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- LUCRECE 47
tion. The signatures run A–D 8; A 4 is misprinted B 4. On the title-page appears the misprint *be* for *by* (in the imprint ‘Printed be N. O.’). Harrison’s device and motto, *Dum spero, fero*, figure as in the edition of 1600. There is a circular ornament at the end of the ‘Argument’.
Two copies are known. The Capell copy in Trinity College, Cambridge, measures $5'' \times 3\frac{3}{4}''$.
The second copy, in the library of the Earl of Ellesmere, at Bridgewater House, London, measures $5\frac{3}{4}'' \times 3\frac{3}{4}''$. The leaves are much cut down. The volume is bound in orange morocco. This copy possesses much historic interest. It was purchased by John Egerton, second Earl of Bridgewater, who took the part of the Elder Brother in the performance of Milton’s *Comus* at Ludlow Castle, in 1634. The words ‘By W: Shakespeare’ are written in a contemporary hand across the title-page. The copy was described at length, but not with accuracy, by John Payne Collier in his *Early English Literature at Bridgewater House*, 1837, pp. 280–2, and in his *Bibliographical Account of Early English Literature*, 1865, vol. ii, pp. 332 seq. Collier claims for the edition textual superiority to the preceding edition of 1600, which a careful collation seems hardly to justify. It follows the text of 1600 with very trivial modification.
The fifth edition of 1616 (in small octavo), in spite of many typographical changes, is of the same size (thirty-two leaves without pagination) and has the same signatures as the issue of 1607. The signature A 4 is again misprinted B 4. Of this fifth edition four copies are known. The title-page runs:—**THE | RAPE OF | LVCRECE | By | Mr. William Shakespeare | Newly Revised. | LONDON: | Printed by T. S. for Roger Jackson*, and are | to be sold at his shop neere the Conduit | in Fleet-street, 1616. | Of the four extant copies, two are in America.
The copy in the British Museum was acquired on April 5, 1858. It seems to have been sold by auction at Sotheby’s, May, 1856, for £23 10s. od. It is not in very clean condition. Many leaves are pieced or patched, and the last five,
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