_Shores Wife_
(London, 1593), unique, ninety-six pounds; _Maroccus Extaticus, or
Bankes Bay Horse_ (London, 1595), eighty-one pounds; Chester's _Loves
Martyr, or Rosalins Complaynt_ (London, 1601)--this work contains a poem
(Threnos) by Shakespeare at p. 172--one hundred and thirty-eight pounds;
_Meeting of Gallants at an Ordinarie, or the Walkes in Powles_ (London,
1604), unique, eighty-one pounds; _Sejanus, his Fall_, by Ben Jonson,
first edition (London, 1605), printed on large paper, a presentation
copy from the author with the following autograph inscription--

'To my perfect friend Mr. Francis Crane
I erect this Altar of Friendship,
and leave it as an eternall witnesse of my Love.

BEN JONSON'--

unique, one hundred and six pounds; Hannay's _Philomela, the
Nightingale_, etc. (London, 1622), ninety-six pounds.

A carved casket made out of the mulberry tree in Shakespeare's Garden,
and presented to Garrick with the freedom of the borough of
Stratford-on-Avon, was purchased at Charles Mathews's sale in 1835 by
Daniel for forty-seven guineas, and presented by him to the British
Museum.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 93: _Dictionary of National Biography._]

[Footnote 94: At a sale at Sotheby's on July 11th, 1899, Mr. M'George of
Glasgow gave seventeen hundred pounds for a copy; and two years later
Mr. Quaritch purchased another copy at Christie's for seventeen hundred
and twenty pounds.]

WILLIAM, SIXTH DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE, 1790-1858

All the Dukes of Devonshire were men of letters and collectors of books.
William, the first Duke, acquired many volumes which had belonged to De
Thou, and William, the third Duke, bought largely at the sales of the
libraries of Colbert, Baluze, Count von Hoym and other collectors of his
time; but William, the sixth Duke, who was born on May the 21st, 1790,
may justly be regarded as the founder of the Chatsworth Library in its
present form. 'He imbibed a taste for literature and books,' says Sir
J.P. Lacaita in his preface to the catalogue of the Library, 'from his
mother, Lady Georgiana Spencer, the "beautiful Duchess of Devonshire,"
and from his uncle George John, second Earl Spencer, who formed what is
perhaps the finest private library in existence.' In 1811 he succeeded
to the Dukedom, and shortly afterwards endeavoured to add to his library
Count M'Carthy's collection, for which he offered twenty thousand
pounds, but the offer was declined. He purchased