Characters of Shakespeare’s plays
$300 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books
Boston: published by Wells and Lilly, 1818. First American edition, 8vo, pp. xxiii, 2 , 26-323, 1 ; original blue paper-covered boards, cream paper shelfback, printed paper label on spine; spine darkened and label rubbed; all else very good. Two bookplates on front pastedown, including an armorial bookplate with motto Anchora Tutissima Virtus. His approach was something new. There had been criticisms of Shakespeare before, but either they were not
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