A bibliographical and critical account of the Rarest Books in the English Language, alphabetically arranged, which, during the last fifty years, have come under the observation of J. Payne Collier, F.S.A. In two volumes. Vol. II

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Second of 2 volumes in 8vo. pp. [4], 594. A widely acclaimed but not entirely dependable assembly of 578 descriptions of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English books, mostly poetry and popular prose, some very rare, by John Payne Collier, representing the note-taking and revising of five decades. There are three copies in this collection, of which one, disbound, is retained by Arthur and Janet Freeman. The present copy is in morocco-backed cloth. See, especially for a list of questionable statements, A. & J. Freeman, John Payne Collier. Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven, 2004, II, pp. 870-881, A129. Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.