{"id":"01KG8B0T14NAQH6STBDRZSPW9K","cid":"bafkreickihzgkcpfsoy4mqd6cgkmcikeadyc7ds36i3u4bsmv2yjc6c2ce","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreibo7y6zjfvxg2xdvrv53xddof47dulj7nn5cwc76yplc54g6yighq","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"02_venus_and_adonis_1905_facsimile_page_0065.jpg","height":2400,"key":"pdf-page-1769806521484-yblltsjlmud","label":"02_venus_and_adonis_1905_facsimile_page_0065.jpg","page_number":65,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":671023,"text":"VENUS\nAND\nADONIS\nS9\nby Thomas Grenville for £i 1 6^ and bequeathed by him to the Second\nBritish Museum in \\%\\6. It measures <Jff\" x 4|-\". The edges Edition,\nare somewhat closely cut, and some pages are slightly mended. ^^'^^'\nIt is bound in olive morocco by Clarke. It was reproduced by\nMr. E. W. Ashbee in 18^7, together with the edition of 1793.\nThe Bodleian copy (Malone Additional 8 8 (J)was bequeathed No. in.\nto the Library by Thomas Caldecott, an ardent student of Bodjeian\nShakespeare, in 1833. With it are bound (in red morocco) i^ \"°\"|'\nfirst editions of Lucrece (if 94) and the Sonnets (1^09). The\nsignature of an early owner, ' Thomas Newton,' appears on\nthe last leaf. A manuscript note by Caldecott on the fly-leaf\nruns thus :— 'I purchased the contents of this volume, June,\n1 79 (J, of an obscure bookseller, of the name of Vanderberg,\nnear St.Margaret's Church,Westminster. He had cut them with\nseveral others out of a volume, put each of them separately in\nblue paper, and priced them at 4/. and y/. Some time after he\ntold me that he had met with them among many others at a\nbookseller's auction.' The copy measures 6^\" x 4|-\", and the\nedges are closely shaved.\nThe third copy of the 1794 edition, which is generally No. iv.\nregarded as the finest, belonged, until 1 8 ^4, to George ^\"^^ ^°py»\nDaniel, of Canonbury, and was purchased at the Daniel ^'^'\nsale in 18^4 by Mr. Henry Huth for ^240. It measures as\nmuch\nas\n7-7\" x\n47^\"''\nWith Harrison's first edition of 1^9 (^, the form of the Third\n* Hints of a fourth copy of the i5'94 edition exist. Such a copy seems\nreferred to by Thomas Grenville in a manuscript note before his copy in the\nBritish Museum. He there mentions, not very coherently, 'a copy sold by Picker-\ning in 1843, which I sold again to buy this preferable [Jolley] copy '. It would\nappear that Grenville himself bought the Pickering copy in 1843, and sold it\nthe following year, before acquiring the Jolley copy. The Pickering copy, which\nGrenville judged to be inferior to the Jolley copy, can hardly be identified\nwith the fine Daniel copy which has no recorded history, but which is\ndistinctly superior to the Jolley copy. The Pickering is yet to be traced. At\nDaniers sale, a single leaf (F iiij) of the edition of 1 5\"5)4., belonging presumably\nto a fifth copy, was bought by Halliwell for £z is. od. and was presented by\nhim to the Shakespeare's Birthplace Library at Stratford-on-Avon, where it is\non exhibition. It contains 11. 5J07-54, beginning ' A thousand spleenes beare her\na thousand wayes' and ending 'Since her best worke is ruin'd with thy rigour '.H 2\nEdition,","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:55:21.484Z","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":"2026-01-30T20:55:22.404Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:55:25.102Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFFH6ETXGRVD10WPNP3007D6"}}