Signed Woodcut portrait of author William J.Rolfe Newburyport,Massachusetts for Sale

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Signed Woodcut portrait of author William J.Rolfe Newburyport,Massachusetts For Sale

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Signed Woodcut portrait of author William J.Rolfe Newburyport,Massachusetts:
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This is a signed woodcut portrait of author William J.Rolfe.
William James Rolfe, Litt.D. (December 10, 1827 – July7, 1910) was an American educator and Shakespeareanscholar.[1]Rolfe was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts onDecember 10, 1827, son of John Rolfe, of a family\"settled early in Newbury... members of which were notedin the history of the state at Haverhill and elsewhere\", andLydia Davis, née Moulton.[1][2] He attended AmherstCollege from 1845 through 1848, but left withoutgraduating after three years due to financial hardship.Amherst, though, nonetheless later awarded him anhonorary degree.Between 1852 and 1868, he served as headmaster of highschools at Dorchester, Lawrence, Salem, and Cambridge,Massachusetts. From 1882 to 1887, he served aspresident of Martha\'s Vineyard Summer Institute.Early in his career, he edited selections from Ovid andVirgil and (in collaboration) the Cambridge Course ofPhysics (six volumes, 1867–68).Rolfe\'s Shakespearean work began with an Americanedition of George Lillie Craik\'s English of Shakespeare(3rd revised ed., 1864, , which Crosby and Ainsworth publishedin 1867 ). This led to his preparation for Harper & Brothers of acomplete edition of Shakespeare – the Friendly Edition (forty volumes, 1870–83; new edition, 1903–07).Rolfe\'s editions proved to be the best-selling versions in America (during a time of increased use ofShakespeare in high school classrooms) due both to his credentials as a high school administrator and to hisuse of Bowdlerization of the text in order to remove much of Shakespeare\'s lewd content.