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- 74 VENUS AND ADONIS
Eighteenth-
century
reprints.
In the eighteenth century, the poem was less frequently
issued than might be expected. Few of the great editors
deemed the Venus and Adonis or any other of Shakespeare's poems
worthy of their notice. The first eighteenth-century reprint,
^ Venus and Adonis^ written by Mr. Shakespeare,' appeared in
1707 in Poems on Affairs of State (vol. iv, pp. 205'-44). The
text abounds in the corruptions of 1600 and the later issues,
and was doubtless reprinted from the chap-book issue of 167^.
Nicholas Rowe did not include Shakespeare's poems in his
first critical edition of the plays which Jacob Tonson published
in six volumes in 1709. But two publishers independently
supplied the omission without delay. The notorious
Edmund Curll (with E. Sanger) brought out in 1710 a
so-called ' seventh volume ' of Rowe's edition containing Ve?ms
and Adonis., Lucrece^ with Shakespeare's ' miscellany Poems ',
and an essay by Charles Gildon on the history of the stage.
A more respectable publisher, Bernard Lintott, brought out,
also in 17 10, more than one impression of another complete
collection of Shakespeare's poems. This work, which was
entitled ' A Collection of Poems ', first appeared in a single
volume, containing Venus and Adonis., Lucrece^ and The Passionate
Pilgrim. A second volume, which was published later, added
the Sonnets and A Lover'^s Complaint. In one impression of
Lintott's volumes the Venus and Adonis is preceded by a
separate and subsidiary title-page bearing the date i^op.
There was no known edition of the poem issued in that
year, and the date may be a misprint for 1709, when Lintott
sent the text to press, or it may be a confusion with 1^09,
the date of the first edition of the Sonnets. Other im-
pressions ofLintott's edition of 1710 give Venus and Adonis
a title-page dated 1(^30, in which year an edition was un-
doubtedly published (see No. XVI). Lintott's text was liberally
corrected in the printing-office, but was apparently based on
that of \6iQ, To Pope's edition of Shakespeare's plays,
which Jacob Tonson issued without the poems in six volumes
(i723-_f), a syndicate of booksellers added in 172T a < seventh
volume' giving the poems in Curll's text under the incom-
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