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The ghost of Richard the Third. A poem, printed in 1614, and founded upon Shakespeare's historical play. Reprinted from the only known copy in the Bodleian Library. With an introduction and notes by J. Payne Collier, Esq.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15.3333px;">8vo. pp. xv, 79. Original cloth. With a reproduction of the original 1614 title page.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15.3333px;"><br /></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15.3333px;">A reprint of a Bodleian original. The work of transcription and re-collation was undertaken by H. S. Harper of the Bodleian, but the introduction and nine pages of notes were Collier’s. See A. &amp; J. Freeman, John Payne Collier. Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven, 2004, I, p. 375; II, A57.</span></font><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/permalink/01JHU_INST/1lu78g9/alma991029002809707861" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>

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