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- Pavier’s edition of 1619.
The edition of 1619 came from different hands. Pericles did not then reappear in an independent volume. It was appended to a new edition of The Whole Contention between . . . Lancaster and Yorke. With the Tragicall Ends of the
¹ Stafford was originally a member of the Drapers’ Company, and became a freeman of the Stationers’ Company ‘by translation’ on May 7, 1599. His press was, before 1602, in Adling Street, on Adling Hill, ‘near Carter Lane Inn’ (now Addle Street, E. C.), and from 1602 onwards in Hosier Lane, near Smithfield. His more notable undertakings before 1609 were Richard Carew’s Survey of Cornwall for John Jaggard, in 1602, and the pre-Shakespearean play of King Lear for John Wright in 1605.
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good Duke Humfrey, Richard, Duke of Yorke and King Henrie the sixt. Divided into two parts. (These two parts were early drafts of the second and third parts of Henry VI, which figured in a finally revised shape in the First Folio.) A new title-page introduces Pericles, but the signatures of the volume are continuous throughout. The title-pages of both *The Whole Contention* and *Pericles* bear the imprint ‘Printed for T. P.’ These initials are those of Thomas Pavier. He had acquired in a formal way the copyright of the first and second parts of Henry the vjth, ii. books as early as April 19, 1602,¹ but he undertook no edition of any play relating to Henry VI before the volume of 1619. There is no entry of the transfer to Pavier of Gosson’s interest in Pericles. But Pavier was long engaged in making an unprincipled use of Shakespeare’s name, and he would probably be none too scrupulous in employing ‘copy’ which would serve his purpose. In 1608 he had issued *A Yorkshire Tragedy . . . Written by W. Shakespeare* with his own full name in the imprint, ‘Printed by R. B. for Thomas Pauier’, and in 1619 he produced a new edition of that spurious production with the same form of imprint as in the volume containing Pericles, ‘Printed for T. P.’² Thomas Pavier had obtained copyright in the
¹ Arber, iii. 304. The reference is probably to the *Contention* and the *True Tragedy*, the unrevised drafts of the second and third parts (not the first and second) of Shakespeare’s *Henry VI*. Of both of these pieces Thomas Millington, who assigned the copyright to Pavier in 1602, had before that date issued two editions.
² Pavier was originally a draper, and on June 3, 1600, was admitted ‘by translation’ a freeman of the Stationers’ Company. In his will (P. C. C. 19 Hele) he speaks of the publisher William Barley as his master. From almost the date of his admission fines were exacted from him for irregular conduct; e.g. for causing Edward Allde to print a book contrary to order, October, 1602; and for selling an unauthorized edition of the *Basilicum Dorem* on June 27, 1603. Nevertheless, he was admitted a liveryman on June 30, 1604. On August 14, 1600, he acquired the copyright in a large number of
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ordinary way for *A Yorkshire Tragedy* on May 2, 1608; the work is described in the Stationers’ Registers, iii. 377, thus: ‘A booke called *A Yorkshire Tragedy* written by WYLLIAM SHAKESPERE.’
Small change was made in Pavier’s text of *Pericles*. It followed closely the ‘Enter’ (first) edition of 1609. But there are one or two rational emendations (cf. i. 2. 86 ‘thinke’ for ‘doo’t’, *recte* ‘doubt’; i. 3. 34 ‘my’ for ‘now’; iv. 6. 28 ‘impunity’ for ‘iniquity’; v. 1. 89 ‘weighed’ for ‘wayde’).
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