{"id":"01KG8B0STQ4QF69DKYZWBE8ZFN","cid":"bafkreidxzwoj7s3ltmi4lfmroxvchgtymkamiruxvg4b32uukngahzolvq","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreigma2wmgjkdgbw5ckh4rt7jxhfccvb3n7zvp2m3gld3egr2yljecu","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"02_venus_and_adonis_1905_facsimile_page_0063.jpg","height":2400,"key":"pdf-page-1769806521483-8qpehwf1dxt","label":"02_venus_and_adonis_1905_facsimile_page_0063.jpg","page_number":63,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":626046,"text":"VENUS AND\nADONIS\nfj\nof the poem in 1780, Malone discovered a copy of the edition of First\n15-9^, and he noted down thirty-nine variations on his private Edition,\ncopy of his reprint of the edition assigned to i6oo^ It was ^^'\nnot until August, 1805-, that Malone's search for the original\nedition of i ^93 was rewarded with success. In that month he\nacquired for what he called ' the enormous price of twenty-\nfive pounds ' from William Ford, a bookseller of Man-\nchester, acopy of the edition of i5'9 3. With the Fenus and\nAdonis was bound up a copy of Licia^ or poems of Love^ by\nVenus and Adonis ? The booksellers have repeatedly advertized for the earliest\ncopy of it, but have not yet been able to get it.' The Earl replied on May 10,\n' I am not possessed of any ancient copy of the Venus and Adonis ' (MSS.\nof James, ist Earl of Charlemont, Hist. MSS. Comm. iith Report^ ^PP-\nPart X, 1 891, vol. i, 1 7-f ^--S 3, p. 34.7}. The following two letters from W. Ford\nof Manchester, the seller of the volume of 15-93 ^^ Malone, are in the Bodleian\nLibrary and are here printed for the first time. They are bound up in a volume\nof Malone's letters, numbered SC 18578 (fF. 15'6'e, i<)6P) :—\n'Manchester, July zo, 1805.\nSir, On receiving this you will be shown the Vol. of Venus and Adonis\n— the lowest price of which will be Twenty-five Pounds — the Licia prefixed\nto the Vol, is as great a rarity as the other nor have I been able to discover\nany notice of it in Warton, Ames, nor Ritson. Probably you may be more\nsuccessful. I have not disclosed to M' BickerstafFthe Price I ask you for it,\ntho' he is furnished with another Price to ask for it, in case of your refusal.\nHad I not been disposing of my Books, an offer of 30 g* should not have\ninduced me to have parted with it. 1 am in possession of some other Pieces\nof our old English Poets as Spencer, Brown, Sec which are now at Binding,\nas great rarities as the above, which if I have the pleasure of writing to you\nagain I will describe more particularly.I remain very respectfully your\nHble Ser* W. Ford.'\nThe second letter runs :—\n'Sir, Yours I duly rec^ enclosing a Bank Bill Val. z^. 17. o for which\nI have given you credit and am much obliged to you.\nThe Bible shall be sent for your inspection the first opportunity.\nI lately purchased a curious coll\"^ of Books- among them was an old\nquarto Vol. of Plays, containing Green's tu quoque^ Shakspere's Henry ^ and\ny*, Ben Jonson's Volpone^ and several others all first editions. I sold it\nimmediately otherwise sh<' have wrote you about it. I remain\nSir your obliged servantManchester W. Ford.\nAugust 30-\n1805\n-'\n' This copy with Malone's manuscript annotations was kindly lent to\nthe present editor by Messrs. Pearson & Co., 7 Pall Mall Place, London.\nH","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:55:21.483Z","text_extracted_by":"pdf-processor","text_has_content":true,"text_source":"born_digital","uploaded":true,"width":1632},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG89K4X0DM39SSQK43XXG34R","predicate":"derived_from"},{"peer":"01KG89JREDR8WY5QQGYR5FZRDY","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:55:22.199Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:55:24.644Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFFH6ETXGRVD10WPNP3007D6"}}