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SHAKESPEARE, William. –– LEE, Sidney (1859–1926), introduction. [Poems]. –– Venus and Adonis. –– Pericles. –– Lucerne. –– Sonnets. –– The Passionate Pilgrim. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1905. 5 works in 5 volumes, 4to (254 x 203 mm). Half–titles, collotype facsimile leaves of the first editions “which found no place in the first folio” (Jaggard) that were taken from copies held at the Bodleian Library and the Christie Miller Library at Britwell. Each uniformly bound in full gilt vellum (lacking ties, boards warped, endpapers toned). Provenance: William Andrews Clark Jr. (red leather bookplate); a very important book collector. LIMITED EDITION, number 118 of 1000 copies SIGNED BY LEE on limitation in the compendium volume (Venus and Adonis). These works formed a supplement to the facsimile of the First Folio issued by Oxford University Press in 1902. From the private library of a prominent Chicago collector, part II.