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- LUCRECE
41
whose
widow,
Mrs.
Eleanor
James,
presented
it
with
other
first
volumes
in
1711
to
Sion
College
<out of
her
singular
edition,
affection
and
respect
for
the
London
clergy'.
The
copy,
^^^'^'
which
is
now separately
bound,
originally
formed
part of
a
volume
in
which
five
rare
poetical
tracts
of like
date were
bound
together.'
The
copy
seems
to
have been
printed
off
somewhat
later
than
the
Malone,
and
earlier
than the
Duke
of
Devonshire's copy
or
the
Bright
copy
in
the British
Museum.
Lines
11
82
and
i3fo
read
as in
the
Malone
copy
and
not
as
in the
Duke
of
Devonshire's
and
British
Museum
(Bright)
copies.
At
other
points
(lines
31 and
12^-6)
the readings
are
identical
with
the
Devonshire
and
British
Museum
(Bright)
copies
and
ditfer
from
those of the
Malone.^
The
measure-
ments are
/f"
x
j-f
".
The
Duke
of Devonshire's copy,
now
at
Chatsworth,
No.
v;.
originally
belonged
to the great actor
John
Philip
Kemble,
^^^^"^'"le
whose
library was
acquired
by
the
sixth
Duke
of
Devonshire in
*^°^^*
1821.
Kemble
inlaid
and
mounted
his
quarto
plays
and
poems,and
bomid them
up—
six or
seven
together
—
in
a
long
series
of
volumes.
Lucrece
forms
part
of
volume
cxxi
in his
collection
of
plays.
There
are six
quartos altogether
in
the
volume,
the
other
five
being
the edition oi
Pericles^
i6o<^'^
and
early
copies
of
the four
pseudo-Shakespearean
plays,
Thomas
Lord
Cromwell^
161 1
-^
The
London
Prodigally
\6oj\
Locrine^ 1^9 Tj
and
the
first
part of
Sir
John
0
Ideas tle^ 1600.
Lucrece
does not
seem
to
'
In the
original
manuscript
catalogue
of the
library there
appears
the
entry
'Shakespeare's
Lucrece
\(^c.
In
Reading's Catalogue
of
Sion College Library(1724)
thetracts
bound n^wiVa
Lucrece
2.r&
indicated.
All
are
nowseparately bound
and
are of
the
highest
rarity.
They
are
:
—
i.
Barnfield's Ajfectionate Shepherd^
15-5)4.
(the
only
other
known
copy
is at
Britwell).
2.
Michael Drayton's
Idea:
The Shepherds Garlaiid^
1
5'c)3
(only
two
other copies
seem
to
have been met with,
and none
is
in
a
public
library).
3.
O.
B.'s
Display of Vain
Ufe,
printed
by
Richard
Field and dedicated
to
the Earl
of Essex,
155)4
(fairly
common).
4.
Lamentatio7i of Troy
for the
Death
of Hector^
iT5>4-5
^7
^- C>. (fairly
common).
5".
A7i
old
facioned
loue
. .
.
by T. T. Gent.
155^4 (a translation of
Watson'sLatin
poem
Amyritas) ; the only other
copy
known
is in the
Capell
collection
at
Trinity College,
Cambridge. The
last
two
tracts
were
both printed by
Peter Short
for
William
Mattes.
=*
Sec pp.
3
i-x
supra.
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