{"id":"01KG8B587JTDQFBQ3B9ZCKBG0P","cid":"bafkreigud3x3nv6jn65zyd3652qcllkkv6cytwsjdbjfbtheh776lhcppe","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreiccfd3ejcift3gkey2wdnvo7pii4k4kxssdl272bruwb7ilr6tt6m","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"02_venus_and_adonis_1905_facsimile_page_0175.jpg","height":2400,"key":"pdf-page-1769806643979-373d3gfi9en","label":"02_venus_and_adonis_1905_facsimile_page_0175.jpg","page_number":175,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":580165,"text":"LUCRECE\n3P\nThe\nfirst\nedition\nof\nLucrece\nis\nthe only one\nwhich\nap-\nFirst\npeared\nin\nquarto.\nThe\nsignatures\nrun\n:\n—\nA\ni,\nA\nii,\nB-N,\nin\n^^'\"^^^^'\nfours.\nThere\nare\nforty-seven\nleaves\nin\nall\nwithout\npagi-\nnation. The\ndedication\nfigures\non\nthe\nrecto\nside,\nand\nthe\n'Argument\n'\non the\nverso\nside,\nof\nthe\nleaf\nsigned\nA ii.\nThe\ntext\nof the\npoem commences\non\nthe\nleaf\nsigned\nB.\nThe\ntitle-\npage\nruns\n:\n—\nLVCRECE\n|\n[Field's\ndevice\nand\nmotto]\nLondon\n|\nPrinted\nby\nRichard\nField, for\nlohn Harrison,\nand\nare\n| to\nbe\nsold\nat\nthe signe of the white\nGreyhound\n|\nin\nPaules\nChurh-yard\n1^94. |\nThe\npattern of\nField's\ndevice\nof\nthe\nsuspended anchor,\nwith\nhis\nmotto\nAiichora\nSpei^ slightly\ndiffers\nfrom\nthat\non\nthe\ntitle-page\nof Fenus\nand\nAdonis.\nIn\nthe\nLucrece\nvolume\nthe\nboughs\nare\ncrossed\nin\nfront\nof the\nstem of\nthe anchor,\ninstead\nof being\nfigured\nbehind\nthe\nstem,\nas in the\nVenus and\nAdonis\nvolume.\nThe copy of the first edition of the poem, which is repro- No r.\nduced in facsimile for the first time in this volume, is one Boaieinn(i)-\nof the two exemplars now in the Bodleian Library at\nOxford. It belongs to the collection of books which was\npresented in 1 8 1 d to the library by the brother of Edmund\nMalone, the Shakespearean commentator, and is numbered\n^Malone 34. In the spring of 1 779, Malone bought for twenty\nguineas a single volume containing this copy of the first\nedition of Lucrece^ together with a first edition of Shakespeare's\nSonnets^ At a later date he caused these and many other of\nhis quarto editions of Shakespeare's works to be inlaid and\na\nsale\n\\\\\\\n1902.\nAt\nthe present\nmoment\nthe prices are\nrapidly\nrising.\nA\nperfect\ncopy\nof\na\nfirst\nedition\nwould\nbe likely to reach\n^1000,\nand\na\nperfect\ncopy\nof\nany\nlater\nedition of\nthe\nseventeenth\ncentury,\njTyoo.\nJustin\nWinsor's\nBVoUography of\nShakespeare's\nVoems (Boston,\n1879),\n^\"^\n^^^\npreface\nto the\nCambridge\nShakespeare (new\nedit. 1891), supply\nsome\nuseful\nparticulars\nin regard\nto\nextant\ncopies, but\nmost\nof the\ninformation recorded here\nhas\nbeen\ndei\nived\nfrom\na\npersonal inspection\nof the copies, or\nfrom\ncorrespon-\ndence with\nthe\npresent owners,\nor\nfrom\nsale\ncatalogues.\n'\nCharlemont MSS.\n{Hist,\nMSS. Comm.\nRep.),\ni.\n343.","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:57:23.979Z","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":"2026-01-30T20:57:48.018Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:58:35.251Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFFH6ETXGRVD10WPNP3007D6"}}