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The text of Shakespeare vindicated from the interpolations and corruptions advocated by John Payne Collier Esq. in his Notes and Emendations. By Samuel Weller Singer

The text of Shakespeare vindicated from the interpolations and corruptions advocated by John Payne Collier Esq. in his Notes and Emendations. By Samuel Weller Singer

Samuel Weller Singer

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">8vo. pp. xix, 312. Signatures: [a]2 b8 B-U8 X5. Original cloth.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">The earliest full-length critique of John Payne Collier and the Perkins Folio, by Samuel Weller Singer (1783-1858). Singer’s vehemently phrased critique on the corrections of the Old Corrector in the Perkins Folio was purely based on internal evidence. See A. &amp; J. Freeman, John Payne Collier. Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven, 2004, I, esp. pp. 622-624.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_4117363" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>

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