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- 62 VENUS AND ADONIS
FOURTH EDITION, 1599.
lumber-room. All were in good condition in contemporary vellum binding, and in many cases the leaves were uncut. But the most interesting feature of this treasure-trove was the vellum-bound volume in perfect condition which sheltered within its covers Leake's edition of *Venus and Adonis* dated 1599, a copy of *The Passionate Pilgrim* published in the same year, and a copy of *Epitgrames and Elegies by I. D. and C. M. At Middleborough*. (The last pamphlet consisted of epitgrams by Sir John Davies, and certain of Ovid's Elegies translated by Christopher Marlowe, and was issued in London—not, as stated, at Middleborough—in all probability in 1598.) This rare volume of triplicate interest was sold in the summer of 1895, by Sir Charles Isham, to Mr. Christie Miller of Britwell Court, Maidenhead, together with much else that was valuable in the Lamport treasure-trove. The 1599 edition of *Venus and Adonis*, which is now at Britwell, measures $4\frac{3}{4}'' \times 3\frac{1}{8}''$; the signatures run as before in eights from A to D iij; and it consists of twenty-seven leaves. The text follows that of 1596, but there are some
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