Title: Rhapsodies, by William Henry Ireland, author of the Shaksperian MSS. &c. &c.
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. f. [1] (blank), f. [1] (plates), pp. [2], 11-200, ff. [2] (blank). Signatures: A4 B-M8 N4. Engraved frontispiece portrait signed "Eng.d by Mackenzie, from an original picture in the possession of Mr. Ireland." One of four copies in this collection. This one is bound in rebacked boards. Lacking portrait. Labels and notes of G. Hilder Libbis.</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;">This gothic fiction work was written by the former Shakespeare forger William Henry Ireland (1775-1835). See M. Summers, A Gothic Bibliography. New York, 1946, p. 478.
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