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LUCRECE
**FIRST EDITION, 1594.**
to be bound up somewhat capriciously—six or seven together—in a long series of large volumes. His copy of the 1594 *Lucrece* now fills the first place in the volume which is labelled outside ‘Shakespeare Quartos, volume III,’ and contains six quarto tracts. The edition of *Lucrece* measures $7\frac{3}{16}'' \times 5''$, but is inlaid on paper measuring $9\frac{3}{6}'' \times 7\frac{3}{6}''$. The poem is followed successively by a copy of the *Sonnets* of 1609 (with the Aspley reprint); by *Hamlet*, 1607; by two quartos of *Pericles* dated respectively 1609 and 1619, and by *A Yorkshire Tragedy*, 1608.
**No. II.**
**Bodleian (2).**
A second copy in the Bodleian Library of the first edition of *Lucrece* was the gift of Thomas Caldecott in 1833, and is marked Malone 886. It is bound up with copies of the 1594 edition of *Venus and Adonis*, and of the first edition of the *Sonnets*, 1609 (with the John Wright imprint). The three tracts were purchased by Caldecott in June, 1796, ‘of an obscure bookseller of . . . Westminster’. The *Lucrece*, which comes second in the volume, has been seriously pruned by the binder, and measures only $6\frac{3}{4}'' \times 4\frac{3}{16}''$. The title-page has been torn in places and roughly repaired.
**No. III.**
**British Museum (1).**
Of the two copies in the British Museum the better one was purchased at the Bright sale, in 1845, for £58. The press-mark is C.21.C.45. It was bound by Hayday in maroon morocco, and, though several leaves have been repaired, is in good condition. It measures $7'' \times 4\frac{13}{16}''$.
**No. IV.**
**British Museum (2).**
The second copy in the British Museum is in the Grenville Collection (G.11178). It was purchased by Thomas Grenville, the collector, at the Combe sale in 1837. It is well bound in morocco. Grenville described it in a note in the volume as one of only three known copies. It measures $6\frac{13}{16}'' \times 5''$. The last leaf is missing, and its place is filled by a reprint from Malone’s copy in the Bodleian Library.
**No. V.**
**Sion College.**
The perfect copy in Sion College, London, formed part of the library of Thomas James, a well-known London printer,
¹ See *Venus and Adonis*, Introduction, p. 59.
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