Notes and emendations to the text of Shakespeare’s plays, from early manuscript corrections in a copy of the folio, 1632, in the possession of J. Payne Collier [...] The second volume, revised and enlarged

Name: Notes and emendations to the text of Shakespeare’s plays, from early manuscript corrections in a copy of the folio, 1632, in the possession of J. Payne Collier [...] The second volume, revised and enlarged
Author: J. Payne (John Payne) Collier

by J. Payne (John Payne) Collier

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Full title: Notes and emendations to the text of Shakespeare’s plays, from early manuscript corrections in a copy of the folio, 1632, in the possession of J. Payne Collier, Esq. F.S.A. forming A Supplemental Volume to the works of Shakespeare by the same editor. The second volume, revised and enlarged. 
 8vo. pp. xxxiv, [2], 528, 4. There are four copies in this collection. The present is in original red cloth. Second, enlarged edition of Collier’s ‘Note and emendations’ (see Bib# 4117160/Fr# 982 and Bib# 4117162/Fr# 983 in this collection for the first London edition). The ‘notes and emendations’ all derive from the forged annotations in the so-called ‘Perkins Folio.’ Collier claimed to have discovered of a copy of the Second Folio (1632), a document shedding new light on Shakespeare’s life and business, preserved in the archives of the Earl of Ellesmere at Bridgewater House. This document contained numerous manuscript alterations by an "Old Corrector," which were actually produced by Collier. Collier’s selection of readings, which observes the same Folio order of plays as his 1842-1844 edition of Shakespeare, follows an introduction that retails the recent history of the Perkins Folio, offers conjectures on the intentions and mannerisms of the ‘Old Corrector,’ his textual resources. See A. & J. Freeman, John Payne Collier. Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven, 2004, I, pp. 596-597; II, A84.
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