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The Poems & Sonnets of William Shakespeare.

Edited by Gwyn Jones.

Stock Code 112743

London, The Golden Cockerel Press, 1960

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Finely bound by Bayntun-Riviere. A superb copy of the Golden Cockerel Press edition of the sonnets and narrative poems of England's most famous dramatist, finely bound in red morocco gilt by Bayntun-Rivière with an all-over design of meandering roses onlaid in pink, green and red.

Limited edition, number 247 of 470 copies; folio (325 x 200 mm); bookplate to front free endpaper verso; red morocco by Bayntun-Riviere, panels elaborately tooled in gilt with an all-over design of meandering roses onlaid in pink, green and red, gilt spine in 6 compartments, top-edge gilt, others uncut, dentelles tooled in kind, very light offsetting to margins of endpapers, a fine copy enclosed in red cloth solander box, contrasting green morocco title-piece to spine; 245, [1]pp.

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Provenance: Captain Richard Campbell, OBE, RN (bookplate).

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The Poems & Sonnets of William Shakespeare.

SHAKESPEARE, William.

Stock code: 112743

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