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# Introduction to the 1619 Edition of Pericles ## Overview This entity is an introduction (type: `intro`) to the 1619 edition of the play *Pericles, Prince of Tyre*. It provides historical context and details about the publication and various known copies of this edition. The introduction spans lines 14310 to 14329 of the source file. ## Context This introduction is part of the section titled "[THE EDITION OF 1619.](arke:01KG6S5KFPTGSNPK7E3E8KV60Q)". It was extracted from the file "[pdf-01KG6Q7Q25RHMFT3SJXPV18VFF.txt](arke:01KG6S2X2EBB305ENM00G16GWA)" and belongs to the collection "[PDF Workflow Main Test 2026-01-30T00:26:53](arke:01KG6NWQ2H2K4PGG7H4ZHYCZ3Y)". The introduction is followed by the section "[Copies attached to *The Whole Contention*.](arke:01KG6S6M631QJC4HZBBXZ0V1VX)". ## Contents The introduction discusses the significance of the 1619 edition of *Pericles*, noting its rarity and its initial publication as the third part of a volume that also included *The Whole Contention between the two famous houses Lancaster and York*. It mentions specific copies, including one formerly owned by Orchard Halliwell[-Phillipps], which was facsimiled in 1868, and another owned by Mr. Perry, acquired in 1896. The text details the physical characteristics of the 1619 edition, such as the number of leaves, pagination (or lack thereof), and the title-page inscription, including the printer "T. P." and the date 1619. It also notes the device on the title-page with the motto "HEB. DDM. HEB. DDEV."

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THE EDITION OF 1619. Orchard Halliwell[-Phillipps], and was by him identified with the one sold by auction for £14 3s. 6d. at James Edwards' first sale in 1804. A note by Halliwell[-Phillipps] pasted in a fly-leaf runs:—“Although the present volume wants two leaves in sheet D (unless indeed the omission is to be ascribed to the printer, the catchwords being right) it is of great literary curiosity and importance, being not only unique but unused by and unknown to all the editors of Shakespeare. Mr. Collier is the only one who even names it, at first with doubt as to its existence, and afterwards only on my information. The present is no doubt Edwards’ copy which sold in 1804 for what was in those days the large price of £14, since which time it seems to have disappeared until purchased privately by me.” Signatures D 2 and D 3 are missing and have been replaced by two blank leaves. This copy was facsimiled for private circulation in 1868 by E. W. Ashbee under Halliwell[-Phillipps]’ direction. The complete copy belonging to Mr. Perry, which measures 6½" × 4¾", was purchased privately by him of Mr. Maurice Jonas, of London, in 1896. It is bound by Rivière in red morocco, and consists of thirty-five leaves. The last blank page has disappeared. The edition of 1619 formed the third and concluding section of a volume which opened with a reprint of the two parts of *The Whole Contention between the two famous houses Lancaster and York*. Those two plays occupy the leaves signed A–Q in fours, ‘The First Part’ filling A 2–H 4 verso, and ‘The Second Part’ I–Q 4 verso. The title-page of *Pericles* is on an unsigned inserted leaf following Q 4. The text of *Pericles* opens on a leaf signed R, and runs regularly in fours to the verso of B b 1. B b 2 in perfect copies is blank. *Pericles* thus consists of thirty-four leaves without pagination. The *Pericles* portion of the volume is usually found detached and separately bound. The title-page of *The Whole Contention* has no date. That of *Pericles* is dated 1619, and runs thus:— THE LATE, | And much admired Play, | CALLED, | Pericles, Prince of | Tyre. | With the true Relation of the whole Hi-|story, | adventures, and fortunes of | the saide Prince. | Written by F <!-- [Page 605](arke:01KG6QMY015GHCSRYEDTHSF7KH) --> 42 PERICLES **THE EDITION OF 1619.** W. SHAKESPEARE. | Printed for T. P. 1619. | There is a device on the title with the motto HEB. DDM. HEB. DDEV.

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