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- 3 8 LUCRECE
only survive in single copies. It is curious to note that
a larger number of copies are accessible of the original edition
than of any other of the first seven. As many as ten are now
traceable. Several of these have been recovered recently.
Thomas Grenville asserted some sixty years ago that only three
were known. George Daniel, Frederick Locker Lampson, and
other collectors of the last half-century raised their estimate
to five. That number must now be doubled.
It is likely enough that of all the editions more copies
will be found hereafter. At present all the known copies
of the first seven editions (excluding fragments) number no
more than thirty. The eighth edition stands in a somewhat
different position. Some twenty copies seem traceable, but
of these only six contain the rare frontispiece and are perfect,
two of these being in Great Britain and the rest in America.
Of the thirty copies of the first seven editions, twenty
are now in Great Britain, nine are in America, and one, which
has lately changed hands, is not at the moment located. 0£ the
twenty British copies, fifteen are in public institutions,^ five
being in the British Museum, five in the Bodleian Library, two
in the Capell Collection of Trinity College, Cambridge, one
in the University Library, Edinburgh, one at Sion College,
London, and one at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Five are
in the hands of English private owners. Of the nine American
copies, one is in a public institution — the Lenox Library,
New York — and eight are in private hands.'
' A copy of an unspecified edition of Lucrecey sold with twenty-two other
pieces, brought in i(^8o, at the sale of Sir Kenelm Digby's library, three
shillings. Comparatively few copies have figured in public auctions of late
years. The highest price which the first edition has fetched is ^"loo, which it
reached at the Perkins sale in i88(j. No copy of that edition has occurred
for sale since. Of the later editions, £j^ — the price paid for a copy of the 1(^3 z
edition at the Halliwell-Phiilipps sale, also in 1889 — is the auction record.
For the frontispiece of the i^^5' edition as much as ^iio was paid at
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