Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Calendar of the Shakespearean Rarities, Drawings and Engravings Formerly Preserved at Hollingbury Copse, 1891
The Corporation of Birmingham, notwithstanding the strong recommendation of their Free Libraries Committee to acquire the literary treasures, were unable, mainly owing, I think, to legal difficulties, to see their way to accept the offer contained in the \vill, and to make the purchase of the collection, which, therefore, now temporarily awaits a purchaser at the higher sum named. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
