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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- 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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- John Payne Collier Esq
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- 1853
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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
Author: Singer, Samuel Weller
Year: 1853
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.
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