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James Boswell [1821], The plays and poems of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators: comprehending A Life of the Poet, and an enlarged history of the stage, by the late Edmond Malone. With a new glossarial index (J. Deighton and Sons, Cambridge) [word count] [S10201].
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A LIST OF THE MOST AUTHENTICK ANCIENT EDITIONS OF SHAKSPEARE'S POEMS.

1. Venus and Adonis, 4to. imprinted by Richard Field, 15934 note
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2. Venus and Adonis, 1596, small octavo, or rather decimo sexto, R. F. for John Harrison.

Reprinted in 1600, 1602, 1617, 1620, 1630, &c.

3. Lucrece, quarto, 1594, Richard Field, for John Harrison.

Reprinted in small octavo, in 1596, 1598, 1600, 1607, 1616, 1624, 1632, &c.

4. The Passionate Pilgrim [being a collection of Poems by Shakspeare], small octavo, 1599, for W. Jaggard; sold by William Leake.

5. The Passionate Pilgrime, or certain amorous Sonnets between Venus and Adonis, &c. The third edition, small octavo, 1612, W. Jaggard.

I know not when the second edition was printed.

6. Shakspeare's Sonnets, never before imprinted, quarto, 1609, G. Eld, for T. T.

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An edition of Shakspeare's Sonnets, differing in many particulars from the original, and intermixed with the poems contained in The Passionate Pilgrim, and with several poems written by Thomas Heywood, was printed in 1640, in small octavo, by Thomas Cotes, sold by John Benson.

MODERN EDITIONS.

Shakspeare's Poems, small octavo, for Bernard Lintot, no date, but printed in 1710.

The Sonnets in this edition were printed from the quarto of 1609; Venus and Adonis, and Lucrece, from very late editions, full of errors.

The Poems of William Shakspeare, containing his Venus and Adonis, Rape of Lucrece, Sonnets, Passionate Pilgrim, and A Lover's Complaint, printed from the authentick copies, by Malone, in octavo, 1780.

Ditto, Second Edition, with the author's plays, crown octavo, 1790.

Spurious editions of Shakspeare's Poems have also been published by Gildon, Sewell, Evans, &c. Malone.

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James Boswell [1821], The plays and poems of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators: comprehending A Life of the Poet, and an enlarged history of the stage, by the late Edmond Malone. With a new glossarial index (J. Deighton and Sons, Cambridge) [word count] [S10201].
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