Townsend, Samuel. Notes on Shakespeare made by Samuel Townsend

Folger bibliographic ID: 222045
Folger call number: S.a.26
Folger holdings ID: 251998
Accession Number: cs2005

Notes made probably in preparation of an edition of Shakespeare's Works, including a review of previous editiorial work, a plan of the proposed edition, and samples of critical and explanatory notes

General notes

The compiler is identified only by a penciled note in a second hand "By my brother Samuel Townsend Esq. dec d TST" written three times in the manuscript. The date is infered only from a reference to "the edition printed by Buckingham at Boston, in 1814" as a model for the proposed edition. This and references to other American editions suggests that Townsend was an American Original marbled boards, with new red roan backstrip (Folger 1953)

Extended title: Notes on Shakespeare made by Samuel Townsend [ca. 1815]

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616

author: Townsend, Samuel, active approximately 1815
subject: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616