THE OBJECT of the Shakespeare Society is to print and distribute to the Subscribers books illustrative of Shakespeare and of the Literature of his time. ADMISSION to the Society, of any respectable person, is made by application to the Agent.

THE SUBSCRIPTION is £1 per annum, due on the 1st of January in each year in advance, on payment of which the Member is entitled to a copy of every book printed by the Society for the year for which the Subscription is made. The Subscription is payable to the London Agent, by cash or through the Country Agent, and must be made for the current year. The Subscribing for any or all of the previous years is optional. The books are only procurable of the Society by Members. THE AFFAIRS of the Society are managed by a Council, consisting of the President, six Vice-Presidents, and twenty-one Members: five of the latter retire every year, and the vacancies are filled up, on the recommendation of the Council, from the general body of the Subscribers, at the Annual General Meeting.

THE COUNCIL meet on the second Tuesday in every month, to select and superintend the works printed by the Society; and the General Members once a-year, on the 26th of April.

THE EDITORS and the Council render their services gratuitously to the Society; and every means are adopted to expend as nearly as possible the whole amount of the Subscriptions in producing books.

THE DELIVERY OF THE BOOKS is made by the London Agent, Mr. RODD, to whom all communications on the subject should be made. It is a rule, most strictly adhered to, that No book shall be delivered until the Subscription is paid.

CONTRIBUTIONS to "The Shakespeare Society's Papers" are solicited by the Council-it having been deemed desirable to issue occasional volumes thus formed and entitled, in order to create a medium for preserving and distributing illustrations of the literature, which is the peculiar object of the Society.

Books issued by the Shakespeare Society.

FOR 1841.

Memoirs of Edward Alleyn, Founder of Dulwich College. By J. P. Collier.

Gosson's School of Abuse. With Introduction, &c.

Thomas Heywood's Apology for Actors. With Introduction, &c.

The Coventry Mysteries. Edited by J. O. Halliwell, with Introduction and Notes.

Thynn's Pride and Lowliness. With Introduction, Notes, &c.

Patient Grissell. A Comedy, by Dekker, Chettle, and Haughton. With Introduction and Notes, by J. P. Collier.

FOR 1842.

Extracts from the Accounts of the Revels at Court in Elizabeth and James's Reigns. With Introduction and Notes by Peter Cunningham.

Ben Jonson's Conversations with Drummond. Introduction, &c. by David Laing.

First Sketch of the Merry Wives of Windsor. The Novels on which it is founded, and an Introduction aud Notes by J. O. Halliwell.

Fools and Jesters; with Armin's Nest of Ninnies, &c. Introduction, &c. by J. P. Collier.
The Old Play of Timon. Now first printed. Edited by Rev. A. Dyce.

Nash's Pierce Pennilesse. With Introduction, &c. by J. P. Collier.

Heywood's Edward the Fourth, a Play, in Two Parts. With Introduction and Notes by Barron Field.

FOR 1843.

Northbrooke's Treatise. With an Introduction, &c. by J. P. Collier.

The First Sketches of the Second and Third Parts of Henry the Sixth. Edited by J. O. Halliwell.
Oberon's Vision Illustrated. By the Rev. A. J. Halpiu.

The Chester Whitsun Plays -Part I. With Introduction and Notes by Thomas Wright.
The Alleyn Papers, illustrative of the Early English Stage. With Introduction by J. P. Collier.
Inedited Tracts by John Forde the Dramatist. With Introduction by J. P. Collier.

FOR 1844.

arlton's Jests and Tarlton's Newes out of Purgatory. With a Life, &c. by J. O. Halliwell. The True Tragedie of Richard the Third, from a unique Copy, and The Latin Play of Richardus Tertius, from a Manuscript. Edited by Barron Field.

The Ghost of Richard the Third. A Poem. Edited by J. P. Collier.

Sir Thomas More. A Play. Edited by the Rev. A. Dyce.

VOL. I. of "THE SHAKESPEARE SOCIETY'S PAPERS," being a Miscellany of Contributions Illustrative of the Objects of the Society.

The Taming of a Shrew. To which is added, the Woman lapped in Morrel Skin. Edited by Thomas Amyot.

FOR 1845.

Illustrations of the Fairy Mythology of Shakespeare. By J. O. Halliwell.

First Part and a portion of the Second Part of Shakespeare's Henry the IVth. From a Unique Contemporary Manuscript. Edited by J. O. Halliwell.

Diary of Philip Henslowe, from 1591 to 1609. From the Original at Dulwich College. Edited by J. P. Collier.

VOL. II. of "THE SHAKESPEARE SOCIETY'S PAPERS." Consisting of Miscellaneous Contributions.

FOR 1846.

The Fair Maid of The Exchange, A Comedy, by Thomas Heywood: and Fortune by Land and
Sea, a Tragi-Comedy, by Thomas Heywood and William Rowley. Edited by Barron Field.
The Marriage of Wit and Wisdom. An Ancient Interlude. From the original Manuscript re-
cently discovered.

Memoirs of the Principal Actors in Shakespeare's Plays. By J. Payne Collier.

Rich's Farewell to Military Profession. From the unique Copy of the first edition of 1581.

FOR 1847.

Ralph Roister Doyster, a Comedy, by Nicholas Udall, and the Tragedie of Gorboduc, by Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville. Edited by W. Durrant Cooper.

Part II. of The Chester Whitsun Plays. Edited by Thomas Wright.

VOL. III. of "THE SHAKESPEARE SOCIETY'S PAPERS." Consisting of Miscellaneous Contributions.

FOR 1848.

The Moral Play of Wit and Science. Edited by J. O. Halliwell.

Extracts from the Registers of the Stationers' Company of Works entered for publication between 1557 and 1570, with Notes and Illustrations by J. Payne Collier.

IN THE PRESS.

Inigo Jones's original designs for Masques at Court. Edited by J. R. Planché, and J. Payne Collier. With a new Life of Inigo Jones, by Peter Cunningham.

PREPARING FOR PRINTING.

A Selection from Oldys's MS. Notes to Langbaine's Dramatic Poets. By Peter Cunningham.

See also Report of Annual Meeting at the end of The Extracts from the Registers of the Sta

tioners' Company.

J. PAYNE COLLIER, ESQ., F.S.A. AND F.R.S.L.