Late of Clare-Hall, Cambridge . . . In
Two Volumes. Vol. I. [-II]
London: Printed for
T. Waller, at the Mitre and Crown, opposite Fetter-Lane, Fleet-street.
m.dcc.lii
. [1752.]
First Edition. 2 vol. 12mo. 144 and 132 leaves, the last for the Proposals for Printing by Subscription, in one volume, Quarto,
The Hymn of Callimachus, translated from the
Greek into
English Verse, dated March 17, 1752. The title in the second volume shows slight variations from that of the first volume.
This edition not in Lowndes.
Cambridge Bibliography of Engl. Lit. II, 359.
Jaggard II, 561.
Jefferson, in Paris at the time, bought a copy from
Stockdale of London in December 1786. A letter from Stockdale, dated from London, 19 December 1786, reads in part: “. . . I reced your former Letter with an Order for the Beauties of Shakespeare after the Boxe was packt up & was of course
stopt untill I got them bound which owing to a combination among the Journeymen Bookbinders I could not get done so soon as
I could wish, but it was Yesterday sent by the Dilligence which I hope you’ll receive, before you go on your long Journey
. . .”
William Dodd, 1729-1777, English clergyman, was one of the first to discover that a book of quotations “digested under proper heads” would
have a ready sale. He first published this work in 1752, and it was frequently reprinted. It was through this collection that
Goethe first became acquainted with the works of Shakespeare. Dodd was executed for forgery in 1777.
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20
Capell’s notes & various readings to Shakspeare.
4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 149, no. 32, as above.
[CAPELL,
Edward.]
Notes and Various Readings to Shakespeare, Part the first; containing, All’s well that ends well, Antony and Cleopatra, As
you like it, Comedy of Errors, Coriolanus, Cymbeline, Hamlet, 1 Henry IV, 2 Henry IV, with a General Glossary.
London: Printed for
Edw. and Cha. Dilly, in the Poultry. n.d. [
1775.]
First Edition. 4to. 164 leaves, the first a blank, text printed in double columns. The address to the Reader. signed E. C., is dated December 20, 1774.
Halkett and Laing IV, 198.
This edition not in Lowndes.
Cambridge Bibl. of Eng. Lit. II, 289.
Jaggard, page 41.
Entered by Jefferson in his undated manuscript catalogue, with the price
4/0.
Edward Capell, 1713-1781, English Shakespearean commentator, was appointed deputy-inspector of plays in 1737 by the Duke of Grafton. This
work was intended as a commentary on his edition of the works of Shakespeare, published in 1778. The first part only was printed
without date, but probably early in 1775 as the address to the reader is dated December 20, 1774, and was recalled soon after
publication. The complete work in three parts was posthumously published in 1783.
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Concordance to Shakespeare.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 149, no. 25, as above.
[BECKET,
Andrew.]
A Concordance to Shakespeare: Suited to all the Editions, in which the Distinguished and Parallel Passages in the Plays of
that Justly Admired Writer are Methodically Arranged. To which are added, Three Hundred Notes and Illustrations, Entirely
new.
London: Printed for
G. G. J. and J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row.
m.dcc.lxxxvii.
[1787.]
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