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- VENUS
AND
ADONIS
6r
survive—
respectively
in
the Bodleian
Library,
the
British
Sixth
Museum,
and
the
Earl
of
Macclesfield^s
library.
editio.v,
An alteration was made in the type of the title-page after '^°''
a few copies were struck off: for the comma which originally
followed the word <•vulgus ' in the middle of the first line of
the Latin quotation, there was substituted a colon, which
figures in two of the three extant copies of the edition. The
copy in the British Museum alone has the comma on the title-
page. There is no other distinction in the type of the three
copies.'
The
British
Museum
copy of
the
1602
edition, with
No.
ix.
the unique
<■
comma
' title-page,
measures
5--//'
x
31". The
^'"^''^
ownership
can be
traced
some
distance
back.
It
was
copy'T^oz.
bought
by
the
commentator, George
Steevens,
at
the
sale
of
Dr.
Chauncey's
library
on
April
ij-,
1790, for
eight
shillings.
James
Bindley
paid
£1
us.
6d.
for
it
at
the
Steevens
sale
on
May
21,
1800. The
price leapt
up
at
Bindley's
sale
in
18
19
to
^42,
when
it
was bought by
Mr.
Strettel
of
Canonbury.
At
StrettePs
sale,
in 1841,
the
bidding
only
reached
£26
yj-.
od.
and
no
sale
was
then
effected,
but
George
Daniel
soon afterwards acquired
it
for
^40
%s.
6d.
Daniel
sold the
copy
to
the
British
Museum
at a
slightly
higher price.
There
are
manuscript
notes,
dealing with the
successive
changes of ownership, in
the
hands
of Steevens
(who knew
of
no other
copy),
Bindley, and
Daniel.
On
Sig.
Bi
(line
303)
is
the following good
manuscript note in
a
seventeenth-century hand:
—
<To
bid
the
wind
a
bace.
Base
or
Bace—
a
sport used
among
country
people
called Prison-Base
in
which some persue
to
take others
'
The Cambridge
editors
vaguely
credit
each
of
the three copies with
typographical
peculiarities,
and
treat
each
as
representative of a
different
edition, thus attributing to
Leake
three editions
in
i(>02.
A
comparison
of
the three
does
not support
this
allegation.
A
careful collation of the Earl
o'i
Macclesfield's copy,
which was
kindly lent
to
the British
Museum
by
the
Countess
of Macclesfield
for
the purpose,
with the British
Museum
copy,
shows
that the
two
are at
all
points identical
in type,
save
for
the
punctuation
on
the title-page.
The
paper
of the Bodleian copy
is
perhaps
of a quality
slightly inferior to that of the
Museum
and Macclesfield copies.
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