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- VENUS AND ADONIS 55
owning as many as nine; of these one came from the library of Robert Burton, the author of the *Anatomy of Melancholy* (No. X); a second came from the library of Anthony à Wood (No. XVI); three were presented by the great Shakespearean scholar, Edmund Malone (Nos. I, VI, and VIII); two were bequeathed by Thomas Caldecott (Nos. III and XII); and two (Nos. XVII and XXI) have been purchased. The British Museum owns five copies. Trinity College, Cambridge, owns one. The remaining six, which are alone in private hands, are evenly divided between England and America. The three private owners in England are Mr. A. H. Huth, Mrs. Christie Miller, and the Earl of Macclesfield. The three private owners in America are Mr. Robert Hoe and Mr. H. C. Folger, jr. (both of New York); and Mr. Marsden J. Perry, of Providence, Rhode Island.
Few of the copies have run the gauntlet of public auction. None of the more interesting exemplars have changed hands of recent years, and the recorded prices are very small compared with those which would be realized in the present state of the book market. Malone deemed the £25 which he paid in 1805 for the unique copy of the first edition ‘an enormous price’. That copy is now safely housed in the Bodleian Library, but had it a present selling value its price would exceed £2,000. The highest sum which any copy of an early edition has fetched in the sale-room is £336, which was paid by the British Museum for George Daniel’s copy of the 1596 edition in 1864. Forty-four years earlier this volume had realized at a sale £91. A century before, an exemplar of the same edition in inferior condition, now in the Bodleian Library, was bought bound up with other poetical tracts for 6d.
The following is a detailed account of each of the Census of copies.
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