B. L. 4o. (7 × 51⁄4). T. 1. 1.
Title within woodcut border. Collation: A4B-Q8, folios numbered. Last leaf blank. Epistle dedicatory to Robert Dormer, son to Sir William Dormer, signed by the translator, B. R. Address to the readers also signed B. R. (i.e. possibly Barnaby Rich). The translation only contains two books.
Sinker 325. BM 800.
HEYWOOD, John.
Iohn Heywoodes woorkes. A dialogue conteyning the number of the effectuall prouerbes in the English tonge, compact in a matter concernynge two maner of Mariages. With one hundred of Epigrammes: and three hundred of Epigrammes upō three hundred prouerbes: and a fifth hundred of Epigrams. Whereunto are now newly added a sixte hundred of Epigrams by the sayde Iohn Heywood. Londini 1566. [Colophon] Imprinted at London in Fleetestrete by Henry Wykes. Cum priuilegio.
B. L. 4o. (61⁄2 × 47⁄8). W. 2.
Collation: A-2D42E2, unpaged. Wanting 2D 2 and 3, containing epigrams 62-89 of the sixth hundred, and 2E 2 (? blank). Preface in verse. Two parts of the 'Dialogue', 'The first hundred of Epigrammes' with title, verses to the reader, and table of contents. 'Three hundred Epigrammes' with title, preceded by woodcut portrait of the author, and table of contents. 'The fifth hundred of Epygrammes' with title, verses to the reader and table of contents. 'A sixt hundred of Epigrammes', with title, verses to the reader and table of contents. This is the second edition of the so-called 'Works', the first having appeared in 1562. The 'Dialogue' first appeared separately in 1546.
Sinker 238. BM 806.
HEYWOOD, Thomas.
An Apology For Actors. Containing three briefe Treatises. 1 Their Antiquity. 2 Their ancient Dignity. 3 The true vse of their quality. Written by Thomas Heywood. Et prodesse solent & delectare—London, Printed by Nicholas Okes. 1612.
4o. (7 × 51⁄4). S. 32. 2.
Title within woodcut border. Collation: A4a4B-G4, unpaged. Epistle dedicatory to Edward, Earl of Worcester, signed. Address 'To my good Friends and Fellowes, the Citty-Actors', signed T. H. Address to the reader, signed. Commendatory verses, signed: Αλ. Πρ. (Greek), 'Pessimus omnium Poëta', (Lat.), Ar: Hopton, Iohn Webster, Rich. Perkins, Christopher Beeston, Robert Pallant, Iohn Taylor. 'The Author to his Booke', signed. At the end, author's Epistle to Nicholas Okes (the printer), signed.
BM 807.