Title: Cursory notes on various passages in the text of Beaumont and Fletcher, as edited by the Rev. Alexander Dyce; and on his “Few notes on Shakespeare.” The author John Mitford
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. 56. Half morocco. Bookplate of A. T. Copsey on front pastedown.</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;">Includes remarks on the Perkins material, a document “discovered” by John Payne Collier in 1832, shedding new light on Shakespeare’s life and business. This document contained numerous manuscript alterations by an "Old Corrector," which were actually produced by Collier. See A. &amp; J. Freeman, John Payne Collier. Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven, 2004, I, p. 423n.</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_4117360" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>