Poems

Name:

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616

Date:

1640

Language:

English

Provenance:

Furness, Horace Howard, Jr. (donor); Furness, Louise Brooks Winsor (donor)

Publisher:

Printed by Tho. Cotes, and are to be sold by Iohn Benson, dwelling in St. Dunstans church-yard

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

books

Physical Description:

192 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : portrait; 13 cm (8vo)

Related Place:

England -- London.

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

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.; Signatures: *⁴ A-L⁸ M⁴.; Printer's device (McK.no.283) on t.-p.; "An addition of some excellent poems, to those precedent, of renowned Shakespeare, by other gentlemen": [21] p. at end.; Online version available via Colenda; Imperfect: leaves *2-*4, A1, M1, M4 and plate wanting;; plate and 2nd t.-p. (leaf A1) supplied in facsimile; leaf M4 supplied in ms.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Furness Collection, PR2750 .A42 1640

Collection:

STC Collection (University of Pennsylvania); Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania); English Renaissance in Context Collection (University of Pennsylvania)