Giles E. Dawson and Joseph Q. Adams, while working on Shakespeare’s autograph uncovered in 1938 at the Folger Shakespeare Library in a copy of William Lambarde’s Archaionomia (1568), expressed their continued puzzlement at why this book was ever in Shakespeare’s possession or under what specific circumstances the dramatist would have encountered William Lambarde. Dawson felt the book was a peculiar one for Shakespeare to have: ‘ . . . the only one [possibility] remaining, is that William Shakespeare wrote his signature on this title page, perhaps because he owned the book — a strange volume indeed for his library’. Adams accounted for the strangeness by indicating the likelihood that some other writing on the page, stating that the book should not be lost, was Lambarde’s; thus evidencing that this was a presentation copy from the author to Shakespeare. Adams then opined,