An inquiry into the genuineness of the manuscript corrections in Mr. J. Payne Collier’s annotated Shakspere, Folio, 1632; and of certain Shaksperian documents likewise published by Mr. Collier. By N. E. S. A. Hamilton

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Square 8vo. pp. 155. Original cloth. Contains 3 facsimiles, including frontispiece. Inscribed by the author to W. G. Lettson. Stamp of The Folger Shakespeare Library on verso of back flyleaf. A refutation of John Payne Collier's controversial 'Perkins folio' of Shakespeare, informed by the British Museum's research and finding that the emendations claimed by Collier to be in a mid-seventeenth-century hand were actually 19th-century forgeries. Collier replied in an article in the Athenaeum of 18 February 1860, and expanded his argument in a pamphlet published in March of that year (Bib# 4117176/Fr# 998 in this collection). See A. & J. Freeman, John Payne Collier. Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven, 2004, I, pp. 744-745, 762-770, 797, 799; II, 1239-1242, B470. Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.