Poems: written by Wil. Shake-speare. Gent. Printed at London by Tho. Cotes, and are to be sold by Iohn Benson dwelling in St. Dunstans Church-yard. 1640.
8o. (51⁄4 × 33⁄8). *. 10.
Collation: Portrait unsigned, *4A-L8M4, 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.
BM 1392.
¦Shake-speares Sonnets. Neuer before Imprinted. At London By G. Eld for T. T. and are to be solde by Iohn Wright, dwelling at Christ Church gate. 1609.¦
4o. (7 × 5). S. 36. 5.
Collation: A2B-K4L2, unpaged. Wanting A 1-2, B 1, K 2-L2, supplied in manuscript by Capell. Dedication to 'Mr. W. H.' signed T. T. (i.e. Thomas Thorpe the publisher). 'A Lovers complaint' begins on K 1v. Some copies bear in the imprint the name of William Aspley in place of Wright's name and address.
BM 1392.
Venus and Adonis.
Vilia miretur vulgus, mihi flauus Apollo
Pocula Castalia plena ministret aqua.
London, Printed for I. P. 1620.