The works of William Shakespeare. The text formed from an entirely new collation of the old editions
Subtitle: With the various readings, notes, a life of the poet, and a history of the early English stage. By J. Payne Collier, Esq. F.S.A. In eight volumes. Vol. I
Publisher: Whittaker & Co. Gilbert and Rivington, Printers
Published: 1844
Language: eng
Number of pages: 598
Description: <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 8 vols. in 8vo. pp. [2], cccv, [1] (blank), 275. Original cloth. Contains bookmark of W. F. Watson, Bookseller &amp; Stationer, Edinburgh. Frontispiece portrait of Shakespeare, engraved by H. Cook, from the 1632 folio edition.</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;">Content: </span><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">History of the stage ; The life of Shakespeare</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;">Many of the questioned data derive from earlier works by Collier. </span></font><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, A46.</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;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/permalink/01JHU_INST/1lu78g9/alma991012978499707861" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>