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Estimate: $ 12,000 - $ 18,000
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) Poems.
London: by Tho. Cotes to be sold by John Benson, 1640.
First edition, incomplete, lacking four leaves: portrait, title, To the Reader, and second title (i.e. [portrait], *1, *2, and A1); small octavo, last leaf mounted, some contemporary annotations, line numbering; shaved close, touching line ends at some fore-margins; bound in later calf, ex libris Joseph Haslewood, with his gilt-tooled armorial bookplate inside the front board and a note in his hand in ink on binder's ffep, "See British Bibliographer Vol. I p. 171. as to the precise contents of a perfect copy"; binding scuffed, becoming decased; stains and spotting to contents, 5 1/8 x 3 3/8 in.
