Observations of the Shaksperian forgeries at Bridgewater House; illustrative of a facsimile of the spurious letter of H. S. By James O. Halliwell, Esq.

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4to. pp. 8. Binder’s cloth. Inscription of John L. Hitchison on recto of front flyleaf. Twenty-five copies printed. Possibly a reprint, without limitation statement. James Halliwell issued this pamphlet ‘for private circulation only’ to expose John Payne Collier as the forger of the documents preserved in the archives of the Earl of Ellesmere at Bridgewater House. The work includes a facsimile of a “[l]etter of H.S. mentioning Shakespeare, purporting to be from Lord Southampton, but believed to be a modern Forgery.” The pamphlet was the last public accusation of Collier by Halliwell. See A. & J. Freeman, John Payne Collier. Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven, 2004, I, pp. 642-652. Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.