Sales catalogue 563: Maggs Bros

Date:
1931
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/108
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 563: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    358 359 360 [King Lear.] Le Roi Lu Parodie du Roi Lir ou Lear. En un acte et en vers. 8vo, calf. Paris, Chez Brunet, 1783. £2 10s This French parody is by Després. [Lloyd (Robert).] Shakespeare: an Epistle to Mr. Garrick; with an Ode to Genius. FIRST EDITION. Folio, half morocco. London, Printed for T. Davies, 1760. £3 3s With the half-title. Nichols (J.). Six Old Plays, on which Shakespeare founded his Measure for Measure. Comedy of Errots. Taming the Shrew. King John. K. Henry IV. and K. Henry V. King Lear. FIRST EDITION. 2 vols., Sm. 8vo, original boards, uncut. London, Printed for S. Leacroft, 1779. £1 10s The Plays referred to are :—*' Promos and Cassandra,’’ ‘‘ Menaechmi,’’ ‘‘ The Taming of a Shrew,’’ ‘‘ The Troublesome Reign of K. John. Part I.,’’ ‘‘ The Famous Victories of Henry V.,’’ and ‘‘ The True Chronicle of King Leir.”’ SHAKESPEARE’S SOURCE FOR ‘‘ TWELTH NIGHT.”’’ Recitata in Milano l’anno 1547, dinanzi alla Maesta. del Re Filippo. Sm. 8vo, wrappers. Florence, Giunti, 1562. £10 10s Sir Sidney Lee in his ‘‘ Shakespeareana ’’ describes at item 463 the editions of 1547 and 1615, and writes as follows :— A very exhaustive analysis of this volume and Shakespeare’s indebtedness to same is given by Hunter in his ‘‘ New Illustrations ’’ of Twelfth Night, pages 391-397, where he prints the following extract from Manningham’s ‘‘ Diary.’’ :—‘' 1601 (that is 1601-2), Feb. 2. At our feast, wee had a play called Twelve Night, or What you Will. Much like the Comedy of Errors, or Menechmi in Plautus; but most like and neere to that in Italian called Inganni. A good practise in it to make the Steward beleeve his lady widdowe was in love with him, by counter- fayting a letter as from his lady in general termes, telling him what shee liked best in him, and prescribing his gesture in smiling, his apparraile, &c., and then when he came to practise making him beleeve they took him to be mad, &c.”’ The Three Conjurors, A Political Interlude. Stolen from Shakespeare. As it was performed at Sundry Places in Westminster. Mostly humbly dedicated to John Wilkes, Esq. 26 pp., 4to, uxbound. London, Printed for E. Cabe, N.D. (¢. 1770). £1 5s In verse throughout. A political adaptation of Shakespeare’s ‘‘ Macbeth.’’ With Remarks on Several Passages of his Plays. In a Conversation between Eugenius and Neander. FIRST EDITION. Sm. 8vo, half morocco. London, Printed for T. Waller, 1748. £1 5s ee ee ey
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