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- SONNETS OF SHAKESPEARE 71
bestovves’ (by Carew). A typed facsimile of the 1640 volume was issued by Alfred Russell Smith in 1885.
The volume is comparatively common. The earliest mention of its sale by auction was in 1683, but the price it fetched is unknown. It sold for a shilling at Dr. Francis Bernard’s sale in 1688. Just a century later a copy fetched 9s. at Thomas Pearson’s sale. The highest price it has yet reached at public auction is £106, which was realized at the Turner sale in June, 1888. Since that date a dozen copies, in very varying condition, have been publicly sold at lower prices. Copies are in the following public libraries in England: The British Museum, two copies (one in Grenville collection, measuring 5¾″ × 3¾″, and one, C. 39. a. 40, without portrait); Bodleian Library, Oxford, Malone collection; Trinity College, Cambridge, Capell collection, measuring 5½″ × 3¾″; the Shakespeare Memorial Library, Birmingham; and the Shakespeare Memorial Library, Stratford-on-Avon.
In America the public libraries possessing copies include: New York Public Library (Lenox collection), Boston Public Library (Barton collection).
Among private owners in America Mr. Robert Hoe of New York owns the very fine copy, bound by Charles Lewis, measuring 5¾″ × 3¾″, which fetched £106 at the sale in London at Sotheby’s on June 18, 1888, of the library of Robert Samuel Turner. Heber’s (imperfect) copy is now the property of Mr. H. H. Furness of Philadelphia.
POURS OF 1640.
The copies in public libraries.
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