First Folio, No. LXXXII in the Sidney Lee Census, from the Lord Leigh set of four folios. Page 212 "Taming of the Shrew" should be numbered 214 showing an earlier printing than the famous Chatsworth Copy in the possession of the Duke of Devonshire, which was considered by Sidney Lee to be the Standard for reproduction and numbered XXI in his census.
Page 39, Richard the Second should be numbered 37 showing the same early printing.
Sidney Tee Census (1902) First Folios "Shakespeares
Comedies, Histories & Tragedies"
"LXXXII Lord Leigh, Stoneleigh Abbey, Warwickshire. Size 12¼ in. x 8-1/12 in, History: purchased by the present owner's father, Chandos, first Lord Leigh, C 1892 of Henry Bohn, the book seller. Condition: generally clean; fly-leaf in facsimile; title page made up with inlaid portrait. pp. 155-8, 257-8 of the Tragedies supplied from another Copy and inlaid. Portions of last three pages supplied in facsimile."
Now in the possession of
Frederick S. Peck
Belton Court, Barrington, R.I.
1936.
