Los bandos de Verona. Montescos y Capeletes. By Francisco de Rojas y Zorrilla. Englished by F. W. Cosens

4to. pp. viii, 42. Contains unnumbered frontispiece illustration. Manuscript inscription “P. L. Dickson 1909” on half title. 

The introduction to this Spanish analogue of Romeo and Juliet states: "I have only translated at length such portions of this play as bear some reference to Shakespeare's tragedy" [Romeo and Juliet]. John Payne Collier told J. P. Norris in 1876 that although the translation of this work was by his friend and patron Frederick William Cosens (1819-1889), he had helped him ‘to put it into verse.’

See A. & J. Freeman, John Payne Collier. Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven, 2004, II, pp. 960-961, C11.

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