Folger Shakespeare Library
CELM

Estate of Dr Bent E. Juel-Jensen, Oxford

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    Copy of 45 characters, headed Characters, in three hands (A: pp. 1-66, 70-84, 89-95, 101-10; B: pp. 67-9, 96-100; C: pp. 85-8), on 110 octavo pages (plus 87 blank leaves), in contemporary stamped calf.

    c.1630.

    Once owned by E. Almack, FSA (his bookplate); by V. Almack; by Clive Coates of Helperley, Yorkshire; and by the Crewe-Milne family(possibly from the library of Robert Monckton Milnes (1858-1945), first Marquess of Crewe, or from that of Anthony Crewe-Milnes. Sold by Quaritch, 1 August 1989.

    • EaJ 83
      No description or publication history available.

      First published (anonymously), comprising 54 characters and with a preface by Edward Blount, London, 1628. 77 characters in the edition of 1629. 78 characters in the edition of 1664. Edited by Philip Bliss (London, 1811).

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    Containing copious contemporary manuscript annotations in an unidentified hand.

    c.1600.

    Later owned by Charles Wesley (1707-88), founder of Methodism.

    Recorded in BC, 15 (Summer 1966), p. 159.

    • SpE 92
      No description or publication history available.
      Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (London, 1596)

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    A printed exemplum with Drayton's autograph presentation inscription to Sir Richard Brawne.

    A facsimile of the inscription appears in Hebel, V (1961), 266.

    • *DrM 75
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.
      Michael Drayton, The Muses Elizium (London, 1630)

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