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- # No. X. Mr. E. Dwight Church’s (Rowfant) copy.
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This section, titled "No. X. Mr. E. Dwight Church’s (Rowfant) copy.", is part of Chapter III of a larger work. It details a specific copy of the first edition of Shakespeare's *Lucrece*, published in 1594. The section was extracted from the file `pdf-01KG6Q7Q25RHMFT3SJXPV18VFF.txt` on January 30, 2026.
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This section is situated within Chapter III, which is part of a poetry collection. The source file, `pdf-01KG6Q7Q25RHMFT3SJXPV18VFF.txt`, is part of the collection titled "PDF Workflow Main Test 2026-01-30T00:26:53". The section follows "No. IX. Mr. White’s copy." and precedes the section titled "SECOND EDITION, 1598.".
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The text describes a copy of the 1594 first edition of *Lucrece* that was formerly in the library of E. Dwight Church of New York, and before that, in the Rowfant library of Frederick Locker Lampson. This copy, measuring $6\frac{2}{3} \times 5\frac{1}{4}$ inches, is bound in red morocco by Zaënsdorf. It was previously owned by Sir William Tite and sold for £110. The section also mentions a fragment of the first edition sold in 1852 and a second copy in America, possibly comprising sixteen leaves from the Utterson fragment. It notes that the first edition has been reproduced in facsimile twice: once by E. W. Ashbee in 1867 and again by F. J. Furnivall in 1886. The text also briefly touches upon the second edition of *Lucrece*, published in 1598.
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- No. X. Mr. E. Dwight Church’s (Rowfant) copy.
A copy in the library of Mr. E. Dwight Church, of New York, was formerly in that of Frederick Locker Lampson, at Rowfant, Sussex, which was sold to Messrs. Dodd, Mead &
¹ See Dibdin’s Library Companion, p. 696, and Bibliographical Decameron, vol. iii, p. 264.
² A facsimile of the title-page of this copy is given in Contributions to English Bibliography, Grolier Club, 1895, p. 182.
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FIRST EDITION, 1594.
Co., of New York, in 1904. It is a perfect copy, measuring $6\frac{2}{3}5\frac{1}{4}'' \times 5''$, and is bound in red morocco with tooled sides by Zaëhnsdorf. It was apparently at one time the property of Sir William Tite, at the sale of whose library in 1874 it fetched £110.¹
A fragment of the first edition was sold in 1852, at the sale of the library of Edward Vernon Utterson, for £4 10s. od. Mr. White, of Brooklyn, possesses sixteen leaves (B 1, B 4, C 1–F 2) of a second copy, measuring $7\frac{2}{10}'' \times 5\frac{3}{16}''$. It is possible that this is the Utterson fragment.
The first edition of *Lucrece* has been twice issued in facsimile; firstly, in the series of reproductions of Shakespearean quartos undertaken by E. W. Ashbee under J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps’ direction in 1867 (of which fifty copies were prepared and nineteen of these destroyed); and secondly, in the series of Shakspere-Quarto facsimiles with introduction by F. J. Furnivall, 1886 (No. 35), published by Mr. Bernard Quaritch, of Piccadilly, from the copy in the British Museum.
The second edition appeared in 1598. Unlike the first edition, which was a quarto, the second, like all its successors, is an octavo. The signatures run A–E 4 in eights. The leaves number thirty-six and the pages are unnumbered. Only a single copy of the second edition is known. It is in the Capell collection at Trinity College, Cambridge. The title-page runs:—LVCRECE. | AT LONDON, | Printed by P. S. for Iohn | *Harrison*. 1598. | It was printed by Peter Short. The title-page bears the signature of two former owners—Robert Cheny, who seems to have paid 12d. for the copy, and of Count Fieschi. The ornaments are those usually associated with Peter Short’s press. Notes of
¹ Justin Winsor’s statement that Capell’s copy is missing from the collection in Trinity College, Cambridge, is incorrect. Capell never possessed a copy, but in the Catalogue of his Shakespearean Library he mentions that one is in the library of Sion College, London, and that he had collated it with his own exemplar of 1598.
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