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Shakespeare's poems : containing I. Venus and Adonis -- II. Rape of Lucrece -- III. Passionate pilgrim -- IV. Sonnets.

Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PR2841 .A1 1771
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Contributor:
Ewing, Thomas, -1776, printer.
Standardized Title:
Poems. 1771. Ewing
Language:
English
Genre:
Poetry.
Penn Provenance:
Elias, Archibald C. (donor)
Mercantile Library Company (Philadelphia) (bookplate) (stamp)
Physical Description:
212 pages ; 16 cm (8vo)
Fingerprint:
t.t, s.s, s.s, ShBu (7) 1771 (R)
Place of Publication:
Dublin : Printed by T. Ewing, MDCCLXXI [1771]
Notes:
Intended to accompany Ewing's 'the plays of Shakespeare', Dublin, 1771.
There exists another issue of the same title and date, with the same setting of type, where the imprint reads "printed by S. Powell for Thomas Ewing."
Signatures: a-n⁸ o².
Local Notes:
Penn Library Rare Books copy has caption title: 'Poems on several occasions' instead of Passionate Pilgrim & Sonnets.
Penn Library Rare Books copy has many blank pages after 212.
Cited in:
ESTC T138864
Fleeman, J.D. Johnson, 65.10SP/5
Jaggard, W. Shakespeare bibliography, p. 435
OCLC:
11637551

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