Catalog of the author's library of 1st editions of the famous English poets and dramatists from Elizabethan times until the present.
"[In] this reprint ... [of the 1922-36 ed.] against all the entries of printed books received by the British Museum have been supplied the Ashley shelf-marks in the library of the Museum ... The occasional short notes written into entries, and the occasional deletions, have been taken from the marked set only accessible to readers in the reading room."