A catalogue of a singularly curious and important collection of Shaksperian, dramatic, & philological literature

including an extraordinary assemblage of early English plays, from the reign of queen Elizabeth to the close of the seventeenth century; a large and valuable collection of Old English poetry and black letter books, many of which are either unique or of the rarest possible occurrence; a most important series of early editions of Shakespeare, of the highest rarity, comprising several first impressions of singular curiosity and value, with an extensive collection of Shaksperiana, unique Shaksperian tracts, and a great varieyt of early critical pieces and alterations, and old works on the stage bearing reference to Shakespeare's plays, together with English and foreign books of emblems, numerous works on British philology, the provincial dialects of England, early dictionaries and glossaries, catalogues of manuscripts, and works on medieval literature, the whole having been collected during the last fifteen years, and used for literary purposes, by a well-known author : which will be sold by auction by Messrs. S. Leigh Sotheby & John Wilkinson ... on Thursday, May 21st, 1857, and two following days ...