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- LUCRECE
49
measures sV'^3t'-> ^"<i i^ bound with four other poetical Sixth
tracts of like date. edition,
Four
other
copies
are
now
in
America.
The
best
belongs
No^'xxir.
to
Mr.
E.
Dwight
Church.
It
was
in
the
eighteenth century
Mr.
Dwight
the
property
of
Sir
John
Fenn
(1739-94),
the
editor of
^'^"^'*^^*
the
<
Paston
Letters
'.
A subsequent
owner
was Philip
Howard
Frere (i8i3-<J8).
It
is
a
fine
and clean copy.
Sir
John
Fenn
cut
out
the
woodcut
and imprint
of
the title-page,
placing
the
excised
slips
in
his
collection
of
cuttings.
These
were
discovered
in
a
scrapbook
formerly
in
the
possession of
Sir
John
Fenn,
by
Dr.
Aldis
Wright,
who
replaced
them
in
the
title-page
of
the
copy,
while Frere was
its
owner.
The
copy passed
into the
hands
of the
American
collector,
Thomas
Jefferson
McKee,
at
whose
sale
in
1901
it
was
acquired
by
the
present owner.
The
size
of
the
leaf
is
^~'
x
3!".
The
volume
is
bound
in
green
le^'ant
morocco.
The Rowfant copy, which formerly belonged to Frederick No. xxiir.
Locker Lampson, has the inscription on title-page: < Pretium ^odd,Mead
4N: L: S:' It measures sV >< Stt''- I^ ^^ one time be- (Rowfant)
longed to Narcissus Luttrell (id; 7-1 7 3 2), and seems to have <^opy.
been sold at the Ouvry sale in 1882, for £3 1, to Messrs. Ellis
and White, the booksellers of Bond Street. It was acquired by
Messrs. Dodd, Mead & Co., booksellers of New York, in 1 9 04.
The copy belonging to Mr. Folger, of New York, no. xxiv.
seems to have been sold at Sotheby's in a miscellaneous ^^^'- Foigers
sale on Jmie 18, 1903, and bought by Messrs. Sotheran for ^°^^'
^130. A iQw headlines are shaved.
A copy belonging to Mr. Marsden J. Perry, of Provi- No. xxv.
dence, formerly belonged to Halliwell[-Phillipps], who ^'- ^^^^Y^
paid Quaritch i42
for
it
in
November,
1885-.
It
measures
*^°^^'
1
1
''
I
"
In the seventh edition of 1(^32, the signatures run A in Seventh
fours, B-D7 in eights j B4 is misprinted B2. On the last Edition,
page (D7 verso) the word < Finis' is followed by a wood- ^ ^"'
cut with the motto /// Domino confido. The typography is
distinguished by the excessive use of italics for ordinary
words. The leaves number thirty. There is no pagination.
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