Bound in half marbled boards over green calf or goatskin with matching marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Note explaining that works are by author of the forgeries, in crayon on front endpaper. Initals? on front endpaper.
Binding: Plain cloth binding. Letter from author to Barnett tipped in at front dated October 3rd 188? Letter reads "171 Ricoh Cincinnati Ohio 3/87? Dear sir, your postcard to P.G. Thompson, publisher, in relation to Shakespeariana has been referred to me, Mr. Thompson has someone of business, his successor being... W.H. Wyman. Additional gift inscription from Wyman dated May 10, 1884 on front endpaper. [need to transcribe remainder of letter]
First edition published anonymously, 1764, under title: "The companion to the playhouse"; 2d edition by I. Reed, 1782, under present title. 3 vol. in 4 books
Spevack, Halliwell-Phillipps Bibliography, 1885:1. Second Edition ; Compiled for the use of members of the British Archaeological Association on the occasion of their visit to Hollingbury Copse on Saturday, August 22nd, 1885.
Approximate date. Cover title "Lunde universitets Arsskrift. Tom. XVII." Signed and dated on page 28: Gustaf Ljunggren. Lund d. 15 Sept. 1880. From Lunde universitets ȧrs-skrift, t. XVII. (From Omni)
Roman law and legal education / H.J.S. Maine -- On English ethnography / J.A. Donaldson -- Old studies and new / J. Grote -- The taste for the picturesque among the Greeks / E. M. Cope -- Apocryphal Gospels / C.J. Ellicott -- The Protestant church and religious liberty in France / W.H. Waddington -- The fly-fisher and his library / H.R. Francis -- The text of Shakespeare / C. Badham -- Coleridge / F.J.A. Hort.Folger:
Catalogue of printed editions of plays; Folger notes ""One of an edition of two hundred and seven copies on Van Gelder zonen hand-made paper, printed in the month of May, 1916."