Described as "the most learned Elizabethan scholar of his generation," F. P. Wilson belongs to the second generation of English bibliographers who saw the importance of treating the book in its material form as an object worthy of study. From these bibliographical studies of the nature of early printing, he forwarded the knowledge of Elizabethan and Jacobean plays, in particular the circumstances and dates of their composition and their authorship. His facsimile editions and reprints of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century plays, mostly for the Malone Society, ensured that scholars around the world could come into contact with usable versions of the original editions. Wilson was known for his cooperative approach to scholarship and for his encouragement of younger scholars. That bonhomie was an important aspect of his personal as well as his intellectual life and is evidenced by the admiration he expressed for the fraternal relationships among the major...