Poems: written by Wil. Shake-speare. Gent. (1640)

About Benson's Edition (Margreta de Grazia)
Table of contents (keyed to Benson's titles)
Shakespeare's sonnets in this edition (keyed to the standard sequence of the 1609 edition)

Summary: Octavo edition of Poems: written by Wil. Shake-speare. Gent. Printed at London by Tho. Cotes, and are to be sold by Iohn Benson, dwelling in St. Dunstans church-yard; Includes An addition of some...poems...by other gentlemen..." [21 p. at end]; printed 1640.

Physical description: 1 volume: 13cm x 9cm (12.5cm x 8.5cm); 191 p; signatures: *4, A-L8, M4; imperfect: front., leaves *2-*4, A1, M1 & M4 wanting; front. & 2d t.p. (A1) supplied in facsimile; printer's device McK. no. 283 on t.p.

Held by: Horace Howard Furness Memorial [Shakespeare] Library, Department of Special Collections, Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania [call number: Furness STC 22344]

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