The standard edition of the pictorial Shakspere . 92. ILLUSTRATION OF THE SONNETS. The original edition of this collection of poems borethe following title: Shake-speares before imprinted. At London, by G. Eld,for T. T., and are to be sold by John Wright,dwelling at Christ Church-gate. 1609. The vo-lume is a small quarto. In addition to the Sonnetsit contains, at the end, A Lovers Complaint. ByWilliam Shake-speare. In this collection theSonnets are numbered from i. to cliv., and they fol-low in their numerical order, as in the text we havepresented to our readers. But, although t
The standard edition of the pictorial Shakspere . 92. ILLUSTRATION OF THE SONNETS. The original edition of this collection of poems borethe following title: Shake-speares before imprinted. At London, by G. Eld,for T. T., and are to be sold by John Wright,dwelling at Christ Church-gate. 1609. The vo-lume is a small quarto. In addition to the Sonnetsit contains, at the end, A Lovers Complaint. ByWilliam Shake-speare. In this collection theSonnets are numbered from i. to cliv., and they fol-low in their numerical order, as in the text we havepresented to our readers. But, although this ar-rangement of the Sonnets is now the only oneadopted in editions of Shaksperes Poems, anotheroccasionally prevailed up to the time of the publi-cation of Steevenss fac-simile reprint of the Sonnetsin 1766. An interval of thirty-one years elapsedbetween the publication of the volume by T. T.(Thomas Thorpe) in 1609, and the demand for areprint of these remarkable poems. In 1640 ap-peared Poems, written by Wil. Shake-speare, at Londo
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