The quip modest; a few words by way of supplement to Remarks, critical and illustrative, on the text and notes of the last edition of Shakspeare; occasioned by a republication of that edition, revised ... by the editor of Dodsleys Old plays.
Ritson, Joseph,1752-1803.
London : printed for J. Johnson,
1788.
In some copies sig. A4 is a cancel, last word on verso: "vol. iv" and sig. E2 is a cancel, last word of text on p. 28: "proposed".
Preface signed: J. R., i.e. Joseph Ritson.
Refers to Johnson and Steevens' edition of Shakespeare, revised by Isaac Reed.
Some copies contain an additional unpaginated final leaf, signed F, beginning: "P. 11. Since this pamphlet was printed off, .. ".
The last word of text on the verso of A4: "romances" and last word of text on p. 28 "himself".
ESTC