Description: Shakspeare, William; Dodd, William. The Beauties of Shakspeare. New-York: Evert Duyckinck | Printed by J. & J. Harper, 1821. [10876] Full brown leather with red leather title label, joints partly cracked but boards are secure with good end papers, 5 1/4 x 2 3/4 inches. Top of first free fly page (blank) torn with loss. 300, [24] pages, the last 24 are the Index. Pages generally good with some foxing and light stains in the margins; text block tight. Good. Hardcover. This book was first published in 1752, and with it Dodd has been credited with inventing the modern Index. "It was my first intention to have considered each play critically and regularly through all its parts; but as this would have swelled the work beyond proper bounds, I was obliged to confine myself solely to a collection of his Poetical Beauties: and I doubt not, every reader will find so large a fund for observation, so much excellent and refined morality, that he will prize the work as it deserves, and pay, with me, all the due adoration to the manes of Shakspeare." - Preface. James and John Harper opened a printing shop in 1817 in New York City, and when the brothers Joseph and Fletcher joined the firm in 1825 the name was changed to Harper & Brothers. They became one of the most successful publishing houses of the 19th century. The unfortunate Rev. William Dodd (1729-1777), Anglican priest, dubbed "The Macaroni Parson" for his extravagant way of living. He was a popular preacher and became a chaplain in ordinary to King George III in 1763, but his profligate ways led him into bribery and forgery, the latter of which led to his execution in 1777. Whatever morality he found in Shakespeare, he did not apply it to himself.
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