Shakespeare's poems, 1640
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Type of record: Book
Title: Shakespeare's poems, 1640
Classmark: BC Gen/SHA
Creator(s): Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Additional creator(s): Digges, Leonard (1588-1635) (Other)
Related people: Digges, Leonard
Publisher: A.R. Smith
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1885
Language: English
Size and medium: 2 leaves, reprint: [191] p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/282795
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991001605709705181
Description
"This reproduction is printed letter for letter, line for line, and page for page as near the original as modern type will permit. The portrait has been specially engraved on steel in facsimile of the original in the British museum. The initial letters, head-pieces and cuts on the titles have also been reproduced... for this edition."--Note, 2d prelim. leaf.
With facsimile reproduction of original t.p.: Poems: written by Wil. Shakespare. Gent. [Printer's mark] Printed at London by Tho. Cotes, and are to be sold by Iohn Benson, dwelling in St. Dunstans Church-yard. 1640.
"Twenty five copies are printed on large paper... Two hundred and fifty copies are printed on small paper."
Contains most of the sonnets (146) grouped under various titles, interspersed with the poems of the Passionate pilgrim, the Lover's complaint, the Phoenix and the Turtle, and a number of translations from Ovid, falsely ascribed to Shakespeare.
"Upon Master William Shakespeare, the deceased author, and his poems" signed Leon. Digges.
Additional description
No. 10 of an edition of 25 copies on large paper, signed by Alfred Russell Smith
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