Shakespeare’s library
Subtitle: a collection of the romances, novels, and histories, used by Shakespeare as the foundation of his dramas. Now first collected, and accurately reprinted from the original editions [...] Vol. I
Publisher: Thomas Rodd Compton and Ritchie, Printers
Published: [1843]
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 438
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Full title:</b> Shakespeare’s library: a collection of the romances, novels, and histories, used by Shakespeare as the foundation of his dramas. Now first collected, and accurately reprinted from the original editions. With introductory notices, By J. Payne Collier, Esq. F.S.A. Vol. I. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">First of 2 volumes in 8vo. pp. vii, 59, iv, 130, vii, 257, vi, 259-312. There are three copies in this collection. The present is in half morocco. It has a bookplate of Judge William Dale Young and was J. O. Halliwell’s annotated copy, printed on thick paper, variously said to be limited to five, or thirteen copies. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15.3333px;">A series of reprints of Shakespeare source books. </span></font><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Content: Greene's Pandosto, the story on which is founded The winter's tale. Lodge's Rosalynd, the novel on which is founded As you like it. The historie of Hamblet, the history on which the tragedy of Hamlet is constructed. Apollonius, prince of Tyre, from which the incidents of the play of the play of Pericles are derived. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">See also A. &amp; J. Freeman, John Payne Collier. Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven, 2004, II, A55a.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/permalink/01JHU_INST/1lu78g9/alma991023988739707861" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>