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Surprised by Stanhope

My favorite encounter with a book is one where I think I know what I’m going to find, but then something else entirely happens. My most recent serendipitous encounter came thanks to a tweet: Sjoerd Levelt was tweeting some images for #FlyleafFriday and shared an image of one of the Folger’s books, a copy of Francis Bacon’s Advancement of Learning that has as its flyleaf the last leaf of John Selden’s Titles of Honor (STC 1166 copy 6):

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That’s pretty fun in and of itself (and you can see more images of the flyleaves and binding in our digital image collection), but Sjoerd noticed something else. Among the various ownership marks on the opening is a lightly penciled annotation, “Shakespeare mentioned on page 225.” 

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There is a picture of Sir Charles at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_Stanhope_(1595-1675).jpg
One source (http://stanhopefamilyhistory.webs.com/) says he was married, but does not say to whom; certainly he died childless
Cliff Webb

Cliff Webb — September 17, 2014

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