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Poems: Written by Wil. Shake-speare. Gent.

Title-page Attribution: [As above]
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
Type: Print
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Did you know?

  • 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?