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A bibliographical and critical account of the rarest books in the
English language. 2 vols 1865.
Illustrations of Old English literature. 3 vols 1866 (priv ptd).
Odds and ends. 1870 (priv ptd).
An old man’s diary, forty years ago. 4 pts 1871 (priv ptd).
Trilogy on the emendations of Shakespeare’s text contained in Mr
Collier’s corrected folio, 1632, and employed by recent editors of
the poet’s works. 3 pts [1874].
Editions
A select collection of old plays. 12 vols 1825–7. Dodsley’s collection
with additional plays by Collier.
Kynge Johan, by John Bale. 1838.
Patient Grisil, by Henry Chettle. 1841.
The school of abuse, by Stephen Gosson. 1841.
The works of William Shakespeare: the text formed from an entirely
new collation of the old editions, with the various readings,
notes, a life of the poet, and a history of the early English stage. 8
vols 1842–4, 1853, 1858, 1875–8.
Shakespeare’s library: a collection of the romances [etc] used by
Shakespeare. 2 vols [1843].
Extracts from the stationers’ register relating to the drama and
popular literature to 1586. 1848–9 (Shakespeare Soc).
The diary of Philip Henslowe, from 1591 to 1609. 1848.
The plays of Shakespeare: the text regulated by the old copies, and
by the recently discovered folio of 1632, containing early manuscript
emendations. 1853.
Seven lectures of Shakespeare and Milton by the late S. T. Coleridge.
1856. Collier’s own manuscript notes, at first unjustly suspected
to be forged.
Poems by Michael Drayton. 1856.
Shakespeare’s comedies, histories, tragedies, and poems. 6 vols 1858.
The works of Edmund Spenser. 5 vols 1862.
The firste (second) part of Churchyard’s Chippes, by Thomas
Churchyard. [1870].
Foure letters, by Gabriel Harvey. [1870.]
Pierces supererogation, by Gabriel Harvey. [1870].
Have with you to Saffron-Walden, by Thomas Nash. [1870].
Epitaphes, epigrams, songs and sonetes, by George Turberville.
[1870].
The plays and poems of William Shakespeare, with the purest text,
and the briefest notes. 8 vols 1875–8 (priv ptd).
Collier also rptd, generally with introds, many Elizabethan and Stuart rarities
(mainly dramatic and poetic), both independently and for the Camden,
Percy and Shakespeare Socs and Roxburghe Club, including works by Thomas
Heywood, Anthony Munday and Thomas Nash. The BM possesses a number
of bks containing Collier’s notes and annotations in ms.
Collier anonymously pbd some small vols of his own verse in 1822 (rptd
1825, authorship acknowledged, and 1828) and 1870. He also produced trns
from Schiller (1824, 1825, rptd 1874, 1875) and, anonymously, from Casti
(1850).
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Singer, S. W. The text of Shakespeare vindicated from the interpolations
and corruptions advocated by J. P. Collier. 1853.
Wheatley, H. B. Notes on the life of John Payne Collier, with a complete
list of his works and an account of such Shakespeare documents
as are believed to be spurious. 1884.
Ganzel, D. Fortune and men’s eyes. The career of John Payne Collier.
Oxford 1982.
Ziegler, G. A Victorian reputation: John Payne Collier and his contemporaries.
ShS 17 1985.
George Lillie Craik 1798–1866
Sketches of the history of literature and learning in England from
the Norman conquest. 6 vols 1844–5. 2 vols 1861 as A compen-
dious history of English literature and of the English language
from the Norman conquest.
Outlines of the history of the English language for the use of junior
classes in colleges and the higher classes in schools. 1851.
The English of Shakespeare illustrated by a philological commentary
on his Julius Caesar. 1857.
Contributions to periodicals
The text of Shakespeare. North Br Rev 20, Feb 1854.
Curiosities of the English language. Dublin Univ Mag 50, Oct 1857.
Editions
Spenser and his poetry. 3 vols 1845.
Bacon: his writings and philosophy. 3 vols 1846–7.
Craik also wrote textbooks on history, and the celebrated Pursuit of knowledge
under difficulties (1830). See also col 2120 above.
Peter Cunningham 1816–69
Poems upon several occasions. 1841 (priv ptd).
Westminster Abbey: its art, architecture and associations – a handbook
for visitors. 1842.
Inigo Jones: a life of the architect by Peter Cunningham; remarks on
some of his sketches for masques and dramas by J. R. Planché
[etc]. 1848 (Shakespeare Soc).
A handbook for London, past and present. 2 vols 1849, 1851 (3rd edn,
as Murray’s handbook for modern London), [1866] (rev), [1867]
(rev), 1879.
The story of Nell Gwynn, and the sayings of Charles II, related and
corrected. 1852; ed H. B. Wheatley 1892; [1926], 1927.
Cunningham also wrote several annual handbooks on London.
Editions
The poems of William Drummond of Hawthornden, with life. 1833.
Extracts from the accounts of the revels at court, in the reigns of
Queen Elizabeth and James I, from the original office books of
the masters and yeomen, with an introduction and notes. 1842
(Shakespeare Soc).
Lives of the most eminent English poets, by Samuel Johnson; with
notes, corrective and explanatory. 3 vols 1854.
The works of Oliver Goldsmith. 4 vols 1854.
The letters of Horace Walpole, now first chronologically arranged. 9
vols 1857–9, 1891.
Cunningham also edited 2 vols for the Percy Soc, Songs of England and
Scotland, Specimens of the British poets, and Pope’s works; he was treasurer
of the Shakespeare Soc and a contributor to Fraser’s Mag, GM,
Athenaeum, etc.
Peter Augustin Daniel fl 1870–1904
Notes and conjectural emendations of certain doubtful passages in
Shakespeare’s plays. 1870.
Romeo and Juliet: parallel texts of the first two quartos. 1874 (New
Shakespeare Soc).
Romeus and Juliet (written first in Italian by Bandell, and nowe in
English) by A. Brooke; Rhomeo and Julietta (translated by W.
Painter from the French paraphrase by P. Boasistuau, of
Bandello’s version of Romeo e Giulietta). 1875 (New Shakespeare
Soc, originals and analogues pt 1).
The works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher: variorum
edition. 4 vols 1904–12. General editor A. H. Bullen; Daniel edited
The maid’s tragedy and Philaster in vol 1 and The beggar’s bush
in vol 2.
Daniel also contributed introds to the following plays issued in the
Shakespeare Quarto-Facs Ser: Romeo and Juliet, 1874; King Lear, 1885;
Much ado, 1886; Henry V, 1887; Richard II, 1887; Richard III, 1888;
Merry wives, 1888.