{"id":"01KG8B0T2WJRE9R4CDZ9Q10P12","cid":"bafkreigmjidngzilqx3xjdysp5hpnzp3favkwpcxpfabyzs46645bewrgu","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreigap6xjxqr7mcfexu7mgoiqvoabm4ykn7otmaoymeovfjb62yqqla","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"02_venus_and_adonis_1905_facsimile_page_0080.jpg","height":2400,"key":"pdf-page-1769806521494-e5uo6vc12c7","label":"02_venus_and_adonis_1905_facsimile_page_0080.jpg","page_number":80,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":600684,"text":"74 VENUS AND ADONIS\nEighteenth-\ncentury\nreprints.\nIn the eighteenth century, the poem was less frequently\nissued than might be expected. Few of the great editors\ndeemed the Venus and Adonis or any other of Shakespeare's poems\nworthy of their notice. The first eighteenth-century reprint,\n^ Venus and Adonis^ written by Mr. Shakespeare,' appeared in\n1707 in Poems on Affairs of State (vol. iv, pp. 205'-44). The\ntext abounds in the corruptions of 1600 and the later issues,\nand was doubtless reprinted from the chap-book issue of 167^.\nNicholas Rowe did not include Shakespeare's poems in his\nfirst critical edition of the plays which Jacob Tonson published\nin six volumes in 1709. But two publishers independently\nsupplied the omission without delay. The notorious\nEdmund Curll (with E. Sanger) brought out in 1710 a\nso-called ' seventh volume ' of Rowe's edition containing Ve?ms\nand Adonis., Lucrece^ with Shakespeare's ' miscellany Poems ',\nand an essay by Charles Gildon on the history of the stage.\nA more respectable publisher, Bernard Lintott, brought out,\nalso in 17 10, more than one impression of another complete\ncollection of Shakespeare's poems. This work, which was\nentitled ' A Collection of Poems ', first appeared in a single\nvolume, containing Venus and Adonis., Lucrece^ and The Passionate\nPilgrim. A second volume, which was published later, added\nthe Sonnets and A Lover'^s Complaint. In one impression of\nLintott's volumes the Venus and Adonis is preceded by a\nseparate and subsidiary title-page bearing the date i^op.\nThere was no known edition of the poem issued in that\nyear, and the date may be a misprint for 1709, when Lintott\nsent the text to press, or it may be a confusion with 1^09,\nthe date of the first edition of the Sonnets. Other im-\npressions ofLintott's edition of 1710 give Venus and Adonis\na title-page dated 1(^30, in which year an edition was un-\ndoubtedly published (see No. XVI). Lintott's text was liberally\ncorrected in the printing-office, but was apparently based on\nthat of \\6iQ, To Pope's edition of Shakespeare's plays,\nwhich Jacob Tonson issued without the poems in six volumes\n(i723-_f), a syndicate of booksellers added in 172T a < seventh\nvolume' giving the poems in Curll's text under the incom-","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:55:21.494Z","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":"2026-01-30T20:55:22.460Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:55:25.088Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFFH6ETXGRVD10WPNP3007D6"}}