We Found Shakespeare’s Personal Dictionary on eBay!, Say Book Dealers

The Atlantic - 22 April, 2014

Title page of the contested copy of An Alvearie (Koppelman, via the Folger Shakespeare Library) 

“For more than half a century, many scholars have believed that Shakespeare consulted a 1580 dictionary published in London called An Alvearie, or Quadruple Dictionarie.” 

Now a pair of antiquarians claim they’ve found that very volume, complete with Shakespeare’s own handwritten notes. Naturally, some scholars disagree.
Robinson Meyer runs down the arguments for and against.
More