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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616)
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.
1893RCIN 1059056
Amongst the more modern holdings of Shakespeare’s works in the Royal Library is this Kelmscott Press edition of the poems and sonnets. The Kelmscott Press, run by the arts-and-crafts designer William Morris (1834 – 1896), aimed to produce printed books in an aesthetically-pleasing, late-medieval German style, in contrast to the ordinary, machine-made books of the day.
