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Shakespeare, William

A man who needs no introduction. But who got one from Ben Jonson in the First Folio, which revealed precisely nothing about the man himself. As Mark Twain memorably put it: 'So far as anybody knows and can prove, he never wrote a letter to anybody in his life. So far as any one knows, he received only one letter during his life.' We know next to nothing about Shakespeare the man. It is a gaping hole in the middle of English literature.
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1815 The Dramatic Works of William ShakspeareLondon: 1815A scarce, early 19th century edition of the dramatic works of Elizabethan playwright William Shakespeare, handsomely bound in full calf.
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1934 Edwin Eliott Willoughby A Printer of Shakespeare Manuscript Mark JeoffroyLondon : 1934A first edition of this work on Shakespeare.
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1865 Songs of ShakespeareLondon: 1865A beautifully illuminated collection of William Shakespeare's songs.
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1916 A Tribute To The Genius of William Shakespeare W L Courtney TercentenaryLondon: 1916A literary, illustrated tribute to the Bard of Avon.