{"id":"01KG8B6MSQ0JJN1K036T7MCDCJ","cid":"bafkreibeor3ika34syqgxxc4yvrw73h46i63ctsr2sabycxlwdzgystx4q","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreih4soleeuwq7sraxgdlssyuu4yeztbklpnc7ooo3axizczpssagnu","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"02_venus_and_adonis_1905_facsimile_page_0183.jpg","height":2400,"key":"pdf-page-1769806643982-x4x3u06qd5","label":"02_venus_and_adonis_1905_facsimile_page_0183.jpg","page_number":183,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":601054,"text":"LUCRECE\n47\ntion.\nThe\nsignatures\nrun\nA-D\n8\n;\nA\n4\nis\nmisprinted\nB4.\nOn\nFourth\nthe\ntitle-page\nappears the misprint\nbe for\nby\n(in\nthe\nimprint\nEdition,\n<\nPrinted\nbe\nN.\nO.').\nHarrison's\ndevice and\nmotto,\nDum\n'^°^'\nspero^\nfero^\nfigure\nas in\nthe edition\nof\n1^00.\nThere\nis\na\ncircular\nornament\nat\nthe\nend\nof\nthe\n<■\nArgument\n'.\nTwo\ncopies\nare\nknown.\nThe\nCapell\ncopy\nin Trinity\nNo.\nxiv.\nCollege,\nCambridge,\nmeasures\nf \"\nx\n3-^\".\nCapeiUopy.\nThe second copy, in the library of the Earl of Ellesmere, No. xv.\nat Bridgewater House, London, measures fi'' x i\\'\\ The leaves ^\"^gewatcr\nare much cut dov/n. The volume is bound in orange morocco. *^°^^'\nThis copy possesses much historic interest. It was purchased\nby John Egerton, second Earl of Bridgewater, who took the\npart of the Elder Brother in the performance of Milton's\nComus at Ludlow Castle, in 1(^34. The words <By W: Shake-\nspeare' are written in a contemporary hand across the title-\npage. The copy was described at length, but not with\naccuracy, by John Payne Collier in his Early English Literature\nat Bridgewater House^ 1837, pp. 280-2, and m his Bibliographical\nAccount of Early English Literature^ 18(^7, vol. ii, pp. 332 seq.\nCollier claims for the edition textual superiority to the\npreceding edition of id 00, which a careful collation seems\nhardly to justify. It follows the text of k^oo with very trivial\nmodification.\nThe\nfifth\nedition\nof \\6i6\n(in\nsmall\noctavo), in\nspite\nFifth\nof\nmany typographical\nchanges,\nis\nof the\nsame\nsize\n(thirty-two\nedition-,\nleaves\nwithout\npagination) and has the\nsame\nsignatures\nas\nthe\n'^'^\"\nissue\nof\n\\6o7.\nThe\nsignature A\n4\nis\nagain misprinted B\n4.\nOf\nthis\nfifth\nedition\nfour\ncopies\nare\nknown.\nThe\ntitle-page\nruns\n:— THE\nRAPE OF\nI\nLVCRECE\n|\nBy\n|\nMr.\nWilliam\nShakespeare\n\\ Newly Reuised. |\nLondon:\n|\nPrinted by\nT. S.\nfor\n^oger\nJackson^\nand\nare\n|\nto be solde\nat\nhis\nshop\nneere the\nConduit\nI in\nFleet-street, 1616.\n\\\nOf\nthe four extant\ncopies,\ntwo\nare in\nAmerica.\nThe copy in the British Museum was acquired on No. xvi.\nApril f, i8j8. It seems to have been sold by auction at ^J\"\"'^\nSotheby's, May, i8f(^, for ^23 10/. od. It is not in very clean copy!\"\"\"condition. Many leaves are pieced or patched, and the last five,","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:57:23.982Z","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":"2026-01-30T20:58:33.655Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:58:36.903Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFFH6ETXGRVD10WPNP3007D6"}}