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A complete view of the Shakspere controversy, concerning the authenticity and genuineness of manuscript matter affecting the works and biography of Shakspere, pub. by Mr. J. Payne Collier as the fruits of his researches. By C. M. Ingleby.

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Title
A complete view of the Shakspere controversy, concerning the authenticity and genuineness of manuscript matter affecting the works and biography of Shakspere, pub. by Mr. J. Payne Collier as the fruits of his researches. By C. M. Ingleby.
list of authors
Ingleby, Clement Mansfield
Publisher
Nattali and Bond
Date
1861
General Notes
"After a few copies got out the frontispiece was suppressed at my instigation.-- J. R. Smith."-- Jaggard, Shakespeare bibliography, p. 162. The frontispiece as listed is "An addition in pencil and ink, and three stage-directions in ink (one being partially and partly erased) from the play of Hamlet in the Perkins folio."
Binding: Bound in burgundy embossed cloth. Joseph Crosby" signature with Zanesville Ohio stamp on front endpaper. Purchased at the Sale of Joseph Crosby's Shakespearean Library Catalogue number 313. "Joseph Crosby" signature with Zanesville Ohio stamp also on title-page. With various penciled notes throughout and some additions to bibliography. Additional copied letter sent to Crosby between pages 60-61, inscription on back reads "Copy of part of a letter sent on 5 July? 1871 by Dr. Samuel Martin, Zanesville Ohio from a cousin of his, a distinguished engineer in England whose daughter Lizzie it seems lived in Grey's Manor [letter still to be transcribed]
Spatial Coverage
London
Identifier
PR2951.I51
locator
Special Collections (Omni Lists as Archives Storage)