Copies with this title are in the Library of the Duke of Devonshire, and in the Bodleian (Malone, 867). An imperfect copy, wanting the last seven leaves, is in the Capell collection. Another impression bearing the same date, ‘Printed by W. W. for Thomas Millington,’ is said to exist, but we have been unable to find it. The MS. title quoted by Mr Halliwell from a copy in the Bodleian (Malone, 36) is prefixed to what appears to us unquestionably the same edition as the above. The minute correspondence of misplaced and defective letters between this copy and Capell’s, with which, as well as with the other copy in the Bodleian, we have compared it, proves beyond question that all three must have been printed from the same form, and that the MS. title inserted in Malone’s copy is out of place. So far therefore from Capell’s imperfect copy of this edition being unique, as Mr Halliwell states, there are at least two other perfect copies in existence, besides one which only wants the title-page. In Lowndes’s _Bibliographer’s Manual_ (ed. Bohn, p. 2281), another is said to be in the possession of Mr Tite. The late Mr George Daniel is stated, on the same authority, to have had the editions printed by Valentine Simmes and by W. W. in one volume, but they were not sold at his sale, and we have been unable to trace them. In 1619, a third edition (Q3) without date, printed by Isaac Jaggard, and including also ‘The True Tragedy of Richard Duke of York,’ appeared with the following title: The | Whole Contention | betweene the two Famous Houses, LANCASTER and | YORKE. | _With the Tragicall ends of the good Duke_ | Humfrey, Richard Duke of Yorke, | _and King Henrie the_ | _sixt_. | Diuided into two Parts: And newly corrected and | enlarged. Written by _William Shake-_|_speare_, Gent. | Printed at LONDON, for T. P. | On the title-page of his copy of this edition, Capell has added in MS. the date ‘1619.--at the same time with the Pericles that follows; as appears by the continuation of the signatures.’ The signatures of ‘The whole Contention’ are from A to Q in fours, while in _Pericles_, ‘Printed for T. P. 1619,’ the first page has signature R, which shows that the two must have formed part of the same volume. ‘The True Tragedy of Richard Duke of York,’ which formed the ground-work of The Third part of King Henry the Sixth, was first printed in small 8vo. in 1595, with the following title: The | true Tragedie of Richard | _Duke of Yorke, and the death of_ | good King Henrie the Sixt, | _With the whole contention betweene_ | the two Houses Lancaster | and Yorke, as it was sundrie times | acted by the Right Honoura-|ble the Earle of Pem-|brooke his seruants. | Printed at London by P. S. for Thomas Milling-|_ton, and are to be sold at his shoppe vnder_ | _Saint Peters Church in_ | _Cornwal_, 1595. |