{"id":"01KG8B0SXYX05VGAGSJFACA47B","cid":"bafkreianpo2h3jjlmomcw7kymn5bajl2qibgnld6dhohqzpdxzaypvx4ae","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreib4am5gtou4teari6nypyxhucpwbfn7qo3aw3zt5fpcd7vpc46fwq","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"02_venus_and_adonis_1905_facsimile_page_0064.jpg","height":2400,"key":"pdf-page-1769806521483-cdqnqonvr9e","label":"02_venus_and_adonis_1905_facsimile_page_0064.jpg","page_number":64,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":630703,"text":"5-8\nVENUS AND ADONIS\nFirst\nEdition,\nU93-\nSecond\nEdition,\n1594-\nNo. II.\nBrit. Mus.\n(Grenville)\ncopy, 1594.\nGiles Fletcher, which was published in the same year, and of\nwhich also no other complete copy has been met with. The\nvolume is now numbered Malone 325-, and bears on the fly-\nleaf an autograph note by Malone, of which the last sentences\nrun : — 'Many years ago I said that I had no doubt an edition of\nShakespeare's Venus and Adonis was published in i5\"9 3, but no\ncopy of that edition was discovered in the long period that\nhas elapsed since my first notice of it, nor is any other copy\nof 15-93 but the present known to exist.' No second copy\nhas been yet discovered in the century that has elapsed since\nMalone wrote these words.\nThe copy — a quarto — measures 7|''xfy', and is in\ngood condition. The leaves number twenty-seven. The\ntitle-page and dedicatory epistle are unsigned leaves, but the\ntext of the poem is printed on leaves bearing signatures in\nfours from B (Bij, Biij) to H. The copy has been twice\nreproduced already; firstly, in 18(^7, by Mr. E. W. Ashbee,\nin lithographic facsimile, at the expense of James Orchard\nHalliwell[-Phillipps] (only fifty impressions were taken, of\nwhich nineteen were destroyed, and thirty-one alone were\nsuflPered to survive); secondly, in 1 8 8<^, by Mr. William Griggs,\nin photo-lithography, for the Shakspere-Quarto facsimiles\npublished by Mr. Bernard Quaritch of Piccadilly (No. 12,\nwith an introduction by Mr. Arthur Symons).\nO^ the edition of 1 5-94 —also a quarto — Malone remained\nin ignorance to the last. But at least three copies with\nthe title-pages identical with those of the first edition were\nknown to others in his time, and remain accessible. The three\ncopies are now, respectively, in the British Museum, in the\nBodleian Library, and in the library of Mr. A. H. Huth.\nThe British Museum copy was at one time the property of\nThomas Jolley, F.S.A., the well-known collector in the early\nyears of the nineteenth century. He stumbled upon it in one\nof his Lancashire rambles, in a volume which also contained the\nfirst edition of the Sonnets of i (^09 and was purchased for a {q'n\npence.' At the sale of Jolley's library in 1844 it was bought\n* See T. F. Dibdin's Uhrary Comf anion ^ 1824., p. 808.","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":"2026-01-30T20:55:22.302Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:55:25.244Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFFH6ETXGRVD10WPNP3007D6"}}