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[FINE PRESS & LIVRE D’ARTISTE]. –– [SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS]. SHAKESPEARE, William. Sonnets. Stratford–on–Avon: Shakespeare Head Press, 1905. 12mo. Half–title, title printed in black and red within decorative border, woodcut tail– and head–pieces on each page, printer’s device on colophon, ONE OF 12 COPIES PRINTED ON VELLUM, this being number 6. Full limp vellum, gilt lettered spine, green silk ties (faint yellowing to covers, few tiny spots to spine, occasional leaf yellowed near margins, lower ties laid in). One of Shakespeare Head’s earliest publication (the second item on Franklin’s checklist) and one of the scarcely seen vellum editions. Franklin Private Presses, p. 232. From the private library of a prominent Chicago collector, part II.