Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Carla Foust, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) Transcriber’s note Minor changes have been made to punctuation; otherwise, all other inconsistencies are as in the original. This e-text uses a number of special characters, including: letters with macrons: ī, ō letters with tildes: ẽ, ĩ, õ, ũ letter e with ogonek: ę yogh: ȝ rotated floral heart bullet: ❧ double dagger: ‡ Characters that could not be displayed directly are transcribed as follows: _ - Italics ^ - superscript = - text in Black Letter [quam] - in Latin means “than” [que] - abbreviation for the letters “que” ¦ - broken square bracket [bu] - black leftwards bullet [*] - six-spoked asterisk CAPELL’S SHAKESPEARIANA London: C. J. CLAY AND SONS, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS WAREHOUSE, AVE MARIA LANE. Glasgow 50, WELLINGTON STREET. Leipzig: F.A. BROCKHAUS. New York: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. Bombay and Calcutta: MACMILLAN AND CO., LTD. [_All Rights reserved._] CATALOGUE OF THE BOOKS PRESENTED BY EDWARD CAPELL TO THE LIBRARY OF TRINITY COLLEGE IN CAMBRIDGE COMPILED BY W.W. GREG M.A. CAMBRIDGE PRINTED FOR TRINITY COLLEGE AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS MCMIII Cambridge: PRINTED BY J. AND C. F. CLAY, AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS. EDWARDI CAPELL MANIBVS PREFACE. The books catalogued in the present volume were collected by the Shakespearian scholar Edward Capell and formed the principal part of his library during the years which he spent in the preparation of his edition of Shakespeare’s dramatic works. After the publication of this his life’s work and the completion of his commentary, the appearance of which however was delayed, Capell parted with his library, the most valuable portion being presented to Trinity while the remainder was dispersed. The conclusion of the Seniority relating to the gift is preserved in the books of the College under the date June 26, 1779. It runs “Agreed by the Master and Seniors, that the thanks of the Society be presented to Edward Capel, Esq. for the valuable Collection of the old Editions of Shakespeare, and of the several manuscripts and printed books, relating to the same Author. J. Peterborough, M.C.” The further conclusion relating to the keeping of the books will be found quoted in the entry concerning the MS catalogue (p. 163).