1853 The Plays of Shakespeare: The Text Regulated by the Old Copies, and by the Recently Discovered Folio of 1632, Containing Early Manuscript Emendations

Description

Leather Binding

This edition of Shakespeare's complete plays includes the supposed emendations discovered by Shakespearean scholar John Payne Collier. 

Collier's greatest claim to notoriety came in 1853, when he announced that he had discovered a copy of Shakespeare’s 2nd Folio (published in 1632), extensively corrected in a mid-17th century hand. However, the claims were challenged over the next few years and were eventually exposed as forgeries by the British Museum, inevitably staining Collier's reputation among his peers. 

This copy in half calf prize binding, with cloth boards. With gilt detailing to the spine and institutional emblem gilt-stamped to the front board.

With a frontispiece and vignette title page.