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5-2 LUCRECE Seventh survival of any other copy of the 1632 edition. Halliwell- edition, phillipps had, in his Folio Shakespeare (iSdy), dated this ^^' defective copy before 1616^ assigning it tentatively to the year k^io, but his final opinion that it was issued in 16^2 is undoubtedly right. No. XXX. The copy belonging to :Mr. Marsden J. Perry, of Provi- Mr. Perry's Jence, was purchascd for £7^ at the Halliwell-Phillipps sale, ''^^^'' in 1889. It measures y-ri'xBl") ^^"^^ is bound in red morocco, by Lortic frcres. Some of the lower and outer leaves are uncut. EIGHTH A reissue in idyj, for which William Gilbertson, who Edition, had just purchased the copyright, was mainly responsible, '^^^' bears this title:— The Rape of | LUCRECE, | Committedby I TARQUIN the Sixtj | and | The remarkable judgments that hefel him for it. \ by | The incomparable Master of our English Poetry^ \ Will : Shakespeare Gent. | Whereunto is annexed, \ The Banishment of Tarquin: | Or, the leeward of Lust. I By J. Quarles. | london. | Printed by J. G. for John Stafford in George-yard | neer Fleet-bridge, and Will-. Gilbertson at |the Bible in Giltspur-street, i6sS' \ The pages are numbered 1-71 for Shakespeare's poem and 1-12 for Quarles' brief sequel. The signatures are continuous throughout — A 4, B-F 8 in eights, G 4. The volume opens with an engraved frontispiece, by William Faithorne. In the upper part of the page is a small oval portrait of Shakespeare, adapted from the Droeshout engraving in the First Folio, and below are full-length pictures of Collatinus and Lucretia with the inscription in large italics :— The Fates decree that tis a mighty wrong To Woemen Kinde, to have more Greife, then Tongue. Will : Gilbirson : John Stafford excud. On the title-page, which faces the frontispiece and is in ordinary type, is the device of a wreath containing the initials I. S. and W. G. (i.e. John Stafford and William Gilbertson). A dedication follows on sig. A3, < To my
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