Title: The text of Shakespeare vindicated from the interpolations and corruptions advocated by John Payne Collier Esq. in his Notes and Emendations. By Samuel Weller Singer
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. xix, 312. Signatures: [a]2 b8 B-U8 X5. Original cloth.</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 earliest full-length critique of John Payne Collier and the Perkins Folio, by Samuel Weller Singer (1783-1858). Singer’s vehemently phrased critique on the corrections of the Old Corrector in the Perkins Folio was purely based on internal evidence. See A. &amp; J. Freeman, John Payne Collier. Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven, 2004, I, esp. pp. 622-624.</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_4117363" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>