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TUCKER BROOKE from the first editions, with a critical apparatus recording all important variations both of those and other editions of authority, with short introductions on the bibliography and text of each piece printed, and facsimile title-pages. 1910. Pp. viii, 664. 6s. net; also copies on India paper, green cloth, 7s. 6d. net. At the Clarendon Press. The Oxford Shakespeare, edited by W. J. CRAIG (see p. 177), printed on Oxford India paper, is for convenience included in this series with the companion volumes following. At the Clarendon Press. 10s. net. The Oxford Shakespeare Apocrypha, being a collection of fourteen plays which have been ascribed to Shakespeare, edited with introduction, notes, and bibliography, by C. F. TUCKER BROOKE. 1908. Pp. lvi, 420 text, double columns, 421–56 notes and bibliography, in all 606 pages, with facsimile titles of all the plays. 6s. net. 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England's Parnassus, or the Choysest Flowers of our Moderne Poets. Compiled by ROBERT ALLOT, 1600; edited from the original text in the Bodleian Library, and compared with the two copies in the British Museum, by CHARLES CRAWFORD, with introduction, notes, tables and indexes; of the 2,350 quotations made by Allot, all but 111 8s. 6d. net; copies printed on At the Clarendon Press. : 1913. Pp. xliv, 560. the Original Song Books by E. H. On Oxford India paper, 15s. At the Clarendon Press. Poems, Notes, Index: The Forty-six poets are represented. are here traced and referenced. Oxford India paper, 10s. 6d. net. English Madrigal Verse, 1588-1632. Edited from FELLOWES. 1920. Crown 8vo (71×51), pp. xx+640. net; or on ordinary paper, cloth gilt, 12s. 6d. net. CONTENTS :- -The Madrigalists; List of Authors, the Lutenists List of Authors, the Poems, Notes, Index, The English Madrigal Composers, by E. H. FELLOWES. See p. 47. 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