{"id":"01KG8B587D5TBASF6NKTZ2VB4H","cid":"bafkreie7idp5l7pfde25jkj72xzeeffyc7etbjt5uy726hqc6ey7eltd4m","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreidafzl5u325ttk2ncoq2xeta2fb622aspir53nihfmaogv5gomugq","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"02_venus_and_adonis_1905_facsimile_page_0190.jpg","height":2400,"key":"pdf-page-1769806643986-sg80uewfeqa","label":"02_venus_and_adonis_1905_facsimile_page_0190.jpg","page_number":190,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":587643,"text":"r4 LUCRECE\nEighth\nEdition,\n1^55.\nWith the\nFrontis-\npiece,\nNo. XXXI.\nBritish\nMiisenm (i).\nNo.\nxxxir.\nBodleian\ncopy.\nNo.\nXXXIII.\nBarton\ncollection,\nBoston\nPublic\nLibrary.\nThe frontispiece is met with in Aery icw copies, and\nlends the volume its main ^alue and interest. It supplies\nthe third engraved portrait of Shakespeare in ]X)int of time,\nthat by Droeshout of the First Folio of 1623 being the\nfirst, and the second being the engraving by William Marshall\nbefore Shakespeare's Poems of 1540. Of the three early\nengraved portraits of Shakespeare, this by Faithorne is most\nrarely met with. Halliwell[-Phillipps], writing before iSjd,\nstated that he had seen thirty copies of the 16 ^y edition of\nLucrece without the title-page and only one with it. Only\ntwo copies of the Aolume with the frontispiece seem acces-\nsible inGreat Britain, while four seem to be in America.\nThree copies of the edition are in the British Museum,\nbut only one of them has the frontispiece (C. 34. a. 45-). The\nperfect copy, which measures s-h\" ^ ^-h\"-) '^^^s acquired by\nthe Museum, April 3, i%6y. It is stained and very closely\ntrimmed, but the impression of the frontispiece is singularly\nbrilliant, though the verses beneath it have been cut into\nby the binder. This copy was at one time in the possession\nof Halliwell[-Phillipps], who sold it by auction at Sotheby's\nin May, i8f(5, for £2^ ioj. od. Halliwell[-Phillipps] inserted\na manuscript note, calling attention to the extreme rarity\nof the edition with the frontispiece, and to its comparatively\nfrequent occurrence without that embellishment.\nThe copy in the Bodleian Library (Malone 889) was be-\nqueathed byThomas Caldecott in 1 8 3 3. It measures y-~' x i~' .\nThe frontispiece is mounted, and may possibly have come from\nanother copy. The title-page is cropped and mutilated at\nthe bottom. The binding is probably of the late eighteenth\ncentury. At the back of the Lucrece title-page the\n' Wriothesley ' dedication is copied in manuscript from the\n\\6\\6 edition.\nThe copy in the Barton collection at the Boston\nPublic Library has the frontispiece inlaid. 1 his copy was thus\ndescribed by the bookseller, Thomas Rodd, on October y,\n1837: — 'The title-page torn and laid down. The frontis-\npiece inlaid. Several leaves cut into the side margin &","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:57:23.986Z","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":"2026-01-30T20:57:48.013Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:58:35.321Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFFH6ETXGRVD10WPNP3007D6"}}