{"product_id":"1443800-1709-shakespeare","title":"1443800 1709 Shakespeare.  Poems.","description":"9339.\n\u003cdiv align=\"center\"\u003e\u003cspan size=\"4\" style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShakespeare.  Poems.  1709.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eSHAKESPEARE, William. A Collection of Poems. London: Bernard Lintott, (1709). Small octavo, contemporary full green calf rebacked, elaborately gilt-decorated spine.    Scarce first issue of the second appearance of Shakespeare’s collected poems, preceded only by the scarce 1640 edition; this is the first collection to include \"Venus and Adonis\" and \"The Rape of Lucrece,\" omitted in the 1640 edition.   This volume, edited by Charles Gildon, also includes \"The Passionate Pilgrim\" and \"Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Musick\" and is essentially the first collected edition of Shakespeare’s longer poems . Tonson published Rowe’s edition of Shakespeare’s plays in 1709; he only had rights to the Fourth Folio plays, however, and Lintott evidently brought out this new edition of the poems to complement the plays. This copy is from the scarce first issue , with the four sectional title pages bearing early dates of 1630, 1632, 1599, and 1599, in contrast to the revised dates of 1609 found in the second issue. Ford states that the initial printing of the first volume only (the present copy) was followed \"shortly after\" by Lintott’s addition of a second volume, containing the 154 sonnets and \"A Lover’s Complaint,\" with a general title for the two volumes; Lintott then republished both volumes with the section title imprints of Volume I revised to \"Printed in the year 1609.\" Jaggard, 433-34. Ford, 37-39. Brief handwritten bibliographical note tipped in at front. Very early ink signature on page 58. A few manuscript lines of poetry on verso of final leaf.  A bit of embrowning to text, minor wear to binding. An extremely good copy of this important edition. Scarce.\u003c\/div\u003e\nFine","brand":"1709","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41033785114797,"sku":"9339","price":8500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0284\/7646\/products\/9339.jpg?v=1636224847","url":"https:\/\/www.nrarities.com\/products\/1443800-1709-shakespeare","provider":"The Gillespie Collection","version":"1.0","type":"link"}