rasse 111.

{296b} Some account of Shakespeare's portraits will be found in the
following works: James Boaden, _Inquiry into various Pictures and Prints
of Shakespeare_, 1824; Abraham Wivell, _Inquiry into Shakespeare's
Portraits_, 1827, with engravings by B. and W. Holl; George Scharf,
_Principal Portraits of Shakespeare_, 1864; J. Hain Friswell,
_Life-Portraits of Shakespeare_, 1864; William Page, _Study of
Shakespeare's Portraits_, 1876; Ingleby, _Man and Book_, 1877, pp. 84
seq.; J. Parker Norris, _Portraits of Shakespeare_, Philadelphia, 1885,
with numerous plates; _Illustrated Cat. of Portraits in Shakespeare's
Memorial at Stratford_, 1896. In 1885 Mr. Walter Rogers Furness issued,
at Philadelphia, a volume of composite portraits, combining the Droeshout
engraving and the Stratford bust with the Chandos, Jansen, Felton, and
Stratford portraits.

{297} Cf. _Gentleman's Magazine_, 1741, p. 105.

{298} _A History of the Shakespeare Memorial_, _Stratford-on-Avon_,
1882; _Illustrated Catalogue of Pictures in the Shakespeare Memorial_,
1896.

{299} This was facsimiled in 1862, and again by Mr. Griggs in 1880.

{302} Lithographed facsimiles of most of these volumes, with some of the
quarto editions of the poems (forty-eight volumes in all), were prepared
by Mr. E. W. Ashbee, and issued to subscribers by Halliwell-Phillipps
between 1862 and 1871. A cheaper set of quarto facsimiles, undertaken by
Mr. W. Griggs, and issued under the supervision of Dr. F. J. Furnivall,
appeared in forty-three volumes between 1880 and 1889.

{303} Perfect copies range in price, according to their rarity, from 200
to 300 pounds. In 1864, at the sale of George Daniel's library, quarto
copies of 'Love's Labour's Lost' and of 'Merry Wives' (first edition)
each fetched 346 pounds 10s. On May 14, 1897, a copy of the quarto of
'The Merchant of Venice' (printed by James Roberts in 1600) was sold at
Sotheby's for 315 pounds.

{304} See p. 183.

{306} Cf. _Bibliographica_, i. 489 seq.

{308} This copy was described in the _Variorum Shakespeare_ of 1821
(xxi. 449) as in the possession of Messrs. J. and A. Arch, booksellers,
of Cornhill. It was subsequently sold at Sotheby's in 1855 for 163
pounds 16s.

{309a} I cannot trace the present whereabouts of this copy, but it is
described in the _Variorum Shakespeare_ of 1821, xxi. 449-50.

{309b} The copy seems to have been purchased by a member of the Sheldon
family in 1628, five