1263.The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, no title, 4to. Lond. 1611. With MS. notes, &c., by Mr. Steevens.220
1264.The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, 4to. ib. printed by R. Young, 1637.070
1265.The History of Henrie the Fourth, with the Battell of Shrewsburie, &c.; with the famous conceits of Sir John Falstaffe, part I. 4to. ib. printed by S.S. 1599.3100
1266.The same, ib. printed for Mathew Lay, 1608, 4to.170
1267.The same, ib. printed by W.W. 1613. With MS. notes, &c. by Mr. Steevens.120
1268.The same, ib. printed by Norton, 1632.0100
1259.The 2d part of Henry the Fourth, continuing to his Death, and Coronation of Henrie the Fift, with the Humours of Sir John Falstaffe and Swaggering Pistoll, as acted by the Lord Chamberlayne his Servants. First Edit. 4to. ib. printed by V.S. 1600.3130
1270.The same, ib. 4to. printed by Val. Simmes, 1600.2150
1271.The Chronicle History of Henry the Fift, with his Battell fought at Agincourt in France, together with Auntient Pistoll, as playd by the Lord Chamberlayne his servants. First Edit. 4to. inlaid on large paper, ib. printed by Thomas Creede, 1600.2760
1272.The Chronicle History of Henry the Fift, &c. 4to. Lond. 1608.110
1273.The true Tragedie of Richarde, Duke of Yorke, and the Death of good King Henrie the Sixt, as acted by the Earle of Pembroke his Servants, 4to. inlaid on large paper, ib. printed by W.W. 1600.1160
1274.The whole contention betweene the two famous Houses, Lancaster and Yorke, with the Tragicall Ends of the good Duke Humphrey, Richard, Duke of Yorke, and King Henrie the Sixt, divided into 2 parts, 4to. ib. no date.150
1275.The first and second part of the troublesome Raigne of John, King of England, with the discoverie of King Richard Cordelion's Base sonne (vulgarly named the Bastard Fauconbridge) also the Death of King John at Swinstead Abbey, as acted by her Majesties Players, 4to. Lond. impr. by Val. Simmes, 1611.1180
1276.The first and second part of the troublesome Raigne of John, King of England, &c., ib. printed by Aug. Matthews, 1622.110
1277.The True Chronicle History of the Life and Death of King Lear, and his three Daughters, with the unfortunate Life of Edgar, Sonne and Heire to the Earl of Glocester, and his sullen and assumed Humour of Tom of Bedlam, by his Majestie's servants. First Edit. 4to. ib. 1608.2800
1578.Another Edition, differing in the title-page and signature of the first leaf. 4to. ib. 1608.220
1279.The most excellent Historie of the Merchant of Venice, with the extreme crueltie of Shylocke the Jew towards the sayd Merchant, in cutting a just pound of his flesh: and the obtayning of Portia by his choyce of three chests, as acted by the Lord Chamberlaine his servants, First Edit. inlaid oil large paper; 4to. at London, printed by John Roberts, 1600.200
1280.The excellent History of the Merchant of Venice, with the extreme crueltie of Shylocke the Jew; First Edit. 4to. inlaid on large paper, printed by John Roberts, 1600.220
1281.A most pleasant and excellent conceited Comedie of Syr John Falstaffe and the Merrie Wives of Windsor, as acted by the Lord Chamberlaine's Servants. First Edit. 4to. Lond. printed by T.C. 1602.2800
1282.A most pleasant and excellent conceited Comedy of Sir John Falstaffe and the Merry Wives of Windsor, with the swaggering vaine of Antient Pistoll and Corporal Nym, 4to. inlaid. Lond. 1619.140
1283.The Merry Wives of Windsor, with the Humours of Sir John Fallstaffe, also the swaggering Vaine of Ancient Pistoll and Corporal Nym, 4to. Lond. printed by T.H. 1630.0106
1284.A Midsommer Night's Dreame, as acted by the Lord Chamberlaine's Servantes, First Edit. impr. at Lond. for Thos. Fisher, 4to. 1600, part of one leaf wanting.25100
1285.Another copy, First Edit. inlaid, ib. 1600.1150
1286.Much adoe about Nothing, as acted by the Lord Chamberlaine his Servants, First Edit. 4to. ib. printed by Val. Simmes, 1600.25100
1287.The Tragedy of Othello the Moore of Venice, as acted at the Globe and at the Black Friers, by his Majesties Servants, 4to. Lond. printed by N.O. 1622, with MS. notes and various readings by Mr. Steevens.2980
1288.The Tragedy of Othello the Moore of Venice, as acted at the Globe and at the Black Friers, 4to. Lond. printed by A.M. 1630.0130
1289.Tragedie of Othello; 4th Edit. 4to. ib. 1665.040
1290.The Tragedie of King Richard the Second, as acted by the Lord Chamberlaine his Servants, 4to. Lond. printed by Val. Simmes, 1598.4146
1291.Tragedie of King Richard the Second, as acted by the Lord Chamberlaine his Servants, 4to. printed by W.W. 1608.1000
1292.The Tragedie of King Richard the Second, with new Additions of the Parliament Scene, and the deposing of King Richard, as acted by his Majestie's Servants at the Globe, 4to. Lond. 1615, with MS. notes, &c. by Mr. Steevens.1120
1293.The Life and Death of King Richard the Second, with new Additions of the Parliament Scene, and the deposing of King Richard, as acted at the Globe by his Majesties Servants, 4to. Lond. 1634.050
1294.The Tragedie of King Richard the Third, as acted by the Lord Chamberlain his Servants, 4to. Lond. printed by Tho. Creede. 1602. Defective at the end.0100
1295.The Tragedie of King Richard the Third, containing his treacherous Plots against his Brother Clarence, the pitiful murther of his innocent Nephews, his tirannical usurpation, with the whole course of his detested Life, and most deserved Death, as acted by his Majesties Servants, 4to. Lond. printed by Tho. Creede, 1612, with notes and various readings by Mr. Steevens.150
1296.The same, 4to. ib. 1629.070
1297.Tragedie of King Richard the Third, as acted by the King's Majesties Servants, 4to. ib. 1634.060
1298.The most excellent and lamentable Tragedie of Romeo and Juliet, 4to. A fragment. Lond. 1599.056
1299.The same, compleat, inlaid on large paper, 4to. ib., impr. by Tho. Creede, 1599. [Second Edition.]600
1300.The same, 4to. Lond. 1609, with MS. notes and readings by Mr. Steevens.220
1301.The same, 4to. ib. printed by R. Young, 1637.090
1302.A pleasant conceited Historie, called the Taming of the Shrew, as acted by the Earle of Pembroke's Servants. First Edit. 4to. inlaid on large paper, ib., printed by V.S. 1607.2000
1303.A wittie and pleasant Comedie, called the Taming of a Shrew, as acted by his Majesties Servants, at the Blacke Friers and the Globe, 4to., ib., printed by W.S. 1631.0110
1304.The most lamentable Tragedie of Titus Andronicus, as plaide by the King's Majesties Servants, 4to. inlaid, ib., printed for Edward White, 1611.2126
1305.The History of Troylus and Cresseide, as acted by the King's Majesties Servants at the Globe. First. Edit. 4to., ib., imp. by G. Alde, 1609.5100
1306.The lamentable Tragedie of Locrine, the eldest sonne of King Brutus, discoursing the Warres of the Brittaines and Hunnes, with ther discomfiture, 4to. ib., printed by Thomas Creede, 1595.350
1307.The London Prodigall, as plaide by the King's Majesties Servants, 4to. ib., printed by T.C. 1705.190
1308.The late and much admired Play called Pericles, Prince of Tyre, with the true relation of the whole Historie and Fortunes of the said Prince, as also the no lesse strange and worthy accidents in the Birth and Life of his Daughter Marianna, acted by his Majesties Servants at the Globe on the Banck-side, 4to. ib., 1609.120
1309.Another edition, 4to. ib. 1619.0150
1310.The first part of the true and honourable History of the Life of Sir John Old-castle, the good Lord Cobham, as acted by the Earle of Nottingham his servants, 4to. Lond. 1600.0100
1311.A Yorkshire Tragedy, not so new, as lamentable and true, 4to. Lond. 1619.090
1312.(Twenty Plays) published by Mr. Steevens, 6 vols. large paper, ib., 1766. Only 12 copies taken off on large paper5156

Editions of Shakspeare's Works.

1313.Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies, published according to the true originall copies, by John Heminge and Hen. Condell, fol. russia. Lond. printed by Isaac Juggard and Edwd. Blount. 1623; with a MS. title, and a fac-simile drawing of the portrait by Mr. Steevens.2200
1314.The same: 2d edit. folio, fine copy morocco, gilt leaves, ib. 1632. In this book is the hand writing of King Charles I. by whom it was presented to Sir Tho. Herbert, Master of the Revels.18180
1315.The same: 3d edit. with the 7 additional Plays, fol., neat and scarce, ib. 1664. See Note by Mr. Steevens.880
1316.The same: 4th edit. 1685, folio.2126
1326.Hammer's (Sir Tho.) edition; 9 vols. 18mo. Lond. 1748.1130
1327.The same: with cuts, 6 vols. 4to. elegantly bound in hog-skin.
1328.Pope and Warburton, 8 vols. 8vo. Lond. 1747.100
1329.—— —— —— 8 vols. 12mo., with Sir Thos. Hammer's Glossary. Dub. 1747.0150
1330. Capell, (Edw.) 10 vols. 8vo. Lond. printed by Dryden Leach, 1768.260
1331.Johnson, (Sam.) 8 vols. 8vo. Lond. 1765.1190
1332.—— and Geo. Steevens, 10 vols. 8vo. ib. 1773.2140
1333.—— —— —— —— in single Plays, 31 vols. boards, ib.1110
1334.Johnson and Steevens: 10 vols. 2d edit. with Malone's Supplement, 2 vols., and the plates from Bell's edition, ib. 1778.4160
1335.—— —— —— 10 vols. 3d edit. ib. 1785.350
1336.—— —— —— 4th edit. with a glossarial Index, 15 vols. 8vo. ib. 1793.6166
1337.Malone, (Edm.) 11 vols. 8vo. ib. 1790.480
1338.—— Another copy, 11 vols. 8vo. ib.4180
1339.Ran (Jos.) 6 vols. 8vo. Oxf. 1786.1116
1340.—— with Ayscough's Index, 2 vols. 8vo. russia, marbled leaves, published by Stockdale, ib. 1784-90.0156
1341.Eccles, 2 vols. 8vo. ib. 1794.1110
1342.From the Text of Mr. Malone's edit. by Nichols, 7 vols. 12mo. Lond. 1790.0180
1343.From the Text of Mr. Steevens, last edit. 8 vols. 12mo. ib. 1797.100
1344.—— 9 vols. 12mo. ib. 1798.130
1345.—— 9 vols. 12mo. Birm. by R. Martin.110
1346.—— 9 vols. Bell's edit. no plates. Lond. 1774.0180
1347.—— 20 vols. 18mo. with annotations, Bell's edit. fine paper, with plates, beautiful impressions, ib. 1788.8136
1348.—— 20 vols. 12mo. Bell's edition; large paper, finest possible impressions of the plates, superbly bound in green turkey, double bands, gilt leaves, ib.17170
1349.The Dramatic Works of; Text corrected by Geo. Steevens, Esq.; published by Boydell and Nichol, in large 4to., 15 nos. with the large and small plates; first and finest impressions, 1791, &c. N.B. Three more numbers complete the work.3646
1348.Harding, no. 31, l.p. containing 6 prints, with a portrait of Lewis Theobald, as published by Richardson, and some account of him, by Mr. Steevens.046
1349.Ditto, ditto.046
1350.Traduit de l'Anglois, 2 toms. Par. 1776.060
1351.In German, 13 vols. 12mo. Zurich, 1775.0160
1352.King Lear, Macbeth, Hamlet, Othello, and Julius Cæsar, by Jennings, Lond. 1770.0110
1353.Macbeth, with Notes by Harry Rowe, 12mo. York, 1797.016
1354.—— 8vo. 2d edit. ib. 1799.050
1355.Antony and Cleopatra, by Edw. Capell; 8vo. Lond. 1758.010
1356.
1357.		The Virgin Queen; a Drama, attempted as a Sequel to Shakspeare's Tempest, by G.F. Waldron, 8vo. 1797.
—— Annotations on As You Like it, by Johnson and Steevens, Bell's edit. 		010
1358.—— Another copy
1359.Shakspeare's Sonnets, never before imprinted, 4to. at Lond. by G. Ald, 1609.3100
1360.—— Poems, 8vo. ib. 1640.046
1361.—— Venis and Adonis, 8vo. ib. 1602.1116
1362.Rymer (Tho.) Short View of Tragedy, with Reflection on Shakspeare, &c. 8vo. b. 1698.016
1363.Shakspeare restored, by Lewis Theobald, 4to. ib. 1726.046
1364.Whalley's (Peter) on the Learning of; ib. 1748. Remarks on a late edition of Shakspeare, by Zach. Grey, ib. 1755, and other Tracts.086
1365.Morris (Corbyn) Essay towards fixing the true Standard of Wit, Humour, &c. 8vo. ib. 1744.080
1366.Critical Observations on, by John Upton; 8vo. 2d edit. Lond. 1748.016
1367.—— Illustrated, by Charlotte Lennox; 3 vols. 12mo. ib. 1754.090
1368.Notes on Shakspeare, by Zachary Grey; 2 vols. 8vo. ib. 1734.030
1369.Beauties of Shakspeare, by William Dodd, 2 vols. 12mo. ib. 1757.036
1370.Beauties of Shakspeare, by Wm. Dodd; 3 vols. 12mo. ib. 1780.060
1371.—— (Revival of) Text, by Heath, 8vo. ib. 1765.010
1372.Observations and Conjectures on some passages of, by Tho. Trywhit; 8vo. Oxford, 1766.050
1373.Farmer (Rich) on the Learning of; 8vo. morocco. Camb. 1767. Only 12 copies on this paper.0160
1374.—— London. 8vo. 1789, with Mr. Capell's Shakspeariana, 8vo., only 20 copies printed, 1779.016
1375.Malone (Edm.) Letter on, to Dr. Farmer; 8vo. ib. 1792.046
1376.Letter to David Garrick (on a Glossary to) by Rich. Warner, 8vo. ib. 1768.026

There were copies of the Catalogue of Steeven's books struck off on large paper, on bastard royal octavo, and in quarto.

It remains to say a few words of the celebrated collector of this very curious library. The wit, taste, and classical acquirements of George Steevens are every where recorded and acknowledged. As an editor of his beloved Shakspeare, he stands unrivalled; for he combined, with much recondite learning and indefatigable research, a polish of style, and vigour of expression, which are rarely found united in the same person. His definitions are sometimes both happy and singular; and his illustrations of ancient customs and manners such as might have been expected from a head so completely furnished, and a hand so thoroughly practised. I will not say that George Steevens has evinced the learning of Selden upon Drayton, or of Bentley upon Phalaris; nor did his erudition, in truth, rise to the lofty and commanding pitch of these his predecessors: nor does there seem much sense or wit in hunting after every pencil-scrap which this renowned bibliomaniac committed to paper—as some sadly bitten book-collectors give evidence of. If I have not greatly misunderstood the characteristics of Steevens's writings, they are these—wit, elegance, gaiety, and satire, combined with almost perfect erudition in English dramatic antiquities. Let us give a specimen of his classical elegance in dignifying a subject, which will be relished chiefly by Grangerites. Having learnt that a copy of Skelton's Verses on Elinour Rummin, the famous Ale-wife of England, with her portrait in the title-page, was in the Library of the Cathedral of Lincoln (perhaps, formerly, Captain Coxe's copy; vide [p. 266], ante), he prevailed on the late Dean, Sir Richard Kaye, to bring the book to London; but as it was not suffered to go from the Dean's possession, Mr. S. was permitted to make a fac-simile drawing of the title, at the Dean's house in Harley-street. This drawing he gave to Richardson, the printseller, who engraved and published it among the copies of scarce portraits to illustrate Granger. The acquisition of this rarity produced from him the following Jeu d'Esprit; the merit of which can only be truly appreciated by those who had the pleasure of knowing the eminent Portrait Collectors therein mentioned, and whose names are printed in capital letters.

Eleonora Rediviva.

To seek this Nymph among the glorious dead,
Tir'd with his search on earth, is Gulston fled:—
Still for these charms enamoured Musgrave sighs;
To clasp these beauties ardent Bindley dies:
For these (while yet unstaged to public view,)
Impatient Brand o'er half the kingdom flew;
These, while their bright ideas round him play,
From Classic Weston force the Roman lay:
Oft too, my Storer, Heaven has heard thee swear,
Not Gallia's murdered Queen was half so fair:
"A new Europa!" cries the exulting Bull,
"My Granger now, I thank the gods, is full:"—
Even Cracherode's self, whom passions rarely move,
At this soft shrine has deign'd to whisper love.—
Haste then, ye swains, who Rumming's form adore,
Possess your Eleanour, and sigh no more.

It must be admitted that this is at once elegant and happy.

We will now say somewhat of the man himself. Mr. Steevens lived in a retired and eligibly situated house, just on the rise of Hampstead Heath. It was paled in; and had, immediately before it, a verdant lawn skirted with a variety of picturesque trees. Formerly, this house has been a tavern, which was known by the name of the Upper Flask: and which my fair readers (if a single female can have the courage to peruse these bibliomaniacal pages) will recollect to have been the same to which Richardson sends Clarissa in one of her escapes from Lovelace. Here Steevens lived, embosomed in books, shrubs, and trees: being either too coy, or too unsociable, to mingle with his neighbours. His habits were indeed peculiar: not much to be envied or imitated; as they sometimes betrayed the flights of a madman, and sometimes the asperities of a cynic. His attachments were warm, but fickle both in choice and duration. He would frequently part from one, with whom he had lived on terms of close intimacy, without any assignable cause; and his enmities, once fixed, were immovable. There was, indeed, a kind of venom in his antipathies; nor would he suffer his ears to be assailed, or his heat to relent, in favour of those against whom he entertained animosities, however capricious and unfounded. In one pursuit only was he consistent: one object only did he woo with an inflexible attachment; and that object was Dame Drama.