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 [...]

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, Esq. F.S.A. forming A Supplemental Volume to the Works of Shakespeare [...]
Author: 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, in eight volumes, octavo. 
 8vo. pp. xxvi, [2], 512. Original cloth. Includes lithographic facsimile of a portion of a page from the annotated ‘Perkins Folio,’ imprint: ‘J. Netherclift & Son Facsim:.’ Heavily annotated by Samuel Weller Singer. The first edition of the present work was issued simultaneously in two forms. The present is the trade edition, the other one is dated 1852 and has the imprint of the Shakespeare Society, although it consists merely of the sheets of the trade edition with a cancel title and an additional leaf of society preliminaries (see Bib# 4117162/Fr# 983 in this collection). 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. For an extended discussion, see A. & J. Freeman, John Payne Collier. Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven, 2004, I, pp. 583-639, 720-824; II, A83a. <a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/permalink/01JHU_INST/1lu78g9/alma991039186139707861" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a>