Title: Poems by William Mason, M.A. Vol. III. Now first published
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), pp. iv, 316, f. [1] (blank).</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;">Printed to accompany Mason’s ‘Poems’ in two volumes (1796); includes the first printing of his ‘Inscription under a Picture of Shakspear’s Manuscripts, 1796’ (p. 80), with its naming of the traditional ‘four forgers:’ Lauder, Macpherson, Chatterton, and Ireland. Mason’s ‘Ireland’ is in fact Samuel Ireland, widely suspected of masterminding the Shakespeare forgeries, not their true begetter William Henry. See also ESTC, T96582-3.</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/permalink/01JHU_INST/1lu78g9/alma991039123919707861" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>