{"id":"01KG8B0T2XZNTVTH6T45WCYF2Q","cid":"bafkreicfvi265sitiz3ea5opexcnq7b2xjsn6lfvagchxeiiael5aptivy","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreibfn3dqo4a7c5eleabnfvrxohgzqdnwv656otrjzenw4oygn5hzrq","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"02_venus_and_adonis_1905_facsimile_page_0062.jpg","height":2400,"key":"pdf-page-1769806521483-j6leps942l","label":"02_venus_and_adonis_1905_facsimile_page_0062.jpg","page_number":62,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":618170,"text":"5-^ VENUS AND ADONIS\nFirst\nEdition,\n1593.\nNo. I.\nBodleian\n(M alone)\ncopy of\nM93-\nsurviving\ntwenty-one\ncopies\nof\nthe\nearly\neditions.'\nFor\npur-\nposes of\nreference\nthey\nare\nnumbered\nconsecutively.\nOf the first edition, which is reproduced in this volume^\nonly a single copy is known to exist. It is among the books\nwhich belonged to Edmund Malone, the Shakespearean\ncommentator, and are now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.\nThe story of Malone's acquisition of the rare volume is\ninteresting. At the outset of his career as a Shakespearean\ncommentator he sought in vain for any early edition of\nl^erius and Adonis. In his behalf, Thomas Longman, ' book-\nseller, ofPaternoster Row,' offered, without result, a giiinea\nfor that of 1793 ^\"^ ^^ advertisement in the St. Jameses\nChronicle on April if, 1779. In 1780, in his < Supplement\nto the edition of Shakespeare's plays ' which Dr. Johnson\nand George Steevens had jointly prepared in 1778, he issued\na text of the dramatist's 'genuine poetical compositions \\\nBut he found it impossible to print Vmus and Adonis ' from\nthe original copies '. ' Though much inquiry was made for it,'\nMalone wrote in the Advertisement, < the editor has not been\nable to procure the first edition.' He acknowledged, however,\nthe loan from Dr. Farmer ' of a copy of that poem published\nin i5oo'. Dr. Farmer's copy, which was without a title-page,\nis now in the Bodleian Library with Malone's books (see No.\nVllI, infray A ^Qw years after the publication of his text\n\"• Much information respecting the extant copies of Venus a?id Adonis is\ncollected in Justin Winsor's valuable, but inaccessible, Shakespeare's Foems :\na hihliography of the earlier editions (Library of Harvard University, Biblio-\ngraphical Contributions, No. i, Cambridge, Mass., 1879). Valuable sugges-\ntions are made in the Cambridge Shakespeare^ vol. 38, 1895, preface; in\nCharles Edmond's Preface (v-xxii) to Venus and Ado7iis from the hitherto unknown\nedition of i ^c;9 (1870), and in Lowndes' Bibliographer's Manual (ed. H. G. Bohn,\ns. V. Shakespeare, i'&6^). I have personally inspected most of the volumes\ndescribed which remain in England. I owe my main knowledge of those in\nAmerica to descriptions furnished by their present owners. I liave to\nthank the American collectors, Mr. Robert Hoe, Mr. H. C. Folger, jr., and\nMr. Marsden J. Perry, for courteous replies to my inquiries.\n= On April zp, 1779, Malone wrote to the Earl of Charlemont, 'Do you\nhappen to be possessed of any ancient edition of Shakespeare's poem of","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":"2026-01-30T20:55:22.461Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:55:25.334Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFFH6ETXGRVD10WPNP3007D6"}}