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VENUS AND ADONIS
Tenth
Edition,
1^30.
Eleventh
Edition,
1630 ?
No. XVII.
Bodleian
(Malone)
copy, 1 530.
Twelfth
Edition,
1636.
No. XVIII.
Brit. Mas.
copy, 1636.
No. XIX.
Pciiy copy,
16^6.
lately removed from the Ashmolean Museum to its present
home, the Bodleian Library (Wood yc^y It measures 4I"
X 3 //', 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 Ve/nis and Adonis was there printed from an edition of
I (^3 o. A title-page was given bearing that date, and a printer's
device with the motto *Sua Laurea Phoebo'.'
To the same year (1530) is assigned an imperfect copy
(lacking the title-page) of a slightly differing impression, which
is also in the Bodleian Library (Malone 891). It measures
47-^" X 2-^". A title-page, which is supplied in manuscript,
suggests the date of 1(530. The text is not identical with the
perfect copy of that year, but it was clearly based on that
edition. It was known, too, to the printer of the succeeding
edition o^ 1616. It must therefore be dated between 1(^30
and the latter year.
Haviland's third edition appeared in 16^6 again, <to be
sold by Francis Coules ', with the same device of Cupid
throwing down his bow, as in Haviland's first edition of 167,0.
Two copies alone are traceable. The signatures run as before,
A to D iii in eights, and the book contains twenty-seven leaves.
The British Museum copy, which measures 4-S_'' x 3i") is bound
in russia, and is badly stained and soiled, with a i^w leaves
mended. It belonged to George Hibbert, of Portland Place,
London, at whose sale in i 8 29 it fetched £1 14/. od. This copy
is jx)ssibly identical with that which was sold bound up in a
volume with the I^ape ofLucrece [1616) and other poetical tracts,
at the sale of Thomas Pearson in 1788, when the whole
volume fetched ^i 2/. od. A better copy of the 163 d edition
now belongs to Mr. Marsden J. Perry, of Providence, Rhode
Island, U.S.A. It measures 48" x 3-3V and contains twenty-
eight leaves, the last being blank, while some leaves are uncut
at the bottom. This copy was purchased by Henry Stevens,
the American agent ni London, in May, i8y<5, at Sotheby's,
'
See page
74.
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