FIRST EDITION, 1594. No. VII. Mr. A. H. have been collated by Kemble, but it is quite perfect; the Museum. 16 The copy owned by Mr. A. H. Huth was purchased at the Daniel sale, in 1864, for £157 10s. od. It is a perfect Huth's copy. exemplar. No. VIII. copy. No. IX. copy. A copy belonging to Capt. George Lindsay Holford, of Dorchester House, Park Lane, London, was purchased by the present owner's father, Robert Stayner Holford, for £100, about 1860, and is stated to be quite perfect. 6 8 Two fine copies are now in America. One of these belongs Mr. White's to Mr. William Augustus White, of Brooklyn. Mr. White's copy, which measures 71" x 53", seems to have been at the beginning of the nineteenth century in the Chapter library of Lincoln Cathedral.' It subsequently passed into the possession of Sir William Bolland, Baron of the Exchequer, who died in 1840. On Sir William Bolland's death, it appears to have been purchased by the well-known bookseller, Thomas Rodd, for 100 guineas. It then passed into the library of Frederick Perkins, of Chipstead (1780-1860). At the sale of Perkins' library on July 10, 1889, when the catalogue noticed a small hole burnt in two leaves, destroying a few letters', it was purchased by Mr. Bernard Quaritch, the London bookseller, for £200, and was acquired by the No. X. Mr. E. (Rowfant) copy. present owner.2 A copy 1 See Dibdin's Library Companion, p. 696, and Bibliographical Decameron, vol. iii, p. 264. 2 A facsimile of the title-page of this copy is given in Contributions to English Bibliography, Grolier Club, 1895, p. 182. 1594. Co., of New York, in 1904. It is a perfect copy, measuring FIRST 61" x 5", and is bound in red morocco with tooled sides EDITION, by Zaehnsdorf. It was apparently at one time the property of Sir William Tite, at the sale of whose library in 1874 it fetched £110.1 I A fragment of the first edition was sold in 1852, at the sale Fragment. of the library of Edward Vernon Utterson, for £4 10s. od. Mr. White, of Brooklyn, possesses sixteen leaves (B 1, B 4, C1-F 2) of a second copy, measuring 7" 53". It is possible that this is the Utterson fragment. productions. The first edition of Lucrece has been twice issued in Photofacsimile; firstly, in the series of reproductions of Shake- graphic respearean quartos undertaken by E. W. Ashbee under J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps' direction in 1867 (of which fifty copies were prepared and nineteen of these destroyed); and secondly, in the series of Shakspere-Quarto facsimiles with introduction by F. J. Furnivall, 1886 (No. 35), published by Mr. Bernard Quaritch, of Piccadilly, from the copy in the British Museum. 1598. The second edition appeared in 1598. Unlike the first SECOND edition, which was a quarto, the second, like all its EDITION, successors, is an octavo. The signatures run A-E 4 in No. XI. eights. The leaves number thirty-six and the pages are Capell copy. unnumbered. Only a single copy of the second edition is known. It is in the Capell collection at Trinity College, Cambridge. The title-page runs :-LVCRECE. | AT LONDON, | Printed by P. S. for Iohn Harrison. 1598. | It was printed by Peter Short. The title-page bears the signature of two former owners-Robert Cheny, who seems to have paid 12d. for the copy, and of Count Fieschi. The ornaments are those usually associated with Peter Short's press. Notes of I ' Justin Winsor's statement that Capell's copy is missing from the collection in Trinity College, Cambridge, is incorrect. Capell never posscssed a copy, but in the Catalogue of his Shakespearean Library he mentions that one is in the library of Sion College, London, and that he had collated it with his own exemplar of 1598. SECOND 1598. THIRD EDITION, 1600. No. XII. Bodleian copy (1). a thorough collation by Capell of this copy with one of the first edition of 1594 in Sion College Library are scattered through the volume. The di- volume are 47" The edition of 1600 is in (see Venus and Adonis, Census, No. VIII). The volume was presented to Ma I lone by Dr. Richard Farmer in 1779.' The Lucrece is in good condition. The measurements are 4,9%" x 3". There is a note to that effect in Malone's autograph in the volume. Malone soon afterwards lent the volume to Steevens so that he might read the 1600 edition of Lucrece. He returned it with a sarcastic drawing which still The title-page runs :-LVCRECE | LONDON. | Printed by I. H. THIRD for John Harison. | 1600. | EDITION, 1600. There is in the Bodleian Library a second and imperfect No. XIII. copyofthis edition Bodleian (2). and wanting last mises en musique à quatre parties par Didier Lupi. Nouuellement reueues & augmenteés. A Paris. Par Adrian le Roy & Robert Ballard, Imprimeurs du Roy 1571' (music book); and 'A Wittie Encounter Betweene Monsieur du Moulin & Monsieur remains pasted on the fly-leaf; a bust of Shakespeare is shown with the words written on a label proceeding from his lips: Would that I had all my commentators in Lipsburry pinfold!' THIRD EDITION, 1600. FOURTH EDITION, 1607. De Balzac, translated out of the french coppy by A. S. Gent.' (London, 1636). The fourth edition of 1607, in small octavo, was printed by Nicholas Okes for John Harrison. The title-page runs:LVCRECE. AT LONDON, | Printed be N. O. for Iohn Ha-| rison. 1607. The leaves number thirty-two without pagina |