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- # No. VI. Devonshire copy.
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## Context
The section is preceded by [No. V. Sion College.](arke:01KG6S5J9QN6VYFQFH84CVYVVZ) which describes a copy of *Lucrece* held at Sion College in London, and followed by [No. VII. Mr. A. H. Huth’s copy.](arke:01KG6S5JXJR6AEKYJZC6VT9RE4) describing a copy owned by Mr. A. H. Huth. The text file [pdf-01KG6Q7Q25RHMFT3SJXPV18VFF.txt](arke:01KG6S2X2EBB305ENM00G16GWA) from which this section was extracted, contains the assembled text from multiple PDF pages related to poems and facsimiles.
## Contents
This section describes the Duke of Devonshire's copy of the first edition of *Lucrece* (1594), noting that it once belonged to the actor John Philip Kemble, whose library was acquired by the sixth Duke of Devonshire in 1821. Kemble had inlaid and mounted his quarto plays and poems into a series of volumes, with *Lucrece* forming part of volume cxxi. The volume also contains the edition of *Pericles*, 1609, and early copies of the pseudo-Shakespearean plays *Thomas Lord Cromwell* (1613), *The London Prodigall* (1605), *Locrine* (1595), and the first part of *Sir John Oldcastle* (1600). The section notes that the Devonshire copy is quite perfect, and its original page measures $6\\frac{3}{4}'' \\times 4\\frac{3}{8}''$, while the page in which the text is inlaid measures $8\\frac{3}{8}'' \\times 6\\frac{3}{4}''$. It is described as one of the later impressions of the first edition, closely resembling copies in the British Museum.
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LUCRECE
FIRST EDITION, 1594.
have been collated by Kemble, but it is quite perfect; the other pieces in the volume have a note, ‘Collated and perfect, J.P.K.,’ with date either 1792 or 1798. The original page measures $6\frac{3}{4}'' \times 4\frac{3}{8}''$, but the page in which the text is inlaid, $8\frac{3}{8}'' \times 6\frac{3}{4}''$. It is one of the later impressions of the first edition, closely resembling the copies in the British Museum.
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