SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM The Poems and Sonnets London: Kegan Paul, Trench Traubner & Company Limited, 1903.
Large 8vo., full vellum lettered in gilt to spine; upper edge gilt, else untrimmed; pp. [xiv], xiii-lxi, [iv], 4-318, [vi]; with a frontispiece portrait in full colour behind captioned tissue, showing Henry Wriothesly, Earl of Southampton; with engraved title, intials, and tailpieces in red throughout by W. B. Macdougall;; vellum splayed, marked and spotted, the latter particularly so to the outer edges; endpapers heavily browned and spotted; internally very fresh, very good.
Limited to just 400 copies on handmade paper, this no. 99.
A collection of sonnets and poems by Shakespeare, including The Sonnets, Venus and Adonis, and the Rape of Lucrece. The frontis shows Wriothesly, patron of Shakespeare and one of the founders of Virginia. Shakespeare dedicated 'The Rape of Lucrece' to him.
A charming edition.
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