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- VENUS AND ADONIS 59
SECOND EDITION, 1594.
by Thomas Grenville for £116, and bequeathed by him to the British Museum in 1846. It measures 6½" × 4¾". The edges are somewhat closely cut, and some pages are slightly mended. It is bound in olive morocco by Clarke. It was reproduced by Mr. E. W. Ashbee in 1867, together with the edition of 1593.
The Bodleian copy (Malone Additional 886) was bequeathed to the Library by Thomas Caldecott, an ardent student of Shakespeare, in 1833. With it are bound (in red morocco) first editions of *Lucrece* (1594) and the *Sonnets* (1609). The signature of an early owner, ‘Thomas Newton,’ appears on the last leaf. A manuscript note by Caldecott on the fly-leaf runs thus:—‘I purchased the contents of this volume, June, 1796, of an obscure bookseller, of the name of Vanderberg, near St. Margaret’s Church, Westminster. He had cut them with several others out of a volume, put each of them separately in blue paper, and priced them at 4s. and 5s. Some time after he told me that he had met with them among many others at a bookseller’s auction.’ The copy measures 6½" × 4¾", and the edges are closely shaved.
The third copy of the 1594 edition, which is generally regarded as the finest, belonged, until 1864, to George Daniel, of Canonbury, and was purchased at the Daniel sale in 1864 by Mr. Henry Huth for £240. It measures as much as 7½" × 4½".
With Harrison’s first edition of 1596, the form of the THIRD EDITION, 1596.
* Hints of a fourth copy of the 1594 edition exist. Such a copy seems referred to by Thomas Grenville in a manuscript note before his copy in the British Museum. He there mentions, not very coherently, ‘a copy sold by Pickering in 1843, which I sold again to buy this preferable [Jolley] copy’. It would appear that Grenville himself bought the Pickering copy in 1843, and sold it the following year, before acquiring the Jolley copy. The Pickering copy, which Grenville judged to be inferior to the Jolley copy, can hardly be identified with the fine Daniel copy which has no recorded history, but which is distinctly superior to the Jolley copy. The Pickering is yet to be traced. At Daniel’s sale, a single leaf (Fiiiij) of the edition of 1594, belonging presumably to a fifth copy, was bought by Halliwell for £2 1s. 0d. and was presented by him to the Shakespeare’s Birthplace Library at Stratford-on-Avon, where it is on exhibition. It contains ll. 907–54, beginning ‘A thousand spleenes beare her a thousand wayes’ and ending ‘Since her best worke is ruin’d with thy rigour’.
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