The Famous Historie of Troylus and Cresseid. Excellently expressing the
beginning of their loues, with the conceited wooing of Pandarus Prince
of Licia. Written by William Shakespeare. _London Imprinted by G. Eld
for R. Bonian and H. Walley, and are to be sold at the spred Eagle in
Paules Church-yeard, ouer against the great North doore._ 1609.
4^o. (6-7/8 × 5). T. 7. 1.
Collation: ¶^2A2-4 B-L^4M^2, unpaged. Wanting M 2 (? blank).
Address to the reader. This is the second issue of the first
edition, the original titlepage (A 1) being replaced by a
half-sheet (¶) containing titlepage and address to the reader.
Lucrece, _At London, Printed by P. S. for Iohn Harrison._ 1598.
8^o. (4-7/8 × 3-1/8). *. 19. 1.
Collation: A-D^8E^4, unpaged. Epistle dedicatory to Henry
Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton, signed William Shakespeare.
Argument. Collated throughout by Capell with the ed. of 1594. No
other copy of this, the second, edition is known.
Sinker 774.
Lucrece. _At London, Printed be_ [sic] _N. O. for Iohn Harison._ 1607.
8^o. (5-1/8 × 3-1/4). *. 9.
Collation: A-D^8, unpaged. (A 4 is misprinted B 4). Epistle
dedicatory to Henry Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton, signed,
William Shakespeare. Argument. This is the fourth edition, the
third having appeared in 1600.
The Passionate Pilgrime. By W. Shakespeare. _At London Printed for W.
Iaggard, and are to be sold by W. Leake, at the Greyhound in Paules
Churchyard._ 1599.
8^o. (4-1/2 × 3-1/4). *. 22. 1.
Collation: A-D^8, unpaged. A 1 and D 8 blank. Printed on the recto
of leaves only, except in sigs. D 5-7. Ornament at head and foot of
each printed page. At sig. C 3 is a separate titlepage: 'Sonnets To
sundry notes of Musicke' with same imprint as above, (in the
present copy the date has been cut away by the binder). The only
other copy known which was formerly at Lamport Hall is now at
Britwell Court. First edition.
Sinker 801.
Poems: written by Wil. Shake-speare. Gent. _Printed at London by Tho.
Cotes, and are to be sold by Iohn Benson dwelling in S^{t}. Dunstans
Church-yard._ 1640.
8^o. (5-1/4 × 3-3/8). *. 10.
Collation: Portrait unsigned, *^4A-L^8M^4, unpaged. Engraved
portrait after that by Droeshout, signed W. M. with verses below.
Address to the reader signed I. B. (_i.e._ John Benson).
Commendatory verses signed Leon. Digges and Iohn Warren. Duplicate
titlepage, as above but without date. At the end of the poems
purporting to be by Shakespeare appear commendatory verses signed
I. M. (Milton's lines from the second folio), W. B. (_i.e._ William
Basse; the lines first appeared in Donne's poems in 1633), and one
copy unsigned; after which is 'An Addition of some Excellent Poems,
to those precedent, of Renowned Shakespeare, By other Gentlemen,'
of which two are signed B. I. (_i.e._ Ben Jonson), one F. B.
(_i.e._ Francis Beaumont), and one I. G.