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- VENUS
AND
ADONIS
71
with
the readings of
the
two
earliest
quartos,
Wreittoun's
Ninth
text
is
defaced
by
many
misprints of
his
own
invention (cf
edition,
'seaseth'
(line
27)
for
'seizeth';
<
winkt,
and
turnde
'
(90)
'^'^'
for
'winks,
and
turns 'j
«
rivals'
(123)
for
'revels
'j
«thus'
(2oy)
for
<
this
';
<
relieue,
the
'
(48
0)
for
<
relieveth
'; 'screeks
'
(5-3
1)
for
'shrieks';
'through'
{967)
for
'throng'^
'their'
(1040)
for
'her').
The
pages
are
numbered
for
the
first
time
and
the
numbers
run
i to
4.6
(misprinted
47).
Of
the
two
extant copies of
Wreittoun's
volume
one
is
No.
xiv.
in the
British
Museum,
and
the
other
is
in
the library
of
^'^f-
^^"'•
:Mr.
Robert
Hoe, of
New
York.
The
British
Museum
copy,
'°^^'
'*^'^'
which
measures
y-^/' x
3I",
is
bound
in
calf
It
is
in
a
soiled
condition
j
the
title
is
cropped
and
inlaid,
and
several
leaves
are
repaired.
It
was
at
one time
the
property of
George
Chalmers, whose book-plate
is
preserved
in
it.
It
was
sold
at
Chalmers'
sale
(pt.
ii,
no.
^5-8)
in
1842,
for
£^7
I
OS,
od.^
the
catalogue giving
the
wrong
date,
1607.
Benjamin
Heywood
Bright
was the
purchaser
^
at
the
sale
of
his
books
in
1845-
(no.
yodS)
it
was
called
'
unique';
it
was then
bought
for
£1
s
for the
British
Museum.
The
second copy,
now
in the library of
Mr. Robert
Hoe,
No.
xv.
of
New
York,
is
a
far
finer
copy
than
that in the
British
"°^
'"pJ^'
Museum,
and
is
'the only
perfect
copy
known'. It
is
in
'^'^'
the original
vellum binding
with uncut
leaves.
A preliminary
leaf
signed
'
A
'
has
an
ornamental border
near the top, but
is
otherwise
blank.
This
leaf
does not
appear
in
the
British
Museum
copy.
Mr.
Hoe's copy was discovered
in
a
worthless
lot
of
books
by
a
bookseller,
at a
country
sale in
18(^4.
It
was sold in
London,
at
Sotheby's, in
March
of that year,
and
bought by Pickering,
the
London
bookseller,
for
^i
i
y.
Picker-
ing made
it
over
to
Almon
W. Griswold, of
New
York, some
time
after
whose death
it
was
secured
by
the present owner.'
An
edition of 16^0 was 'Printed by J[ohn] H[aviland]
Tenth
and
sold
by
Francis Coules
'.
Only
a
single
copy
is
known,
^^^tion,
It
was formerly the property of
Anthony
a
Wood,
and was Na°xvi.
' Cf.
Robert Hoe's Catalogue
of EarJy English Books,
New
York, 1904, f^}^A\
vol. iv, p. 105, with facsimile
of
title-page.
'
^
^'
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