Miscellaneous papers and legal instruments under the hand and seal of William Shakespeare; including the tragedy of King Lear, and a small fragment of Hamlet, from the original mss. in the possession of Samuel Ireland, of Norfolk street.
Item
- Title
- Miscellaneous papers and legal instruments under the hand and seal of William Shakespeare; including the tragedy of King Lear, and a small fragment of Hamlet, from the original mss. in the possession of Samuel Ireland, of Norfolk street.
- list of authors
- Ireland, William Henry
- Ireland, Samuel
- Publisher
- Printed by Cooper and Graham, Bow Street : Published by Mr. Egerton, Whitehall
- Messrs. White, Fleet Street
- Messrs. Leigh and Sotheby, York Street
- Mr. Robson, and Mr. Faulder, New Bond Street
- and Mr. Sael, opposite St. Clement’s Church
- Date
- 1796
- General Notes
-
ESTC T125752. Western copy listed.
Folger notes:
Documents forged by William Henry Ireland.
Editor identified in preface as Samuel Ireland, father of William Henry Ireland, who believed they were genuine.
With a half-title.
Signatures: [a]̃⁴ b-c⁴ [superscript pi]A-C² [superscript pi]D² A-X⁴ Y²; X2 blank.
"Hamblette" is on 7 pages at end, preceded by a blank leaf (X2); register is continuous.
Folded engraved plate contains free hand illustrations and portrait of Shakespeare, lettered: Sam. Ireland fe. - Bound in polished calf with An investigation of Mr. Malone's claim to the character of scholar: by Samuel Ireland, London: 1797. and Mr. Ireland's Vindication, 1796. Contains circular armorial bookplate that reads "Johannes Whiteford Mackenzie armegeri". Barnett has "England 1903" in pencil.
- uri
- http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=173472
- https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001018642
- http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/221346782
- Spatial Coverage
- London
- Identifier
- PR2950.I54
- Item sets
- Works from the Barnett Collection