Particulars of Shakspeare’s house at Straford-upon-Avon, for sale by auction by Mr. Robins. At the Mart London, On Thursday Sept[embe]r 16 at 12 o’clock
Publisher: George Robins Alfred Robins, Printer
Published: [1847]
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 26
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;">Folio, pp. 16, [1]. Printed wrappers. Contains illustrations, plan. Title page on cover.</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;">The original brochure for the sale at which Shakespeare's birthplace was purchased for the nation. Includes also "The baptisms, marriages and burials of the Shakspere family, transcribed from the register books of the parish of Stratford-upon-Avon," and extracts from several writers on Stratford.</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 A. &amp; J. Freeman, John Payne Collier. Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven, 2004, I, pp. 527-533 on the sale of the house, of which John Payne Collier technically became a one-quarter owner.</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_4117330" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>