Shakespeares Lucrece: Being a Reproduction in Facsimile of the First Edition
Shakespeares Lucrece: Being a Reproduction in Facsimile of the First Edition
George Fabyan Collection (Library of Congress) Dlc
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Signature ^ f ^r ^ R E C E 1 3 IS mispnnted Bj. It has thirty- six leaves, and no pagination. Only one perfect copy is known. This is in the Mai one collec- tion (Malone 5 27) in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, It is bound up with a copy of Vmus avd Adovis which has a title- page supplied in manuscript (sec Fvnus and Adonh^ Census, No. Vni). The volume was presented to Ma- lone by Dr. Richard Farmer in 1779.' The Lucrece is in good condition. The measurements are 4^"x3". ^ There is a note to that... effect in Malone's autograph in the volume. Malone soon afterwards tent the volume to Steevens so that he might read the 16^00 edition of Lua-ecc. He returned it with a sarcastic drawing which still by Nicholas Okes for John garrison. The title-page runs:^ — LVCRECE. I AT LONDON, I Printed be N. O. for lohn Ha- 1 rison, itfo?. 1 The leaves number thirty-two without pagina- LUCRECE 47 tion. The signatures run A-D 8 ; A 4 is misprinted B4. On the title-page appears the misprint be for &y (in the imprint ' Printed be N, O.'), Harrison's device and motto, Dum speroy ferOy figure as in the edition oi 1600, There is a circular ornament at the end of the * Argument '» Two copies are known.
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