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- SONNETS OF SHAKESPEARE 55
but its main contents are 146 of Shakespeare’s sonnets interspersed with all the poems of Jaggard’s *Passionate Pilgrim* in the third edition of 1612, and further pieces by Heywood and others. A short appendix presents ‘an addition of some excellent poems . . . by other gentlemen’ which are all avowedly the composition of other pens.
There is no notice in the Stationers’ Register of the formal assignment of the copyright of either Shakespeare’s *Sonnets* or Jaggard’s *Passionate Pilgrim* to Benson. But Benson duly obtained a licence on November 4, 1639, for the publication of the appendix to his volume. The following entry appears in the Stationers’ Company’s Register under that date:—
Entred [to John Benson] for his Copie under the hands of doctor Wykes and Master fferterston warden *An Addicion of some excellent Poems* to Shakespeares *Poems* by other gentlemen. viz. His *mistris drawne.* and *her mind* by Beniamin Johnson. *An Epistle to Beniamin Johnson* by Ffrancis Beaumont. | His *Mistris shade* by R. Herrick. etc. vj.
The volume came from the press of Thomas Cotes, the printer who was at the moment the most experienced of any in the trade in the production of Shakespearean literature. Cotes had bought in 1627 and 1630 the large interests in Shakespeare’s plays which had belonged respectively to Isaac Jaggard and Thomas Pavier. He printed the Second Folio of 1632 and a new edition of *Pericles* in 1635. The device which figured on the title-page of his edition of *Pericles*, as well as on that of Pavier’s edition of that play in 1619, reappeared on Benson’s edition of the *Poems* in 1640.
But, closely associated as the *Poems* of 1640 were, through the printer Cotes, with the current reissues of Benson’s text.
¹ Arber, iv. 461.
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