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Shakespeare’s Library

Source Notes

p. 7. ‘higgledy-piggledy, ‘helter-skelter’: John Florio, A Worlde of Wordes, (Edw. Blount, 1598),

p. 412.

p. 7. ‘blood-stained’: Titus Andronicus II.iii; I Henry IV, I.iii.

p. 7. ‘eyeball’: The Tempest, I.ii.

p. 7. ‘fancy free’: A Midsummer Night's Dream, II.i.

p. 7. ‘seamy’: Othello, IV.ii.

p. 7. ‘zany’: Love’s Labour’s Lost, V.ii.

p. 8. ‘entertained and at his game’, ‘William the Conqueror…was before Richard the Third’ :

John Manningham, diary entry for 13 March 1601; see John Bruce (ed.), Diary of John

Manningham, of the Middle Temple, and of Bradbourne, Kent, Barrister-at-law, 1602-1603,

(Westminster: Printed by J. B. Nichols and Sons, 1868).

p. 9. ‘the connaturals, concurrences, correspondents, concatenations…throughout the

whole’: Orville W. Owen, Sir Francis Bacon’s Cipher Story, (Detroit: Howard Publishing Co.,

1893), p. 25.

p. 12. ‘Ringleader to all naughtiness’: Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, (London:

Printed for Peter Parker, 1676), p. 30.

p. 13. ‘the acknowledged poet of the age, the friend of nobles and the pet of princes’: Henry

Tyrrell, The doubtful plays of Shakspere, revised from the original editions with historical and

analytical introductions and notes critical and explanatory, (London: J. Tallis, [1850]), p. 411.

p. 13. ‘friend and adviser/admirer’, ‘a gold tissue toilet or table cover’: Michael Dobson,

Stanley Wells, Will Sharpe & Erin Sullivan (eds), The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare, 2nd

ed., (OUP, 2015), p. 498.

p. 14. ‘haunted by the conviction…ever practised on a patient world’: Henry James to Violet

Hunt, letter dated 26 August 1903, quoted in George L. McMichael and Edgar M. Glenn,

Shakespeare and His Rivals: A casebook on the authorship controversy, (New York: Odyssey Press,

1962), p. 61.

p. 17. ‘He is a Brontosaur: nine bones and six-hundred barrels of plaster of paris’: Mark

Twain, ‘Is Shakespeare Dead?’, (New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1909), p. 49.

p. 19. ‘pathetic efforts to sign his name…this question – he could not write’: Mortimer J.

Adler, Letter to Max Weismann, Director, Center for the Study of The Great Ideas,

November 7, 1997. https://doubtaboutwill.org/past_doubters

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p. 20. ‘In the work of the greatest geniuses, humble beginnings will reveal

themselves…slightest sign of them in Shakespeare’: Charlie Chaplin, My Autobiography,

(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1964), pp. 364-65.

p. 20. ‘English literary history’s sublimest gay poet’: Bill Bryson, Shakespeare: The World as a

Stage, (London: HarperPress, 2007), p. 139.

p. 21. ‘emetick infusion mixed with syrup of violets’, ‘wrought very well both upwards and

downwards’: John Hall, quoted in Doreen Evenden Nagy, ‘Lay and learned medicine in

early modern England’, in Health, Disease and Society in Europe 1500-1800: A source book,

(Manchester & New York: Manchester University Press, 2004) p. 39.

p. 22. ‘King Henry making a Masque at the Cardinal Wolsey’s house…benefit of a provident

wit, put it out with a bottle of ale’: Sir Henry Wotton to Sir Edmund Bacon, letter dated 2

July 1613, in Sir Henry Wotton, Reliquiae Wottonianae, (London : Printed for B. Tooke & T.

Sawbridge, 1685), p. 426.

p. 29. ‘in a necessary-house’, ‘with a book in his hand…very attentively’, ‘sh-te without a

book’: Shakespeare’s Jests, or the Jubilee Jester, (London: Printed for R. Sharpe, 1790), p. 61.

p. 30. ‘Jo. Bretchgyrdles Book’: Alan H. Nelson, ‘Shakespeare and the Bibliophiles: From the

earliest years to 1616’, in Robin Myers et al. (eds), Owners, Annotators and the Signs of Reading,

(New Castle & London: Oak Knoll Press/British Library, 2005), p. 50.

p. 31. “Will: Boothby’: Peter Beal, ‘”My books are the Great Joy of My Life” Sir William

Boothby, Seventeenth-century Bibliophile’, in The Pleasures of Bibliophily. Fifty years of The

Book Collector, (London & New Castle: British Library/Oak Knoll Press, 2003), p. 296.

p. 32. ‘No, without right’: see, for example, Nigel Ramsay, ‘William Dethick and the

Shakespeare Grants of Arms’, posted 1 July 2014.

https://collation.folger.edu/2014/07/william-dethick-and-the-shakespeare-grants-of-arms/

p. 34. ‘gentle Shakespeare’: Ben Jonson, ‘To the Reader’, in Mr. William Shakespeares comedies,

histories, and tragedies, (London: Printed by Tho. Cotes for Robert Allot, 1632).

pp. 36-37. ‘every important French sixteenth-century collector: Grolier…Diane de Poitiers;

popes and cardinals’: Eloquent Witnesses, edited by Mirjam M. Foot, 2004; p. 264.

p. 37. ‘If anyone came into the room he would throw…to prevent it being seen’: Eloquent

Witnesses, edited by Mirjam M. Foot, 2004; p. 272.

p. 39. ‘mountain belly’, ‘rocky face’: Ben Jonson, ‘My Picture Left in Scotland’, in The Workes

of Benjamin Jonson, (London: R. Bishop, sold by A. Crooke, 1640).

p. 39. ‘had one eye lower than tother and bigger’: John Aubrey, Brief Lives, (Woodbridge:

Boydell Press, 1998), p. 172.

p. 39. ‘a bruised, rotten russet apple, or a badly pock-marked brass warming pan’: Thomas

Dekker, quoted in Anne Barton, Ben Jonson, Dramatist, (Cambridge: CUP, 1984), p. 3.

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p. 39. ‘a study of books’: Susanna Hall v. Baldwin Brookes: Bill of Complaint, Court of

Chancery. May 12, 1637.

http://www.shakespearedocumented.org/exhibition/document/susanna-hall-v-baldwin-

brookes-bill-complaint-court-chancery. A ‘study of books’ is also mentioned in Dr John

Hall’s last will and testament: original copy.

http://www.shakespearedocumented.org/file/prob-138.

p. 41. ‘accompt-books and theatrical contracts’: Edmond Malone, An Inquiry Into the

Authenticity of Certain Miscellaneous Papers and Legal Instruments, Published Dec. 24, 1795 and

Attributed to Shakespeare, Queen Elizabeth and Henry, Earl of Southampton, (London: T. Cadell,

Jun., & W. Davies, 1796), p. 428.

pp. 43-44. ‘at best a Country clown at the time he went to seek his fortune in London, that he

could never have had any school… breeding who alone could by their intercourse make up

for the deficiencies of his youth’: James Corton Cowell, quoted in Samuel Schoenbaum,

Shakespeare’s Lives, (New York: Barnes & Noble, 2006), p. 397.

p. 45. ‘bags and boxes of writing’, ‘on the platform before the house’: ‘Francis Wilmot’,

quoted in Samuel Schoenbaum, Shakespeare's Lives, (Oxford: O.U.P, 1993), p. 398.

p. 45. ‘Wilmot does not venture so far as to say definitively that Sir Francis Bacon was the

Author…but through his great knowledge of the works of that writer he is able to prepare a

cap that fits him amazingly’: James Corton Cowell, quoted in Samuel Schoenbaum,

Shakespeare's Lives, (Oxford: O.U.P, 1993), p. 399.

p. 45. ‘A Pervert,…nay a renegade to the Faith I have proclaimed and avowed before you

all’: James Corton Cowell, quoted in Samuel Schoenbaum, Shakespeare's Lives, (Oxford:

O.U.P, 1993), p. 399.

p. 47. ‘By God I wish you had arrived a little sooner! Why, it isn’t a fortnight since I

destroyed several baskets-full of letters and papers,….’, ‘My God! Sir, you are not aware of

the loss which the world has sustained. Would to heaven I had arrived sooner!’, ‘I do

remember it perfectly well! And, if you will call to mind my words, I told you not to burn

the papers, as they might be of consequence’: William-Henry Ireland, The confessions of

William Henry Ireland, containing the particulars of his fabrication of the Shakespeare

Manuscripts…, (New York: James W. Bouton, 1874), pp. 30-32.

p. 48. ‘Budde which Bllossommes Bllooms butte never dyes’: William Henry Ireland,

Miscellaneous papers and legal instruments under the hand and seal of William Shakespeare,

(London: Egerton et. al., 1796), p. xxx.

p. 49. ‘Orlandoo Furiosoo’, ‘Shepheardes Calenderre’: William Henry Ireland, ‘Catalogue of

Shakespeare’s library’, (c.1796). University College London, Special Collections MS Ogden

54/1.

p. 50. ‘Well, I shall now die contented, since I have lived to witness the present day’: James

Boswell, quoted in William Henry Ireland, The Confessions of William Henry Ireland containing

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the particulars of his fabrication of the Shakespeare Manuscript, (London: Thomas Goddard,

1805), p. 96.

p. 51. ‘Masterre William Henry Ireland ande otherres’, ‘much toe merrye throughe

Lyquorre’, ‘drownynge’, ‘pulled off hys Jerrekynne and jumpedd inn’, ‘withe muche

paynes’, ‘hys havynge savedde mye life’: William Henry Ireland, Miscellaneous papers and

legal instruments under the hand and seal of William Shakespeare, (London: Egerton et. al., 1796),

pp. 49-50 & 52.

p. 52. ‘for fear…of the enterprise seeming Foolish’: Jonathan Bate, The Genius of Shakespeare,

(London: Picador, 1998), p. 84.

pp. 53-54. ‘created a favourable impression by his urbanity of temper, kindliness, and social

ease’: Samuel Schoebaum, Shakespeare’s Lives,(New York: Barnes & Noble, 2006), p. 112.

p. 54. ‘no magnifying glasses or other aids are requisite: it is only necessary for any

person,…to be convinced that the pretended Letter of Queen Elizabeth to Shakespeare is a

manifest and bungling forgery’: Edmond Malone, An inquiry into the authenticity of certain

miscellaneous papers and legal instruments, published Dec. 24, MDCCXCV. and attributed to

Shakspeare, Queen Elizabeth, and Henry, Earl of Southampton, (London : T. Cadell, Jun., & W.

Davies, 1796), p. 111.

p. 55. ‘and when this solemn mockery is o’er’: William Henry Ireland, Vortigern, (London:

Joseph Thomas, 1832), p. 51.

p. 55. ‘the absurd manner in which almost every word is over-laden with both consonants

and vowels’: Edmond Malone, An inquiry into the authenticity of certain miscellaneous papers

and legal instruments, published Dec. 24, MDCCXCV. and attributed to Shakspeare, Queen

Elizabeth, and Henry, Earl of Southampton, (London : T. Cadell, Jun., & W. Davies, 1796), p. 34.

p. 55. ‘I praye you perfume thys mye poore Locke with thye balmye Kysses forre thenne

indeede shalle Kynges themmeselves bowe ande paye homage toe itte’: William Henry

Ireland, Miscellaneous papers and legal instruments under the hand and seal of William

Shakespeare, (London: Egerton et. al., 1796), p. 42.

p. 56. ‘Mr Capell’s List’ and then add ‘from any old Catalogues whatever might be

wanting…By turning over the pages of the late editions of Shakspeare, I make no doubt, the

names of a thousand books or tracts of his age, might be collected in a few days: and names

alone are wanting to make a catalogue’: Edmond Malone, An inquiry into the authenticity of

certain miscellaneous papers and legal instruments, published Dec. 24, MDCCXCV. and attributed

to Shakspeare, Queen Elizabeth, and Henry, Earl of Southampton, (London : T. Cadell, Jun., & W.

Davies, 1796), p. 336.

pp. 56-57. ‘But some of the books themselves have been produced’, ‘I make no doubt of it’,

But are old books so very difficult to be procured? And could… our poet’s name forty or

fifty times in them, would do just as well’: Edmond Malone, An inquiry into the authenticity of

certain miscellaneous papers and legal instruments, published Dec. 24, MDCCXCV. and attributed

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to Shakspeare, Queen Elizabeth, and Henry, Earl of Southampton, (London : T. Cadell, Jun., & W.

Davies, 1796), pp. 336-37.

pp. 57-58. ‘With respect to smaller tracts, a different process was to be pursued, for they

could… two hundred such volumes might be procured. Let us then hear no more of

Shakspeare’s Library’: Edmond Malone, An inquiry into the authenticity of certain miscellaneous

papers and legal instruments, published Dec. 24, MDCCXCV. and attributed to Shakspeare, Queen

Elizabeth, and Henry, Earl of Southampton, (London: T. Cadell, Jun., & W. Davies, 1796), pp.

337-39.

p. 58. ‘a country wit who amused himself with telling the story in order to ridicule Mr

Ireland’: Samuel Schoenbaum, Shakespeare’s Lives, (New York: Barnes & Noble, 2006), p. 579,

n. 73.

p. 59. ‘many hours spent in the Suffolk Record Office’: John Rollett, quoted in Roger

Stritmatter, ‘Amazon Reviews: Is he tide shifting?’, Shakespeare Matters, 10:2, Spring 2011, p.

20.

p. 60. ‘a Baconian spoof’: John Rollett, quoted in Roger Stritmatter, ‘Amazon Reviews: Is he

tide shifting?’, Shakespeare Matters, 10:2, Spring 2011, p. 20.

p. 61. ‘unilluminating’, ‘suppositious’: Samuel Schoenbaum, Shakespeare’s Lives, (New York:

Barnes & Noble, 2006), p. x.

p. 61. ‘who is known to have shown the volume to his friends before the year 1780’: George

Koppelman & Daniel Wechsler, Shakespeare's Beehive: An annotated Elizabethan dictionary

comes to light, (New York: Axletree Books, 2015).

p. 61. ‘a more practiced hand and one more expert than is usually to be found in such

Shakespearean curiosities’: Sir Edward Maunde Thompson, ‘Handwriting’ in Sidney Lee &

C. T. Onions (eds), Shakespeare’s England: An account of the life and manners of his age, (Oxford:

Clarendon Press, 1932), p. 308, footnote 1.

p. 62. ‘an early Elizabethan dictionary with contemporary annotations’: George Koppelman,

quoted in Adam Gopnik, ‘The Poet’s Hand. Why do we still search for relics of the Bard?’,

The New Yorker, 28 April 2014.

p. 62. ‘word salad’: Adam Gopnik, ‘The Poet’s Hand. Why do we still search for relics of the

Bard?’, The New Yorker, 28 April 2014.

p. 63. ‘the literary discovery of the century’: Mark Hedges, quoted in Mark Brown,

‘Shakespeare: writer claims discovery of only portrait made during his lifetime’, The

Guardian, 20 May 2015.

p. 66. ‘the electric spark of bibliomania’, ‘by the sack-full’: Thomas Frognall Dibdin,

Reminiscenses of a Literary Life, (London: John Major, 1836), p. 50.

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p. 67. ‘almost to delirium’, ‘ordinary games of youth’, ‘drawing and dramatic composition;

and, ere my fourteenth year, was the author of three exceedingly bloody tragedies’: Thomas

Frognall Dibdin, Reminiscenses of a Literary Life, (London: John Major, 1836), p. 65.

p. 67. ‘simple but severe incident’, ‘I had brought these plays (of which I now recollect only

the names of two…she, ‘my mistress gave it me as waste paper to light the fire’: Thomas

Frognall Dibdin, Reminiscenses of a Literary Life, (London: John Major, 1836), p. 65.

pp. 67-68. ‘I disdained to let the shopman carry them home for me, but took them

triumphantly under my arm’: Thomas Frognall Dibdin, Reminiscenses of a Literary Life,

(London: John Major, 1836), p. 85.

p. 69. ‘set wealthy and well educated men a-stirring to collect materials, which, but for such

occasional excitement, might, in the end, moulder in oblivion’: Thomas Frognall Dibdin,

Reminiscenses of a Literary Life, (London: John Major, 1836), p. 285.

p. 69. ‘leaping up to kiss and embrace every enticing edition in vellum and every sweetly

toned, mellow-toned, yellow morocco binding’: Leigh Hunt, ‘Pocket-books and Keepsakes’,

in Essays, (London: Walter Scott, 1887), p. 15.

p. 69. ‘yellow paper, blue paper, writing paper, on papier de Hollande, de Chine, or d’Inde’: W.

Carew Hazlitt, Book-Collector, (London: John Grant, 1904), p. 189.

p. 69. ‘I have sent you my old Josephus, and desire you to send me one of the last and best

edition’: Sir William Boothby to Michael Johnson, letter dated 6 November 1683, quoted by

Peter Beal, ‘”My books are the Great Joy of My Life” Sir William Boothby, Seventeenth-

century Bibliophile’, in The Pleasures of Bibliophily. Fifty years of The Book Collector, (London &

New Castle: British Library/Oak Knoll Press, 2003), p. 293.

p. 70. ‘wearing tassels to his half boots’: Thomas Frognall Dibdin, The Bibliographical

Decameron, vol. II, (London: Printed for the author by W. Bulmer & Co., 1817), p. 522.

p. 70. ‘books are tedious things—unless you own them’: Colin Franklin, Obsessions and

Confessions of a Book Life (New Castle et al.: Oak Knoll Press, Books of Kells, Quaritch, 2012).

p. 71. ‘idolized the talents of Shakespeare and Cervantes, and collected everything that could

illustrate their works’: Robert Harding Evans, A Catalogue of the Library of the Late John Duke

of Roxburghe…, (London: Printed by W. Bulmer & Co., 1812), p. 7.

p. 73. ‘very considerable’, ‘so-so in intellect’: Museum (1823), quoted in W. Roberts, The Book-

Hunter in London, (Chicago : A. C. McClurg & Co., 1895), p. 63.

p. 74. ‘I can see no good reason to alter my opinion, for excluding suche bookes, as

almanackes… the more it doth distast me, that suche kinde of bookes, should be vouchsafed

a rowme, in so noble a Librarie’: Sir Thomas Bodley to Thomas James, letter dated 1612,

reproduced in G. W. Wheeler (ed.), The Letters of Sir Thomas Bodley to Thomas James, first

Keeper of the Bodleian Library, (London: OUP, 1926), no. 221.

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p. 75. ‘Shakespeare’s Works. 1623. Folio/First folio edition. The knowing need not be

informed of the price and importance… in the Grolier style, and the back is thickly studded

with gold in the manner of Roger Payne’: Thomas Frognall Dibdin, Aedes Althorpianae,

(London: Printed by W. Nicol, Shakespeare Press, and sold by Payne & Foss et al, 1822), pp.

194-95.

p. 76. ‘The verses opposite are genuine, but inlaid, and there are many tender leaves…which

might have originally received the ‘flakes of pie-crust’ in the servant’s hall’: Thomas

Frognall Dibdin, The Library Companion, vol. 2, (London: Printed for Harding et al, 1824), p.

411.

p. 76. ‘the merit of being the first commentator on Shakespeare who strove…his plays,

which is now become the most expensive single book in our language’: The Plays Of William

Shakspeare, Accurately printed from the Text of the corrected copy left by the late George Steevens,

Esq., vol. 2, (London: Printed for J. Johnson et al, 1803), p. 147.

pp. 76-77. ‘Though Shakespeare was not, like Fox the Martyrologist, deposited in churches,

to be thumbed by the congregation…elogium on Shakespeare, that his claims were more

forcible than those of hunger’: The Plays Of William Shakspeare, Accurately printed from the Text

of the corrected copy left by the late George Steevens, Esq., vol. 2, (London: Printed for J. Johnson

et al, 1803), pp. 146-147.

p. 77. ‘Java upas tree’, ‘Hardyknute’: for accounts of these spoofs see Isaac Disraeli, A Second

Series of Curiosities of Literature, vol. 3, pp. 38-39; and Moore’s 30 June diary entry in The

Journal of Thomas Moore, vol. 1, (Newark et al: University of Delaware Press et al., 1983), p.

190.

p. 78. ‘excellencie of acting’: quoted by William A. Armstrong, ‘Shakespeare and the Acting

of Edward Alleyn’, in Shakespeare Survey 7: Style and language, (Cambridge: C.U.P., 1954), p.

82.

p. 79. ‘disagreeable’: Thomas Frognall Dibdin, Aedes Althorpianae, (London: Printed by W.

Nicol, Shakespeare Press, and sold by Payne & Foss et al, 1822), p. 195.

p. 80. ‘vain man’, ‘very pleasant’, ‘exceedingly gay’, ‘too boyish in his laughter (especially

for a Doctor of Divinity)’, ‘Jerry Diddler’, ‘published very costly books by subscription and

borrowed everywhere’: Henry Crabb Robinson, quoted in E. J. O’Dwyer, Thomas Frognall

Dibdin, (Pinner: Private Libraries Association, 1967), p. 17.

p. 81. ‘I assure you it is only with the utmost difficulties I can go on. The Chemist…happy

when it pleases the Almighty to remove him out of his trials and difficulties’: Sophia Dibdin

to Dr Bliss, quoted in E. J. O’Dwyer, Thomas Frognall Dibdin, (Pinner: Private Libraries

Association, 1967), p. 39.

p. 82. ‘world’s worst bibliographer’: E. J. O’Dwyer, Thomas Frognall Dibdin, (Pinner: Private

Libraries Association, 1967), p. 7.

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p. 83. ‘a friend to the French revolution, one who exulted in the murder of the king’: Henry

Gunning, Reminiscences of the University, Town, and County of Cambridge, from the Year 1780,

vol. 2, (London: George Bell, 1855), p. 29.

p. 84. ‘attractive personality’, an ‘affectionate father’: Alan Bell, ‘Archdeacon Francis

Wrangham, 1769-1842’, in The Pleasures of Bibliophily: Fifty years of The Book Collector, (London

& New Castle: British Library/Oak Knoll Press, 2003), p. 118.

p. 84. ‘tall slight man of exceedingly gentle and attractive manners’: Samuel Carter Hall, A

Book of Memories of Great Men and Women of the Age, from personal acquaintance, (London:

Virtue & Co., 1877), p. 178.

p. 84.‘of classical elegance’: John Cole, quoted by Alan Bell, ‘Archdeacon Francis Wrangham,

1769-1842’, in The Pleasures of Bibliophily: Fifty years of The Book Collector, (London & New

Castle: British Library/Oak Knoll Press, 2003), p. 119.

p. 84. ‘corpulent libertine and violator of his word’: : Ann Blainey, ‘A Portrait of Leigh

Hunt’, p. 12;

https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com.au/&httpsredir=1

&article=1092&context=bai

p. 84. ‘a triumphant two years of martyrdom’: Ann Blainey, ‘A Portrait of Leigh Hunt’, p. 12;

https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com.au/&httpsredir=1

&article=1092&context=bai

pp. 84-85. I am at a loss whether to sympathise with you in the way of congratulation or…

preface, &c., as I shall assuredly bind you up, whatever the law may do’: Francis Wrangham

to Leigh Hunt, letter dated 29 December 1808, quoted in Thornton Leigh Hunt (ed.), The

Correspondence of Leigh Hunt, Vol. I, (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1862), pp. 44-45.

p. 85. ‘conscientious clerical dignitary with a consuming passion for rare books and eccentric

bibliographic detail’: Alan Bell, ‘Archdeacon Francis Wrangham, 1769-1842’, in The Pleasures

of Bibliophily: Fifty years of The Book Collector, (London & New Castle: British Library/Oak

Knoll Press, 2003), p. 118.

p. 85. ‘If there be a single room which you wish to preserve from being completely…will

creep round you like an erysipelas till they have covered the whole’: Sydney Smith, quoted

by Alan Bell, ‘Archdeacon Francis Wrangham, 1769-1842’, in The Pleasures of Bibliophily: Fifty

years of The Book Collector, (London & New Castle: British Library/Oak Knoll Press, 2003), p.

120.

p. 85. ‘the elegant tastes of youth and college’: Spectator, 19 February 1831.

p. 85. ‘stretching himself at length in the Elizabethan chair, in the midst of his Plantins and

Elzevirs’: Thomas Frognall Dibdin, Reminiscences of a Literary Life, (London: J. Major, 1836),

pp. 393-95.

p. 86. ‘In returning my most heartfelt thanks for the very kind manner in which you have

characterized… to me which I hope you will soon be called to set right in a second edition’:

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Francis Wrangham to Thomas Frognall Dibdin, letter quoted by Alan Bell, ‘Archdeacon

Francis Wrangham, 1769-1842’, in The Pleasures of Bibliophily: Fifty years of The Book Collector,

(London & New Castle: British Library/Oak Knoll Press, 2003), p. 121.

p. 86. ‘extensive rather than expensive’: Francis Wrangham to William Blackwood, 1819,

letter quoted by Alan Bell, ‘Archdeacon Francis Wrangham, 1769-1842’, in The Pleasures of

Bibliophily: Fifty years of The Book Collector, (London & New Castle: British Library/Oak Knoll

Press, 2003), p. 124.

p. 87. ‘The Archdeacon yet continues to woo his muse…yet as rapturous as ever over the

charms of Bibliomania’: Thomas Frognall Dibdin, Reminiscences of a Literary Life, (London: J.

Major, 1836), p. 392.

p. 87. ‘tattered and dusty’: Francis Wrangham to John Gibson Lockhart, letter, quoted in

Alan Bell, ‘Archdeacon Francis Wrangham, 1769-1842’, in The Pleasures of Bibliophily: Fifty

years of The Book Collector, (London & New Castle: British Library/Oak Knoll Press, 2003), p.

124.

p. 87. ‘the author’s opus maximum’: Thomas Frognall Dibdin, quoted in Francis Wrangham,

The English Portion of the Library of the Ven. Francis Wrangham M.A.,F.R.S., Archdeacon of

Cleveland, (Malton: Printed by R. Smithson, Jun., 1826), p. 68.

p. 87. ‘the luxury of large paper copies’: Francis Wrangham to John Martin, letter dated

c.1834, quoted in Alan Bell, ‘Archdeacon Francis Wrangham, 1769-1842’, in The Pleasures of

Bibliophily: Fifty years of The Book Collector, (London & New Castle: British Library/Oak Knoll

Press, 2003), p. 123.

p. 88. ‘I must make up this prodigality by economy in some other quarter’: Francis

Wrangham to John Martin, letter dated c.1834, quoted by Alan Bell, ‘Archdeacon Francis

Wrangham, 1769-1842’, in The Pleasures of Bibliophily: Fifty years of The Book Collector, (London

& New Castle: British Library/Oak Knoll Press, 2003), p. 124.

p. 89. ‘among the Scarcest Pieces of Caxton’s Press’: Thomas Frognall Dibdin, Bibliotheca

Spenceriana, (London: Longman, Hurst & Co., et al., 1815), p. 224.

p. 89. ‘purged and castrated him, and tattooed and beplaistered him, and cauterised and

phlebotomised him’: The British Critic, New Series; for January-June 1822, vol. xvii, (London:

Printed for F. C. & J. Rivington, 1822), p. 372.

p. 90. ‘Coffers and Cabinets, in which undoubtedly were several of her Grandfather’s

Papers’: Edmond Malone, An Inquiry Into the Authenticity of Certain Miscellaneous Papers and

Legal Instruments, Published Dec. 24, 1795 and Attributed to Shakespeare, Queen Elizabeth and

Henry, Earl of Southampton, (London: T. Cadell, Jun., & W. Davies, 1796), p. 427.

p. 90. ‘Surely it can require but little examination to decide that the latter half of the sixteenth

century…Statesmen, Philosophers and Warriors that any nation ever produced in the same

portion of time’: John Fry, The Legend of Mary, Queen of Scots, and Other Ancient Poems,

(London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, 1810), p. viii.

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p. 90. ‘Fancy’s sweetest children’: John Fry (ed.), A Selection from the Poetical Works of Thomas

Carew, (London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, 1810), pp. v-vi.

p. 90. ‘the magic muse of the divine Shakspere’: John Fry, Bibliographical Memoranda, (Bristol:

1816), p. 84.

p. 90. ‘shelves of dust’: John Fry, The Legend of Mary, Queen of Scots, and Other Ancient Poems,

(London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, 1810), p. vi.

p. 91. ‘mellifluous’: John Fry (ed.), A Selection from the Poetical Works of Thomas Carew,

(London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, 1810), p. xii.

p. 91. ‘The yellow planets and the grey…’, ‘Yon light is not day-light, I know it well; It is

some meteor’: John Fry (ed.), A Selection from the Poetical Works of Thomas Carew, (London:

Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, 1810), p. 43.

pp. 91-92. ‘Mark hoe the bashfull morne in vaine…’, ‘The marigold that goes to bed wi’ the

Sun,…’: John Fry (ed.), A Selection from the Poetical Works of Thomas Carew, (London: Printed

for Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, 1810), pp. 40-41.

p. 92. ‘This is a chaste, elegant, and classical Publication. We have always

encouraged…critical labours to the Works of many of Carew’s contemporaries’: The British

Critic for January-June 1810, vol. 35, (London: Printed for F. C. & J. Rivington, 1810), p. 186.

p. 93. ‘malevolent aspersion’, ‘spiteful malignity’, ‘in a fit of youthful enthusiasm, when

scarcely eighteen years old,…premature appearance it is unnecessary to add’: John Fry (ed.),

Pieces of Ancient Poetry: From unpublished manuscripts and scarce books, (Bristol: 1814), pp. vi-

vii.

p. 94. ‘Thus has the Poet enriched those, who have impoverished him’: Francis Wrangham,

The English Portion of the Library of the Ven. Francis Wrangham, (Malton: Printed by R.

Smithson, Jun., 1826), p. 440.

p. 94. ‘enlarged and cultured mind’: John Fry, Bibliographical Memoranda, (Bristol: 1816), p.

xii.

p. 94. ‘a very enlightened and intelligent young bookseller’: Francis Wrangham to Lord

Spencer, letter dated February 1816, quoted by Alan Bell, ‘Archdeacon Francis Wrangham,

1769-1842’, in The Pleasures of Bibliophily: Fifty years of The Book Collector, (London & New

Castle: British Library/Oak Knoll Press, 2003), p. 124.

p. 95. ‘the poetical treasures of the Elizabethan era…all the sublimity, the magnificence, the

heroism, the imagery, and the vivid charms of the age’: John Fry, The Legend of Mary, Queen

of Scots, and Other Ancient Poems, (London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, 1810),

p. viii.

p. 96. ‘Uniformity was shunned, variety commended as a grace of style. …we notice a

deliberate preference for variation’: Leon Kellner, Restoring Shakespeare, (New York: Biblo &

Tannen, 1969), p. 20.

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p. 96. ‘Bindley’s Copy’, ‘Col. Stanley’s Copy, in russia’: Catalogue of the Curious, Choice and

Valuable Library of the late Sir Francis Freeling, (London: Evans, 1836), pp. 110 & 113.

p. 97. ‘ancient papers’: Edmond Malone to George O’Brien Wyndham, Earl of Egremont,

letter dated September 1805, quoted in Peter Martin, Edmond Malone, Shakespearean Scholar: A

literary biography, (Cambridge: CUP, 1995), p. 250.

p. 99. ‘accidentally destroyed’: John Fry, Bibliographical Memoranda, (Bristol: 1816), p. xiii.

p. 99. ‘friendly favours’, ‘unreserved liberality’: John Fry, Bibliographical Memoranda, (Bristol:

1816), pp. xi & xii.

p. 99. ‘He is a man of very engaging manners and extremely communicative, but talks rather

too much of what books he has published and what he intends to publish’: Joseph Ritchie to

Richard Garnett, letter dated 1811, quoted in Penelope Hughes-Hallett, The Immortal Dinner,

(London: Vintage Books, 2012), p. 179.

p. 100. ‘the earliest collection of Romances in the era of Elizabeth’: Francis Wrangham, The

English Portion of the Library of the Ven. Francis Wrangham, (Malton: Printed by R. Smithson,

Jun., 1826), p. 84.

pp. 101-02. ‘Who in London hath not heard…dissolute and licentious living; his fonde

disguising… unseemely apparrell, and more unseemely Company?’: Gabriel Harvey, Four

letters, and certain sonnets especially touching Robert Greene, and other parties by him abused,

(London: Printed by John Wolfe, 1592), p. 7.

p. 102. ‘dissipated habits made him fairly acquainted… with the Profligates of every grade…

had he sacrificed more at the shrine of Apollo, than at those of Bacchus and Venus’:

Catalogue of the Curious, Choice and Valuable Library of the late Sir Francis Freeling, (London:

Evans, 1836), p. 70.

p. 103. ‘much more elegant Sonnetteer than Shakespeare’: George Steevens, quoted in

Bibliotheca Heberiana…Part the Fourth, (London: Evans, 1834), p. 337.

p. 104. ‘Sir, he was impertinent to me, and I beat him’: George Birkbeck Hill (ed.), Boswell’s

Life of Johnson, vol. 1, (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1889), p. 178.

p. 105. ‘and obtained possession of [Oldys’] books and valuable manuscripts’: James

Yeowell, ‘Memoir of William Oldys, Esq.’ in A literary antiquary. Memoir of William Oldys,

(London: Printed by Spottiswoode & Co., 1862), p. xxxix.

p. 108. ‘If at three or four and twenty the health begins to feel the effect…unavailing remorse

of a disoccupied and exhausted old age’: Francis Wrangham to John Fry, letter quoted by

Alan Bell, ‘Archdeacon Francis Wrangham, 1769-1842’, in The Pleasures of Bibliophily: Fifty

years of The Book Collector, (London & New Castle: British Library/Oak Knoll Press, 2003), p.

125.

p. 108. ‘rare union of talent and industry’ that should have borne ‘rich and lasting fruits’:

Francis Wrangham, letter (1822?), quoted by Alan Bell, ‘Archdeacon Francis Wrangham,

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1769-1842’, in The Pleasures of Bibliophily: Fifty years of The Book Collector, (London & New

Castle: British Library/Oak Knoll Press, 2003), p. 125.

p. 109. ‘could not have been the composition of any one of our poet’s family’: Edmond

Malone, An inquiry into the authenticity of certain miscellaneous papers and legal instruments,

published Dec. 24, MDCCXCV. and attributed to Shakspeare, Queen Elizabeth, and Henry, Earl of

Southampton, (London: T. Cadell, Jun., & W. Davies, 1796), pp. 198-99.

p. 109. ‘inclined at a gentle angle’, ‘hesitating’: Thomas Frognall Dibdin, A Bibliographical,

Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in the Northern Counties of England and in Scotland, vol. 1,

(London: Printed for the author by C. Richards, 1838), p. 229.

p. 110. ‘Many were the hours of weariness and suffering in his latter days which were thus

happily soothed’: The Annual biography and obituary 1837, vol. 21, (London: Longman, Rees et

al., 1837), p. 234.

p. 120. ‘only with difficulty’: Brenda James & William D. Rubinstein, The Truth Will Out,

(Harlow: Pearson Longman, 2006), p. 146.

p. 125. ‘All that is missing to connect her with Shakespeare is anything to connect her with

Shakespeare’: Bill Bryson, Shakespeare: The World as a Stage, (London: HarperPress, 2007), p.

191.

p. 127. ‘an excellent book. It seems to me that the case for Henry Neville as author is proved

beyond reasonable doubt’: Malcolm Moncrief-Spittle, quoted by John Casson, ‘ My

Shakespeare – Neville Research’. http://www.creativepsychotherapy.info/my-shakespeare-

neville-research/

p. 127. ‘lute strings were made from cowgut and bowstrings of horsehair’: Bill Bryson,

Shakespeare: The World as a Stage, (London: HarperPress, 2007), p. 192.

p. 133. ‘tender civilities’: The Memoirs of George Barrington, containing every remarkable

circumstance, from his birth to the present time, (London: Printed for J. Bird and Simmonds,

1790), p. 7.

p. 133. ‘after the Oratorio’: Richard S. Lambert, The Prince of Pickpockets, (London: Faber,

1930), p. 101.

p. 133. ‘genteelest thief’: Nathan Garvey, The Celebrated George Barrington, (Potts Point:

Hordern House, 2008), p. 23.

p. 133. ‘with the greatest propriety’: George Barrington, The history of New South Wales

including Botany Bay, Port Jackson and all its dependencies…’, (London: Printed for M. Jones,

1802), p. 108.

p. 133. ‘Macaroni Pickpocket’: Morning Post, 4 May 1778, quoted in Nathan Garvey, The

Celebrated George Barrington, (Potts Point: Hordern House, 2008), p. 24.

p. 134. ‘trading sexual favours for votes’, ‘at the earnest solicitation’: Nathan Garvey, The

Celebrated George Barrington, (Potts Point: Hordern House, 2008), p. 46.

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p. 135. ‘had some skill in observation of detail, and some power of describing particular

episodes [but] no talent for composition and arrangement as a whole’: Richard S. Lambert,

The Prince of Pickpockets, (London: Faber, 1930), p. 240.

p. 138. ‘very busily employed… in the sale of books’: John Lettsom, quoted in Nathan

Garvey, The Celebrated George Barrington, (Potts Point: Hordern House, 2008), p.110.

p. 139. ‘the last known books published under Barrington’s name’, ‘further publication

would probably have seemed ridiculous, even by the generous standards of the

“Barrington” fraud’: Nathan Garvey, The Celebrated George Barrington, (Potts Point: Hordern

House, 2008), pp. 165-66.

p. 139. ‘libidinous’: Nathan Garvey, The Celebrated George Barrington, (Potts Point: Hordern

House, 2008), p. 76.

p. 141. ‘rage’: Michael Drayton, ‘To my most dearely-loved friend Henry Reynolds Esquire,

of Poets and Poetry’ (1627).

p. 141. ‘had an excellent phantasy, brave notions and gentle expressions, wherein he flowed

with that facility that sometimes it was necessary he should be stopped’: Ben Jonson, Timber,

Or, Discoveries, Made Upon Men and Matter, (London: 1641), p. 98.

p. 143. ‘Mr George Barrington, a Lunatic’: The Sydney Gazette, 30 December 1804, p. 1, quoted

in Nathan Garvey, The Celebrated George Barrington, (Potts Point: Hordern House, 2008), p.

103.

pp. 146-47. to write alone, and not to show each other what they had written…One day,

early in…Accordingly, a small volume was printed, entitled Sonnets / by E.B.B. / Reading /

Not for Publication / 1847 / an octavo of 47 pages’: Edmund Gosse, Critical Kit-Kats, (New

York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1903), pp. 2-3.

p. 147. ‘Dr W. C. Bennett, who had been Miss Mitford’s intimate friend… I purchased from

Dr Bennett; it is one of my most valued possessions’: Thomas J. Wise, A Bibliography of the

Writings in Prose and Verse of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, (London: Printed for private

circulation by Richard Clay & Sons, 1918), p. 75.

p. 148. ‘the finest private library in the kingdom’: Edmund Gosse, in the Boston Evening

Transcript, 5 May 1923, quoted by John Collins, The Two Forgers, (New Castle: Oak Knoll

Books, 1992), p. 220.

p. 148. ‘private printings of choice unpublished things’: ‘The Treasures of a London

Collector’, Boston Evening Transcript, 5 May 1923, quoted by John Collins, The Two Forgers,

(New Castle: Oak Knoll Books, 1992), p. 221.

pp. 151-52. ‘I will now consider the theory of unauthorised printing. With whom could this

have originated? One name must be cleared out of the way at once… them? Neither I nor his

son Mr Maurice Buxton Forman can tell with any certainty’: Thomas J. Wise, letter in the

Times Literary Supplement, 24 May 1934, quoted in John Carter & Graham Pollard, An Enquiry

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into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets, (Aldershot & New Castle: Scolar

Press/Oak Knoll Press, 1992), p. 380.

pp. 152-53. ‘I had agreed, one memorable evening, to dine with my dear old friend, Clem

Stunter, whom… what I am convinced is an unpublished poem by the Mark Tapley of

English verse’: Richard Jennings, quoted by John Collins, The Two Forgers, (New Castle: Oak

Knoll Books, 1992), pp. 258-59.

p. 153. ‘Since I communicated the poem to Mr Carter I have become increasingly uncertain

whether I did,… friend of the Poet. His name escapes me. But in those jolly days we were all

friends together’: Richard Jennings, quoted by John Collins, The Two Forgers, (New Castle:

Oak Knoll Books, 1992), p. 259.

p. 154. ‘Quite so. And we print “Last Tournament” in 1896, and want “someone to think” it

was printed in 1871! The moral position is exactly the same!’: Thomas J. Wise to Harry

Buxton Forman, 1896, quoted by John Collins, The Two Forgers, (New Castle: Oak Knoll

Books, 1992), p. 121.

p. 154. ‘I fancied it the First Edition and a great prize’: John Payne Collier, quoted in Samuel

Schoenbaum, Shakespeare’s Lives, (New York: Barnes & Noble, 2006), p. 246.

p. 156. ‘wine, beer and other liquids’, ‘the lighted snuff of a candle, or by the ashes of

tobacco’: John Payne Collier, quoted in Samuel Schoenbaum, Shakespeare’s Lives, (New York:

Barnes & Noble, 2006), p. 260.

p. 156. ‘a single word, stop, sign, note, correction, alteration or emendation’: John Payne

collier, affidavit dated 8 January 1856, quoted in N.E.S.A. Hamilton, An Inquiry into the

Genuineness of the Manuscript Corrections in Mr J. Payne Collier’s Annotated Shakespeare, Folio,

1632, (London: Richard Bentley, 1860), pp. 16-17.

p. 160. ‘One Provident Man who has been buying and buying the right things’: Alfred W.

Pollard to Thomas J. Wise, letter dated 30 July 1923, reproduced in John Collins, The Two

Forgers: A biography of Harry Buxton Forman & Thomas James Wise, (New Castle: Oak Knoll

Books, 1992), p. 233.

p. 162. ‘where those valuable books came from that were sold by Sotheby two years ago, to

save him from a prison’: Anonymous letter to T. Phillipps, quoted in A. N. L. Munby, The

Family Affairs of Sir Thomas Phillipps, (Cambridge: CUP, 1952), p. 47.

p. 162. ‘If he ever chanced to see anything in anyone else’s house or in a museum that he

thought he was more worthy to possess…he had no scruples about taking it’: E. V. Lucas,

Reading, Writing and Remembering: A literary record, (London: Methuen & Co., 1933), p.

48.

p. 167. ‘The known facts of Neville’s life consistently match the accepted chronology…why

the works of “Shakespeare” were written, that they simply cannot be coincidental’: Brenda

James & William D. Rubinstein, The Truth Will Out, (Harlow: Pearson Longman, 2006), p. 31.

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p. 169. ‘the daily and disorderly exercise of a number of players and playing houses’,

‘greatly corrupted and their manners infected with many evil and ungodly qualities… plays,

devise divers evil and ungodly matches, confederacies and conspiracies’: Sir William Rowe

to the Archbishop of Canterbury, letter dated 25 February 1592.

p. 170. ‘a great puritan’: George Birkhead, Newsletters from the Archpresbyterate of George

Birkhead, Cambden Fifth Series vol. 12, (Cambridge: C.U.P., 1998), p. 192.

p. 175. ‘crafty, covetous and Popish’: William Turner, quoted by Phoebe Sheavyn, The

Literary Profession in the Elizabethan Age, (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1909), p.

81.

p. 179. ‘By mr. ffrauncis Bacon / Essaies by the same author / William Shakespeare’: Frank J.

Burgoyne, ‘Introduction’, Northumberland Manuscript. Collotype facsimile & type transcript of an

Elizabethan manuscript preserved at Alnwick Castle, Northumberland, (London, New York,

Longmans, Green & Co., 1904).

p. 184. ‘Venus and Adhonay per Shakspere’: Richard Stonley, diary entry for Tuesday, 12

June 1593. http://www.shakespearedocumented.org/exhibition/document/stonley-s-diary-

first-recorded-purchase-venus-and-adonis-shakespeare-s-first

p. 187. ‘And Shakespeare thou, whose honey-flowing Vein… Thy Name in Fame’s immortal

Book have placed’: Richard Barnfield, ‘A Remembrance of some English Poets’, from his

Poems in Divers Humours (1598).

p. 188. ‘marchant of vennis’, ‘taming of a shrew’, ‘loves labor lost’ and ‘loves labor won’: R.

Clifford Leech, ‘The year’s contributions to Shakespearian study’ in Shakespeare Survey 12.

The Elizabethan Theatre, (Cambridge: C.U.P., 1959), p. 141.

p. 189. ‘by the dim light of Nature’, ‘Learning’: Francis Beaumont to Ben Jonson, undated

(c.1606-1615), quoted by James Shapiro, Contested Will, (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010),

p. 239.

p. 189. ‘His Natural Genius to Poetry was so excellent, that like…no occasion for the

Assistance of Art to polish it’: Gerard Langbaine, An Account of the English Dramatick Poets,

(Oxford: Printed by L. L. for George West & Henry Clements, 1691), p. 453.

p. 189. ‘our English Terence’, ‘Some say good Will (which I, in sport, do sing)… So, to

increase their Stocke which they do keepe’: John Davies, ‘The Scourge of Folly: Epig. 159’, in

The Complete Works of John Davies of Hereford (15..-1618), vol. 2, (Printed for private

circulation, 1878), p. 26.

p. 193. ‘upon the peril of Henry Chettle’: see ‘The Registers of the Stationers’ Company’,

Notes and Queries, 3rd Series, Vol. I, (London: Bell & Daldy, 1862), p. 321.

pp. 193-94. ‘a letter written to divers play-makers is offensively by one or two of them taken,

and because on the… Greene’s, not mine nor Master Nashe’s, as some unjustly have

affirmed’: Henry Chettle, Kind-harts Dreame, (London: Printed for William Wright, [1592]),

pp. iv-v.

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p. 197. ‘a fashionable, fin de siècle mental disease’: R. C. Churchill, Shakespeare and His

Betters, (London: Max Reinhardt, 1958), p. 177.

p. 199. ‘He died a papist’: see George B. Allen, ‘The Question About Shakespeare's Religion:

The state of the question and a study of the manuscript note of Richard Davies "He dyed a

papist"’, Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia, Vol. 33, No. 3,

(September, 1922), pp. 267-74.

p. 203. ‘out for money: HARD… for the rest of the year my name is Harpagon’: Bernard

Shaw, Fly Leaves, (Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1977), p. 9.

p. 204. ‘Young man, if, instead of wasting your time asking people like me to give…soon

find that your own signature would be as much sought after as mine appears to be’: George

Bernard Shaw, quoted in Stuart Kells, Penguin and the Lane Brothers, (Melbourne: Black Inc,

2015), p. 69.

pp. 204-05. ‘Edith, the wife of my Fabian colleague Hubert Bland, began her career… flyleaf

with her cipher-seeking calculations, which disfigured it horribly’: Bernard Shaw, Fly Leaves,

(Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1977), p. 20.

p. 208. ‘a rare power of assimilating and vitalising’: Sidney Lee, Great Englishmen of the

Sixteenth Century, (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904), p. 299.

p. 208. ‘was much like the Comedy of Errors, or Menechmi in Plautus, but most like and near to

that in Italian called Inganni’: John Manningham, 2 February 1601, Diary of John Manningham,

of the Middle Temple, and of Bradbourne, Kent, Barrister-at-Law, 1602-03, (Westminster: Printed

by J. B. Nichols & Sons, 1868), p. 18.

p. 209. ‘Shakespeare…took most of his stories and many of his characters at second-hand…

into the beings whom we know by the sheer Form of his genius and craftsmanship’:

Archibald Strong, Peradventure: A book of essays in literary criticism, (Melbourne: Thomas C.

Lothian, 1911), p. 133.

p. 230. ‘A debating society, recitations from Shakespeare, nightly theatricals, and the

publication of a weekly journal containing original poetry, critical articles, and a lively

correspondence column’: Bill Bell, ‘Bound for Botany Bay; or, what did the nineteenth-

century convict read?’, in Robin Myers et al. (eds), Against the Law: Crime, sharp practice and

the control of print, (New Castle & London: Oak Knoll Press/British Library, 2004), p. 172.

p. 231. ‘It was a proper theatre, Georgian in style, with a pit, a gallery and boxes…. who had

no ready cash could pay in kind, that is, in meat, flour or spirits’: David Malouf, ‘Lecture 1:

The Island’, part of A Spirit of Play: The Making of Australian Consciousness (Boyer Lectures),

Sunday 15 Nov. 1998. http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/boyerlectures/lecture-

1-the-island/3460264#transcript

p. 231. ‘established itself rather more easily than the first church’: David Malouf, ‘Lecture 1:

The Island’, part of A Spirit of Play: The Making of Australian Consciousness (Boyer Lectures),

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Sunday 15 Nov. 1998. http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/boyerlectures/lecture-

1-the-island/3460264#transcript

p. 231. ‘a group of the more decent among the convicts’, ‘No improprieties took place inside

the theatre,…spent their time in breaking into the huts of those that attended it, and robbing

them’: Richard S. Lambert, The Prince of Pickpockets, (London: Faber, 1930), p. 243.

p. 234. ‘gross and wilful neglect to his studies’: ‘Mitchell, David Scott (1836-1907)’, in Charles

Stitz (ed.), Australian Book Collectors, (Bendigo: Bread Street Press/Australian Book Auction

Records, 2010), p. 176.

p. 235. ‘The craven witch, to give in in that servile manner and worse still to turn the tables

on her own sex! From that moment…I was a rebel against all injustice and wrong’: Eileen

Channin, Book Life: The life and times of David Scott Mitchell, (North Melbourne: Australian

Scholarly Publishing, 2011), p. 153.

p. 235. ‘he would despair of ever attaining the exalted state of Bibliomania’: Thomas

Frognall Dibdin, Bibliomania, or, Book-madness, (London, H. G. Bohn, 1842), p. 468.

p. 235. ‘Perhaps there is no book in the English language which has risen so rapidly in value

as… I was present when thirty-six guineas were demanded for a copy’: William Beloe,

Anecdotes of Literature and Scarce Books, Vol. I, (London: Printed by F. C. & J. Rivington, 1807),

p. 36.

p. 236. ‘Books, pamphlets, maps, pictures, newspapers, manuscripts, filling a vast amount of

shelving and stacked upon the floor, tables and chairs in every room, and up the staircase’:

David Scott (1836-1907)’, in Australian Book Collectors, (Bendigo: Bread Street Press in

association with The Australian Book Auction Records, 2010), pp. 175-78.

p. 236. ‘fortress of books’: A Grand Obsession, (Sydney: State Library of New South Wales,

2007), p. 16.

p. 239. ‘Shakespeare’, ‘the greatest Englishman who ever lived’: King O’Malley, quoted in

James Warden, A Bunyip Democracy, Political Studies Fellow Monograph No. 2, (Canberra:

Australian Government Publishing Service, 1995), pp. 25-26.

p. 242. ‘the young gentleman was interested in old books’: Frank Sidgwick, Frank Sidgwick’s

Diary and Other Material Relating to A. H. Bullen. & The Shakespeare Head Press at Stratford-

Upon-Avon, (Oxford: Basil Blackwell for The Shakespeare Head Press, 1975), p. vi.

p. 242. ‘greatest literary heroes of all time’: Bill Bryson, Shakespeare: The world as a stage,

(London: HarperPress, 2007), pp. 159-160.

p. 244. ‘whether in the form of elaborate dedications, addresses to the reader, or verses in

praise of himself by his friends’: Frances A. Yates, John Florio, (Cambridge: C.U.P., 1934), p.

224.

p. 246. ‘Renowned Spenser, lie a thought more nigh… For Shakespeare in your threefold,

fourfold tomb’: William Basse, ‘On Mr. Wm. Shakespeare, he died in April 1616’.

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http://www.shakespearedocumented.org/exhibition/document/manuscript-copy-william-

basses-elegy-william-shakespeare

p. 247. ‘He hath consumed a whole night in lying looking to his great toe…about which he

hath seen Tartars and Turks, Romans and Carthaginians, fight in his imagination’: William

Drummond, Notes of Ben Jonson's conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden.

January, M.DC.XIX, (London: Printed for the Shakespeare Society, 1842), p. 22.

p. 247. ‘That Shakspeer wanted arte…Shakspeer, in a play, brought in a number of men

saying they had suffered shipwrack in Bohemia, where there is no sea neer by some 100

miles’: William Drummond, Notes of Ben Jonson's conversations with William Drummond of

Hawthornden. January, M.DC.XIX, (London: Printed for the Shakespeare Society, 1842), pp. 3

& 16.

p. 247. ‘first edition of the works of our great natural Poet’: Rev. William Beloe, Anecdotes of

Literature and Scarce Books, vol. I, (London: Printed for F. C. and J. Rivington, 1807), p. 36.

pp. 247-48. ‘The monumental First Folio, the authorised complete canon of thirty-six of his

Comedies, Histories…in the First Folio is recognised as being very much as Shakespeare

intended it’: Ian Wilson, Shakespeare: The Evidence, (London: Headline, 1994), pp. 5-6.

p. 254. ‘Macbeth’s ‘If trembling I in habit then’…is misprinted ‘If trembling I inhabit then’

which… which is neither good Quickly, good Falstaff, nor good Shakespear’: Bernard Shaw,

Fly Leaves, (Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1977), p. 21.

p. 255. ‘Thomas Bowdler, aware that here and there in Othello the 1623 folio was slightly less

coarse…that the first folio could really be reckoned “the first Family Shakespeare”’: Colin

Franklin, Obsessions and Confessions of a Book Life, (New Castle et al.: Oak Knoll Press, Books

of Kells, Quaritch, 2012), p. 157.

p. 256. ‘one of the elements in which [he] liveth’: William Drummond, Notes of Ben Jonson's

conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden. January, M.DC.XIX, (London: Printed

for the Shakespeare Society, 1842), p. 40.

p. 256. ‘Shakespear, Drayton and Ben Jonson had a merry meeting, and itt seems drankd too

hard, for Shakspear died of a feavour there contracted’: John Ward, Diary of the Rev. John

Ward, A.M., Vicar of Stratford-Upon-Avon, Extending from 1648 to 1679, (London: Henry

Colburn, 1839), p. 61.

p. 259. ‘full of incongruities and obscenities’, ‘It would appear that Shakespeare, fearing that

his play would not please the better class, endeavoured by means of obscene jokes to gain

favour with the pit’: Henry Spencer Ashbee, quoted in Ian Gibson, The Erotomaniac: The secret

life of Henry Spencer Ashbee, (London: Faber, 2001), p. 85.

p. 260. ‘very popular in religious circles’: quoted in Colin Franklin, Obsessions and Confessions

of a Book Life, (New Castle et al.: Oak Knoll Press et al., 2012), p. 152.

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p. 260. ‘irregularities of his conduct’, ‘especially in the amorous way’: John Fry, A Selection

from the Poetical Works of Thomas Carew, (London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme,

1810), p. xi.

p. 261. ‘reviled him, and miscalled him, terming him a cow and coward, and beast’: Cobbett’s

Complete Collection of State Trials and proceedings for high treason and other crimes and

misdemeanors from the earliest period to the present time, vol. 2, (London: R. Bagshaw, 1809), p.

819.

p. 263. ‘Mountain toulde me that Covell confessed that the sweeteste sporte that ever he had

with me was in the chayre’, ‘boaste that he laye with Licea, and by what meanes he gott to

hir bedd’, ‘bawdrye’: Brigett Edmunds, quoted in Alan H. Nelson, ‘Shakespeare and the

Bibliophiles: From the earliest years to 1616’, in Robin Myers et al. (eds), Owners, Annotators

and the Signs of Reading, (New Castle & London: Oak Knoll Press/British Library, 2005), p. 53.

p. 263. ‘never redd vnto hir anie of bawdrye, excepte she meanes it by this’, ‘that vpon a

tyme when as she the said Brigett with diverse others wente…the same to them; wherein he

saith there was no bawdrye at all’: George Mountain, quoted in Alan H. Nelson,

‘Shakespeare and the Bibliophiles: From the earliest years to 1616’, in Robin Myers et al.

(eds), Owners, Annotators and the Signs of Reading, (New Castle & London: Oak Knoll

Press/British Library, 2005), p. 53.

p. 263. ‘an other tyme when as he red vnto hir an englishe book’: Brigett Edmunds, quoted

in Alan H. Nelson, ‘Shakespeare and the Bibliophiles: From the earliest years to 1616’, in

Robin Myers et al. (eds), Owners, Annotators and the Signs of Reading, (New Castle & London:

Oak Knoll Press/British Library, 2005), p. 53.

p. 264. ‘some of the dissolute sallies of Green and Nashe’: Samuel Johnson & Alexander

Chalmers, The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, vol. 5, (London: Printed for

J. Johnson et al., 1810), p. 229.

p. 264. ‘In the age of Shakespeare…it was customary “to make counterfeit Mandrag, which

is sold by deceyuers…transcribing) they produced the kind of priapic idol to which Shallow

has been compared’: Samuel Johnson & George Steevens (ed.), The Plays of William

Shakespeare, vol. 12, (London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1803), p. 150.

p. 266. ‘most sexual, most bawdy plays’: Eric Partridge, Shakespeare's Bawdy, (London:

Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1961), p. 54.

p. 267. ‘here was Shakespeare mutilated’: Noel Perrin, quoted in Colin Franklin, Obsessions

and Confessions of a Book Life, (New Castle et al.: Oak Knoll Press et al., 2012), p. 154.

p. 267. ‘sexual relations, sexual organs and marriage’: Eileen Chanin, Book Life: The life and

times of David Scott Mitchell, (North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2011), p.

154.

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p. 267. ‘postbellum physiologist, health crusader and mail-order magnate’: Eileen Chanin,

Book Life: The life and times of David Scott Mitchell, (North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly

Publishing, 2011), p. 154.

p. 271. ‘The fundamental principle of private press printing…for the mundane purpose of

reading, remember he is concerned as much with his own pleasure and education as with

yours’: John Carter, ‘Introduction’, English Private Presses 1757 to 1961, (exhib. cat.; London:

1961).

p. 271. ‘a strange figure with his Gothic-romantic melancholy, his fondness for picturesque

solitude, and his interest in the books and literature of the past’: Roderick Cave, The Private

Press, (New York & London: R. R. Bowker Co., 1983), p. 44.

p. 271. ‘ill organised’: Roderick Cave, The Private Press, (New York & London: R. R. Bowker

Co., 1983), p. 50.

p. 272. ‘mediocre’: Tim Munby, quoted in Roderick Cave, The Private Press, (New York &

London: R. R. Bowker Co., 1983), p. 48.

p. 272. ‘Distress’d and disappointed’: letter to Sir Thomas Phillipps from his agent, 1822,

quoted in Roderick Cave, The Private Press, (New York & London: R. R. Bowker Co., 1983), p.

47.

p. 272. ‘Let’s make a new fount of type’: William Morris, quoted in Roderick Cave, The

Private Press, (New York & London: R. R. Bowker Co., 1983), p. 104.

p. 272. ‘the best-looking book issued since the seventeenth century...I am so pleased with my

book...that I am any day seen huggling it up’: William Morris, quoted in Roderick Cave, The

Private Press, (New York & London: R. R. Bowker Co., 1983), p. 104.

p. 272. ‘I began printing books with the hope of producing some which would have a

definite claim to beauty…or trouble the intellect of the reader by eccentricity of form in the

letters’: William Morris, A Note by William Morris on His Aims in Founding the Kelmscott Press,

(Kelmscott Press, 1898).

p. 273. ‘The books are heady, romantic, emotional typography; one almost feels that the type

and ornament have grown together and could continue growing like some monstrous

hothouse plant’: Roderick Cave, The Private Press, (New York & London: R. R. Bowker Co.,

1983), p. 115.

p. 274. ‘Of all my Hamlets this is the most treasured. It is…a masterpiece…with Morris and

his Kelmscott Press and Acland with his Ashendene Press, as successors to Jenson and

Caxton’: Bernard Shaw, Flyleaves, (Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1977), p. 15.

p. 274. ‘preaching socialism and going away to prepare books that none but the rich could

buy’: H. Halliday Sparling, The Kelmscott Press and William Morris, (London: Macmillan &

Co., 1924), p. 77.

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p. 275. ‘all perfect things should be unique’: Oscar Wilde, quoted in Jean Paul Raymond &

Charles Ricketts, Oscar Wilde: Recollections, (London: Nonesuch Press, 1932), p. 28.

p. 276. ‘full of wine’, ‘full of light’: Charles Ricketts, quoted in William S. Peterson, The

Kelmscott Press: A History of William Morris's Typographical Adventure, (Berkeley: University of

California Press, 1991), p. 283.

p. 276. ‘rather a big order in the way of time’: Thomas Sturge Moore to Lucien Pissarro,

letter dated c.1901, quoted in Maureen Watry, The Vale Press, (New Castle & London: Oak

Knoll Press/British Library, 2004), p. 176.

p. 277. ‘over difficulties with the vellum copies’: Maureen Watry, The Vale Press, (New Castle

& London: Oak Knoll Press/British Library, 2004), p. 176.

pp. 277-78. ‘had a great reputation as a connoisseur and in 1915 turned down the offer of the

directorship of the National Gallery’: Ian Chilvers, The Oxford Dictionary of Art & Artists,

(Oxford: OUP, 2009), p. 528.

p. 279. ‘stale’, ‘unthinking’: Charles Ricketts, quoted in Carl J. Weber, ‘Charles Ricketts and

His Books’, Colby Library Quarterly, Series III, No. 4, November 1951, p. 56.

p. 280. ‘replete with exaggerated and often libellous tales of theatrical folk’, ‘a collection of

entirely imaginary conversations between Bernard Shaw and G. K. Chesterton which were

(and still are) widely regarded as authentic’: Jeremy Lewis, Penguin Special: The Life and

Times of Allen Lane, (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2006).

p. 281. ‘there is no question that Hesketh Pearson did write the book himself, and I must

say…a great deal of hot water, I always had a high regard for him’: Jeremy Lewis, Penguin

Special: The Life and Times of Allen Lane, (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2006).

p. 290. ‘was made free of the Stationers Company’: Samuel Schoenbaum, William Shakespeare:

A Compact Documentary Life, (Oxford: OUP, 1987), p. 175.

p. 295. ‘Loving good friend and countryman, Mr Wm. Shackespere’: Richard Quiney to

William Shakespeare, letter dated 25 October 1598,

http://www.shakespearedocumented.org/exhibition/document/only-surviving-letter-

shakespeare-letter-richard-quiney-asking-shakespeares

p. 296. ‘anything can be anywhere’: John Baxter, A Pound of Paper, (London: Doubleday,

2002), p. 176.