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This section, titled "Transfer of copyright to Bird and Brewster.", is part of the chapter "PERICLES" and was extracted from the file `pdf-01KG6Q7Q25RHMFT3SJXPV18VFF.txt`. It details the publication history and copyright changes related to editions of Shakespeare's *Pericles* in the early 17th century.
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This section is situated within the larger context of the "PERICLES" chapter, which is itself part of the "PDF Workflow Main Test 2026-01-30T00:26:53" collection. The text discusses the printing and publishing activities of individuals like Bird, Brewster, Pavier, and the Cotes brothers, tracing the ownership and textual evolution of *Pericles* through various editions. It follows the discussion of "Pavier’s edition of 1619." and precedes "Bird’s edition of 1630.".
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The text describes the 1630 edition of *Pericles* produced by Bird, noting that it was printed by John Norton and followed Pavier's 1619 text. The author points out further textual deterioration in Bird's edition, citing examples of omitted or misprinted words and lines. It also highlights the addition of a previously omitted stage direction. The section further explains that in 1630, Thomas and Richard Cotes acquired Bird's "copies" of several Shakespeare plays, including *Pericles*, *Henry V*, *Titus Andronicus*, and *Hamlet*. Despite this acquisition, *Pericles* was excluded from the Second Folio printed by Cotes in 1632.
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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.
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