B75 THE SONNETS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 1975

THE SONNETS | WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE | Preface by Robert Graves | with drawings by | Clarke Hutton | [publisher’s device] | LONDON : THE SWALLOW PRESS : 1975

Collation: [1]2[2]–[12]8, 90 leaves.

pp.[1]–[2] blank; p.[3] THE SONNETS: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE; p. [4] blank; p.[5] title-page; p.[6] publisher’s, printer’s, copyright and ISBN notices; p.[7] CONTENTS; p.[8] blank; pp. [9]–[17] THE PREFACE; p.[18] blank; pp.[19]–[173] text, with plates after sonnets 1, 9, 17, 25, 33, 41, 49, 57, 65, 73, 81, 89, 97, 105, 113, 121, 129, 137, 145, 153; p.[176] blank; p. [177] numbering statement and signatures; pp.[178]–[180] blank. N.B. No pages are numbered.

34.0 × 24.4 cm. Bulk: 2.1/2.9 cm. White laid paper; watermarked: Glastonbury. White wove endpapers, outsides printed in purple with angular gold designs. Bound in full niger leather with single rule blind stamping on edges of boards; back blank; front gold stamped star burst and crescent design; spine stamped in gold: [as a monogram:] WS | [raised band] | [up spine:] THE SONNETS | [raised band] | [publisher’s emblem]

Price: £260.00 (copies 1–40) £175.00 (copies 41–300). Number of copies: 300. Published in 1975 in slipcase covered in paper printed as outside endpapers.

Notes: Graves’s contribution is the Preface (pp.[9] – [17]).

Copies numbered 1-40 are special copies and are accompanied by a portfolio containing one original illustration signed by Clarke Hatton. These copies have a Swallow blocked in gold on the back cover of the book, together with roman numerals indicating the respective number.

There were 26 copies for review numbered A-Z, and bound in tan buckram with a purple cloth spine.