Armstrong Browning Library, Baylor University, Waco, TX, ABL Rare X 822.33 S527p 1813

This complete twenty-one-volume collection of Shakespeare's plays is housed at the Armstrong Browning Library in Waco, TX, a library dedicated to the lives and works of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. This Shakespeare collection, published when Elizabeth was seven years old, was originally a gift from Elizabeth's father to Elizabeth's aunt. The first page of each book in the collection contains the same inscription (pictured): "The Gift of Edward Barrett to Arabel(la) and Charlotte Graham Clarke." It is possible that the inscriptions were made by Elizabeth herself. The picture inscription is from Volume 6, which contains Much Ado About Nothing and Measure For Measure.