File:Shakespeare-Pamphlet Bibliotheca Fictiva nr. 4200972.jpg

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English: In one of the many attempts to please his bardolater father, William Henry Ireland acquired a 1610 copy of John Camilton’s anti-Catholic pamphlet about a supposed Jesuit plot against King James I, which he disassembled and rebound in green goatskin, adding numerous manuscript marginalia in mock-secretary hand, some pretending cryptic though conventional anti-Catholic outrage and an approximation of Shakespeare's signature on the title page. Credit: Bibliotheca Fictiva Collection, Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University. Work held at the John Work Garrett Library, Johns Hopkins University.
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Source [William Shakespeare (pseud.)], [William Henry Ireland], John Camilton, A discoverie of the most secret and subtile practices of the Jesuits. London: [George Eld] for Robert Boulton, 1610.
Author [William Shakespeare (pseud.)], [William Henry Ireland], John Camilton

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"Shakespeare" Reads about a Jesuit Plot to Kill the King! From the Bibliotheca Fictiva Collection, nr. 4200972

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