by Seymour M. Pitcher

London: Alvin Redman, (1962).

First British edition, first printing.

Enhanced with a frontispiece photographic plate of the Grafton painting, traced to previous ownership by Shakespeare's grand-daughter, that is believed to portray Shakespeare as a young adult. This portrait is also employed for the evocative dust jacket art.

The Shakespeare scholar examines the anonymous play, he believed Shakespeare wrote at age 22, and was left out of the First Folio because it was lacking in the advanced professionalism Shakespeare later achieved.

Written in an enjoyable style, spiced with fascinating details about the play--and about the influences of Shakespeare's life that are in the play.

Dr. Pitcher's "many years of thought and study" have convinced him that the anonymous THE FAMOUS VICTORIES OF HENRY THE FIFTH was actually authored by Shakespeare when he was but a lad of 22.

Fresh.

Fine in textured black boards with gilt embossed titles to the spine; in a nearly fine dust jacket with a faint ink number to the upper corner of the front inner flap; original printed price "21/-net" still intact to the lower corner of the front inner flap.

A very presentable and interesting Shakespeare collectible.

Octavo; 256 pages; sources, annotations.