{"product_id":"1447300-1775-shakespeare","title":"1447300 1775 Shakespeare.  Beautifully Bound Poems.  Octavo.","description":"9904.\n\u003cdiv align=\"center\"\u003e\u003cspan size=\"4\" style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBeautifully Bound Poems of Shakespeare.  \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv align=\"center\"\u003e\u003cspan size=\"4\" style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOctavo.  1775.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eShakespeare.  Poems Written by Mr. William Shakespeare.  London: Thomas Evans, [1775].  Octavo, Contemporary full polished calf, spine elaborately tooled in gilt, black morocco spine label, black ribbon marker.  Engraved portrait on title page.  Joints expertly reinforced, corners bumped.  Handsomely bound eighteenth-century edition of Shakespeare's poems.  This collection incloudes Shakespeare's two major narrative poems, Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece (here titled Tarquin and Lucrece) and the sonnets, a landmark in the history of the English lyric, first published as a group in 1609.  The complete poems including both narrative poems and the sonnets first published in 1640.\u003c\/div\u003e\nFine","brand":"1775","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41033786228909,"sku":"9904","price":1020.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0284\/7646\/products\/9904.jpg?v=1636224893","url":"https:\/\/www.nrarities.com\/products\/1447300-1775-shakespeare","provider":"The Gillespie Collection","version":"1.0","type":"link"}