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LUCRECE
Seventh
EdITIONj
]6^i
No. XXVI.
Corpus
Christi
College,
Oxford.
No. XXVII.
Biitwell
copy.
No.
XXVIII.
Untiaced
copy.
No. XXIX.
Edinburgh
University
copy.
There are five extant copies of the edition of 16^2 — one at
Corpus Christi College, Oxford ; another in the library of
Mrs. Christie Miller at Britwell ; a third in unknown hands ;
the fourth (defective) at Edinburgh University Library j
and the fifth in America, in Mr. Perry's library at
Providence. The title-page runs : — The | Rape | of
I Lucrece | by | Mr. William Shakespeare | Newly revised.
[Printer's device with motto Dum spero fero.'] London. |
Printed by R. B. for John Harrison and | are to be sold at his
shop at the golden |Vnicorne in Pater-noster l{ow. \ 167,2. \ In
one of the impressions of the edition of Shakespeare's T'o^wj-
issued by the bookseller Lintott in 171 o, he gives a title-page
of Lucrece bearing the date 1(^3 2. A copy of that edition was
doubtless in his possession.
The Corpus Christi College copy, which measures
f t" >< 3t"> ^^s presented to the college by a seventeenth-
century Fellow, John Rosewell, Canon of Windsor. It is
in old calf, and bound up with a defective copy (having
no title) of an English translation by Thomas Hudson of
the History of Judith (1^84) from the French of Du Bartas.
The Britwell copy formerly belonged to George Steevens,
and was bought at his sale in 1800 by Richard Heber for
fifteen shillings. It passed from the Heber Library into the
possession of William Henry Miller, the founder of the
library at Britwell, in 1834. The measurements are
ff " X 3I". It is bound up with a copy of Charles Fitz-
GefFry's Blessed Birthday (Oxford, 167,6).
A copy belonging to John Mansfield Mackenzie,
of Edinburgh, of which some leaves had rough edges,
was sold at Sotheby's at the sale of the Mackenzie Library,
March n, 1889, and was purchased by Pearson & Co., the
London booksellers, for ^f2 (^ i o/. od. Its present owner has
not been traced.
A defective copy (consisting of twenty-seven leaves of
the thirty) is in the Edinburgh University Library.^ The
' Thanks are due to Dr. Eggeling and to Mr. Alex. Anderson of
Edinburgh University for the opportunity of determining the date of this copy.
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