Fools and jesters

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15.3333px;">8vo. pp. xx, 67. Original cloth. Originally printed in London in 1608, “by T.E. for Iohn Deane.”</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15.3333px;"><br /></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15.3333px;">A reprint from the madcap prose farrago ‘A Nest of Ninnies’ (1608) by the comedian of Shakespeare’s company, Robert Armin, of which Collier, through Halliwell, had procured a transcript from the Bodleian Library. In this edition, Collier permitted himself a gratuitous slur on the scholarship of his fellow member Charles Knight, with whose popular edition of Shakespeare Collier’s own had begun to compete. See also A. &amp; J. Freeman, John Payne Collier. Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven, 2004, I, pp. 374-375; II, A49.</span></font><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15.3333px;"><br /></span></font></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/permalink/01JHU_INST/1lu78g9/alma991029002539707861" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>