The text of Shakespeare vindicated from the interpolations and corruptions advocated

by John Payne Collier, Esq. in his notes and emendations by Samuel Weller Singer

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First edition

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

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