The Poems of Shakespeare. To which is Added An Account of his Life

by William Shakespeare

$2,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

First edition

First separate American edition. 258pp. Uncut. 1 vols. 12mo. Contemporary blue paper boards with orange paper spine, rebacked with portions of the original spine laid down. Cloth clamshell box. Jaggard p. 436; Shaw and Shoemaker 13575. For the 1640 first edition: Pforzheimer 880. Item #373156 Perhaps because of Puritanical bias, no edition of any of Shakespeare's works appeared in America until little known

• Binding: Hardcover

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