Excerpt from Shakespeares Venus and Adonis: Being a Reproduction in Facsimile of the First Edition, I From the Unique Copy in the Malone Collection in the Bodleian Library, With Introduction and Bibliography

This reproduction in collotype facsimile of the unique copy in the Bodleian Library of Shakespeare's poem of Venus and Adonis forms, with the accompanying reproductions of the earliest editions of Lucrece, Sonnets, The Passionate Pilgrim, and the play of Pericles, a supplement to the facsimile reproduction of the First Folio, which the Oxford University Press issued in 1902. All the compositions which find a place in the present publication were excluded from the First Folio, and this undertaking therefore completes the presentation of Shakespeare's writings in their most authentic shape.

The five volumes which are dealt with here were published in Shakespeare's lifetime in varying conditions, which are described in detail in the editorial introductions.

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