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Description: The Works of Mr. William Shakespear : volume the seventh : containing, Venus & Adonis, Tarquin & Lucrece and his miscellany poems :.Frontis.plate of Venus & Adonis.lxxii, 472pp [iv table]; [ii E, Curll and E. Sanger ads]. -2G7]. An essay on the art, rise and progress of the stage in Greece, Rome and England -- An explanation of the old words us'd by Shakespear in his works (Glossary) -- The seventh volume, which includes the Poems; the title pages to Venus and Adonis and Tarquin and Lucrece have separate title pages with the imprint printed in the year 1709. An essay on the art, rise and progress of the stage in Greece, Rome and England -- An explanation of the old words us'd by Shakespear in his works (Glossary) -- Dedication signed: S.N. These are the terminal letters of the name of the editor, Charles Gildon [Ford Shakespeare 1700-1740 pp. 10-11; Jaggard Shakespeare Bibliography p. 497. ESTC T138298]. The rare Vol. 7 of Rowe's Edition of 1709-1710, the First Octavo Edition of Shakespeare's Works. The separate titles are dated 1709. The volume includes the Spurious Poems which are in the edition of the poems published in 1640. THE FULL TITLE PAGE READS:- The works of Mr. William Shakespear : Volume the Seventh : containing, Venus & Adonis, Tarquin & Lucrece and his miscellany poems : with critical remarks on his plays, &c. : to which is prefix'd An essay on the art, rise and progress of the stage in Greece, Rome and England. Printed for E. Curll at the Dial and Bible against St. Dunstan's Church, and E. Sanger at the Post-house at the Middle-Temple Gate]. A piratical publication adding a seventh volume to Rowe's 6 volume set of the plays that did not include the poems. Bound in original full calf with five raised bands to the spine. Finely decorated to the compartments with matching decoration to the spine edges of the boards. Cracked joints but sound. PLEASE EMAIL FOR PHOTOS. An essay on the art, rise and progress of the stage in Greece, Rome and England -- An explanation of the old words us'd by Shakespear in his works (Glossary). Curll's spurious 'volume seven' was designed to fill the gaps in Rowe's edition of 1709 by including the poems and two long essays. Charles Gildon was the first critic to write a full critical commentary on all the works of Shakespear. [Copac 7 copies] Size: 8vo
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Description: Frontis.plate of Shakespear engraved by M.V. for Gucht sculp.lxxii, one extra plate bound in of Venus & Adonis.472pp [iv table]; [ii E, Curll and E. Sanger ads]. -2G7]. An essay on the art, rise and progress of the stage in Greece, Rome and England -- An explanation of the old words us'd by Shakespear in his works (Glossary) -- The seventh volume, which includes the Poems; the title pages to Venus and Adonis and Tarquin and Lucrece have separate title pages with the imprint printed in the year 1709. An essay on the art, rise and progress of the stage in Greece, Rome and England -- An explanation of the old words us'd by Shakespear in his works (Glossary) -- Dedication signed: S.N. These are the terminal letters of the name of the editor, Charles Gildon [Ford Shakespeare 1700-1740 pp. 10-11; Jaggard Shakespeare Bibliography p. 497. ESTC T138298]. The rare Vol. 7 of Rowe's Edition of 1709-1710, the First Octavo Edition of Shakespeare's Works. The separate titles are dated 1709. The volume includes the Spurious Poems which are in the edition of the poems published in 1640. THE FULL TITLE PAGE READS:- The works of Mr. William Shakespear : Volume the Seventh : containing, Venus & Adonis, Tarquin & Lucrece and his miscellany poems : with critical remarks on his plays, &c. : to which is prefix'd An essay on the art, rise and progress of the stage in Greece, Rome and England. Printed for E. Curll at the Dial and Bible against St. Dunstan's Church, and E. Sanger at the Post-house at the Middle-Temple Gate]. A piratical publication adding a seventh volume to Rowe's 6 volume set of the plays that did not include the poems. Bound in original full panelled calf with five raised bands to the spine and a red morocco label. Cracked joints but sound. PLEASE EMAIL FOR PHOTOS. An essay on the art, rise and progress of the stage in Greece, Rome and England -- An explanation of the old words us'd by Shakespear in his works (Glossary). Curll's spurious 'volume seven' was designed to fill the gaps in Rowe's edition of 1709 by including the poems and two long essays. Charles Gildon was the first critic to write a full critical commentary on all the works of Shakespear. [Copac 7 copies] Size: 8vo
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Shakespeare, William. A Collection of Poems, In Two Volumes. Bernard Lintott, Fleet-Street, 1710.
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Description: The first volume of Lintott's Collection of Poems in Two Volumes collects, for the first time, "Venus and Adonis", "The Rape of Lucrece", "The Passionate Pilgrim" and "Some Sonnets Set to Sundry Notes of Musick". The second adds the most accurate early edition of all 154 Sonnets and "A Lover's Complaint of his Angry Mistress", to form the first complete collection of Shakespeare's poetry. This book has been professionally restored to reattach the covers and strengthen the binding, leaving it ready for study or display. In 1640, John Benson had published a collection of Shakespeare's sonnets and miscellaneous poems, rearranging and altering the sonnets, most notably by obscuring the references to the "fair youth." In contrast, Lintott's work maintains a remarkable fidelity to his sources. In the "Advertisement" to the first volume he notes: "I will say nothing of Venus and Adonis, nor of the Rape ofLucrece, they being universally allow'd to be Shakespear's, only that I have printed them from very old Editions, which I procur'd, as the Reader will find by my keeping close to his spelling." Giles Dawson describes Lintott's edition as a model of accuracy for the period: "the texts gave the poems to the public in a form little altered from the first editions. The fact that this admirable publication was driven from the market by a much inferior rival affords a striking example of the kind of harmful influence that unmitigated commercialism has exerted in the book trade." Curll's nearly contemporaneous edition adopted Benson's alterations and modernized the other texts, and proved a more commercially successful work. The second state of the work as described in the Folger Library Catalog, with a general title page (lacking in the first state), title pages for each volume, and the correct dates on the interior title pages of 1630, 1632, 1599, 1599 (altered in the third state). Variant title page without the price bound statement. While the first volume was published in 1709, the two volume version is undated, attributed by Jaggard to 1710. Later binding, professionally restored to reattach the covers and strengthen the joints. Wear and loss to the corners and the head and tail of the spine. Several pages show evidence of early damage and repair. Most notably, the general title page, the title page to the first volume, and the internal title page to "Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Musicke" have had slips cut out, and then carefully repaired, most likely to remove the marks of a previous owner. One such mark in that position survives on the internal title to 'The Rape of Lucrece'. Octavo. [vi], 155 [1]; [iv], 98 pp. 6.25 x 4". ESTC T138086. Jaggard Shakespeare Bibliography p. 434. Giles E. Dawson, "Four Centuries of Shakespeare Publication", University of Kansas Libraries, 1964.
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