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Ruding's Annotated Langbaine

By EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.

Can any of your readers inform me who possesses the copy of Langbaine's *Account of the English Dramatic Poets* with MS. additions, and copious continuations, by the REV. ROGERS RUDING? In one of his notes, speaking of the Garrick collection of old plays, that industrious antiquary observes: "This noble collection has lately (1784) been mutilated by tearing out such single plays as were duplicates to others in the Sloane Library. The folio editions of Shakespeare, Beaumont and Fletcher, and Jonson, have likewise been taken from it for the same reason." This is a sad complaint against the Museu…

Topics: English Dramatic Poets, Antiquarian Studies, Historical Collections