Word: folios
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge, London, will sell to-day a transcript of Burn's poems, in his own handwriting, on eighty folio pages. This manuscript varies in many instances from the printed edition and other known transcripts...
...York Shakespeare Society will issue next month the first volume of "The Bankside Shakespeare." This edition will offer the text of the earliest version of each play printed in the life-time of William Shakespeare, paralleled with the 1623, or first-folio text, and both texts numbered line by line and scrupulously collated with both he folio and quarto texts...
...spelt the name wrong. I have no doubt that a low mark will be the result of such a mistake. Now why should we countenance the mistake of persons who ought to know better in this instance? Surely they cannot have read or seen a reprint of the first folio of 1623, for there this name as in most good authors is spelt correctly. - "Shakespeare...
...poet's manuscripts, were widely scattered; most of them had disappeared, and were found only by extended search through the British Museum, Pembroke and Peterhouse Colleges at Cambridge, the Dicey library at South Kensington, Lord Howden's autograph collection, and various private libraries. At Pembroke College he found three folio volumes of manuscript, unexamined since 1814, containing scribbling of every one of Gray's poems. Some of these were new, among them some Latin poems and a translation in verse from Propertius. This latter was written in 1742, in Gray's best period. Mr. Gosse read this poem...
...appendage to the university, the funds of which contributed $20,000 towards its erection. Invited by Dr. Jackson. I devoted a few hours to a visit there, passing in review the library room, lecture room, demonstration room, chemical room, dissecting room, bones room, mineral cabinet, etc., etc. A folio volume and plates of the bones, in the library, which is a present from Mr. Vaughan, is considered of great value, not only for its exactness, but for its rarity, the original proprietor of the work in England having destroyed the plates after 400 impressions were made, so that...