Printed for W. Wilkins, in _Lombard_-/
_Street_. M,DCC,XXXVI. price 1s.

The edition of 1736 was reprinted in London, 1864, for sale by John
Russell Smith, with an identical title page. The reprint bore the
following cover:

Reprints of Scarce Pieces of Shakespeare
Criticism. No. 1. Remarks on Hamlet,
1736.

The usual ascription of the essay heretofore to Sir Thomas Hanmer
derives from the statement by Sir Henry Bunbury, on page 80 of his _The
Correspondence of Sir Thomas Hanmer, Bart_, London, 1838, that he had
"reason to believe that he was the author ..."

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