Note 12 — SHAKSPERE GALLERY
Reading edition
This Ms. (79 pp., vellum, quarto) contains the signatures of all the subscribers or their agents. Romney, Warren Hastings, Wedgewood, the King, the Queen and the Prince Regent besides a number of English "persons of quality" are represented. The poets are conspicuously wanting. The King of England gave the copy to the University Library. Cp. Gœttinger Gelehrte Anzeigen (G. G. A.) 1791, page 1793; 1793, page 561.