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Shake-speares Sonnets. Neuer before Imprinted.

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]

1609

Auteur: Shakespeare, William
Titre: Shake-speares Sonnets. Neuer before Imprinted.
Lieu de publication: London
Editeur: By G. Eld. For T[homas].T[horpe]. and are to be solde by Iohn Wright, dwelling at Christ Church gate.
Date: 1609
Langue: English
Nombre de scans: 100
Type: Print
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Le saviez-vous?

  • 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?