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LUCRECE
SEVENTH EDITION, 1632
There are five extant copies of the edition of 1632—one at Corpus Christi College, Oxford; another in the library of Mrs. Christie Miller at Britwell; a third in unknown hands; the fourth (defective) at Edinburgh University Library; and the fifth in America, in Mr. Perry’s library at Providence. The title-page runs:—The | Rape | of | Lucrece | by | Mr. William Shakespeare | Newly revised. [Printer’s device with motto Dum spero fero.] London. | Printed by R. B. for Iohn Harrison and | are to be sold at his shop at the golden | Vnicorne in Pater-noster Row. | 1632. | In one of the impressions of the edition of Shakespeare’s Poems issued by the bookseller Lintott in 1710, he gives a title-page of Lucrece bearing the date 1632. A copy of that edition was doubtless in his possession.
No. XXVI. Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
No. XXVII. Britwell copy.
The Corpus Christi College copy, which measures 5¾″ × 3⅛″, was presented to the college by a seventeenth-century Fellow, John Rosewell, Canon of Windsor. It is in old calf, and bound up with a defective copy (having no title) of an English translation by Thomas Hudson of the History of Judith (1584) from the French of Du Bartas.
No. XXVIII. Untraced copy.
The Britwell copy formerly belonged to George Steevens, and was bought at his sale in 1800 by Richard Heber for fifteen shillings. It passed from the Heber Library into the possession of William Henry Miller, the founder of the library at Britwell, in 1834. The measurements are 5¼″ × 3⅛″. It is bound up with a copy of Charles Fitz-Geffry’s Blessed Birthday (Oxford, 1636).
A copy belonging to John Mansfield Mackenzie, of Edinburgh, of which some leaves had rough edges, was sold at Sotheby’s at the sale of the Mackenzie Library, March 11, 1889, and was purchased by Pearson & Co., the London booksellers, for £26 10s. od. Its present owner has not been traced.
No. XXIX. Edinburgh University copy.
A defective copy (consisting of twenty-seven leaves of the thirty) is in the Edinburgh University Library.¹ The
¹ Thanks are due to Dr. Eggeling and to Mr. Alex. Anderson of Edinburgh University for the opportunity of determining the date of this copy.
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