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VENUS AND ADONIS
First
Edition,
U93-
Second
Edition,
1594-
No. II.
Brit. Mus.
(Grenville)
copy, 1594.
Giles Fletcher, which was published in the same year, and of
which also no other complete copy has been met with. The
volume is now numbered Malone 325-, and bears on the fly-
leaf an autograph note by Malone, of which the last sentences
run : — 'Many years ago I said that I had no doubt an edition of
Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis was published in i5"9 3, but no
copy of that edition was discovered in the long period that
has elapsed since my first notice of it, nor is any other copy
of 15-93 but the present known to exist.' No second copy
has been yet discovered in the century that has elapsed since
Malone wrote these words.
The copy — a quarto — measures 7|''xfy', and is in
good condition. The leaves number twenty-seven. The
title-page and dedicatory epistle are unsigned leaves, but the
text of the poem is printed on leaves bearing signatures in
fours from B (Bij, Biij) to H. The copy has been twice
reproduced already; firstly, in 18(^7, by Mr. E. W. Ashbee,
in lithographic facsimile, at the expense of James Orchard
Halliwell[-Phillipps] (only fifty impressions were taken, of
which nineteen were destroyed, and thirty-one alone were
suflPered to survive); secondly, in 1 8 8<^, by Mr. William Griggs,
in photo-lithography, for the Shakspere-Quarto facsimiles
published by Mr. Bernard Quaritch of Piccadilly (No. 12,
with an introduction by Mr. Arthur Symons).
O^ the edition of 1 5-94 —also a quarto — Malone remained
in ignorance to the last. But at least three copies with
the title-pages identical with those of the first edition were
known to others in his time, and remain accessible. The three
copies are now, respectively, in the British Museum, in the
Bodleian Library, and in the library of Mr. A. H. Huth.
The British Museum copy was at one time the property of
Thomas Jolley, F.S.A., the well-known collector in the early
years of the nineteenth century. He stumbled upon it in one
of his Lancashire rambles, in a volume which also contained the
first edition of the Sonnets of i (^09 and was purchased for a {q'n
pence.' At the sale of Jolley's library in 1844 it was bought
* See T. F. Dibdin's Uhrary Comf anion ^ 1824., p. 808.
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