COOPER, Duff. — SERGEANT SHAKESPEARE.

London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1949. Small 8vo., pp.100, cloth, gilt; sunning at head/tailband, a very good copy indeed, in unclipped dust-jacket, which is toned to the margins, with light chipping and small closed tears to the edges, and 3cm closed tear to head of fold over upper joint. Now in a protective cover. A work of literary detection, in which Cooper argues that Shakespeare spent time as a soldier in the Low Countries sometime between 1584 and 1592, the roughly eight years between his leaving Stratford and appearing in contemporary sources as an established playwright in London.