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“Each suitor was faced with three boxes: a gold one, a silver one, and a lead one - each with corresponding clues. Whoever chose the gold box would earn what many men desired. Whoever chose the silver box would earn what many men deserved. And whoever chose the lead box would be required to give and risk all he had... since Portia was the pearl of great price, he must be willing to give everything and all that he had in order to have a true chance of winning her hand and her heart. Shakespeare's play - The Merchant of Venice”

“The purpose of the appeal was to open a subscription list by which signatories pledged themselves to support the cost of printing a limited edition, of which they themselves would be entitled to one or more copies, depending on the amount pledged. This was the usual means at the time [1836] of enabling the publication of an expensive book…”