JUI.Y 10. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



47 



Prn^nwctun of tt pew Edition of Shakspeare, 



BSond" ' in size wi h the eonvin.ent first 

 c5?°ci ve cliM,,., o IfiiS to suit numerous 

 fac'innl.s to be mad. fr. m that work. - 

 Privately pi intc<l for buUcnbcrs onlj . 



n^HE WOUKS OF WILLIAM 



I SHAKE«PKARE, with a Nt'W Collation 

 <rfthe early Kditi ns, all the Oriamol ^ovels 

 and Va" on which the plays are f.mnd.d, 

 Copious Areha!olopiea. H'"^*™ ""l^'Vp^^^^^^ 

 ilav and a I.i!e of the poci. Dy JAMh« <). 

 ?1aI,1.IWk'.L, Esq.,K.K.S..Hunorar> Mem- 

 ber of the Koyal I is.. Academy ; the Koyal 

 Society of Uteraiure: the Ne«ca»t'e Anti- 

 ^S. Soeie y ; tl;e Ashmolean ^jo^.y. and 

 of ihc Society for the Mudy of <?««'">; ■^;,^'": 

 fpctuie • Keilow of t le Society of Antiquimes j 

 CorreopornHnTMember of the Antiquarian 

 sSie- of Scot.an.S I'oictiers Picanhe, and 

 Caen (Aiiaden.ie dea Po.cm-es), ""Jj «|, ">« 

 <:oinitHdesArtsetMonHraent8.&c. T'''-Y."i^- i 

 trati.ns by and under the direction of K W . 

 FAIRIInl.T, E-<!., F.S.A., author ot V,08- 

 tume in England," &c 1 



The pepa ration < f this work has occupied 

 myvarnest attention f;r near'y twelw yea-s ; 

 my object beinK to biina togctlier, from the 

 I?ores<f Elizabethan literature, art or science, 

 whatever re.lly tends to illustrate be pav^ot 

 tl\e areat poet of the world in the full convic,- 

 iion-^theie yet remains room for one c.mp.e-. 

 heni-ire edit on which shall ""f^T t'^'-.^^^- 

 fluirementsof thestmlenta, dzealousm iimer. 

 Granting that the wner.il spi. it of Shakespeare 

 may he appreciated wiihcut »he a^ 'stan.c of 

 lenKthcned comment..ry. it cannot be denied 

 tWre is much wi.ich isot scuie to the modern 

 Teader!Jrnumrrousallusi.mstothe lit ra.ure, 

 manners, and phraseoloiy of the times which ^ 

 reonire expl- nation and careful discussion. 



T*i» is a laboi.r wh^ch has never .^et teen 

 attemped on a lari-e scale. In,tlie preface to 

 the translation of Karl Simrock's '-Remarks, 

 8V0 , 18W. I have sh wn there a. e «;)«ar,/« of 

 two tlioumnd nbsiilete. icm-rls and phrofes in 

 Sh<ikesreare left withovt anp ext,1mwtionin 

 tlte eOltionx of Mr. KmgM <n>'l Mr.Celher. 

 Here is.undnubtedly " field of .iit cism. which 

 tieserves the labourt.fihe student :and v ithoiit 

 atteinnti e lo suppl> all the-e deflc.enciHs. it 

 may still 1^ allov'ed .mcwi.ho.itpr sumption 

 to promise an extensive advnrice on what has 

 lieen accomplished by my pr. d. C';ssor8. , 



Eflch plav will I« accompoi.ied by e^ery j 

 iind of useful literary and antiquarian iiiu-- 

 tration, extendin',' to complete, cT'^f,,,';*,"!' 

 •novels, talcs, or dramas of whi'h jt 'sj""" 'ed, 

 andentire mpres-inn- of the first f ^^,^,«:; '" 

 the cases of the Merry Wives or Wi'.d-or, 

 Hamlet, &c. In '^nct. no rains wiU be spared 

 to rentier th's edition the most complete^m 

 «verv 'expect that has y t been P'-odneed; su- 

 per edin<r entirely the Vanorom edition of 

 1«21, wi'h the addition of all Sh-.kespcarian 

 disooveries'of any importance which have Deen 

 made since that period. The work will be 

 <!opiou<ly illustrated by f'.C'imiles and wood- 

 cuts, the di'cction of which has hecii under- 

 taken bv Mr. Fairholt, who has alfo most 

 kind'y promised to Bfs'pt me in the selectior. 

 It is unnecessary to enlaree on the import nee 

 of such as«'8tat-ce, ■ nd tie valuable aid to he 

 cxpec'edfVom Mf. Fairholt'sexten^^ive reading 

 in Flizabeth-n literature and in-imate ac- 

 qnaintance- with every depaitment of ano«enfr 

 «rt. 



One of (be early volumes will he ilUistrated 

 ty rn entirely new enarnvine of f'e moni'me»-t 

 at Slratford-o"-Avon. executed wi'h ir iniito 

 sccuracy : and by an exact copy of the nnrtrtiit 

 of Shakespeare which i.^ prc«xed to the first 

 edition of his works. Tt is alinost unnecess-iry 

 to say the e are the on'y- representations of the 

 poet which are i/w'otiftfcWwanth'ntie. 



The size <f the first folio, after much c^- 

 fidenitlon. has been adontetl not only because 

 it is- the most converient folin fbrm (bat-elv 

 measuriutr fourteen irches by nine^, "nd suits 

 the-nze of the fassimi'es.- most of which wopld 

 otherwise have to be folde '. but the mn-rnitpde 

 of 'heundertakinsT nrec't'des any other, we^e 

 it intended to complete it in any rensonah'e 

 number ofvolum-s. As it is. it must occuny 

 at least twenty volumes ; Imt phmiM nn nil- 

 €lHinnnl rohmie l>frfii"ire(l, it uHllbe presented 

 to Oienripuml i»ib'rril>erf. 



We now proce- d to speak of the tnode of 

 ciri'iila i''n : "ivl in anxiously cons derincr this 

 gnl'iect. have been c r ful toh'a'in mi. d the 

 oblizatlons due to theor'pinal sithscibtrs of so 

 expensive a wo'k as welt us the necessity of 

 the laree expeii'Mture bein? rcimbnrsed.to say 

 nothing of an adeqif'e return for the liter-'ry, 

 laboui;— the attainm«nt;af which is^more tbail' 



proWematical, as it would be incompatible 

 wi h any arrau.ement which Scoured the pc - 

 maociicv of a bi:xJi p.ice. Now. it is a weP- 

 know I fact that no literary or artistic work 

 maintuin> its oiiiiinal value unless ihe impres- 

 sion is ^tlicIly limit d ; and, it is proposed to 

 adopt thi- course on the pre«< nt oiwasion. The 

 Editor, therefore, pledges himself to 1 mit the 

 number of copies to " one hundred an.l fifty," 

 under ti e-lbllo«ing comlitioiis : — 



1. The iiKoression ot this edition of Shake- 

 speare will be most strictly limited to one hun- 

 dred anti fifty copies, and each copy will have 

 the printer's autograph certificate that that 

 limit Iras teen preserved. 



2. The work will te completed i-i ah- ut 

 twcniy folio volumes; but any volumes in 

 excess of that number will be presented, to the 

 oriaitial siibsciibers. 



3. All the p ates and woodcuts used for this 

 work will be destroyed, and no separate im^ 

 pression of &• y of them will be taken off. 



The ori'-'inal subjcripiion price of each vo- 

 lume (athiok fo.io, copiously illustrated) will 

 be Tw ttuine s ; and hearing in mind the 

 above retii -tions. and the exomdiiure requi- 

 tite for 'tich a work, the Editor is confident 

 that price will not only te retained, but. in all 

 probability, gi-eatly raised within a ew yea-s. 

 The whole will be completed (d.v.) in six 

 years : so that for a comparatiwly small an- 

 nual exiieiiditiire {aboui six uuineas> during 

 that perb.d.tbe subsctibfrwill possess the most 

 complete monograph edition of the works of 

 the greatest poet of all ages. Nor can it be 

 ant'ciiinted he will te purchasing whai is likely 

 to fall in value. He w II |io8 ess a work that 

 can never come into the maiket, hut, in its 

 pecuniary relations, will stand somewhat ia 

 the position of a proof en.raving, onlyto.be 

 posses^etl by a very limited numter. 

 I The Edit.r has neon anxinu~ thus to state at 

 some len Ih the considerations which have 

 urged him to limit thi^ imp.ession of the work 

 so strictly ; for however willing, on many ac- 

 counts, to seek a more extens ve circulation, 

 he could not biine hims' If personally to ask 

 •or nuppon without taking every means to 

 ensore. in their fullest exient, the interests of 

 those who are i clijied to enooiiraz*! an ai-du- 

 ous under aking of this kind. The risk . more- 

 over, was too great to venture the publication 

 in the oid nary way ; and he wa«, tliertfo'e, 

 comoelleil eith. r to abandon the hoire of print- 

 . inghis materials, orto appeal. to the select few 

 ! likely to und rsland the merits of the design. 

 i To those tew, the. Editor hopes- be may, 

 ■without ar ogance, a v w the design of offering 

 the most^ copiiua edition of Shaki sireare ever 

 i.rinte , and i e of the handsomest rnd most 

 important series of volumes, that, could be 

 , pla. ed In an En-.'lish library. 



Nor let it be thought such an edition will 

 contiiin men ly dry annotations en disouted 

 : pas..age». Paiticular re;;ard will te paid to 

 I archseolotical i lustration ; and wherever the 

 mu8cn-ns of the antiquary can.te made, ser- 

 viceable, the ai<l of the artist will be soli ited. 

 I IMnrc is much of this kind whi. h has never 

 1 been us d b>' Shakespearian editors, and I have 

 the satisfac'ion to state that, am'^ngst others, 

 j Lord I.oiidestei-ongh's noble collection of 

 En li-ih antiquities wi 1 te accessible to me for 

 copies of ai»v specimens that may help to e u-^ 

 cldate the au'hor's meaning. 



In every kind of literary 'Hustration of 

 Shakespeare, my own libraryis.perha s, richer 

 than any O' her. For man., years, no expense 

 has bt en s-ared to procure rare works likely to 

 be useful for this undertaking : an'', in one 

 instance. I have given uowards of sixty pounds 

 for a sin-le tract. on aocoui t of its i ffording an 

 unique illns'ration of one play. The reader 

 may hetiei conclude how much continued 

 labiurand anxiet- have teen incurred in the 

 collection of m materials. 

 j In conclusion, I am sanguine this longr 

 chnishtd design should not, will not. fail for 

 want of aiipreciation. The works of Shake- 

 speare, the gie- test of all uninspiert authors, 

 should surely b" surrounded, i" oneedit'On at 

 leas by the reading of the student a. d the 

 p-ncil of the^irchseological drau'jtbtsman. In 

 one edition let every source of useful iliust' a- 

 tion bo ex loied anti rendered accessible 'o the 

 studcrt and til f\itnre editor: and even if 

 th' re be som. thing redundant, much wtl I re- 

 main Riiegestive of tanii i.r explanations, of 

 obsctiritieaand more popular uses. 



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