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LUCRECE
Fifth
Edition,
1616.
No. xvir.
Bodleian
copy.
No. XVIII.
Lenox
Library J
New York.
No. XIX.
Mr. Dwight
Church's
(Rowfant)
copy.
Sixth
Edition,
1624.
No. XX.
British
Museum (i)
(Grenviile).
No. XXI.
British
Museum (i).
which were defective, have been repaired in facsimile. The
measurements arc St' ^ l^" - The volume was in recent times
bound by Bedford in red morocco. The press-mark is C. 34. a. 44.
The copy in the Bodleian Library was part of the
bequest of Thomas Caldecott and reached the Library in
1833 (Malone 892). The leaves have been much cut by the
binder. The measurements are y.Vx It-^" -
There is a copy in the Lenox Library in the New York
Public Library which has been cut close at top and bottom.
This was probably the one priced by the bookseller Rodd.
in his catalogue of 1837 at four guineas, and may be that
sold with the Venus and Adonis of \6i6 and other poetical
tracts at the sale of Thomas Pearson's library in 1788.
The copy formerly in the library of Frederick Locker
Lampson, of Rowfant, now belongs to Mr. E. Dwight Church,
of New York. Measuring y-^" x 3I-" and being bound
by Riviere, it was formerly in the library of Frederick Ouvry.
It is cut in the lower margin. It was bought in the
Ouvry sale, in 188 2, by Bernard Quaritch, for £is "^ OJ"- o^-?
and shortly afterwards went to Rowfant. It passed to the
present owner early in 1905-.
O^ the edition of 1^24, in small octavo, six copies are
now traceable, of which only two are now in England, and
both of these are in the British Museum. The text with
list of contents and marginal notes follows that oi 1616. The
signatures are the same, and the leaves number thirty-two,
without pagination. The title runs :— The | Rape | of [
Lvcrece. | By Mr. William Shakespeare. \ Newly Revised.
I LONDON I Printed by I. B. for ^ger Jackson., and are | to
be sold at his shop neere the Conduit | in Fleet-street, 162^.
A fair copy is in the Grenviile collection (No, 11179)
at the British Museum. It was possibly bought at the
Jolley sale in 1844. The measurements are Stt' ^ Zti'-
The title and last leaf are not in good condition and a few of
the headlines are cut into. It is bound in green morocco.
The second copy now known to be in Great Britain is
also in the British Museum — press-mark C. 39. a. 37(2). It
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