Word: quarto
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hundred and fifteen Quarto editions of the works of Shapespeare constitute the bulk of one of the most valuable of recent gifts to Widener Library, made on Saturday. This collection, which will place the Harvard stock of Shakespeariana among the foremost in the country, comes from the library of the late William Augustus White '63, of Brooklyn, New York, as the gift of his family...
...Certain Quarto Copies Unique...
...England again. John Burgoyne began by giving an account, far less prejudiced than those read in most school histories, of how he had lost the battle of the century. This he published in a fine quarto volume prefaced by a narrative in three "'periods'; by which he really meant acts, for a sense of the drama was always strong in his mind." After that he wrote plays, all mediocre, which were produced in London. He died in London, aged 70, on a summer...
...year a very few plays of Shakespeare line by line and in scrupulous detail may be condemned by weary student theorists as overly meticulous. During the period of the course it does seem that both the instructor and his class become so preoccupied in scrutinizing misprints and emendations in quarto and follow that they have no time for the appreciation of Shakespeare. Some months after the last memory passage has been transcribed, the last three-line quotation identified, and the last "fact of Shakespeare" recorded in the June bluebook the student finds his appreciation of Shakespeare returning...
...pleasure in examining the exhibit in the Treasure Room of Widener Library this week. The books laid out there include complete facsimiles of the first four folio editions of Shakespeare's plays, dated 1623, 1632, 1664, and 1685, as well as specimens of a still earlier edition of the quarto plays...