Remarks on Mr. J. P. Collier’s and Mr. C. Knight’s editions of Shakespeare. By the Rev. Alexander Dyce

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8vo. pp. 8, f. [1] (blank), pp. viii, 299. Signatures: [A]4 B-T8 U4 X2. Cloth. Bookplate of John E. Russell on front pastedown. “Edm. E. Russell” inscribed on title page. Censorious and elaborate notes on John Payne Collier’s and Charles Knight’s textual choice or their commentary in their works on Shakespeare. The publication of Dyce’s Remarks put a strain on his earlier friendship with Collier. See A. & J. Freeman, John Payne Collier. Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven, 2004, I, pp. 385, 422-426, 442, 484-485, 684, 713. Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.