Strictures on Mr. Collier’s new edition of Shakespeare, 1858. By the Rev. Alexander Dyce

Alexander Dyce

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Strictures on Mr. Collier’s new edition of Shakespeare, 1858. By the Rev. Alexander Dyce

1859

<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. x, 227. Original cloth. Signatures: [pi]4 a1 B-P8 Q2.</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;">With this work Reverend Alexander Dyce wanted to reply to and castigate his former friend John Payne Collier, who had attacked his scholarship (‘Remarks,’ see Bib# 4117344 /Fr# 1186 in this collection and ‘Notes,’ see Bib# 4117345/Fr# 1187) in his 1858 Shakespeare edition (London, Whittaker and Co., see Bib# 4117173/Fr# 995). See A. &amp; J. Freeman, John Payne Collier. Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven, 2004, I, pp. 716-717.</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_4117346" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>

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