Author: HALLIWELL-PHILLIPPS. BAKER (Ernest E.)
Title: Are Shakespeare's Deeds to go to America? Reprinted from 'The Times' of 27th August, 1890.
Description: [N.p.]. [c.1890]. 4pp. Ernest E. Baker, nephew and beneficiary to the Halliwell-Phillipps library, here pleas to the "many wealthy Englishman" to purchase the Shakespearean deeds (for approximately £10,000) before they are to be sold to an American library at the close of 1890. An English buyer was not found, and it was sold, in 1897, to Mr Marsden J. Perry of Providence, who re-sold it Mr H.C. Folger of New York.

Keywords: SHAKESPEARE BIBLIOGRAPHY JAMES O. HALLIWELL-PHILLIPPS SIR THOMAS PHILLIPPS