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the same year, viz. Midsummer Night's Dream and the Merchant of Venice; and Shakespeare's probably earliest play, Love's Labour's Lost. In the fourth group are placed plays more or less spurious, viz., the Quarto Romeo and Juliet, The Contention of the Houses of York and Lancaster, The True Tragedy of Richard Duke of York, Henry V. (as first issued), Pericles, and Titus Andronicus. The abbreviations used for the titles of these plays, &c., are given on p. 144, and it is hoped will require no further explanation. One or two other signs may however require it, e.g. "Q4 f. Q3," in the second column for each group, means "the fourth edition published in quarto, which edition is considered by the Cambridge editors to have been printed from the third; 1" *Q, means "an edition without Shakespeare's name on the title page;" +Q, means "the edition from which, in the opinion of the Cambridge editors, the Folio was printed; " J. R[oberts] means that J. R. is printed on the title-page, and that J. R. is ascertained from the entries in the Stationers' books or other reliable evidence to mean J. Roberts. There is nothing else in the table that requires explanation. Nor is it necessary to point out in detail its use for showing at a glance the successive editions of each work, the dates at which the copyright of each changed hands, the number of works published in each year, the date of the maximum number of publications (1598-1600), the sudden appearance of Shakespeare's name on all his authentic works in 1598 (except the edition of Romeo and Juliet in 1609), &c. But in the Notes will be found some additional particulars which are of interest.

The Ven. & Ad. *Q4 is the Isham copy found at Lamport by Mr. Charles Edmonds, and edited by him. It was not discovered till after the Cambridge Shakespeare was published, and consequently all our notation will have to be altered in a future edition. The 1630 Ven. and Ad. (now in the Bodleian) with title-page, was formerly in the Ashmole Museum, but I have not seen it. According to Edmonds it was "printed by J. H., and are to be sold by Francis Coules." He adds that it is different from our Q ro, which is in the Bodleian, without title, but catalogued with date 1630.-W. ALDIS Wright.

Mr. Wright has consequently altered the notation in the table to that to be adopted in the next edition of the Cambridge Shakespeare.-F. G. F.

TABULAR VIEW OF THE QUARTO EDITIONS OF SHAKESPEARE'S WORKS,

FROM 1593 TO 1630 A.D.

Supplementary List of Quartos from 1630 to 1652, which could not conveniently be put in the Table, pp. 142-3.

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ABBREVIATIONS USED FOR NAMES OF PLAYS, &c.,

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