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By Tho. Cotes, and are to be sold by Iohn Benson, dwelling in St. Dunstans Church-yard
"In this edition eight of the sonnets included in Thorpe's 1609 edition are omitted; all are regrouped in a new and apparently arbitrary order under fanciful headings with the pronouns altered to suggest that the sonnets, written to a man, were addressed to a woman."--Pforzheimer.
Notes (citation):
Bartlett, H.C. Shakespeare early editions, 27
ESTC S106377
Pforzheimer, 880
STC (2nd ed.), 22344
Boston Public Library. Barton collection catalogue, Shakespeare, p. 51, no. 743
Notes (object):
Signatures: *⁴ A-L⁸ M⁴.
Title page vignette; headpieces.
Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy G.176.72 bound in ca. 19th-century, straight-grained navy goatskin panelled in gilt. Armorial bookplate of the Barton Library. Bibliographical inscription signed by Thomas Pennant Barton on front flyleaf. Early calligraphic letter "B" and the letters "ird" are inscribed on the verso of the final leaf.
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