Dear all,

 

I want to check the plate count in Retzsch’s Outlines to Shakspeare. First Series. Hamlet (1828).  The title-page says ‘seventeen plates’, but the copy I have here has only sixteen (the frontispiece and fifteen plates at the end) and the printed Erlaeuterungen und Andeutungen (pp. [iii]-xi) in the book itself only describe sixteen plates (the first being the frontispiece).  This looks to be the case with the Folger copy, too, to judge from HAMNET. 

 

If your library has a copy, could I ask you please to check it for me and confirm (or otherwise) that what I have here is complete, despite what the title says?

 

With many thanks, and best wishes,

 

Simon

 

 

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