Uncommon and significant book: The Poems of Shakespeare, to which is added An Account of His Life. First American edition. Boston: Oliver and Munroe, and Belcher and Armstrong, 1807. Hardcover bound in contemporary brown calf, with gilt spine label, 4.25 x 7, 258 pages. Book condition: G+/None, with mottled foxing to textblock, tears at gutters of the two front endpapers, cracked joints, and an ownership inscription to a free end page. This was the first separate edition of Shakespeare's poems published in America: it was preceded only by a collection of his complete works published in Philadelphia between 1795-96.
