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Cornell University 
 Library 
 
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 tine Cornell University Library. 
 
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 the United States on the use of the text. 
 
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THE 
 
 Beaufoy Shakespeares 
 
 TUESDAY, JULY 16, 1912 
 
 About 3 o'clock 
 
OATALOaUE 
 
 OF THE 
 
 FIRST FOUR FOLIO EDITIONS 
 
 OF 
 
 SHAKESPEARE 
 
 WITH ROGER PAYNE'S BILL FOR BINDING 
 THE FIRST FOLIO 
 
 From the Library formed during the early part 
 of the last Century by 
 
 HENKY B. H. BEAUFOY, ESQ. 
 
 And now Sold by Order of 
 
 THE BEAUFOY THUSTEES 
 
 WHICH 
 
 Mtll be SolO in ®ne Xot bs Huction bp 
 
 MESSRS. CHRISTIE, HANSON & WOODS 
 
 AT THEIR GREAT ROOMS 
 
 8 KING STREET, ST. JAMES'S SQUAEE 
 LONDON 
 
 On TUESDAY, JULY 16, 1912 
 
 ABOUT THREE o'clock 
 
 {After the Sale of the John Edward Taylor Collection 
 of Engravings and Boohs) 
 
 -^«M€3<- 
 
 May be viewed the Thursday, Friday and Monday preceding, 
 and Catalogues had, at Messrs. Christie, Manson and Woods' 
 Offices, 8 King Street, St. James's Square, London, S.W. 
 
CONDITIONS OF SALE. 
 
 I. THE highest Bidder to be the Buyer ; and if any dispute arise 
 between two or more Bidders, the Lot so in dispute shall be 
 immediately put up again and re-sold. 
 
 II. No person to advance less than Is. ; above Five Pounds, 5«. ; and 
 so on in proportion. 
 
 III. In the case of Lots upon which there is a reserve, the Auctioneer 
 
 shall have the right to bid on behalf of the Seller. 
 
 IV. The Purchasers to give in their Names and Places of Abode, 
 
 and to pay dovm 5s. in the Pound, or more, in part of payment, 
 or the whole of the Purchase-Money if required ; in default 
 of which, the Lot or Lots so purchased to be immediately put 
 up again and re-sold. 
 
 V. The Lots to be taken away and paid for, whether genuine and 
 authentic or not, with all faults and errors of description, at 
 the Buyer's expense and risk, within Two Days from the Sale ; 
 Messrs. Christie, Manson and Woods not being responsible 
 for the correct description, genuineness, or authenticity of, 
 or aaiy fault or defect in, any Lot, and making no warranty 
 whatever. 
 
 VI. To prevent inaccittacy in delivery, and inconvenience in the 
 settlement of the Purchases, no Lot can on any account be 
 removed during the time of Sale ; and the remainder of the 
 Purchase- Money must absolutely be paid on the delivery. 
 
 VII. Upon failure of complying with the above Conditions, the Money 
 deposited in part of payment shall be forfeited ; all Lots un- 
 cleared within the time aforesaid shall be re-sold by public or 
 private Sale, and the deficiency (if any) attending such re-sale 
 shall be made good by the defaulter at this Sale. 
 
 VIII. Books. — The books are presumed to be perfect, unless otherwise 
 expressed ; but if, upon collating, any should prove defective, 
 the same may be returned within a week, or an allowance 
 made thereon. 
 
 IX. Books. — The Sale of any book or books is hot to be set aside 
 on account of any stained or short leaves of text or plates, 
 want of list of plates, or on account of the publication of any 
 subsequent volume, supplement, appendix, or plates. All the 
 manuscripts and autographs, all periodicals, transactions, 
 magazines and reviews, all books in Lots and Tracts in Lots or 
 volumes, will be sold with all faults, imperfections and errors 
 of description. The Sale of any Lot of prints or drawings is 
 not to be set aside on account of any error in the enumeration 
 of the numbers stated, of errors of description. 
 
THE FIRST FOLIO. 
 BOUND BY ROGER PAYNE 
 
 Face x>- ^ 
 
CATALOGUE 
 
 OV THE 
 
 FIEST FOIJE FOLIO EDITIONS 
 
 QF 
 
 SHAKE SPEAEE 
 
 To be Sold in ONE LQT. 
 
 On TUESDAY, JULY 16, 1912, 
 
 AT ABOUT THREE o'clock. 
 
 (After the Sale of the John Edward ' Taylor Collection of Engravings 
 
 and Boolis) 
 
 Shakespeare (William) Mr. WiLriiAM/SHAKBSPBAKBs/OoMB- 
 DiES,/HiSTOBiES, & i/ TjiAGEDiBS. - Published -according to 
 the True Originall Copies./ Portrait on title by Droeshout, 
 with verses opposite, folio, russia extra, with three line 
 panel in gold, enclosing an ornamental panel with Shake- 
 speare's a/rms on either side, . and horns {suggested by 
 the character of Heme the hunter) at top and bottom ; full- 
 gilt back with Shakespeare' s arms in top' and bottom 
 panels, joints:, '.wide inside gold tooled margiris, ' g.e. by 
 EoGBE Payne (neatly repaired); with his portrait by 
 Thomas Payne added, and his dbtailed Bill foe 
 BINDING AND EEPAiEiNG THE BOOK {scc below, and illus- 
 trations), contairied in slip-off morocco case 
 
 Printed by Isaac laggard, and: Ed. Blount, 1623; 
 
 [Colophon] Printed at the Charges of W 
 
 ■ laggard, Ed. Blount, I. Srhithweeke, and 
 
 W. Aspley, 1623 
 
 A FINE AND VBEY TALL COPY OF THE PlEST PoLIO, 
 
 measuring 13 in. by 8f in. The verses inlaid, the title 
 
with portrait, cut close and inlaid, and the " S " of Shake- 
 peare in facsimile. Six leaves (169-80) of " The Merchant 
 of Venice " are inlaid, as also is the last leaf. The two 
 wrong headlines of " The Merry Wives of Windsor " have 
 been altered in M.S. A few corners and margins have 
 been repaired and a few margins are slightly defective. One 
 leaf (p. 11-12 in " King John ") has the bottom margin 
 untrimmed. 
 
 This copy is Number XVIII. in Sir Sidney Lee's 
 Census of Extant Copies. It was the property in the 
 17th Century of the Shakerley family of Cheshire, into 
 which married Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, third Bart. ; 
 Sir Watkin's second son, the Et. Hon. Charles Watkin 
 Williams Wynn (1775-1880), owned the copy till his 
 death. It was purchased by James Beaufoy, grandfather 
 of the present owner, for £141 10s., Peb. 28, 1851 
 
 EOGEB PAYNE'S BILL. 
 
 " A great deal of Lettering done in the most correct Manner 
 in Work 
 
 This Book iS very Large — in page 11 in the Hist, of King 
 John their is a Eough Leaf at the Bottom 
 
 Six Leaves Inlay'd in so exceeding neat Manner as not to be 
 seen without being told of it. In the Comedies pages 169-180. 
 The Inlay'd Leaves taken from another Copy was Cutt down 
 very much almost to the Black Line at ye Head margin at 
 page 176 the Proof ye Red Colour at ye Edge the extent of 
 ye margin. Those Six Leaves The Title with above 40 peioes 
 to strengthen the Title. The Verses fronting the Title and the 
 Last Leaf Inlay'd 
 
 The Whole Book mended in a great many places and the 
 Whole Book Carefully looked over to clean the dirt away took 
 me 7 full days and i at 3^- : 6*. pr day ^61.5.9 
 
 Finished in the Taste I thought suitable to the Book. The 
 Top of the pane with (Heme the Hunters Horns Wives of 
 Wind.) & Laurels the Arms of Shakespeare studded D'or. 
 The half moon Midds. N. Dream. The Insides Finished with 
 the Lyne. The Greatest care hath been taken of the marging. 
 The Binding in the very best M [anner] [£] 3. 8." 
 
 The Only Copy Eeoobded in a Eoger Payne 
 Binding with the Obiqinal Bill 
 
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 ROGER PAYNES BILL 
 FOR BINDING THE FIRST FOLIO 
 
 Face p. 4 
 
DOUBLURE IN THE SECOND FOLIO, 
 WITH PORTION OF SHAKESPEARE'S MULBERRY-TREE 
 
 Faw p. 5 
 
Shakespeare (William) Mr, William / Shakespbarks / 
 Comedies, / Histories, and / Tragedies./ Published 
 
 ACCORDING TO THE TRUE OrIGINALL OopIES. / The 
 
 Second Impression./ Portrait by Droeshout, with verses 
 by Ben Jonsoh opposite, folio, diced russia extra, tooled to 
 match the first folio, g.e., with doublures of russia leather, 
 in the centre of each is a piece of Shakespeare's original 
 Mulberry tree (5| in. by 4 w.), inlaid, with a wide and 
 beautifully tooled border in the style of Eoqbr Payne, 
 and other blind and gold tooling. Both doublures are 
 similar, but the. front one has these words in gold: "All 
 
 SHALL YIELD TO THE MULBERRY TREE, MATCHLESS WAS 
 HE WHjO PLANTED THEE, AND THOU LIKE HIM IMMORTAL 
 
 SHALL BE." Both pieces of the Mulberry tree are stamped 
 in blind letters " Shakespeae's wooDj Sharp, Stratpoed- 
 ON-AvoN." The binding has been most neatly repaired, and 
 is contained in a morocco pull-off case (See Illustration) 
 
 Printed by Tho. Gotes,for Bobert Allot, and a/re to be 
 sold at the Signe of the Blacke Beare in Paul's 
 Ghu/rch-yard, 1632 [Colophon] Printed at London 
 by Thomas Cotes, for John Smethwick, William 
 Aspley, Biohard Hawkins, Bichard Meighen and 
 
 Bobert Allot, 1632 
 
 A Large and Very Fine Copy, genuine throughout, 
 measuring 13| in. by 9^ in. The bottom and inside 
 . margins of the leaf of verses have been repaired, as well 
 as the inside margins of the portrait and last leaf. The 
 corners of a few leaves have been neatly repaired, and 
 one or two holes filled up. There is a very small defect 
 in the text at page 27 of " Troylus and Cressida," and a 
 small hole in the margin of page 135 of " Love's Labour 
 Lost." A few lines have been scored in " Henry V." and 
 " Hamlet." Small portions of a few blank margins are 
 wanting 
 
Shakespeare (William) Mb. William/Shakespbab's/Come- 
 DiES, HisTOBiES, AND Tbagbdies./ Published according 
 to the true" Original Copies. / The Thibd Impbbssion./ 
 And unto this Impression is added seven Playes, never/ 
 before Printed in Polio /viz. /Pericles Prince of Tyre./The 
 London Prodigall./The History of Thomas Ifi- 1 Cromwell. 
 Sir John Oldcastle Lord Cobham./The Puritan "Widow./ 
 A Yorkshire Tragedy. /The Tragedy of Locrine. /Porirai* 
 by Droeshout with verses beneath, folio, russia, rebacked 
 and repaired with morocco, blind tooling, contained in 
 morocco pull-off case 
 
 Printed for P.O., 1664 
 
 An Extremely Fine and Tall Copy. The first 
 folio to contain the Spurious Plays. This Copy has the 
 
 BXTEEMELY EaBB OeIGINAL AND SuPPBBSSED TiTLB 
 
 added, with the blank space for the portrait, and the 
 imprint '^Printed for Philip Chetwinde, 1663." (See 
 Illustbation.) It measures 13 by 8f inches. A long 
 tear on page 13 has been neatly repaired, and the 
 blank portion of page 275 also repaired, and the border 
 line continued in facsimile, the word " finis," and the 
 ornament at foot of the page miusing. One or two 
 corners have been mended, and three or four margins 
 are slightly torn ; there are also one or two holes. In 
 many cases the wrong pagination has been corrected in 
 manuscript. The " 3 " in the date of the suppressed title 
 has been lightly inked over to read as " 4." 
 
^PnviVW I L L I A M"^'^- 
 
 SHAKESPEARES 
 
 Comedies ;, Hiftories, and Tragedies. 
 
 PuUiQied sccordiogto the true Origtaal Copies. 
 Tht third Ipt^refsion. 
 
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 seated foi fkUifChtinaJt, t ^ 6^ 
 
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 THE RARE 1663 TITLE TO THE THIRD FOLIO 
 
 Face p. 6 
 
7 
 
 Shakespeare (William) M'^' William Shakespbae's / 
 Comedies, / Histories, / and / Tbagedies. /Published ac- 
 cording to the true Original Copies./ Unto which is added 
 Seven / Plays,/ Never before printed in Polio. . . . The 
 PouBTH 'EiBiviON. /portrait by Droeshout with verses be- 
 neath, folio, calf gilt 
 
 Printed for H. Herringman, E. Brewster, and B. Bentley, 
 at the Anchor in the New Exchange, the Crane 
 in St. Paul's Church-Yard, and in Bussel-Street, 
 
 Covent Garden, 1685 
 
 Pine Copy, measuring 13-}-f in. by 8^-| in. Formerly 
 the property of, and much used by, Thomas Southern, 
 the dramatist, with his name on title, and the names of 
 Charles Cartwright and A. Kearney. A few MS. notes 
 and markings are also considered to be in his hand. 
 About twenty leaves have cracks or small marginal tears, 
 small corners of the margins of four leaves are wanting, 
 a few leaves are browned and stained, and there are 
 small holes on five leaves. At the end is inserted a 
 proof engraving of the monument of the poet at Strat- 
 ford-on-Avon 
 
 FINIS 
 
 London : Printed by William Clowes and Sons, Limited, 
 Great Windmill Street, W., and Duke Street, Stamford Street, S.E, 
 

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