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- # Bodleian (Wood) copy, 1630.
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This is a section of text extracted from a larger document, focusing on a 1630 edition of Shakespeare's *Venus and Adonis* held in the Bodleian Library. It is part of the [Venus and Adonis, Lucrece, Sonnets, and Pericles (Facsimile Editions)](arke:01KG6S3KNZT62WVVW4VT384KPF) poetry collection. The text describes a copy of the tenth edition of *Venus and Adonis* from 1630, specifically the one formerly housed in the Ashmolean Museum and later moved to the Bodleian Library (Wood 79).
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The section describes the physical characteristics of the Bodleian Library copy, noting its dimensions ($4\\frac{3}{4}'' \\times 3\\frac{5}{6}''$) and the presence of a device on the title page depicting Cupid throwing down his bow. It mentions that this edition was reprinted in the early eighteenth century and references a statement in Lintott’s 1710 edition of Shakespeare’s *Poems* claiming that *Venus and Adonis* was printed from a 1630 edition, complete with a title page and a printer’s device bearing the motto ‘Sua Laurea Phoebo’.
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- No. XVI. Bodleian (Wood) copy, 1630.
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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’.
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- Bodleian (Wood) copy, 1630.