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- LUCRECE 41
FIRST EDITION, 1594.
whose widow, Mrs. Eleanor James, presented it with other volumes in 1711 to Sion College 'out of her singular affection and respect for the London clergy'. The copy, which is now separately bound, originally formed part of a volume in which five rare poetical tracts of like date were bound together.¹ The copy seems to have been printed off somewhat later than the Malone, and earlier than the Duke of Devonshire's copy or the Bright copy in the British Museum. Lines 1182 and 1350 read as in the Malone copy and not as in the Duke of Devonshire's and British Museum (Bright) copies. At other points (lines 31 and 125-6) the readings are identical with the Devonshire and British Museum (Bright) copies and differ from those of the Malone.² The measurements are $7\frac{1}{2}'' \times 5\frac{1}{2}''$.
The Duke of Devonshire's copy, now at Chatsworth, originally belonged to the great actor John Philip Kemble, whose library was acquired by the sixth Duke of Devonshire in 1821. Kemble inlaid and mounted his quarto plays and poems, and bound them up—six or seven together—in a long series of volumes. *Lucrece* forms part of volume cxxi in his collection of plays. There are six quartos altogether in the volume, the other five being the edition of *Pericles*, 1609; and early copies of the four pseudo-Shakespearean plays, *Thomas Lord Cromwell*, 1613; *The London Prodigall*, 1605; *Locrine*, 1595; and the first part of *Sir John Oldcastle*, 1600. *Lucrece* does not seem to
¹ In the original manuscript catalogue of the library there appears the entry 'Shakespeare's *Lucrece*', &c. In Reading's Catalogue of Sion College Library (1724) the tracts bound up with *Lucrece* are indicated. All are now separately bound and are of the highest rarity. They are:—1. Barnfield's *Affectionate Shepherd*, 1594 (the only other known copy is at Britwell). 2. Michael Drayton's *Idea: The Shepherds Garland*, 1593 (only two other copies seem to have been met with, and none is in a public library). 3. O. B.'s *Display of Vain Life*, printed by Richard Field and dedicated to the Earl of Essex, 1594 (fairly common). 4. *Lamentation of Troy for the Death of Hector*, 1594, by I. O. (fairly common). 5. *An old faciemed love* . . . by T. T. Gent. 1594 (a translation of Watson's Latin poem *Amyntas*); the only other copy known is in the Capell collection at Trinity College, Cambridge. The last two tracts were both printed by Peter Sport for William Mattes.
² See pp. 31-2 *supra*.
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