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LUCRECE js dirty. The back margin sewed in.' Rodd thought it eighth might be identical with the copy sold in 1827 at the Field edition, sale for £1 19/. od. It was purchased by T. P. Barton of New York, from Rodd, in 183 f , and bequeathed by Barton to the Boston Public Library in i8 7<^. It is bound in green morocco by Mackenzie, and the binder has misplaced pages f and 8. An interesting copy, belonging to Mr. Dwight Church No. of New York, bound in old calf, has the frontispiece, but ^■^^i^* , it is cut into at the bottom. Some of the pages of the churciTS^ text are also closely cut. The copy, which measures New York. f:pg" X 3I-", seems identical with one which was purchased at Sotheby's, by [Sir] William Tite, in 1 8 y o, for £z6 y /. od. and sold at the Tite sale in 1 8 74, for £1 1 js. od. Mr. Church's copy is carefully described in Contributions to English Biblio- graphy .^Grolier Club, i89y, p. 183. Mr. Folger, junior, of New York, possesses a perfect No. copy. This was apparently the copy which belonged to ^^^\ Dr. Richard Farmer, and was for a time in the library of ofNewYork. Henry F. Sewall of New York, at the sale of whose books in 1897 it fetched ^37 (§185-). A fourth perfect copy was sold at the Daniel sale in I5^\.yT 18^4, for £\o 19/. o^., and was subsequently in the library of untiaced E. G. Asay of Chicago. (Daniel) Oi two copies in the British Museum without the frontis- ^°p^" piece one is bound up with a volume of pamphlets in the t-he™ron- King's Library, E. 1^72/3. The date, 'Aug: 31,' is written tispiece. in a contemporary hand above the imprint, and was probably No. the day of publication in the year K^yy. The book is in gj^j^j^^^" good condition. It measures yf'' x i~^" . Museum (2). The second copy without the frontispiece, which is at No.• • • XXXVIIT the British Museum, is in the Grenville collection (G. 11432). ^^\^^^\^ All the leaves are stained and have been mended. The Museum (3). volume is bound in olive morocco and measures 5-7" x i~' , This may be the copy formerly in the library of George Hibbert, of Portland Place, which was sold at the Hibbert sale in 1829, for £z 6s. od.
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