Shakespeare's Sonnets

San Francisco: Arion Press, 1997. Hardcover. Fine. Hardcover. Number 140 of 200 numbered copies with 26 lettered copies for private distribution. Helen Vendler provides an informative and enlightening discussion of the 154 sonnets in her introduction. Helen Vendler was an American academic, writer and literary critic. She was a professor of English language and history at Boston University, Cornell, Harvard, and other universities. [Wikipedia] She died in 2024. This lovely volume is bound in elegant quarter leather with patterned cinnamon and silk brocade covers. Gilt titling to spine. Very minor sunning to spine. Printed on Hahnemühle paper using handset Bulmer type with Stylescript for initial letters, sonnet numbers and running heads. The book was designed and produced at the Press under the direction of Andrew Hoyem. Housed in a brown paper covered slipcase with the brocade of the book's covers along its edges. Small title label to spine. In about fine condition. Measures 7 x 8 inches. Introduction is 24 unnumbered pages plus the 154 sonnets and index of first lines. PRI/100424. (Inventory #: 37532)