2'"i S. VII. Apkil 23. '59.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



335 



NEW CATALOGUS Or SHAKSPEABIANA. 



Your number for Feb, 12. was particularly inter- 

 esting to the students of Shakspeare. I quite agree 

 with the remarks of your correspondent Este, and 

 think that it is quite time that there should be a 

 new catalogue of Shakspeariana. Mr. Halliwell's, 

 which, I believe, was the last, only brings the in- 

 formation down to 1841. Since that time there 

 have been, I think, ten new editions of the Com- 

 plete Works, and much in the shape of commen- 

 tary. 



There is, as you are well aware, also a large 

 amount of very valuable Shaksperian criticism 

 buried in various periodical literature which re- 

 quires to be brought to light to be indexed. I 

 refer of course to such periodicals as the Edin- 

 burgh, Quarterly, British Quarterly, Westminster, 

 North British Reviews, and the Gentleman's, Black- 

 wood, Fraser, and other magazines. How thank- 

 ful would many a student of Shakspeare be to 

 have an easy reference to such a mine of wealth. 



The volume which was to have accompanied 

 the engraving of the Chandos Portrait is not the 

 only good thing which we have lost from Mb. J. 

 P. Collier by the dissolution of the Shakspeare 

 Society. There is another " unfulfilled." In the 

 closing paragraph of a valuable paper "on the 

 Earliest Quarto Editions of the Plays," he says : — 



" For a future volume of the Shakspeare Society's 

 Papers, 1 propose to send some account of the progressive 

 and comparative vahie of the quartos during the last fifty 

 or sixty years, with a statement of the depositories, pub- 

 lic or private, where an3' of them are preserved. I shall 

 append some new facts connected with the folio editions 



Already Printed but inckiclcd. 



Order 

 in Folio. 

 3 - 



6 - 



7 - 



in 1623, 1632, 1664, and 1685, with the prices for which 

 they have from time to time been sold, and the number 

 of copies in the hands of collectors, or in our public 

 libraries." 



This bears date 1847. It is sincerely to be 

 hoped that he may yet accomplish this ; it would 

 be a great boon to the Shaksperian bibliographer. 

 I am not aware that there is any tabular view of 

 the early editions of the plays. I have gleaned 

 the enclosed from various authentic sources, and 

 it would perhaps be found useful to some of your 

 readers, to whom I should also feel much obliged 

 for any corrections. It appears to me to be one 

 of those matters upon which " doctors differ," 



W. W. R. 



21. Merry Wives 



22. Much Ado 



23. Love's Labour Lost 



24. Midsummer's Night 



25. Merchant of Venice 



26. Richard the Second 



27. Henry the Fourth, 1st Part 



28. Ditto 2nd 



29. Henry the Fifth 



30. Richard the Third 



31. Troilus and Cressida 



32. Titus Andronicus - 



33. Romeo and Juliet - 



84. Hamlet 



35. King Lear 



36. Othello. 



37. Pericles 



Already Printed but not inchided. 



9 - 



16 - 



17 - 



18 - 



19 - 

 23 - 



25 - 



27 - 



28 - 



32 - 



33 - 



34 - 



First Printed in Folio, 1623. 



The Tempest 



Two Gentlemen of Verona 



Measure for Measure 



Comedy of Errors - 



As you Like it 



Taming of the Shrew 



All's Well - 



Twelfth Night 



Winter's Tale 



King John - 



Henry the Sixth, Ist Part 

 Ditto 2nd 



Ditto 3rd 



Henry the Eighth - 



Coriolanus 



Timon of Athens 



Julius Caesar 



Macbeth 



Anthony and Cleopatra 



Cymbeline - 



Order 

 in Folio. 



1 



2 



4 



5 

 10 

 11 

 12 

 13 

 14 

 15 

 20 

 21 

 22 

 24 

 26 

 29 

 30 

 31 

 35 

 36 



Quartos. 



1602, 1619, 1630. 

 1600. 



1598, 1631. 



1600, Thos. Fisher; 1600, James Roberts. 

 1600, by J. R. for Thos. Heyes ; 1600, by J. Roberts ; 

 1637, 1652. 



1597, 1598, 1608, 1615, 1634. 



1598, 1599, 1604, 1608, 1613, 1622, 1632, 1639. 

 1600. 



1600, 1602, 1608. 



1597, 1598, 1602, 1605, 1612 or 1613, 1621, 1622, 1624, 



1629. 1634. 

 1609, imprinted by G. Eld for R. Bonian and H. Walley; 



1609, by G. Eld. 

 1600, 1611 (1st ed. said by Langbaine to be 1594.) 

 1597, 1599 (no date, 1607?), 1609, 1637 (no date, R. 



Young.) 

 1603, 1604, 1605 (no date, 1607?), 1609, 1611, 163/. 

 1608, London, printed for Nathl. Butter; 1008, printed 



for Nathl. Butter; 1655. 

 1622, 1630, 1655. 



1609, 1611, 1619, 1630, 1635, 1639. >. 



SHAKSPEABIANA. 



The Stocks. — In the sixth scene of the second 

 act of King Lear, Gloster, by command of Regan, 



is set in the stocks. It is also ordered that the 

 stocks be brought out, and a stage direction ap- 

 points the precise point for their introduction to 



