Langbaine, in his _Account of the English Dramatick Poets_, p. 464 (ed. 1691), says of Titus Andronicus, 'This Play was first printed 4ᵒ. Lond. 1594. and acted by the Earls of Derby, Pembroke, and Essex, their Servants.' Whether or not this is the same as 'titus and ondronicus' mentioned in Henslowe's _Diary_ (p. 33, ed. Collier) as acted for the first time on the 23 Jan. 1593, it is impossible to say. Only two copies of this edition are known to exist, one in the library at Bridgewater House, and one in the library of the University of Edinburgh[B]. From a tracing of the title-page of the latter, kindly sent us by Mr D. Laing, we find that it agrees in every particular with the above, which we have copied from the Bridgewater Quarto, now before us. [B] _Not_ the Signet Library, as stated by Mr Collier. For some time the Bridgewater copy was believed to be unique. Todd was the first to collate it, somewhat hastily as it would seem, with Steevens' edition of 1793, and the results were given in the notes to the first variorum edition (1803). Subsequent editors were content to accept Todd's authority till Mr Collier consulted the original for himself. Lady Ellesmere's kind liberality has enabled us to do the like. We have gone over it with great care, and succeeded in recovering a considerable number of readings which had escaped the notice of previous collators. Taking its rarity into account, we have recorded the variations of this edition with unusual minuteness. They are the better worth notice, as the book is printed with remarkable accuracy. We call it Q₁. The second edition of _Titus Andronicus_ was published in 1611. This we call Q₂. Its title-page is as follows: The | most lamen-|table Tragedie | _of Titus Andronicus_. | _As it hath sundry_ | _times beene plaide by the Kings_ | Maiesties Seruants. | LONDON, | Printed for Eedward White, and are to be solde | at his shoppe, nere the little North dore of | Pauls, at the signe of the | Gun. 1611. | This edition was printed from that of 1600, from which it varies only by some printer's errors and a few conjectural alterations. The first Folio text was printed from a copy of the second Quarto which, perhaps, was in the library of the theatre, and had some MS. alterations and additions made to the stage directions. Here, as elsewhere, the printer of the Folio has been very careless as to metre. It is remarkable that the Folio contains a whole scene, Act III. Sc. 2, not found in the Quartos, but agreeing too closely in style with the main portion of the play to allow of the supposition that it is due to a different author. The scene may have been supplied to the players' copy of Q₂ from a manuscript in their possession. Ravenscroft's version quoted in our notes is an alteration of the play, published in 1687 under the title of 'Titus Andronicus: or the Rape of Lavinia.'