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  copyHistory:
    - note: An oval mark at the top of the front pastedown suggests an earlier bookplate. Pencil notes on the front pastedown at lower left ("D631") and rear free endleaf 1r at lower left ("LM/-/-") may be a stock number and price code; not identifiable with any provenance.
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  generalNotes:
    - Record created by John Lancaster.
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  location:
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  physicalDescriptionNote: 'Quire σ misbound following quire κ. Manuscript foliation, mostly trimmed away. '
  provenance:
    - agent:
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          name: Laonicus and Alexander
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      area:
        - areaCode: e-it
      certainty: a
      hasMsCorrectionsByPrinter: 1
      msNote: 'This copy, like at least three others, has a ms. correction to the misprinted signature on α3r, "α δ": the "δ" has been lined through and "γ" written in; in all four cases, the slant of the line and the placement of the correction is the same, suggesting a correction in the printing house.'
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        end: 1486
        start: 1486
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    - agent:
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          name: 'Anonymous binder, Western Europe'
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      bindingDate: v
      bindingDepth: 23
      bindingHeight: 216
      bindingNote: '18th-century polished mottled calf; gilt ornamental frame on each cover; spine tooled in gold, with a gilt-stamped red leather title label; turn-ins and board edges gilt; endleaves of blue paper.'
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      bindingType: c
      bindingWidth: 152
      boardMaterial: g
      certainty: a
      coverMaterial: b
      edges: a
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        end: 1800
        start: 1750
      titling:
        - b
      tooling: b
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    - agent:
        - characterisation:
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          dates: '1850 - 1910'
          gender: 1002
          name: 'Huth, Alfred Henry, Fosbury House, Bibliophile'
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      note: Gilt-stamped leather bookplate on front pastedown; lot 6013 in the Huth sale of July 1917. Acquisition date conjectural. Pencil notes on front free endleaves 1v and 2r (bibliographical references and history of text and copies) may pertain to this provenance.
      place:
        - geonamesId: 2649166
          name: 'Fosbury Manor, Hungerford'
      timeperiod:
        end: 1910
        start: 1900
      type:
        - e
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    - acquisitionMethod: a
      agent:
        - characterisation:
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          dates: '1819 - 1937'
          name: 'London, J. & J. Leighton'
          ownerId: 3536
          professionOrType:
            - bkt
          role: R160
          type: corporate
      area:
        - areaCode: e-uk-en
      certainty: a
      note: 'Leighton is recorded as the purchaser at the Huth sale, for £51.'
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        - geonamesId: 2643743
          name: London
      priceAmount: 51
      priceCurrency: GBP
      source:
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      timeperiod:
        end: 1918
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      type:
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    - acquisitionMethod: a
      agent:
        - characterisation:
            - noc
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          gender: 1002
          name: 'Harper, Lathrop Colgate'
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            - bkt
          role: R160
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      certainty: a
      note: 'Harper is recorded as the seller of this copy to Chapin, October 1918.'
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        - geonamesId: 5128581
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        end: 1918
        start: 1918
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        - characterisation:
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          dates: 1848-1936
          gender: 1002
          name: 'Chapin, Alfred Clark'
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          type: person
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        - areaCode: n-us-ny
      certainty: a
      note: 'Recorded as purchased by Chapin from Harper, October 1918, for $346.50.'
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        - geonamesId: 5128581
          name: New York
      priceAmount: 346.50
      priceCurrency: U.S. dollars
      source:
        - f
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        end: 1923
        start: 1918
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        - characterisation:
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          name: 'Williamstown MA, Williams College'
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          type: corporate
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        - areaCode: n-us-ma
      certainty: a
      note: 'Gift of Alfred Clark Chapin at the founding of the Chapin Library, February 1923.'
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        - geonamesId: 4955786
          name: 'Williamstown, MA'
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        - a
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      timeperiod:
        start: 1923
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        - e
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