Shakespeare’s library
by J. Payne (John Payne) (ed.) Collier
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Full title: Shakespeare’s library: a collection of the romances, novels, and histories, used by Shakespeare as the foundation of his dramas. Now first collected, and accurately reprinted from the original editions. With introductory notices, By J. Payne Collier, Esq. F.S.A. Vol. I.
First of 2 volumes in 8vo. pp. vii, 59, iv, 130, vii, 257, vi, 259-312. There are three copies in this collection. The present is in original cloth.
A series of reprints of Shakespeare source books.
Content: Greene's Pandosto, the story on which is founded The winter's tale. Lodge's Rosalynd, the novel on which is founded As you like it. The historie of Hamblet, the history on which the tragedy of Hamlet is constructed. Apollonius, prince of Tyre, from which the incidents of the play of the play of Pericles are derived.
See also A. & J. Freeman, John Payne Collier. Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven, 2004, II, A55a.
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