The Shakspeare fabrications, or, the MS. notes of the Perkins Folio shown to be of recent origin. With an appendix on the authorship of the Ireland forgeries. By C. Mansfield Ingleby, Esq., LL.D. of Trinity College, Cambridge
Publisher: John Russell Smith Printed by F. Pickton
Published: 1859
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 172
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;">12mo. pp. xxviii, 116. Original cloth. Bookplate of Warwick Castle Shakespeare Library. Contains foldout facsimile frontispiece of a passage from Hamlet that Devonshire had sanctioned.</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;">Monograph on the affair of the Perkins Folio, offering a somewhat sketchy chronology of the controversy from 1852-1853 to July 1859, with backward glances at provenance, mostly focused on the emendations themselves. Ingleby argued again that these emendations were derivative or patently inventive, insensitive or anachronistic. See A. &amp; J. Freeman, John Payne Collier. Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven, 2004, I, pp. 739-741, 762, 797, 821.</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_4117356" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>