The works of William Shakespeare. The text formed from an entirely new collation of the old editions

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First of 8 vols. in 8vo. pp. [2], cccv, [1] (blank), 275. Original cloth. Contains bookmark of W. F. Watson, Bookseller & Stationer, Edinburgh. Frontispiece portrait of Shakespeare, engraved by H. Cook, from the 1632 folio edition. Content: History of the stage ; The life of Shakespeare Many of the questioned data derive from earlier works by Collier. See also A. & J. Freeman, John Payne Collier. Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven, 2004, II, A46. Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.