[Rarebooks] FS: 1st Amer. ed. of the 3 vol. novel, "The Youth of Shakspeare". 1840

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[Williams, Robert Folkestone]. THE YOUTH OF SHAKSPEARE By the Author of “
Shakspeare and His Friends”. In Three Volumes. Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard. 
1840. 12mo. 3 vols. 220;208;208pp. Orig. red cloth spines, with paper labels, 
over boards. Spines & boards somewhat soiled.     $450.00 (trade discount 
allowed)
Scarce first American edition of this English novel (3 volumes, London, 
1839), an imaginary story of the poets boyhood. Jaggard, SHAKESPEARE BIBLIOGRAPHY 
p. 691. Not in Sadlier or Wolff.

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