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(KELMSCOTT PRESS.) Morris, William. The Poems of William Shakespeare, Printed after the Original Copies of Venus and Adonis, 1593. The Rape of Lucrece, 1594. Sonnets, 1609. The Lover's Complaint. Printed in red and black. 7 woodcut initials and the 3 title divisions with woodcut borders; additional portrait frontispiece of Shakespeare engraved by Freeman bound before Foreword. 8vo, rebound in full ostrich by Sangorski & Sutcliffe (in 1978, though unsigned) with calf endleaves backed in watered silk; housed in a matching clamshell box of velvet-lined brown morocco with exterior covered in full ostrich, title and date gilt-stamped on spine. (Hammersmith, 1893)
one of 500 copies printed by morris at the kelmscott press. One of the scarcer Kelmscott titles, in a rather unusual and luxurious binding. Peterson A11.
