Author: McSpadden, J. Walker
Title: Shaksperian Synopses. Outlines or Arguments of the Plays of Shakspere
Description: New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1902. Hardcover. First edition; 4 x 5 3/4; pp. 322; green cloth over boards printed in black; original beige DJ illustrated in brown; minor wear to tips of spine and corners; faint foxing and discoloration to extreme margins of first and last few pages only, else clean; previous owner's name to first blank page. Jacket good with some loss of paper to tips of spine and chips to corners; overall very good condition. In writing the book, McSpadden used a particular spelling of the Bard's name - Shakspere, Shaksperian, etc. - which was the one Shakespeare used in his own handwritten signature (but not in published form in his lifetime) and which, during the Victorian Era, was believed to be the most authentic version. The work contains "outlines of the plays, brief synopses of the plots, by acts, and the skeleton work upon which the master builded his marvelous structure of society." Uncommon work to begin with, the DJ (the only one in the trade) makes the book quite unusual as pre-1910 jackets have rarely survived. Ill.: 0. 2.

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