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- 6o VENUS AND ADONIS
Third
Edition,
ij9^.
No. V.
Brit. Mus.
copy, I J 95.
VENVS ,
AND A DON! S*
f'i/ia
rKireiijr'VHlgtls
:
mihifUfiits j^poHo
book was changed. The quarto shape gave place to the
octavo, and the quarto shape was never resumed. The sig-
natures henceforth run A to D iij in eights. Though the
page was slightly smaller, each bore as much type as before,
and the leaves con-
tinued to number
twenty-seven. The
text of 15-94 is
followed in the
issue of \')^6 with
small typographical
change. Field was
the printer. Two
copies are extant —
one in the British
Museum, and the
other in the Bod-
leian. The British
Museum copy,
which measures
bound in half-
(olive) morocco
with red cloth sides,
and is preserved in
a russia leather
case. It is in good
condition,although
one or two of the
concluding leaves
are stained. The
book was in the
library of Sir William Bolland, at whose sale in 1840 it was
bought by Benjamin Hey wood Bright for ^91. At Bright's
sale on April 7, 184^, it was bought by George Daniel for
£()i \os. od.^ The underbidder was Thomas Grenville. At
' Daniel wrote in the book the following note :— ' This most precious
Imprinted at London by R. F. for
John Harifon.
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