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PERICLES
and one is in Germany. Of the British copies no less than twenty-one are in public libraries, eight being in the British Museum, and four each at the Bodleian Library and at Trinity College, Cambridge. Of the twenty-six traceable American copies eleven are in public libraries.
Prices.
The highest price paid for any quarto edition of *Pericles* was £171, which was paid by Mr. Perry, of Providence, in 1896, for an exemplar of the 1609 edition, at John Chaloner Smith’s sale.
Copies of later editions, when they have been offered for sale of late years, have not fetched very high prices. In 1901 an unbound copy of the 1619 edition at Sotheby’s brought £100 (February 25), and a copy of the 1635 edition £66 (May 16).¹ Many fair copies of the four latest quartos have changed hands for £15 and under.
THE EDITION OF 1609 (I and II).
In each of the two impressions of Gosson’s edition of 1609 the leaves in quite perfect copies number thirty-six. The signatures run A–I in fours. The last leaf is blank. The text starts on A2 recto and ends on I3 verso. The pages are unnumbered. Facsimiles of the two impressions of 1609 by E. W. Ashbee were privately issued in 1862 and 1871 respectively, under the direction of J. O. Halliwell[-Phillipps].
Copies with ‘Enser’ opening, called FIRST QUARTO I.
No. I. Bodleian (Malone) copy.
The copy at the Bodleian Library, which is reproduced in this volume, measures 7$\frac{2}{16}'' \times 5\frac{7}{16}''$. It is inlaid, and forms part of a volume of seven Shakespearean quartos which were bound together by Malone and labelled ‘Shakespeare Old Quartos, Vol. III.’ The volume, which is numbered Malone 34, opens with *Lucrece*, 1594; and is followed by the *Sonnets*, 1609 (Aspley imprint); by *Hamlet*, 1607; by *Love’s Labour’s Lost*, 1598; by this edition of *Pericles*, 1609; by the 1619 edition of *Pericles*; and by *A Yorkshire Tragedy*, 1608.
¹ At a London sale on November 14, 1678, a 1635 copy was sold in a bundle of eleven other plays for qr. 6d. Another copy, at the Thomas Pearson sale (May–June, 1788), fetched sixpence.
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