William Shakespeare
Shake-speares Sonnets. Tercentenary Edition, 1909
(Hammersmith): Doves Press
One of 250 copies on paper.
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Octavo. 86pp. With two full-page and one half-page capitals designed by Edward Johnston and engraved by Noel Rooke and Eric Gill. Headings printed in red. The text is taken directly...
Octavo. 86pp. With two full-page and one half-page capitals designed by Edward Johnston and engraved by Noel Rooke and Eric Gill. Headings printed in red. The text is taken directly from the first edition of 1609, with all corrections noted at the end. As he opted to use Shakespeare's original text for this work, punctuation and whether or not to update it became a principal focus - to the extent that, upon finding an errant comma in the first Sonnet, Cobden-Sanderson corrected it on every sheet using Chinese white, rather than reset this page featuring Johnston's dramatic and sweeping initial "F." Cobden-Sanderson ushered this and his Hamlet through the Press in the same year, which happened to also mark his move from No. 1 The Terrace to 15 Upper Mall. Very fine in publisher's full limp vellum and housed in a morocco-trimmed slipcase.