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- VENUS AND ADONIS 6i
the Daniel sale in 18(^4, the British Museum acquired the third
copy for ^3 3 (^. The press-mark is C. 21. a. ^7- edition,
The other copy, in the Malone collection of the Bodleian 1^^%^
Library (Malone 37), measures only 4^ '' x 3", and the margins Bodleian
are closely shaved. It originally formed part of a volume of (Malone)
early poetical pamphlets which was sold at Dr. Bernard's *^°^^' ^ ^
sale in 1(^98 for is. 3^.; Thomas Warton bought it for 6d. in
1760 ^ out of some rubbish in a broker's shop '. His brother,
Joseph Warton, gave it to Malone before 1785-. Malone
modestly wrote of the volume in 1 7 9 i : Hf it were now to
be produced at an auction, it would undoubtedly be sold for
three or four guineas.' ' He detached the Venus and Adonis
from the collection, inlaid all the leaves in paper measuring
9''x 7|-", and bound it up with inlaid copies of T^omeo and
Juliet (ij'9 7 and i5'99), of I{ichard III (ij-9 7), of King Lear
(I do8), and of Titus Andronicus (i 5i i ).
The first extant edition bearing Leake's imprint is dated fourth
15-99. Only a single copy exists, and that did not come to ^^'"^^^^jlight till 18(^7. The existence of such an edition was not No. vii.
previously suspected by bibliographers. It was discovered Biuweii
in an upper lumber-room at Lamport Hall, near North- '^°^^' ^^^^
ampton, the seat of Sir Charles Isham, Bart., by Mr. Charles
Edmonds in September of that year. Mr. Edmonds had been
sent to Lamport Hall by Henry Sotheran & Co., the London
booksellers, to report on the state of Sir Charles' library.
Mr. Edmonds discovered some twenty rare poetical tracts
published at the end of the sixteenth century in the disused
volume is from the Libraries of y® late W. [Sir William] Bolland and
B. H. Bright, Esq". At Mr. BoUand's sale [in 1840] Tat y« rooms of
Messrs. Evans) it was bought by Mr. Bright for £^\. At Mr. Bright's sale
[no. ')o6-j\ (at y« rooms of Messrs. Sotheby & Co.) on 7 April, 1 845-, I became
the Purchaser for y^ sum of ;^cji \os. od. George Daniel, Cano7ibury Square' —
He also inserted in the volume the following note, which he received in the
sale-room from the bookseller Thomas Rodd :— ' There are three marquises
wanting the Venus^ one will I fear push hard at her. I do not think there is
any likre]lihood of your getting her under ;i^ioi. I know that it will not go
under ^"91 ics. od. T[homas] R[odd].'' Prior's Malone ^ p. 179.
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