte de Berk, a 20 Milles de Londres, ren- ferment une des maisons et jardins du Due de Marlborough; tres exatement leve et grave par J. Rocque, 1738. 324. A Plan of the Town and Castle of Windsor and Little Park, and the Town and College of Eton, survey'd and drawn by W. Collier. Publish'd according to Act of Parliament by W. Collier at Eton, 1742, by whom lands are survey'd and maps drawn of the same in the best and cheapest manner. Sold by J. Pine, engraver in Old Bond Street, and T. Bakewell, printseller in Fleet Street. Engrav'd by J. Pine. The very rare original engraving, being the earliest plan of Windsor Park in which Heme's Oak is noticed. 325. Three engraved ground-plans of New Place and the adjoining houses, six impressions only of which were taken previously to the destruction of the blocks. 326. A Mapp of Warwickshire, describing the Boundaries and Divisions, the Rivers, Brooks and Rills, the Roman Roads and Stations, the Parish Churches and Chapels, from an actual survey made in the year 1725 by Henry Beighton. Vol. III. 327. The Market-cross and part of High Street, Stratford, from a drawing by C. F. Green, 182 1. h 2 98 i [28. A large view of Charlecote House, copied in pen-and-ink from a photograph taken in 1864. 329. A View of the Antient Royal Palace, called Placentia, in East Greenwich. Publish'd according to Act of Parliament, April 23, 1767, sumpt. Societ. Antiquar. 330. A Prospect of the House att Windsor belonging to his Grace, Charles Beauclerck, Duke of St. Albans. L. Knyffde. I. Kip scu. This engraving includes curious and interesting views of the towns of Windsor and Eton. 331. Windsor Castle. Le Chasteau de Windsor. L. Knyffdel. I. Kip sculp. This view shows a good many of the old houses at Windsor about the year 1720. 332. A Plan of the Town and Castle of Windsor and Little Park, survey'd and drawn by W. Collier, 1742; the portion showing Heme's Oak from a varied impression of No. 324. 333. The East Prospect of Charlecote in War- wickshire, the Seat of the Reverend Win. Lucy, esq., 1722. H. Beighton delin. 1722. E. Kirkall sculp. 334. The monumental effigy and oval portrait of Shakespeare on a pedestal, the latter engraved by Vander Gucht. From Rowe's Life of Shakespeare, 1709. 335. The interior of Charlecote Hall, a sketch by Mrs. Dighton, 1835 ; the original from which the lithograph was taken. 336. Prospect of Windsor Castle and Towne from South S. West. Prospect of the same Castle from West South West. Prospect of it from West and by South. W. Hollar delin. et sculp. 337. The Shakespeare Cliff, Dover. A large etching by one M. S., 1820. 99 ;8. Ciuitatis Westmonasteriensis pars. W. Hollar fecit, 1647. 339. Vindesorivm celeberrimum Angliae castrum locus amoenissimus ; sedificia magnifica ; artificiosa Regum sepulchra, et illustris Garetteriorum equitum Societas memorabile reddunt. Depingebat Georgius Hoefnagle. Cum priuilegio. 1574. 340. The Old Stabling of the Three Pigeons, Brentford, " the inn frequented by Shakespeare and Ben Jonson." Drawn and etched by W. N. Wilkins, June, 1848. 341. The back of the grammar-school, Stratford- on-Avon, a large water-colour sketch taken by Blight in 1864. 342. A large and curious sepia drawing of Windsor Castle and part of the town, executed about the year 1640. 343. Windsor Castle. W. Hollar delineavit et sculpsit. This is a curious view, showing part of the ancient town in interesting detail. 344. Shakespeare's Tomb, a coloured lithograph from a sketch by Mrs. P. Dighton. Published at Stratford-on-Avon, 1835. 345. The College in Stratford-upon-Avon, in the county of Warwick, the seat of the Combe's, the Clopton's and the Keyte's, with their arms and quarterings. A large view copied, about the year 1810, from some older drawing. 346. Sala Regalis cum Curia Westmonasterii, vulgo Westminster Hall. W. Hollar fecit, 1647. 347. Prospect of Windsor Castle from the North. Christopher Wren delineavit, W. Hollar fecit, 1667. An interesting engraving, including detailed views of many of the old houses. IOO Vol. IV. 348. Two views of houses in the immediate neighbourhood of the Birth- Place, from photographs that were taken about the year 1854. — Interior of a room on the ground-floor of Anne Hathaway's Cottage, sketched by Blight in 1864. — The great hall at Charlecote in the state in which it was seen by Washington Irving, from a sketch by Fairholt. 340. Sketches taken by Blight in 1863 and 1864 of the Guild Chapel tower ; the Council-Chamber and Grammar-School ; a baby-chair at Mrs. James's said to have been formerly at the Birth-Place ; a cross at the west-end of Wixford-Church ; a pinnacle of the Guild Chapel then (1864) lying on the roof of the porch ; an old chimney at Wixford. 350. A Map of Barlichway Hundred, that in which Stratford-on-Avon is situated, reduced from an actual survey made, in the year 1725, by Henry Beighton. 351. Warwici Comitatus, a Cornauiis olim inhabi- tatus. Christophorus Saxton descripsitt, William Kip sculpsitt. — No roads shown. 352. Norden's original Plan of Middlesex, on a much larger scale and with numerous variations from the published engraving of 1593 (see No. 378) - This interesting survey was executed for Queen Elizabeth, Norden referring to "your Magesties howses" in the list of objects he has attached to the plan, and the Queen's arms being depicted in the left-hand corner. Norden was the first English surveyor who had any kind of pretension to scientific accuracy. His original manuscript plans are of great rarity, the present one of Middlesex and that of Essex, the latter in the possession of the Marquis of Salisbury at Hatfield, being the only ones known in private libraries. 353. The epitaph on the poet's widow, Anne lOI Shakespeare, 1623, a full-sized tracing made by William Butcher, jun., 1885. 354. Sketches taken by Blight in 1864 of an ancient window and gable at I slip, and of the manor-house at Wheatley, both in co. Oxon. 355. An Ichnography of the Borough of Strat- ford upon-Avon and the Village of Old Stratford, in the County of Warwick. A large original plan made by Jordan about the year 1780. 356. Charlecote Great Hall, a lithotint by F. W. Hulme from a sketch by J. G. Jackson. Published by Chapman and Hall, London, Septem- ber, 1845. 357. Middlesex olima Trinobantibvs habitata, Johannes Norden descripsit. From Camden, 1607. — No roads shown. 358. A view of Stratford Church and river. Drawn by P. Dewint. Engraved by W. Radclyffe, Birmingham, 1824. 359. A large plan of Oxford and a small view of the town, 1649. An engraving of foreign execution. 360. Bridge at Hampton Lucy. Drawn by P. Dewint. Engraved by W. Radclyffe, 1825. 361. A Map of Middlesex, described by Iohn Norden, augmented by I. Speed, sold by Henry Overton at the White Horse without Newgate, London. — The main roads shown. 362. The exterior of the Birth -Place and the interior of the Birth- Room, sketches made by Mrs. Dighton in 1834. The originals from which the published lithographs of the following year were taken. 363. The Ground Plott of Warwick. W. Hollar fecit, 1654. From Dugdale's Warwickshire, 1656. 102 364. Heme's Oak, Windsor Park. Published for S. Ireland in May, 1799. 365. The Mapp of Barlichway Hundred, that in which Stratford-on-Avon is situated. Ro. Vaughan sculp. From Dugdale, 1656. 366. A Ground- Plan of Stratford Church, in- cludinof that of the Charnel-house, with a scale of feet. Copied by Richard Greene, in the year 1765, from a drawing by S. Winter. The earliest known to exist. 367. A New Map, containing the Towns, Gen- tlemen's Houses, Villages, and other Remarks round London, as from London to Windsor, Ware, Chelmsford, the Hope, Tunbridge, Guildford, &c. Maed and sold by H. Moll in Vanly's Court in Blackfryers. A very elaborate map showing the main roads. Vol. V. 368. A large sketch in water-colours of Shake- speare's crab-tree and surrounding scenery. Believed to be a copy of an earlier view. 369. Two views of the crab-tree copied by Blight from rude originals that were taken about the year 18 10. In reference to the second of these views the late Mr. W. O. Hunt thus wrote in 1864, — "the above drawing of the tree is very like what I remember of it when I passed some fifty-five years ago to school." 370. Interior of the Church of the Holy Trinity, Stratford-on-Avon. Printed by M. & N. Hanhart. C. Graf, lith., London. Published by Edward Adams. A large view. 371. A tower and the exterior of adjoining rooms at Charlecote House, sketched by Blight in 1863. — A bird's-eye view of the mansion from an old io3 painting in the hall that was executed about the year 1685. 372. Large sketches by Blight, taken in 1864, of the bedroom adjoining Anne Hathaway's, and of the upper room of the cottage next the road. 2yJ2>- The South Side of Windsor Castle. Pros- pect of the Castle from the S.E. — Two long views by Hollar, c. 1670. The first of these views contains, I believe, the earliest representation of the Church at which Anne Page was married. 374. The Clyff of Dover from Sea. This and another engraved sketch of Hollar's, No. 595, are the earliest views of Shakespeare's Cliff known to exist. 375. The prospect of Warwick from Coventre Roade on the North-east part of the Towne. — The prospect of it from London road on the south side of the Towne. — From Dugdale, 1656. 376. A long narrow view of London from the Surrey side of the river below the bridge. Hollar, c. 1641. 377. The Mapp of Canterbury. From Somner's Antiquities of Canterbury, 164c. 378. Myddlesex. Iohannes Norden Angl. de- scripsit, 1593. This plan shows all the main roads. It is the diminutive published engraving, a larger and more elaborate original plan being in this collection, No. 352. 379. The Droeshout portrait engraved on wood by J. T. Blight. The first proof. 380. The Monumental Effigy of Shakespeare. F. W. Fairholt, del. et sc, 1852. On India-paper. 381. An engraved view of Rochester, c. 1760. 382. Shakespeare's Tomb. An uncoloured litho- graph from a drawing by Mrs. P. Dighton. Pub- lished at Stratford-on-Avon, 1835. 104 3S3. Vera effigies Ben Iohnsonii. Engraved by R. Vaughan, 1640. 384. Shakspeare. Engraved by T. A. Dean, after a drawing by A. Wivell, from the bust by Gerard Johnson, London. Published, 1827, by A. Wivell, Castle Street East. On large paper. 385. The second Sir Thomas Lucy, from a picture in the hall at Charlecote. A pencil copy by Blight from a pen-and-ink sketch by F. W. Fairholt. 386. The Monumental Effigy. G. Vertue sculp. 1725- 387. The Monumental Effigy, drawn by Mr. John Boaden from the Stratford Bust. Engraved by E. Scriven, 1825. 388. Shakespeare's Monument. Drawn by R. B. Wheler, Engraved by F. Eginton, Birmingham, 1806. 389. Mr. William Shakspeare his true Effigies, engraved by Wm. Ward, A.R.A., from a painting by Thos. Phillips, esq., R.A., after a cast by G. Bullock from the bust at Stratford-on-Avon, 1816. Vol. VI. 390. Effigies in the Clopton Chapel, Stratford-on- Avon. Two beautifully executed pencil drawings by J. T. Blight, 1864. 391. The Droeshout portrait of Shakespeare, 1623, on wood by Blight from the proof copy of that engraving. One of six impressions that were taken before the block was destroyed. 392. A large unfinished pencil sketch of the exterior of Stratford Church by J. T. Blight, and another, a finished one, taken by the same artist in 1 863 from the eastern side of the river. io5 393- A sketch of Chapel Lane showing the cottage on the site of Getley's (afterwards Shake- speare's) copyhold estate. A recent copy of an earlier view. 394. An engraved portrait of the Earl of Essex, who was beheaded in 1601, and who was one of the patrons of Shakespeare's company. From an original painting then preserved at Essex House. Published by Holland in 1620. 395. Campden House, near London. 1795. 396. An East View of the Collegiate Church of Stratford-upon-Avon. A South-East view of the Col. Church of Stratford. — These drawings were made in or before the year 1 763, and show the designs for a new steeple by Timothy Lightholder. They were, no doubt, although not so stated, made by Richard Greene in 1762. 397. Backs of old timber buildings in High Street, Stratford-on-Avon, the fronts of which have been modernized. A sketch taken by Blight, 29 July, 1863. 398. Articles called Shakespeare's Jug and Cane, pencil sketches of the originals in the possession of Mrs. Fletcher of Gloucester. 399. A water-colour sketch, by Blight, of an ancient carved oak court-cupboard, formerly in the house said to have belonged to the Ardens at Wilmecote. 400. The Royall Pallace and Town of Windsor. Published by Cox, 1720. 401. Shakespeare's Cliff, Dover, from a sketch taken in 1843. F. W. Fairholt, sc. 402. An engraved portrait of Frederick, Duke of Wirtemberg, the Duke de Jarmany of the Merry Wives of Windsor, published in Germany in 1602. io6 403. Exterior of Anne Hathaway's Cottage, an original sketch by Mrs. Dighton, 1835. 404. Two coloured views, taken by Blight in 1864, of the ancient cellar at the Crown Inn, Rochester. Interesting medieval work. This tavern has since been either pulled down or completely modernized. 405. View of the House at Wilmcotte where Robert Arden resided whose daughter Mary was married to John Shakespeare. An engraved copy of an original sketch by Jordan, one of six copies only that were taken before the wood-block was destroyed. 406. A view of Broom, co. Warwick, the " beggarly broom ' of the well-known verses. An original sketch by the Rev. Richard Jago, vicar of Snitterfield, c. 1778. 407. A water-colour drawing of Shakespeare's crab-tree, as it appeared about the year 1822. A recent copy. 408. Windsor Castle. A water-colour drawing made about the year 1780. Artist's name unknown. 409. Old cottage at Shottery. Blight, 1863. 410. The West View of Welcombe Hills, pub- lishd 1st. September, 1777, by S. Hooper, No. 25, Ludgate Hill. Some of the poet's land was situated on these hills. 411. A copy, in water-colour, of an oil painting, executed about the year 1690, of Windsor Castle, showing the houses by the river, and the entrance of the lane through which Falstaff was carried in the buck-basket. The large original painting, formerly in my possession, I gave many years ago to the Birth-Place Museum. 412. The font at which Shakespeare was baptized. An uncoloured lithograph from a drawing by Mrs. 107 P. Dighton. Published at Stratford-on-Avon in 413. Charlecote Hall, diavvn and etched by W. Rider. Published November 1st, 1827, by the artist and by J. Merridew, Leamington and War- wick. A proof. 414. Stratford Church, &c. Sam. Ireland del., 1792. This engraving shows also the river and the old mill. 415. The mark-signature and seal of George Whateley, 1579. One of six impressions only that were taken before the wood-block was destroyed. He was the bailiff of Stratford- on-Avon in the year of the poet's birth. 416. Ancient bridge over Brent Brook, near Hanwell, sketched by Blight in July, 1864. 417. Windsor Castle and Little Park. The royal carriage and attendants in the foreground. W. Hollar fecit, 1644. 418. Richmond Palace. M. Van de Gucht sculp. 419. Heme's Oak. T. Thornton del. Medland sculpsit. Published in June, 1792, by E. Harding. 420. " A View of Heme's Oak in the Little Park " at Windsor," with part of Oueen Elizabeth's Walk. This original sketch, made by Hayman Rooke, an accurate topographer, about the year 1770, is the most interesting early drawing of the oak known to exist. 421. The porch and tower of the Guild Chapel, with part of the Falcon Tavern. John Johnson, F.S.A., del. A. Newman lith. Day & Son, litho- graphers to the Queen. 422. The ancient carved porch and gateway at the Crown Inn, Rochester, sketched by Blight in 1863. Now pulled down. io8 423. The old bridge at Islip, co. Oxon. A pencil sketch by Blight, 1864. Vol. VII. 424. Sketches taken by Blight in 1863 of the ancient register-book of Stratford-on-Avon, showing the old binding and the clasps ; and of an ancient Bible preserved in the Church. 425. Heme's Oak, 1788. A. E. H. pinxit. G. E. H. fecit. An etching. 426. Borealis Prospectus Ecclesise Stratfordiae Super Avon in Comitatu Warwicenci. J. Gwin sc. Viro Reverendo Josepho Greene, Regise Scholae in Stratfordia Moderatori, humillime inscribitur. c. 1740. This is the earliest engraved view of the Church known to exist. 427. Sketches taken by Blight in 1864 of objects in Stratford Church, — an effigy in the Clopton Chapel ; the old font ; a doorway south side of the chancel. 428. A sketch from the sedilia in the Stratford Museum, formerly in the Chapel of St. Thomas in Stratford Church. 429. An exceedingly curious termination of the hood- moulding of a window on the north side of the chancel of Stratford Church, sketched by Blight in the year 1866. 430. An outline sketch by Blight, 1863, of part of the tower staircase in Stratford Church. 431. The entrance to Stratford Churchyard, showing the wooden bars on the ground to keep pigs from entering. A copy of an original sketch in the Saunders collection. 432. Original sketches taken by Blight, in 1863, of objects in the interior and on the exterior of log Stratford Church, — a boss in the centre of the roof of the porch ; the second and third windows east of porch in the north aisle ; mouldings in the tower and south aisle. 433. A stone over the south window of transept in Stratford Church, and remains of mosaic pave- ment on the altar steps, copied from drawings by R. B. Wheler. 434. Original sketches, taken by Blight in 1863 and 1866, of objects in the interior and on the exterior of Stratford Church, — carvings on the canopies of sedilia in the Chapel of St. Thomas ; tower window and turret, with a separate sketch of the roof of the latter ; turret of staircase ; parapet and gargoyle west of porch ; hoodmould terminations of doorway leading from the chancel to the charnel- house ; south window in tower ; belfry doorway and window ; the vicar's stall ; windows in the north aisle, north transept, and south aisle. 435. A view of the Church and village of Hilling- don, sketched by Blight in 1864. This village is on the old road between Stratford-on- Avon and London. 436. An outline sketch by Blight of the south door in the south aisle of Stratford Church. 437. A very perfect specimen of a small timbered building of the sixteenth century at Little Alne, co. Warwick, a place where some of the poet's connexions once resided. Sketched by Blight in August, 1863. Vol. VIII. 438. Cantvarbvry. Cantvaria, vrbs fertilis simae Angliae Celebris, Archiepiscopati sede, commendata. A curious plan of Canterbury, with part of the road to London, published by Braun in 1574. T IO 439. Sketches by Blight, taken in 1864, of objects in Stratford Church, — the tower window and set-off of stage ; the base of the tower arches ; four of the quaint and interesting carvings on the miserere stalls. 440. Prospects of Dover and Banbury, 1724. Stukeley delin. Toms et E. Kirkall sculp. 441. The Bridge and part of Bridge Street, Stratford-on-Avon. Drawn by R. B. Wheler. Engraved by F. Eginton, Birmingham. Published in May, 1806. 442. The Stratford Jubilee. Ireland, 1795. 443. Heme's Oak, 1788. A lithographic copy, published in 1820 by T. N. 444. The North Prospect of Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon. R. Hickes fecit, 1737. A recent copy of an old drawing. 445. The left-hand cover of the old Register Book of Stratford-on-Avon ; a copy of a sketch by Fairholt. 446. Sedilia in Stratford Church, a pencil sketch by Blight taken in 1863. 447. The Church at Barton-on-the-Heath, a sketch taken by Blight on the 6th of October, 1864. This place was the residence of the Lamberts, who were relatives of the poet. 448. Original sketches, taken by Blight in 1864, illustrative of Shakespeare's journeys between Strat- ford and London, viz., Tetsworth, West Wickham, the Crown Inn passage at Oxford, Stokenchurch, and the Three Pigeons. 449. A sketch taken by Blight in 1865 of a mermaid, from a miserere stall now in the Stratford Museum. It is said to have come from the Guild Chapel, but no good authority has been given for the statement. 1 1 1 450. The Church. Drawn by R. B. Wheler. Engraved by F. Eginton, Birmingham. Published in May, 1806. 451. Sketches by Blight of objects at the Crown Inn, Oxford; the manor-house, Wheatley; Islip and Adderbury. 452. A large recumbent effigy in the Clopton Chapel, Stratford-on-Avon, sketched by Blight in the year 1864. 453. The upper part of an old pulpit formerly in Stratford Church. From an old painting made before the alterations of 1836. 454. A large recumbent figure in the Clopton Chapel ; Blight, 1864. — The old pulpit, from the painting in the Church. 455. Sketches taken by Blight in 1864 of the exterior of the Birth-Place, and a view of the interior from the portrait-room looking towards the attic stairs. 456. Recumbent effigies of a gentleman and his wife, sketched by Blight from the originals in the Clopton Chapel, Stratford-on-Avon. 457. A recent copy of a view of Shakespeare's Crab-tree taken by C. F. Green in 1823. 458. Church Street, Oxford. A sketch, 1864. 459. A sketch of the roof of the nave of Stratford Church looking towards the tower. From a painting executed before the alterations of 1836. Vol. IX. 460. The ancient bridge at Wixford, a copy of a sketch taken about the year 18 10. 461. Curious old timbered houses in Bridge Lane, Warwick, one bearing the date of 1568. A sketch by F. W. Fairholt taken in 1847. 1 1 12 462. Sketches, taken by Blight in 1864, of localities illustrative of the journeys of Shakespeare, viz., Postcombe, Wheatley, and Burmington. 463. The George Inn, Uxbridge, a copy made in 1864 from an older sketch. 464. Sketches taken by Blight in 1864 of Per- shore Bridge ; a street in Acton ; Steeple Aston Church from Hopcrofts Holt; an ancient stone fire- place in the Crown Inn at Oxford ; old house at Deddington ; the back of the Rein-deer Inn at Banbury. 465. Windsor Castle and part of the town, pub- lished by Cox, 1720. This view shows the river, and differs altogether from No. 400. 466. The effigies of William Clopton, esquier, and Anne his wiffe, daughter of Sir George Griffith, knight, 1592 and 1596. Dugdale, 1656. 467. Sketches taken by Blight in 1863 at Temple Grafton, Marston, and Barton. 468. West side of tomb in the south aisle, Strat- ford Church, a sketch by Blight, 1863. — The charnel-house, from a drawing by Wheler. 469. Sketches, taken by Blight in 1863, of objects in Stratford Church, — figures from the old roofs of the transepts ; the canopy of a sedile ; string-course under the windows in the north transept ; a bit from the east side of the south transept ; the belfry of the tower ; exterior of the upper part of the tower ; wooden string-courses in the nave ; corbels in the south side of chancel. 470. Sketches taken by Blight in t 865, one of Stratton Audley and two of Grendon Underwood. 471. "A view of the publick house at Wilmcotte, where Robert Arden esq. lived, whose daughter H3 Mary was married to John Shakespere," copy of a sketch by Jordan. Vol. X. 472. Sketches by Blight of the curious ancient misereres in Stratford Church ; the back of the Falcon Inn at Bidford ; and of a very old house near the Three Pigeons at Brentford. 473. An old wooden bridge that was formerly between Windsor and Eton, a copy made in 1863 from an early painting in the possession of Mr. G. Tuck of Windsor. 474. Old timbered house near Datchet, 1863. 475. Original sketches, taken by Blight in 1863, 1864, and 1865, illustrative of Shakespeare's journeys, viz., Warwick, Wixford, Marston, Eton, Bidford, Pebworth, Beaconsfield, Temple Grafton, Waddes- don, Pershore, and Grendon Underwood. 476. Elizabethan Gateway, St. Alban's, 1867. 477. Three sketches by Blight of objects in Stratford Church, one being the Chancel doorway leading to the Charnel House, taken in 1863. 478. Elizabethan house at Rochester, 1863. 479. Old timbered house at Tetsworth, 1864. 480. Shakespeare's Crab-tree, a woodcut from Ireland's Picturesque Views on the Avon, 1795. 481. A curious example of mosaic pavement on the altar steps of Stratford Church, from a drawing by R. B. Wheler. 482. Sketches taken by Blight in 1863 of a cornice in the south aisle of Stratford Church ; window in the cellar of the Crown Inn, Rochester; and the entrance to Stratford Church. 483. The ancient stocks at Windsor Castle, a sketch taken by Fairholt in 1847. 1 2 ii4 4S4. Four elaborate water-colour drawings by J. C. Buckler, 1823, two of the exterior and two of the interior of Stratford Church. 485. Three interesting etchings of Dover and its castle. W. Hollar, 1643. 486. The roof of the nave of Stratford Church, looking east, as it appeared before the alterations of 1836, from the oil painting preserved at New Place. 487. Sketches by Blight in 1865 and 1866 of a wood carving in the Stratford Museum, said to have been originally placed either in the Church or in the Guild Chapel, and of the canopy of a sedile in the Chapel of St. Thomas, Stratford Church. Vol. XL 488. A large general view of Stratford-on-Avon taken by Blight in August, 1863, from the Hill, and an unfinished sketch of the Wier Brake taken in 1864. 489. View of the Clopton Bridge, the river, and the lower part of Bridge Street, from a painting of the last century. 490. A view of the ancient mill-bridge, the ait, and the river up to the Wier Brake, taken by Blight from the uttermost room of the mill. 491. Birth-Place sketches taken by Blight in 1864, — part of the front exterior; under the stairs of the record-room ; the upper room of the same ; the butcher's shop. 492. The back of Mr. Hunt's house in Church Street, as it is believed to have been when possessed by the Cloptons. A conjectural resuscitation, but founded on an examina- tion of the remains of the ancient timber-work. 493. Sketches by Blight, 1863 and 1864, of the 1 1 end of the Birth-Place ; the mill-bridge ; the panelling in the attic at the Birth-Place. 494. The shop at the Birth-Place, an interior looking to street, from a sketch by Fairholt. — The bacon cupboard at Anne Hathaway's Cottage, 1697, sketched by Blight in 1864. — The shop at the Birth-Place, an interior looking towards kitchen, from the sketch made by Fairholt for his Home of Shakespere. 495. Four views of the mill-bridge at Stratford, taken by Blight from different positions in 1864. 496. Sketches taken by Blight in 1 863 and 1864 of the interior of Anne Hathaway's Cottage ; a grate in the possession of Mrs. James, brought from the Birth-Place ; Elizabethan houses at Henley-in- Arden. 497. An elaborate view of the front exterior of Charlecote House, taken about the year 1762, and believed to be the work of one Rogers, a Birmingham drawing-master. 498. Sketches taken by Blight in 1S63 and 1864 of a room on the right-hand of the entrance to Anne Hathaway's Cottage ; the room behind the shop at the Birth-Place ; the entrance to the chimney in the room in that building now used for the Museum ; the interior of the old panelled room at Abington Abbey, the residence of Shakespeare's grand- daughter. Old Settle at Anne Hathaway's Cottage, from a sketch by F. W. Fairholt. Vol. XII. 499. The Market - Cross, with the timbered corners of Wood Street and Henley Street, Strat- ford-on-Avon, from a drawing by C. F. Green, 182 1. — The interior of the College Hall, Stratford-on- n6 Avon, copied from a drawing made by Jordan about the year 1 790. 500. The tomb of Sir Thomas Lucy in Charlecote Church, an elaborate sketch made by Blight in the year 1863. 501. The Shakespeare Inn, Shottery, in its old timbered state, a copy of a sketch made by Fairholt in 1847. 502. The Elizabethan carved oak bedstead at Anne Hathaway's Cottage, and the Birth-Place Museum, sketches taken by Blight in 1863. 503. Henley in-Arden. Blight, 1864. 504. The Grammar-School, Stratford-on-Avon. Five sketches, consisting of two original ones by Blight, 1864, and three others copied by him from drawings by Fairholt. 505. Six large sketches taken by Blight in 1864, of portions of the Birth-Place,— the .birth-room ; the attic staircase ; the room on the ground-floor next the garden ; the exterior from the garden ; the apartment over the record-room, and decayed timber showing old mortices. 506. A general view of Stratford-on Avon showing the Bancroft, a copy of a drawing made by R. B. Wheler about the year 1 800. 507. Four large sketches, taken by Blight in 1864, of portions of the Birth-Place, — the exterior from the east of garden ; the attic ; the butcher's shop, and the museum. 508. Five large sketches taken by Blight in 1863 and 1864 of, — the mill-bridge; the upper room of the Swan and Maidenhead, now the museum ; the interior of the school-room ; another view of the upper room of the museum ; a water-colour drawing of the attic at the Birth-Place. 509. Whitehall and Lambeth. Hollar, c. 1650. ii7 5io. The Birth-Room, from a sketch taken by Fairholt, 29 August, 1839. 511. The cottage at Anne Hathaway's at the end furthest from the road, a sketch by Blight, 1864, showing the dairy doorway and the lower part of an old cheese-press serving as a flag-stone. Vol. XIII. 512. Sketches by Blight, taken in 1864, of the bass-relief of David and Goliah formerly at the Birth- Place; the Elizabethan house in the High Street, Stratford. 513. A south-west view of the collegiate Church, Stratford-on-Avon, R. Greene del. 1762. One of the earliest drawings of the Church known to exist. 514. Exterior of Stratford Church, a large pencil sketch taken about the year 1830. 515. A large coloured sketch by Blight, taken in 1864, of one of the attics in Anne Hathaway's Cottage. 516. A water-colour drawing of the Clopton Bridge, Stratford-on-Avon, by Rogers, a Birming- ham schoolmaster, c. 1762. 517. Five large engraved views of the old St. Paul's Cathedral, two of the exterior and three of the interior. Wenceslaus Hollar delineavit et sculpsit, 1656, 1658. 518. Sketches by Blight of the lower stairs at the Birth- Place leading to the birth-room, with portions of the adjoining walls ; the interior of the Hall of the Middle Temple, where Twelfth Night was performed in the year 1602 ; the old gateway, Charlecote. 519. Bearley Church, from a drawing c. 18 10. 520. An elaborate coloured view of the screen n8 and roof of the Hall in the Middle Temple, exe- cuted by Blight in 1867. — A cornice of figure heads in the Elizabethan house in the High Street, Stratford-on-Avon, sketched by the same artist in 1864. 521. A copy of an old sketch in water-colours formerly preserved in the Daniel library, and de- scribed as an " original drawing of the Stratford Jubilee, 1769," but it is evidently of a later date, executed probably about the year 1800. 522. Sketches taken by Blight in 1864 of a lock brought from the Birth-Place and then in the pos- session of Mrs. James ; of the portrait-room at the Birth-Place and the little room on the ground- iloor near the garden. 523. A sketch of a box of crab-tree wood which appears to have belonged to one John Jordan of Stratford-on-Avon in 1646. It has been suspected that the inscriptions to that effect were forged by his namesake of the last century. There was, however, a John Jordan living at Stratford about the time above-mentioned, as appears from a document in the Court of Record Papers, iv. 253. 524. A sketch by Blight, 1864, of a bridge on the road between Hillingdon and Uxbridge, the arches of which are of great antiquity. This bridge would have been passed over by Shakespeare in his journeys between London and Stratford. 525. Two views of the exterior of the back of the Birth-Place, copied from photographs that were taken previously to its restoration. 526. Sketches taken by Blight in 1864 of the birth-room and the record-room ; portions of a bedstead said to have been brought from the Birth-Place ; the little niche opposite the portrait- room ; a carved desk at Mrs. James's, said to have been formerly in the Birth-Place ; the large desk ii9 absurdly stated to be the one that was used by Shakespeare at school ; two large views of the attic at the Birth-Place. Vol. XIV. 527. A long view of London, showing the Globe and other old theatres, with views of the exterior and interior of St. Paul's Cathedral. D. King delin. et excudit, anno 1658. This engraving is evidently based on some unknown copies of earlier drawings. 528. A large water-colour drawing of old houses in the Mill Lane, Stratford-on-Avon, executed about the year 1820. 529. Braun's plan of London, 1574. Coloured. One of the very rare impressions from the plate in its first state, before the Royal Exchange was introduced. 530. Birth-Place illustrations, — its elevation as restored ; plan before the restoration, showing the timbers of the original first floor ; a full-sized plan of the ancient wrought-iron fastening to the birth- room window ; a ground-plan taken shortly before the restoration ; a copy of a view of the exterior, taken by John Sharp, c. 1790. 531. A Map or Ground Plot of the Citty of London and the Suburbes thereof, that is to say, all which is within the Jurisdiction of the Lord Mayor or properlie calldt London, by which is exactly demonstrated the present condition thereof since the last sad accident of fire, the blanke space signifeing the burnt part, and where the houses are exprest, those places yet standing. Sould by Iohn Overton at the White Horse in Little Brit- taine, 1666. 532. A long view of London engraved abroad 1 20 in the year 1649, with forty-three references to numbers. The Swan, the Bear Garden, and the Globe Theatre are in the foreground. This engraving is frequently assigned to Hollar, but the Guildhall copy is ascribed in manuscript to Matthew Merian. 533. A View of London from Howel's Londin- opolis, 1657, with forty-six references to numbers. It is a copy of some earlier drawing, the Globe and other theatres being shown. — " London, the glory of Great Britaines ile, — Behold her landschip here, and tru pourfile." 534. Exterior of the Middle-Temple Hall, 1720. 535. The Prospect of Kenilworth Castle from the old parke ; the prospect thereof upon the road from Coventrie ; the prospect thereof upon Bull-hill neere the road from Colshill towards Warwick. Dugdale, 1656. 536. Bidford Bridge, from a sketch taken about the year 18 10. 537. The wooden cornice of the lower room (now destroyed) of the Crown Inn, Rochester, a sketch by Blight, 1864. The woodwork is of a very heavy character. 538. Three sketches by Blight, one taken at Barton-on-the- Heath in 1864, and two at Wixford in 1863. 539. London and Westminster, two plans ; Ioannes Norden Anglus descripsit, 1593. The first of these plans shows the Rose Theatre, the only regular one then on the south of the Thames, and that in which Shakespeare's earliest dramas were produced. It gives a more accurate idea than any other of the metropolis as it existed in the poet's time. 540. Later copies, "augmented" by Speed, 1610, of the two last views, that of London showing two theatres in Southwark. 1 2 1 Vol. XV. 54 i . The Visit of the Queen of Sheba to Solomon, and the victory of Constantine over Mexentius ; Fisher's original coloured copies of paintings in the chancel of the Guild Chapel. 542. The Invention of the Holy Cross, two paintings on the north side of the Chancel of the Guild Chapel. Fisher del. 543. The Combat of Heraclius with the son of Cosdroy, King of Persia, and the decapitation ol Cosdroy by Heraclius, Paintings discovered on the north side of the Chancel of the Guild Chapel. Fisher del. 544. The painting of St. George and the Dragon on the west wall of the nave of the Guild Chapel, north of the entrance. Fisher del. 545. The Judgment of the Whore of Babylon, a painting on the west wall of the nave of the Guild Chapel, north of the entrance and below St. George and the Dragon. Fisher del. 546. Figures on the porch; arms on the spandrils of the north door, and carved work on the spandrils of the south door, both of the latter within the Church. Original drawings by Fisher, 1804. These do not appear to have been engraved. 547. Exterior of Anne Hathaway's Cottage, a small flock of sheep and a dog in the foreground. C. Graf lith., London. Published by F. and E. Ward, 185 1. Taken from a drawing made by an Edinburgh artist in 1850. This plate was re- published by Adams as " printed by M. and N. Hanhart." 548. A view of the Birth-Place, c. 1835. Drawn, printed and published by G. Rowe, Cheltenham. 549. Shakespeare's Birth- Room, from a sketch by E. T. Parris, 1864. 12 2 550. Interior Views of Grammar School-rooms in which Shakespeare was educated ; also the Guild Room and the Council Chamber ; from original sketches by H. B. Clements. 551. Exterior of the Birth-Place. C. Graf. lith. Published by F. and E. Ward. When the Wards issued this engraving in 185 1, it was expressly stated to have been taken from an original drawing. 552. A large view of the exterior of the Birth- Place, "engraved by Alfred Baker, aged 13 years, from a sketch taken in 1804." 553. The South Prospect of the Church of St. Saviour in Southwark. R. West delin., 1737. W. H. Toms sculp. Published in March, 1739. Vol. XVI. 554. Stratford Church, the River and the Mill Bridge, copies of paintings executed about the year 1 7 10. 555. A View of London, taken in or before the year 161 3, showing the old Globe Theatre. Pub- lished by Holland in 1620. 556. The House in which Shakespeare was born. An uncoloured lithograph from a drawing by Mrs. P. Dighton, published at Stratford-on-Avon in i8 3 5- 557. A plan of commercial designs on the eastern side of the river at Stratford-on-Avon, as projected by Andrew Yarranton, 1677. 558. Exterior of Anne Hathaway's Cottage, an uncoloured lithograph from a drawing by Mrs. P. Dighton, 1835. 559. The exterior of the Birth-Place. Two joints of meat hanging under the shop pentice, and one on the outer board; post on extreme right-hand corner; 123 a little more than half of the western cottage shown. A lithograph c. 1830. 560. A coloured facsimile of Norden's plan of Windsor and the Little Park, 1607. 561. The Birth-Place, drawn from nature, and on stone, by J. Brandard. Day and Haghe, litho- graphers to the Queen. Published by C. Elston, Leamington. 562. Shakespeare's Desk at Stratford on-Avon, "still to be seen in the Grammar School where he received his education." An uncoloured lithograph from a drawing by Mrs. P. Dighton, published in 1835. 563. A plan of Norwich, xvii. Cent. 564. The inn yard, Rochester, and Shakespeare's Cliff, sketches taken by Fairholt about the year 1847. 565. Two sketches, taken by Blight in 1863 and 1864, one of the exterior of Stratford Church from Mr. W. O. Hunt's river-garden ; the other of ancient houses and the Church at Beaconsfield. 566. The back of Charlecote Hall. Drawn from nature and on stone by J. Brandard. Leamington, published by C. Elston. 567. Middle Row and Bridge Street, c. 1835 ; a copy by Blight of a drawing by the late Mrs. E. F. Flower, an interesting sketch exhibiting details nowhere else to be found. 568. The kitchen in Anne Hathaway's Cottage, a copy of a sketch taken by Fairholt about the year 1847. 569. Sketches by Blight of an ancient passage in Windsor Street, Stratford-on-Avon, 1864, and of the pulpit in Alderminster Church, said to have been brought from Stratford, and to have been the one I2 4 presented to the latter town by the poet's son-in-law, John Hall. 570. Exterior of the Birth-Place before the restoration. W. L. Walton, 1861. M. and N. Hanhart, lith. 571. The room in which Shakespeare was born. J. Brandard lith. Sold only at the Shakespeare House. A reduced copy of No. 717. 572. The Sword of State anciently borne before the Mayor of Stratford-on-Avon. Blight, 1864. 573. Exterior of the Birth-Place. A coloured lithograph showing the whole of the Swan and Maidenhead, and the cottages on the left. A gentleman and lady in the foreground opposite the Birth-Place, the former pointing it out with his stick to the latter. 574. Exterior of the Birth-Place. A large un- finished etching, c. 18 10, showing the Swan and Maidenhead before that inn was refronted. A man leading a horse, a dog preceding him, in the foreground. Very rare, if not unique. 575. A View of the Birth-Place and Henley Street, from a photograph taken shortly before the restoration, and soon after the buildings adjoining the Birth-Place had been removed. 576. The Church at Billesley, a copy of an original sketch taken about the year 1810. 577. The back of the Birth-Place, a small portion of the west of that building with the adjoining cottages in Henley Street, and two views of the exterior, all being copies of original photographs taken shortly before the restoration. 578. The Mill-Bridge, Stratford-on-Avon, and the Cross-on-the-Hill, a sketch by Blight taken in August, 1864. 125 579- A Prospect of Warwick, July 7th, 1725. Stukeley del. Vol. XVII. 580. A plan of Stratford-on-Avon by Samuel Winter, 1759. The date, which is not annexed, is ascertained by the following note in the Joseph Greene manuscripts, the houses-number corresponding, — "in the year 1759 a careful " survey of the town was taken, and an exact plan of the " same delineated ; when the number of houses therein was " found to be 552." This is the earliest complete plan of the town known to exist, and as the site of New Place is marked as a house, it must have been made early in the above-mentioned year, that in which the mansion was pulled down by Gastrell. A later plan by the same surveyor, with a larger display of houses, preserved in the Stratford Museum, was probably taken about the year 1768. 581. Sketches taken by Blight, 1863 to 1865, of the back of the Birth- Place ; objects in the north transept of Stratford Church and the west window of the same edifice ; the old font, Charlecote ; a recess in the south wall of the nave near the chancel arch of the Guild Chapel ; base mouldings, tower arch of the same Chapel ; backs of old houses in the High Street, Stratford-on-Avon ; the White Swan tavern in the Rother Market ; a loop in the wall adjoining the moat of Shottery manor-house ; a handle, a scutcheon of wood and a catch for a latch, from the refuse of the Birth-Place. 582. Interior of Gray's Inn Hall, 1804. The Comedy of Errors was performed in this Hall in the year 1594. 583. An unlikeness of Shakespeare in an engraved miniature ; Gay wood fecit, 1655. As Wivell correctly observes, " the scarcity alone makes " it valuable." 126 584. Exterior of the Birth- Place, c. 1849. A copy. 585. A sketch by Blight, 1S63, of a portion of the tower arch, Guild Chapel. 586. Mortlake Church, J. Peak sc. Shake- speare's company were at this village in 1603. 587. Ancient door of the Church of Weston-on- Avon, a sketch by Fairholt, 1846. 588. A south-east view of Bishopton Chapel in the parish of Old Stratford, an original drawing in sepia by Richard Greene, c. 1762. 589. Charlecote Church, a sketch by J. J. Jackson, 1845. 590. Baynard's Castle, from a view of Old London painted by Claude de Jongh in 1650. 591. Exterior of the charnel-house, Stratford-on- Avon, from a drawing made by R. B. Wheler, c. 1 8 10. — The Golden Lion and White Lion Inns Stratford-on-Avon, from sketches taken about the year 1820. 592. The Church of Atherston-upon-Stour, near Stratford-on-Avon, an original drawing by Richard Greene, c. 1762. 593. A view of London from Tootehill Fields. Hollar, 1 64 1. 594. Sketches by Blight, 1864, of two pieces of old wood found amongst the refuse of the Birth- place, and a hood-mould termination, square light, north side of tower, Guild Chapel. 595. The Clyff of Dover, W. Hollar fecit. This and No. 374 are the earliest known views of Shake- speare's Cliff. 596. Sketches by Blight, 1864, of pieces of old timber found among the refuse of the Birth-Place ; the exterior of Stratford Church ; and the front of I 2' a grate that was formerly in the attic of the Birth- place. 597. The pinnacles of the Guild Chapel, a recent copy of a sketch taken by Wheler. 598. Sketches by Blight, 1864, of a portion of a grate that was formerly in the attic at the Birth- place, and the spandril of an arch over the doorway of the Guild Chapel. 599. The font and piscina at Bishopton Chapel, from a drawing made by R. B. Wheler. — Weston- on-Avon Church, a sketch by Fairholt, 1846. 600. Exterior of the Birth- Place, drawn and engraved by J. Storer, 18 18. Perhaps the earliest engraving in which the Swan and Maidenhead is shown with the modern brick front. 601. The House at Stratford in which Shake- speare lived. A. Smith, sculp. London, printed for J. Bell, 1786. A copy of Greene's view. 602. A south-west view of Alveston Church, near Stratford-on-Avon, an original drawing by Richard Greene, c. 1762. 603. A minute sketch of an old theatre in the engraved title-page of the Tragedy of Messalina by N. Richards, 1640. 604. A piece of carved wood in the Birth- Place Museum, said to have been formerly part of a doorway at the Guild Chapel. A sketch by Blight, 1865. 605. An east prospect of the College in Stratford, 1765- The earliest view of this building known to exist. 606. Sketches by Blight, 1863 and 1867, of an ancient carved figure on the top of a pillar at the Crown Inn, Rochester, and of the silver paten at K 128 Bishopton Chapel, the circular enclosure of the date, 1 57 1, being the exact size of the original. 607. The Mill-Bridge, Stratford on-Avon, when in process of demolition, from a photograph taken in the year 1867. 608. Shakespeare's Birth-Place as it appeared previous to 1769, published by Henry Merridew, Coventry. 609. Stratford Church, exterior. C. F. Green lithog., c. 1820. 610. Charlecote House, the river front. Drawn by J. Roe. Engraved by J. and H. S. Storer. Published by Sherwood & Co., 1823. The late R. B. Wheler, in a letter dated in the same year, bears testimony to the accuracy of this view, observing, at the same time, that Ireland's sketch " from " nearly the same point is rather incorrect." 611. A house in High Street, Stratford-on-Avon, 1829, a pen-and-ink drawing by Captain Saunders. — Henley Street, a copy of a sketch by the same. The latter shows the corner of the old timbered workhouse. 612. A sketch, taken by Blight in 1867, of the silver chalice in Bishopton Church. It measures 5-g- inches in height. — The ancient silver paten in the Church of Clifford-Chambers, near Stratford-on- Avon. 613. Shakespeare's House as it appeared in 1787. — Shakespeare's House as it now appears, 1837. Woodcuts from the Casket of April the 23rd, 1837. 614. The House in which Shakespeare was born. J. Archer del., W. Finden sc. 615. Exterior of the Birth-Place. An engraving of the house and inn as they appeared about the year 18 10. Foultry and a fat child in the foreground. The letter S I 29 seen in a compartment over the window of the butcher's shop. A different view from that in the Mirror, 1823, in which the S is also found in the same place, but is less conspicuously exhibited. 616. An ancient door in the house in the Old Town which is believed to have been the residence of John Hall, the poet's son-in-law. Sketched by Blight, 1864. 617. North-west view of Stratford College, an engraving, April, 1S68. 618. A diminutive map of Warwickshire, 1643. 619. An oval view of Stratford-on-Avon, c. 1720, a pencil drawing taken from an old painting. 620. Moll Cutpurse. " Mistress Mall's picture," Twelfth Night, i. 3. The extremely rare original engraving, not the reprint, from the Life and Death of Mrs. Mary Frith, commonly called Mall Cutpurse, 1662. This notorious character was born in 1584 and died in 1659. 621. Charlecote Church, a copy from Saunders. 622. Old timbered house in the Rother Market. Blight, 1864. 623. A piece of wood-carving in the Birth-Place Museum, said to have been formerly in the College. Sketched by Blight in 1865, it having been then in the possession of Miss Wheler. 624. Shakespeare's Birth-Place, exterior. T. G. Flowers, Edinburgh. 625. Houses in Henley Street, Stratford-on- Avon, including the Birth-Place. W. Alexander del. 1820. 626. A sketch by Blight, 1865, of a scroll of stone- work in the Clopton Chapel, Stratford Church. 627. A small view of the Birth-Place, copied from Saunders' illustrations to Washington Irving's paper on Stratford-on-Avon. k 2 628. Figures from the Guild Chapel, sketches copied by Blight from drawings by R. B. Wheler. 629. A curious little view of an old English theatre in the engraved title-page of the tragedy of Roxana, 1632. 630. Figures formerly at Stratford College, copies by Blight from drawings by R. B. Wheler. 631. The Birth-room. T. G. Flowers, Edin- burgh. 632. The Market-cross, from a drawing by Saunders. 633. Daisy Hill, a farm-house in which Shake- speare is mendaciously said to have been imprisoned. Ireland, 1795. 634. Two engraved views of the exterior of the Birth-Place, the first from the Mirror of January, 1823, the other from the Monthly Magazine of February, 1818. Vol. XVIII. 635. Charlecote Vicarage, an old timbered house, drawn by P. Dewint, engraved by W. Radclyffe. Birmingham, 1823. 636. The back of Anne Hathaway's Cottage, from a sketch taken by Fairholt in 1847. 637. The Birth-Place, 1847. W. J. Linton sc. 638. Alveston Church and old timbered house, 1837, sketched from nature and on stone by Mrs. Bracebridge. Day and Haghe, lithographers to the King. These are in the immediate neighbourhood of Stratford-on-Avon. 639. Anne Hathaway's Cottage, from a sketch taken by Fairholt in 1847. — Another view, C. F. Green del., c. 1820, i3i 640. Charlecote Park, drawn and engraved by T. Radclyffe, 1829. — The Keeper's Lodge, Ful- broke Park, drawn and etched by W. Rider, 1827 ; a proof. 641. Interior of the Middle Temple Hall, pub- lished by Vernor and Hood, 1S04. 642. Copies by Blight of sketches of the interior of Aston Cantlowe Church, the so-called Arden house at Wilmecote and Bishopton Chapel. 643. A series of sketches by Blight of objects at Wilmecote (including two interiors of the Arden house), Hampton Lucy, the Dingles, Snitterfield, Bearley and Aston Cantlowe. 644. Interior of the College Hall, from a drawing by R. B. Wheler ; interior of Aston Cantlowe Church, a sketch by Blight, 1863. 645. Window, finial, and crocket in the Guild Chapel, original sketches by Blight. 646. The Birth-Place as it appeared at one of the jubilees, and a small portion of an Elizabethan house in Henley Street, from drawings by Captain Saunders. 647. Original sketches by Blight of panelling with moulded wood found amongst the refuse from the attic at the Birth-Place ; interior perforated work of an ancient dove-cote at Wilmecote ; end of an old timbered building at the same place ; grotesque carved heads in the Guild Chapel ; old timbered house near the Grammar School, 1862 ; ancient deed-boxes in the record-room ; arms on the Strat- ford-on-Avon maces ; distemper paintings in the gable over the Council Chamber, 1863. 648. Old house at the bottom of Church Street, from a drawing by Captain Saunders. 649. Original sketches by Blight of pieces of old timber taken from the Birth-Place ; the stocks at 132 Stratford-on-Avon, 1864 ; interior of the old Council- Chamber, 1863. 650. Corner of old house near the Town Hall, from a sketch by Captain Saunders. 651. Original sketches by Blight of an old timbered house at Shottery ; the Old Thatched tavern at the corner of Greenhill Street and the Rother Market, Stratford-on-Avon ; passage leading out of Henley Street ; ancient house at Wilmecote ; old house in Meer Street, Stratford-on-Avon ; a cottage at Wilmecote ; old houses in Ely Street and Church Street, Stratford-on-Avon ; rustic cottage at Wilmecote ; the back of the Grammar- School, and the upper room of the schoolmaster's house, Stratford-on-Avon ; a hood-mould termina- tion and other objects at the Guild Chapel ; old house in Henley Street, near the Market Cross ; a panel and door found amongst the refuse taken from the Birth- Place. 652. Exterior of the Birth-Place, 1848, a copy by Blight of a sketch by F. Goodall, R. A. 653. A view of Aston Cantlowe, taken by Blight in 1863. 654. An original drawing of the exterior of the Birth-Place, executed by Richard Greene about the year 1762. It is the earliest representation of the house known to exist. 655. Charlecote and Daisy Hill, copies by Blight of sketches by Captain Saunders. 656. Original sketches, taken by Blight in 1864, of two figures in the 1596 house in High Street, Stratford-on-Avon ; the doorway south side of nave, Guild Chapel ; the monumental tablet erected to the memory of George and Esther Hart, 1696. U3 Vol. XIX. 657. Two sketches, taken by Blight in July, 1863, of old houses in Shottery. — Elizabethan houses in Wood Street, from a sketch taken by the late Mrs. E. F. Flower, c. 1838. — The old font, Bishopton, a sketch by Blight, 1867. 658. Stratford Church, river and mill, from a painting executed about the year 1720. This was the date assigned to it from the costume by the late Mr. Planche. 659. The monumental effigy, front and side views. E. Blore del. Thompson sc. 660. Henley Street and the old timbered work- house, from a sketch taken by the late Mrs. E. F. Flower, c. 1835. 661. Snitterfield Church, from a drawing by Fair- holt. — An engraved view of the same Church, S.E., Allan E. Everitt del., J. Brandard lith., published by H. T. Cooke, Warwick. 662. John Combe, taken from his monument in the Church of Stratford-upon-Avon. Drawn and etched by S. Harding, 1793. 663. An engraved view of Clopton House, pub- lished in 1829. 664. The western end of the Guild Chapel, a sketch taken by Blight in 1863. 665. The Elizabethan house in the High Street, Stratford-on-Avon. F. W. Fairholt del. C. D. Laing sc. 666. Portrait of Florio, 161 1. Gul. Hole sculp. 667. Sketches, taken by Fairholt in 1847, of a carved wooden impost at the New Inn, Gloucester, and of the ancient cross and old houses at Henley- in-Arden. — The interior of the sexton's cottage, a curious old room, Stratford-on-Avon, from a sketch 134 by Saunders. — The staircase at the Birth-Place, a sketch by Blight, 1864. 668. Exterior of the Birth-Place. Part of the Swan and Maidenhead, all the cottages on the left and a small portion of the White Lion Inn shown. An original water-colour drawing by Shepherd, taken about the year 1830. 669. S. Marie Over's in Southwarke. W. Hollar fecit, 1647. 670. The Middle Temple Hall, 1803. 671. Sketches taken by Blight in 1863 of a cottage at Shottery ; old barn in Greenhill Street ; a view of Marsh Gibbon ; the moated grange at Milcote ; Barcheston (or Barson) Church, near Shipston-on-Stour ; the Church at Clifford- Chambers. 672. Bearley Church, from a sketch by Saunders. — Barton-on-the Heath, a sketch by Fairholt. 673. Sketches taken by Blight in 1863 of Wel- ford and its maypole ; old desk from Stratford College ; the Windmill Inn, Church Street, Strat- ford-on-Avon ; seal of Richard Quiney, 1592, the exact size of the original ; old house and staircase, Grendon Underwood. 674. A pencil sketch of the Combe monument in Stratford Church, c. 1820. The artist's name unknown. 675. Exterior of the Birth-Place and part of Henley Street. London, J. Harwood, 1847. 676. The back of the Shakespeare Tavern, Shottery, from a sketch taken by F. Goodall, R.A., in July, 1848. 677. Sketches taken by Blight in 1863, of the Prince of Wales's Inn, Rother Street, Stratford-on- Avon ; the upper room of the manor-house, Shottery; ancient gateway on the north of Chapel Street, Strat- 135 ford-on-Avon ; Charlecote Park ; Anne Hathaway's bed-chamber and exterior of cottage. 678. The back of the Birth-Place, from a sketch taken by Fairholt in 1847. 679. The Birth-Place and the Swan. H. Fitzook del. 680. A room in Anne Hathaway's Cottage, 1847. W. J. Linton sc. 681. The Charnel House, Stratford-on-Avon, exterior and interior, from copies by Saunders of early drawings. 682. Sketches taken by Blight in 1863 of the back of Shottery manor house ; the interior of a room in the supposed John Hall's residence in the Old Town, Stratford-on-Avon, and a view of Shottery from the Evesham Road. 683. The old timbered school-house at Snitter- field. 1825. — The foot-bridge near Anne Hathaway's Cottage, from a sketch taken by Fairholt in 1842. — The shop at the Birth-Place, from a drawing by Saunders. 684. Sketches taken by Blight in 1S63 and 1864, of an old timbered house adjoining the workhouse in Henley Street, and the mud-wall of an old barn near the Old Thatched Tavern, Stratford-on-Avon. 685. The birth-room, from a sketch by Saunders. — A sketch by Blight of a tower at Charlecote from the old painting in the hall, and of mouldings at the gateway. — Old buildings at Stratford-on-Avon that were removed when the new market-place was built, and interior of Bishopton Church, from sketches by Saunders. — Ancient house in the Rother Market, a sketch by Blight, 1864. 686. Shakespeare's grave-stone and inscription, with the dimensions of the stone, a lithograph from 136 a drawing by Saunders, published by Ward of Stratford-on-Avon, 1827. 687. The Indian in his boat, the one brought over to England about the year 1580, and afterwards embalmed. Supposed to be alluded to in the Tempest. A contem- porary German engraving of great rarity. 688. Hood-moulds in the large west window of the tower of the Guild Chapel, sketched by Blight in 1864. — Ancient timbered house at Birmingham, 1576, a sketch taken by Fairholt previously to its destruction in 1849. — A piece of old timber from the Birth-Place and the W.S. ring, two sketches by Blight. — The tomb and effigies of Sir Thomas and Lady Lucy in Charlecote Church, copied by my daughter Charlotte from a sketch by Saunders. 689. Sketches, taken by Blight, 1862 to 1867, of the Stratford-on-Avon maces ; old house in Bridge Street, Stratford-on-Avon ; interior of room in the tower of Charlecote gatehouse ; ancient knocker on the door of house near the grammar-school, Stratford-on-Avon ; a dormer window in Turnmill (Turnbull) Street, London, the only fragment of old work remaining there in 1865 ; the stone-carved sign of the Cock-and-Pye tavern at Bewdley, and another one, also in stone, of St. George and the Dragon at Snow Hill, London, these two signs being interesting relics of the taverns of the Shake- spearean period. Vol. XX. 690. Bishopton Chapel and the old schoolhouse, Snitterfield, copies of sketches taken by Captain Saunders. 691. Sketches by Blight, 1863 to 1865, of an old house and the Church at Aston Cantlowe ; the U7 porch of Welfbrd Church ; steps, doorway, and end of Anne Hathaway's Cottage ; a piece of decayed timber found amongst the refuse of the Birth-Place ; south door of Chapel in the manor-house, Shottery ; back of Anne Hathaway's Cottage ; old houses at Bishopton and Aston Cantlowe. 692. Welford Church Porch, a sketch by Fair- holt. 693. Sketches by Blight, taken in 1863 and 1864, of Long Lane, near Stratford-on-Avon ; old houses at Clifford-Chambers ; Pathlow Hill farm-house ; old cottages by the Water Side, Stratford-on-Avon. 694. Shakespeare's Desk. Rev. R. Nixon, F.S.A., del, 1824. Fahee lithog. Printed by C. Hullmandel. Published by J. Ward. 695. The Birth-Place, c. 1805, a copy; old houses in Church Street, Stratford-on-Avon, a sketch taken by Blight in 1863. 696. Two views of Charlecote House, taken on 22 August, 1823. Name of artist unknown. 697. Sketches by Blight, taken in 1862 and 1863, of the Old Thatched Tavern, Greenhill Street, Strat- ford-on-Avon ; cottages at Snitterfield ; old houses in Chapel Street near New Place. 698. Shakespeare's Hall. An etching so entitled, showing the Town Hall, Chapel Street and the Guild Chapel, Stratford-on-Avon. Published by Ward, 1827. 699. Sketches by Blight, taken in 1863, of the Old Black Swan, river-side, and timbered houses in Greenhill Street. Stratford-on-Avon ; an Elizabethan house at Tiddington, a hamlet in the parish of Alveston, Stratford-on-Avon ; the roof of the ancient Chapel at the Manor-House, Shottery; old houses in the village of Charlecote. 700. Shakespeare's Birth-Place as it appeared at 133 the time of the Jubilee. Fahey lithog. Published by J. Ward, 1827. 701. The Birth-Place of Shakespeare. London, published by O. Hodgson. An uncoloured view of the exterior. The house is represented as it appeared about the year 181 2, but the encfravinsr seems to be of a later date. 702. The Guildhall, Aston Cantlowe, J. Saunders, 1825. — Exterior of Shakespeare's Birth-Place, 1847, a sketch by Fairholt. — The King's Head Inn, Aylesbury, 1865, and the back of the White Swan in the Rother Market, Stratford-on-Avon, 1863, sketches by Blight. Another view by Fairholt of the exterior of the Birth-Place, 1847. 703. Charlecote House. Drawn by J. P. Neale. Engraved by W. RadclyfTe, 1820. 704. Sketches, taken by Blight in 1863 and 1864, of an old timbered house at Charlecote ; hood-mould termination, interior of the porch door, and door on south side of the Chancel of the Guild Chapel ; Warkmore Bridge over the Stour, between Milcote and Weston, looking towards Stratford, the stream dividing the parishes of Old Stratford and Weston- on-Avon ; an ancient fire-place in a room at the gateway of Charlecote House, with a water-colour view of the gateway itself. 705. Sketches by Blight of objects at the Guild Chapel, 1864, — handle of door on the south side of the Chancel ; canopy of second panel from the tower, south side of nave ; portions of wood-carving from an old screen ; the doorway to the bell-loft, and interior of the north doorway. 706. Mary Arden's house, from a sketch by Saunders. 707. Sketches taken by Blight in 1863, one of Charlecote House, and another of its ancient stables ; old houses at Shottery. — Shottery, 1848, from a 139 sketch by F. Goodall, R.A. — Old timber from the Birth-Place, two sketches by Blight, 1864. — Anne Hathaway's Cottage, from a sketch by Fairholt. 708. Sketches by Blight, 1863, of small pieces of old timber from the Birth-Place ; the back of Downing's house in Henley Street ; backs of old houses in the High Street, Stratford-on-Avon ; ancient fire-place at George's farm-house, Grendon Underwood. 709. Henley-in-Arden, a sketch by Fairholt, taken in 1854. 710. Sketches taken by Blight in 1863 and 1864 of Barton-on-the- Heath ; Rother Street, Stratford- on-Avon ; old cottage at Weston-on-Avon ; timbered cottages near the Bell Lane, Snitterfield ; old houses at Uxbridge ; timbered buildings at Welford ; the old rectory and barn, Clifford-Chambers ; a view of Luddington ; Snitterfield Church ; timbered cottage near the Chapel Lane, Luddington ; a lane in Snitterfield ; interior of old house at Bishopton. Vol. XXI. 711. A large ground-plan of the Church and Churchyard at Stratford-on-Avon, taken before the removal of the larger portion of the charnel-house building in the year 1800. 712. View of the exterior of the Birth-Place, from a sketch taken in 1846. Drawn by j. T. Clark. Engraved by T. H. Ellis. 713. Anne Hathaway's Cottage, drawn from nature and on stone by J. Brandard, Leamington. Pub- lished by C. Elston. This is an independent view taken from the road. 714. A portrait of Sir William Davenant, the poet's godson. Jo. Greenhill pinx. W. Faithorne 140 sculp., 1673. — Front of the Crown Inn, Oxford, a sketch taken by Blight in July, 1864. 715. A perspective view of the New Place, the residence of Shakespeare, with the Chapel, Gild Hall and Alms Houses, with part of the Falcon Inn. John Jordan of Stratford del., 1793. — A view of part of Old Stratford from the Evesham road, dogs in the foreground, a sketch by Jordan, 1793. These are the original drawings from which the reduced copies in the Saunders collection were taken. 716. A large and curious plan by Jordan of Stratford-on-Avon and its neighbourhood, c. 1790. In the corners are inartistic views of the Church and Guild Chapel. 717. The "room in which Shakspere was born' 1 and the exterior of the Birth-Place. The latter is a view similar to that in No. 561, but with several variations in the minor details. Two lithographs "drawn from nature on stone" by J. Brandard. Leamington, C. Elston. 718. Anne Hathaway's Cottage, an unfinished sketch taken by Blight in 1864. 719. A view of the Falcon Inn and Church Street, Stratford-on-Avon, by Captain Saunders. 720. A full-length portrait of James I. on his throne, with verses that have been attributed to Shakespeare. Simon Passseus sculpsit, London. John Bill excudit. 721. Miserere seats in the Chancel of Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-on-Avon, from original sketches by H. B. Clements. 722. Anne Hathaway's bed and the settle at her cottage, sketched by P. Dighton, 1834. The original drawing from which the published litho- graphs were taken. 723. Original tracings made by the elder Ireland, i4i c. 1790, of the water-marks upon the paper on which Shakespeare's will is written. 724. A large view of the Guild Chapel, 1807. 725. Sketches taken by Blight in 1863 of Wixford, Hillborough and Broom. 726. The Chandos portrait of Shakespeare, a mezzotint engraved by Samuel Cousins, 1849. 727. Interior of Stratford Church. A sketch by Blight, 1864. 728. A coloured print, with a view of Shake- speare's monumental effigy and part of the Chancel of Stratford Church, as seen through an open door on the south. 729. The town of Pershore. Blight, 1865. 7 30. Interior of the old Crown Inn at Rochester ; remains of the Roman Pharos and first Christian Church at Dover, — original sketches by F. W. Fairholt. — Shottery, from a sketch by the same. 731. "Front View of the Houses in Henley Street in Stratford, the reputed Birth-Place of the immortal Poet." Engraved on wood from an original sketch by Jordan. One of six copies only that were taken before the block was destroyed. This is a small view showing the cottages on the west of the Birth-Place. 732. Wilmecote, from a sketch taken by Fairholt in 1852. Copied by Blight, 1864. The following No. J2>?> ls m a volume of similar size and binding, and lettered " Illustrations of Shakespeare's Birth-Place." J2>Z- A volume of collections respecting the Birth- Place, consisting of the following pieces, — the exterior traced from a sketch taken by D. Parkes in July, 1806. — Printed hand-bill of an auction of the estate that was projected in March, 1805. — A large view of the exterior traced from an original sketch 142 by Jordan that was destroyed in the lamentable fire which destroyed every vestige of the celebrated Staunton collection in 1879. — Sketches taken by Blight in 1864 of the kitchen and of the birth-room. — Pen-and-ink drawings of the exterior, the first from a photograph taken in 1858, and the other from one believed to be of about the same date. — Eleva- tions of the house before the restoration was com- menced, four large drawings. — Plan of the estate and adjoining properties by Joseph Hill, in two states of the plate. — The cellar, a sketch by Blight, 1864. — A coloured lithograph of a part of the town near the Birth-Place during the period of a jubilee, evidently for the most part fanciful. — The exterior, from a photograph taken by H. T. Buckle about the year 1854. — Another view, printed by M. and N. Hanhart, a lithograph by C. Graf. — The exterior, from the Mirror, January, 1823, with a slight varia- tion from, and a lighter impression than, the one in No. 634, and another " from an old print," W. Harvey del., T. Williams sc, from the prospectus of the Birth-Place Committee, 1847. — The exterior, drawn by R. B. Wheler, engraved by F. Eginton, 1806 ; another, D. Parkes del., 1806, J. Basire sculp. — An engraved copy of Greene's view of 1 769, from Malone's Supplement, 1780. — "A House in Strat- " ford-upon-Avon in which the famous poet Shake- " spear was born," R. Greene del., B. Cole sculp., 1 769. — A small clumsy water-colour sketch of old houses in Henley Street, 1820. — The exterior, a copy by Blight of a photograph taken soon after the removal of the adjoining houses. — The birth-room, a lithograph, c. 1840. — The kitchen, etch'd by S. Ireland, 1795. — An original pencil sketch of the exterior taken by J. P. Neale, 4 July, 1820. — The House in which Shakespeare was born, published by F. and G. Ward, Stratford, drawn and printed by G. Rowe. — The exterior, drawn and etched by H3 o W. Rider, published by J. Merridew, 1827 ; a Proof. —Its appearance in 1806, R. B. Wheler delin., C. F. Green lithog., May, 1823. — Its appearance in 1824, C. F. Green delin. et lithog. — North and south parts of the chamber in which Shakespeare was born, C. F. Green delin. et lithog.- -The shop, C. F. Green, lithog., March, 1823. — The kitchen, C. F. Green delin. et lithog. — Arms of the Merchant of the Staple and the old sign affixed to Shake- speare's House. — David and Goliah, from the plaster-relievo formerly in the house of Shake- speare's birth, C. F. Green lithog. — The exterior, from a prospectus in which subscriptions were solicited for the restoration of the Church, 1835. — Engraved views of the exterior, both evidently taken from the sketch, No. 521, the first from the edition of Shakespeare that issued from the Chiswick Press in 18 14, and the second, Alexander del, John Thompson sc, from Britton's Remarks on the Life and Writings of Shakespeare, 18 18. — Three small engraved views of the exterior, from Glara Fisher's Shakespearean Cabinet, 1830. — A large engraving of the exterior from the Shakespeare Newspaper, 1847. — The exterior and the birth-room, large chromo-lithographs by Frederick Dangerfield from drawings made by S. Stanesby in 1856. These were amongst the last sketches of these objects that were made previously to the restoration, and they are extremely accurate. — -Two other views of the exterior and the birth-room, coloured lithographs from drawings by Mrs. P. Dighton, published at Stratford-on-Avon, 1835. — Ireland's original view of the exterior, a water-colour sketch, slightly defective, taken by him in 1792, with the engraving from it that was published in 1795. — The exterior, from a sketch by Saunders, a privately issued lithograph. — The exterior, with the Swan and Maidenhead, a wood-engraving from the prospectus issued by the L 144 Birth-Place Committee in 1847, an d therein stated to have been taken " from a recent drawing. " — Two lithographic views of the exterior, without date or artists' names, as it appeared in 1769 and about 1840. These lots following, Nos. 734 to 740, are in a vol. of similar size and binding, lettered " Copies of Paintings on the walls of the Guild Chapel." 734. Painting of the Death of Becket on the west wall of the nave, south of the entrance to the Guild Chapel, Fisher del. Below are fragments of inscriptions not in the published copy. 735. The Exaltation of the Holy Cross, paintings on the south side of the chancel of the Guild Chapel. Fisher del. 736. Saint Modwena and St. Edmund the King, paintings in the westernmost niches on the south and north sides of the nave of the Guild Chapel. Fisher del. jT,y. Sketches of the north and south sides of the chancel of the Guild Chapel, showing the situation of the paintings ; the paintings at the vicar's door. Fisher del. 738. An angel with admonitory verses, a painting on the west wall of the Guild Chapel, south of the entrance and beneath the Death of Becket. Fisher del. 739. Plan of Shakespeare's Birth-Place, W. Hemings delin., 1S24. C. F. Green lithog. 740. Erthe onte of Erth ys wonclurly wrought, — metrical inscriptions on the west wall of the nave of the Guild Chapel. These are the verses in No. 738, separately drawn by- Fisher and on a larger scale. 145 These lots following, Nos. 741 to 749, are in a volume of similar size and binding, lettered "Additional Shakespearean Illustrations." 741. A coloured map of Leicestershire, with a ground-plan of Leicester, and a delineation of the boundaries of " King Richards feild," from Speeds Theatre, 16 10. 742. Original drawings by Mrs. P. Dighton, 1834, of the Falcon sign surrounded by presumed Shakespearean relics ; Shakespeare's desk ; the font and base of the market-cross ; Luddington Chapel ; interior of Anne Hathaway 's Cottage ; exterior of Stratford Church. 743. A coloured map of Kent, with plans of Canterbury and Rochester, from Speed, 1610. 744. A large printed hand-bill respecting a burglary at Charlecote House, 1850, with a list of the articles stolen. 745. A coloured map of Gloucestershire, with plans of Gloucester and Bristol. Speed, 16 10. 746. A ground-plan of the Church and Church- yard of Stratford-on-Avon, executed about the year 1790. 747. A coloured map of Oxfordshire, with a plan of Oxford, 1605. From Speed, 1610. 748. A view of Oxford by Hoefnagle, 1574. 749. A large sketch of the mill and part of the mill- bridge, Stratford-on-Avon, taken about the year 1820. 750. M. William Shaks-peare, His True Chronicle Historie of the Life and Death of King- Lear and his three Daughters. Green morocco, half extra. A very rare first edition. Although this is a large fragment, it is a great curiosity and interesting from its peculiar readings. L 2 146 75i. Foole Vpon Foole, or Six Sortes of Sottes, shewing their hues, humours, and behauiours, with their want of wit in their shew of wisclome. Not so strange as true. Written by one seeming to haue his mothers witte, when some say he is fild with his father's fopperie, and hopes he liues not without companie. Clonnico de Curtanio Snuffe. London, printed for William Ferbrand, dwelling neere Guild-hall gate ouer against the Maidenhead, 1600. — Ouarto. Straight grained purple morocco, blind tooled back and sides, gilt leaves. This most interesting and curious little book was written by Robert Armin the friend and colleague of Shakespeare, and was re-published by him in 1605 and 1608, the latter under the new title of The Nest of Ninnies. The present is the first edition, and it is not only unique but it has not been noticed by any bibliographer. It is the most valuable by far of the three editions, not merely as being the first, although that of course is a matter of importance, but as shewing an opening address and a very curious metrical description of the fools, none of which are in the later ones. —J. O. H.-P. July, 1883. The adventure narrated in the following extract from Outlines, I., 322, is supposed to be alluded to in Troilus and Cressida :— It happened one winter that the players of Lord Chandos of Sudeley had been acting at Evesham, a town distant, by the then only main road, about fifteen miles from Stratford-upon-Avon. Their performances had been specially relished by Jack Miller, a native of the former place, and one of the natural imbeciles in whose eccen- tricities our ancestors so much delighted. He was, in fact, the popular Fool of the town and neighbourhood, so that when he announced his intention of decamping with his favourite performer, the clown, there was an anxiety on the part of the inhabitants to frustrate the design. They wished him, however, to have a last peep at the actors, so he was taken to the Hart Inn, and there was locked up in a room whence he could see them when they were on the road to their next quarters at Pershore, the Avon flowing between that route and the apartment which was selected for the H7 temporary imprisonment. No one dreamt that further pre- cautions were necessary, for, although the water bore a coating of ice, the latter was too thin for it to be considered possible that a boatless individual would be able to pass over the river, even if he succeeded in escaping from the tavern. But no sooner did Jack get a sight of his pet buffoon than, managing to alight to the ground from the window, he scudded over the ice to the company, executing his venturesome feat, to the utter amazement of them all, in perfect safety. Amongst the members of the company witnessing the occurrence was Robert Armin, who was afterwards one of Shakespeare's own professional colleagues. This individual subsequently made a collection of tales respecting persons of the Jack Miller type, issuing it, in 1600, under the title of Foole Vpon Foole or Six Sortes of Sottes, a curious little tract without the author's name, the writer simply describing himself as Clonnico de Curtanio Snuffe, meaning, by this odd phrase, that he was then filling the post of Clown at the Curtain Theatre. 752. The most excellent Historie of the Merchant of Venice, printed by I. R. for Thomas Heyes, and are to be sold in Paules Church-yard at the signe of the Greene Dragon, 1600. — Quarto. Half brown morocco, neat, gilt leaves, by F. Bedford. There is a note in this volume signed by Thomas Malone as follows : — This copy was given to me by Dr. Farmer, and the words on the first page are his hand- writing. For the title-page I am answerable. The title-page and three leaves in facsimile. The first edition. The copy in Cosens' sale, 1890, fetched £270. 753. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romanes compared together by that grave learned Philosopher and Historiographer, Plutarke ot Chceronea ; translated out of Greeke into French by lames Amiot, and out of French into English by Thomas North. Imprinted at London by Richard Field for Bonham Norton, 1595. — Folio. There are sound reasons for believing that this is the edition that was used by Shakespeare. 148 Dark red morocco, super extra, blind and gold entirely over the back and sides, broad borders of gold inside, gilt leaves, by Hayes. There being no record of Shakespeare's use of any particular impression, it follows that verbal tests are the only means of its identification. These are necessarily indefinite in all cases in which the variations between two editions could have been independently adopted by the poet himself. * * What is required is an expression, peculiar to' Shakespeare and to certain editions of the translation of Plutarch, one which could not be reasonably attributed to the independent fancy of the great dramatist. There is such an expression in the 1579 and 1595 editions of the Life of Coriolanus, — " if I had feared death, I would not have come hither to have put my life in hazard, but prickt forward with spite, and desire I have to be revenged of them that thus have banished me." Whoever compares this passage with the speech of Coriolanus in the tragedy, act iv.j sc. 5, and is told that the word spite is omitted in all the later Plutarch editions, may be convinced that Shakespeare must have read either the impression of 1579 or that of 1595, and probably the latter, which was one of the speculations of his fellow-townsman, the printer of the first edition of Venus and Adonis. — Outlines, II., 285. 754. A large collection of manuscript pieces in verse and prose, mostly of a comical nature, partly written and partly compiled by an Oxonian in the reign of Charles the First. Purple morocco, extra, panelled sides. It includes, at p. 74, Basse's verses, here entitled, "an Epitaph on Mr. Shakespeare," at pp. 119-121 verses on the play of Ignoramus, at p. 141 an allusion to the Globe Theatre ; at p. 232 lines of " Shakespeare on Sir John Coome." At pp. 182-217 ' s a contemporary transcript of the lost edition of Earle's Microcosmography, 1626, con- taining numerous textual variations and several passages omitted in the later impressions, e.g., the following in the Character of a Player, — " his commings in are tollerable, yet in smal money, and, like Halifax great vicaradge, most in twopences." Mr. Pearson of Pall Mall purchased this valuable manuscript for me at the sale of the Curteis library at Puttick and Simpson's, June 30th, 1884. 149 The following Nos., 755 to 768, are in a folio volume of similar size and binding to the other folios, and lettered "Artistic Miscellanies." 755. Birth-Place sketches by Blight, 1864, — the interior of the Record Room ; the room behind the shop ; the shop. 756. The back of the Birth-Place, from a photo- graph taken previously to the restoration. 757. A chair formerly at Anne Hathaway 's Cot- tage and called Shakespeare's Courting-Chair, from Ireland's Views, 1795. Two copies of this wood- cut, varying slightly from each other. 758. Sketches taken by Blight in 1863 of interior of room on the ground-floor of the ancient house in the Rother Market, the church of Weston-on-Avon, and old houses at Shottery. 759. Deale Castle and the neighbouring sea-coast, W. Hollar clelin. 760. Shakespeare's Birth-Place as it appeared previous to the Jubilee in 1769. C. F. Green, lithog., 1823. 761. Upper room of the ancient house in the Rother Market. Blight, 1863. 762. Three engraved views of the exterior of the Birth-Place, the first drawn by Calvert, on stone by W. P. Sherlock, published by J. Ward ; the second either engraved or drawn by Bonner ; and the third marked as published by J. Boosey & Co., litho- graphers, 310, Strand. The last is slightly varied from, but is evidently a copy of, Fahey's lithograph of 1827. 763. London, — a diminutive view, with the theatres, in the title-page of the edition of the Bible published at Cambridge in 1648 ; a long narrow view showing the theatres and part of Southwark, i5o c. 1640 ; a view of the sixteenth century, Londra, Fr. Valegio f. 764. The interior of an old English theatre, Sir John Falstaff and Mrs. Quickly in the foreground, from Kirkman's Witts or Sport upon Sport, 1672. This is the very rare original engraving, not the later copy so often substituted for it. It is this engraving, not the book itself, that is of so much rarity. 765. The Church of Grendon Underwood, a sketch taken by Blight in 1865. 766. The Right Honourable and most noble Henry Wriothsley, Earle of Southampton, Baron of Titchfield, Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter. Simon Passaeus sculp., 161 7 ; are to be sould in Popes Head Ally by John Sudbury and Georg Humble. 767. South-east Prospect of Stratford-on-Avon, 1746. 768. The Market-Cross, Stratford-on-Avon, as it appeared in 1820. Drawn and lithographed by C. F. Green. The following Nos., 769 to 786, are in a folio volume of similar size and binding to the other folios, and lettered " Shakespearean Odd- ments." 769. Stratford Bridge ; Ireland, 1795. — Exterior of the Birth-Place, with small portions of the adjoin- ing houses ; Mason sc, 1825. — A view of Wilme- cote, 1852. — Anne Hathaway's Cottage; Ireland, 1795- 770. Jubilee Amphitheatre, drawn by R. B. Wheler, engraved by F. Eginton, 1806. — The monumental effigy, C. Graf lith., published by F. & E. Ward, Stratford-on-Avon. 77 t . Charlecote House; Ireland, 1795. — New Place and the Guild Chapel, drawn from nature and I ^1 on stone by J. Brandard, published by J. C. Elston, Leamington, lithographed by Day & Haghe. 772. The Church and Free-School, Hampton Lucy, 1822 ; Saunders del., C. F. Green lithog., 1824. An unpublished view. jji,. Chapel of the Holy Cross, Stratford-on- Avon, showing the Grammar-School and site of New Place. Printed by M. & N. Hanhart. C. Graf lith., London. Published by Edward Adams. 774. New Place, Guild Chapel, &c. Ireland, 1795- 775. The Hall at Charlecote "where Shakespeare was tried." An uncoloured lithograph from a draw- ing by Mrs. P. Dighton, 1835. 776. Bidford, Warwickshire, and arms of the Merchant of the Staple in a pane of glass formerly in the Birth-Place. Ireland, 1795. y/y. An original tracing made by the elder Ire- land, c. 1790, of the signature of Shakespeare from a deed, in Mr. Wallis's hand, belonging to the Featherstonhaugh family. yy8. Charlecote Hall and Stratford Church. W. Rider, Leamington, July 1st, 1835. 779. Back of George's Farm ; J. Niemann, 1847. — David and Goliah ; Ireland, 1795. — George's Farm, formerly the Ship, Grendon Underwood, 1847. 780. The Ancient Chapel of Bishopton, its font and piscina. An original drawing, c. 18 10. — A sketch by Fairholt of the Lich-gate, Welford Church, c. 1847. 781. The Birth-Place of Shakespeare, a coloured view published by O. Hodgson. — View of the Brook House " in which Shakespeare was really born," J. Jordan del., 1 799. 782. A view of Chapel Street, showing the old character of the house on the New Place side of the Town- Hall. Drawn and engraved by T. RadclyfTe, 1829. 7S3. The monumental effigy, the grave-stone and entrance to Charnel-House. Ireland, 1795. 784. Arms in the windows of Stratford Church ; arms in the window and porch of the Guild Chapel. Dugdale, 1656. 785. A view of Stratford-on-Avon from the bridge. Drawn and engraved by T. RadclyfTe, 1829. 786. A lower room at the Birth-Place, and the garret over the birth-room, 1852. — Exterior of the Birth-Place, Ph. de la Motte, 1788. The following Nos., 787 to 801, are in a volume of similar size and binding, lettered " Shake- spearean Additions." ySy. The Nag's Head Inn, Bicester, sketched by Blight in 1865. — Plan of Shakespeare's close. 788. Exterior of Anne Hathaway's Cottage. Barn on the left, but differing: from the view by Rider. A drawing in water-colours executed about the year 1830. 789. Monument in Stratford Church to the memory of the Earl and Countess of Totness. Dugdale, 1656. 790. Anne Hathaway's Cottage, a wood-engra- ving from the Casket of 23 April, 1837. — Arms in Snitterfield Church, from Dugdale, 1656. — Exterior of Stratford Church, Fahey lithog., published by J. Ward. — Interior of Stratford Church, T. G. Flowers, Edinburgh. — Heme's Oak, from the Mirror of 15 July, 1826. — Sign of the Boar's Head Tavern, 1668. 153 79 1- Shakespeare's School and Old Guildhall. London, J. Harwood, 1847. — Views of Stratford-on- Avon and the College, drawn by R. B. Wheler, engraved by F. Eginton, 1806. — Clopton House, from Ireland's Views, 1795. 792. Interior of Anne Hathaway 's Cottage. An uncoloured lithograph from a drawing by Mrs. P. Dighton, 1835. 793. The Birth- Room, from a drawing by J. Brandard. A proof before letters. 794. Anne Hathaway's Bed and Chair. An uncoloured lithograph from a drawing by Mrs. P. Dighton, 1835. 795. The Deer-Barn at Grove Field, Warwick- shire, drawn by W. Jackson, 1798. A lithograph. 796. The monumental effigy, a coloured view published, although not so stated, by C. Elston of Leamington. Probably a proof before letters. 797. Bidford Grange. Ireland, 1795. 798. Front of Charlecote House. Allan E. Everitt del. M. & N. Hanhart imp. J. Brandard lith. Published by H. T. Cooke, Warwick. 799. The Exterior of the Birth-Place from a drawing by J. Brandard. Shows part of the Swan and Maidenhead. Four figures opposite the shop-window. 800. Shakespeare's Desk. A coloured lithograph from a drawing by Mrs. P. Dighton, 1835. 801. Exterior of Stratford Church, Fahee lithog., published by J. Ward. — A view of the Church from the opposite side of the river, printed by M. & N. Hanhart, C. Graf lith., published by Edward Adams. 802. Some Account of the Life of Mr. William 154 Shakespeare. By N. Rowe. From the 1709 edition of the Poet's works. — 8vo. Half purple morocco, neat, gilt leaves. 803. Englands Helicon. At London, printed by J. R. for Iohn Flasket, and are to be sold in Paules Church-yard at the signe of the Beare, 1600. — Ouarto. Calf extra, by C. Murton. The present copy of this extremely rare book unfortu- nately wants a few leaves, but it is complete in all the Shakespearean pieces. " This first edition of an admirable and popular poetical " miscellany is extremely rare * * on sig. H 2 we meet " with the celebrated ode, ' As it fell upon a day,' which we " now know was by Shakespeare, and not by Barnfield, in " whose name it had been published in 1598, but assigned " to its true owner in ' The Passionate Pilgrim ' of 1599." — Payne Collier's Bibliographical Catalogue, 1865* 804. Sir Thomas Smithes Voiage and Entertain- ment in Rushia, with the tragicall ends of two Emperors and one Empresse within one Moneth during his being there. Printed at London for Nathanyell Butter, 1605. — Quarto. Calf extra, by Clarke. The curious allusion to the old tragedy of Hamlet is at sig. K. "In one place we have the following not very apposite mention of Hamlet : That his father's Einpire and Government was but as the poeticall furie i?i a stage-action, compleat, yet with horrid and wofull tragedies ; a first, but no second to any Hamlet. Shakespeare's Hamlet had been brought out two or three years before this tract was published ; but it may be doubted whether the reference be not to the older play on the same story, which Lodge had noticed in 1596 in his " Wits misery and Worlds Madness," when he spoke of " the ghost who cried so miserably at the Theatre, ' Hamlet, revenge ! ' " — Payne Collier's Bibliographical Catalogue, 1865. i55 805. An oblong volume, in manuscript, that belonged to one Giles Lodge in 1 59 1. Purple morocco, half extra. This contains the original music to a number of songs and dances, including several that are either quoted or mentioned by Shakespeare, and no doubt familiarly known to him, e.g., Robin Hoode, a galiarde, passa mesersgaliarde, the antycke, a pavion, a hornepippe, the passe a mesures pavion, a round, the hunt ys uppe, a dumpe, quarter brawles, the Frenche galiarde, all of grene willowe, and a measure. Amongst the miscellaneous pieces may be mentioned Westones pavion and " my Lord of Essex songe," the latter being thus noted, finis quoth William Hewese. So Tyrvvhitt's conjecture respecting the W. H. of the Sonnets may thus receive a trifling support. At the end of the book, following a collection of receipts, is an unpublished drama in five acts, avowedly written for boy- actors, and entitled " a new comody of July and Julian." There is no date to this curious production, but it may be confidently assigned to the period of Shakespeare's boyhood. INDEX. -*-M- Abington Abbey, 498. Accolti, Bernard, 90. Acton, 464. Adams, Edward, 370, 547, 773, 801 Adderbury, 451. Agar, I. S., 272. Albans. See Saint Albans. Alcazar, battle of, 18. Alexander, W., 625, 733. Allot, Robert, 283. All's Well that Ends Well, 40, 90. Alms'-houses, 715. Alne, Little, 437. Alveston, 602, 638. Anne Hathaway's Cottage, 210, 282 289. — Exterior, 317, 403, 547 558, 636, 639, 677, 691, 707, 713 718, 769, 7S8, 790. — Interior, 319, 321, 348, 372, 494, 496, 498 511, 515, 568, 677, 680, 742, 792 —Relics, 499, 502, 722, 757, 794 — The well, 319. Anton, Robert, 191. Antony and Cleopatra, 103. Archer, J., 614. Armin, Robert, 32, 75 1 - Aston Cantlowe, 642, 643, 644, 653, 691, 702. As You Like It, 20, 34, 35, no. Atherston-upon-Stour, 592. Austin, Samuel, 92. Aylesbury, 267, 702. Baker, Alfred, 552. Baker, Sir Richard, 241. Banbury, 440, 464. Bancroft, Thomas, 155. Bandello, Matteo, 100. Barber, J. V., 268. Barcheston, 671. Barclay, Sir Richard, 1S1. Barlichway Hundred, 350, 365. Barnstaple, 215. Bartholomew Fair, 216. Barton, 467. Barton-on-the-Heath, 447, 538, 672, 710. Basire, J., 733. Basse, William, 754. Bath, plan of, 232. Baynard's Castle, 590. Beaconsfield, 475, 565. Bearley, 519, 643, 672. Bear Tavern, 250. Bedell, Gabriel, 201. Bedfordshire, 301. Beighton, Henry, 326, 333, 350. Bell, J., 601. Bennet, Thomas, 216. Berkshire, 299, 301, 308. Bible in Stratford Church, 424. Bicester, 787. Bidford, 472, 475, 536, 742, 776, 797- Billesley, 576. Birmingham, 688. Birth of Merlin, 22. Birth-Pbce, 81, 102, in, 112, 123, 348, 733. 739-— Exterior, 362, 455, 49i. 493, 5°5> 5°7, 521, 5 2 5> 53o, 548, 55i> 552, 556, 559, 561, 57o, 573, 574, 575, 577, 581, 584, 600, 601, fco8, 613, 614, 615, 624, 625, 627, 634, 637, 646, 652, 654, 668, 675, 678, 679, 695, 700, 701, 702, 712, 717, 731, 733, 760, 762, 769, 781, 786, 799.— Interior, 303, 455, 49i, 4 C ' 3, 494, 498, 502, 505, 5°7, 508, 518, 522, 526, 530, 667, 6S3, 733, 755, 786.— Relics, 349, 496, 522, 526, 581, 594, 596, 598, 647, 649, 651, 688, 691, 707, 708, 776. Birth-Place Committee, 733- Birth-Room, 322, 362, 505, 510, 526, 530, 549, 571, 631, 6S5, 717, 733, 793- Bishopton, 5S8, 599, 606, 612, 642, 657, 685, 690, 691, 710, 7S0. Blackfriars Estate, 124, 148, 149, 165, 2CS. Blackfriars Theatre, 198. Blome, Richard, 242. 157 Blore, E., 659. Blurt, Master Constable, 230. Boaden, John, 387. Boaistuau, Pierre, 100. Boar's Head Tavern, 790. Bodenham, John, 44, 803. B mner, 762. Boosey & Co., 762. Bott, William, 226. Bottom the Weaver, 54- Bracebridge, Mrs., 63S. Braithwait, Richard, 201. Brandard, ]., 561, 566, 571, 661, 713, 717, 771, 793, 798, 799. Braun, 239, 313, 315, 438, 529. Brent Brook, 416. Brentford, 340, 472. Bridge, Stratford, 441, 489, 516, 769. Bridge Street, Stratford-on-Avon, 441, 489, 567, 689. Bristol, 745. Britton, John, 733. Brome, Richard, 201. Brook House, 781. Broom, co. Warwick, 406, 725. Brulovis, Caspar, 164. Buckinghamshire, 301. Buckler, T. C, 297, 484. Bullock, G., 389. Burmington, 462. Burton, Robert, 273. Butcher, William, 270, 353. Calvert, 762. Cambridgeshire, 301. Camden, William, 75, 189, 253, 357- Campden House, 395. Camus, John Peter, 187. Canterbury, 377, 438, 743. Carew, Lord and Lady, 264. Cartwright, William, 230. Casket, the, 613, 790. Cawdray, Robert, 230. Chandos Portrait, 726. Chapel Lane, Stratford - on - Avon, 393- Chapel Street, Stratford - on - Avon, 677, 697, 698, 7S2. Chapel Street House, once Hatha- way 's, 163, 170, 195, 213, 218, 250. Chapman & Hall, 318, 356. Chapman, George, 201. Chapman, Philip, 70. Charlecote Church, 305, 581, 5S9, 621. Charlecote Gate-house, 518, 6S5, 6S9, 704. This building is in- cluded in some of the views of the exterior. Charlecote House. — Exterior, 268, 269, 318, 328, 333, 371, 413, 497, 566, 610, 640, 655, 677, 685, 696, 7o3, 707, 77i. 778, 798.— Interior, 335. 34S, 356, 77$.— Relics, 320, 744- Charlecote Traditions, 257. Charlecote Village, 635, 699, 704. Charnel House, 306, 320, 366, 468, 477, 591, 6S1, 783. Chettle, Henry, 51, 178. Chiswick Press, 733. Church Restoration Fund, 733. Church, Stratford, 216, 225, 248, 366, 453, 454, 711, 746, 784.— Exterior, 271, 286, 290, 297, 298, 300, 319, 358, 392, 396, 414, 426, 432, 434, 444, 450, 469, 482, 4S4. 5!3. 5!4, 554, 565, 596, 609, 716, 742, 778, 790, 801.— Interior, 266, 2S6, 306, 370, 427, 429, 430, 43 2 > 433. 434, 43 6 , 439, 446, 459, 468, 469, 477, 4S1, 482, 484, 4S6, 487, 5S1, 727, 728, 790.— See Clopton Chapel and St. Thomas's Chapel. Church Street, Stratford on-Avon, 492, 648, 651, 658, 673, 695, 719. Churchyard, Stratford, 431, 711, 746. Cinthio, Giraldi, 91. Clark, J. T., 712. Clarke, John, 157. Clements, H. B., 550, 721. Clifford Chambers, 612, 671, 693, 710. Clopton, Anne, 466. Clopton Chapel, 390, 427, 452, 454, 456, 626. Clopton common-lands, 224. Clopton estate, 1, 223. Clopton family, 1. Clopton House, 1, 663, 791. Clopton, William, 139, 226, 466. Cock-and-Pye tavern, 689. Cokain, Francis, 230. Cole, B., 733. Colin Clout, 48. College, Stratford, 221, 345, 499, 605, 617, 623, 630, 644, 673, 791. Collier, W., 324, 332. Collins, Francis, 141, 214. Collins, Thomas, 201. 153 Combe, John, 136, 278, 662, 674, 754- Combe, Thomas, 147. Comical Gallant, 89. Cooke, H. T., 661, 798. Cordy, John, 272. Cornelianum Dolium, 95. Cornwal, 215. Cornwallis, Sir William, 279. Cotgrave, John, 160. Council-Chamber, Stratford - on - Avon, 349, 550, 647, 649. Court, William, 227, 228. Court-Leet Books, 67, 68. Cousins, Samuel, 726. Coventry, 312. Cox, Rev. Thomas, 400, 465. Crab-tree, Shakespeare's, 175, 368, 369, 407, 457, 480, 523. Cranley, Thomas, 201. Cromwell, Thomas, Lord, 49. Cross-on-the-Hill, 228, 578. Daisy Hill, 633, 640, 655, 795. Danckerts, Dancker, 244. Dangerfield, Frederick, 733. Datc'net, 474. Davenant, Sir William, 216, 714. David and Goliah, 512, 779. Davies, John, 30. Day & Haghe, 561, 638. Day & Son, 421. Day, Matthew, 52. Deal Castle, 759. Dean, T. A., 384. Decker, Thomas, 52, 59, 201. Deddington, 464. Deer-Barn, 795. De la Motte, 786. Deloney, Thomas, 40. Denmark, the King of, 15. Dennis, John, 89. Derbyshire, 301. Desk, Shakespeare's, 526, 562, 694, 742, 800. Destruction of Troy, 38, 72. Devonshire, 215. Dewint, P., 358, 360, 635. Dighton, Mrs. P., 296, 302, 322, 335, 344, 362, 382, 403, 412, 556, 558, 562, 722, 733, 742, 775, 792, 794, 800. Dingles, the, 643. Doddridge, Justice, 156. Dorastus and Fawnia, 94. Dorsetshire, 215. Dover, 316. 440, 485, 730. See Shakespeare 's Cliff. Downes, John, 61. Drayton, Michael, 104, 230. Droeshout. See Portraits. Drury-Lane Theatre, 122. Dryden, John, 84, 117, 229. Dugdale, Sir William, 295, 363, 365, 375, 466, 535, 784, 789, 79°. Earle, John, 754. Earthquake in London, 132, 280. Eastward Hoe, 201. Edward the Third, 27. Eginton, F., 7, 388, 441, 450, 733, 770, 791. Ellis, T. H., 712. Elm, the Boundary, 222. Elston, C, 561, 566, 713, 717, 796. Elston, J. C, 771. Ely Street, Stratford-on-Avon, 651. England's Helicon, 803. England's Parnassus, 283 Epitia Tragedia, 91. Essex, 299, 301, 308. Essex, Earl of, 83. 230, 249, 394. Eton, 324, 330, 475. Euphues Golden Legacie, no. Everitt, Allen E., 661, 798. Every Man in his Humour, 50. Every Man out of his Humour, 201. Exhall, 306. Fahee, 694, 801. Fahey, 700, 790. Faire Em, 183. Fairholt, F. W., 81, 380, 401, 665. Falcon Tavern, Southwark, 247. Falcon Tavern, Stratford-on-Avon, 206, 421, 719. Field, John, 281. Field, "Nathaniel, 184. Finden, W., 614. Fisher, Clara, 733. Fisher, Thomas, 290, 541 to 546, 734 to 738, 740. Fitzook, H., 679. Fleming, Abraham, 280. Fletcher, John, 64. Fletcher, Mrs., 398. Florio, John, 666. Flowers, T. G., 624, 631, 790. Font, Shakespeare's, 286, 302, 412, 427, 742. Free-School. See Grammar-School. Frith, Mary, 620. Fulwood, Robert, 142. Garden of the Muses, 44. Gastrell, the Rev. Francis, 6. Gayton, Edmund, 251. Gaywood, Robert, 583. Gee, John, 82. George-and-Dragon Inn, 6S9. 159 Gibbs, Thomas, 78, 79. Gilbirson, William, 36. Glamorganshire, 215. Globe Theatre, 245, 754. Gloucester, 667, 745. Gloucestershire, 215, 301, 745. Golden Lion Inn, 591. Golding, Arthur, 12. Gonzaga, Curtio, 174. Gosson, Stephen, 285. Goulart, John, 230. Graf, C., 370, 547, 551, 733, 770, 773, 801. Grammar-School, 2, 29, 74, 341, 349, 504, 50S, 550, 647, 651, 6S9, 773 79i- Gray's Inn Hall, 582. Green, C. F., 327, 457, 499, 609, 639. 733, 739, 76o, 768, 772. Greene, John, 134. Greene, the Rev. Joseph, 2, 5, 42, 114, 216, 257, 282, 289, 426. Greene, Richard, 298, 366, 396, 513, 588, 592, 602, 654, 733. Greene, Robert, 94, 159. Greene, Thomas, 137. Greenhill Street, Stratford-on-Avon, 671, 684, 697, 699. Greenwich Palace, 329. Grendon Underwood, 267, 470, 475, 673, 708, 765, 779. Grevin, Jaques, 97. Griffith, Sir George, 466. Grimmitt, Richard, 5. Groto, Luigi, 119. Guild Chapel, 290, 319, 449, 4S7, 541 to 545, 581, 5S5, 594, 597, 598,604,628,645, 647, 651, 656, 664, 688, 698, 704, 705, 734 to 738, 740, 784.— Exterior, 7, 349, 421, 715, 716, 724, 771, 773, 774. Guild-Hail, Stratford, 7, 550, 715, 791. Gwin, J., 426. Hadriana Tragedia, 119. Hall, John, 163, 176, 195, 616, 682. Hamlet, 62, 101. Hampton Lucy, 360, 643, 772. Hanhart, M. & N., 370, 547, 570, 733, 798, 801. Harding, E., 419. Harding, J. D., 269. Harding, S., 662. Harington's Ariosto, 216. Harrison, Stephen, 292. Harsnet, Samuel, 47, 73. Hart family, 123, 656. Hart, Shakespeare, 152, 207. Hartley, William, 56. Harvey, Gabriel, 93. Harvey, W., y^^- Harwood, J., 675, 791. Hathaway, Anne, 353. See Anne Hathmvay 's Cottage. Hathaway, Edmund 194, 248. Hathaway, Jane, 168, 169. Hathaway, John, 199, 200, 252. Hathaway, Richard, 204. Hathaway, Robert, 203, 252, 254, 255- Hathaway, Sarah, 255. Hathaway, Susanna, 166, 195, 213. Hathaway, Thomas, 163, 168, 169, 170, 195, 218, 250. Heliodorus, 179. Help to Discourse, 201. Hemings, W., 739. Henley-in-Arden, 496, 503, 667, 709. Henley Street, Stratford-on-Avon, 348, 499, 575, 577, 611, 625. 646, 651, 660, 675, 684, 70S, 733- — Deeds, 206, 210. Henry the Fourth, 19, 26, 206. Henry the Sixth, 9, 53. Heme's Oak. See IVindsor. Hertfordshire, 301. Heywood, Thomas, 14, 21 1. Hickes, R., 444. Higford, Henry, 26. High Street, Stratford - on - Avon, 327, 397, 5!2, 520, 581, 611, 650, 656, 665, 685, 708. Hill, Joseph, 733. Hill, Richard, 225. Hillborough, 725. Hillingdon, 435, 524. Historical Dictionary, 216. Hodgson, O.. 701, 781. Hoefnagle, George, 339. 748. Hoffman, a tragedy, 178. Hole, William, 666. Holland, Henry, 394, 555. Hollands Leaguer, 41. Hollar, 215, 242, 291, 299, 301, 3 J 6, 33^, 338, 343, 346, 347, 3 6 3, 373, 374, 376, 417, 485, 509, 5i7, 532, 593, 595, 669, 759. Honor of Armes, 34. Hooper, S., 410. Howell, James, 533. Hullmandel, C., 694. Hulme, F. W., 318, 356. Hundred Mery Talys, 196. Ilunsdon, Lord, 171. Huntingdonshire, 301. M i6o Hutchinson, H., 266. Inganni comedia, 158, 1 74. Ingannati comedia, 173. Ireland forgeries, 60. Ireland, Samuel, 364, 414, 442, 480, 633, 723, 733, 757, 769, 77i, 774, 776, 777, 779, 783, 79*. 797- Irving, Washington, 348, 627. Isle of Wight, 24, 299, 308. Islip, co. Oxon, 310, 354, 423, 451. Jackson, J. G., 318, 356. Jackson, W., 795. Jago, the Rev. Richard, 406. James the First, 292, 720. Jew of Malta, 1S0. Johnson, John, 421. Jones, Richard, 34. Jones, the Rev. William, 24. Jonson, Ben, 50, 108, 201, 210, 211, 216, 314, 383. Jordan, John, 106, 175, 276, 355, 405, 410, 523, 715, 716, 731, 781. Jubilee, the Stratford, 442, 521, 770. Julius Caesar, 97, 105, 118, 164, 277. July and Julian, 805. Keeper's Lodge, Fulbrooke, 640. See Daisy Hill. Kenilworth Castle, 23, 535. Kent, 299, 308, 316, 743. King, D., 527. Kingswood, co. Warwick, 246. Kip, I., 330, 331. Kip, William, 292, 351. Kirkall, E., 333. Kirkman, Francis, 230, 764. Knolle Manor, 116. Knyff, L., 330, 331. Laing, C. D., 665. Lambeth, 509. Laneham, Robert, 23. Langbaine, Gerald, 274. Lapworth, co. Warwick, 167, 246, 251- Lawford, George, 272. Lear, King, 39, 47, 73, 193, 750. Leicestershire, 301, 741- Lightholder, Timothy, 396. Lily, William, 29, 74. Lincolns Inn Fields Theatre, 122. Lincolnshire, 301. Linton, W. J., 637, 680. Lintott, Bernard, 192. Lisbon nunnery, 188. Little Alne, 437. Lodge, Thomas, no, 285. Lombart, P., 293. London, — Bridge, 238. — Plans, 239, 242, 313, 315, 529, 531, 539, 54°-— Views, 162, 240, 241, 243, 244, 292, 376, 527, 532, 533, 555, 593. 7°3- Long Lane, 693. Lover's Complaint, 76. Love's Labour Lost, 21, 33. Lucrece, Rape of, 4. Lucy, Lady, 70, 98, 688. Lucy, Sir Thomas, 70, 133, 257, 258, 259, 291, 293, 385, 500, 688. Luddington, 320, 710, 742. Macbeth, 87, 233. Maces, the Stratford, 647, 689. Malcontent, 58. Malone, Edmund, y^}. Manuscript Miscellanies, 52, 277, 278. Market-Cross, Stratford-on-Avon, 286, 327, 499, 6j2, 742, 768. Marlowe, Christopher, 180, 287. Marsh Gibbon, 671. Marston, 467, 475. Marston, John, 58, 201, 230. Mason, 769. Massuccio Salernitano, 154. Mathews, Sir Tobie, 201. Measure for Measure, 25, 91, 185, 277. Medland, 419. Meer Street, Stratford - on - Avon, 651. Merchant of Venice, 8, 65, 752. Mercutio, 84. Meres, Francis, 17. Merian, Matthew, 532. Merlin, Birth of, 22. Merridew, Henry, 7, 608. Merridew, J., 733. Merry Devil of Edmonton, 57, 107. Merry Wives of Windsor, 89, 93. Messalina, 603. Microcosmos, 30. Middle- Row, Stratford - on - Avon, 3", 507- Middlesex, 299, 308, 352, 357, 361, 378. Middle Temple, 518, 520, 534, 641, 670. Middleton, Thomas, 230. Midsummer Night's Dream, 54. Milcote, 671. Mill-Bridge, 490, 493, 495, 508, 554, 578, 607, 749. Mill-Lane, 528. Mill, Stratford, 414, 658, 749. i6i Mirror, The, 615, 634, 733, 790. Miserere Stalls, 439, 472, 721. Mitre Tavern, London, 237. Moll, H., 367. Moll Cutpurse, 620. Monmouthshire, 215. Monthly Magazine, 634. Monumental Effigy, 42, 270, 272, 295. 334, 344 380, 3S2, 384, 386 to 389, 659, 728, 770, 783, 796. Morley, Thomas, 20. Mortlake, 586. Mount Tabor, 284. Mucedorus, 71, 186. Much Ado about Nothing, 28 Mulberry-tree, 79, 80, 197. Music, ancient, 805. Musical Companion, 210, 230. Naps upon Parnassus, 92. Nash's House, 261, 319. 325. Nash, Thomas, 16, 201. Neale, J. P., 286, 703, 733. Neele, 257. Newman, A., 421. New Place, 1, 5, 6, 7, 125 to 131, 139, 140, 143 to 146, 151, 163, 195, 213, 325, 580, 715, 771, 773, 774- Niemann, J., 779. Nixon, the Rev. R., 694. Nominal Orthography, 205. Norden, John, 238, 352, 357, 361, 378, 539. 540, 560. Norfolk, 301. North, Thomas, 753. Northamptonshire, 301. Norwich, 563. Nottinghamshire, 301, Ogilby, John, 307. Old Black Swan, 699. Oldcastle, Sir John, 10. Old Town, Stratford-on-Avon, 616, 682. Oldys, William, 274. Orthography, nominal, 205. Othello, 42, 120. Overton, Henry, 361. Overton, John, 531. Ovid, 12. Oxford, 212, 359, 448, 451, 458, 464, 714, 747, 748. Oxfordshire, 301, 747. Packwood, co. Warwick, 217, 246. Page, Anne, 373. Palace of Pleasure, 201, 230. Paris Garden, 281. Parkes. D., 733. Paroemiologia Anglo-Latina, 157. Parris, E. T., 549. Passe, Simon, 720. Passionate Pilgrim, 14, 76, 59. Pathlow Hill, 693. Pauls. See Saint Pauls. Paul's Cross, 236. Payton, John, 1 1 1. Peak, J., 586. Pebworth, 475. Peele, George, 18. Pembrokeshire, 215. Pendragon, 216. Pericles, 46, 63, 10S, 277. Perkes, Thomas, 262. Pershore, 464, 475, 729. Peyto, Richard de, 223. Phillips, Joseph, 206. Phillips, Thomas, 389. Pierce Penilesse, 16, 201. Pipe, Richard, 52. Plautus, 177. Play-bill, 229. Playford, John, 210, 230. Pleasant Willy, 3, 43. Plutarch, 753. Poems, Shakespeare's, 31, 192, 211, 237- Polimanteia, 257. Portraits of Shakespeare, 31, 36, 69, 219, 220, 234, 235, 288, 334, 379, 391, 583» 726. Postcombe, 462. Promos and Cassandra, 25. Prompt-copies, 233, 2S7. Pulpit presented to Stratford-on- Avon Church by John Hall, 569. Puritan, a comedy, 211. Quiney, Richard, 206, 673. Radclyffe, T. , 640, 782, 785. Radclyffe, W., 266, 268, 269, 358, 36o, 635, 703. Randolph, Thomas, 52, 95, 108, 230. Record Box, 647. Register, Stratford-on-Avon, 289, 424, 445. Return from Parnassus, 37, 66, 201. Rex Platonicus, 113. Rice, Francis ap, 83. Richards, N. , 603. Richardson, John, 251. Richard the Second, 13. Richmond Palace, 418. Rider, W., 317, 321,413,640, 733, 778. Ring, Shakespeare's, 688. Roberts, Henry, 15. Robinson, Thomas, 188. l62 Roche, Walter, 153. Rochester, 381, 404, 422, 478, 482, 537, 564, 606, 730, 743. Rocque, J., 323. Roe, J., 610. Rogers, 497, 516. Romeo and Juliet, 45, 100. Rooke, Hayman, 420. Roscius Anglicanus, 61. Rother Market, 581, 622, 651, 677, 685, 702, 710, 758, 761. Rowe, G., 548. Rowe, John, 71. Rowe, .Nicholas, 257, 282, 334, 802. Rowley, William, 22. Roxana, 629. Rutlandshire, 301. Rye, co. Sussex, 316. Saint Albans, 476. Saint Pauls, 517. Saint Saviour's, Southwark, 553, 669. Saint Thomas's Chapel, 428, 434, 487. Sandells, Fulke, 194. Satiro-Mastix, 59, 201. Saunders, Captain, 686, 733, 772. Saviolo, Vincentio, 35. Saviours. See Saint Saviour's. Saxton, Christopher, 309, 351. Scarron, Paul, 230, 231. School, Stratford - on - Avon. See Gramma?- School. Scriven, E. , 3S7. Segar, Sir William, 34. Shakespeare, Anne, 206. Shakespeare families, 115, 116, 167, 172, 217, 246, 289. Shakespeare, John, m, 142, 276. Shakespeare Newspaper, 733. Shakespeare's autograph, 777. Shakespeare's Cliff, 337, 374, 401, 564. 595- , Shakespeare's Close, 7S7. Shakespeare's Hall. See Town Hall. Shakespeare the Shoemaker, 210. Sharp, John, 530. Sharp, Thomas, 6, 78, 80. Sharpe, Lewis, 230. Shepherd, George, 668. Sheppard, Samuel, 96, 201. Sherlock, W r . P., 762. Sherwood & Co., 610. Shirley, James, 121. Shottery, 409, 501, 581, 651, 657, 671, 676, 677, 682, 683, 691, 699, 707, 73°, 758- Shrewley, co. Warwick, 172. Shrewsbury, 294. Silvayn, Alexander, 86. Smith, A., 601. Smithe, Sir Thomas, 230, 804. Smythe, William, 226. Snitterfield, 182, 262, 643, 661, 683, ^ 690, 697, 710, 790. Somersetshire, 215. Somner, William, 377. Sonnets, Shakespeare's, 277. Southampton, Earl of, 24, 83, 150, 766. Southamptonshire, 299, 308. Speed, John, 232, 243, 294, 312, 361, 540, 741, 743, 745, 747. Spenser, Edmund, 3, 43, 48. Squeal of Cotswold, 260. Stafford, John, 36. Stanesby, S., 733. Starter, Jan Jensen, 28. Steeple Aston, 464. Stent, P., 309, 316. Stocks, the Stratford, 649. Stokenchurch, 44S. Storer, J., 600. Storer, J. and H. S., 610. Straparola, Francesco, 93. Stratford-on-Avon. — Earliest guide book, 275. — Levies, 248. — Plans, 221, 26l, 263, 265, 355, 580, 716, 746. — Presentments, 67, 68, 222. — Views, 488, 506, 619, 715, 767, 785, 791- Stratton Audley, 470. Stroude, William, 108. Stukeley, William, 440, 579. Sturley, Abraham, 135, 138, 228, 256. Suckling, Sir John, 230 Suffolk, 301. Surrey, 299, 308. Sussex, 299, 308. Sutton, Robert, 56. Swan, John, 201. Swan Inn, Stratford-on-Avon, m. Swanwick, W. R. , 263. Sword of State, 572. Symonson, Philip, 316. Tailor, Robert, 109, 201. Taming of the Shrew, 11. Tarlton, Richard, 3. Taylor, John, 161. Tempest, 88, 210, 264, 6S7. Temple Grafton, 467, 475. Tetsworth, 448, 479. Theatre, The, Shoreditch, 56. Thomas. See Saint Thomas. 16 Thompson, John, 659, 733. Thornton, T., 419. Three Looks over London, 236. Three Pigeons Inn, 448. Tiddington, 699. Timbre de Cardone, 28. Titus Andronicus, 77, 85. Tolley, J., 263. Tombstone, Shakespeare's 270, 295, 686, 783. Tom Drum, 40. Toms, W. H., 553. Totnes monument, 789. Town-Hall, .Stratford, 7, 698. Troilus and Cressida, 38, 72, 1 17, 229. True Tragedie, 9, 53. Turnbull Street, London, 689. Two Maids of Moreclacke, 32. Two Noble Kinsmen, 64. Twyne, Thomas, 132. Tyler, Richard, 135, 256. Underdoune, Thomas, 179. Underhill, Hercules, 140. Uxbridge, 463, 524, 710. Valegio, Fr., 763. Vander Gucht, 334, 418. Van Dyck, Anthony, 316. Vaughan, Robert, 365, 383. Vavasour, Nicholas, 1S0. Verginia, comedia, 90. Vernor and Hood, 641. Vertue, George, 386. Visscher, C. J., 162. Waddesdon, 475. Wake, Isaac, 113. Waking-Man's Dreame, 187. Walford, E., 275. Walton, W. L., 570. Ward, F. and E., 547, 551, 770. Ward, F. and G., 733. Ward, J., 263, 686, 694, 698, 700, 762, 790, 801. Ward, John, 42. Ward, William, 389. Warkmore Bridge, 704. Warner, William, 177. WaUon, Thomas, 202. Warwick, 312, 363, 375, 461, 475, 579- Warwickshire, 301, 309, 312, 326, 350, 351, 618. Water-side, 693. Webbe, Alexander, 262. Webster, John, 190. Weelkes, Thomas, 209. Welcombe Hills, 410. Weldon, John, 56. Welford, 673, 691, 692, 710, 7S0. West, R., 553. Westminster, 338, 539, 540. Westminster Hall, 346. Weston-on-Avon, 587, 599, 710, 75S- West Y\ ickham, 448. Whateley, George, 415. Wheatley, co. Oxon, 354, 451, 462. Wheler, R. B. , 7, 210, 257, 388, 441,450, 733, 770, 791. Whetstone, George, 25, 185, 201. Whitehall, 509. White Lion Inn, Stratford-on-Avon, in, 112, 591. Whole Contention, 53. Wier-Brake, 303, 488, 490. Wilkins, W. H., 340. Will, Shakespeare's, 114, 257, 723. Williams, T., 733. Willis, R., 284. Wilmecote, 306, 319, 399, 404, 471, 642, 643, 647, 651, 706, 732, 769. Wiltshire, 215, 299, 308. Windsor, 52, 304, 323, 324, 330, 33i, 332, 336. 339, 342, 343. 347, 373, 400, 408, 411, 417, 420, 465, 473- 4^3, 56o.— Heme's Oak, 324, 332, 364. 419, 420, 425. 443. 790. Windsor Street, 560. Winter, Samuel, 366, 580. Winter's Tale, 94. Wirtemberg, Duke of, 402. Witney, 71. Wivell, A., 272, 384. Wixford, 306, 349, 460, 475, 53S, 725- Woman is a Weathercock, 1S4. Wi iod Street, Stratfoid - on - Avon, 499. 657. Wren, Christopher, 347. Yarranton, Andrew, 557. Yorkshire Tragedy, 55. M 2 COPY REPORT OF THE BIRMINGHAM FREE LIBRARIES COMMITTEE UPON THE HALLIWELL-PHILLIPPS Collection of Rarities made to the City Council in the Summer of 1889. In order that this Committee and the Council might have a summary and classification of the contents of the Collection, they requested Mr. Samuel Timmins (who had the opportunity of examining it during Mr. Halliwell- Phillipps's lifetime) to prepare a report on the subject, which is as follows : — The collection of Shakespearean Rarities offered to the Corporation of Birmingham by the will of the late Mr. J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps, was fully described by him in a privately printed Calendar in 1887. The volume gives in its one hundred and fifty pages a detailed description of the eight hundred and five objects which form the collection. Many of these headings include numerous examples, so that the total number is very large. The collection is not a number of mere curiosities, but each article has some special reference to the Life and Times of Shakespeare, and his surroundings in Stratford and London. The collection was formed to illustrate, by all available manuscripts, books, engravings, drawings, maps, plans, surveys, and all that could throw any light, direct or incidental, on the personal and literary life of the poet, the history of the drama and the stage, and the general history of the age in which Shakespeare lived and wrote and acted on the Elizabethan stage. Although Mr. Halliwell-Phillipps had devoted nearly fifty years to the i6 5 study of those times, and especially to the works of Shakespeare, he found that his advanced age would not allow him to do justice to all the material he had col- lected. He limited his recent collections to Illustrations of the Life of Shakespeare, and has left ample material for some successor, who, he hoped, would be able and willing to complete such a work from this varied and valuable collection. He had, apparently, till very recently expected, if not desired, that the whole collection should go to the United States, where large and valuable libraries and liberal private purchasers have so long secured the literary rarities which have been offered for sale at enor- mous prices. The collection can only be fully appreciated, or its literary value understood, by a careful examination of the various items, but a general description may be given under the following headings : — I. Early Engraved Portraits of Shakespeare. II. Authentic Personal Relics. III. Documentary Evidences respecting his estates and individuals connected with his Biography. IV. Artistic Illustrations of localities connected with his personal history. I. The most important of the first division is the unique early proof of the famous Droeshout portrait (which with the Bust in Stratford Church) are the only authoritative and contemporary portraits of the poet in " his habit as he lived." The impressions of the plate in the few known copies of the rare First Folio vary considerably, and even the best examples are singularly inferior to this copy, which is in its "original proof state before it was altered by an inferior hand," and it also differs materially from the other copies in this collection as to form and ex- pression. It was purchased many years ago for one hundred pounds,* and from the fact that it is the earliest and most life-like portrait, and that it has never been successfully photographed, it would certainly realise a very large sum if it could be sold publicly, but Mr. Halliwell- Phillipps seems to have taken every precaution to prevent his collection being dispersed. * An American offered Mr. Halliwell-PhiUipps ^1,000 for this portrait. 1 66 II. The relics which can be positively associated with Shakespeare are extremely few. No letter written by him has ever yet been found. Only five examples of his hand-writing have been preserved, and these are merely signatures. Three of them are on his last will, now in Somerset House, and the other two on legal documents — one in the British Museum, and the other at Guild Hall — all three Public Collections, never to be broken up. No other similar relics had been found till Mr. Halliwell- Phillipps fortunately secured some documents of un- questioned genuineness, which, although they do not bear Shakespeare's signature, have certainly passed through his hands; and they have a further historic value as con- nected with his house at Black Friars and his home at New Place. " Of these title-deeds there are no fewer than six in the present collection." III. All these, and several others relating more or less directly to the poet's property, were purchased for very large sums, and have not only historic interest but great pecuniary value, and would excite very keen competition if they could have been offered for sale. Among the other numerous legal documents are several relating to other properties in Stratford, one of them— the Clopton Cartulary — dating from 13 13 to 1515, and others bearing the rare signatures of Sir Thomas Lucy, Thomas Greene, the poet's cousin, Walter Roche, his schoolmaster, Francis Collins, his solicitor, and John a Combe and Thomas Combe, his personal friends, as well as those of the Earls of Southampton and Essex. IV. Pictorial Illustrations of Shakespeare, and the houses and places associated with his name and fame, are numerous enough nowadays, but any of the seventeenth and even of the eighteenth century are singularly rare. " The Bodleian Library, so rich in English topography, has none ; while in the British Museum there are hardly any of- the slightest interest." Only two large and important collections of drawings and engravings illustrative of Shakespearean Biography now exist ; one, that collected by Mr. Halliwell-Phillipps and the late Mr. W. O. Hunt, and now in the Birth-Place at Stratford, and the other the present collection. Only three original last century drawings of his Birth-Place at Stratford are now to be found ; the one in the British Museum, and the two others in the present collection. Many views of the Birth-Place have been secured for this collection ; and are the more important as part of the history of the house during its many changes, and before its restoration. One drawing of much value was destroyed, with the Staunton Collection, in the fire at the Birmingham Free Library in 1879, but a tracing of it is among the present numerous sketches. The rapid and constant destruction or removal of old houses and buildings during the past few years renders many of the drawings extremely valuable. From 1862 to 1868, the late Mr. J.T. Blight was engaged by Mr. Halliwell-Phillipps to make drawings in pencil and in water colour of all the most remarkable buildings, not only in and around Stratford, but all the way by various roads to London, as illustrations of the travelling of Shakespeare's time. These are extremely numerous, and of such artistic value that they would be highly prized, apart from their local and historic interest, as records of picturesque old buildings rapidly disappearing. The topo- graphy of Stratford-on-Avon is also largely represented by a ground plan of the College (near the Church and destroyed in 1800), so early as the beginning of the sixteenth century, with the tithe-barn shown ; the Peram- bulation of the town in 1591, and the first plan of the town in 1/59- The curious old mural paintings on the walls of the Guild Chapel were copied in water colours by Thomas Fisher, in 1810, just before they were destroyed. He left two sets of his original drawings, which are far superior to the engraved copies in detail and effect. One of the replicas was burned in the fire at the Reference Library in 1879, and the other is preserved in this collection. The Life of Shakespeare in London is also represented and illustrated by many rare and curious drawings and prints. Norden's fine engraving shows Old London Bridge in 1597 — its form during the poet's London life. Braun's curious plan of the City in 1574, and Harrison's View in 1604, are extremely rare, while Visscher's Panoramic View of London from Whitehall and Rotherhithe, showing the Globe and other Theatres, is unique and of remarkable interest. Not only Stratford and London, but Windsor and many other places, are literally " represented " by the numerous drawings, the purpose having been from the first "not the mere desire for accumulation," but the "definite purpose of illustrating the Life of Shakespeare by repre- sentations of every morsel that could be found of his own i68 contemporary England, that is to say, of every object which he himself was likely to have seen." Among the many printed books some are very remark- able, and nearly unique. There are two editions of Lily's Shorte Introduction of Grammar, generally to be used, compiled and set forth for the bringing up of all those that intend to attain the knowledge of the Latin tongue. "London, 1568, for which Mr. Halliwell-Phillipps paid £120." A copy of this and also of the 1567 edition are to be found in this collection, and one or both were certainly used in Stratford School when Shakespeare was learning his " small Latin and less Greek." A curious illustration of this is found in the fact that Shakespeare quotes a line in Terence, from this edition, and not from the classic text direct. Another " Classic " also then used in Grammar Schools is the rare Ovid of 1567, several passages from which are quoted in The Tempest. Other school books of Shakespeare's times are also represented by the rare maps of Warwickshire by Saxton, 1576; Speed, 1610, and others of later dates. Many of the printed books have manuscript notes of great interest and value. A unique and interesting record of Shakespeare's later life at Stratford is found in a description of New Place, where he lived and died. The house was pulled down and rebuilt in 1702, but a paper in the handwriting of the Rev. Joseph Greene, Master of the Grammar School (1746- 1787), contains the only known descriptions of New Place as Shakespeare left it, taken viva voce from an old man who had played there when a boy. Another book of singular interest and original value is a copy of Dugdale's Warwickshire, which belonged to the Rev. Joseph Greene, and which contains many manu- script notes and drawings from his pen and pencil, in which the lost details of Stratford, a century ago, and of other neighbouring places, have fortunately been preserved. Other notes and records by the same old worthy — the first historian of Stratford — have also from time to time been added to this collection, and are of rare historic and topographical interest. Another rare and curious book is the " Select Observations on English Bodies " — the Case Book of Dr. Hall, Shakespeare's son-in-law, a remarkable record of local practice as a physician, and now very rarely found. Many others of the printed books are extremely rare 169 and valuable. Among them are the Palladis Tamia, 1598, with the earliest list of Shakespeare's Plays. Love's Labours Lost, 1598, the first work with Shakespeare's name; King Lear, "as plaid before the King's Majesty at White Hall, upon S. Stephen's Night in Christmas hollidaies," 1608 ; a MS. of 1607, the only one known in a contemporary private library in which Shakespeare's works are mentioned ; the very rare edition of his Poems, 1640, with Marshall's still rarer portrait of Shakespeare ; Laneham's account of Kenilworth, Black Letter, 1575, of extreme rarity and value ; and two examples of the very rare Music of the time of Elizabeth, Morley's First Book of Ayres, 1600 (with " It was a lover and his lass," in As You Like It), and a rarer MS. of Giles Lodge, 1 591, with " apt notes" of old songs and ballads. Among the many other rarities are Heywood's Apology, 161 2, Nashe's Pierce Pennilesse, 1592, one of the earliest Play Bills known, and hundreds of others rare or unique, and each and all more or less largely illustrating some detail of Shakespeare's life and works and times. These Shakespearean Rarities have not merely a personal or dramatic interest. They illustrate not only Shakespeare and his native county, and not only the poet but the age in which he lived. They have been collected by a com- petent judge of what was known and what was wanted, and have been preserved and annotated so as to be ready for all research, and to leave little to be added, even by the most diligent and generous searcher among the relics of old times. On consideration of this statement your Committee requested the Chairman, Mr. Alderman Johnson, with Mr. Samuel Timmins, Mr. Alderman Powell-Williams, M.P., and the Chief Librarian, Mr. J. D. Mullins, to inspect the collec- tion which is now deposited for safe custody in two rooms in the Safe Deposit in Chancery Lane, London. The result of the inspection has been to convince the deputation of the great intrinsic value of the majority of the items in the collection. Every book, print and engraving, and manuscript is so well bound or mounted as to be ready for reference and use. The twenty-one volumes of drawings and engravings supply to a large extent the loss which the Library sustained by the destruction of the Staunton Collection, in the fire of 1879. It is not possible to estimate exactly the money value of the Collection, but I/O your Committee, on the best estimate they can form, are of opinion that Mr. Halliwell-Phillipps has not over-estimated its value. There can be no doubt that the possession of this unique Collection, and that of our Shakespeare Library, would attract to Birmingham an increasing number of persons, and would make the City second only to Stratford in its interest as an attraction to lovers of Shakespeare from all parts of the civilized world. 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