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library including the following fine editions: S. T. Coleridge,
Letters, Conversations, and Recollections, New York, Harper
& Brothers, 1836; Aventures du Baron de Miinchhausen, Paris
[1866], translated by Theophilc Gautier, fils, and illustrated by
Gustave Dore; and Thomas Love Peacock, Letters to Edward
Hookham and Percy B. Shelley, Boston, The Bibliophile Society,
1910, edited by Richard Garnett.

Benkovitz gift. Professor iMiriam Benkox itz has donated first edi¬
tions of Nancy Cunard, GM; Memories of George Moore, 1956,
and George Moore, Letters to Lady Cunard, iS<))-i()^^, 1957.

Buttenwieser gift. The rare collected edition of Shakespeare's
works, published in London in 1768 for J. and R. Tonson, has been
presented by .Mr. Benjamin J. Buttenwieser (LL.D., 1977). The
ten-volume set, bound in the original marbled bf)ards with vellum
backs, is on large paper, entirely uncut, and is quite likely the larg¬
est copy extant. Edited by the eighteenth century Shakespearean
commentator and editor, Edward Capell, this edition is the first to
contain an attempt towards a bibliography. Each of the volumes
in Mr. Buttenwieser's gift contains the book label of the distin¬
guished collector, Jerome Kern.

Class of i()2^ gift. The College Class of 1923 has been notable for
its annual presentations of seventeenth century English literary
works. The members of the Class have recently donated a copy of
James Shirley's tragedy. The Maides Revenge, printed in London
in 1639 by Thomas Cotes. Although this play, the second written
by Shirley, was licensed and first performed in 1626, it was not
printed until 1639 in this quarto edition.

Dalton gift. Six hundred volumes have been donated by Mr. Jack
Dalton, including works on printing, literature, bibliography and
education. Among the volumes selected for the rare book collec¬
tion are: Oscar Lewis, Lola Montez: The Mid-Victorian Bad Girl
in California, published by The Colt Press in San Francisco in