Vendeur : WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, Royaume-Uni
Etat : Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. Ex library copy with usual stamps & stickers. N° de réf. du vendeur rev4879963371
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Vendeur : Amazing Book Company, Liphook, Royaume-Uni
Hardback. Etat : Mint. First Thus. AN ENQUIRY INTO THE AUTHENTICITY OF CERTAIN MISCELANEOUS PAPERS AND LEGAL INSTRUMENTS Attributed to Shakespeare, Queen Elizabeth 1 and Henry Earl of Southampton. Edmond Malone.Frank Cass & Co Ltd., London 1970 Facsimile reprint with a new preface. 434pp Hardback This copy is in MINT condition. There is a small neat signature to the front paste down otherwise this copy is unmarked tight, bright and white. A dustwrapper is not called for. This edition is a facsimile of the 1796 First Edition with a new preface by Arthur Freeman.This edition has the three fold out tipped infacsimiles of signatures and texts. Edmond Malone (4 October 1741 - 25 April 1812) was an Irish Shakespearean scholar and editor of the works of William Shakespeare. Assured of an income after the death of his father in 1774, Malone was able to give up his law practice for at first political and then more congenial literary pursuits. He went to London, where he frequented literary and artistic circles. He regularly visited Samuel Johnson and was of great assistance to James Boswell in revising and proofreading his Life, four of the later editions of which he annotated. He was friendly with Sir Joshua Reynolds, and sat for a portrait now in the National Portrait Gallery. He was one of Reynolds' executors, and published a posthumous collection of his works (1798) with a memoir. Horace Walpole, Edmund Burke, George Canning, Oliver Goldsmith, Lord Charlemont, and, at first, George Steevens, were among Malone's friends. Encouraged by Charlemont and Steevens, he devoted himself to the study of Shakespearean chronology, and the results of his "An Attempt to Ascertain the Order in Which the Plays Attributed to Shakspeare Were Written" (1778), which finally made it conceivable to try to patch together a biography of Shakespeare through the plays themselves, are still largely accepted. This was followed in 1780 by two supplementary volumes to Steevens's version of Dr Johnson's Shakespeare, partly consisting of observations on the history of the Elizabethan stage, and of the text of doubtful plays; and this again, in 1783, by an appendix volume. His refusal to alter some of his notes to Isaac Reed's edition of 1785, which disagreed with Steevens's, resulted in a quarrel with the latter. Ref M3. N° de réf. du vendeur 007419
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