FARMER, Richard (1735-1797). An Essay on the Learning of Shakespeare. Cambridge: J. Archdeacon for W. Thurlebourn and J. Woodyer, and sold by J. Beecroft, J. Dodsley and T. Cadell, 1767.
FARMER, Richard (1735-1797). An Essay on the Learning of Shakespeare. Cambridge: J. Archdeacon for W. Thurlebourn and J. Woodyer, and sold by J. Beecroft, J. Dodsley and T. Cadell, 1767. 8 o (203 x 117 mm). 50 pages. With final advertisement leaf. (Some spotting and browning, advertisment leaf with small internal tear.) Late 19th-century half calf, marbled boards (some wear). Provenance: 'Farmer's Shakespier' (contemporary inscription on verso of final leaf); Joseph Parker Norris (armorial bookplate); 'F.S.L. Dupl.' (stamp on rear free endpaper); purchased from Blackwell's, Oxford, 4 November 1975. FIRST EDITION OF THIS RARE UNIVERSITY TRACT, addressed to Farmer's friend and school fellow, Joseph Cradock of Gumley. The Essay went into a second, "enlarged" edition in the same year, and a third was printed at London in 1789. McKitterick describes it as "one of the very few works of English literary scholarship to be printed at Cambridge in the 18th century, and one of the most brilliant contributions to Shakespearean scholarship of the century. Farmer demonstrated in it that Shakespeare's knowledge of the classics was based not on the texts in their original languages, but on North's Plutarch and other secondary sources, and that for his history he had also turned to Holinshed, Painter, Sidney, and others." It was to remain Farmer's only book. "Invincible indolence prevented him from achieving other literary triumphs" ( DNB ), and the publication of the antiquities of Leicester, announced at the end of the Essay in 1767, was abandoned. David McKitterick Four Hundred Years of University Printing and Publishing in Cambridge , 1984, 80.
FARMER, Richard (1735-1797). An Essay on the Learning of Shakespeare. Cambridge: J. Archdeacon for W. Thurlebourn and J. Woodyer, and sold by J. Beecroft, J. Dodsley and T. Cadell, 1767.
FARMER, Richard (1735-1797). An Essay on the Learning of Shakespeare. Cambridge: J. Archdeacon for W. Thurlebourn and J. Woodyer, and sold by J. Beecroft, J. Dodsley and T. Cadell, 1767. 8 o (203 x 117 mm). 50 pages. With final advertisement leaf. (Some spotting and browning, advertisment leaf with small internal tear.) Late 19th-century half calf, marbled boards (some wear). Provenance: 'Farmer's Shakespier' (contemporary inscription on verso of final leaf); Joseph Parker Norris (armorial bookplate); 'F.S.L. Dupl.' (stamp on rear free endpaper); purchased from Blackwell's, Oxford, 4 November 1975. FIRST EDITION OF THIS RARE UNIVERSITY TRACT, addressed to Farmer's friend and school fellow, Joseph Cradock of Gumley. The Essay went into a second, "enlarged" edition in the same year, and a third was printed at London in 1789. McKitterick describes it as "one of the very few works of English literary scholarship to be printed at Cambridge in the 18th century, and one of the most brilliant contributions to Shakespearean scholarship of the century. Farmer demonstrated in it that Shakespeare's knowledge of the classics was based not on the texts in their original languages, but on North's Plutarch and other secondary sources, and that for his history he had also turned to Holinshed, Painter, Sidney, and others." It was to remain Farmer's only book. "Invincible indolence prevented him from achieving other literary triumphs" ( DNB ), and the publication of the antiquities of Leicester, announced at the end of the Essay in 1767, was abandoned. David McKitterick Four Hundred Years of University Printing and Publishing in Cambridge , 1984, 80.
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