Shake-speares Sonnets. Neuer before Imprinted.
1609
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Shake-speares Sonnets. Neuer before Imprinted.
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Title-page Attribution: As above
Title page cropped, with date ‘1609’ trimmed off
Manuscript note by Rosenbach on binder’s leaf: ‘From the collections of Bishop Percy and Lord Caledon. A marvellous provenance. A.S.W.R.’
An imprint variant of the edition with William Aspley as bookseller
7 (British Library, Cambridge Trinity, Bodleian, Rylands, Folger, Huntington, Beinecke)
[And 5 copies of another imprint variant, STC 22353]
Title page cropped, with date ‘1609’ trimmed off
Manuscript note by Rosenbach on binder’s leaf: ‘From the collections of Bishop Percy and Lord Caledon. A marvellous provenance. A.S.W.R.’
An imprint variant of the edition with William Aspley as bookseller
7 (British Library, Cambridge Trinity, Bodleian, Rylands, Folger, Huntington, Beinecke)
[And 5 copies of another imprint variant, STC 22353]
1609
| Author: | Shakespeare, William |
| Title: | Shake-speares Sonnets. Neuer before Imprinted. |
| Publication Location: | London |
| Editor: | By G. Eld. For T[homas].T[horpe]. and are to be solde by Iohn Wright, dwelling at Christ Church gate. |
| Date: | 1609 |
| Language: | English |
| No of scans: | 100 |
| Type: |
Did you know?
- that the Bodmer holds the largest collection of early Shakespeare editions outside the Anglophone world?
- that the original price for a bound copy of the First Folio when it was first published in 1623 was about £1?
- that Bodmer bought most of his Shakespearean books from the American collector A. S. W. Rosenbach in 1951?
- that the Bodmer contains 24 early modern printed English books which survive in just 10 or fewer copies?
- more than 230 copies of the First Folio survive, but the Bodmer copy is the only one in Switzerland?
