THE TEXT OF SHAKESPEARE VINDICATED FROM THE INTERPOLATIONS AND CORRUPTIONS ADVOCATED BY JOHN PAYNE COLLIER ESQ. IN HIS NOTES AND EMENDATIONS.
London: William Pickering, 1853. xix,[1],312,[2]pp. Large octavo. Original cloth, paper spine label. Cloth a bit sunned and rubbed, some light foxing to endsheets, prelims and very occasionally in the text, label rubbed, otherwise a very good copy. Item #WRCLIT61361
First edition of the first major book-length attack on Collier's purported discoveries in the Perkins Folio, and by implication, on Collier's credibility itself.
Price: $275.00