[SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616)]. 25 leaves from the second folio, London, 1632. Including portions of Much Ado about Nothing, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet. 2o. Loose in a brown morocco slipcase. Purchased at the Red Cross sale, Plaza Hotel, 1940-41. -- NEVILLE, Alexander. De furoribus Norfolciensium Ketto Duce. London: Henricus Binneman, 1575. 4o. (Lacking text leaves R2.3.) 18th-century speckled calf. FIRST EDITION of Neville's history of Kett's Rebellion and history of Norfolk, which was a source for Holinshed's Chronicle. Issues of the first edition include various cancellans of R2.3, both of which are lacking here. STC 18478. -- SMITH, William Henry. Bacon and Shakespeare. An Inquiry touching Players, Playhouses and Play-Writers in the Days of Elizabeth. London: John Russell Smith, 1857. 8o. 19th-century black half morocco. Provenance: James W. Ellsworth; gift inscription from John Fleming to Mary Hyde in
[SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616)]. 25 leaves from the second folio, London, 1632. Including portions of Much Ado about Nothing, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet. 2o. Loose in a brown morocco slipcase. Purchased at the Red Cross sale, Plaza Hotel, 1940-41. -- NEVILLE, Alexander. De furoribus Norfolciensium Ketto Duce. London: Henricus Binneman, 1575. 4o. (Lacking text leaves R2.3.) 18th-century speckled calf. FIRST EDITION of Neville's history of Kett's Rebellion and history of Norfolk, which was a source for Holinshed's Chronicle. Issues of the first edition include various cancellans of R2.3, both of which are lacking here. STC 18478. -- SMITH, William Henry. Bacon and Shakespeare. An Inquiry touching Players, Playhouses and Play-Writers in the Days of Elizabeth. London: John Russell Smith, 1857. 8o. 19th-century black half morocco. Provenance: James W. Ellsworth; gift inscription from John Fleming to Mary Hyde in celebration of her Ph.D., 1947. -- Photostatic copy of the prompt copy of the 1676 edition of Hamlet in the library of the Tudor & Stuart Club at Johns Hopkins University. 4o. Black buckram. -- BARKER, H. Granville. Autograph manuscript about the character of Hamlet, n.p., ca. 1936. 4 pages, 4to, red cloth folding case. This text differs from that printed in Prefaces to Shakespeare, 3rd series, Hamlet, 1937. -- SHAKESPEARE, William. The Sonnets. Oxford: The Shakespeare Head Press, 1957. 8o. Modern red calf. -- HARBAGE, Alfred. Typescript signed entitled "O Blessed Letters!", a talk delivered at the Shakespeare 400th Anniversary Banquet, Morgan Library, 1 April 1964. 9 pages, 4to, with autograph corrections. With 3pp. galley proofs for the article's publication in Shakespeare Quarterly. Together in a red cloth folding case. (7)

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[SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616)]. 25 leaves from the second folio, London, 1632. Including portions of Much Ado about Nothing, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet. 2o. Loose in a brown morocco slipcase. Purchased at the Red Cross sale, Plaza Hotel, 1940-41. -- NEVILLE, Alexander. De furoribus Norfolciensium Ketto Duce. London: Henricus Binneman, 1575. 4o. (Lacking text leaves R2.3.) 18th-century speckled calf. FIRST EDITION of Neville's history of Kett's Rebellion and history of Norfolk, which was a source for Holinshed's Chronicle. Issues of the first edition include various cancellans of R2.3, both of which are lacking here. STC 18478. -- SMITH, William Henry. Bacon and Shakespeare. An Inquiry touching Players, Playhouses and Play-Writers in the Days of Elizabeth. London: John Russell Smith, 1857. 8o. 19th-century black half morocco. Provenance: James W. Ellsworth; gift inscription from John Fleming to Mary Hyde in celebration of her Ph.D., 1947. -- Photostatic copy of the prompt copy of the 1676 edition of Hamlet in the library of the Tudor & Stuart Club at Johns Hopkins University. 4o. Black buckram. -- BARKER, H. Granville. Autograph manuscript about the character of Hamlet, n.p., ca. 1936. 4 pages, 4to, red cloth folding case. This text differs from that printed in Prefaces to Shakespeare, 3rd series, Hamlet, 1937. -- SHAKESPEARE, William. The Sonnets. Oxford: The Shakespeare Head Press, 1957. 8o. Modern red calf. -- HARBAGE, Alfred. Typescript signed entitled "O Blessed Letters!", a talk delivered at the Shakespeare 400th Anniversary Banquet, Morgan Library, 1 April 1964. 9 pages, 4to, with autograph corrections. With 3pp. galley proofs for the article's publication in Shakespeare Quarterly. Together in a red cloth folding case. (7)
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