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...collection is a copy of the Parliamentary statute creating the company, as well as subsequent acts enlarging or amending its rights and powers. There are six folio volumes labelled "Autographs of English, Scotch, and Irish Peers; South Sea Documents", which contain the list of victims. Here are to be found the documents and signatures of George II, and Queen Caroline when Prince and Princess of Wales, Lord Chesterfield, the Earl of Buckingham, and Sir Robert Walpole, as well as countless others...
Summarizing the purpose of the edition the publishers state that they have arranged the plays in the chronological order of their composition. "The time honoured division into Comedies. Histories, and Tragedies, dating from the First Folio and since universally adopted has been abandoned." they say, "in the belief that there were room and need for an edition that should enable readers to approach the body of the plays not as a state monument of achievement but as a vital and growing organism revealing the evolution of the poet's personality and genius...
...contemporary writers was quite handsome, with carved oak pews or stalls running along the sides of the building in the English Collegiate manner. At the East end was the President's seat with desk or pulpit. On this, placed on a rich piece of "China Carpet," was the folio bible given by Andrew Oliver, class of 1724 and later Lt. Governor of Massachusetts. Records show that the Overseers had two pews at the back designed especially for their use. Over the "Great Door" at the West end was perhaps an organ gallery, evidences of which could be brought to light...
...eggs sold last week brought from $525 to $1,315 apiece. Like first folio Shakespeares, each had an individual history. One was found by the late great Alfred Newton in a box at the Royal College of Surgeons. Lady Cust got another for five francs in a French shop. A third belonged to Captain Cook, the explorer...
...threw in a graceful white building to house them. The collection includes 50,000 documents of the Earl of Shelburne, British Prime Minister at the end of the American revolution; 25,000 documents and 350 hand-made maps of Sir Henry Clinton comprising the actual British Headquarters Papers; 15 folio manuscript volumes of Lord Germain, British Colonial Secretary; and the official files of General Thomas Gage, British Commander-in-Chief, probably the most important bundle of manuscript that ever crossed the Atlantic. Some "items": Burgoyne's and Cornwallis' letters reporting surrender; Benjamin Franklin's letter refusing...