14. Gough bequeathed to
Mr. John Nichols his interleaved set of the _Gentleman's Magazine_, and
of the _Anecdotes of Mr. Bowyer_.

The remainder of his books, prints, and drawings, together with his
coins, medals, and other antiquities, were sold, according to his
directions, by auction by Leigh and Sotheby in 1810. The books realised
three thousand five hundred and fifty-two pounds, and the prints,
drawings, coins, medals, etc., five hundred and seventeen pounds more.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 82: Macray, _Annals of the Bodleian Library_.]

GEORGE STEEVENS, 1736-1800

George Steevens, the Shakesperian commentator, who was born on the 10th
of May 1736, was the only son of George Steevens of Stepney, for many
years an East India captain, and afterwards a Director of the East India
Company. He received his early education at a school at
Kingston-on-Thames and at Eton. In 1753 he was admitted a
fellow-commoner of King's College, Cambridge, but left the University
without taking a degree. In 1766 he published a reprint in four octavo
volumes of _Twenty of the Plays of Shakespeare, being the whole number
printed in quarto during his Lifetime, etc._; and in 1773 he brought
out, in association with Dr. Johnson, an edition of the whole of
Shakespeare's dramatic works. Steevens, who was a Fellow of the Royal
Society, and of the Society of Antiquaries, died unmarried at Hampstead
on the 22nd of January 1800, and was buried in the chapel at Poplar,
where a monument by Flaxman was erected to his memory.

Steevens collected a fine library, which was very rich in early English
poetry and in the plays and poems of Shakespeare. It contained the first
and second folios of the great dramatist, and upwards of forty copies of
the separate plays in quarto, many of them being first editions. The
second folio formerly belonged to King Charles I., and was given by him
on the night before his execution to Sir Thomas Herbert, his Groom of
the Bedchamber. This very interesting volume, in which the King has
written 'Dum spiro spero C.R.,' was bought at the sale of Steevens's
books for King George III. for eighteen guineas, and is now preserved in
the Royal Library at Windsor. The collection also comprised some rare
plays of Peele, Marlowe, and Nash; Barnabe Googe's _Eglogs, Epytaphes
and Sonnettes_; Puttenham's _Arte of English Poesie_, London, 1589;
Skelton's _Lyttle Workes and Merie Tales_; Watson's _Passionate Centurie
of Love_; _En