John Stockdale, Samuel Ayscough: Shakspeare’s Dramatic Works; with explanatory Notes. A new edition. To which is now added, a copious index to the remarkable passages and words. By the Rev., Samuel Ayscough, F.S.A

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John Stockdale, Samuel Ayscough : Shakspeare’s Dramatic Works; with explanatory Notes. A new edition. To which is now added, a copious index to the remarkable passages and words. By the Rev., Samuel Ayscough, F.S.A

John Stockdale., London, 1790

Contemporary speckled calf, rebacked expertly in the period style, spine with gilt tooling., Volume II 615-618 stained, otherwise in very good condition, [Frontispiece portrait, a4, c3, A4, (1),541]; [543-1079]; [1083-1752, (8)]., Volume : 3 volumes

Samuel Ayscough was a librarian and index-maker at the British Museum. Until Ayscough “brought out his ‘Index’ in 1790 there was no concordance to Shakespeare. This was a speculation on the part of the publisher, John Sotckdale, who paid two hundred guineas for the index, which was specially designed to accompany his edition of the ‘Dramatic Works,’ in 2 vols. roy. 8vo. In this excellent compilation the words are arranged alphabeticallywith the lines in which they occur, then the name of the play, and in five separate columns the act, scene, page, column and line. The last three particulars of course refer only to the edition of 1790, but the index may be made to serve any other text.” (National Biography)

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