Reasons for a new edition of Shakespeare's works, containing notices of the defects of former impressions, and pointing out the lately acquired means of illustrating the plays, poems, and biography of the poet. By J. Payne Collier [...]
Publisher: Whittaker & Co. Gilbert and Rivington, Printers
Published: 1841
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
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> Reasons for a new edition of Shakespeare's works, containing notices of the defects of former impressions, and pointing out the lately acquired means of illustrating the plays, poems, and biography of the poet. By J. Payne Collier, Esq. F.S.A. Author of The History of English Dramatic Poetry and the Stage, &amp;c.</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;"><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;"> 8vo. pp. 52. Signatures: A-C8 D2. Half calf. Bound with three other Shakespearean tracts: ‘The First Edition of the Tragedy of Hamlet’ (1825), ‘Observations on an Autograph of Shakspere, and the orthography of his name. Communicated to the Society of Antiquaries by Sir Frederick Madden, K.H., F.R.S. and S.A. in a letter to John Gage, Esq. F.R.S. Director’ (1838), ‘On the Jovial Hunter of Bromsgrove, Horne the Hunter, and Robin Hood. By Jabez Allies, Esq., F.S.A.’ (1845). Contains bookmark of Barron Field, inscription by N.E. Mocart [?]. Inscribed by Collier to Barron Field, with one manuscript correction by Collier and several notes by Field. See A. &amp; J. Freeman, John Payne Collier. Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven, 2004, II, A44.
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