An alphabetical index to the books in the collection, in Capell’s own handwriting. At the end is inserted a leaf containing a list of ‘Quarto’s wanted’ to complete the collection of Shakespearian editions. Of this list thirty copies were privately printed by Steevens in 1780, and it was also reprinted in Hartshorne’s ‘Book Rarities of Cambridge’ in 1829. The list is not very accurate and there are many omissions. It inserts, moreover, as if in the collection, many editions which it never contained, Capell having intended to make the list of Shakespearian quartos complete by reference to other collections when his own failed. In the inside of the cover is the following inscription: ‘June 26. 1779. Ordered by the Master and Seniors, agreeably to the express Desire of M^r. Capel, that the whole Collection given by him be kept together in the same Class; and that no Manuscript or Book belonging to it be taken out of the Library on any Pretence whatever. J. Peterborough M C.’ There are also three documents inserted relating to articles in the collection. One of these runs ‘Effigies William Shakespeare Britanni ad fidem tabellæ unicæ manu Richard Burbage depictæ (circa annum, ut videtur, 1609) per R. Barret Londinensem quam exactissimè expressa anno 1759, curantibus David Garrick et Edward Capell. Capell’s Collection given to y^e College 1779’. Another is headed ‘Extract of a letter to M^r. Capell, that accompany’d a Cast from the face of Shakespear’s monument at Stratford, dated Dec^r. 13. 1780.’. The portrait and cast are both in the Library. The third is a list of certain books in Capell’s handwriting. There has also been added to the collection a fine medallion head of Capell, engraved by Bartolozzi after a plaster model taken from life by Roubilliac in 1750. Mr William Shakespeare his Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies, set out by himself in quarto, or by the Players his Fellows in folio, and now faithfully republish’d from those Editions in ten volumes octavo; with an Introduction: Whereunto will be added, in some other Volumes, Notes, criticall and explanatory, and a Body of Various Readings entire. Qui genus humanum ingenio superavit, et omneis Præstinxit, stellas exortus uti æthereus Sol. Lucr. Lib. 3. l. 1056. _London: Printed for &c._ 1768. 6 vols. large 4^o. (11¾ × 9¼). MS. 1.