62/377 These volumes include twelve of the comedies. On the fly-leaf of one of them is a note written by Mr. He says: "I purchased these three volumes from a sale at Edinburgh. They were entered in the catalogue as 'Shakespeare's Works, edited by Sir Walter Scott and Lockhart, vols. ii, in, iv, all published, _unique_'." It was not positively known that such a work had been planned until the publication of Constable's _Correspondence_ in 1874. |