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- VENUS AND ADONIS 73
for £49 10s. od. Henry Stevens had it re-bound in blue morocco by Bedford, and re-sold it at Sotheby’s for £56, in August, 1857. It subsequently passed into the library of Brayton Ives, of New York, who paid for it $1,350 or £270. At Brayton Ives’ sale in 1891 it was acquired by its present owner for $1,150 or £230.
The last edition known to have been produced in the seventeenth century was printed in 1675 ‘by Elizabeth Hodgkinsonne for F. Coles, T. Vere, J. Wright and J. Clark’, and was entered in ‘The Term Catalogue’ under date February 10, 1676, as ‘Venus and Adonis; A Poem by W. Shakespear. Price sixpence’. It was a diminutive volume of the chap-book order, and was published by a London firm, whose business was mainly confined to broadsides, ballads, and chap-books.
The only copy which seems traceable is now in America. Originally in the library of George Richard Savage Nassau, it was sold at the sale of his books in March, 1824, for £2 5s. od. It seems to have been subsequently for a time the property of J. O. Halliwell. On April 12, 1889, it was sold by an anonymous collector at Puttick and Simpson’s auction rooms in London, for £14 10s. od. to Messrs. Pearson and Co., of London. It afterwards passed to its present owner, Mr. H. C. Folger, jr., of New York. It is bound in russia.
Another copy of the 1675 edition, without a title-page, belonged to Malone and seems to have passed with his books to the Bodleian Library. It is mentioned in the catalogue of Malone’s books in the Bodleian Library, which was published in 1836. The entry is repeated in the printed catalogue of the Bodleian Library which was issued between 1835 and 1847. It also figures in the manuscript catalogue of the Library in present use, but no shelf-mark is there attached to it. The Cambridge editors reported that it was inaccessible to them when they sought to collate it in 1864. Efforts have been made at the instance of the present writer to find it during the present year, but so far without success.
‘Arber’s Term Catalogues, i. 230.
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