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- VENUS
AND
ADONIS
69
A unique copy of the edition of 1620 — 'Printed for I. P.' eighth
(i.e. John Parker) — is among the books left by Capell to edition.
Trinity College, Cambridge. It is bound with a copy of The No^°xiir
Passionate Pilgrim of iy99, which follows it. The volume Capell copy,
belonged at one time to 'Honest Tom Martin' (1(^97-1771) '^^*^-
of Palgrave, the historian of Thetford. At the end there is
the note in old writing, ' Not quite perfect, see 4 or f leaves
back : so it cost me but 3 Halfpence.' The measurements are
4^"x3y. It is a small octavo, faithfully reproducing the
edition of i<^i7, although the title-page has the comma instead
of the colon in the Latin quotation, as in the early impression
of the ido2 edition (No. IX).'
A
special interest
attaches
to
the edition
of
1(^27,
of
ninth
which
two
copies are
now
traceable.
This
edition
was
edition,
printed not
in
London,
but
in
Edinburgh,
and
is
the
first
^^^^^"'S*^'
example of
the
printing outside
London
of
any
work of
Shakespeare.
The Edinburgh
printer
and publisher
who
undertook
the
venture was
John Wreittoun,
a
man
of
sub-
stance, Avith
a
shop,
as
he
states
on
the
title-page,
'a
litle
beneath
the
Salt Trone.' It
is
possible that the publisher's
neighbour,
Drummond
of
Hawthornden,
the
poet,
who
was
an
admiring
critic
of
Shakespeare, suggested
the venture.^
A
copyof
an early edition of the
poem
was
in
Drummond's
library
' The erroneous statement of the Cambridge editors in their first edition
{\%66) that a second copy of the i6zo edition was bought in 1839 for the
Bodleian Library is corrected in their second edition (1895). The copy of
Venus and Ado7tis bought in 1839 had no title-page and was for a time wrongly
identified with the edition of \6^o. From that edition it differs materially. It
more probably belongs to the year Kj^o (see No, XVII).
- Wreittoun began business in i(^a^ ' at the Nether Bowe, Edinburgh'.
He removed in \6x-i to 'the Salt Trone', where he made his reputation.
There he seems to have remained till i(>36', when he retired from trade, after
producing as many as fifty-six books. He died in 1^40. His wife, Margaret
Kene, seems to have been sister of the second surviving wife of the weJl-known
Edinburgh printer, Andro Hart (d. i6^xi), the friend and publisher of the poetDrummond of Hawthornden, who recommended his friend Drayton to publish
with him. For my knowledge of Wreittoun's career I am mainly indebted to
information kindly given me by Mr. J. P. Edmond, now Librarian to the
Writers of the Signet at Edinburgh, and by Mr. H. G. Aldis, of the Cambridge
University Library.
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