Venus and Adonis, the First Quarto, 1593, From the Unique Original in the Bodleian Library, Oxford

This is a facsimile edition of the first quarto of Shakespeare’s ＂Venus and Adonis,＂ one of the most popular and widely-read works of the 16th century. The book features an introduction by Arthur Symons, one of the leading literary critics of the time, as well as a line-by-line transcription of the text. It is an indispensable resource for scholars of Shakespeare and the history of English literature.

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