Copy of Merry wives of Windsor [manuscript], ca. 1660.

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Copy of Merry wives of Windsor [manuscript], ca. 1660.

With a sonnet by Hu. Holland (ca. 1660?). Halliwell-Phillipps thought this copy of the play was prepared for private theatricals. See his An account of the only known manuscript of Shakespeare's plays, 1843. See also Jaggard's Bibliography, 405; and Halliwell-Phillipps, Some account of the antiquities. Beal ShW 64.

[2], 40 p.

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