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- VENUS AND ADONIS 71
with the readings of the two earliest quartos, Wreittoun’s text is defaced by many misprints of his own invention (cf. ‘seaseth’ (line 25) for ‘seizeth’; ‘winkt, and turnde’ (90) for ‘winks, and turns’; ‘rivals’ (123) for ‘revels’; ‘thus’ (205) for ‘this’; ‘relieue, the’ (480) for ‘relieveth’; ‘screeks’ (531) for ‘shrieks’; ‘through’ (967) for ‘throng’; ‘their’ (1040) for ‘her’). The pages are numbered for the first time and the numbers run 1 to 46 (misprinted 47).
Of the two extant copies of Wreittoun’s volume one is in the British Museum, and the other is in the library of Mr. Robert Hoe, of New York. The British Museum copy, which measures $5\frac{3}{4}'' \times 3\frac{3}{8}''$, is bound in calf. It is in a soiled condition; the title is cropped and inlaid, and several leaves are repaired. It was at one time the property of George Chalmers, whose book-plate is preserved in it. It was sold at Chalmers’ sale (pt. ii, no. 558) in 1842, for £37 10s. od., the catalogue giving the wrong date, 1607. Benjamin Heywood Bright was the purchaser; at the sale of his books in 1845 (no. 5068) it was called ‘unique’; it was then bought for £35 for the British Museum.
The second copy, now in the library of Mr. Robert Hoe, of New York, is a far finer copy than that in the British Museum, and is ‘the only perfect copy known’. It is in the original vellum binding with uncut leaves. A preliminary leaf signed ‘A’ has an ornamental border near the top, but is otherwise blank. This leaf does not appear in the British Museum copy. Mr. Hoe’s copy was discovered in a worthless lot of books by a bookseller, at a country sale in 1864. It was sold in London, at Sotheby’s, in March of that year, and bought by Pickering, the London bookseller, for £115. Pickering made it over to Almon W. Griswold, of New York, some time after whose death it was secured by the present owner.¹
An edition of 1630 was ‘Printed by J[ohn] H[aviland] and sold by Francis Coules’. Only a single copy is known. It was formerly the property of Anthony à Wood, and was
¹ Cf. Robert Hoe’s Catalogue of Early English Books, New York, 1904, vol. iv, p. 105, with facsimile of title-page.
NINTH EDITION, 1627.
No. XVI. Brit. Mus. copy, 1627.
No. XV. Hoe copy, 1627.
TENTH EDITION, 1630.
No. XVI. Bodleian (Wood) copy, 1630.
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