{"id":"01KG8B0SWXXZX5ZCV4YNVM8MGV","cid":"bafkreidirvxkhpqzqe5q6fux5mgtcohon57fnojyg5d46sxpthwmrodjuy","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreih5vgo5esjorcsnlaxhgo6d67x6gbs5osgbv5d63zbs77mtl7inie","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"02_venus_and_adonis_1905_facsimile_page_0069.jpg","height":2400,"key":"pdf-page-1769806521487-ur9dqkftv3d","label":"02_venus_and_adonis_1905_facsimile_page_0069.jpg","page_number":69,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":631504,"text":"VENUS AND ADONIS 6s\nignorant variations of spelling. The ornaments on the title- Fourth\npage altogether differ from those employed by Harrison and edition,\nField, and suggest that the printer whom Leake employed ^ ^^'\nwas Peter Short. A typed facsimile, limited to an edition\nof 1 3 1 copies, was published by Messrs. Sotheran & Co. in\n1870.\nOf a succeeding issue, only a single copy is again known Fifth\nto be extant. This copy, which lacks a title-page, is in edition,\nMalone's collection at the Bodleian Library (Malone 327). no. vili.\nIt is bound up with a copy of Shakespeare's Lucrece^ which Bodleian\nhas the imprint ' printed by I. H. for lohn Harison ' and the (^^'°\"^)\ndate idoo. The volume was a girt from Dr. Farmer to\nMalone, who collated it before March 24, 1785-, with the i j-pd\nedition, and drew up a manuscript list of thirty-nine changes,\nwhich is extant, but is not exhaustive.' A manuscript title-\npage which has been supplied to this edition of the Veims^\nmerely copies the Lucrece imprint (' printed by L H. for lohn\nHarison,' idoo). The date may be right, but the printer's\nand publisher's names are errors. John Harrison's con-nexion with the Fenus and Adonis had ceased with the\ntransfer of the copyright in 15-97 to William Leake. The\nedition was doubtless published by Leake. It is of textual\nimportance, for although it follows the typography of\n15-99 there have been deliberately introduced several new\nmisreadings, which are adopted in all subsequent editions of\nthe seventeenth century. The measurements are \\~\" x ^~\\\nThe signatures (A-D iij) in eights, and the number of leaves,\nwhich are unpaged, twenty-seven, are the same as in previous\nissues.\nA new — the sixth — edition was issued by Leake in ido2. Sixth\nIt seems to have been set up, with reasonable care, from the edition,\ntext of idoo. The curious printer's device, in a square\nscrolled frame on the title-page, shows a winged and laurelled\nskull surmounted by an hour-glass in front of an open book,\ninscribed