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- VENUS
AND
ADONIS
S9
by Thomas Grenville for £i 1 6^ and bequeathed by him to the Second
British Museum in \%\6. It measures <Jff" x 4|-". The edges Edition,
are somewhat closely cut, and some pages are slightly mended. ^^'^^'
It is bound in olive morocco by Clarke. It was reproduced by
Mr. E. W. Ashbee in 18^7, together with the edition of 1793.
The Bodleian copy (Malone Additional 8 8 (J)was bequeathed No. in.
to the Library by Thomas Caldecott, an ardent student of Bodjeian
Shakespeare, in 1833. With it are bound (in red morocco) i^ "°"|'
first editions of Lucrece (if 94) and the Sonnets (1^09). The
signature of an early owner, ' Thomas Newton,' appears on
the last leaf. A manuscript note by Caldecott on the fly-leaf
runs thus :— 'I purchased the contents of this volume, June,
1 79 (J, of an obscure bookseller, of the name of Vanderberg,
near St.Margaret's Church,Westminster. He had cut them with
several others out of a volume, put each of them separately in
blue paper, and priced them at 4/. and y/. Some time after he
told me that he had met with them among many others at a
bookseller's auction.' The copy measures 6^" x 4|-", and the
edges are closely shaved.
The third copy of the 1794 edition, which is generally No. iv.
regarded as the finest, belonged, until 1 8 ^4, to George ^"^^ ^°py»
Daniel, of Canonbury, and was purchased at the Daniel ^'^'
sale in 18^4 by Mr. Henry Huth for ^240. It measures as
much
as
7-7" x
47^"''
With Harrison's first edition of 1^9 (^, the form of the Third
* Hints of a fourth copy of the i5'94 edition exist. Such a copy seems
referred to by Thomas Grenville in a manuscript note before his copy in the
British Museum. He there mentions, not very coherently, 'a copy sold by Picker-
ing in 1843, which I sold again to buy this preferable [Jolley] copy '. It would
appear that Grenville himself bought the Pickering copy in 1843, and sold it
the following year, before acquiring the Jolley copy. The Pickering copy, which
Grenville judged to be inferior to the Jolley copy, can hardly be identified
with the fine Daniel copy which has no recorded history, but which is
distinctly superior to the Jolley copy. The Pickering is yet to be traced. At
Daniers sale, a single leaf (F iiij) of the edition of 1 5"5)4., belonging presumably
to a fifth copy, was bought by Halliwell for £z is. od. and was presented by
him to the Shakespeare's Birthplace Library at Stratford-on-Avon, where it is
on exhibition. It contains 11. 5J07-54, beginning ' A thousand spleenes beare her
a thousand wayes' and ending 'Since her best worke is ruin'd with thy rigour '.H 2
Edition,
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