Title: An investigation of Mr. Malone’s Claim to the Character of scholar, or critic, Being an Examination of his Inquiry into the authenticity. of the Shakspeare Manuscripts, &c. By Samuel Ireland
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. ff. [2] (blank), pp. vi, 2, 2-153, [3] (last blank). Signatures: a⁴ A-T⁴ [U]² (A1 canceled). There are two copies in this collection. The present is in half morocco. It has marbled boards and a gilded spine raised on 5 bars. It contains a manuscript ex libris of Antonio Alfredo Giarraputo, dated April 28, 1950. There are cropped marginalia on the first p. 2. </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 present work is largely based on materials provided to Samuel Ireland by Thomas Caldecott, criticizing Malone’s methodologies. The Dictionary of National Biography suggests that Caldecott may have written part of this work. See also ESTC, T146503.</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/alma991039122649707861" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>