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LUCRECE
EIGHTH EDITION, 1635.
The frontispiece is met with in very few copies, and lends the volume its main value and interest. It supplies the third engraved portrait of Shakespeare in point of time, that by Droeshout of the First Folio of 1623 being the first, and the second being the engraving by William Marshall before Shakespeare’s Poems of 1640. Of the three early engraved portraits of Shakespeare, this by Faithorne is most rarely met with. Halliwell[-Phillipps], writing before 1856, stated that he had seen thirty copies of the 1655 edition of Lucrece without the title-page and only one with it. Only two copies of the volume with the frontispiece seem accessible in Great Britain, while four seem to be in America.
WITH THE FRONTISPIECE.
No. XXXI.
British Museum (1).
Three copies of the edition are in the British Museum, but only one of them has the frontispiece (C. 34. a. 45). The perfect copy, which measures 5½" × 3½", was acquired by the Museum, April 3, 1865. It is stained and very closely trimmed, but the impression of the frontispiece is singularly brilliant, though the verses beneath it have been cut into by the binder. This copy was at one time in the possession of Halliwell[-Phillipps], who sold it by auction at Sotheby’s in May, 1856, for £25 10s. od. Halliwell[-Phillipps] inserted a manuscript note, calling attention to the extreme rarity of the edition with the frontispiece, and to its comparatively frequent occurrence without that embellishment.
No. XXXII.
Bodleian copy.
The copy in the Bodleian Library (Malone 889) was bequeathed by Thomas Caldecott in 1833. It measures 5½" × 3½". The frontispiece is mounted, and may possibly have come from another copy. The title-page is cropped and mutilated at the bottom. The binding is probably of the late eighteenth century. At the back of the Lucrece title-page the ‘Wriothesley’ dedication is copied in manuscript from the 1616 edition.
No. XXXIII.
Barton collection, Boston Public Library.
The copy in the Barton collection at the Boston Public Library has the frontispiece inlaid. This copy was thus described by the bookseller, Thomas Rodd, on October 5, 1835:—‘The title-page torn and laid down. The frontispiece inlaid. Several leaves cut into the side margin &
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