The Grimaldi Shakspere. Notes and emendations on the plays of Shakspere, from a recently-discovered annotated copy by the Late Joseph Grimaldi, Esq., comedian
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- The Grimaldi Shakspere. Notes and emendations on the plays of Shakspere, from a recently-discovered annotated copy by the Late Joseph Grimaldi, Esq., comedian
- Author
- Sir Frederic Madden
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- 1853
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- Public domain eBook
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The Grimaldi Shakspere. Notes and emendations on the plays of Shakspere, from a recently-discovered annotated copy by the Late Joseph Grimaldi, Esq., comedian
Author: [Fairholt, Frederick W. (Frederick William)?]
Year: 1853
8vo. pp. 16. Disbound. Contains stamp of the Sacred Heart Church Robbinsdale Library on title page. Extra-illustrated with two portraits of Grimaldi and a letter from John Payne Collier to E. Raleigh Moran. Attributed by Sir Frederic Madden in 1860 (Diary, 20 April) to Frederick William Fairholt (1814-1866), the illustrator and friend of James Orchard Halliwell. A humorous satire on Collier and his alleged discovery of the Perkins Folio, first announced in the Literary Gazette of 2 July and published in full in August, with mock-facsimiles of the marginalia. See A. & J. Freeman, John Payne Collier. Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven, 2004, iI, pp. 608-609.
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