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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 15.0827  Tuesday, 6 April 2004

[1]     From:   Al Magary <al@magary.com>
        Date:   Tue, 6 Apr 2004 00:02:51 -0700
        Subj:   A Million Pounds for Hamlet Q3

[2]     From:   John Webb <john_webb@cv81pl.freeserve.co.uk>
        Date:   Tue, 6 Apr 2004 11:28:47 +0100
        Subj:   1611 Shakespeare Quartos to Auction at Christie's


[1]-----------------------------------------------------------------
From:           Al Magary <al@magary.com>
Date:           Tue, 6 Apr 2004 00:02:51 -0700
Subject:        A Million Pounds for Hamlet Q3

Rare Hamlet Edition Expected to Fetch over £1 Million

By Mark Sage, PA News, in New York

The Scotsman, April 5, 2004

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2741615

A rare copy of William Shakespeare's Hamlet printed during the Bard's
lifetime is expected to fetch more than £1 million when it goes under
the hammer at a US auction house.

The copy, printed in 1611, is the earliest available version of the play
held by a private collector.

It is being sold as part of a wider collection from the Estate of Mary,
Viscountess Eccles at Christie's in New York later this month.

The complete Eccles collection offered for sale includes rare editions
of King Lear, Richard II, and Macbeth.

Also on sale is the first of a limited edition of an account of Queen
Elizabeth I's funeral, and one of only four recorded copies of Robert
Wilson the Elder's play The Three Ladies of London.

Lady Eccles assembled her collection over 60 years at Four Oaks Farm in
Somerville, New Jersey.

Christie's described the hoard as "one of the most exceptional private
collections of the past century".

In 2001, a first-folio edition of Hamlet sold for £3.4 million - an
auction record for Shakespeare and a world auction record for a 17th
Century book.

The sale is due to go ahead on April 14.

[2]-------------------------------------------------------------
From:           John Webb <john_webb@cv81pl.freeserve.co.uk>
Date:           Tue, 6 Apr 2004 11:28:47 +0100
Subject:        1611 Shakespeare Quartos to Auction at Christie's

A 1611 Hamlet will be auctioned at Christie's, New York, on April 14th.
Other items include copies of Hamlet that belonged to Henry Irving and
Alec Guinness.

These reports from the Washington Post and BBC News:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46779-2004Apr2.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/3522799.stm

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