Edition: "Connoisseur edition ... no. 691." (From Omni)Twelve parts in portfolio. Published for private circulation. (From Omni) Title from portfolio. Twelve parts in portfolio, each containing twelve loose plates, except the first which contains fourteen. Cover to each part dated 1900. Issued also as a supplement to the Eversley edition of Shakespeare’s works, 1900. cf. Jaggard. Parts 2, 3, 6, 8, and 10 consist chiefly of portraits of 17th-19th century English and American actors and actresses, some in Shakespearean costume. Part 12 consists chiefly of 19th century playbill facsims. (From Folger)
Annotation in VOL. 1, "Kindly presented to me by my learned friend, the author. J. Crosby. Zanesville, O. July 4. 1877 - purchased at the sale of Joseph Crosby's Shakespearean Library - catalogue number no. 430. Minor annotations in pencil throughout (mainly corrections). See, for example Vol. 1 page 7.
Endeavors "to point out how the sublime ideas of the Scriptures, and oftentimes the very language in which those ideas are couched, are reproduced again and again in the pages of Shakespere."
"Nachträge von prof. dr. Lorenz Morsbach und dem herausgeber [Robert Vischer]" Approximate date. inn v. 1-3, 5-6.Includes complete German translations of Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, King Lear, and Richard III, partial translations of the other plays. Imperfect: v. 1 wanting
"The respective styles of Shakespeare and Bacon, judged by the laws of elocutionary analysis and 'Melody of speech,' by Professor J. W. Taverner": p. 424-461. (From Omni, Same appears in Folger)