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- LUCRECE
3P
The
first
edition
of
Lucrece
is
the only one
which
ap-
First
peared
in
quarto.
The
signatures
run
:
—
A
i,
A
ii,
B-N,
in
^^'"^^^^'
fours.
There
are
forty-seven
leaves
in
all
without
pagi-
nation. The
dedication
figures
on
the
recto
side,
and
the
'Argument
'
on the
verso
side,
of
the
leaf
signed
A ii.
The
text
of the
poem commences
on
the
leaf
signed
B.
The
title-
page
runs
:
—
LVCRECE
|
[Field's
device
and
motto]
London
|
Printed
by
Richard
Field, for
lohn Harrison,
and
are
| to
be
sold
at
the signe of the white
Greyhound
|
in
Paules
Churh-yard
1^94. |
The
pattern of
Field's
device
of
the
suspended anchor,
with
his
motto
Aiichora
Spei^ slightly
differs
from
that
on
the
title-page
of Fenus
and
Adonis.
In
the
Lucrece
volume
the
boughs
are
crossed
in
front
of the
stem of
the anchor,
instead
of being
figured
behind
the
stem,
as in the
Venus and
Adonis
volume.
The copy of the first edition of the poem, which is repro- No r.
duced in facsimile for the first time in this volume, is one Boaieinn(i)-
of the two exemplars now in the Bodleian Library at
Oxford. It belongs to the collection of books which was
presented in 1 8 1 d to the library by the brother of Edmund
Malone, the Shakespearean commentator, and is numbered
^Malone 34. In the spring of 1 779, Malone bought for twenty
guineas a single volume containing this copy of the first
edition of Lucrece^ together with a first edition of Shakespeare's
Sonnets^ At a later date he caused these and many other of
his quarto editions of Shakespeare's works to be inlaid and
a
sale
\\\
1902.
At
the present
moment
the prices are
rapidly
rising.
A
perfect
copy
of
a
first
edition
would
be likely to reach
^1000,
and
a
perfect
copy
of
any
later
edition of
the
seventeenth
century,
jTyoo.
Justin
Winsor's
BVoUography of
Shakespeare's
Voems (Boston,
1879),
^"^
^^^
preface
to the
Cambridge
Shakespeare (new
edit. 1891), supply
some
useful
particulars
in regard
to
extant
copies, but
most
of the
information recorded here
has
been
dei
ived
from
a
personal inspection
of the copies, or
from
correspon-
dence with
the
present owners,
or
from
sale
catalogues.
'
Charlemont MSS.
{Hist,
MSS. Comm.
Rep.),
i.
343.
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