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- THE EDITION OF 1630.
The title of the 1630 edition runs:—‘The late, and much admired Play, called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. With the true Relation of the whole History, adventures, and fortunes of the sayd Prince: Written by Will: Shakespeare.’ There is a device with the motto *In domino confido*, as in the 1632 edition of *Lucrece*. The imprint is given in two different forms. On some copies it appears as ‘LONDON, | Printed by I. N. for R, B. and are to be sould | at his shop in Cheapride, at the signe of the | Bible. 1630. | The other imprint is: LONDON, | Printed by J. N. for R, B. 1630. | The signatures run A–I₂ in fours. The leaves number thirty-four without pagination. Sig. E₂ is wrongly printed D₂. Leaf B₄ is marked. Usually the signatures H₁ and I₂ are omitted. The text ends on the recto of I₂.
Copies with the short imprint are reckoned the more valuable, though they seem to be almost as frequently met with as those with the long imprint.
Copies with the SHORT IMPRINT, 1630.
The British Museum copy (C. 34. k. 40), which measures $6\frac{3}{4}'' \times 4\frac{3}{8}''$, was acquired on November 9, 1858, from J. O. Halliwell[-Phillipps], who has inserted this manuscript note:—‘Most copies of this edition vary considerably in the title-page. See my other copy which has quite a different imprint. The present is of great rarity, if not unique.’ The top of leaf C₃ has been torn and mended.
No. XL.
British Museum copy.
The copy in the Dyce collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum at South Kensington measures $7\frac{3}{8}'' \times 5\frac{3}{8}''$. Inside the cover is pasted a manuscript note, presented to Dyce by Halliwell[-Phillipps], pointing out the rarity of the short imprint.
No. XLII.
Dyce copy.
A copy in the Edinburgh University Library measures $6\frac{2\frac{1}{2}''}{4}'' \times 5''$, and is bound in red morocco. It was presented to the University in 1872 by Halliwell[-Phillipps], who has inserted a note describing its excessive rarity.
No. XLIII.
Edinburgh University copy.
A copy in the Lenox collection of the New York Public Library was formerly in the possession of Richard Heber, and was sold in 1857, at the sale of the library of E. V. Utterson, for four guineas.
No. XLIV.
Lenox collection, New York Public Library.
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PERICLES
The copy in the Barton collection of the Boston Public Library was acquired from Halliwell[-Phillipps] in 1858 for £5 12s. 6d., and was bound in green morocco by Rivière.
Of two untraced copies, one was sold at the Tite sale in 1874, to Mr. Sabin, the American agent, for four guineas, and the other at the sale of A. G. Lamb, of Dundee, February 7, 1898, to Messrs. Pickering for £1 15s. od.
A copy, with the longer imprint, in the British Museum (C. 34. k. 39) measures 5¾" × 7¾". It belonged to Garrick.
The copy in the Bodleian Library belonged to Malone (Malone 222). It is bound up with other pieces, and measures 6¾" × 4½".
A copy in the Edinburgh University Library was presented by J. O. Halliwell[-Phillipps] in 1872. He seems to have paid five guineas for it. The copy belonged to Theobald, who has placed on the title-page this inscription :— Collated w³th an Old edition exactly wth the same Title Printed for T. P. 1619. L. Theobald.³ At the back of the title-page is another note, signed by Theobald, stating that he had collated it also with the edition of 1609, which he calls 'another old Edition'. Marks of Theobald's collation are scattered through the volume. The title-page and a few leaves are mended. At the end of the volume, which measures 7½" × 5½" and is bound in morocco, three leaves from another copy of the same edition are pasted down; they show slight discrepancies of typography, which indicate that they were a first rough proof; they contain a greater number of wrong letters than appear in the ordinary copies.
No. L. Capell copy.
No. LI.
Lenox collection,
New York Public
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