One Touch of Shakespeare: Letters of Joseph Crosby to Joseph Parker Norris, 1875-1878A collection of excerpts from 251 letters written by a shy widower and grocer in Zanesville. Ohio, who, in his time, was one of three Americans who could be called learned and eminent Shakespeareans. They are concerned with book collection, stage production, stage history, the state of the English language in Shakespeare's time, criticism, and interpretation of the text. |
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... copy of Capell's Notes and Vari- ous Readings and one of the twenty copies of Halliwell's edition ( 1851 ) of Shakespeare's comedies . 19 This library was an improbable anomaly in a provincial town like Zanesville and a rarity in any ...
... copy of Capell's Notes and Vari- ous Readings and one of the twenty copies of Halliwell's edition ( 1851 ) of Shakespeare's comedies . 19 This library was an improbable anomaly in a provincial town like Zanesville and a rarity in any ...
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... copy of the last edn . of websteri Unabridged . dictionary : and you get it cheap enough . I paid $ 15.00 for mine . You will find it of daily & nightly use avalue . I have had one for leveral years ; and . revolving top , at my elbow ...
... copy of the last edn . of websteri Unabridged . dictionary : and you get it cheap enough . I paid $ 15.00 for mine . You will find it of daily & nightly use avalue . I have had one for leveral years ; and . revolving top , at my elbow ...
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... copy received the let Vol . , _ the only & get = just Af . hussia ; it will consist of 22rol . , and in Af . russin costs $ 11.00 Vol.- ( cloth off avol . ) ; and it will be issued at the rate of about Brols . a year . You know what a ...
... copy received the let Vol . , _ the only & get = just Af . hussia ; it will consist of 22rol . , and in Af . russin costs $ 11.00 Vol.- ( cloth off avol . ) ; and it will be issued at the rate of about Brols . a year . You know what a ...
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... Copies of the Catalogue are in the Folger Shake- speare Library and the New York Public Library ; copies of an abbreviated ( all Shakespearian ) version are in the Ohio State University Library and the University of Michigan Library . 2 ...
... Copies of the Catalogue are in the Folger Shake- speare Library and the New York Public Library ; copies of an abbreviated ( all Shakespearian ) version are in the Ohio State University Library and the University of Michigan Library . 2 ...
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