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LUCRECE
First have been collated by Kemble, but it is quite perfect ; the
editionj 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~/' x 4I", but the page in which the text is
inlaid, 8|"x5^". It is one of the later impressions of the
first edition, closely resembling the copies in the British
Museum.
No. vir. The copy owned by Mr. A. H. Huth was purchased at
Mr. A.
H.
j-j-j^.
Daniel
sale,
in 18^4,
for /ly?
10/.
orf'.
It
is
a
perfect
Huth's
copy.
,
'
^y
Z>
^
'
r
exemplar.
No. viir. A copy belonging to Capt. George Lindsay Holford, of
Hoiford
Dorchester House,
Park Lane,
London,
was
purchased
by
the
*^°^^'
present
owner's
father,
Robert
Stayner
Holford,
for
/i
00,
about
1 8 do, and is stated to be quite perfect.
No. IX. Two fine copies are now in America. One of these belongs
Mr.
White's
to
Mr.
William
Augustus White,
of
Brooklyn.
Mr. White's
^°^^'
copy?
which
measures
7^''
x
t|",
seems
to
have been
at
the
beginning of the nineteenth century in the Chapter library
of Lincoln Cathedral.' It subsequently passed into the pos-
session ofSir William Bolland, Baron of the Exchequer, who
died in 1840. On Sir William Bolland 's death, it appears to
have been purchased by the well-known bookseller, Thomas
Rodd, for 100 guineas. It then passed into the library of
Frederick Perkins, of Chipstead (1780-18^0). At the sale
of Perkins' library on July 10, 1889, when the catalogue
noticed < a small hole burnt in two leaves, destroying a iew
letters ', it was purchased by Mr. Bernard Quaritch, the
London bookseller, for ^200, and was acquired by the
present owner.""
No. X. A copy in the library of Mr. E. D wight Church, of New
Dwilit
York,
was formerly
in that
of Frederick Locker Lampson,
atChurch's
Rowfant,
Sussex,
which was sold to
Messrs.
Dodd, Mead &
(Rowfant)
copy.
^ See Dibdin's Lihary Companion^ p. 6<)6^ and BibllographJcal Decameron^
vol. iii, p. z6'4."^
A
facsimile of the title-page of
this
copy
is
given
in Contributions
to
English Bibliography^ Grolier Club,
18(^5-,
p.
1
8
2.
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