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Title page of the fourth edition of Shakespeare's plays.

List of characters and first page of King Lear, showing Dr Johnson's extensive glossing.

Front page of an edition of Shakespeare's poems with an engraving of Shakespeare's patron, the Earl of Southampton

Title page of the 1844 edition of the play. Leicester University Library stamp.

First page of Shakespeare's most famous long poem, Venus and Adonis, based on a tale in Ovid's Metamorphosis

Front page of the 1609 edition of Shakespeare's Sonnets

Front page of a Quarto Edition of Shakespeare's King Lear

Frontspiece and blank page with various scribbles by previous copy owner(s)

Frontispiece of a copy of the 'Geneva Bible'.
Commonly called the Breeches Bible [see p.2 Genesis Ch.3:7]
Another ed. of Genevan Bible of 1560.

First page of Sir Philip Sydney's Arcadia