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This section, titled "NINTH EDITION, 1627.", is part of a larger collection titled "[Venus and Adonis, Lucrece, Sonnets, and Pericles (Facsimile Editions)](arke:01KG6S3KNZT62WVVW4VT384KPF)". It was extracted from the file "[pdf-01KG6Q7Q25RHMFT3SJXPV18VFF.txt](arke:01KG6S2X2EBB305ENM00G16GWA)" and is located within the collection "[PDF Workflow Main Test 2026-01-30T00:26:53](arke:01KG6NWQ2H2K4PGG7H4ZHYCZ3Y)". The section details a 1627 edition of a work, likely a literary text, and discusses its characteristics and provenance.
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This section is situated between "[NINTH EDITION, Edinburgh, 1627.](arke:01KG6S4DDWBHXFTQZN5D7HWWJQ)" and "[No. XVI.](arke:01KG6S4DDXDJK6C2ZQ643ZGTXK)". The text focuses on a 1627 edition, possibly a reprint by Wreittoun, which is noted for its misprints and the first instance of page numbering. The description delves into the details of two extant copies of this edition, one in the British Museum and another in the collection of Robert Hoe of New York, comparing their condition and provenance. It also briefly mentions a 1630 edition.
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The content of this section primarily concerns the bibliographical details of a 1627 edition of a text, likely Shakespeare's "Venus and Adonis" given its inclusion in the parent collection. It highlights the textual variations and printing errors in this edition, contrasting it with earlier versions. The description provides specific examples of misprints and notes the introduction of page numbers. Furthermore, it details the history and condition of two surviving copies of the 1627 edition, including their acquisition by notable collectors and institutions. An image, "[img-0.jpeg](arke:01KG6RGEX2SEA01S3AX59DPVAW)", is embedded within the text, likely illustrating a feature of one of the described copies.
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before 1611. Wreittoun apparently reprinted, with a few corrections of his own, Leake’s edition of 1602. The Cam-
bridge editors needlessly conjecture that he derived his copy from a manuscript transcript of that edition. Although one or two changes are for the better, and accidentally correspond
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with the readings of the two earliest quartos, Wreittoun’s text is defaced by many misprints of his own invention (cf. ‘seaseth’ (line 25) for ‘seizeth’; ‘winkt, and turnde’ (90) for ‘winks, and turns’; ‘rivals’ (123) for ‘revels’; ‘thus’ (205) for ‘this’; ‘relieue, the’ (480) for ‘relieveth’; ‘screeks’ (531) for ‘shrieks’; ‘through’ (967) for ‘throng’; ‘their’ (1040) for ‘her’). The pages are numbered for the first time and the numbers run 1 to 46 (misprinted 47).
Of the two extant copies of Wreittoun’s volume one is in the British Museum, and the other is in the library of Mr. Robert Hoe, of New York. The British Museum copy, which measures $5\frac{3}{4}'' \times 3\frac{3}{8}''$, is bound in calf. It is in a soiled condition; the title is cropped and inlaid, and several leaves are repaired. It was at one time the property of George Chalmers, whose book-plate is preserved in it. It was sold at Chalmers’ sale (pt. ii, no. 558) in 1842, for £37 10s. od., the catalogue giving the wrong date, 1607. Benjamin Heywood Bright was the purchaser; at the sale of his books in 1845 (no. 5068) it was called ‘unique’; it was then bought for £35 for the British Museum.
The second copy, now in the library of Mr. Robert Hoe, of New York, is a far finer copy than that in the British Museum, and is ‘the only perfect copy known’. It is in the original vellum binding with uncut leaves. A preliminary leaf signed ‘A’ has an ornamental border near the top, but is otherwise blank. This leaf does not appear in the British Museum copy. Mr. Hoe’s copy was discovered in a worthless lot of books by a bookseller, at a country sale in 1864. It was sold in London, at Sotheby’s, in March of that year, and bought by Pickering, the London bookseller, for £115. Pickering made it over to Almon W. Griswold, of New York, some time after whose death it was secured by the present owner.¹
An edition of 1630 was ‘Printed by J[ohn] H[aviland] and sold by Francis Coules’. Only a single copy is known. It was formerly the property of Anthony à Wood, and was
¹ Cf. Robert Hoe’s Catalogue of Early English Books, New York, 1904, vol. iv, p. 105, with facsimile of title-page.
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