A WITH INTRODUCTION BY J. W. EBSWORTH, M.A., EDITOR OF "THE 'DROLLERIES' OF THE RESTORATION;" "THE BAGFORD 66 § 1. THE TWO QUARTOS OF 1600. IN the Registers of the Stationers' Company, vol. C = 3, fol. 65 verso, is found the earliest known record of the publication in printed form of "A Midsummer Night's Thomas ffyssher Entred for his Copie vnder the handes of master vjd 1 Students require absolute fidelity in the reproduction of such rare originals. We therefore offer them this volume without any tamper 1 Edward Arber's Transcript of the Registers of the Company of Stationers, &c., iii., 174. This entry undoubtedly refers to the Quarto here reproduced in its integrity from an exemplar in the possession of the Duke of Devonshire. A few pages deficient in the original (viz. 18, 19, 20, 21; 58, 59, 60, 61 = eight pp.) are supplied in the photo-lithograph from Mr. Huth's own copy. The Bodleian Library and the Capell Collection, in Trinity College, Cambridge, possess the same edition. There is also another perfect exemplar in the British Museum, Case 34, k. 29. |