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 & A RUNNING COMMENTARY PROVING THE CONTINUITY OF THE FIRST 126 SONNETS AND A RE-ARRANGEMENT OF THE DARK LADY SONNETS (SIGNED)

Quarto, 10.25 in. x 7.25 in., pp. xxi, [3], 160. Half-sheet "Corrigenda" following colophon page. Inscribed, dated (1966) and signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Designed by Liam Miller with edition limited to 1000 copies. Illustrated with frontis of Shakespeare and red drop caps throughout. Ivory parchment paper boards with gilt insignia to front and gilt title to spine. Publisher's red edges. Nudges to corners and spine ends. Touch of sunning to spine. Tanning to endpapers. Spine and hinges tight. Rudolf Patrick (Rudi) Holzapfel (1938 - 2005) was an Irish poet and teacher. At Trinity College, Dublin, where he edited the magazine Icarus, Holzapfel began to identify with Ireland and the cause of Irish nationalism; he has said he would like to be considered a true inheritor of the spiritual legacy of the Gaelic Bards. He began a lifelong study and appreciation of James Clarence Mangan (1803-1849), who he describes as the greatest Irish poet before Yeats. (Wikipedia).