{"id":"01KG8B0T1K63E74WAEJWSQBB9A","cid":"bafkreie3t76md2vdnuwhf2h3bq7x5klvjgfhszycs7hzin3nbqk7jod26y","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreicp3rpiei4z3axdt7a2y6qamfa5hoqj3mk5hccew4c26wkxptenmy","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"02_venus_and_adonis_1905_facsimile_page_0075.jpg","height":2400,"key":"pdf-page-1769806521489-7ezdz6zcsr2","label":"02_venus_and_adonis_1905_facsimile_page_0075.jpg","page_number":75,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":641026,"text":"VENUS\nAND\nADONIS\n69\nA unique copy of the edition of 1620 — 'Printed for I. P.' eighth\n(i.e. John Parker) — is among the books left by Capell to edition.\nTrinity College, Cambridge. It is bound with a copy of The No^°xiir\nPassionate Pilgrim of iy99, which follows it. The volume Capell copy,\nbelonged at one time to 'Honest Tom Martin' (1(^97-1771) '^^*^-\nof Palgrave, the historian of Thetford. At the end there is\nthe note in old writing, ' Not quite perfect, see 4 or f leaves\nback : so it cost me but 3 Halfpence.' The measurements are\n4^\"x3y. It is a small octavo, faithfully reproducing the\nedition of i<^i7, although the title-page has the comma instead\nof the colon in the Latin quotation, as in the early impression\nof the ido2 edition (No. IX).'\nA\nspecial interest\nattaches\nto\nthe edition\nof\n1(^27,\nof\nninth\nwhich\ntwo\ncopies are\nnow\ntraceable.\nThis\nedition\nwas\nedition,\nprinted not\nin\nLondon,\nbut\nin\nEdinburgh,\nand\nis\nthe\nfirst\n^^^^^\"'S*^'\nexample of\nthe\nprinting outside\nLondon\nof\nany\nwork of\nShakespeare.\nThe Edinburgh\nprinter\nand publisher\nwho\nundertook\nthe\nventure was\nJohn Wreittoun,\na\nman\nof\nsub-\nstance, Avith\na\nshop,\nas\nhe\nstates\non\nthe\ntitle-page,\n'a\nlitle\nbeneath\nthe\nSalt Trone.' It\nis\npossible that the publisher's\nneighbour,\nDrummond\nof\nHawthornden,\nthe\npoet,\nwho\nwas\nan\nadmiring\ncritic\nof\nShakespeare, suggested\nthe venture.^\nA\ncopyof\nan early edition of the\npoem\nwas\nin\nDrummond's\nlibrary\n' The erroneous statement of the Cambridge editors in their first edition\n{\\%66) that a second copy of the i6zo edition was bought in 1839 for the\nBodleian Library is corrected in their second edition (1895). The copy of\nVenus and Ado7tis bought in 1839 had no title-page and was for a time wrongly\nidentified with the edition of \\6^o. From that edition it differs materially. It\nmore probably belongs to the year Kj^o (see No, XVII).\n- Wreittoun began business in i(^a^ ' at the Nether Bowe, Edinburgh'.\nHe removed in \\6x-i to 'the Salt Trone', where he made his reputation.\nThere he seems to have remained till i(>36', when he retired from trade, after\nproducing as many as fifty-six books. He died in 1^40. His wife, Margaret\nKene, seems to have been sister of the second surviving wife of the weJl-known\nEdinburgh printer, Andro Hart (d. i6^xi), the friend and publisher of the poetDrummond of Hawthornden, who recommended his friend Drayton to publish\nwith him. For my knowledge of Wreittoun's career I am mainly indebted to\ninformation kindly given me by Mr. J. P. Edmond, now Librarian to the\nWriters of the Signet at Edinburgh, and by Mr. H. G. Aldis, of the Cambridge\nUniversity Library.","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:55:21.489Z","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":"2026-01-30T20:55:22.419Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:55:25.355Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFFH6ETXGRVD10WPNP3007D6"}}