A review of “An Inquiry into the Genuineness of the Manuscript Corrections in Mr. J. Payne Collier’s Annotated Shakspere, Folio, 1632; and of certain Shaksperian Documents likewise published by Mr. Collier.” By N. E. S. A. Hamilton. (Bentley.) [...]
Publisher: Printed for private circulation by Charles W. Frederickson
Published: 1860
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 34
Description: <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;"><b>Full title:</b> A review of “An Inquiry into the Genuineness of the Manuscript Corrections in Mr. J. Payne Collier’s Annotated Shakspere, Folio, 1632; and of certain Shaksperian Documents likewise published by Mr. Collier.” By N. E. S. A. Hamilton. (Bentley.) Also, the reply of Mr. J. Payne Collier, to the “Inquiry.” (Reprinted from the (London) Athenæum of the 18th of February, 1860.). </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;"> 4to. pp. 32. Original unprinted green wrappers. Inscribed on front wrapper to Isaac Norris by J. Parker Norris, who purchased 25 copies at one of the sales of the prominent book collector Charles W. Frederickson and erroneously believed that this constituted the entire edition.</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;">The pamphlet, addressed to the ‘admirers of Mr. John Payne Collier, in the United States,’ consists of William Hepworth Dixon’s review of Hamilton’s Inquiry and Collier’s first reply to it, both reprinted from the Athenaeum of 18 February 1860.</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;">See A. &amp; J. Freeman, John Payne Collier. Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven, 2004, I, pp. 818-819; II, A91. </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/catalog/bib_4117176" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>