Daniel, Samuel

3 parts in one volume, large 8vo (10 1/8 x 6 in.; 256 x 152 mm). Woodcut architectural title border (McKerrow & Ferguson 229), woodcut headpieces and decorative initials, cancel slip over two lines on leaf ²A5v; some light soiling and spotting to title, clean tear in top margin of leaf ³A4 entering text. Modern brown pigskin, blind-ruled, gilt-stamped title and date on spine, edges gilt; rebacked with original spine laid down.

James Cox Brady (bookplate). acquisition: Seven Gables, 1965

STC 6237; ESTC ; Greg, III, p. 1051; Pforzheimer 249

some light soiling and spotting to title, clean tear in top margin of leaf 3A4 entering text. Modern brown pigskin, blind-ruled, gilt-stamped title and date on spine, edges gilt; rebacked with original spine laid down.
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Second collected edition, second issue, with only minor typographical variants from the first issue of 1601. Shakespeare was influenced by Daniel's The Complaint of Rosamond, traces of which appear in Lucrece, A Lover's Complaint and in Romeo and Juliet, and likewise by his sonnets To Delia, both of which appear in this edition.