The Love Poems and Sonnets of William Shakespeare [FIRST EDITION] 1957 • Doubleday & Co.

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The Love Poems and Sonnets of William Shakespeare with full color illustrations by Vera Block

FIRST EDITION [1957] DOUBLEDAY & COMPANY

Hardcover with dust jacket in excellent condition.

Dust jacket has some mild wear, but is overall in excellent shape. Now housed in a new archival quality jacket protector.

Book itself is near mint. Gilded floral pictorial white leather boards. Pages are bright, white and read like new.

The greatest sonnets ever written, by the greatest poet and playwright in the English language, Shakespeare became famous as a dazzling poet before most people even knew that he wrote plays. His sonnets are the English language’s most extraordinary anatomy of love in all its dimensions–desire and despair, longing and loss, adoration and disgust. To read them is to confront morality and eternity in the same breath. The Sonnets and Other Poems includes all of Shakespeare’s sonnets, the long narrative poems “Venus and Adonis” and several other shorter works.