[Rarebooks] FS: Scarce 1st Amer. ed. of "The Youth of Shakspeare" (a novel in 3 v.) 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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