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Frank Kermode: A great forger of the nineteenth century, 16 December 2004
John Payne Collier: Scholarship and Forgery in the 19th Century
by Arthur Freeman and Janet Ing Freeman.
Yale, 1483 pp., £100, August 2004,0 300 09661 5 Show More
by Arthur Freeman and Janet Ing Freeman.
Yale, 1483 pp., £100, August 2004,
“... of one day and a reprimand. He was an almost incomparably hard worker – though Halliwell ran him close – and is justly regarded as basically an accomplished and original scholar. The Freemans think his Shakespeare edition of 1842-44 the best there was before the long-lived Cambridge Globe edition of 1864. In certain respects he anticipated the work of the ... ”