Early notices of Shakespeare [manuscript], compiled ca. 1860.

6 v. ; 22 x 17 cm

Volume 1: V.a.497; volume 2: V.a.498; volume 3: V.a.499; volume 4: V.a.500; volume 5: V.a.501; volume 6: V.a.502.

Scrapbooks of allusions to Shakespeare, compiled by J.O. Halliwell-Phillipps for the Earl of Warwick, containing mostly print material, mostly cuttings from 17th century plays, also includes original manuscripts, a few tracings of documents, forgeries, some illustrations removed from books and some music.

Volumes 1 and 2 are all print material. Volume 3 is also all print except for one Collier transcript about John Shakespeare (leaf 30). Volume 4 along with some print material contains 2 bills, one for funeral expenses, from the 1730s. Five transcripts in Ireland's hand of his own forgeries of Shakespeare can be found at the end of volume 4 and the beginning of volume 5. Volume 5 also includes a facsimile/tracing of D. Forman's manuscript in the Ashmolean Museum, as well as more print material. Volume 6 contains all print material some with notes said to be by Philip, Earl of Pembroke, but have been identified as those of Baron Stanhope of Harrington. Volume 4 also contains illustrations, including woodcuts of soldier's holding arms from Gheyn's The Exercise of Armes, 1619 (STC 11812) and woodcuts from Geiler's Nauicula siue speculum fatuorum. Volumes 4 and 6 also contain two different songs sung by Mrs. Dyer from Purcell's opera The Faiery Queen.

Title from spine.

Warwick Castle Shakespeare library (bookplate).

Halliwell-Phillipps, J.O. Brief hand-list of books, manuscripts, &c., illustrative of the life and writings of Shakespeare, 298-303

Gheyn, Jacob de, 1565-1629. Wapenhandelinghe van roers, musquetten, ende spiessen. Selections. Polyglot.
Geiler von Kaysersberg, Johann, 1445-1510. Nauicula siue speculum fatuorum. Selections.
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Fairy queen. Selections.

Great Britain -- England.

V.a.497-502

Warwick