Excerpt from Shakespeare's Sonnets: Being a Reproduction in Facsimile of the First Edition 1609, From the Copy in the Malone Collection in the Bodleian Library Introduction TO sonnets I. General Characteristics II. Relation of Sonnets to the Early Plays III. The History of the Publication IV. The State of the Text V. Early Manuscript Copies and Reprints VI. A Census of Copies. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.