Collier, John Payne

8vo (7 1/4 x 4 1/2 in.; 188 x 115 mm). One of the twenty-five copies printed, original green wrappers between each play, all initialed by Collier, inscribed by Collier to Frederic Madden who annotated his copy. Nineteenth-century calf with gilt ornament. 
[Bound with]: two intensively corrected proofs of The Harrowing of Hell; three autograph letters signed from Collier to Frederick Madden, one autograph letter signed from David Laing to F. Madden and a copy of the response from Madden to Laing. 

Frederic Madden (inscription) — John P. Woodbury (ink stamp). Gift from John Fleming

Unique copy of a very rare and curious publication of John Payne Collier, the nineteenth-century controversial Shakespearian scholar. 
Frederic Madden's copy, who was one of his most notorious accusers of forgery.