Show OLD SHAKESPEARE IS FOUND Believed Believed Be Be- Fragment of Passionate Pilgrim Earlier Than Any Other Issue London will sell sen at auction auction tion a volume which rivals In rarity the tiny book which G. G D Dt smith o of New York bought for from th the Britwell Court library last December That sol sold from the Britwell library Venus and comprised Shakespeare's am Adonis fourth e edition 15 1599 of which only one copy Is known Shakespeare's Shakespeare Passionate Pilgrim and Sonnets first edition 15 1599 1500 of ot which only on one other copy was then known and Ep EpI grammes and Elegies by Sir John Job JohnDavis Davis ls and Christopher Marlowe The contents of the newly discovered ere ered 1 volume are Shakespeare's Pas Pilgrim and amI Sonnets first first- edition 15 1599 Shakespeare's Lucrece Lucrece Lucrece Lu crece third e edition 1600 of which only one other copy Is known Thomas Thoma Mid Middletons Middleton's Ghost of Lucrece 1600 a n unique and hitherto unknown work worle u by E. E C. C an author autho never Identified 1595 and Shake Shake- Venus nn and 1 Adonis fifth fifthe e edition issued Issue 1 In 1599 the same year yea ear as the fourth edition The Tle Passionate Pilgrim an and 1 Sonnets Sonnets Sonnets Son nets Is a n fragment containing a larg large portion of the work I Its s twenty seven leaves out of 01 thirty-four thirty are moreover mn made 1 up of two Issues one of which Is the Issue offered at the Britwell Court sale but the other Issue from which filch the piece Is made up Is on one hitherto unknown It contains contains' misprints misprints misprints mis mis- prints which In n the Britwell Court example example example ex ex- ex- ex ample are corrected Consequently the claim of the latter to b ba the first firs edition Is In the theor or words of the catalogue catalogue catalogue cata cata- logue of the new find rendered 1 doubt doubt- ful fUI The Tile new volume was discovered ere 1 by y Richard Francis Burton at nt his home Longner Hall lIall near Shrewsbury |