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# CONTENTS ## Overview This entity is a Table of Contents (TOC) for the [poetry collection](arke:01KG6S3KNZT62WVVW4VT384KPF) titled "Venus and Adonis, Lucrece, Sonnets, and Pericles (Facsimile Editions)." It was extracted from the text file [pdf-01KG6S2X2EBB305ENM00G16GWA] and spans lines 142 to 171 of that file. ## Context This TOC is part of a larger [collection](arke:01KG6NWQ2H2K4PGG7H4ZHYCZ3Y) related to a PDF workflow test. It immediately follows a [Prefatory Note](arke:01KG6S4BKN5M3W643DXVHG3BQK) and precedes the [first introduction section](arke:01KG6S4BKQ53B3KC1BB0SHTW5X) of the main work. The collection itself contains facsimile reproductions of Shakespeare's poems and plays, including "Venus and Adonis," "Lucrece," "Sonnets," and "Pericles." ## Contents The TOC lists the main sections of the publication, including a "Prefatory Note" and an "Introduction to Venus and Adonis" which is further divided into six sub-sections: "General Characteristics," "The Story in Foreign Literature," "The Story in pre-Shakespearean English Literature," "The History of the Publication," "The History of the Text," and "A Census of Copies." It also includes a list of "Illustrative Title-Pages" for various editions of "Venus and Adonis" from 1596, 1599, 1602, 1617, 1620, and the Edinburgh edition of 1627. The final entry in the TOC is a "Facsimile of the Edition of 1593."

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# CONTENTS PAGE PREFATORY NOTE 5 INTRODUCTION TO VENUS AND ADONIS— I. General Characteristics 11 II. The Story in Foreign Literature 15 III. The Story in pre-Shakespearean English Literature 29 IV. The History of the Publication 39 V. The History of the Text. 48 VI. A Census of Copies. 53 ILLUSTRATIVE TITLE-PAGES— The edition of 1596 60 The unique copy of 1599 62 The edition of 1602 64 The edition of 1617 67 The edition of 1620 68 The Edinburgh edition of 1627 70 FACSIMILE OF THE EDITION OF 1593 77 <!-- [Page 17](arke:01KG6QANHFGFZKJBC699VT7G15) --> ^{}[] <!-- [Page 18](arke:01KG6QANK6P9TYG18X9B561K1T) -->

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