The plays of Shakespeare

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J. Payne (John Payne) (ed.) CollierWilliam Shakespeare1 editions

8vo. pp. xvi, 884. Frontispiece (engraved reproduction of the Droeshout portrait of Shakespeare by H. Cook) and engraved title page with vignette (‘Stratford-upon-Avon Church’ by Alfred Adlard) inserted between p. ii and iii; one plate inserted facing p. 1. One of two copies in this collection. The present is in original cloth (lacking spine), inscribed by Collier to his son John Pycroft Collier. The present work is the first edition of the Shakespeare plays edited by John Payne Collier to incorporate some of the readings of the Perkins Folio. Collier later corrected the volume and had one leaf canceled (pp. 625, 626). Collier’s 1853 text (in the uncorrected version) formed the basis of two American editions (see Bib# 4117166/Fr# 988 in this collection for the 1857 Redfield edition). See A. & J. Freeman, John Payne Collier. Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven, 2004, I, pp. 616-620; II, A85. <a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_4117165" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a>

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The plays of Shakespeare
William Shakespeare, J. Payne (John Payne) (ed.) Collier | Whittaker and Co. Gilbert and Rivington, Printers | 1853