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- r4 LUCRECE
Eighth
Edition,
1^55.
With the
Frontis-
piece,
No. XXXI.
British
Miisenm (i).
No.
xxxir.
Bodleian
copy.
No.
XXXIII.
Barton
collection,
Boston
Public
Library.
The frontispiece is met with in Aery icw copies, and
lends the volume its main ^alue and interest. It supplies
the third engraved portrait of Shakespeare in ]X)int of time,
that by Droeshout of the First Folio of 1623 being the
first, and the second being the engraving by William Marshall
before Shakespeare's Poems of 1540. Of the three early
engraved portraits of Shakespeare, this by Faithorne is most
rarely met with. Halliwell[-Phillipps], writing before iSjd,
stated that he had seen thirty copies of the 16 ^y edition of
Lucrece without the title-page and only one with it. Only
two copies of the Aolume with the frontispiece seem acces-
sible inGreat Britain, while four seem to be in America.
Three copies of the edition are in the British Museum,
but only one of them has the frontispiece (C. 34. a. 45-). The
perfect copy, which measures s-h" ^ ^-h"-) '^^^s acquired by
the Museum, April 3, i%6y. It is stained and very closely
trimmed, but the impression of the frontispiece is singularly
brilliant, though the verses beneath it have been cut into
by the binder. This copy was at one time in the possession
of Halliwell[-Phillipps], who sold it by auction at Sotheby's
in May, i8f(5, for £2^ ioj. od. Halliwell[-Phillipps] inserted
a manuscript note, calling attention to the extreme rarity
of the edition with the frontispiece, and to its comparatively
frequent occurrence without that embellishment.
The copy in the Bodleian Library (Malone 889) was be-
queathed byThomas Caldecott in 1 8 3 3. It measures y-~' x i~' .
The frontispiece is mounted, and may possibly have come from
another copy. The title-page is cropped and mutilated at
the bottom. The binding is probably of the late eighteenth
century. At the back of the Lucrece title-page the
' Wriothesley ' dedication is copied in manuscript from the
\6\6 edition.
The copy in the Barton collection at the Boston
Public Library has the frontispiece inlaid. 1 his copy was thus
described by the bookseller, Thomas Rodd, on October y,
1837: — 'The title-page torn and laid down. The frontis-
piece inlaid. Several leaves cut into the side margin &
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