Shakespeare's Sonnets
By William Shakespeare
Camptonville, California: The New Albion Press, 2009. Edition of 101.
6.5 x 9.5"; 86 pages. Edition of 101: 75 standard; 26 deluxe. All copies bound by Coriander Reisbord.
Standard: Signed and numbered. Printed on Zerkall Ingres paper. Case-bound in cream cloth-covered boards. Gold-stamped with an emblem inspired by Doves Bindery tooling. Decorative endbands of terracotta goatskin.
Deluxe: Signed and lettered A to Z. Printed on handmade Twinrocker Yale paper. Bound in the sewn-board design invented by Gary Frost. Quarter bound in terracotta goat-skin. Titling gold stamped. Boards covered in handmade paper printed with a Doves pattern.
This is the first publication of The New Albion Press, printed in commemoration of the four hundredth anniversary of the first printing of the Sonnets in 1609 and the one hundredth anniversary of the Doves Press edition printed in 1909 by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson.
The New Albion Press, prospectus: "Printed on an 1850 Hopkinson & Cope Albion handpress using traditional dampened paper and hand inking, the text is set in the beautiful Doves Type, created by Emery Walker and cut by Edward Prince for the Doves Press. Although the type was destroyed by 1917, it has been revived in modern times by Torbjörn Olsson, and the text was printed from polymer plates. The red initial capital derives from that designed by Edward Johnston for the Doves edition. Marginal titles are printed in red, blue and violet, reflecting their location in the sequence of the sonnets.
"The text of the Sonnets has been painstakingly edited to incorporate the best recent scholarship as to the spelling, punctuation, and meaning of the poems. The Doves Press edition aimed to present the text as the product of the times of its first publication, and thus made few changes from the 1609
edition. Our intention in contrast has been to present an edition for modern readers, with punctuation chosen to further the flow of the poetry and other emendations chosen to support its meaning. Chief among the many sources consulted were the original 1609 Quarto edition of the Sonnets, and editions prepared by Stephen Booth (1977), Katherine Duncan-Jones (1997), G. Blakemore Evans (1996), John Kerrigan (1986), Helen Vendler (1997) and David West (2007)."
$450, standard
$850, deluxe |
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