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I THE " SHAKESPEARE BIBLE."…

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THE SHAKESPEARE BIBLE." I The "lot" which attracted most attention in a book and manuscript sale at Sotheby's Rooms in London on Monday was an imperfect copy of the Bible of 1613, with the New Testament of 1611. This volume, with the signature "William Shakespeare 1614" on the reverse of the title t4 the New Testament, and again on the end cover, "Willm. Shakespere Off S.O.A. [i.e., of Stratford-on-Avon] His Bible, 1613, was discovered near Manchester about 1850 by the vendor's grandfather, Mr. William Sharp, a well-known book and print collector at his death in 1881 it was inherited by his only daughter, the mother of the vendor. The volume contains, in addition to the Shakespeare signatures, a number of other inscriptions by its successive owners, and one of these proves that the book was at all events in Shakespeare's county seventeen years after his de,ath. The volume has been examined by various j specialists, and the only definite conclusion which appears to have been arrived at is that the signatures are extremely similar to that on the copy of Florio's Montaigne in the British Museum. As a matter of fact, there are various points which might be adduced to prove that the signatures in the volume sold on Monday- were more than doubtful autographs of the poet. It will, however, be sufficient to state that the bidding began at £ 105, and that at P.210 the volume became the property of Messrs. Pearson and Co the well-known booksellers, who are understood to have had an unlimited commission from a collector in the United States. It may b. mentioned that the copy of Florio's Montaigne with the Shakespeare autograph referred to above was acquired by the British Museum in 1838 for gloo. The title dmdg of the purchase and mortgage of a house in Black- friars, March 10, 1612-13, with Shakespeare a signature, were sold at Sotheby's in 1858 for ;c.315, and acquired by the British Museum, the counterpart of the same deeds having been purchased by the Guildhall Library, London, at Evans's in 1843 for £ 145.

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