Excerpt from Catalogue of an Exhibition of the Works of Shakespeare, His Sources and the Writings of His Principal Contemporaries: With an Introductory Sketch, and Sixteen Facsimiles
The exhibition described in the following pages has been arranged to commemorate the Tercentenary of the Death of Shakespeare, an event which will be observed not only in this country but throughout the civilised world.
The object which we have kept in view in the selection and arrangement of the exhibits, has been to show the unfolding of Shakespeare's mind as it is reflected in his works. This we have sought to accomplish by exhibiting, not only such of the original and early editions of the poet's own writings as the library contains, but the principal sources which he employed in their composition.
As a result we have been able to bring together copies of the actual editions of the principal works which Shakespeare undoubtedly had around him upon the shelves of his library, since they are the works from which he drew the foundation plots and other material employed by him in the composition of his own plays.
Of Shakespeare's own works (Cases 1-2) we have been able to exhibit two sets of the four folios, and an interesting copy of the "Sonnets" of 1609, but of the original quartos of the plays we do not possess a single example.
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