────────── † He says in a MS. note: ‘This copy of the original edition of King Richard III. was imperfect, when I purchased it, wanting signat. C 1 and 2, D 4, L 4, and M 1, 2, and 3. These seven leaves I have supplied from a later copy (that of 1598), and have collated with the edition of 1597. The variations are set down in the margin.’ He adds: ‘Mr Penn Ashton Curzon and Mr Kemble are possessed of copies of this original edition of this play: I know of no other, except that in this volume.’ Mr Kemble’s copy is now in the Devonshire Library, and Mr Curzon’s is probably the same which was sold at Mr Daniel’s sale and is now in the possession of Mr Huth. Besides the leaves of Malone’s copy which are missing, signatures C 3 and C 4 are imperfect, the upper half of each being supplied from the edition of 1598. The second edition, also in Quarto, which we call Q2, was published in the following year, with the name of the author. It is in other respects a reprint of the first. The title-page is as follows: THE | TRAGEDIE | of King Richard | the third. | Conteining his treacherous Plots against his | brother _Clarence_: the pitiful murther of his innocent | Nephewes: his tyrannicall vsurpation: with | the whole course of his detested life, and most | _deserued death_. | _As it hath beene lately Acted by the Right honourable_| _the Lord Chamberlaine his seruants_. | _By_ William Shakespeare.| LONDON | Printed by Thomas Creede, for Andrew Wise, | dwelling in Paules Church-yard, at the signe | of the Angell. 1598. | The third Quarto, our Q3, has the following title-page: THE | TRAGEDIE | of King Richard | the third. | _Conteining his treacherous Plots against his brother_ | _Clarence_: the pittifull murther of his innocent Ne-|phewes: his tyrannicall vsurpation: with the | whole course of his detested life, and | most deserued death. | _As it hath bene lately Acted by the Right Honourable_ | _the Lord Chamberlaine his seruants_. | Newly augmented,| By _William Shakespeare_. | LONDON | Printed by Thomas Creede, for Andrew Wise, dwelling | in Paules Churchyard, at the signe of the | Angell. 1602.| Notwithstanding the words ‘newly augmented,’ this edition contains nothing that is not found in the second Quarto, from which it is reprinted, except some additional errors of the press. The fourth Quarto, our Q4, was printed from the third, by the same printer for a different bookseller, as appears by the title-page: