{"id":"01KG6S6S9QSW55XWF58BTCGTG9","cid":"bafkreigxlic6b4yhaanjph6jojlpg53vkplafhm6kys5ub4ah36vc4dcuu","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":10066,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T06:24:48.293Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 13","source_file":"01KG6S2X2EBB305ENM00G16GWA","start_line":10035,"text":"Of the copies in America, the most interesting belongs to Mr. E. Dwight Church of New York. It has the Wright imprint, is bound in brown morocco by Charles Lewis, and measures 6½″ × 5″. At the end of the seventeenth century it was purchased by Narcissus Luttrell for one shilling. It subsequently belonged to George Steevens, whose autograph it bears, and it was sold in 1800 at the sale of Steevens’ library for £3 19s. od. It was then acquired by the Duke of Roxburghe, at the sale of whose library in 1812 it fetched\n\n¹ A copy of Shakespeare’s ‘Poems and Sonnets’ dated 1609 is mentioned in the manuscript catalogue of the library of Earl Howe, at Gopsall, Leicestershire. The library was bequeathed, with the Gopsall property, to Lord Howe’s ancestor, William Penn Assheton Curzon, by Charles Jennens, the virtuoso, and friend of Handel, in 1773. But the earliest edition of the Sonnets in Lord Howe’s library at Gopsall proves on examination (which Lord Howe invited me there to make) to be Lintott’s edition of 1710—in which the title-page of the 1609 edition of the Sonnets is reproduced.\n\nNo. VIII. The Huth copy.\n\nNo. IX. The Dwight Church copy\n\n1 2\n\n<!-- [Page 479](arke:01KG6QHPTK984EWPRC0HH1PNPA) -->\n68 SONNETS OF SHAKESPEARE\n\n**THE EDITION OF 1609.**\n\n*£21 10s. od.* It was again sold at Evans’ sale rooms in a valuable collection of ‘Books of a Gentleman gone abroad’, on Jan. 25, 1830, for *£29 10s. 6d.*, and was afterwards acquired by George Daniel, whose monogram G. D. is stamped on the cover. It fetched at the Daniel sale of *1864 £225 15s. od.*, and afterwards passed into the collection of Almon W. Griswold of New York. Mr. Church purchased it of Mr. Griswold through Dodd, Mead &amp; Co. of New York in 1889 for *£1,000 (5,000 dollars)*. The title-page is reproduced in facsimile in the Grolier Club’s ‘Catalogue of original and early editions’, 1895, p. 185.\n\n**No. X.** The Halsey copy, formerly at Rowfant.\n\nMr. F. R. Halsey, of New York, is the owner of the copy formerly belonging to Frederick Locker Lampson, of Rowfant, which was sold to Messrs. Dodd, Mead &amp; Co. of New York in Jan. 1905. This copy has the Aspley imprint. It seems to be the ‘imperfect’ copy sold at the Jolley sale in London in 1844 for *£33*;¹ and successively in the libraries of Edward Vernon Utterson, at whose sale in 1852 it fetched *£30 5s. od.*; of J. O. Halliwell[-Phillipps], who sold it for *£41* in 1856, when it was acquired by Sir William Tite. At the Tite sale in 1874 it seems to have been bought by Messrs. Ellis &amp; White for the late Frederick Locker Lampson for *£15 10s. od.* The title and dedication are supplied in admirable facsimile by Harris. The volume is bound in extra-morocco by J. Clarke.\n\n**No. XI.** The White copy.\n\nA third copy in America, which belongs to Mr. W. A. White of Brooklyn, also has the title-page and dedication in facsimile. It measures *6½\" × 5\".* The volume was bound by Charles Lewis and acquired by the present owner in New York in 1887.\n\n**POEMS OF 1640.** Description.\n\n¹ Dibdin writes somewhat mysteriously of Jolley’s copy, despite its imperfections, thus: ‘The history of the acquisition of the Jolley copy is one of singular interest, almost sufficient to add another day to a bibliographical decameron. The copy is in pristine condition, and looks as if snatched from the press.’ Bound up with the *Venus and Adonis* of 1594 (see *Venus and Adonis*, Census No. II, British Museum copy), it was acquired by Jolley for a few pence in a Lancashire ramble.\n\n<!-- [Page 480](arke:01KG6QHPHT1XQV65C07AREW9HK) -->\nSONNETS OF SHAKESPEARE 69\n","title":"Chunk 13"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG6S4GWST5P4AR5FHFSAMC3Y","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG6S2X2EBB305ENM00G16GWA","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG6NWQ2H2K4PGG7H4ZHYCZ3Y","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG6S6S9VDYZM0GP9NZHWRXWD","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"prev"},{"peer":"01KG6S6S9QKDQXRR8Q0VFEPHAP","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"next"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T06:24:49.463Z","ts":"2026-01-30T06:24:59.426Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}