MYERS & Co., 59, High Holborn, London, W.C. 37 



1 68 SCOTT (Sir Walter) 1771-1832. Novelist and Poet. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 

 " W. SCOTT," i p. 8vo, Castle St., no date (after 1821), relating to a meeting called for 

 the purpose of raising a memorial to the late James Watt (inventor of the steam 

 engine), enclosing a letter from Sir John Hope relating to the same matter, 355 



Accompanied by the autograph letter referred to above from Sir John Hope, who commanded a 

 brigade at Salamanca in 1812, I p. 4to, dated Pinkie House, 8 July, no year (after 1821), with 

 hi* armorial seal in red wax. 



169 SHAKESPEARIANA COOPER (T.) THESAURUS LINGUA ROMAN*: et BRI 



TANNIC/K, tam accurate congestus, at nihil pene in eo desyderari possit, quod vel 

 Latine complectatur amplissimus Stephani Thesaurus, vel Anelice, toties aucta 

 Eliotse Bibliotheca: opera et industria Thomae Cooperi Magdalensis. Excusum 

 Londini in sEdibus quondam Bertheleti per Henricum Wykes, 1565, thick folio, 

 dedicated to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, with his crest within the Garter on the 

 title, printed in black and roman letter, lower margins of a few leaves partly cut away, 

 and a feiv others mended, but a very fine large clean copy in old law calf (worn), $ 43 



THE RARE EDITION OF THIS FAMOUS LATIN-ENGLISH DICTIONARY 3AID TO HAVE BEEN THE ONE 



USED BY SHAKESPEARE AS A SCHOOL-BOY. It was also highly thought of by Queen Elizabeth, 

 and was the most copious and celebrated lexicon of its day, being used in almost every School. 

 See an interesting extract from Drake's History of Shakespeare and his times on the fly-leaf. 

 The author afterwards was made Dean of Gloucester by Queen Elizabeth and then successively 

 Bishop of Lincoln and Winchester. 



170 SHAKESPEARIANA IRELAND (Samuel) MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS AND LEGAL 

 INSTRUMENTS UNDER THE HAND AND SEAL OF WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE : including 

 the Tragedy of King Lear, and a small fragment of Hamlet from the original MSS. 

 in the possession of Samuel Ireland of Norfolk St., London, 1796, 8vo, with folding 

 frontispiece containing a facsimile of a supposed pen and ink portrait of Shakespeare, 

 with his autograph, original boards, uncut, SCARCE, \ 155 



171 SHAKESPEARIANA MALONE (E.) AN ENQUIRY INTO THE AUTHENTICITY OF 



CERTAIN MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS AND LEGAL INSTRUMENTS, pub. Dec. 24, 1795, 



and attributed to Shakespeare, Queen Elizabeth and Henry Earl of Southampton, 

 London, 1796, 8vo, with $ folding plates of facsimiles of autographs, comparing 

 original signatures with the Ireland forgeries, old tree calf, gilt, with the book-plate of 

 Lord Carrington, \ IDS 



172 SHAKESPEARIANA [CHALMERS (G.)] AN APOLOGY FOR THE BELIEVERS IN THF. 

 SHAKESPEARE PAPERS, which were exhibited in Norfolk Street (The Ireland 

 Forgeries), London, for T. Egerton, 1797, 8vo, original boards, uncut, 175 6d 



Contains much interesting information respecting actors and their patrons and the stage generally, 

 in the times of Elizabeth and James I. 



173 SHAKESPEARIANA SHADWELL (Thomas) THE HISTORY OF TIMON OF ATHENS, 

 THE MAN-HATER, as it is acted at the Duke's Theatre, made into a Play, London, 

 f.M.^for //. Herringman, 1678, FIRST EDITION, 410, two catchwords slightly shaved, 

 fine copy, half stained calf, t.e.g., $ 35 



A VERY SCARCE PLAY. Altered from Shakespeare's play of the same name which first appeared 

 in the First Folio of 1623. HENCE THIS, THOUGH CONSIDERABLY ALTERED BY SHADWELL, is 

 THE FIRST SEPARATE EDITION OF TIMON OF ATHENS. Shadwell speaks of the inimitable hand 

 of Shakespeare, but adds " Yet I can truly say I have made it into a Play." 



174 SHAKESPEARIANA COLLIER (John Payne) SHAKESPEARIAN CRITIC, and 

 Author of the Shakespeare forgeries exposed in 1859-61. AUTOGRAPH LETTER 

 SIGNED, 2 pp., 410, Riverside, 25 June, 1880 (name of addressee cut off). Full of 

 interesting details respecting his various publications and his own opinion of them 

 " Such as I edited for Societies I care least about not one rush. Perhaps, ONLY 

 PERHAPS, my * Life of Edw, Allyn ' wax the most to be liked" Speaking of auto- 

 graphs he says " 1 never valued such things" but goes on to say " I have Dray ton's 

 copy of Spenser's F.Q. that as well as all such I venerate," 2 is 



