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Shakespeare, William. Poems written by Mr William Shakespeare.. Thomas Evans, 1775.
Price: US$384.98 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: [London] : Reprinted for Thomas Evans, No. 50, Strand, near York Buildings. 8vo. 1775. Date from ESTC. 8vo. pp [2], viii, 250. A little foxed, otherwise a good example of this important edition of Shakespeares poems with all pages intact and no annotations. Binding: recent marbled cloth, dark coloured endpapers, label to spine sometime removed. ESTC T138089.
Seller: Celsus Books, PBFA., London, United Kingdom
SHAKESPEARE, William. Poems Written by.. (London): Reprinted for Thomas Evans [1775]., 1775.
Price: US$1122.86 + shipping
Description: 8vo. (ii), viii, 250 pp. Later quarter calf over marbled boards with vellum corner tips, armorial bookplate of Sir Maurice Fitzgerald to the front pastedown. Engraved portrait of the Shakespeare by A. Bannerman to the title page. Browning to the edges of the front and rear endpapers only, very good overall. Sir Maurice Fitzgerald, 20th Knight of Kerry, 2nd Baronet of Valentia. The name of his seat, "Buckland House", is given on the bookplate. Jaggard, 435, who states that this edition follows the arrangement of the 1640 edition of Shakespeare's Poems with the addition of a list of contents. It was published in the same style as Capell's edition of the Works published 1767-68, suggesting that this could have been a supplement to the set by the same editor.
Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United Kingdom
Price: US$2250.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, contemporary tree calf, red morocco spine label, gilt decorations and lettering. Engraved portrait on the title-page by Alexander Bannerman. An attractive 18th century edition of Shakespeare's poems, printed in a style similar to E. Cappell's 1767-68 edition of the Works and sometimes thought to be intended as a supplement to that edition. This edition preserves the order (and the doubtful poems) of the 1640 edition and adds an index. Slight wear to the edges of the binding, otherwise a fine, handsome copy in contemporary state, about as nice a copy as one could ask for. ESTC T138089; Jaggard, page 435 ("Perhaps edited by E. Cappell"); Lowndes, page 2308
Seller: Brick Row Book Shop, ABAA, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.