The Grimaldi Shakspere. Notes and emendations on the plays of Shakspere, from a recently-discovered annotated copy by the Late Joseph Grimaldi, Esq., comedian
Publisher: Published by J. Russell Smith E. Tucker, Printer
Published: 1853
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 36
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;">8vo. pp. 16. Disbound. Contains stamp of the Sacred Heart Church Robbinsdale Library on title page. Extra-illustrated with two portraits of Grimaldi and a letter from John Payne Collier to E. Raleigh Moran. Attributed by Sir Frederic Madden in 1860 (Diary, 20 April) to Frederick William Fairholt (1814-1866), the illustrator and friend of James Orchard Halliwell.</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;">A humorous satire on Collier and his alleged discovery of the Perkins Folio, first announced in the Literary Gazette of 2 July and published in full in August, with mock-facsimiles of the marginalia. See A. &amp; J. Freeman, John Payne Collier. Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven, 2004, iI, pp. 608-609.</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/catalog/bib_4117347" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>