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- PERICLES 39
unique. The ninth is George Wilkins’ *Miseries of Inforst Marriage*, 1607.¹
A perfect copy of thirty-six leaves, belonging to Mr. Marsden J. Perry, measures $6\frac{3}{4}'' \times 5\frac{3}{4}''$. It is unbound, and with it is stitched up Samuel Daniel’s *The Queen’s Arcadia* (1606). On the title-page are the autographs of two former owners, ‘Edw. Palmer’ and ‘Jno. Fenn’, 1782. The latter was Sir John Fenn (1739–94), editor of the ‘Paston Letters’, who owned the 1624 edition of *Lucrece* (Census No. XXII). The copy was bought for the present owner at the sale of John Chaloner Smith’s library, on February 12, 1896, for £171.
A defective copy was sold at Halliwell-[Phillipps’] sale, July 1, 1889, for £30. The title is a modern reprint, and leaves A 4 and I are wanting.²
The 1611 edition has the same number of leaves (thirty-six) in its perfect condition as in the case of the 1609 edition, which it reprints. The signatures run A–I in fours. C 2 is unmarked, and the last leaf is blank. It is without pagination.
Only two copies are known, and only one is complete. The British Museum owns the imperfect one. The complete copy is in Mr. Marsden J. Perry’s library, Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.A.
The British Museum copy (C. 34. k. 37) which measures $7\frac{1}{2}'' \times 4\frac{3}{4}''$ was acquired on November 9, 1858, from James
¹ The remaining items, of which a list has been kindly forwarded to me by the Librarian, Dr. J. Spitzer, are, with two exceptions, plays which were published between 1606 and 1609. The abbreviated titles are: 1. Chapman’s *Duke of Byron*, 1608; 2. Heywood’s *‘If you know not me’*, 1608; 3. *Pericles*, 1609; 4. Tourneur’s *Revengers Tragædie*, 1607; 5. *The Tragödie of Nero*, 1607; 6. Barnes’ *Divilis Charter*, 1607; 7. *Historie of Orlando Furioso*, 1599; 8. Heywood’s *Rape of Lucrece* (date cut off); 9. Wilkins’ *Miseries*, 1607; 10. Dekker’s *Where of Babylon*, 1607; 11. Marlowe’s *Faustus*, 1609; 12. *The Returne from Pernassus*, 1606; 13. Middleton’s *A Mad World*, 1608; 14. T[homas] P[ope] G[oodwine]’s *Historie of Blanchardine*, 1597 (unique).
² Copies of the 1609 edition were sold at the sales of the Duke of Marlborough, White Knights, in 1819 (for £2 5s. od.), of William Barnes Rhodes, in 1825 (for £9 9s. od.), and of John Dunn Gardner, with title-page in facsimile, in 1854 (for £21). There is no means of identifying them precisely with any of the traceable copies.
THE EDITION OF 1609 (II).
No. XIII. Mr. Marsden J. Perry’s copy, U.S.A.
No. XIV. Untraced. Halliwell-[Phillipps’] copy.
THE EDITION OF 1611.
No. XV. British Museum copy.
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