 Forty-eight shares were issued, with the university holding a controlling interest.At the same time, classical scholarship revived, with works by Jeremiah Markland and Peter Elmsley, as well as early 19th-century texts edited by a growing number of academics from mainland Europe – perhaps the most prominent being August Immanuel Bekker and Karl Wilhelm Dindorf.Both prepared editions at the invitation of the Greek scholar Thomas Gaisford, who served as a Delegate for 50 years.