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- LUCRECE 43
FIRST EDITION, 1594.
Co., of New York, in 1904. It is a perfect copy, measuring $6\frac{2}{3}5\frac{1}{4}'' \times 5''$, and is bound in red morocco with tooled sides by Zaëhnsdorf. It was apparently at one time the property of Sir William Tite, at the sale of whose library in 1874 it fetched £110.¹
A fragment of the first edition was sold in 1852, at the sale of the library of Edward Vernon Utterson, for £4 10s. od. Mr. White, of Brooklyn, possesses sixteen leaves (B 1, B 4, C 1–F 2) of a second copy, measuring $7\frac{2}{10}'' \times 5\frac{3}{16}''$. It is possible that this is the Utterson fragment.
The first edition of *Lucrece* has been twice issued in facsimile; firstly, in the series of reproductions of Shakespearean quartos undertaken by E. W. Ashbee under J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps’ direction in 1867 (of which fifty copies were prepared and nineteen of these destroyed); and secondly, in the series of Shakspere-Quarto facsimiles with introduction by F. J. Furnivall, 1886 (No. 35), published by Mr. Bernard Quaritch, of Piccadilly, from the copy in the British Museum.
The second edition appeared in 1598. Unlike the first edition, which was a quarto, the second, like all its successors, is an octavo. The signatures run A–E 4 in eights. The leaves number thirty-six and the pages are unnumbered. Only a single copy of the second edition is known. It is in the Capell collection at Trinity College, Cambridge. The title-page runs:—LVCRECE. | AT LONDON, | Printed by P. S. for Iohn | *Harrison*. 1598. | It was printed by Peter Short. The title-page bears the signature of two former owners—Robert Cheny, who seems to have paid 12d. for the copy, and of Count Fieschi. The ornaments are those usually associated with Peter Short’s press. Notes of
¹ Justin Winsor’s statement that Capell’s copy is missing from the collection in Trinity College, Cambridge, is incorrect. Capell never possessed a copy, but in the Catalogue of his Shakespearean Library he mentions that one is in the library of Sion College, London, and that he had collated it with his own exemplar of 1598.
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