The Poems of Shakespeare. To which is Added An Account of his Life.
Boston: Published by Oliver and Munroe, and Belcher and Armstrong, 1807.
First separate American edition. 258pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Original burnt orange boards, uncut. Spine and extremities worn, some waterstaining, mostly light and marginal, some light browning and spotting of text. Printed label :"Shakespeare's Poems" printed down the spine. Booklabel of Thomas T. Barrett on front pastedown Jaggard p. 436; Shaw and Shoemaker 13575. For the 1640 first edition: Pforzheimer 880. Item #317216
A lovely, unsophisticated copy in the original binding.
Perhaps because of Puritanical bias, no edition of any of Shakespeare's works appeared in America until little known separate printings of Hamlet and Twelfth Night by the Boston Theater in 1794. A set of Shakespeare's complete works was published in Philadephia between 1795-96, with the present separate edition of the Poems following.
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