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LUCRECE
First to be bound up somewhat capriciously — six or seven
Edition, together — in a long series of large volumes. His copy of the
'^^^'
i5'94 Lncrece
now
fills
the
first
place
in the
voliune
which
is labelled outside ' Shakespeare Quartos, volume III,' and
contains six quarto tracts. The edition of Lucrece measures
7-^^" X y", but is inlaid on paper measuring 93" x 7\". The
poem is followed successively by a copy of the Sonnets of
Id 09 (with the Aspley reprint); by Hamlet^ 1607 ^ by two
quartos of Pmc/fj- dated respectively 1^09 and 1(^19, and by
J Torkshire Tragedy^ \6o%.
^^
jj
A
second
copy
in
the
Bodleian Library of
the
first
Bodleian (1). edition oiLucrece was the gift of Thomas Caldecott in 1833,
and is marked Malone %%6. It is bound up with copies of
the i;'94 edition of Feniis and Jdonis^ and of the first edition
of the Sonnets^ 1^09 (with the John Wright imprint). The
three tracts were purchased by Caldecott in June, i79<^,
<of an obscure bookseller of . . . Westminster'.' The Lucrece^
which comes second in the volume, has been seriously
pruned by
the binder,
and
measures
only
6^"
x
^-~^"
.
The
title-page has been torn in places and roughly repaired.
No.
III.
Oi
the
two
copies in
the
British
Museum
the
better
Biitish one was purchased at the Bright sale, in 184;", for £^%. The
Miisciini(i).
press-mark
is
C.
2 i.e. 45-.
It
was
bound by
Hayday
in
maroon
morocco, and, though several leaves have been repaired, is
in
good
condition.
It
measures
7"
x
4H''.
No.
IV.
The second
copy
in
the British
Museum
is
in
the
British Grenvillc Collection (G. 1 1 1 78). It was purchased by Thomas
Museum
(2).
QreuviUe,
the
collector, at
the
Combe
sale
in
1837.
It
iswell bound in morocco. Grenville described it in a note
in the volume as one of only three known copies. It
measures 6—^' x {' . The last leaf is missing, and its place
is filled by a reprint from Malone's copy in the BodleianLibrary.
No. V. The perfect copy in Sion College, London, formed part
SionCullege. of the
library
of
Thomas
James,
a
well-known London
printer,
'
See Venus avd Ado?iis^
Introduction,
p.
55;.
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