John Benson (publisher)
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John Benson was a London publisher of the middle seventeenth century, best remembered for a historically important publication of the Sonnets and miscellaneous poems of William Shakespeare in 1640.
The frontispiece to Benson's edition of Shakespeare's poems
The Passionate Pilgrim
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The Passionate Pilgrim is an anthology of 21 poems collected and published by William Jaggard that were attributed to "W. Shakespeare" on the title page, only five of which are considered authenticall
Title page of the second edition of The Passionate Pilgrim (1599), from a copy in the Huntington Library
Secondary title page included within The Passionate Pilgrim O2 (1599)
Comparison of PP 18 beginning with the seventh stanza. Left: O1, right: O2