first edition
1853 · London
by SINGER, SAMUEL WELLER
London: William Pickering, 1853. First edition, 8vo, pp. xix, [1], 312, [2]; original blue cloth, printed paper spine label; binding rubbed, corners lightly bumped, spine label chipped, else a very good copy. Singer here offers a stinging condemnation of Collier and exposes him as a fraud. Collier (1789-1883), the English critic and editor, forged marginal notes and signatures in original documents, particularly those concerned with Shakespeare, while in the service of the duke of Devonshire. Jaggard 634.
(Inventory #: 20180)