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The rape of Lucrece, committed by Tarquin the Sixt; and the remarkable judgments that befel him for it / By the incomparable master of our English poetry, Will: Shakespeare gent. Whereunto is annexed, The banishment of Tarquin: or, the Reward of lust. By J. Quarles.

Accession number
PML 5106
Creator
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Published
London : printed by J. G[ismond]. for John Stafford in George-yard neer Fleet-bridge, and Will: Gilbertson at the Bible in Giltspur-street, 1655.
Credit line
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes
Includes engraved frontispiece (A1r) with small portrait of Shakespeare by William Faithorne. Cf. Bartlett.
Includes engraved frontispiece (A1r) with small portrait of Shakespeare by William Faithorne. Cf. Bartlett.
"Tarquin banished: or, The revvard of lust" by J. Quarles has separate dated title page and pagination; register is continuous. It is identified as E.1672[4] on Thomason Tracts.
Description
[8], 71, [5], 12 pages : portrait (engraving) ; 14 cm. (8vo)
Provenance
George Daniel, of Canonbury (London), inscription, 1836, his sale, Sotheby, 20 July 1864 lot 1452 for £40.19; Edward G. Asay; Theordore Irwin, purchased from Asay, Dec. 1881; Pierpont Morgan, purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Binding
19th-century gilt-tooled red morocco by Francis Bedford.
Classification
Department