A Revisal of Shakespear's Text, wherin the Alterations introduced into the more modern Editors and Critics are particularly considered

by William Shakespeare, Benjamin Heath

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First edition

First edition. xiv, ii , 573 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Later boards. Bookplate to front pastedown. Nice copy. Jaggard 146; Lowndes 1029. Item #234379 Heath labors to contribute his endoeavours towards a more correct and genuine edition of Shakespear's text than hath been published. Johnson, whose Shakespeare was published the same year, was immediately accused of plagiarism by William Kenrick in the

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