Vol.1 is a reissue of the [1709] edition, with cancel titlepage and cancel divisional titlepages, these bearing the imprint: "printed in the year 1609."--ESTC.

The publication history for the edition of the Poems printed for Bernard Lintott is complicated. Three states have been identified. State 1: A volume lacking "vol." designation was individually issued in July 1709, followed by the second volume identifying itself as "the second volume" in Feb. 1711. The two volumes, issued at different times, had no general title page. State 2: The two volumes were immediately reissued together with an undated general title page in 1711, with the same setting of type. State 3: The two volumes were reissued again together with an undated general title page, ca. 1711, lacking the first volume title page, with slight changes to dates on the divisional poem title pages. A later undated issue published ca. 1712, has a different imprint, which includes O. Lloyd--Folger Shakesepeare Library catalog.

The four titles in volume 1 each have a separate title with imprint: London, Printed in the year 1609.

(Continued from the title page): The first volume contains, I. Venus and Adonis. II. The rape of Lucrece. III. The passionate pilgrim. IV. Some sonnets set to sundry musick. The second volume contains one hundred and fifty four sonnets, all of them in praise of his mistress. II. A lover's complaint of his angry mistress.

Boston Public Library. Catalogue of the Barton Collection, Shakespeare, page 2

English short title catalogue, T138086

Cataloged 2015 jmoschella

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy cataloged under call no. G.4061.3 quarterbound in brown, 19th-century morocco and papier tourniquet. The armorial bookplates of the Barton Library and of John Disney are present on the front pastedown. The embossed stamp of the Library is present on the first two title pages.

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy cataloged under call no. G.4061.5 contains the second volume only, and is bound in brown cloth. In this copy, the final two pages (leaf H1) are wanting.