HOLZAPFEL, Rudolf Melander. Shakespeare’s Secret | A New & Correct Interpretation of Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Which are Now for the First Time Fully Explained, with a Word-for-Word Interpretation of Each Sonnet and a Running Commentary Proving the Continuity of the First 126 Sonnets and a Re-Arrangement of the Dark Lady Sonnets.

Dublin: Printed and Published at the Dolmen Press for the Melander Shakespeare Society, 1961. Small quarto. First edition. pp. xxi, [iii], 160. Title printed in red and black, text with red initials, with headpieces and initials printed red. Full cream vellum parchment type covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine, gilt coat of arms to the upper cover. Designed by Liam Miller being limited to 1000 copies. Signed presentation copy from Rudolf Melander Holzapfel to Kevin Casey, dated at Dublin, 23rd April, 1964 (Shakespeare’s 400th anniversary of birth). A fine copy in repaired dust jacket.

[L3 11D]