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PERICLES
**THE EDITION OF 1609 (I).**
through the bookseller, Thomas Rodd, for £13 to the American collector, T. P. Barton, whose books were presented to the Boston Public Library in 1870. The copy, which is slightly foxed, is half-bound in old red morocco.
**No. VIII.**
Mr. W. A. White's copy, New York, U.S.A.
Mr. W. A. White of Brooklyn, who owns a first impression of 1609, purchased it for £60 from the library of Frederick Perkins of Chipstead, which was sold on July 20, 1889. It measures 6½" × 4¾", and is bound in morocco. It belonged at one time to George Steevens, whose autograph it bears; but it is to be distinguished from the Steevens copy sold at his sale in 1800, which is now in the Barton collection (see No. VII).
**No. IX.**
Mr. E. Dwight Church's copy, New York, U.S.A.
The copy formerly in the Rowfant library of Frederick Locker Lampson now belongs to Mr. E. Dwight Church of New York. It measures 6½" × 5" and is bound in red morocco by Bedford. It formerly belonged to Sir William Tite, at whose sale in 1874 it fetched £53 10s. od.
**Copies with 'Enser' opening, called SECOND QUARTO II.**
No. X. British Museum copy.
No. XI. Devonshire copy.
The British Museum copy (pressmark C. 34. k. 36) is bound in red russia, and stamped on the side with the arms of David Garrick, who was the former owner. It measures 6½" × 5¼". The top edges are planed and the title has been repaired. This copy has been reproduced in Shakspere-Quarto Facsimiles (No. 22), with a preface by Mr. P. Z. Round, 1886.
**No. XII.**
Hamburg copy.
The Duke of Devonshire's copy belonged to the actor, John Philip Kemble, who purchased it at Dr. Richard Wright's sale in 1787 for nine shillings. It bears upon its title-page in Kemble's autograph the words, 'Collated and perfect. J. P. K. 1798.' It has been inlaid, and bound up with the 1594 edition of *Lucrece*, and early editions of the four pseudo-Shakespearean plays—Thomas Lord Cromwell, 1613; The London Prodigall, 1605; Locrine, 1595; and The first part of Sir John Oldcastle, 1600. The volume is lettered outside, 'Plays vol. cxxi.'
The copy in the Public Library of Hamburg, which measures 7½" × 5¼", is bound up with thirteen other contemporary quartos, and is labelled on the back *Anglicana Varia*. It is the third item in the volume. The eleventh is a copy of the 1609 edition of Marlowe's *Faustus*, which is believed to be
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