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Sealts Number 71
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| Author: |
Boaden, James, 1762-1839. |
| Title: |
An Inquiry into the Authenticity of Various Pictures and Prints, Which, from the Decease of the Poet to Our Own Times, Have Been Offered to the Public as Portraits of Shakespeare: the Genuine Confirmed and Established, Illustrated by Accurate and Finished Engravings, by the Ablest Artists, from such Originals as were of Indisputable Authority. |
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London: Triphook, 1824. |
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71 |
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Autographed by Herman Melville. |
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Houghton Library *AC85.M4977.Zz824b. |
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Front inscription: "H. Melville." A second inscription in Melville's hand on the front fly leaf describes the acquisition of this copy from the auction house of Cooley, Keese and Hill (191 Broadway, New York) on 27 June 1848 (see inscription
). Rebound with a broadside of a performance of George Farquhar's Beaux' Stratagem at the Drury Lane Theatre, London, 5 June 1818. |
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