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- LUCRECE
47
tion.
The
signatures
run
A-D
8
;
A
4
is
misprinted
B4.
On
Fourth
the
title-page
appears the misprint
be for
by
(in
the
imprint
Edition,
<
Printed
be
N.
O.').
Harrison's
device and
motto,
Dum
'^°^'
spero^
fero^
figure
as in
the edition
of
1^00.
There
is
a
circular
ornament
at
the
end
of
the
<■
Argument
'.
Two
copies
are
known.
The
Capell
copy
in Trinity
No.
xiv.
College,
Cambridge,
measures
f "
x
3-^".
CapeiUopy.
The second copy, in the library of the Earl of Ellesmere, No. xv.
at Bridgewater House, London, measures fi'' x i\'\ The leaves ^"^gewatcr
are much cut dov/n. The volume is bound in orange morocco. *^°^^'
This copy possesses much historic interest. It was purchased
by John Egerton, second Earl of Bridgewater, who took the
part of the Elder Brother in the performance of Milton's
Comus at Ludlow Castle, in 1(^34. The words <By W: Shake-
speare' are written in a contemporary hand across the title-
page. The copy was described at length, but not with
accuracy, by John Payne Collier in his Early English Literature
at Bridgewater House^ 1837, pp. 280-2, and m his Bibliographical
Account of Early English Literature^ 18(^7, vol. ii, pp. 332 seq.
Collier claims for the edition textual superiority to the
preceding edition of id 00, which a careful collation seems
hardly to justify. It follows the text of k^oo with very trivial
modification.
The
fifth
edition
of \6i6
(in
small
octavo), in
spite
Fifth
of
many typographical
changes,
is
of the
same
size
(thirty-two
edition-,
leaves
without
pagination) and has the
same
signatures
as
the
'^'^"
issue
of
\6o7.
The
signature A
4
is
again misprinted B
4.
Of
this
fifth
edition
four
copies
are
known.
The
title-page
runs
:— THE
RAPE OF
I
LVCRECE
|
By
|
Mr.
William
Shakespeare
\ Newly Reuised. |
London:
|
Printed by
T. S.
for
^oger
Jackson^
and
are
|
to be solde
at
his
shop
neere the
Conduit
I in
Fleet-street, 1616.
\
Of
the four extant
copies,
two
are in
America.
The copy in the British Museum was acquired on No. xvi.
April f, i8j8. It seems to have been sold by auction at ^J""'^
Sotheby's, May, i8f(^, for ^23 10/. od. It is not in very clean copy!"""condition. Many leaves are pieced or patched, and the last five,
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