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Author: Shakspeare, William
Title: Miscellaneous Papers and Legal Instruments Under the Hand and Seal of William Shakespeare: Including the Tragedy of King Lear, and a Small Fragment of Hamlet, from the Original Mss. in the Possession of Samuel Ireland, of Norfolk Street
Place: London
Publisher: Printed by Cooper & Graham; Published by Mr. Egerton
Date: 1796
Item # : 169008
Sale Number   331
Lot Number   304
Sale Name    
Hunting - Sporting - Angling - Natural History; with Books in All Fields
Sale Date   05/11/2006
Price realized   $ 149
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Description:
xix, [33], 156, 7 pp. With folding frontispiece (stamped on both sides) with facsimile drawings. 8½x5¼, original blind-stamped terra cotta cloth, spine lettered in gilt.
The important work that exposed W. H. Ireland's notorious Shakespeare forgeries.
Condition:
Splits to joints (cheifly to front), rubbing, spine ends and corners a bit bumped; hinges cracking, frontispiece nearly detached, early owner's signature; generally very good.
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