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An imaginative attempt at the solution of the secret of Shakespeare's sonnets.
"This essay first appeared in Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine for July, 1889, and is here reprinted entire."
"Four hundred and twenty-five copies of this book have been printed on Japan vellum, and type distributed."
Spevack, Halliwell-Phillipps Bibliography, 1850:8.Vol. xix, no.1, in the L. C. set, with general t.-p.: Karl Simrock, on the plots of Shakespeare and Shakespeare's Henry IV. from a contemporary ms., both ed. by J. O. Halliwell...1853. (From Omni)Translated from the Quellen des Shakespeare in Novellen, Märchen und Sagen, by Theodore Echtermeyer, Ludwig Henschel and Karl Simrock, 1831, which in a later ed., 1870, appeared under Simrock’s name alone. Ninth annual report of Shakespeare Society at end. (From Folger)
2 volumes. Plays acted by Shakespeare's company during his connection with it, and other plays which have been assigned to him by tradition. Completed after the editor's death by J. W. M. Gibbs and F. J. Furnivall.