{"id":"01KG6S5JXYWE37BHN34DMSMH3G","cid":"bafkreib2mowy4x5aawz5ebrnhxgtf7rlovrqy5sqguqkg5y6ja67w5l4ki","type":"section","properties":{"description":"# Hamburg copy.\n## Overview\nThis section, titled \"Hamburg copy.\", is part of a chapter on the play *Pericles* and provides details about specific copies of early editions. It is extracted from the text file [pdf-01KG6Q7Q25RHMFT3SJXPV18VFF.txt](arke:01KG6S2X2EBB305ENM00G16GWA) between lines 14240 and 14263.\n\n## Context\nThis section is part of the chapter \"[PERICLES](arke:01KG6S4D9MD59KJ70ZSS7J97J8)\" within the \"[PDF Workflow Main Test 2026-01-30T00:26:53](arke:01KG6NWQ2H2K4PGG7H4ZHYCZ3Y)\" collection. The chapter is a component of a larger collection of facsimile editions of Shakespeare's works, specifically \"Venus and Adonis, Lucrece, Sonnets, and Pericles (Facsimile Editions)\". It follows the section \"[**No. XII.**](arke:01KG6S5JXYW93J40KAGF49JATJ)\" and precedes \"[THE EDITION OF 1609 (II).](arke:01KG6S5JXZQC22TXJ6BV27ME5N)\".\n\n## Contents\nThis section details the provenance and physical characteristics of several copies of *Pericles* and related works. It describes:\n- A copy once owned by the Duke of Devonshire and later by actor John Philip Kemble, noting its collation, binding with a 1594 edition of *Lucrece* and pseudo-Shakespearean plays, and its external lettering.\n- A copy in the Public Library of Hamburg, including its dimensions, binding with other contemporary quartos, and its labeling. It also mentions other items bound with it, including a 1609 edition of Marlowe's *Faustus* and George Wilkins’ *Miseries of Inforst Marriage*, 1607.\n- A perfect copy owned by Mr. Marsden J. Perry, detailing its dimensions, binding with Samuel Daniel’s *The Queen’s Arcadia* (1606), and the autographs of former owners, including Sir John Fenn.\n- A defective copy sold at Halliwell-Phillipps’ sale, noting its missing leaves and modern reprint title.\n- Information on the 1611 edition, including its number of leaves, signatures, and the location of known copies.","description_generated_at":"2026-01-30T06:26:35.725Z","description_model":"gemini-2.5-flash-lite","description_title":"Hamburg copy.","end_line":14263,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T06:24:08.808Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Hamburg copy.","source_file":"01KG6S2X2EBB305ENM00G16GWA","start_line":14240,"text":"Hamburg copy.\n\nThe 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.'\n\nThe 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\n\n<!-- [Page 602](arke:01KG6QMY0DTB1C75CZGXK2V56S) -->\nPERICLES 39\nunique. The ninth is George Wilkins’ *Miseries of Inforst Marriage*, 1607.¹\n\nA perfect copy of thirty-six leaves, belonging to Mr. Marsden J. Perry, measures $6\\frac{3}{4}'' \\times 5\\frac{3}{4}''$. It is unbound, and with it is stitched up Samuel Daniel’s *The Queen’s Arcadia* (1606). On the title-page are the autographs of two former owners, ‘Edw. Palmer’ and ‘Jno. Fenn’, 1782. The latter was Sir John Fenn (1739–94), editor of the ‘Paston Letters’, who owned the 1624 edition of *Lucrece* (Census No. XXII). The copy was bought for the present owner at the sale of John Chaloner Smith’s library, on February 12, 1896, for £171.\n\nA defective copy was sold at Halliwell-[Phillipps’] sale, July 1, 1889, for £30. The title is a modern reprint, and leaves A 4 and I are wanting.²\n\nThe 1611 edition has the same number of leaves (thirty-six) in its perfect condition as in the case of the 1609 edition, which it reprints. The signatures run A–I in fours. C 2 is unmarked, and the last leaf is blank. It is without pagination.\n\nOnly two copies are known, and only one is complete. The British Museum owns the imperfect one. The complete copy is in Mr. Marsden J. Perry’s library, Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.A.\n\nThe British Museum copy (C. 34. k. 37) which measures $7\\frac{1}{2}'' \\times 4\\frac{3}{4}''$ was acquired on November 9, 1858, from James\n\n¹ The remaining items, of which a list has been kindly forwarded to me by the Librarian, Dr. J. Spitzer, are, with two exceptions, plays which were published between 1606 and 1609. The abbreviated titles are: 1. Chapman’s *Duke of Byron*, 1608; 2. Heywood’s *‘If you know not me’*, 1608; 3. *Pericles*, 1609; 4. Tourneur’s *Revengers Tragædie*, 1607; 5. *The Tragödie of Nero*, 1607; 6. Barnes’ *Divilis Charter*, 1607; 7. *Historie of Orlando Furioso*, 1599; 8. Heywood’s *Rape of Lucrece* (date cut off); 9. Wilkins’ *Miseries*, 1607; 10. Dekker’s *Where of Babylon*, 1607; 11. Marlowe’s *Faustus*, 1609; 12. *The Returne from Pernassus*, 1606; 13. Middleton’s *A Mad World*, 1608; 14. T[homas] P[ope] G[oodwine]’s *Historie of Blanchardine*, 1597 (unique).\n\n² Copies of the 1609 edition were sold at the sales of the Duke of Marlborough, White Knights, in 1819 (for £2 5s. od.), of William Barnes Rhodes, in 1825 (for £9 9s. od.), and of John Dunn Gardner, with title-page in facsimile, in 1854 (for £21). 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