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LOWELL

Shakespeare Facsimiles on Display

Five facsimiles of original editions of Shakespearian works are now on display in the Lowell House Library. Taken from the Malone Collection in the Bodleian Library, the exhibition includes:

"Venus and Adonis" (1598)--autographed by Sidney Lee; "Lucrece" (1594); "The Passionate Pilgrim" (1599); "Sonnets" (1609); and "Pericles" (1609). There is also a handsome modern edition (1895) of "A Midsummer Night's Dream," illustrated by Robert Anning Bell, and colored in, hand by Gloria Cardew.

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