News about medieval manuscripts, rare books and other special collections from the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford
Shakespeare’s Sonnets 78 to 98
This series is called, ‘Figures of delight,’ after the title given to Sonnet 98 by Ken Burnley, Silver Birch Press. NOTE – missing sonnets will be supplied in the correct place as soon as photos are made!
Sonnet 78, Wolverine Press, USA: a resetting of page 92, vol. 8 of the first U.S. edition of Shakespeare’s plays and poems (1796)
Sonnet 79, Andy Taylor, The Elrod Press, UK
Sonnet 80, Brian McMullin, Ancora Press, Melbourne, Australia
Sonnet 81, Alexandra Janezic, Iowa City, USA
Sonnet 81 (detail), Alexandra Janezic, Iowa City, USA
Hi, glad to say we’ve just posted the penultimate set, and looking forward to getting all the images on next week.
Happy printing!
When will the rest of the sonnets be posted?