# Shakespeare Restored: or, a specimen of the many errors, as well committed, as unamended, by Mr. Pope in his late edition of this poet ... By Mr. Theobald

**Slug:** `shakespeare_restored_1726`  
**Priority:** 2  
**Author:** Lewis Theobald  
**Edition / date:** London: printed for R. Francklin, J. Woodman and D. Lyon, C. Davis, 1726. FIRST edition (the only 18th-c. edition).

## Sources
- **archive.org** `bim_eighteenth-century_shakespeare-restored-or_theobald-mr-lewis_1726` - https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_shakespeare-restored-or_theobald-mr-lewis_1726
  - catalogue title: Shakespeare restored: or, a specimen of the many errors, as well committed, as unamended, by Mr. Pope in his late edition of this poet. ... By Mr. Theobald.  1726
  - date field: 1726; images/frames: 209; OCR engine: tesseract 5.3.0-3-g9920
  - digitised from / contributor: ['IA40313515-17', 'microfilm']
  - raw file(s) saved here (exactly as downloaded): `bim_eighteenth-century_shakespeare-restored-or_theobald-mr-lewis_1726_djvu.txt`
  - note: reel IA40313515-17; 209 frames

## Cleaned text(s)
- `shakespeare_restored_1726.clean.txt` - whole volume c. 72,500 words; 72,534 words; 97% of text lines pass a dictionary check

## Completeness
Complete. A second archive.org copy exists (bim_eighteenth-century_shakespeare-restored-or_theobald-lewis_1726) and HathiTrust has nyp.33433003253071 (pd).

## OCR quality / notes
Cleaning: IA djvu.txt was normalised (ſ->s), microfilm target frames and junk lines trimmed, page numbers/signatures/running heads dropped, end-of-line hyphenation joined, and a CONSERVATIVE long-s correction applied (words with 'f' that are not in a modern frequency list are replaced by their 's' variant when that variant is common; a short override list covers so/she/sir/see/such/some...). Ambiguous real words (fame/same, fell/sell, fold/sold, found/sound, foul/soul, fit/sit ...) were left unchanged. Statistics of every change are in the `*.cleanstats.json` beside each cleaned file. Expect residual OCR noise; the '% of lines pass a dictionary check' figure above is a rough legibility score (modern-English word list; 18th-c. spellings count against it).
Mixed content: Theobald's prose argument plus long quotations from Shakespeare - quotations should be filtered before stylometric use.