The Cambridge Shakespeare been considered profane, where needed to preserve metre or meaning. In 2009, Cambridge University Press reissued all nine volumes as part of their "Cambridge Library Collection" which aims to preserve access to "books of enduring scholarly value". The reissued editions are: "The New Shakespeare" was published between 1921 and 1969. The series was edited by Arthur Quiller-Couch and J. Dover Wilson. The earlier volumes of the series contain critical introductions by Quiller-Couch (signed "Q") and written in a "belles lettres" style that, according to R. A. Foakes in "The Oxford Handbook to Shakespeare" (2003), have been "largely forgotten". The textual
Richard Quiller Couch Bell's "British Stalk-eyed Crustacea," 1853. Couch was also interested in Cornish geology, and did useful work in developing the difficult subject of Cornish fossil remains. From 1848 onwards he was curator of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, and contributed to its "Transactions" several valuable papers, as well as annual reports. The diseases of the Cornish miners were a subject of his careful investigation, and his papers on the mortality of miners in the "Polytechnic Reports" (185760) are, as far as they go, of permanent value; they were translated into French. Couch died, in the full vigour of his powers,