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- # Distribution of Surviving Copies.
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This is a section titled "Distribution of surviving copies." from a larger work, extracted on January 30, 2026. It discusses the geographical distribution of surviving copies of early editions of Shakespeare's *Venus and Adonis*.
## Context
This section is part of the [Venus and Adonis, Lucrece, Sonnets, and Pericles (Facsimile Editions)](arke:01KG6S3KNZT62WVVW4VT384KPF), a poetry collection that was extracted from the text file [pdf-01KG6S2X2EBB305ENM00G16GWA]. The text file itself was derived from a PDF included in the [PDF Workflow Main Test 2026-01-30T00:26:53](arke:01KG6NWQ2H2K4PGG7H4ZHYCZ3Y) collection. It follows the section [The small number of surviving copies of early editions.](arke:01KG6S4C61FV1ZVB7TAYYT7WWV) and precedes the section [ERRATUM](arke:01KG6S4C5Z22XFAMKJDKTT1WAH).
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The section details the distribution of the twenty-one known surviving copies of early editions of Shakespeare's *Venus and Adonis*. It notes that eighteen copies are located in Great Britain and three in America. The Bodleian Library at Oxford holds nine of these copies, including one from the library of Robert Burton, author of *Anatomy of Melancholy*, one from Anthony a Wood, and three presented by Shakespearean scholar Edmund W. H.
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- Distribution of surviving copies.
The present distribution of the twenty-one copies of the early editions which are known to survive is interesting. Eighteen are now in Great Britain and three are in America. The Bodleian Library at Oxford has the high distinction of
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owning as many as nine; of these one came from the library of Robert Burton, the author of the *Anatomy of Melancholy* (No. X); a second came from the library of Anthony a Wood (No. XVI); three were presented by the great Shakespearean scholar Edmund W. H. (No. 10).
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- Distribution of surviving copies.