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- # Brit. Mus. copy, 1636.
## Overview - What this is (type, form, dates, scope)
This is a section from a digitized text, specifically a description of a 1636 edition of a work, likely Shakespearean, held by the British Museum. It provides details about the edition's publication, physical characteristics, provenance, and notable copies. The section was extracted on January 30, 2026.
## Context - Background and provenance from related entities
This section is part of [Venus and Adonis, Lucrece, Sonnets, and Pericles (Facsimile Editions)](arke:01KG6S3KNZT62WVVW4VT384KPF), which was extracted from the file [pdf-01KG6Q7Q25RHMFT3SJXPV18VFF.txt](arke:01KG6S2X2EBB305ENM00G16GWA). The file is part of the [PDF Workflow Main Test 2026-01-30T00:26:53](arke:01KG6NWQ2H2K4PGG7H4ZHYCZ3Y) collection. It is preceded by [No. XVIII.](arke:01KG6S4DZQ26GF0HBJFTNHE9T0) and followed by [No. XIX.](arke:01KG6S4DZSNVJRA7ZYSA3TXZV1).
## Contents - What it contains, key subjects and details
The section describes Haviland’s third edition of a work published in 1636, noting it was "to be sold by Francis Coules" and featured a device of Cupid. It mentions that only two copies are traceable, detailing the signatures and leaf count (27 leaves). The British Museum copy is described as bound in russia leather, stained, soiled, and with mended leaves, measuring $4\\frac{3}{4}'' \\times 3\\frac{5}{6}''$. Its provenance includes George Hibbert, whose 1829 sale fetched £1 14s. od. The text suggests a possible earlier sale in 1788 with the *Rape of Lucrece* (1616) for £1 2s. od. A better copy, with twenty-eight leaves, is noted as belonging to Mr. Marsden J. Perry of Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.A., measuring $4\\frac{3}{4}'' \\times 3\\frac{5}{6}''$, and purchased by Henry Stevens in London in May 1856. Some leaves are uncut.
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Haviland’s third edition appeared in 1636 again, ‘to be sold by Francis Coules’, with the same device of Cupid throwing down his bow, as in Haviland’s first edition of 1630. Two copies alone are traceable. The signatures run as before, A to D iii in eights, and the book contains twenty-seven leaves. The British Museum copy, which measures $4\frac{3}{4}'' \times 3\frac{5}{6}''$, is bound in russia, and is badly stained and soiled, with a few leaves mended. It belonged to George Hibbert, of Portland Place, London, at whose sale in 1829 it fetched £1 14s. od. This copy is possibly identical with that which was sold bound up in a volume with the *Rape of Lucrece* (1616) and other poetical tracts, at the sale of Thomas Pearson in 1788, when the whole volume fetched £1 2s. od. A better copy of the 1636 edition now belongs to Mr. Marsden J. Perry, of Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.A. It measures $4\frac{3}{4}'' \times 3\frac{5}{6}''$ and contains twenty-eight leaves, the last being blank, while some leaves are uncut at the bottom. This copy was purchased by Henry Stevens, the American agent in London, in May, 1856, at Sotheby’s,
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