Particulars of Shakspeare’s house at Straford-upon-Avon, for sale by auction by Mr. Robins. At the Mart London, On Thursday Sept[embe]r 16 at 12 o’clock

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Folio, pp. 16, [1]. Printed wrappers. Contains illustrations, plan. Title page on cover. The original brochure for the sale at which Shakespeare's birthplace was purchased for the nation. Includes also "The baptisms, marriages and burials of the Shakspere family, transcribed from the register books of the parish of Stratford-upon-Avon," and extracts from several writers on Stratford. See A. & J. Freeman, John Payne Collier. Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven, 2004, I, pp. 527-533 on the sale of the house, of which John Payne Collier technically became a one-quarter owner. Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.