. Grenville
obtained his copy as 'the highest price ever given, or likely to be
given, for the volume.' As a matter of fact, the time must come when it
will be no longer possible to obtain a perfect copy of this volume,
which to English people is a thousand times more important than the
Gutenberg Bible or the Psalmorum Codex.

The following list is believed to contain all the finest examples known
at present:

FIRST FOLIO EDITIONS OF SHAKESPEARE, 1623.

Inches Inches
High. Wide. Present Possessor.
Loscombe 12 x 8
Sotheby's 12-1/4 x 8
Gardner 12-3/8 x 8 Mr. Huth.
Stowe 12-3/8 x 8-1/8
Poynder 12-1/2 x 8-1/8
Ellis 12-5/8 x 8-1/8 Earl of Crawford.
Quaritch's Catalogue 12-11/12 x 8
Thomas Grenville 12-7/8 x 8-3/8 British Museum.
Holland 12-3/8 x 8-1/2
Duke of Devonshire 13-1/8 x 8-1/8 Chatsworth.
George Daniel 13-1/8 x 8-1/4 Baroness Burdett-Coutts.
Beaufoy Library 13 x 8-3/8
Locker-Lampson 13 x 8-3/8 Rowfant Library.
Gosford (Earl of) 12-7/8 x 8-3/8
Lord Vernon 13-1/16 x 8-3/8 America.
Hartley 13-1/8 x 8-1/2
John Murray 13 x 8-1/2 Albemarle Street.
Thorold 13-3/8 x 8-1/2 America.
Sir Robert Sydney, }
Earl of Leicester, }
with his arms on }
sides; original old } 13-3/8 x 8-3/4 Mr. C. J. Toovey.
calf, with lettering,}
full of rough }
leaves }

The Second, 1632, Third, 1664, and Fourth, 1685, Folios have
considerably advanced in value--the Second has risen from L15, at which
the Roxburghe copy was sold in 1812, to nearly L200; George Daniel's
copy, of the purest quality from beginning to end, and one of the
largest known, sold for L148, but fairly good copies may be had for half
that amount. The Third Folio, which is really the rarest, as most of the
impression was destroyed in the Great Fire of London, has gone up from
L20 or L30 to L200, or even more when the seven doubtful plays have the
separate title-page; and the Fourth Folio from L5 to about ten times
that amount. But the most remarkable feature in connection with
Shakespeare,