The poems of William Shakespeare: printed after the original copies of Venus and Adonis, 1593, The Rape of Lucrece, 1594, Sonnets, 1609, The Lover's complaint.
Shakespeare, William,1564-1616.
Ellis, Frederick Startridge,1830-1901.
[Hammersmith : Kelmscott Press,
1893]
Imprint from colophon.
Bound in limp vellum with silk ties.
The colophon begins: 'Here ends this edition of Shakespeare's Poems, edited by Frederick S. Ellis ...'
'After a lapse of about three hundred years Shakespeare's Poems are in this edition printed with the original spelling. That the orthography of an author of the 16th or 17th century cannot without detriment be translated into that of the 19th, seems a proposition too evident to leave room for controversy. The fact of being able to study these poems in the language in which they were written, ought we think, to add materially to the pleasure of the reader.' -- Foreword