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Against his son’s vehement objections, the proud Samuel hurried most of these stupendous finds into print. James Bos­well fell to his knees to kiss the great playwright’s relics. These included contracts theatrical receipts correspondence between Shakespeare and his patron, the Earl of Southampton a letter to Shakespeare from Queen Elizabeth herself a “profession of faith” in Shakespeare’s own hand, proving once and for all that he was a good Protestant and the playwright’s own manuscript of “King Lear.” Alerted to the news, people crowded into Ireland’s house. The young man’s father, Samuel, an antiquarian and a passionate Shakespeare enthusiast, was thrilled, and still more thrilled when from the same mysterious source - an old chest in the possession of a reclusive aristocrat who wished his identity to remain secret - his son came up with a series of further discoveries.

In 1794, a young Englishman, William Henry Ireland, came across something astonishing that he hurried to show his father: an old mortgage deed, with its seal intact, signed by none other than William Shakespeare. Pages: 232 Language: English Pages: 232.Somewhere buried under the floorboards of this splendidly devious novel is a real-life event. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Each page is checked manually before printing.

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