[Rarebooks] FS: First separate American printing of "The Poems of Shakespeare" Boston: 1807

[Kenneth Karmiole]

Shakespeare, William. THE POEMS OF SHAKESPEARE. To Which Is Added an Account of His Life. First American Edition. Boston: Oliver and Munroe and Belcher and Armstrong. 1807. 12mo. 258pp. Orig. boards, spine quite worn, with the paper title label mostly worn away, but an entirely untrimmed copy that is quite sound.    $850.00 (trade discount allowed)
THE POEMS had first appeared in America in the very scarce 8 volume set, "The Plays and Poems of Shakespeare," in 1795-1796 [i.e. Volume 3, 1795]. Our 1807 printing is the first separate edition published in America. Jaggard p. 436.

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