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Excerpt from Shakespeare's Fight With the Pirates and the Problems of the Transmission of His d104 The four papers here reprinted were read as Sandars Reader in Bibliography in the University of Cambridge in November, 1915, and have already appeared in the successive numbers of 'The Library' during the present year. While the other three papers are here printed substantially as they were read, in that on the Manuscripts of Shakespeare's Plays the survey of plays by his contemporaries which have come down to us in manuscript has been slightly extended. That it still remains very brief and inadequate is due to my consciousness that I possess no special qualifications for investigating the problem as to which of them are the work of scriveners and which in the authors' autographs, and that even if I were much more of an expert, the fact that I may be reasonably suspected of having a thesis to prove would deprive my conclusions of any real weight. That this particular problem is well worth examining I am most firmly convinced, and I hope sincerely that some competent student will take it up and publish his conclusions. Whether these confirm or weaken my own argument, I think I can promise him a hearty welcome in 'The Library' for anything he has to say. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.