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VENUS AND ADONIS
**TENTH EDITION, 1630.**
lately removed from the Ashmolean Museum to its present home, the Bodleian Library (Wood 79). It measures $4\frac{3}{4}'' \times 3\frac{5}{6}''$, and there is a device on the title-page of Cupid throwing down his bow. This edition was reprinted early in the eighteenth century. In one impression of Lintott’s edition of Shakespeare’s *Poems* which appeared in 1710 it was stated that *Venus and Adonis* was there printed from an edition of 1630. A title-page was given bearing that date, and a printer’s device with the motto ‘Sua Laurea Phoebo’.
**ELEVENTH EDITION, 1630?**
No. XVII.
Bodleian (Malone) copy, 1630.
To the same year (1630) is assigned an imperfect copy (lacking the title-page) of a slightly differing impression, which is also in the Bodleian Library (Malone 891). It measures $4\frac{3}{4}'' \times 2\frac{5}{6}''$. A title-page, which is supplied in manuscript, suggests the date of 1630. The text is not identical with the perfect copy of that year, but it was clearly based on that edition. It was known, too, to the printer of the succeeding edition of 1636. It must therefore be dated between 1630 and the latter year.
**TWELFTH EDITION, 1636.**
No. XVIII.
Brit. Mus. copy, 1636.
Haviland’s third edition appeared in 1636 again, ‘to be sold by Francis Coules’, with the same device of Cupid throwing down his bow, as in Haviland’s first edition of 1630. Two copies alone are traceable. The signatures run as before, A to D iii in eights, and the book contains twenty-seven leaves. The British Museum copy, which measures $4\frac{3}{4}'' \times 3\frac{5}{6}''$, is bound in russia, and is badly stained and soiled, with a few leaves mended. It belonged to George Hibbert, of Portland Place, London, at whose sale in 1829 it fetched £1 14s. od. This copy is possibly identical with that which was sold bound up in a volume with the *Rape of Lucrece* (1616) and other poetical tracts, at the sale of Thomas Pearson in 1788, when the whole volume fetched £1 2s. od. A better copy of the 1636 edition now belongs to Mr. Marsden J. Perry, of Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.A. It measures $4\frac{3}{4}'' \times 3\frac{5}{6}''$ and contains twenty-eight leaves, the last being blank, while some leaves are uncut at the bottom. This copy was purchased by Henry Stevens, the American agent in London, in May, 1856, at Sotheby’s,
**No. XIX.**
Perry copy, 1636.
¹ See page 74.
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