Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. J.O. Halliwell-Phillipps scrapbook of miscellaneous Shakespeareana

Halliwell-Phillipps, J.O. Calendar of the Shakespearean rarities, drawings & engravings formerly preserved at Hollingbury Copse (1891): 229-235
Folger bibliographic ID: 263592
Folger call number: Z.e.37
Folger holdings ID: 349081

Scrapbook containing a playbill for a performance of Dryden's Troilus and Cressida on October 28, 1697 (p. 3); Shakespearean scraps from original copies of Drayton's Elegies, 1631, Randolph's Hey for honesty, 1651, a Declaration of the treasons of the Earl of Essex, 1601, Kirman's list, 1671, Blurt Master constable, 1602, Goulart's Histories of our time, 1607 (contains the story of the induction to the Taming of the shrew), Suckling's Fragmenta aurea, 1648, Cokain's Small poems of divers sorts, 1658, Sharpe's Noble stranger, 1640, Marston's Malcontent, 1604, Cawdray's Treasurie or store-house of similes, 1600, Sir Thomas Smithes voiage and entertainment in Rushia, 1605, The palace of pleasure, Playford's musical companion, 1667, Scarron's Comical romance or Facetious history, 1676, Cartwright's Poems, 1651 (p. 4-5); an engraving from Scarron's Comical romance depicting itinerant players acting on a scaffold in what is generally said to be a view of Old Smithfield (p. 5); a hand-colored bird's-eye plan of the city of Bath by John Speed, 1610 (p. 5); a title page from the second folio edition of Shakespeare's plays (1632) with the Droeshout portrait and copies of the Droeshout portrait from the folios of 1663 and 1685 (p. 10-11); and an engraved portrait of William Fairfax, ca. 1621 by Martin (or Michael?) Droeshout (p. 11)

General notes

The playbill on p. 3 has been cataloged separately

Extended title: J.O. Halliwell-Phillipps scrapbook of miscellaneous Shakespeareana, 19th century
Alternate titles: Shakespearean playbill, temp. William III

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Fairfax, William, -1621 Bath (England)

compiler: Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. (James Orchard), 1820-1889
depiction: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
depiction: Fairfax, William, -1621