The text of Shakespeare vindicated from the interpolations and corruptions advocated by John Payne Collier Esq. in his Notes and Emendations. By Samuel Weller Singer

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8vo. pp. xix, 312. Signatures: [a]2 b8 B-U8 X5. Original cloth. The earliest full-length critique of John Payne Collier and the Perkins Folio, by Samuel Weller Singer (1783-1858). Singer’s vehemently phrased critique on the corrections of the Old Corrector in the Perkins Folio was purely based on internal evidence. See A. & J. Freeman, John Payne Collier. Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven, 2004, I, esp. pp. 622-624. <a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_4117363" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a>

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The text of Shakespeare vindicated from the interpolations and corruptions advocated by John Payne Collier Esq. in his Notes and Emendations. By Samuel Weller Singer
Samuel Weller Singer | William Pickering C. Whittingham | 1853
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