CHAPTER 1
Schoenbaum, S. Shakespeare’s Lives. (New York: Barnes & Noble, 2006).
Bate, Jonathan. The Genius of Shakespeare. (London: Picador, 1998).
Manningham, John. Diary of John Manningham, of the Middle Temple, and of Bradbourne, Kent, Barrister-at-law, 1602-1603, edited from the original manuscript by John Bruce, Esq. (Westminster: Printed by J. B. Nichols & Sons, 1868).
CHAPTER 2
Manningham, John. Diary of John Manningham, of the Middle Temple, and of Bradbourne, Kent, Barrister-at-law, 1602-1603, edited from the original manuscript by John Bruce, Esq. (Westminster: Printed by J. B. Nichols & Sons, 1868).
http://www.shakespearedocumented.org/
Wotton, Sir Henry. Reliquice Wotioniaiue. (London: 1651).
Henslowe, Philip. Henslowe’s Diary. Edited by R. A. Foakes. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002).
CHAPTER 3
Shakespeare, William. Shakespeare’s Sonnets: Revised. Edited by Katherine Duncan-Jones. (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2010).
Miller, Henry. ‘Reading in the Toilet’, in his The Books in My Life. (Norfolk, Connecticut: James Laughlin, 1952), pp. 264–286.
Jonson, Ben. The Complete Plays of Ben Jonson. Vol. II. Edited by G. A. Wilkes. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981).
Jonson, Ben. Ben Jonson’s Every Man in His Humor. Edited by Gabriele Bernhard Jackson. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1971).
http://www.shakespearedocumented.org/
Bearman, Frederick A., Nati H. Krivatsy & J. Franklin Mowery. Fine and Historic Bookbindings: From the Folger Shakespeare Library. (Washington, D.C./New York: Folger Shakespeare Library/Abrams, 1992).
Catalogue of a remarkable collection of books in magnificent modern bindings, formed by an amateur (recently deceased), which will be sold by auction, by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, ... at their house, no. 13, Wellington Street, Strand, W.C. on Thursday, the 11th day of November, 1897, at one o’clock precisely. (London: Dryden Press, J. Davy and Sons, [1897]).
CHAPTER 4
Rowe, Nicholas. ‘Some Account of the Life, &c. of William Shakespear’, in his The Works of Mr. William Shakespear; in Six Volumes. Adorn’d with Cuts. Revis’d and Corrected, with an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author By N. Rowe, Esq. (London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1709), pp. ii–xl.
Schoenbaum, S. Shakespeare’s Lives. (New York: Barnes & Noble, 2006).
CHAPTER 5
Malone, Edmond. An inquiry into the authenticity of certain miscellaneous papers and legal instruments, published Dec. 24, MDCCXCV. and attributed to Shakspeare, Queen Elizabeth, and Henry, Earl of Southampton: illustrated by fac-similes of the genuine hand-writing of that nobleman, and of Her Majesty; a new fac-simile of the hand-writing of Shakspeare, never before exhibited; and other authentic documents: in a letter addressed to the Right Hon. James, Earl of Charlemont. (London: Printed by H. Baldwin, for T. Cadell, Jun. et al., 1796).
Shapiro, James. Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010).
Keen, Alan & Roger Lubbock. The Annotator: the pursuit of an Elizabethan reader of Halle’s Chronicle, involving some surmises about the early life of William Shakespeare. (London: Putnam, 1954).
The Bible and Holy Scriptures conteyned in the Olde and Newe Testament. Translated according to the Ebrue and Greke, and conferred vvith the best translations in diuers langages. With moste profitable annotations vpon all the hard places, and other things of great importance as may appeare in the epistle to the reader. (Geneva: Printed by John Crispin, 1570). Folger Library STC 2106 copy 1.
CHAPTER 6
Dibdin, Thomas Frognall. The Bibliomania: or, Book-madness; Containing some account of the history, symptoms and cure of this fatal disease, in an epistle addressed to Richard Heber, Esq. (London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, by W. Savage, 1809).
A catalogue of the library of the late John, Duke of Roxburghe, arranged by G. and W. Nicol, booksellers to His Majesty, Pall-Mall; which will be sold by auction at His Grace’s late residence in St. James’s Square, on Monday, 18th May, 1812, and the forty-one following days, Sundays excepted, at twelve o’clock, by Robert H. Evans, bookseller, Pall-Mall. (London: Printed by W. Bulmer & Co., 1812).
CHAPTER 7
Bell, Alan. ‘Archdeacon Francis Wrangham, 1769-1842’, in The Pleasures of Bibliophily. Fifty Years of the Book Collector. An Anthology. (London & New Castle: British Library/Oak Knoll Press, 2003), pp. 118–126.
Blainey, Ann. Immortal Boy: A Portrait of Leigh Hunt. (London: Croom Helm, 1985).
[Fry, John.] Pieces of Ancient Poetry: From Unpublished Manuscripts and Scarce Books. (Bristol: Printed by John Evans & Co., 1814).
[Fry, John.] Bibliographical Memoranda: in illustration of early English literature. (Bristol: Printed by R. Rosser, 1816).
[Fry, John.] The Legend of Mary, Queen of Scots, and Other Ancient Poems; now first published from ms.s. of the sixteenth century. With an introduction, notes, and an appendix. (London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1810).
CHAPTER 8
Catalogue of the Curious, Choice and Valuable Library of the Late Sir Francis Freeling, Bart. F.S.A. …which will be sold by auction by Mr. Evans, at his house, No. 93, Pall-Mall, on Friday, November 25, and nine following days (Sundays excepted). (London: Printed by W. Nicol, 1836).
Greene, Robert. Greene’s Groats-Worth of witte, bought with a million of Repentance. Describing the follie of youth, the falshood of make-shifte flatterers, the miserie of the negligent, and mischiefes of deceiuing Courtezans. Written before his death and published at his dyeing request. (London: Printed by William Wright, 1592).
Catalogue of the Library of the Late Rev. John Morgan Rice, containing many articles of distinguished rarity and curiosity in early English poetry, … which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Evans, at his house, No. 93, Pall-Mall, on Wednesday, May 14, and three following days. (London: Printed by W. Nicol, 1834).
CHAPTER 9
Anderson, Mark. ‘Shakespeare’ by Another Name. The life of Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, the man who was Shakespeare. (New York: Gotham Books, 2005).
James, Brenda & William D. Rubinstein. The Truth Will Out. Unmasking the Real Shakespeare. (Harlow: Pearson Longman, 2006).
http://www.shakespearedocumented.org/
Casson, John & Mark Bradbeer. Sir Henry Neville, Alias William Shakespeare: Authorship Evidence in the History Plays. (Jefferson: McFarland & Co., 2015).
Bryson, Bill. Shakespeare. The World as a Stage. (London: HarperPress, 2007).
O’Donnell, John. ‘Alias William Shakespeare’. Lecture delivered at Duneira, Mt Macedon, on Sunday, 6 April 2014. http://www.duneira.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Alias-William-Shakespeare-Duneira.pdf
CHAPTER 10
Caldwell, George S. Is Sir Walter Raleigh the Author of Shakespere’s Plays and Sonnets? (Melbourne: Printed by Stillwell & Knight, 1877).
Thomson, William. On Renascence Drama, or, History Made Visible. (Melbourne: Sands & McDougall, 1880).
Browne, H. Junor. The Grand Reality: Being Experiences in Spirit Life of a Celebrated Dramatist Received Through a Trance Medium. (Melbourne: George Robertson & Co., 1888).
Browne, H. Junor. The Baconian Authorship of Shakespeare’s Plays Refuted. (Melbourne: George Robertson, 1898).
Wantrup, Jonathan. Australian Rare Books, 1788-1900. (Potts Point: Hordern House, 1987).
Lambert, Richard S. The Prince of Pickpockets. A Study of George Barrington Who Left His Country for His Country’s Good. (London: Faber, 1930).
Garvey, Nathan. The Celebrated George Barrington: A Spurious Author, the Book Trade and Botany Bay. (Potts Point: Hordern House, 2008).
Barrrington, George. A Voyage to New South Wales; with a description of the country; the manners, customs, religion, &c. of the natives, in the vicinity of Botany Bay. (London: Printed for the Proprietor, sold by H. D. Symonds, 1795).
Ferguson, John. Bibliography of Australia. (Canberra: National Library of Australia, 1975-1977).
CHAPTER 11
Gosse, Edmund. Critical Kit-Kats. (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1903).
Wise, Thomas J. A Bibliography of the Writings in Prose and Verse of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. (London: Printed for private circulation only by R. Clay & Sons, 1918).
Pollard, Graham & John Carter. An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets: with an epilogue. Edited by Nicolas Barker & John Collins. (Aldershot & New Castle: Scolar Press/Oak Knoll Press, 1992).
Drake, Nathan. Shakespeare and His Times: including the biography of the poet; criticism on his genius and writings; a new chronology of his plays; a disquisition on the object of his sonnets; and a history of the manners, customs, amusement, superstitions, poetry, and elegant literature of his age. (London: Printed for T. Cadell & W. Davies, 1817).
Collier, J. Payne. The History of English Dramatic Poetry to the Time of Shakespeare; and Annals of the stage to the Restoration. (London, John Murray, 1831).
Collier, J. Payne. New Facts Regarding the Life of Shakespeare: in a letter to Thomas Amyot, esq., F.R.S., Treasurer of the Society of Antiquaries, from J. Payne Collier, F.S.A. (London: Thomas Rodd, 1835).
Hamilton, N. E. S. A. An Inquiry into the Genuineness of the Manuscript Corrections in Mr. J. Payne Collier’s Annotated Shakspere, Folio, 1632: and of certain Shaksperian documents likewise published by Mr. Collier. (London: Richard Bentley, 1860).
The Ashley Library: a catalogue of printed books, manuscripts and autograph letters collected by Thomas James Wise. (London: Printed for private circulation only, at the Dunedin Press, Edinburgh, 1922–1936).
Foxon, D. F. Thomas J. Wise and the Pre-Restoration Drama. A study in theft and sophistication. (London: Bibliographical Society, 1959). Supplement to Bibliographical Society’s Publications No. 19.
CHAPTER 12
James, Brenda & William D. Rubinstein. The Truth Will Out. Unmasking the Real Shakespeare. (Harlow: Pearson Longman, 2006).
CHAPTER 13
Allott, Robert (Compiler). England’s Parnassus: or the choysest flowers of our modern poets, with their poeticall comparisons. (London: Printed for N.L. C.B. and T.H., 1600).
Greene, Robert. Greene’s Groats-Worth of witte, bought with a million of Repentance. Describing the follie of youth, the falshood of make-shifte flatterers, the miserie of the negligent, and mischiefes of deceiuing Courtezans. Written before his death and published at his dyeing request. (London: Printed by William Wright, 1592).
CHAPTER 14
Shaw, Bernard. Flyleaves. Edited with an introduction by Dan H. Laurence and Daniel J. Leary. (Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1977).
Owen, Orville W. A Celebrated Case. Bacon vs. Shakespeare. In the court of ‘The Arena.’ Request to reopen. Brief for plaintiff. (Detroit: Howard Publishing Co., 1893).
Owen, Orville W. Sir Francis Bacon’s Cipher Story. Discovered and deciphered by Orville W. Owen. (Detroit: Howard Publishing Co., 1893-95).
Gallup, Elizabeth Wells. The Bi-literal Cypher of Sir Francis Bacon: discovered in his works and deciphered by Mrs. Elizabeth Wells Gallup. (Detroit: Howard Publishing Co., c.1899).
Strong, Archibald. Peradventure. A book of essays in literary criticism. (Melbourne: Thomas C. Lothian, 1911).
Crosse, Henry. Vertues common-wealth: or the high-way to honour wherin is discouered, that although by the disguised craft of this age, vice and hypocrisie may be concealed: yet by tyme (the triall of truth) it is most plainly reuealed. (London: John Newbery, 1603).
Pollard, Alfred W. Shakespeare Folios and Quartos: A study in the bibliography of Shakespeare’s plays, 1594-1685. (London: Methuen & Co., 1909).
Pollard, Alfred W. Shakespeare’s Fight with the Pirates and the Problems of the Transmission of his Text. (London: Alexander Moring, 1917).
Price, Diana. Shakespeare’s Unorthodox Biography: New evidence of an authorship problem. (Westport: Greenwood Press, 2001).
Mendenhall, Thomas C. ‘A Mechanical Solution of a Literary Problem,’ Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 60, No. 7, 1901, pp. 97–105.
CHAPTER 15
Tangye, Richard. Reminiscences of Travel in Australia, America and Egypt. (Birmingham: Printed at the Herald Press, 1883).
Chanin, Eileen. Book Life: The Life and Times of David Scott Mitchell. (North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2011).
Charles Stitz (Ed.). Australian Book Collectors: Some Noted Australian Book Collectors & Collections of the Nineteenth & Twentieth centuries. (Bendigo et al.: Bread Street Press/Books of Kells in association with the Australian Book Auction Records et al., 2010–16).
Souter, Gavin. Lion and Kangaroo: The Initiation of Australia. (Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2000).
CHAPTER 16
Sidgwick, Frank. Frank Sidgwick’s Diary and other material relating to A. H. Bullen, & the Shakespeare Head Press at Stratford-upon-Avon. (Oxford: Blackwell for the Shakespeare Head Press, 1975).
Shakespeare, William. Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, histories & tragedies, published according to the true originall copies. (London: Printed by Isaac Jaggard & Edward Blount, 1623).
Jonson, Benjamin. The Workes of Beniamin Jonson. (London: Printed by Will Stansby, 1616).
Franklin, Colin. Obsessions and Confessions of a Book Life. (New Castle et al.: Oak Knoll Press/Books of Kells/Bernard Quaritch, 2012).
CHAPTER 17
Anonymous [Henry Spencer Ashbee]. My Secret Life. Vols I–III. (Amsterdam: Privately printed for subscribers, 1888).
Ian Gibson. The Erotomaniac: The Secret Life of Henry Spencer Ashbee. (London: Faber, 2001).
Bowdler, Thomas (Ed.). The Family Shakespeare, in Four Volumes. (London: Printed by Richard Cruttwell for J. Hatchard, 1807).
CHAPTER 18
Watry, Maureen M. The Vale Press: Charles Ricketts, a publisher in earnest. (New Castle & London: Oak Knoll Press & The British Library, 2004).
Cave, Roderick. The Private Press. (London: Faber, 1971).
Peterson, William S. The Kelmscott Press. A History of William Morris’s Typographical Adventure. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991).
[Pearson, Hesketh.] The Whispering Gallery: Being Leaves from a Diplomat’s Diary. (London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1926).
CHAPTER 19
Eco, Umberto. Foucault’s Pendulum. (London: Secker & Warburg, 1989).