J.Payne Collier’s alte handschriftliche Emendationen zum Shakspere Gewürdigt von Dr. Nicolaus Delius

8vo. pp. iv, 100. Pastedown has label “N° 14815” and “235” and booklabels of Librairie Raymond Clavreuil and Bibliothèque d’Athis.

The first non-British contribution to Perkinsiana, by Nicolaus Delius (1813-1888), professor of Sanskrit, Romance, and English literatures at the University of Bonn. Delius, who only worked from Collier’s first published selection, and without considering the original nor the opinions of his English contemporaries, took a skeptical view of the general standard of the new readings, in what is essentially a categorization of all Collier’s chosen examples in Notes and Emendations. He concluded that the Old Corrector seemed to have been so enamoured of emending that he corrected not so much what struck him as odd, but rather whatever came in his way. See A. & J. Freeman, John Payne Collier. Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven, 2004, I, pp. 609-610; 613-614; 621.

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