The Folger Shakespeare Library, Printed books

Copy, entitled Clevelands Petition to His Highnesse Oliver Cromwell Lord Protector of England Scotland & Ireland, subscribed John Cleaveland, on pages at the end of a printed exemplum of Poems by J. C. ([London,], 1653), an octavo, in half-calf marbled boards.

c.mid-1650s.

The printed title-page inscribed John Varney.

Exemplum of Dr Walter Charleton, Chorea Gigantum (London, 1663).

c.1663.

Inscribed name of Gervas Hammond, Jun. Formerly in the John Dryden Collection of Percy J. Dobell (1876-1956), bookseller.

An exemplum of the printed octavo edition of 1651, bound with an exemplum of The Seventh and Last Canto of the Third Book of Gondibert (1685), which is dedicated to Charles Cotton, the last page of the first item bearing a MS memorandum to Cotton in a cursive hand, probably made by the publisher, commenting on the unpardonable mistakes in the printing of the work (where the printer hath printed nonsense) and in Cotton's commendatory poem in the second item.

A composite volume that may have belonged to Cotton and evidently has some connection with him. It is not certain, however, that the MS memorandum relates to this exemplum of the 1685 edition, since it refers to MS corrections in all seven stanzas of Cotton's poem and in seventeen stanzas of Davenant's poem which do not correspond with corrections made there.

c.1685.

Bookplate (in first item) of Samuel Chandler Gent., and book-label of M. J. Naylor, D.D. Item 73 in an unidentified sale catalogue and item 251 in a Pickering & Chatto catalogue.

Discussed in James G. McManaway, The Lost Canto of Gondibert, MLQ, 1 (1940), 63-78 (pp. 65-6).

Proof-sheet, with a printer's corrections, of four pages in the first edition of Part I (1656), comprising sigs. D1^v, D2^r, D3^v and D4^r, in an exemplum of that edition.

c.1656.

This sheet discussed, with a facsimile, in Ann-Mari Hedbäck, The Printing of The Siege of Rhodes, SN, 45 (1973), 68-79.

MS poems, in several hands, on 28 octavo pages, at the end of a composite volume of three printed works, two dated 1659, the third Sir William Davenant's Two Excellent Plays (London, 1665), in contemporary calf.

Late 17th century.

Inscribed (on the front free endpaper) E libris Johanis Harding ex Aede X^ti Oxon 1672.

Autograph copy, headed Damon To Alexis, on one side of a quarto leaf bound into a printed exemplum of Drummond's Poems (octavo, London, 1656), interleaved with 19th-century annotations, in modern calf gilt.

Bound together with a brief autograph letter signed by Drummond, to a lady, on a narrow slip of paper.

c.1630.

Inscribed (flyleaf) Robert Clark: book Emp New[ ] Novemb 19 1669; (title-page) R. Baldwyn and T Park. Owned in 1820 by David Laing (1793-18780, scottish antiquary, collector and librarian. Bookplate of Winston Henry Hagen (1859-1918), New York lawyer and book collector.

An exemplum of the printed edition of Cresacre More's Life of Sir Thomas More (London, 1642) copiously annotated by Charles, second Baron Stanhope of Harrington (1593-1675).

c.1640s.

Once owned by Horace Walpole.

Discussed, with a facsimile page, in G.P.V. Akrigg, The Curious Marginalia of Charles, Second Lord Stanhope, in Joseph Quincy Adams Memorial Studies, ed. James G. McManaway, Giles E. Dawson, and Edwin E. Willoughby (Washington, DC, 1948), pp. 785-801.

Copious autograph annotations and marginalia throughout, signed by Harvey on the title-page, a small quarto in vellum.

1566.

Stern, p. 211. Facsimile of the annotated title-page in DLB, Vol. 281, British Rhetoricians and Logicians 1500-1660. Second Series, ed. Edward A. Malone (Detroit, 2003), p. 121.

Copious autograph annotations and marginalia throughout, on pages 321-431 of the printed text, lacking the previous pages and a title-page, an octavo bound (as ff. 1r-56r) with two other works in modern morocco gilt.

[1580].

Stern, p. 209.

Copious autograph annotations and marginalia, on pages 432-60 of the printed text, lacking a title-page, an octavo bound (as ff. 56v-72v) with two other works in modern morocco gilt.

[1580].

Stern, p. 230. Facsimile of f. 72v, the last page of Harvey's notes, in Heather Wolfe, The Pen's Excellencie: Treasures from the Manuscript Collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, DC, 2002), p. 134.

Copious autograph annotations and marginalia, signed by Harvey on the title-page and dated 1580, dated at the end (f. 208v) 1590, an octavo bound (as ff. 73r-211r) with two other works in modern morocco gilt.

1580-90.

Stern, p. 218. Facsimile of f. 73r, the annotated title-page, in Heather Wolfe, The Pen's Excellencie: Treasures from the Manuscript Collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, DC, 2002), p. 135. Facsimile of p. 162 in Wilson, Plate I after p. 346.

Autograph annotations (together with annotations by others).

Autograph annotations and marginalia, a small volume (c.12 x 6 cm), in contemporary calf.

c.1600.

Stern, p. 230.

Printed exemplum once bound with SpE 65 and SpE 64.8 and probably also once owned by Spenser.

Various autograph annotations and marginalia, signed by Harvey on the title-page and the date altered from 1576 to 1579, an octavo also containing his annotated Thieste out of the original Quattro tragedie, lacking the original Hecuba and Iphigenia, in modern brown morocco gilt.

1579.

Item 307 in an unidentified sale catalogue. Corresponding to one of Harvey's volumes whose annotations are copied in the octavo MS in University of London, Senate House Library, MS 289.

Stern, p. 209.

Harvey's autograph signature on the title-page of the Libro Secondo, an octavo in later dark blue morocco.

c.1560?.

Sold by the British Museum as a duplicate in 1804.

Stern, p. 236.

A printed exemplum bearing on the flyleaf the signature John Driden, an octavo in contemporary vellum.

The signature is identical to that found in DrJ 370 [on the receipt of 1657 in the National Archives for payment by Secretary Thurloe]. The name Jean Driden also appears on the title-page in different lettering.

Mid-late 17th century.

Almost certainly from the library of Dryden's friend and protégé William Congreve (items 32 and 579 in the catalogue of Congreve's library edited by John C. Hodges in 1955). Sotheby's, 4 June 1930 (Duke of Leeds library sale), lot 574. In the Dryden Collection of Percy John Dobell (1871/2-1956).

Recorded in Osborn.

Copy, headed Sir Henry Wottons beautiful Poem on Elizabeth Princess Royal, Princess palatine, & Queen of Bohemia: 1620.

Inscribed in May 1782 by one James Bisset, Jr, of Montrose, in a quarto printed exemplum of Tasso's La Gierusalemme liberata (Ferrara, 1581), in contemporary limp vellum.

1782.

Bought by Bisset in Aberdeen in 1781.

Pages 255-75 from a Shakespeare Second Folio (1632), marked up for use as a promptbook for an unidentified theatre production.

Late 17th century?.

Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector, and in the Warwick Castle Library.

Shattuck, p. 469 (No. 1).

Pages 85-100 from a Shakespeare Third Folio (1663), marked up for use as a promptbook by the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin.

c.1670s.

Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector.

Facsimile edition in Shakespearean Prompt-Books of the Seventeenth Century, ed. G. Blakemore Evans, Vol. VIII (Charlottesville, VA, 1996).

Pages 355-6 from a Shakespeare Third Folio (1663), being a fragment of a promptbook marked up for use by the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin.

c.1680s.

Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector.

Pages 541-68 from a Shakespeare Third Folio (1663), marked up for use as a promptbook by the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin.

c.1670s.

Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector.

Facsimile edition in Shakespearean Prompt-Books of the Seventeenth Century, ed. G. Blakemore Evans, Vol. VIII (Charlottesville, VA, 1996).

Pages 761-88 from a Shakespeare Third Folio (1663).

Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector.

Pages 711-28 (misbound) from a Shakespeare Third Folio (1663), marked up in several hands for use as a promptbook by the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin.

Lacking p. 729, which is in Edinburgh University Library: see ShW 59.5.

c.1670s.

Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector.

Facsimile edition in Shakespearean Prompt-Books of the Seventeenth Century, ed. G. Blakemore Evans, Vol. V (Charlottesville, VA, 1970).

Pages 36 [i.e. 39]-60 (but lacking pp. 53-6) from a Shakespeare Third Folio (1663), and marked up as a promptbook for the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin.

For a MS supplying the text for the missing leaves, see Folger MS V.b.240 (ShW 65).

c.1670s.

Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector.

Facsimile edition in Shakespearean Prompt-Books of the Seventeenth Century, ed. G. Blakemore Evans, Vol. VIII (Charlottesville, VA, 1996).

Pages 789-817 (but lacking p. 788 and pp. 795-800) from a Shakespeare Third Folio (1663), marked up for use as a promptbook by the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin.

For the missing page 788, see ShW 72.4.

c.1670s.

Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector.

Facsimile edition in Shakespearean Prompt-Books of the Seventeenth Century, ed. G. Blakemore Evans, Vol. VI (Charlottesville, VA, 19??)

Pages 667-688 from a Shakespeare Third Folio (1663), comprising an unmarked text of Timon of Athens, but with a MS cast list for a production of Julius Caesar at the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin.

The rest of the (probably marked up) text of Julius Caesar was destroyed by fire at the Shakespeare Memorial Library, Birmingham, in 1879.

c.1670s.

Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector.

Shattuck, p. 172 (No. 1)

Pages 255-75 from a Shakespeare Third Folio (1663), marked up for use as a promptbook by the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin.

c.1670s.

Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector.

Facsimile edition in Shakespearean Prompt-Books of the Seventeenth Century, ed. G. Blakemore Evans, Vol. VIII (Charlottesville, VA, 1996).

Pages 277-303 from a Shakespeare Third Folio (1663), with cuts made for use at the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin.

c.1670s.

Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector.

Facsimile edition in Shakespearean Prompt-Books of the Seventeenth Century, ed. G. Blakemore Evans, Vol. VIII (Charlottesville, VA, 1996).

Autograph presentation inscription, For the noble hands of S^r Edmund Boyer. from his most humble servant Ja: Shirley, in a printed exemplum of Six New Playes (London, 1653), an octavo in 19th-century goatskin.

The front cover stamped in gilt S. E. S. 1884: i.e. Sewallis Evelyn Shirley, MP, JP (1844-1904). From the library of the Shirley family at Ettington Hall, Warwickshire. Quaritch's sale catalogue of English Literature (August-November 1884), item 22263.

Exemplum of the first edition with over 250 MS annotations and markings and a new final couplet, in three hands, prepared for use as a promptbook by the King's Company at the Bridges Street Theatre.

In an octavo volume, Shirley's Six New Playes (London, 1653), in contemporary sheep (rebacked).

c.1669-70.

Inscribed (title-page) Will: Norman and his blind-stamped initials and date 1655 on the covers. Formerly at Sion College, London (ARC K 55.2 /SH 6). Sotheby's, 13 June 1977, lot 61.

This item recorded in Gifford & Dyce, V, 354. Discussed in Montague Summers, A Restoration Prompt-Book, TLS (24 June 1920), p. 400; in Summers, The Restoration Theatre (London, 1934), with a facsimile of p. 13 facing p. 142; in Edward A. Langhans, The Restoration Promptbook of Shirley's The Sisters, Theatre Annual, 14 (1956), 51-65, with six facsimile examples; in Sotheby's sale catalogue for 13 June 1977, lot 61, with a facsimile example. A complete facsimile is in Edward A. Langhans, Restoration Promptbooks (Carbondale & Edwardsville, 1981), pp. 133-62 (and discussed, pp. 28-30).

Langhans records an exemplum of the first edition of the play at the University of Chicago containing a transcript of the annotations in the present exemplum made by the editor William Gifford (1756-1826).

An autograph presentation epistle by Ascham to William Parr, Earl of Essex, on three pages in an exemplum of the first printed edition of Toxophilus.

1545.

Later owned by Bertram Ashburnham (1797-1874), fourth Earl of Ashburnham, of Ashburnham Place, Sussex. Donated to the Folger in February 1947 by Dr A.S.W. Rosenbach (1876-1953), Philadelphia bookseller, collector and scholar, and by Lessing Julius Rosenwald (1891-1979), Pennsylvania businessman and collector.

An exemplum of the 1604 edition with the unprinted pages supplied in MS: i.e. sigs E1^v-E2^r, E3^v-E4^r in one secretary hand, and F1^r-F3^r in another, a quarto in modern vellum boards.

c.1604.

Sotheby's, 1941 (W.M. Safford sale).

An exemplum of the 1604 edition with the unprinted pages supplied in MS: i.e. sigs E1^v-E2^r, E3^v-E4^r in one secretary hand, and F1^r-F4^r in another, a quarto in modern brown morocco gilt.

Inscribed on the title-page: this booke is not [in] print, only foure s[heets] was printed and the bishop of Lond[on] called it in a[nd] would not suf[fer more] to be printed, [that] wch was not [printed] I got in writt[en] hand as you see.

c.1604.

Sotheby's, 1941 (W.M. Safford sale).

An exemplum of a reissue of the first edition (1620), a folio in contemporary limp vellum bearing Bacon's boar crest in gilt.

1620.

Bacon's exemplum of The Holie Bible (2 vols, Douai, [1609-10]).

Inscribed on the first title-page Liber Francisci Bacon ex dono Richardi Chamberlayne Armigeri: i.e. presented to Bacon by Richard Chamberlayne, Clerk of the Court of Wards and Liveries.

c.1610.

Later owned by Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire, book collector, and by Sir M.R.H. Wilson, Bt.

This volume is discussed in Edwin Eliott Willoughby, Bacon's Copy of a Douai-Reims Bible, The Library, 5th Ser. 3 (1948-9), 54-6.

Copy, in a mixed hand, subscribed Ben: Jonson, on the recto of the engraved portrait in a printed exemplum of William Camden's Annales (London, 1615).

An early copy of Jonson's inscription, which was carved on a monument in a church largely destroyed in the Fire of London (1666).

c.1623.

The volume inscribed sum ex libris Edwardi Worsælij.... Armorial bookplate of Henry Labouchere, MP (1798-1869), Baron Taunton, politician.

Edited from this MS in Herford & Simpson, VIII, 661. Facsimile in Mark Bland, Jonson, Biathanatos and the Interpretation of Manuscript Evidence, SB, 51 (1998), 154-82 (p. 166), where it is mistakenly treated as if autograph.

Autograph inscription, Gulielmus Camden, in amicitiae symbolum D. D. L. M., in a printed exemplum of Britannia (London, 1600).

c.1600.

Inscribed Thomas Thomson.

Autograph presentation inscription by Camden to William Beecher, on the title-page in a printed exemplum of Britannia (London, [1607]), a folio in calf gilt.

c.1607.

Quaritch, sale catalogue 230 (May 1904), item 373.

Two folio leaves of MS verse, in double columns, in a neat roman hand, at the end of a printed exemplum of Thomas Campion's The First Booke of Ayres (London, [1613?]) bound with The third and fourth booke of Aires (London, [1617]), in panelled calf.

Mid-17th century.

Sotheby's, 16-19 June 1930, lot 326, to Quaritch. From the library of Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937).

A garbled version of two lines adapted from II, 2, lines 55-6 (Opinion's but a fool, that makes us scan), here beginning he is a foole that scann, inscribed at the end of a printed exemplum of George Chapman's An Humorous dayes mirth (London, 1599).

In the hand of Thomas Bentley who owes this booke.

Early 17th century.

This MS recorded in Katherine Duncan-Jones, Ungentle Shakespeare (London, 2001), pp. 205, 302-3.

An exemplum of the first edition, a folio in contemporary calf bearing (the remains of) Bacon's boar crest in gilt.

c.1618.

Printed exemplum, in brown calf, inscribed Edm Waller, Theophilus Ashton, and Jo: Kelynge.

Mid-late 17th century.

Bookplate of William Thomas Smedley (1851-1934), Baconian.

An exemplum of the printed edition of 1640, with neatly written directions made apparently for use at the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin, a quarto in modern half-calf.

c.1670s-80s.

Bookplate of Frederick Andrew Inderwick, Q.C. (1836-1904), of the Inner Temple.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in A. Stevenson, The Case of the Decapitated Cast or The Night-Walker at Smock Alley, Shakespeare Quarterly, 6 (1955), 275-96.

An exemplum of the first first edition of 1629, with extensive MS deletions for performance, numbered on the title-page 2097.

Late 17th century.

Discussed in Clifford Leech, A Projected Restoration Performance of Ford's The Lover's Melancholy?, MLR 56 (1961), 378-81.

Autograph annotations and marginalia, in blue goatskin.

1572.

Later owned by The Rev. John Brand (1744-1806), antiquary and topographer; Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector; William Henry Miller, MP (1789-1848), of Britwell Court, Burnham, Buckinghamshire; Quaritch's, 1920; and Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937).

Stern, p. 214.

Autograph marginal additions and annotations by Harington in a large paper exemplum of one of the octavo editions of 1596, in modern red morocco gilt.

c.1596.

Once owned by John, first Baron Lumley (c.1533-1609), collector, and later by The Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857, antiquary and book collector. Bookplates of Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector; E. M. Cox; and Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937).

This item (the Lumley-Folger copy) collated in Donno, with a facsimile of the title-page as frontispiece.

Autograph marginal additions and annotations by Harington in an imperfect exemplum of one of the octavo editions of 1596, the missing first part (A New Discourse) supplied from an exemplum of the third edition (1814) and two pages missing from the Appolgie supplied in MS in a roman hand, in old russia.

c.1596.

Inscribed in 1813 by Robert Nares (1753-1829), philologist. Bookplates of J. Knight and John William Cole. Label of James Camden Hotten (1832-73), bookseller, writer and publisher.

This item (the Nares-Folger copy) collated in Donno.

Autograph annotations and marginalia, inscribed Ex dono Jo. ffratris.

c.1588.

Leighton sale, May 1918, lot 1235. From the library of Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937).

Stern, p. 220.

Twenty quarto leaves containing extracts from the 1576 edition of Heywood's Woorkes, in a single secretary hand, bound at the end of a printed exemplum of that edition, in modern black calf gilt.

c.1577-1600.

Later owned by George Spencer (1766-1840), Marquess of Blandford and fifth Duke of Marlborough, book collector, of White Knights, near Reading; George Hibbert (1757-1837), West India merchant; T. D. C. Graham; M. Ogle & Son, Glasgow, booksellers; McLeish, sale catalogue No. 114, item 161.

Verse inscribed in a printed exemplum of Ben Jonson's Workes, Vol. I (London, 1640), a folio, in modern panelled calf gilt.

In the hand of The Rev. John Genest (1764-1839), theatre historian, whose signature dated 1 August 1784 appears on a flyleaf.

c.1784.

Acquired from G. A. Baker, 1929.

Thomas Nashe's scribbled italic signature and annotations on both sides of the title-page and pp. 130, 132, in a printed exemplum of John Leland, Principum Ac illustrium aliquot & eruditorum in Anglia virorum Encomia (London, 1589).

Including the quotations Che sara sara deuinynitie adieu (cp. Faustus, I, i, 74-5) and studie in indian silke (cp. Faustus, I, i, 117-18).

c.1589-1601.

Later in the library of Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937).

These annotations printed, with facsimile examples, in Paul H. Kocher, Some Nashe Marginalia concerning Marlowe, MLN, 57 (1942), 45-9.

Autograph inscription Sum Nicolai Vdulli Magnes amoris modestia 1525, and annotations, a quarto in contemporary calf.

1525.

Once owned by James Marble (fl. 1525-30s) and in 1537 by William Welden, both of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Later owned by William Herbert (1718-95), bibliographer and print seller; by Sir John Saunders Sebright, seventh Baronet, MP (1767-1846), of Beechwood, Hertfordshire (his sale 6 April 1807); by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector; by Sir John Saunders Sebright, seventh Baronet, MP (1767-1846), of Beechwood, Hertfordshire; and in the Britwell Library of William Henry Miller, MP (1789-1848) and Samuel Christie Miller, MP (1810-89), at Burnham, Buckinghamshire. Britwell sale, 4 April 1927, lot 1139. Maggs's sale catalogue No. 493 (1927), item 591, with a facsimile of the title-page (Plate XLVI, facing p. 329).

Recorded in William L. Edgerton, Nicholas Udall (New York, 1965), pp. 31-2, 114. Juhász-Ormsby, No. 3.

Annotations in unidentified hands, unsigned.

Late 16th century.

Stern, p. 268.

An autograph letter in Latin signed by Jonson (Jonsonio tuo), to Richard Briggs (Amico summo D. Rich Briggesio), dated 10 August 1623, inscribed in Jonson's printed exemplum of Martial's Epigrammaton libri, ed. Thomas Farnaby (London, 1615).

Inscribed (sig. A2v) Gulielmus Dauling: His Booke Anno Domini 1676. Armorial bookplate and inscription of Bryan Faussett, 1772.

1623.

The letter first published in Gentleman's Magazine (1786), vol. lvi, part i, p. 378. Edited in Herford & Simpson, I, 215-16.

Numerous autograph corrections in an exemplum of the quarto edition of 1624, in half green morocco on marbled boards.

Separately rebound (by Gosse), but originally bound with seven other plays of Massinger (including unmarked exempla of The Fatal Dowry (1632) and The Maid of Honour (1632)), known as the Harbord volume.

c.1624-33.

From the library of the Harbord family, of Gunton Park, Roughton, Norfolk, and sold in 1853. Bookplate of Sir Edmund Gosse (1849-1928), writer.

This item collated in Edwards & Gibson.

The Harbord volume variously described in: A.H. Cruickshank, Philip Massinger (Oxford, 1920), pp. 215-23; W.W. Greg, More Massinger Corrections, The Library, 4th Ser. 5 (1925), 59-91, reprinted in Greg, Collected Papers (Oxford, 1966), pp. 120-48; Cruickshank, Massinger Corrections, The Library, 4th Ser. 5 (1925), 175-9; J.E. Gray, Still More Massinger Corrections, The Library, 5th Ser. 5 (1951), 132-9; A.K. McIlwraith, The Manuscript Corrections in Massinger's Plays, The Library, 5th Ser. 6 (1952), 213-16; and Edwards & Gibson, I, xxxii-xxxiii.

A few autograph corrections by Massinger, made chiefly to replace lines cut away by the binder, in an exemplum of the quarto edition of 1623, in half green morocco on marbled boards.

Separately rebound (by Gosse), but originally bound with seven other plays of Massinger (including unmarked exempla of The Fatal Dowry (1632) and The Maid of Honour (1632)), known as the Harbord volume.

c.1623-33.

From the library of the Harbord family, of Gunton Park, Roughton, Norfolk, and sold in 1853. Bookplate of Sir Edmund Gosse (1849-1928), writer.

This item recorded in Edwards & Gibson, I, 207. Facsimile of the first page of text in DLB, vol. 58, Jacobean and Caroline Dramatists, ed. Fredson Bowers (Detroit, 1987), p. 186.

The Harbord volume variously described in: A.H. Cruickshank, Philip Massinger (Oxford, 1920), pp. 215-23; W.W. Greg, More Massinger Corrections, The Library, 4th Ser. 5 (1925), 59-91, reprinted in Greg, Collected Papers (Oxford, 1966), pp. 120-48; Cruickshank, Massinger Corrections, The Library, 4th Ser. 5 (1925), 175-9; J.E. Gray, Still More Massinger Corrections, The Library, 5th Ser. 5 (1951), 132-9; A.K. McIlwraith, The Manuscript Corrections in Massinger's Plays, The Library, 5th Ser. 6 (1952), 213-16; and Edwards & Gibson, I, xxxii-xxxiii.

Over 80 autograph corrections by Massinger, in an exemplum of the quarto edition of 1632, in half green morocco on marbled boards.

Separately rebound (by Gosse), but originally bound with seven other plays of Massinger (including unmarked exempla of The Fatal Dowry (1632) and The Maid of Honour (1632)), known as the Harbord volume.

c.1632-3.

From the library of the Harbord family, of Gunton Park, Roughton, Norfolk, and sold in 1853. Bookplate of Sir Edmund Gosse (1849-1928), writer.

This item collated in Edwards & Gibson.

The Harbord volume variously described in: A.H. Cruickshank, Philip Massinger (Oxford, 1920), pp. 215-23; W.W. Greg, More Massinger Corrections, The Library, 4th Ser. 5 (1925), 59-91, reprinted in Greg, Collected Papers (Oxford, 1966), pp. 120-48; Cruickshank, Massinger Corrections, The Library, 4th Ser. 5 (1925), 175-9; J.E. Gray, Still More Massinger Corrections, The Library, 5th Ser. 5 (1951), 132-9; A.K. McIlwraith, The Manuscript Corrections in Massinger's Plays, The Library, 5th Ser. 6 (1952), 213-16; and Edwards & Gibson, I, xxxii-xxxiii.

Nearly 60 autograph corrections by Massinger in the first two acts, in an exemplum of the quarto edition of 1630, in half green morocco on marbled boards.

Separately rebound (by Gosse), but originally bound with seven other plays of Massinger (including unmarked exempla of The Fatal Dowry (1632) and The Maid of Honour (1632)), known as the Harbord volume.

c.1630-3.

From the library of the Harbord family, of Gunton Park, Roughton, Norfolk, and sold in 1853. Bookplate of Sir Edmund Gosse (1849-1928), writer.

This item collated in Edwards & Gibson.

The Harbord volume variously described in: A.H. Cruickshank, Philip Massinger (Oxford, 1920), pp. 215-23; W.W. Greg, More Massinger Corrections, The Library, 4th Ser. 5 (1925), 59-91, reprinted in Greg, Collected Papers (Oxford, 1966), pp. 120-48; Cruickshank, Massinger Corrections, The Library, 4th Ser. 5 (1925), 175-9; J.E. Gray, Still More Massinger Corrections, The Library, 5th Ser. 5 (1951), 132-9; A.K. McIlwraith, The Manuscript Corrections in Massinger's Plays, The Library, 5th Ser. 6 (1952), 213-16; and Edwards & Gibson, I, xxxii-xxxiii.

Numerous autograph corrections and revisions by Massinger in an exemplum of the quarto edition of 1630, in half green morocco on marbled boards.

Separately rebound (by Gosse), but originally bound with seven other plays of Massinger (including unmarked exempla of The Fatal Dowry (1632) and The Maid of Honour (1632)), known as the Harbord volume.

c.1630-3.

From the library of the Harbord family, of Gunton Park, Roughton, Norfolk, and sold in 1853. Bookplate of Sir Edmund Gosse (1849-1928), writer.

This item collated in Edwards & Gibson.

The Harbord volume variously described in: A.H. Cruickshank, Philip Massinger (Oxford, 1920), pp. 215-23; W.W. Greg, More Massinger Corrections, The Library, 4th Ser. 5 (1925), 59-91, reprinted in Greg, Collected Papers (Oxford, 1966), pp. 120-48; Cruickshank, Massinger Corrections, The Library, 4th Ser. 5 (1925), 175-9; J.E. Gray, Still More Massinger Corrections, The Library, 5th Ser. 5 (1951), 132-9; A.K. McIlwraith, The Manuscript Corrections in Massinger's Plays, The Library, 5th Ser. 6 (1952), 213-16; and Edwards & Gibson, I, xxxii-xxxiii

Numerous autograph corrections by Massinger in an exemplum of the quarto edition of 1629, in half green morocco on marbled boards.

Separately rebound (by Gosse), but originally bound with seven other plays of Massinger (including unmarked exempla of The Fatal Dowry (1632) and The Maid of Honour (1632)), known as the Harbord volume.

c.1629-33.

From the library of the Harbord family, of Gunton Park, Roughton, Norfolk, and sold in 1853. Bookplate of Sir Edmund Gosse (1849-1928), writer. Inserted letter to Gosse by A.C. Swinburne discussing Massinger's corrections in the Harbord volume.

This item collated in Edwards & Gibson. Facsimile examples in W.W. Greg, Collected Papers (Oxford, 1966), facing p. 128, and in DLB, vol. 58, Jacobean and Caroline Dramatists, ed. Fredson Bowers (Detroit, 1987), p. 187.

The Harbord volume variously described in: A.H. Cruickshank, Philip Massinger (Oxford, 1920), pp. 215-23; W.W. Greg, More Massinger Corrections, The Library, 4th Ser. 5 (1925), 59-91, reprinted in Greg, Collected Papers (Oxford, 1966), pp. 120-48; Cruickshank, Massinger Corrections, The Library, 4th Ser. 5 (1925), 175-9; J.E. Gray, Still More Massinger Corrections, The Library, 5th Ser. 5 (1951), 132-9; A.K. McIlwraith, The Manuscript Corrections in Massinger's Plays, The Library, 5th Ser. 6 (1952), 213-16; and Edwards & Gibson, I, xxxii-xxxiii.

Exemplum of the first edition (1602) with the text of the missing leaves H2 and H3 supplied in MS, probably transcribed from a promptbook, a quarto in vellum boards gilt.

In the secretary hand of a professional scribe associated with the playhouse and also responsible for ChG 12.5, HyT 5, and a verse miscellany in the British Library, Add. MS 33998.

c.1620s-30s.

From the library of the Mostyn family, at Mostyn Hall, near Holywell, Flintshire.

This MS discussed, with a facsimile, in James G. McManaway, Latin Title-Page Mottoes as a Clue to Dramatic Authorship, The Library, 4th Ser. 26 (1945-6), 28-36, reprinted in McManaway, Studies in Shakespeare, Bibliography, and Theater (New York, 1969), 55-66.

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

1574.

Inscribed (front pastedown) Tho: Stukeley M.B.RSS. 1718. Ex dono amici plurimis aestimandi Maur. Johnson Ar.S.T.I.S.

Stern, p. 229.

Waller's exemplum, inscribed Edm: Waller, a duodecimo in vellum boards.

Later owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. In the Britwell Court Library of William Henry Miller, MP (1789-1848), and Samuel Christie Miller, MP (1810-89), at Burnham, Buckinghamshire, and in the library of Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937). Sotheby's, 15 March [?1926], lot 439. H.B. Quaritch, 23 March 1926.

A printed exemplum of the 1634 edition of Sir Walter Ralegh's Historie of the World copiously annotated by Charles, second Baron Stanhope of Harrington (1593-1675).

c.1640s.

Discussed in G.P.V. Akrigg, The Curious Marginalia of Charles, Second Lord Stanhope, in Joseph Quincy Adams Memorial Studies, ed. James G. McManaway, Giles E. Dawson, and Edwin E. Willoughby (Washington, DC, 1948), pp. 785-801.

Copy of an apparently early version, in a neat predominantly italic hand, headed A Paraphrase upon Salomons song. Dedicated to the Queene. But not sufferd to be printed, on six folio leaves, bound with a printed exemplum of A Paraphrase upon the Divine Poems (London, 1638), in modern quarter calf on marbled boards.

c.1637-43.

Cropped inscription (sig. A1^r) Jones. Bookplate of William Thomas Smedley (1851-1934), Baconian.

This MS discussed in Davis, loc. cit., pp. 335-6, 338-40.

Lady Anne Clifford's exemplum of the second edition, with her autograph inscription on the title-page I beegane, to ovrloke this Booke the 18 of Februarary and I did make an ende of reding, or over loking itt all over the first of Marche folloinge 1638, with autograph annotations to the printed text and many corners turned down as bookmarks.

1638.

Afterwards owned by Sir Daniel Fleming (1633-1701), of Rydall Hall, Ambleside, Westmoreland, antiquary. Christie's, 27 February 1969 (Richard Le Fleming sale), lot 56, to Maggs.

Sample photocopies are in the British Library, RP 9354.

Proof sheet, with MS markings calling for nine corrections, of sig. vv3^r (p. 333), in an exemplum of the First Folio (1623).

c.1623.

Owned in 1902 by Maurice Jonas.

This item discussed, with facsimiles, in Charlton Hinman, A Proof-Sheet in the First Folio of Shakespeare, The Library, 4th Ser. 23 (1943), 101-7.

Proof sheet, with MS markings calling for five corrections, of sig. qq6^v (p. 292), in an exemplum of the First Folio (1623).

c.1623.

Inscribed Alice Stevenson 1723; Thomas Willson [c.1775]; and 17. Nov. 1807. John Cranch [the painter, 1751-1821]. Also owned by Walter T. Spencer (d.1936), London bookseller.

This item discussed, with a facsimile, in Charlton Hinman, Mark III: New Light on the Proof-Reading for the First Folio of Shakespeare, SB, 3 (1950-1), 145-53.

Proof sheet, with MS markings calling for two corrections, of sig. ff6^r (p. 71), in an exemplum of the First Folio (1623).

c.1623.

Inscribed Thomas Polwhele [fl.c.1700]. Later owned by Alexander Smith Cochran (1874-1929), founder of the Elizabethan Club at Yale.

This item discussed, with facsimiles, in Charlton Hinman, The Proof-Reading of the First Folio Texts of Romeo and Juliet, SB, 6 (1954), 61-70.

A printed exemplum of the Shakespeare First Folio (London, 1623).

Once owned by Elizabeth Brockett.

A proof sheet, of four pages (sigs xx6^r-xx7^v, pp. 351-4), with MS markings calling for nineteen corrections on sig. xx6^v (p. 352), extracted from an exemplum of the First Folio (1623), in a modern half morocco on marbled boards folder.

c.1623.

Later in the libraries of Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector, and James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector.

This item (first discovered by Halliwell-Phillipps) described, with facsimiles, in Edwin Eliott Willoughby, The Printing of the First Folio of Shakespeare (Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1932), and in Charlton Hinman, The Printing and Proof-Reading of the First Folio of Shakespeare, 2 vols (Oxford, 1963), I, 317-19 and facing p. 234.

Facsimiles also in S. Schoenbaum, Shakespeare The Globe & the World (Washington, DC, & London, 1979), p. 179, and in DLB, vol. 62, Elizabethan Dramatists, ed. Fredson Bowers (Detroit, 1987), p. 330.

Two MS versions of the last line, in a mixed hand.

Here Who euer heard a story of more woe / Then that of Juliet and her Romeo and ffor neuer was there story of more woe / Then that of Juliet and her Romeo, among other quotations inscribed in the italic hand of Richard Derham on the last page (verso of p. 45) of his printed exemplum of Nathaniel Shute, Corono Charitatis (London, 1626).

1627-9.

Inscribed Joh: Squire and W. W. Radford 1871. Later in the library of Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937).

Copy, in the hand of Dorothy Wilde, inscribed in a printed exemplum of Sidney's Arcadia (London, 1593), sig. T4v.

1645.

A small quarto composite volume of works chiefly by Southwell, comprising a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, With other Poems (London, 1595), vi + 56 pages, with minor MS corrections and marks, bound with an untitled MS of poems by Southwell and others, in one or possibly two neat italic hands, 88 leaves, formerly in contemporary calf, now in modern quarter-calf.

Early 17th century.

Inscribed on the title-page E[x] L[ibris] J. Phillips 1774. Booklabel of Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937).

Cited by editors, and in IELM, I.ii, as the Harmsworth MS. Collated in Brown.

A printed exemplum presented to John Raven (d.1636), Royal Physician, formerly including Wither's autograph verses to him (WiG 29).

c.1635.