A Discoverie of the most secret and subtile practises of the Jesuites. Translated out of French

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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">4to. pp. <span style="color:#212529;background:#FFFFFF;">[10] (blank), [22], [12] (blank)</span>. Signatures: A-C⁴,
without C3–4, both evidently blanks. Later green straight-grain morocco
for Samuel Ireland (his distinctive ‘green livery’); gilt boards and spine, fabric
case and box. Later bookplate of John Broadley. Stamps: Henry Cunlisse, John
Bradley, Stuart B. Schimmel; William’s library Cheltenham. Repair, tear. Late
pencil notes on blanks.</span></p><p></p>

<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">With forgeries by William Henry Ireland of
Shakespeare’s signature on the title page, and notes ostensibly by Shakespeare
on seven other pages. No. 21 in Samuel Ireland’s list of ‘Shakespeare’s
Library’; lot 534 in the Samuel Ireland sale of 1801; lot 49 in the Stuart B.
Schimmel sale, Bonhams, 23 May 2012. See W. A. Jackson, F. S. Ferguson, &
K. F. Pantzer (eds.), Short-title Catalogue of Books Printed in England,
Scotland, & Ireland, and of English Books Printed Abroad, 1475–1640. 3
vols. London, 1976–91 (2</span><sup style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">nd</sup><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"> ed.), 14528.</span></p><p></p>

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