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LUCRECE
SECOND EDITION, 1598.
a thorough collation by Capell of this copy with one of the first edition of 1594 in Sion College Library are scattered through the volume. The dimensions of the volume are $4\frac{3}{8}'' \times 3\frac{1}{8}''$.
THIRD EDITION, 1600. No. XII. Bodleian copy (1).
The edition of 1600 is in octavo, with signatures A–E 4 in eights. Signature E 3 is misprinted B 3. It has thirty-six leaves, and no pagination. Only one perfect copy is known. This is in the Malone collection (Malone 327) in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. It is bound up with a copy of Venus and Adonis which has a title-page supplied in manuscript (see Venus and Adonis, Census, No. VIII). The volume was presented to Malone by Dr. Richard Farmer in 1779.¹ The Lucrece is in good condition. The measurements are $4\frac{9}{16}'' \times 3''$.
¹ There is a note to that effect in Malone’s autograph in the volume. Malone soon afterwards lent the volume to Steevens so that he might read the 1600 edition of Lucrece. He returned it with a sarcastic drawing which still
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