{"id":"01KG8B0T2TB1RE3A7BDZWKQGXN","cid":"bafkreifzwud634p7jlm6fefbdl357hrh6drrczwfx7seigo76wvs5vhjta","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreibixcgxflqcz3us7shsli5lzsz2icvyyyu2hewlc6jowf6pz556e4","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"02_venus_and_adonis_1905_facsimile_page_0071.jpg","height":2400,"key":"pdf-page-1769806521488-2j1ffylmhoh","label":"02_venus_and_adonis_1905_facsimile_page_0071.jpg","page_number":71,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":600089,"text":"VENUS\nAND\nADONIS\n6r\nsurvive—\nrespectively\nin\nthe Bodleian\nLibrary,\nthe\nBritish\nSixth\nMuseum,\nand\nthe\nEarl\nof\nMacclesfield^s\nlibrary.\neditio.v,\nAn alteration was made in the type of the title-page after '^°''\na few copies were struck off: for the comma which originally\nfollowed the word <•vulgus ' in the middle of the first line of\nthe Latin quotation, there was substituted a colon, which\nfigures in two of the three extant copies of the edition. The\ncopy in the British Museum alone has the comma on the title-\npage. There is no other distinction in the type of the three\ncopies.'\nThe\nBritish\nMuseum\ncopy of\nthe\n1602\nedition, with\nNo.\nix.\nthe unique\n<■\ncomma\n' title-page,\nmeasures\n5--//'\nx\n31\". The\n^'\"^''^\nownership\ncan be\ntraced\nsome\ndistance\nback.\nIt\nwas\ncopy'T^oz.\nbought\nby\nthe\ncommentator, George\nSteevens,\nat\nthe\nsale\nof\nDr.\nChauncey's\nlibrary\non\nApril\nij-,\n1790, for\neight\nshillings.\nJames\nBindley\npaid\n£1\nus.\n6d.\nfor\nit\nat\nthe\nSteevens\nsale\non\nMay\n21,\n1800. The\nprice leapt\nup\nat\nBindley's\nsale\nin\n18\n19\nto\n^42,\nwhen\nit\nwas bought by\nMr.\nStrettel\nof\nCanonbury.\nAt\nStrettePs\nsale,\nin 1841,\nthe\nbidding\nonly\nreached\n£26\nyj-.\nod.\nand\nno\nsale\nwas\nthen\neffected,\nbut\nGeorge\nDaniel\nsoon afterwards acquired\nit\nfor\n^40\n%s.\n6d.\nDaniel\nsold the\ncopy\nto\nthe\nBritish\nMuseum\nat a\nslightly\nhigher price.\nThere\nare\nmanuscript\nnotes,\ndealing with the\nsuccessive\nchanges of ownership, in\nthe\nhands\nof Steevens\n(who knew\nof\nno other\ncopy),\nBindley, and\nDaniel.\nOn\nSig.\nBi\n(line\n303)\nis\nthe following good\nmanuscript note in\na\nseventeenth-century hand:\n—\n<To\nbid\nthe\nwind\na\nbace.\nBase\nor\nBace—\na\nsport used\namong\ncountry\npeople\ncalled Prison-Base\nin\nwhich some persue\nto\ntake others\n'\nThe Cambridge\neditors\nvaguely\ncredit\neach\nof\nthe three copies with\ntypographical\npeculiarities,\nand\ntreat\neach\nas\nrepresentative of a\ndifferent\nedition, thus attributing to\nLeake\nthree editions\nin\ni(>02.\nA\ncomparison\nof\nthe three\ndoes\nnot support\nthis\nallegation.\nA\ncareful collation of the Earl\no'i\nMacclesfield's copy,\nwhich was\nkindly lent\nto\nthe British\nMuseum\nby\nthe\nCountess\nof Macclesfield\nfor\nthe purpose,\nwith the British\nMuseum\ncopy,\nshows\nthat the\ntwo\nare at\nall\npoints identical\nin type,\nsave\nfor\nthe\npunctuation\non\nthe title-page.\nThe\npaper\nof the Bodleian copy\nis\nperhaps\nof a quality\nslightly inferior to that of the\nMuseum\nand Macclesfield copies.\n1","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:55:21.488Z","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":"2026-01-30T20:55:22.458Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:55:25.183Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFFH6ETXGRVD10WPNP3007D6"}}