Author: CHEDWORTH (John), Lord:
Title: Notes upon some of the Obscure Passages in Shakespeare's Plays; with Remarks upon the Explanations and Amendments of the Commentators in the Editions of 1785, 1790, 1793.
Description: London: Printed by William Bulmer and Co...., 1805. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 230 x 142 mms., pp. [iv], 375 [376 blank], uncut, original pink boards, paper label on spine; spine very slightly defective, but generally a very good copy. John Howe (1754 - 1804), fourth lord Chedworth, lived in a house owned by the surgeon Thomas Penrice, one of Chedworth's legatees, and who published this book after his death in order to prove his friend's sanity. He was certainly an eccentric, but a devotee of the theatre who left much of his estate to thespians of one kind or another.

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