An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespear, compared with the Greek and French Dramatic Poets, with Some Remarks upon the Misrepresentations of Mons. de Voltaire

by Elizabeth Montagu

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First edition

First edition. 4 , 288 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary polished calf, upper cover detached and worn. Item #57778 Scarce first ediiton of the first book by the famous and erudite 'bluestocking', Elizabeth Montagu, and a great success. A direct attack on Voltaire's criticisms of Shakespeare, published four years after Dr. Johnson another great adversary of Voltaire , brought out his edition of the English

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