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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820–1889)

Halliwell-Phillipps, James Orchard. An eminent English Shakespearian and antiquarian; born in London, June 21, 1820; died near Brighton, Jan. 3, 1889. He devoted his life and large wealth to research among old records for traces of Shakespeare, publishing private editions of Shakespeariana, buying singly or with others Shakespeare buildings at Stratford, etc.; and to editing old English works. His principal work is ‘Outlines of the Life of Shakespeare’ (1848).