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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Horace Howard Furness (1833–1912)

Furness, Horace Howard. An American Shakespearean scholar and editor, son of William H.; born in Philadelphia, Nov. 2, 1833; died at Wallingford, PA, Aug. 13, 1912. He graduated from Harvard in 1854; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1859. He was the editor of the exhaustive New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare, a work carried forward by his son, Horace Howard Furness, Jr.