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It is extracted from the file [pdf-01KG6Q7Q25RHMFT3SJXPV18VFF.txt](arke:01KG6S2X2EBB305ENM00G16GWA) and is part of the [PDF Workflow Main Test 2026-01-30T00:26:53](arke:01KG6NWQ2H2K4PGG7H4ZHYCZ3Y) collection.\n\n## Context - Background and provenance from related entities\nThis section follows a discussion of the third edition of 1600, as indicated by its \"prev\" relationship to [THIRD EDITION, 1600. No. XIII. Bodleian (2).](arke:01KG6S5JXJKQ7QT81AW3XPXV0V). The text then proceeds to analyze the fourth edition of 1607, printed by Nicholas Okes for John Harrison. The section provides details on the title page, signatures, and a misprint. It also notes the existence of two known copies, one in Trinity College, Cambridge, and another formerly owned by the Earl of Ellesmere. The latter copy is of historical interest due to its provenance, having belonged to John Egerton, second Earl of Bridgewater. The section concludes by mentioning the fifth edition of 1616, which is discussed in the following section, [FIFTH EDITION, 1616.](arke:01KG6S5JXM6KYG3QP4MXZE4302).\n\n## Contents - What it contains, key subjects and details\nThe section describes the fourth edition of \"Lucrece\" (1607), including the publisher, printer, and title page details. It notes the misprint \"be\" for \"by\" on the title page. The section also mentions the device and motto used by Harrison, and a circular ornament at the end of the \"Argument\". It provides measurements for two copies, and the provenance of one copy, which was owned by the Earl of Bridgewater. The text references John Payne Collier's descriptions of the Bridgewater copy and notes that the fifth edition of 1616 has the same size and signatures as the 1607 edition.\n","description_generated_at":"2026-01-30T06:25:55.165Z","description_model":"gemini-2.5-flash-lite","description_title":"THIRD EDITION, 1600. FOURTH EDITION, 1607.","end_line":3953,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T06:24:08.801Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"THIRD EDITION, 1600. FOURTH EDITION, 1607.","source_file":"01KG6S2X2EBB305ENM00G16GWA","start_line":3928,"text":"THIRD EDITION, 1600. FOURTH EDITION, 1607.\n\nDe Balzac, translated out of the french coppy by A. S. Gent.² (London, 1636).\n\nThe fourth edition of 1607, in small octavo, was printed\n\n![img-0.jpeg](arke:01KG6RKE2E613ZPWXRE6TEJ7RX)\n\nby Nicholas Okes for John Harrison. The title-page runs:— LVCRECE. | AT LONDON, | Printed be N. O. for John Harrison. 1607. | The leaves number thirty-two without pagina-\n\n<!-- [Page 186](arke:01KG6QCD00FZFA4EV19HGHNPAA) -->\nLUCRECE 47\n\ntion. The signatures run A–D 8; A 4 is misprinted B 4. On the title-page appears the misprint *be* for *by* (in the imprint ‘Printed be N. O.’). Harrison’s device and motto, *Dum spero, fero*, figure as in the edition of 1600. There is a circular ornament at the end of the ‘Argument’.\n\nTwo copies are known. The Capell copy in Trinity College, Cambridge, measures $5'' \\times 3\\frac{3}{4}''$.\n\nThe second copy, in the library of the Earl of Ellesmere, at Bridgewater House, London, measures $5\\frac{3}{4}'' \\times 3\\frac{3}{4}''$. The leaves are much cut down. 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 1634. The words ‘By W: Shakespeare’ 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 in his *Bibliographical Account of Early English Literature*, 1865, vol. ii, pp. 332 seq. Collier claims for the edition textual superiority to the preceding edition of 1600, which a careful collation seems hardly to justify. It follows the text of 1600 with very trivial modification.\n\nThe fifth edition of 1616 (in small octavo), in spite of many typographical changes, is of the same size (thirty-two leaves without pagination) and has the same signatures as the issue of 1607. The signature A 4 is again misprinted B 4. Of this fifth edition four copies are known. The title-page runs:—**THE | RAPE OF | LVCRECE | By | Mr. William Shakespeare | Newly Revised. | LONDON: | Printed by T. S. for Roger Jackson*, and are | to be sold at his shop neere the Conduit | in Fleet-street, 1616. | Of the four extant copies, two are in America.\n\nThe copy in the British Museum was acquired on April 5, 1858. It seems to have been sold by auction at Sotheby’s, May, 1856, for £23 10s. od. It is not in very clean condition. Many leaves are pieced or patched, and the last five,\n\n<!-- [Page 187](arke:01KG6QCD0HDYREZ4NP39HFSMEP) -->\n48 LUCRECE\n```markdown","title":"THIRD EDITION, 1600. FOURTH EDITION, 1607."},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG6S4EM1AKPD5T35XS8GTZ8A","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG6S2X2EBB305ENM00G16GWA","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG6NWQ2H2K4PGG7H4ZHYCZ3Y","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG6S5JXJKQ7QT81AW3XPXV0V","peer_type":"section","predicate":"prev"},{"peer":"01KG6S5JXM6KYG3QP4MXZE4302","peer_type":"section","predicate":"next"}],"ver":3,"created_at":"2026-01-30T06:24:10.164Z","ts":"2026-01-30T06:25:55.392Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF5C36SQEVDHC9CBNZZJH9K"}}