Poems: Written by Wil. Shake-speare. Gent.
1640
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Poems: Written by Wil. Shake-speare. Gent.
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The plate depicts an engraved portrait with eight lines of verse. Engraved by ‘W.M.’ – i.e. William Marshall.
Other Copies: 34
The plate depicts an engraved portrait with eight lines of verse. Engraved by ‘W.M.’ – i.e. William Marshall.
Other Copies: 34
1640
| Author: | Shakespeare, William |
| Title: | Poems: Written by Wil. Shake-speare. Gent. |
| Publication Location: | London |
| Editor: | Printed at London by Tho. Cotes, and are to be sold by Iohn Benson, dwelling in St. Dunstans Church-yard. |
| Date: | 1640 |
| Language: | English |
| No of scans: | 220 |
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- that the Bodmer holds the largest collection of early Shakespeare editions outside the Anglophone world?
- that the original price for a bound copy of the First Folio when it was first published in 1623 was about £1?
- that Bodmer bought most of his Shakespearean books from the American collector A. S. W. Rosenbach in 1951?
- that the Bodmer contains 24 early modern printed English books which survive in just 10 or fewer copies?
- more than 230 copies of the First Folio survive, but the Bodmer copy is the only one in Switzerland?
