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- VENUS AND ADONIS 6s
ignorant variations of spelling. The ornaments on the title- Fourth
page altogether differ from those employed by Harrison and edition,
Field, and suggest that the printer whom Leake employed ^ ^^'
was Peter Short. A typed facsimile, limited to an edition
of 1 3 1 copies, was published by Messrs. Sotheran & Co. in
1870.
Of a succeeding issue, only a single copy is again known Fifth
to be extant. This copy, which lacks a title-page, is in edition,
Malone's collection at the Bodleian Library (Malone 327). no. vili.
It is bound up with a copy of Shakespeare's Lucrece^ which Bodleian
has the imprint ' printed by I. H. for lohn Harison ' and the (^^'°"^)
date idoo. The volume was a girt from Dr. Farmer to
Malone, who collated it before March 24, 1785-, with the i j-pd
edition, and drew up a manuscript list of thirty-nine changes,
which is extant, but is not exhaustive.' A manuscript title-
page which has been supplied to this edition of the Veims^
merely copies the Lucrece imprint (' printed by L H. for lohn
Harison,' idoo). The date may be right, but the printer's
and publisher's names are errors. John Harrison's con-nexion with the Fenus and Adonis had ceased with the
transfer of the copyright in 15-97 to William Leake. The
edition was doubtless published by Leake. It is of textual
importance, for although it follows the typography of
15-99 there have been deliberately introduced several new
misreadings, which are adopted in all subsequent editions of
the seventeenth century. The measurements are \~" x ^~\
The signatures (A-D iij) in eights, and the number of leaves,
which are unpaged, twenty-seven, are the same as in previous
issues.
A new — the sixth — edition was issued by Leake in ido2. Sixth
It seems to have been set up, with reasonable care, from the edition,
text of idoo. The curious printer's device, in a square
scrolled frame on the title-page, shows a winged and laurelled
skull surmounted by an hour-glass in front of an open book,
inscribed <I liue to dy. I dy to liue': beneath the skull is
a globe showing the Western hemisphere and the sea with a ship.
' See No. I, p. 57, note i.
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