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THE CONFESSIONS OF WILLIAM HENRY IRELAND, CONTAINING THE PARTICULARS OF HIS FABRICATION OF THE SHAKESPEARE MANUSCRIPTS; TOGETHER WITH ANECDOTES AND OPINIONS (HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED) OF MANY DISTINGUISHED PERSONS IN THE LITERARY, POLITICAL AND THEATRICAL WORLD.
Ireland, William Henry

- London : Thomas Goddard 1805 - tall 12mo. - contemporary half calf with marbled paper-covered boards - (viii), 317, (17) pages. - Order Nr. 100443 - Price: $ 450.00

First edition. (NCBEL III, 386; Lowndes p. 1164). With the two published plates present. Bound into this copy is an extra plate showing a portrait of Ireland at age 21. Ireland's official confession of his forgeries of Shakespeare originally issued in 1796 as MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS AND LEGAL INSTRUMENTS. The ensuing pamphlets written by and about these papers up to 1805 created a stir in English literary circles finally culminating in this confession. Covers rubbed. 19th-century private library booklabel on front pastedown.

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