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- 60 VENUS AND ADONIS
THIRD EDITION, 1596.
book was changed. The quarto shape gave place to the octavo, and the quarto shape was never resumed. The signatures henceforth run A to D iij in eights. Though the page was slightly smaller, each bore as much type as before, and the leaves continued to number twenty-seven. The text of 1594 is followed in the issue of 1596 with small typographical change. Field was the printer. Two copies are extant—one in the British Museum, and the other in the Bodleian. The British Museum copy, which measures $4\frac{7}{8}'' \times 2\frac{15}{16}''$, is bound in half-(olive) morocco with red cloth sides, and is preserved in a russia leather case. It is in good condition, although one or two of the concluding leaves are stained. The book was in the library of Sir William Bolland, at whose sale in 1840 it was bought by Benjamin Heywood Bright for £91. At Bright's sale on April 7, 1845, it was bought by George Daniel for £91 10s. od.¹ The underbidder was Thomas Grenville. At
¹ Daniel wrote in the book the following note:—“This most precious
No. V.
Brit. Mus.
copy, 1596.
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