Trilogy. Conversations between three friends on the emendations of Shakespeare’s text [...] / King Edward the Third A Historical Play

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4to. Half morocco. Contains ex libris bookplate of Allan D. Macdonald, inscribed by David Jyfe Anderson, 2.9.50. Trilogy. Conversations between three friends on the emendations of Shakespeare’s text contained in Mr. Collier’s corrected Folio, 1632, and employed by recent editors of the poet’s works 3 parts in one 4to. pp. viii, 80; pp. [4], 76; pp. [4], 92. Original green wrapper to Part II bound in. A vindication of the Perkins Folio, but more so a belated complaint about credit withheld and owing and a final and exhaustive summing-up against Alexander Dyce. See A. & J. Freeman, John Payne Collier. Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven, 2004, II, A181. Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record. King Edward the Third. A Historical Play. By William Shakespeare pp. 16. A pamphlet by Collier arguing that ‘Edward III’ is entirely by Shakespeare. Contains the unwarranted conjecture that the actor Richard Burbage and the stationer Cuthbert Burby were brothers. See A. & J. Freeman, John Payne Collier. Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven, 2004, II, A182. Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record. King Edward the Third: A historical play. Attributed by Edward Capell to William Shakespeare, and now proved to be his work by J. Payne Collier). pp. [2], xvi, 96. An edition of the play ‘Edward III’ by Collier, who had become a strong believer that the play was entirely Shakespeare’s. Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.