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Victorian facsimile of Shakespeare's First Folio, featuring Martin Droeshout's portrait, and preserving the textual variants and irre.1,rular pagination of the 1623 original: "It is well knmm that there exists in the Original a great vaiiety of errors; but not one of tht:sc has here been corrected." This copy is from the library of Ellen Terry (18-17-1928), the leading Shakespearean actress in Britain during the late nineteenth century. A fixture on the London stage for decacks, Teny was immortalized by Oscar Wilek in his sonnet wPortia," aud byJohn Singer Sargent in his portrait of Lady Macbeth. Her distinctive Winchilsea bookplate was designed by her son, stage designer and graphic artist l-'.dw·Md Gordon Craig; the map shows Terry's home of Tower Cottage, where she lived from 1896 to 1906. A remai-kable association copy.