Fortune and men's eyes
Subtitle: the career of John Payne Collier
By: Dewey Ganzel.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1982
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 454
Subjects: Collier, J. Payne -- 1789-1883.; Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616.; Editors -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Description: In 1850 John Payne Collier was acclaimed as a man of prodigious learning. A decade later, he was almost universally despised, accused of outrageous crimes and deceptions, condemned to live another twenty years in disgrace and unremitting self-recrimination. -- from first chapter.
Notes: Includes index.