Accession number
PML 17097
Creator
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Published
Printed at London : by Tho[mas] Cotes, and are to be sold by Iohn Benson, dwelling in St. Dunstans Church-yard, 1640.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Notes
In verse.
Contains all but eight of the sonnets, "A lover's complaint", "The passionate pilgrim" (mostly not by Shakespeare), "The phoenix and the turtle" (attributed to Shakespeare), and poems of miscellaneous authors.
Signatures: *⁴ A-L⁸ M⁴.
The plate contains eight lines of verse and is signed "W.M. sculpsit.", i.e. William Marshall.
Contains all but eight of the sonnets, "A lover's complaint", "The passionate pilgrim" (mostly not by Shakespeare), "The phoenix and the turtle" (attributed to Shakespeare), and poems of miscellaneous authors.
Signatures: *⁴ A-L⁸ M⁴.
The plate contains eight lines of verse and is signed "W.M. sculpsit.", i.e. William Marshall.
Description
[192] pages, plate : port. ; 8⁰.
Provenance
Unidentified owner, purchased from William Pickering, 1851, with manuscript note from Pickering (glued to front endleaf 1 recto) and price code inscription: "o. r. x. Pickering 1851" (rear endleaf 2 recto); Pierpont Morgan, purchased from J. Pearson & Co., 1907.
Binding
Brown morocco.
Classification
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