OUTSTANDING COLLECTION OF SHAKESPEARE

London: Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, Printed by J. Davy & Sons, 1864.

8vo. v, [1], 222 pp. Priced in ink throughout, with some buyer's names included. Bound in contemporary quarter maroon calf.

One of the most prized collections of Shakespeare and his world formed in the 19th century. George Daniel was a satirical poet and editor of John Cumberland's series entitled, British Theatre, with Renmarks Biographical and Critical. Daniel became a friend of Charles and Mary Lamb, his neighbors in Islington and a regular in the theater world of London during the middle years of the 19th century. He wrote a number of comic opera, but is best remembered for the collection of Shakespeare and Elizabethan literature he formed.

Included in his collection were exquisite copies of the four folios, the first being purchased for a record price of £ 716 -2-0 by Mis Burdett Coutts, now at the Folger Shakespeare Library. Equally important were Daniel's collection of quarto plays and works of Shakespeare's contemporaries. The 2278 lots realized almost 16,000 pounds This monumental collection is fully priced in contemporary hand.

Seymour De Ricci, English Collectors of Books and Manuscripts, p. 148-9. William Younger Fletcher, English Book Collectors, pp. 358-63. British Museum, List of Catalogues of English Book Sales, . 308.

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