quartos

Boswell [20] might compile a few quartos from the loose memorandums but they would tire the world more than he has already done. twenty years hence this journal will be either a source of pleasure or of regret, that is if I live twenty years & for life I have really a very strong predilection. not from Shakesperes fearfully beautifull passage ay but to die & go we know not whither?

Letter 42 1792

"There are no surviving manuscripts of Shakespeare's plays in his handwriting so the quartos are the closest we can get to what Shakespeare really wanted," said Bodleian spokeswoman Oana Romocea.

Archive 2008-04-01 Jan 2008

Our learned and ingenious Committee may read through two quartos, that is, one thousand and four hundred pages of close printed Latin and Greek, in three weeks, for aught I know to the contrary.

Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey Cottle, Joseph 1847

Our learned and ingenious Committee may read through two quartos, that is, one thousand and four hundred pages of close printed Latin and Greek, in three weeks, for aught I know to the contrary.

Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey Joseph Cottle 1811

Our learned and ingenious Committee may read through two quartos, that is, one thousand and four hundred pages of close printed Latin and Greek, in three weeks, for aught I know to the contrary.

Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

This project is apparently possible in principle because Shakespeare did not give permissionfor his works to be printed, sothe quartos being digitized in this project are originally "foul" copies: working drafts written down from people's memoriesafterperformances and published as "paperbacks".

Web/Tech Maxine 2009

This project is apparently possible in principle because Shakespeare did not give permissionfor his works to be printed, sothe quartos being digitized in this project are originally "foul" copies: working drafts written down from people's memoriesafterperformances and published as "paperbacks".

Libraries Maxine 2009

The UK Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) is coordinating the Shakespeare initiative, with partners including the University of Maryland, which will provide the technology and platform for people to conduct research, including analysis and comparisons, of the quartos.

Libraries Maxine 2009

Other books included are Shakespeare's quartos and folios from various libraries; issues of Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanac and his major work Experiments and Observations on Electricity; books of hours; works by Galileo and Copernicus; and The Choix des plus belles fleurs by Redouté, also very pretty.

Websites Maxine 2009

As open digital content, William Shakespeare's 32 pre-1641 quartos will soon be available for scholars, students and the general public.

Web/Tech Maxine 2009