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Author:	William Shakespeare
Title:	Shake-Speares Sonnets
Publisher:	Thomas Thorpe
Country:	UK
Date:	1609
Format:	Hardcover
Genre:	Literature, Poetry
Total Editions:	3
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Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	1 Wants
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80 pages, 19 cm.

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23skidoo 25th Jan 2023		@xiphophilos One wonders how expensive such a venture would have been.



xiphophilos 18th Oct 2020		To be sure, though, at the time this quarto came out, it was the buyer's responsibility to have it bound. Only in the 19th century did publishers begin to sell books that were already bound: https://lib.msu.edu/exhibits/historyofbinding/early19thcentury/



xiphophilos 18th Oct 2020		Your instinct was right, it's not a paperback book: The title page image belongs to the W. Aspley copy owned by the Folger Library. I've changed it to Hardcover.



23skidoo 18th Oct 2020		@xiphophilos You never know who might be contributing - maybe there's some millionaire book collector with time on his or her hands who has this on their shelf! LOL. All that said, this first edition was still marked as being a paperback which is what drew my attention to this listing in the first place as, per my earlier comment, one would have assumed the first edition would have been published between hard covers. Is it actually correct to list this under Paperback format?



xiphophilos 18th Oct 2020		This is the first-ever edition of Shakespeare's "Sonnets." The image of the title page was taken from the Wikipedia entry "Thomas Thorpe". Clearly, none of the users here owns it, or they could have provided their own image. Considering that only thirteen copies of this quarto are known to exist at all, this is probably not too surprising. This particular variant, which lists bookseller W. Aspley, exists only in 4 copies (source), all four of which are linked in this blog post.



23skidoo 28th May 2020		As I write this, this is the earliest-dated publication in this index, but I note no one has clicked "I Own It" (I clicked "I Want It" to be cheeky). Just curious - did the person who actually indexed this have a copy or is this taken from archival sources? EDIT: I just noticed this is classified as paperback. I didn't think those existed in 1609; were the Sonnets not published between hard covers?

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