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Excerpt from The Story of the "Grafton" Portrait of William Shakespeare "Aetatis Suae 24, 1588" With an Account of the Sack and Destruction of the Manor House of Grafton Regis by the Parliamentary Forces on Christmas Eve, 1643 The telling Of the following story has been prompted by the discovery Of a picture which the author, from evidence collected by him and set out in these pages, submits to be a genuine portrait of Shakespeare painted during his lifetime. The portrait has painted upon it an age 24 and a date the age corresponding with that of Shakespeare in the same year. An analytical comparison is made between this and other recognised portraits Of Shakespeare. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.