The Shakespeare Problem Restated.

(Shakespeare.) GREENWOOD (George)

Published by John Lane The Bodley Head, 1908

FIRST EDITION, tissue-guarded photogravure frontispiece, this lightly foxed (slightly offset to title-page), title-page printed in red and black, pp. xxx, [1], 558, [1, Errata], 16 [Publisher's catalogue], 8vo, original salmon-pink cloth, backstrip and upper board lettered in gilt within a white border, backstrip faded, t.e.g., good. The Indexer's copy, she being Margaret Windeatt Roberts - with her attractive bookplate to the front pastedown, and inscribed to her on the flyleaf by the publisher. Laid in are two later autograph letters from the author, neither of them addressed to Margaret Roberts but both referring to her (the first is to a Mr Willett, the second addressed only to 'Dear Sir'): in the first, 2pp. January 1915, Greenwood refers to the Indexer's work, expressing his indebtedness for the table of Errata provided by Roberts, but anxious that he has not carried them out in the text; the second, 2pp. April 1916, provides the recipient, whom Roberts has mentioned to Greenwood, with an order for sitting in the House of Commons. Greenwood was a lawyer, then a Liberal M.P. with a progressive attitude to questions such as women's suffrage and animal welfare; the 'Shakespeare problem' was the dominant concern of his writing career, with his theory being that the Bard was in fact a talented lawyer and not the supposed Stratfordian. Seller Inventory # 71737

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Shakespeare Problem Restated.
Publisher: John Lane The Bodley Head
Publication Date: 1908