![BLACKSTONE, Sir William (1723-1780). Autograph letter (in third person) to [the publisher George Steevens], Lincoln's Inn Fields, 26 April 1779; and autograph transcription signed ('W.B.'), 1 April 1779, of a letter about imitation of literary sources in Addison's Cato.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2017/CKS/2017_CKS_14299_0055_000(blackstone_sir_william_autograph_letter_to_the_publisher_george_steeve112555).jpg?w=1)
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BLACKSTONE, Sir William (1723-1780). Autograph letter (in third person) to [the publisher George Steevens], Lincoln's Inn Fields, 26 April 1779; and autograph transcription signed ('W.B.'), 1 April 1779, of a letter about imitation of literary sources in Addison's Cato.
Five pages on two bifolia, 227 x 192mm and 232 x 193mm (both with archival guard at inner edge). Provenance: the transcription annotated 'Autograph of Judge Blackstone, given me by his great-nephew'.
Blackstone's observations on Shakespeare. The letter discusses Blackstone's critical notes on Shakespeare which were ultimately published the following year (after his death) in Edmund Malone's supplement to the 1778 edition of Shakespeare's plays by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. Blackstone returns a transcription of the notes 'together with the new ones that have occurred on a transient Perusal of Mr Steevens's second edition. He will see that Sir W[illia]m (Author-like) continues a little prejudiced in favour of One of his Emendations, which Mr Steevens is afraid of proposing: but, to make amends, he has given up another to Mr Steevens's more accurate Judgement'. He adds that there is no need to send a transcript of the new 'observations', and concludes with a note on a legal case: 'Inquiry has been made at the Exchequer; – & [the] Result is, that nothing can be done there till the Fine is estreated, & then it may be discharged upon Motion supported by Affidavit'. The autograph transcription which accompanies the letter is a carefully exact copy of a letter written by one W. Warburton in 1726 about literary imitation in the English poets, especially Addison.
Five pages on two bifolia, 227 x 192mm and 232 x 193mm (both with archival guard at inner edge). Provenance: the transcription annotated 'Autograph of Judge Blackstone, given me by his great-nephew'.
Blackstone's observations on Shakespeare. The letter discusses Blackstone's critical notes on Shakespeare which were ultimately published the following year (after his death) in Edmund Malone's supplement to the 1778 edition of Shakespeare's plays by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. Blackstone returns a transcription of the notes 'together with the new ones that have occurred on a transient Perusal of Mr Steevens's second edition. He will see that Sir W[illia]m (Author-like) continues a little prejudiced in favour of One of his Emendations, which Mr Steevens is afraid of proposing: but, to make amends, he has given up another to Mr Steevens's more accurate Judgement'. He adds that there is no need to send a transcript of the new 'observations', and concludes with a note on a legal case: 'Inquiry has been made at the Exchequer; – & [the] Result is, that nothing can be done there till the Fine is estreated, & then it may be discharged upon Motion supported by Affidavit'. The autograph transcription which accompanies the letter is a carefully exact copy of a letter written by one W. Warburton in 1726 about literary imitation in the English poets, especially Addison.
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Robert Tyrwhitt