[352] Cf. Giovanni Andres, Dell’ Origine, Progressi e Stato attuale d’ ogni Letteratura, 1782.
[353a] Cf. New Shaksp. Soc. Trans. 1880-5, pt. ii. 431 seq.
[353b] Cf. Ungarische Revue (Budapest) Jan. 1881, pp. 81-2; and August Greguss’s Shakspere . . . elsö kötet: Shakspere pályája Budapest, 1880 (an account in Hungarian of Shakespeare’s Life and Works).
[354] Cf. Macmillan’s Magazine, May 1880.
[361] Compiled between 1669 and 1696; first printed in Letters from the Bodleian Library, 1813, and admirably re-edited for the Clarendon Press during the present year by the Rev. Andrew Clark (2 vols.)
[362] See pp. 367-8.
[364] The earliest attempts at a concordance were A Complete Verbal Index to the Plays, by F. Twiss (1805), and An Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words by Samuel Ayscough (1827), but these are now superseded.
[366a] Jordan’s Collections, including this fraudulent will of Shakespeare’s father, was printed privately by J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps in 1864.
[366b] See p. 267.
[367a] Reference has already been made to the character of the manuscript corrections made by Collier in a copy of the Second Folio of 1632, known as the Perkins Folio. See p. 312, note 2. The chief authorities on the subject of the Collier forgeries are: An Inquiry into the Genuineness of the Manuscript Corrections in Mr. J. Payne Collier’s Annotated Shakspere Folio, 1632, and of certain Shaksperian Documents likewise published by Mr. Collier, by N. E. S. A. Hamilton, London, 1860; A Complete View of the Shakespeare Controversy concerning the Authenticity and Genuineness of Manuscript Matter affecting the Works and Biography of Shakspere, published by J. Payne Collier as the Fruits of his Researches, by C. M. Ingleby, LL.D. of Trinity College, Cambridge, London, 1865; Catalogue of the Manuscripts and Muniments of Alleyn’s College of God’s Gift at Dulwich, by George F. Warner, M.A., 1881; Notes on the Life of James Payne Collier, with a Complete List of his Works and an Account of such Shakespeare Documents as are believed to be spurious, by Henry B. Wheatley, London, 1884.