Category The Lost and Found Books of Edward de Vere
The hunt’s on for the remnants of the Earl of Oxford’s widely-dispersed library. A recent and dramatic example is Ben August’s acquisition of the 1565 volume of Matheo Boiardo’s Italian translation of Herodotus’s Greek and Persian Wars. In this video,… Continue Reading →
Dr. Heather Wolfe of the Folger Shakespeare Library contracts Tom Reedy, explaining that the seventh “Shakespeare signature” in a copy of William Lambarde’s Archaionomia is a forgery. Not, apparently, to the Oxfrauds.
Farnsworth weighs the evidence for and against the authenticity of the alleged Shakespeare “signature” on William Lambarde’s Archaionomia.
Posted By Roger Stritmatter on January 15, 2014 The featured image above shows the title page of the Folger V.a.230 copy of William Lambarde’s Archaionomia.The partially obscured, apparently Elizabethan annotation at the top of the leaf reads: “This book to… Continue Reading →