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Houghton Library printed book provenance file, R-Z and unidentified

Title: Houghton Library printed book provenance file, R-Z and unidentified

Index to ownership/provenance information primarily from printed books at Houghton Library.

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Collection of theatrical correspondence and ephemera, 1697-1930

Title: Collection of theatrical correspondence and ephemera 1697-1930

The William Appleton collection consists of letters, handwritten manuscripts, "penny plains" and "two-pence coloured" materials, which were small portraits of actors created for the toy theater trade, a once-popular form of home entertainment. The collection encompasses the late 17th century up through the mid-20th century, although the bulk of the material falls between the mid-18th century and the mid-19th century. The oldest item is a letter from actress Elizabeth Barry to a Lady Lisbourn, dated October 25, 1697. The latest item is a letter from playwright George Bernard Shaw to a J. T. Grien, dated November 28, 1930. The collection contains many letters from prominent theatrical figures, primarily of the English stage, including Ira Aldridge, Dion Boucicault, Edward Gordon Craig, David Garrick, Sir Henry Irving, Edmund Kean, William Charles Macready, Bernard Shaw, Sarah Siddons, Dame Ellen Terry, and others. Also included are black and white portraits known as "penny plains," and color portraits known as "two-pence coloured," depicting actors and actresses of the day in their best known roles. These images were intended for home use in puppet theater-type settings, and most date from the early to mid-1800s, though some date as far back as 1799.

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Extra-illustrated Life of Nollekens, 1708-1875, 1768-1836

Title: Extra-illustrated Life of Nollekens 1708-1875 1768-1836

This collection comprises an extra-illustrated copy--with many engravings and original manuscript letters--of the second edition of John Thomas Smith's (London : Henry Colburn, 1829). Nollekens and his times, comprehending a life of that celebrated sculptor: and memoirs of several contemporary artists, from the time of Roubillac, Hogarth, and Reynolds, to that of Fuseli, Flaxman, and Blake

ArchivalResource: 2 Linear feet (6 boxes)

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Chestnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.). Theatre. : Doors will be opened at a quarter past 6, and the curtain rise at 7 o'clock. Mr. Pearman, Mr. Horn, and Mrs. Austin's third night. The opera of Artaxerxes having been received with rapturous applause on Wednesday evening, will be repeated to-night. Monday evening, May 12, 1828, will be presented a petite comedy, in one act, called Cherry bounce. ... After which, the grand serious opera of Artaxerxes, by Dr. Arne. ... To conclude with a farce, called The rendezvous. ... To-morrow evening, Jane Shore. Jane Shore, Mrs. Sloman, (the first night of her engagement.) Dumont, Mr. Rowbotham, ... After which, a favourite farce, in which Mr. Sloman will appear. ...

Title: Theatre. : Doors will be opened at a quarter past 6, and the curtain rise at 7 o'clock. Mr. Pearman, Mr. Horn, and Mrs. Austin's third night. The opera of Artaxerxes having been received with rapturous applause on Wednesday evening, will be repeated to-night. Monday evening, May 12, 1828, will be presented a petite comedy, in one act, called Cherry bounce. ... After which, the grand serious opera of Artaxerxes, by Dr. Arne. ... To conclude with a farce, called The rendezvous. ... To-morrow evening, Jane Shore. Jane Shore, Mrs. Sloman, (the first night of her engagement.) Dumont, Mr. Rowbotham, ... After which, a favourite farce, in which Mr. Sloman will appear. ...

ArchivalResource: 1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 42 x 19 cm

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Garrick, David, 1717-1779,. Collection of autograph letters signed (some incomplete) from David Garrick, Merton, Burlington House, London and Southampton St., London, to the Countess of Burlington [manuscript], 1749 July 18-November 4.

Title: Collection of autograph letters signed (some incomplete) from David Garrick, Merton, Burlington House, London and Southampton St., London, to the Countess of Burlington [manuscript], 1749 July 18-November 4.

No. 29 criticizes [Colley] Cibber; no. 33 apologizes for his frequent references to Shakespeare; no. 37 mentions the opening night of Drury Lane and his intention of making his first appearance in Benedict the married man; no. 42 his playing of Lothario; and several the controversy aroused by the French players. No. 36 contains a postscript of Mrs. Garrick's. No. 27 quotes Mr. Moore's lines to Mrs. Garrick beginning Fine binding! and but little in't!

ArchivalResource: 20 items.

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Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784. Samuel Johnson manuscripts, 1725-1784.

Title: Samuel Johnson manuscripts, 1725-1784.

This collection consists of items in Johnson's hand, and early transcripts of his manuscripts. Highlights include a 77-page diary which Johnson kept sporadically from 1765 to 1784; a 1784 deed of his teapot to his servant Francis Barber; and the last known document in his hand, a pension receipt he signed on the day of his death in 1784. The collection includes partial drafts of many of his works, including Irene; Lives of the English Poets (biographies of Pope and Rowe); London; A Plan of a Dictionary of the English Language; and The Vanity of Human Wishes. It also includes his partial translation of Sallust's Catiline; annotations of documents by Giuseppe Baretti, Richard Bathurst, and Hester Lynch Piozzi; notes on theologians Samuel Clarke and Styan Thirlby; and documents he wrote on behalf of Mary Dunn Collier Flint, Henry Thrale, and the widowed mother of Joseph Hunt. The collection also includes significant early transcripts of documents authored by Johnson, such as several pages of extracts which James Boswell made from Johnson's lost earlier diary; Boswell's transcript of Johnson's annotations on Dalrymple's Annals of Scotland; and two fragments prepared by an amanuensis for Johnson's Dictionary. Most of the collection is in English, but a substantial portion is written in, or translated from, Latin.

ArchivalResource: 1 box, 14 volumes, and 1 framed item (1.4 linear ft.)

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Eccles, John, d. 1735. Copy of The original musick in The fair penitent, 1703?, [ca. 1730] / set by J. Eccles.

Title: Copy of The original musick in The fair penitent, 1703?, [ca. 1730] / set by J. Eccles.

A copyist's transcription. Scored for voice and continuo. Text by Nicholas Rowe.

ArchivalResource: 1 ms. score (15 p.) ; 33 x 30 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/429073163 View

Pindar, Peter, 1738-1819. [Mathematical exercise book]

Title: [Mathematical exercise book] [ca. 1725]

Manuscript mathematical exercise book with additional poetry, riddles and childish doodles in other, later hands. Written in a calligraphic hand, with embellishments and illustrations, the mathematical text, which demonstrates a variety of practical applications for arithmetic, is incomplete. Many pages bear only headings without any mathematical tables or examples below. A slightly later hand has copied poetry and riddles on the blank versos of many of the pages, while an even later child's hand (or hands) has made numerous pencil doodles in the latter half of the volume, including lists of flowers and trees, pictures of people and houses and an alphabet. Some of the mathematical examples shown feature the years 1723, 1724 and 1725.

ArchivalResource: [62] p., bound ; 20 cm.

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Green, Mr., fl. 1827,. Playbill for Jane Shore and Barnaby Brittle at the theatre at Nafferton [manuscript], 1827.

Title: Playbill for Jane Shore and Barnaby Brittle at the theatre at Nafferton [manuscript], 1827.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 leaf)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/299094262 View

Garrick, David, 1717-1779,. Autograph letter signed from David Garrick to the Rev. Mr. E. Lloyd, at Vron, near Bala, Merionethshire [manuscript], 1769 December 14.

Title: Autograph letter signed from David Garrick to the Rev. Mr. E. Lloyd, at Vron, near Bala, Merionethshire [manuscript], 1769 December 14.

Played the character of Lord Hastings the previous night with tolerable spirit. Will try and procure a British lord, preferably an English one, for him.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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Garrick, David, 1717-1779. An attempt at an epilogue for L[ady] S[tanhope] after playing the character of Calista [in The fair penitent by Nicholas Rowe], endorsed by Garrick [manuscript], [18th century].

Title: An attempt at an epilogue for L[ady] S[tanhope] after playing the character of Calista [in The fair penitent by Nicholas Rowe], endorsed by Garrick [manuscript], [18th century].

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 leaves)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/230417349 View

Garrick, David, 1717-1779,. Autograph letter signed from David Garrick to [J.B.A.] Suard [manuscript], 1765 November 30.

Title: Autograph letter signed from David Garrick to [J.B.A.] Suard [manuscript], 1765 November 30.

Deprecates a letter printed by him from one of his correspondents in which he gives a mistaken impression of the English theatre. Rowe's The ambitious stepmother was not a success.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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Dyce, Alexander, 1798-1869. Letter: 1864 Dec. 26, 33 Oxford Terrace, Hyde Park, London, to David Laing / Alexander Dyce.

Title: Letter: 1864 Dec. 26, 33 Oxford Terrace, Hyde Park, London, to David Laing / Alexander Dyce. 1864.

Request for a copy of Rowe's Shakespeare. Belated acknowledgment of a copy of Dyce's baptismal certificate.

ArchivalResource: [3]p.

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Richarby, L. Lives and characters of illustrious persons of Great Britain in two volumes [manuscript], anno 1753 / L. Richarby scripit.

Title: Lives and characters of illustrious persons of Great Britain in two volumes [manuscript], anno 1753 / L. Richarby scripit.

Fifty five short biographies. They are mainly copied, with changes, from various sources: the biography of Shakespeare (p. 176-81) is a condensation of A. Pope's version (1725) of N. Rowe's "Some account of the life &c. of Mr. William Shakespear" (Shakespeare's Works, 1709).

ArchivalResource: 142 leaves ; 20 x 12 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/252040969 View

Snelgrove, Arthur G., 19th cent. Copy of a letter from Arthur Snelgrove to an unidentified recipient, 1874 September 17 [manuscript], 19th century?

Title: Copy of a letter from Arthur Snelgrove to an unidentified recipient, 1874 September 17 [manuscript], 19th century?

Regarding annotated copies of The contention and Jane tragedy [i.e. Jane Shore?] to be used for copy as well as the reimbursement of travelling expenses.

ArchivalResource: 2 leaves ; 21 x 13 cm.

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Rowe, Nicholas, 1674-1718,. Memorandum of Nicholas Rowe [manuscript], 1713 May 7.

Title: Memorandum of Nicholas Rowe [manuscript], 1713 May 7.

That Nicholas Rowe has agreed to deliver Bernard Lintot a true copy of his tragedy, Jane Shore, for the sum of fifty pounds, 15 shillings. Witness signature of Alexander Pope. Also includes two printed pages from the May-June 1977 issue of Notes and queries which discusses this memorandum.

ArchivalResource: 1 leaf ; 12 x 20 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/319838711 View

Tylter, Patrick Fraser, 1791-1849. Letter: [1835?] Advocates Library, [Edinburgh] to David Laing, North Bridge [Edinburgh] / P.F. Tylter.

Title: Letter: [1835?] Advocates Library, [Edinburgh] to David Laing, North Bridge [Edinburgh] / P.F. Tylter. [1835?]

Discusses the printing of the Chronica de Mailros.

ArchivalResource: [2] p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/40240733 View

Stocker,. A collection of poems compiled by Stocker [manuscript], [ca.1750-1780].

Title: A collection of poems compiled by Stocker [manuscript], [ca.1750-1780].

Contains some 260 poems. A few are attributed to persons of no note, none to any poet of reputation. It is probable that most of the pieces are original compositions of the compiler, who from many references to Portsmouth, and other places in its vicinity, may be supposed to have lived in that region. Persons named Stocker are several times mentioned and a Richard Stocker, perhaps the person whose autograph appears on the fly-leaf, is referred to on pp. 236-and 340-41 as the writer's son. The poet, however, calls an apothecary named Stocker a quack (p. 217). Many of the poems are of purely local interest. Members of a family named Missing figure as subject, addressee, or composer of at least 12 pieces. Among the contents are a number of prologues and epilogues for plays, including Henry VIII and Othello, all written for special performances, presumably local (Tamerlane at Portsmouth, 1753), and some, at least, amateur. A Mr. Missing is named as author and speaker of two.

ArchivalResource: 245 leaves ; 20 x 17 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/299096988 View

Yates, Mrs (Mary Ann), 1728-1784,. Autograph letter from Mrs. Mary Ann Yates, King's Theatre, to Mr. Garrick [manuscript], 1774 May 6 Friday morning.

Title: Autograph letter from Mrs. Mary Ann Yates, King's Theatre, to Mr. Garrick [manuscript], 1774 May 6 Friday morning.

She was at Mortlake, so did not receive his letter until yesterday evening. She will be happy to see him. Letter is hinged to print of Mrs. Yates as Calista.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/216881472 View

Tylter, Patrick Fraser, 1791-1849. Letter: [18--] Mount Esk by Laswade, to David Laing, Edin. / Patrick Fraser Tylter.

Title: Letter: [18--] Mount Esk by Laswade, to David Laing, Edin. / Patrick Fraser Tylter. [18--]

Asks for Laing to get him some material on Boileau and Rowe from the Advocates Library.

ArchivalResource: [3] p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/780740173 View

Dyce, Alexander, 1798-1869. Letter: 1865 Jan. 11, 33 Oxford Terrace, Hyde Park, London, to David Laing / Alexr Dyce.

Title: Letter: 1865 Jan. 11, 33 Oxford Terrace, Hyde Park, London, to David Laing / Alexr Dyce. 1865.

Thanking Laing for his unsuccessful search for a copy of Rowe's Shakespeare. Comments on Laing's edition of Dunbar.

ArchivalResource: [2] p.

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Garrick, David, 1717-1779. Autograph prologue with revisions by David Garrick, spoke by Mr. W. Giffard upon his wife's first appearing upon the stage in The ... fair penitent ... [by Nicholas Rowe, 1740?] [manuscript], [18th century].

Title: Autograph prologue with revisions by David Garrick, spoke by Mr. W. Giffard upon his wife's first appearing upon the stage in The ... fair penitent ... [by Nicholas Rowe, 1740?] [manuscript], [18th century].

ArchivalResource: 1 item (5 leaves)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/233649340 View

Early American playbills, 1750-1812.

Title: Early American playbills, 1750-1812.

Eighteenth and nineteenth-century printed playbills from American theaters.

ArchivalResource: 5 drawers (1.25 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01711/catalog View

Hanmer, Thomas, Sir, 1677-1746. A glossary to Shakespeare, copied by [Thomas Percy] and with additions by him [manuscript], ca. 1769.

Title: A glossary to Shakespeare, copied by [Thomas Percy] and with additions by him [manuscript], ca. 1769.

Many of the entries correspond to those in the glossary of his 1744 edition of Shakespeare's Works, some are among the additions found in the edition of 1770-1771. Certain entries are not in either edition. A pencil note opp. p. 343 states that the additional notes written in pencil were by Sir John Hawkins. Prefaced by A short account of Shakespeare from Mr. Rowe; Miscellanious observations from [J.] Upton's [Critical] Observations on Shakespeare; and the General Heads or Rules, extracted from the same book.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/299094120 View

Dyce, Alexander, 1798-1869. Letter: 1865 Mar. 9, 33 Oxford Terrace, Hyde Park, London, to David Laing / Alexr Dyce.

Title: Letter: 1865 Mar. 9, 33 Oxford Terrace, Hyde Park, London, to David Laing / Alexr Dyce. 1865.

Comments on Rowe's editions of Shakespeare .

ArchivalResource: [2]p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/40241196 View

Dodd, James William, 1740?-1796. Play Jane Shore at Bristol [manuscript] : an occasional prologue for Mr. Dodd, ca. 1772.

Title: Play Jane Shore at Bristol [manuscript] : an occasional prologue for Mr. Dodd, ca. 1772.

Prologue concerning Mrs. Hartley's performance in the title role of Jane Shore by Nicholas Rowe. Was docketed, with note "Prologue written for Mrs. Hartley's first appearance at Bristol and spoken by Mr. Dodd."

ArchivalResource: 1 leaf.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/299096020 View

Kemble, John Philip, 1757-1823. Autograph manuscript of Kemble's parts in 34 plays in the hand of John Philip Kemble [manuscript], 1783-1805.

Title: Autograph manuscript of Kemble's parts in 34 plays in the hand of John Philip Kemble [manuscript], 1783-1805.

On all but nine of the parts he has noted the theater at which the production opened (23 Drury Lane, 1 Covent Garden, 1 Haymarket); with the date of first performance (23 Nov. 1783 to 29 May 1799) on 22 he has noted the date of first performance (Nov. 23, 1783, to May 29, 1799); on five he has noted the date of a second production at Covent Garden (Nov. 17, 1803, to Oct. 25, 1805). Ten are Shakespeare plays: T.a.11 Macbeth (D.L. Mar. 31, 1785), T.a.13 Richard III (no theater or date), T.a.17 King Lear (D.L. Jan. 21, 1788), T.a. 23 Coriolanus (no theater or date), T.a.25 King John (D.L. Dec. 10, 1783), T.a.30 Merchant of Venice (D.L. Jan. 22, 1784), T.a.34 Much ado about nothing (D.L. Apr. 30, 1788), T.a.35 Measure for measure (D.L., no date), T.a.38 Henry V (no theater or date), T.a.39 As you like it (D.L. Feb. 14, 1799; C.G. Oct. 25, 1805). Two others are Elizabethan plays: Massinger's Roman Actor (T.a.29) and Fletcher's Rule a wife (T.a.20). The remaining 22 are Restoration or 18th-century plays: Mrs. Centlivre's The wonder (T.a.40), Colman's Mountaineers (T.a.18), Congreve's Double dealer (T.a.8), Love for love (T.a.24) and Mourning bride, (T.a.31), Cumberland's Wheel of fortune (T.a.16), Greatheed's The regent (T.a.33), Hartson's Countess of Salisbury (T.a.36), Kotzebue's The Stranger (T.a.37) and Pizzarro (T.a.41), Lee's Alexander the great (T.a.10) and Theodosius (T.a.26), Moore's The Gamester (T.a.28) Murphy's Grecian daughter (T.a.27), Otway's Venice preserved (T.a.12), Philip's Distressed mother (T.a.21), Rowe's Fair penitent (T.a.32) and Tamerlane (T.a.22), Southerne's Isabella, or, The fatal marriage, adapted by Garrick (T.a.19), Vanbrugh and Cibber's Provoked husband (T.a.14), Wycherley's Plain dealer (T.a.9) and Young's The revenge (T.a.15).

ArchivalResource: 34 v. ; 22.5 x 18 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/263097794 View

Miscellaneous theatrical papers

Title: Miscellaneous theatrical papers

Letters, photographs, and other documents by individuals associated with the theater.

ArchivalResource: 2.5 linear feet (5 boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01596/catalog View

Munbee, Elizabeth. Miscellany poems : containing various kinds of poetry collected from the most eminent poets with some originals never publish'd. / By Eliz. Munbee, vol. ye 3d.

Title: Miscellany poems : containing various kinds of poetry collected from the most eminent poets with some originals never publish'd. / By Eliz. Munbee, vol. ye 3d. 1745.

Manuscript commonplace book compiled in 1745 by Elizabeth Munbee and containing miscellaneous poetry written by a number of authors. The entire text is written in a fair, neat hand. Samuel Wesley, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, and Nicholas Rowe are among the poets included. The volume's title page enumerates this as the 3rd volume of Munbee's miscellany, but this is the only volume extant and in the Clark Library's collections.

ArchivalResource: 178 p., bound ; 18 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/379795924 View

Victor, Benjamin, d. 1778,. Autograph letters signed from Benjamin Victor, Dublin and London, to various people [manuscript], 1759-1774.

Title: Autograph letters signed from Benjamin Victor, Dublin and London, to various people [manuscript], 1759-1774.

Correspondents: [Charles] Macklin and Mrs. Pigott. The letter of 1759 discusses terms for Macklin's and his daughter [Maria's] appearance [at the Smock Alley Theatre] and suggests certain comedies. The letter of 1774 advises Mrs. Pigott on her acting of the heroine in "Jane Shore" and includes his "Prologue for the Tragedy of Jane Shore, to be perform'd in Staffordshire by Ladies and Gentlemen," beginning "Our Annals tell, to grace the Drama's page..." The letter also discusses "the Affair of the Colonies!" The letter apparently was written after the one printed in his Original letters...1776, I, 352.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/263096332 View

Blackmore, Richard, Sir, d. 1729. [Commonplace book]

Title: [Commonplace book] [17--?]

Manuscript commonplace book compiled during the late-17th and the 18th centuries, containing poetry, religious works, historical works, mathematical tables, geographical information, scientific facts and vocabulary words. The volume contains several different hands and there appear to have been perhaps 3 central compilers of the works excerpted therein. Many pages are crowded with text written in the margins and around passages entered at earlier dates. There are no signs as to the identities of the compilers, though a 20th century bookseller's description in the front of the volume mentions that it was purchased from a family library in Wiltshire.

ArchivalResource: [224] p., bound ; 32 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/391963808 View

Albert Stephens Borgman autograph collection, 1600-1950.

Title: Albert Stephens Borgman autograph collection, 1600-1950.

Letters and a few manuscripts of prominent literary figures, statesmen, and politicians from the United States and Europe collected by American professor of English Albert Stephens Borgman.

ArchivalResource: 4 boxes (1.3 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00677/catalog View

Garrick, Eva Maria, 1724-1822,. Autograph letters signed from Eva Maria Garrick, Merton, London and Hampton, to the Countess of Burlington [manuscript], 1749 July 18-October 24, 1750 September 27-October 20, [1754?] May 17?

Title: Autograph letters signed from Eva Maria Garrick, Merton, London and Hampton, to the Countess of Burlington [manuscript], 1749 July 18-October 24, 1750 September 27-October 20, [1754?] May 17?

(6) July 25, 1749, she mentions Garrick's purchase of the house in Southampton St.; in (20-22), September 29-October 9, 1750, she comments on the Drury Lane and Covent Garden productions of Romeo and Juliet; in (23), October 20, 1750, she refers to Jane Cibber appearing in Jane Shore, [by Nicholas Rowe]. (16) October 3, 1749, contains a note of David Garrick's.

ArchivalResource: 21 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/416483238 View

Chedworth, John Howe, Baron, 1754-1804. Plots of plays and romances summarized by John Howe Chedworth, 4th baron [manuscript], ca. 1775.

Title: Plots of plays and romances summarized by John Howe Chedworth, 4th baron [manuscript], ca. 1775.

Contains the plots of several non-Shakespearean plays, Ariosto's Orlando furioso and Tasso's Jerusalem delivered and twelve plays of Shakespeare. Very brief summaries of the plots of 15 of Shakespeare's plays, also of plays by William Congreve, Thomas Otway, Thomas Southerne, and Nicholas Rowe and of romances by Tasso and Ariosto. Has no apparent connection with his Notes upon some of the obscure passages in Shakespeare's plays ... 1805.

ArchivalResource: 33 leaves ; 18 x 11.5 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/233983759 View