A unique copy of this edition is in the Bodleian Library (Malone, 876). Although printed in 8vo. we have quoted it as Q1, in order to avoid introducing a new notation. The second edition (Q2) was printed in 1600, with the following title: The | True Tragedie of | Richarde 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 | sundry times acted by the Right | Honourable the Earle | of Pembrooke his | seruantes. | Printed at London by _W. W._ for _Thomas Millington_, | and are to be sold at his shoppe vnder Saint | Peters Church in Cornewall. | 1600. | Copies of this edition are in the Duke of Devonshire’s Library, the Bodleian (Malone, 36), and the British Museum. In Malone’s Shakespeare (ed. 1790, Vol. I. Pt. I. p. 235), among the ‘Dramatick Pieces on which plays were formed by Shakespeare,’ an edition of The True Tragedy is mentioned, bearing date ‘1600, V. S. for Thomas Millington,’ but in a note to the ‘Third Part of King Henry VI.’ (Vol. VI. p. 261) he confesses, ‘I have never seen the quarto copy of the _Second_ part of The whole Contention, &c. printed by _Valentine Simmes_ for Thomas Millington, 1600;’ and it is extremely doubtful whether such a one exists. A copy of The True Tragedy, and not, as stated in Bohn’s Lowndes, of The First Part of the Contention, printed by W. W. 1600, was sold at Rhodes’s sale in 1825 (No. 2113). The only authority therefore for the existence of an edition of The First Part of the Contention, printed by W. W. in 1600, is the MS. title-page of Malone’s copy in the Bodleian Library. Capell merely quotes it on the authority of Pope, and all that Pope says in the Table at the end of his first edition, after giving the title of The Whole Contention printed in 1619, is, ‘Since Printed under the same Title by _W. W._ for _Tho. Millington_, with the true Tragedy of _Richard_ D. of _York_, and the Death of good King _Henry_ the 6th, acted by the Earl of Pembroke his servants 1600.’ This clearly refers to the second Quarto of The True Tragedy, not to that of The First Part of the Contention, and appears to us to be the origin of the error†. ────────── † This view is further confirmed by a manuscript note at the back of the title-page of Steevens’s copy of The True Tragedy, ed. 1600, now in the British Museum. It shews that Pope is the only authority for the statement, and is as follows: ‘This is only the _third_ part of K. Henry VI. The _second_ part, according to Pope, was likewise printed in 1600, by W. W. for Thos. Millington. MALONE.’ The third edition (Q3) of The True Tragedy formed the second part of The Whole Contention described above. It has no separate title-page, but merely the heading: The Second Part. | Containing the Tragedie of | Richard Duke of Yorke, and the | _good King Henrie the_ | Sixt. |