The plays and poems of William Shakespeare

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The plays and poems of William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare, J. Payne (John Payne) (ed.) Collier

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The plays and poems of William ShakespeareWilliam Shakespeare, J. Payne (John Payne) (ed.) Collier

William Shakespeare, J. Payne (John Payne) (ed.) CollierPublished 1878

Seventh of 8 volumes in 4to. pp. [4], 132, 138, 138, 98, 124. Half morocco, with wrappers bound in. One of 58 sets printed. Collier’s last Shakespeare edition, designed for a mature reader, with no general or individual introductions, the most perfunctory of notes on early quartos, minimal commentary, and above all an arbitrarily settled text, whose ‘purity’ was not over-sullied with citations of source. While some of the Perkins readings were signaled (mostly as ‘indisputable’), more than half of them were not. Contains: Othello ; Antony and Cleopatra ; Cymbeline ; Pericles ; Two noble kinsmen. See A. & J. Freeman, John Payne Collier. Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven, 2004, II, 975-980; A184. <a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/permalink/01JHU_INST/1lu78g9/alma991009204029707861" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a>

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