Title: Rizzio; or, Scenes in Europe during the sixteenth century. By the Late Mr. Ireland. Edited by G. P. R. James, Esq., Author of “Darnley,” “Henry Masterton,” “Richelieu,” “The Forgery,” &c. In three volumes.–Vol. I
Description: <p></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;">First of 3 volumes in 8vo. f. [1], pp. 296. Signatures: [A]1 B-I12 L4 K8 M-N12 O4. Calf-backed marbled boards. Title page and first page signed J.A. Macartney.</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 first edition of this work by the Shakespeare forger William Henry Ireland (1777-1835), posthumously published from a surviving manuscript. This manuscript was acquired from Ireland’s unpublished Nachlass by a speculating agent who sold it to the best-selling novelist G.P.R. James. James edited the work into a successful mid-Victorian three-decker.</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_4103267" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>