{"id":"01KG8B56SX4THS104TWP7BTRZ3","cid":"bafkreidk6y3lg62d5nqgnr2x3prn6qs4hietv4mvndma3w2lekwtwdqegy","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreihm73euhixnbbr43zqcgegkulfyyjvwblvai2ahyxxyqdhkbtkuoe","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"02_venus_and_adonis_1905_facsimile_page_0174.jpg","height":2400,"key":"pdf-page-1769806643979-aydw2g0u6j","label":"02_venus_and_adonis_1905_facsimile_page_0174.jpg","page_number":174,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":552570,"text":"3 8 LUCRECE\nonly survive in single copies. It is curious to note that\na larger number of copies are accessible of the original edition\nthan of any other of the first seven. As many as ten are now\ntraceable. Several of these have been recovered recently.\nThomas Grenville asserted some sixty years ago that only three\nwere known. George Daniel, Frederick Locker Lampson, and\nother collectors of the last half-century raised their estimate\nto five. That number must now be doubled.\nIt is likely enough that of all the editions more copies\nwill be found hereafter. At present all the known copies\nof the first seven editions (excluding fragments) number no\nmore than thirty. The eighth edition stands in a somewhat\ndifferent position. Some twenty copies seem traceable, but\nof these only six contain the rare frontispiece and are perfect,\ntwo of these being in Great Britain and the rest in America.\nOf the thirty copies of the first seven editions, twenty\nare now in Great Britain, nine are in America, and one, which\nhas lately changed hands, is not at the moment located. 0£ the\ntwenty British copies, fifteen are in public institutions,^ five\nbeing in the British Museum, five in the Bodleian Library, two\nin the Capell Collection of Trinity College, Cambridge, one\nin the University Library, Edinburgh, one at Sion College,\nLondon, and one at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Five are\nin the hands of English private owners. Of the nine American\ncopies, one is in a public institution — the Lenox Library,\nNew York — and eight are in private hands.'\n' A copy of an unspecified edition of Lucrecey sold with twenty-two other\npieces, brought in i(^8o, at the sale of Sir Kenelm Digby's library, three\nshillings. Comparatively few copies have figured in public auctions of late\nyears. The highest price which the first edition has fetched is ^\"loo, which it\nreached at the Perkins sale in i88(j. No copy of that edition has occurred\nfor sale since. Of the later editions, £j^ — the price paid for a copy of the 1(^3 z\nedition at the Halliwell-Phiilipps sale, also in 1889 — is the auction record.\nFor the frontispiece of the i^^5' edition as much as ^iio was paid at","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:57:23.979Z","text_extracted_by":"pdf-processor","text_has_content":true,"text_source":"born_digital","uploaded":true,"width":1632},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG89K4X0DM39SSQK43XXG34R","predicate":"derived_from"},{"peer":"01KG89JREDR8WY5QQGYR5FZRDY","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:57:46.557Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:57:48.527Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFFH6ETXGRVD10WPNP3007D6"}}