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[LYCEUM PRODUCTIONS]
"THE MERCHANT OF VENICE" TO "ROMEO AND JULIET"
"[The Merchant of Venice]" was acted two hundred and fifty consecutive nights on the occasion of the first production. On the hundredth night every member of the audience was presented with Henry Irving's acting edition of the play bound in white velum—a solid and permanent souvenir, paper, print and binding all being of the best. The famous Chiswick Press did all his work of this kind. On the title page was printed:
"I count myself in nothing else so happy
As in a soul remembering my good friends."
"I count myself in nothing else so happy
As in a soul remembering my good friends."
"I count myself in nothing else so happy
As in a soul remembering my good friends."
"I count myself in nothing else so happy
As in a soul remembering my good friends."
"I count myself in nothing else so happy
As in a soul remembering my good friends."
"I count myself in nothing else so happy
As in a soul remembering my good friends."