{"id":"01KG8B0T2YRM1T2V48AHZFTG6M","cid":"bafkreie56lgkul6clgslsv5q43vfhukgl7lxpj73vvwtlqgeycldaubmnm","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreic5y7az3snez3iefjcwbqh43mfqxkfqwrnnflpzy2goqfntkr4awq","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"02_venus_and_adonis_1905_facsimile_page_0067.jpg","height":2400,"key":"pdf-page-1769806521487-74xfshy77s3","label":"02_venus_and_adonis_1905_facsimile_page_0067.jpg","page_number":67,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":633366,"text":"VENUS AND ADONIS 6i\nthe Daniel sale in 18(^4, the British Museum acquired the third\ncopy for ^3 3 (^. The press-mark is C. 21. a. ^7- edition,\nThe other copy, in the Malone collection of the Bodleian 1^^%^\nLibrary (Malone 37), measures only 4^ '' x 3\", and the margins Bodleian\nare closely shaved. It originally formed part of a volume of (Malone)\nearly poetical pamphlets which was sold at Dr. Bernard's *^°^^' ^ ^\nsale in 1(^98 for is. 3^.; Thomas Warton bought it for 6d. in\n1760 ^ out of some rubbish in a broker's shop '. His brother,\nJoseph Warton, gave it to Malone before 1785-. Malone\nmodestly wrote of the volume in 1 7 9 i : Hf it were now to\nbe produced at an auction, it would undoubtedly be sold for\nthree or four guineas.' ' He detached the Venus and Adonis\nfrom the collection, inlaid all the leaves in paper measuring\n9''x 7|-\", and bound it up with inlaid copies of T^omeo and\nJuliet (ij'9 7 and i5'99), of I{ichard III (ij-9 7), of King Lear\n(I do8), and of Titus Andronicus (i 5i i ).\nThe first extant edition bearing Leake's imprint is dated fourth\n15-99. Only a single copy exists, and that did not come to ^^'\"^^^^jlight till 18(^7. The existence of such an edition was not No. vii.\npreviously suspected by bibliographers. It was discovered Biuweii\nin an upper lumber-room at Lamport Hall, near North- '^°^^' ^^^^\nampton, the seat of Sir Charles Isham, Bart., by Mr. Charles\nEdmonds in September of that year. Mr. Edmonds had been\nsent to Lamport Hall by Henry Sotheran & Co., the London\nbooksellers, to report on the state of Sir Charles' library.\nMr. Edmonds discovered some twenty rare poetical tracts\npublished at the end of the sixteenth century in the disused\nvolume is from the Libraries of y® late W. [Sir William] Bolland and\nB. H. Bright, Esq\". At Mr. BoUand's sale [in 1840] Tat y« rooms of\nMessrs. Evans) it was bought by Mr. Bright for £^\\. At Mr. Bright's sale\n[no. ')o6-j\\ (at y« rooms of Messrs. Sotheby & Co.) on 7 April, 1 845-, I became\nthe Purchaser for y^ sum of ;^cji \\os. od. George Daniel, Cano7ibury Square' —\nHe also inserted in the volume the following note, which he received in the\nsale-room from the bookseller Thomas Rodd :— ' There are three marquises\nwanting the Venus^ one will I fear push hard at her. I do not think there is\nany likre]lihood of your getting her under ;i^ioi. I know that it will not go\nunder ^\"91 ics. od. T[homas] R[odd].'' Prior's Malone ^ p. 179.","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:55:21.486Z","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":"2026-01-30T20:55:22.462Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:55:25.004Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFFH6ETXGRVD10WPNP3007D6"}}