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- PERICLES 31
In 1630 Bird produced a new edition of *Pericles*, which was printed by John Norton.¹ Bird’s edition followed Pavier’s text of 1619. On some title-pages he set out his address at the sign of the Bible in Cheapside. Other copies merely bore the imprint, ‘Printed by J. N. for R. B.’ At Bird’s hands, the text underwent further deterioration. Here and there an essential word is omitted altogether (cf. v. 1. 222 ‘state’ omitted) or is hopelessly misprinted (cf. iii. 2. 27 ‘endwomens’ for ‘endowments’, and v. 3. 88 ‘hough’ for ‘Although’). The whole line, i. 2. 23 (‘Heele stop the course by which it might be known’), and the necessary stage direction ‘Enter all the Lords to Pericles’ (i. 2. 33) were suffered to fall out. On the other hand a necessary stage direction, which was previously omitted (‘Exit Gower’ in iii. Prol. I. 60), here for the first time finds a place. But this seems Bird’s sole contribution to the elucidation of the confused text.
Bird did not retain his interest in *Pericles* long. Thomas Cotes, an enterprising printer with whom a brother, Richard Cotes, was in partnership, acquired in 1627, on the death of Isaac Jaggard, chief proprietor of the First Folio, Jaggard’s printing-press and most of his stock. Part of the property which passed to the brothers Cotes was Jaggard’s ‘part in Shackspheere playes’, and on November 8, 1630, the partners made an important addition to their Shakespearean property by purchasing from Bird his ‘copies’ of Shakespeare’s *Henry V*, *Titus Andronicus*, *Hamlet*, and *Pericles*, all of which had at one time been in Pavier’s possession. Thomas Cotes printed the Second Folio edition of Shakespeare’s collected works in 1632, but once again *Pericles* suffered exclusion from that treasury. Cotes, however, made amends by producing at his press and
¹ Norton was of a family long engaged in the trade, and had for a time been in partnership with Nicholas Okes.
Bird’s edition of 1630.
The two imprints.
Cotes’ edition of 1635.
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