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- SONNETS OF SHAKESPEARE 67
THREEDITION OF 1609.
the last Duke of Bridgewater in 1802, apparently on the erroneous assumption that he owned another copy. It was then bought by George Chalmers for £1. At the sale of Chalmers’ library, in 1842, it was repurchased for the library at Bridgewater House by the first Earl of Ellesmere, grandfather of the third Earl, the present owner, for £105. This copy was reproduced in photo-zincography, under the direction of Sir Henry James, in 1862. It has the Aspley title-page. It is in eighteenth-century binding. The measurements are 7¼″ × 5½″.
The copy belonging to A. H. Huth has the Wright imprint. It was for many years in the Bentinck library at Varel, near Oldenburg, and formed part of a volume of tracts which had been bound together in 1728. The volume was first noticed by Professor Tycho Mommsen in 1857, when the Bentinck library was dispersed by sale. It was purchased by Halliwell[-Phillipps], but was sold at a sale of his books in 1858, when it was acquired by Henry Huth, father of the present owner, (through the bookseller Lilly) for £154 7s. od. The copy is somewhat dirty, the top margins are cut close, and some of the print in the headlines is shaved.¹
Of the copies in America, the most interesting belongs to Mr. E. Dwight Church of New York. It has the Wright imprint, is bound in brown morocco by Charles Lewis, and measures 6½″ × 5″. At the end of the seventeenth century it was purchased by Narcissus Luttrell for one shilling. It subsequently belonged to George Steevens, whose autograph it bears, and it was sold in 1800 at the sale of Steevens’ library for £3 19s. od. It was then acquired by the Duke of Roxburghe, at the sale of whose library in 1812 it fetched
¹ A copy of Shakespeare’s ‘Poems and Sonnets’ dated 1609 is mentioned in the manuscript catalogue of the library of Earl Howe, at Gopsall, Leicestershire. The library was bequeathed, with the Gopsall property, to Lord Howe’s ancestor, William Penn Assheton Curzon, by Charles Jennens, the virtuoso, and friend of Handel, in 1773. But the earliest edition of the Sonnets in Lord Howe’s library at Gopsall proves on examination (which Lord Howe invited me there to make) to be Lintott’s edition of 1710—in which the title-page of the 1609 edition of the Sonnets is reproduced.
No. VIII. The Huth copy.
No. IX. The Dwight Church copy
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