Shakespeare's beehive
Subtitle: an annotated Elizabethan dictionary comes to light
By: George Koppelman & Daniel Wechsler
Contributors: Wechsler, Dan, author; Koppelman, George, donor; Stoddard, Roger E. (Roger Eliot), former owner
Publisher: Axletree Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 339
ISBN-13: 9780991573004; 9780991573011; 9780991573028
Subjects: Books and reading; Language; Marginal notes; Library; Books; Owners' marks; Marginalia; History; English language; Lexicography
Other titles: Annotated Elizabethan dictionary comes to light
Description: An examination of a heavily annotated copy of John Baret's "An Alvearie, or, Quadruple Dictionarie," published in 1580, which, the authors speculate, may have been owned and annotated by William Shakespeare.
Notes: "Two thousand copies printed, of which 26 lettered copies are bound in quarter leather & signed by the authors, and 100 are signed by the authors & numbered."--Colophon.

Grolier Club copy inscribed by the authors to the Grolier Club (April 29, 2014).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 306-319).
Table of contents: title: Part one. The romance, or, How to start a case for Shakespeare's dictionary: Prologue; title: A few thoughts on old books; title: Early modern dictionaries; title: Shakespeare goes to London; title: A heavily annotated copy; title: Personal markers; title: Paleography; title: Shakespeare on handwriting; title: Shakespeare as reader; title: Becoming a believer.; title: Part two. The evidence : the annotations as they relate to the works: Hamlet; title: The narrative poems; title: The sonnets; title: The early comedies; title: The early histories; title: Falstaff; title: The trailing blank; title: Baret as Shakespeare's beehive; title: What's in a name?; title: "My darling."