The Poems of William Shakespeare
Hammersmith, Middlesex, England: Kelmscott Press, 1893. Limited to 510 copies. Flexible vellum covers with silk ties, yapp edges. 4 blank leaves, Foreword, "Contents," Half-title, 216, (2) pp, 5 blank leaves colophon immediately following page 216. Printed in red and black with ornamental borders and initials. VG-, some discoloration (typical) to the flexible vellum binding, gilt letters on spine still strong. Slight soiling to endpapers, contents clean, one of 4 silk ties remains and is fragile. Item #173399
Printed after the original copies of Venus and Adonis, 1593; The Rape of Lucrece, 1594; Sonnets, 1609; The Lovers Complaint. Printed in an edition of 510 copies, 500 of them on paper like this one. Book measures 5 7/8 x 8 1/4 and is 7/8" thick. The limitation to 510 copies is found nowhere inside this book. All pages have been opened. As written by Galerie Bassange: "This volume was one of the most in-demand books ever produced by Kelmscott Press. In 1898, Sydney Cockerell describes it as one of the rare books issued from the Press because of its popularity. This popularity was apparently earned despite the text’s scholarly flaws. According to Kelmscott scholar William S. Peterson, Ellis later wrote that his friend and fellow man of letters F. J. Furnivall has been taking me roundly to task for some crimes committed in the Shakespeare’s Poems - so much that I am thinking of imprinting it yet once again" (Kelmscott Press Collection, Cleveland Museum of Art Ingalls Library. Kelmscott Publication No. 11 of 53).
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