Full Title: CITATION AND EXAMINATION OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. Euseby Treen Joseph Carnaby and Silas Gough Clerk Before the Worshipful Sir Thomas Lucy, Knight, Toughing Deer-Stealing On the 19th day of September in the year of Grace 1582. Now First Published from Original Papers. To Which is Added a Conference of Master Edmund Spenser, a Gentleman of Note with the Earl of Essex. Touching the State of Ireland A.D. 1595. pp. xi, 284. This copy a variant with both original and replacement of pp. 329/240. Wise & Wheeler 23. Marbled endpapers. 12mo. Original full leather binding. Raised bands. Front board fragile. Extremities rubbed. Hardbound. With the inked ownership of Richard J. Hall (Richard John Hall [1856-1897], a prominent surgeon of New York and Santa Barbara), and the bookplate of his wife, Elise Collidge Hall. This is Elise Boyer Hall (1851-1924), who gained fame as Americas's first female concert saxophonist, pioneer of concert repertory for saxophone, and patroness of the arts. First Edition. An imaginary account of the trial of the future dramatist before Sir Thomas Lucy on a charge of deer-stealing. Various verses are found in Shakespeare's pocket and are read aloud by the magistrate's clerk. None are especially exciting, and Sir Thomas falls asleep. Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864), English poet and essayist, was educated at Oxford. After a quarrel with his father, Landor went to live in Wales, where he wrote the epic poem Gebir (1798). The middle and most productive years of his life were spent in Italy. There he wrote the greater portion of his voluminous prose work, Imaginary Conversations (1824-1853), consisting of nearly 150 dialogues between notables both ancient and modern. Landor's verse ranges from the epic to the epigrammatic, including many lyrics of great simplicity and intensity. SHAKESPEARE BOX 1.
