SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616). Poems . London: Printed by Tho. Cotes, and are to be sold by Iohn Benson, 1640. Ordinary 8 o (140 x 90mm). Collation : π1 (r blank, v engraved frontispiece by William Marshall portrait of the poet after Martin Droeshout and 8-line verse [mostly taken from Ben Jonson's To the memory of my beloved in the First Folio]); * 4 (preliminaries, worked together with the final half-sheet quire M: 1 r title with printer's woodcut device, verso blank, 2 preface To the Reader signed I.B. [Benson?], 3r-4r poem by Leon. Digges Vpon Master William Shakespeare [different from his verses in the First Folio], incipit : Poets are borne not made, 4v John Warren's verses Of Mr. William Shakespeare ); A-L 8 M 4 ( . A1r second title with the same device, verso blank, A2r-K8r Shakespeare's poems, K8r-v John Milton's An Epitaph on the admirable Dramaticke Poet, William Shakespeare [taken from the Second Folio], K8v 16-line verse by W.B. [William Basse] On the death of William Shakespeare , L1 anonymous Elegie on the death of that famous Writer and Actor , 16 lines, incipit : I Dare not doe thy Memory that wrong, L2r-M4r An Addition of some Excellent Poems, to those precedent, of Renowned Shakespeare, By other Gentlemen , including on L5r-6r His Mistris Shade by Robert Herrick [unsigned], incipit : Come then, and like two Doves of silver wings, M4v blank). 97 leaves. Paper from four different stocks (one unwatermarked). Roman type 67mm, cursive headings, 32 lines, headlines and catchwords. Woodcut initials, type-ornament headpieces. (A5r-6v glued at extreme inner margin affecting several letters, short tear in C7 repaired affecting a couple of letters, a few very minor stains.) Contemporary English brown sheep, gilt fillet on sides and across flat spine (recased). Provenance : John Chichester (contemporary owner, signed on blank recto of frontispiece, inscribed on early back fly-leaf This booke is thy[ne] Ile give it thee / Loocke on this and remember mee / John Chichester ) -- L.A. Sanford, Aug. 4 1891 (inscription) -- Herschel V. Jones (bookplate) -- James F. Bell (gilt morocco bookplate) -- Caroline Newton (bookplate) -- purchased from John Fleming 1971. Exhibited : Grolier Club, " This powerfull rime ," 1975, no. 12. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, containing Sonnets (omitting eight that were included in Thomas Thorpe's edition of 1609); The Passionate Pilgrim ; A Lover's Complaint ; the song "Take, O take those lippes away" from Measure for Measure ; The Phoenix and the Turtle , and others. Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece were not included by the editor, perhaps the bookseller John Benson who arbitrarily regrouped the sonnets and gave them fanciful headings. The second title is a cancel, as in the Holford-Houghton-Garden copy and others. RARE IN SUCH FINE CONDITION, with contemporary binding and provenance preserved. STC 22344; Hayward 30; Grolier Club, Langland to Wither 184.
SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616). Poems . London: Printed by Tho. Cotes, and are to be sold by Iohn Benson, 1640. Ordinary 8 o (140 x 90mm). Collation : π1 (r blank, v engraved frontispiece by William Marshall portrait of the poet after Martin Droeshout and 8-line verse [mostly taken from Ben Jonson's To the memory of my beloved in the First Folio]); * 4 (preliminaries, worked together with the final half-sheet quire M: 1 r title with printer's woodcut device, verso blank, 2 preface To the Reader signed I.B. [Benson?], 3r-4r poem by Leon. Digges Vpon Master William Shakespeare [different from his verses in the First Folio], incipit : Poets are borne not made, 4v John Warren's verses Of Mr. William Shakespeare ); A-L 8 M 4 ( . A1r second title with the same device, verso blank, A2r-K8r Shakespeare's poems, K8r-v John Milton's An Epitaph on the admirable Dramaticke Poet, William Shakespeare [taken from the Second Folio], K8v 16-line verse by W.B. [William Basse] On the death of William Shakespeare , L1 anonymous Elegie on the death of that famous Writer and Actor , 16 lines, incipit : I Dare not doe thy Memory that wrong, L2r-M4r An Addition of some Excellent Poems, to those precedent, of Renowned Shakespeare, By other Gentlemen , including on L5r-6r His Mistris Shade by Robert Herrick [unsigned], incipit : Come then, and like two Doves of silver wings, M4v blank). 97 leaves. Paper from four different stocks (one unwatermarked). Roman type 67mm, cursive headings, 32 lines, headlines and catchwords. Woodcut initials, type-ornament headpieces. (A5r-6v glued at extreme inner margin affecting several letters, short tear in C7 repaired affecting a couple of letters, a few very minor stains.) Contemporary English brown sheep, gilt fillet on sides and across flat spine (recased). Provenance : John Chichester (contemporary owner, signed on blank recto of frontispiece, inscribed on early back fly-leaf This booke is thy[ne] Ile give it thee / Loocke on this and remember mee / John Chichester ) -- L.A. Sanford, Aug. 4 1891 (inscription) -- Herschel V. Jones (bookplate) -- James F. Bell (gilt morocco bookplate) -- Caroline Newton (bookplate) -- purchased from John Fleming 1971. Exhibited : Grolier Club, " This powerfull rime ," 1975, no. 12. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, containing Sonnets (omitting eight that were included in Thomas Thorpe's edition of 1609); The Passionate Pilgrim ; A Lover's Complaint ; the song "Take, O take those lippes away" from Measure for Measure ; The Phoenix and the Turtle , and others. Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece were not included by the editor, perhaps the bookseller John Benson who arbitrarily regrouped the sonnets and gave them fanciful headings. The second title is a cancel, as in the Holford-Houghton-Garden copy and others. RARE IN SUCH FINE CONDITION, with contemporary binding and provenance preserved. STC 22344; Hayward 30; Grolier Club, Langland to Wither 184.
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