Jane Austen's Copy of Shakespeare's Sonnets

1 3/4" x 1 1/4"
96 pages

A conceit of my own. A Jane Austen expert told me that Austen was especially fond of the Sonnets, and suggested making a miniature copy. I've printed all 154 sonnets, and prefaced it with a quote from Mansfield Park: “But Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is a part of an Englishman's constitution. His thoughts and beauties are so spread abroad that one touches them everywhere; one is intimate with him by instinct. No man of any brain can open at a good part of one of his plays without falling into the flow of his meaning immediately.” The binding is contemporary with Austen, and Jane's signature appears on the flyleaf.

This product was added to our catalog  December 9, 2011