--neque, me vt miretur turba, laboro:
Contentus paucis lectoribus.
_Imprinted at London by Will Stansby An^o D._ 1616.
F^o. (10-3/8 × 7-1/8). G. 1.
Engraved titlepage signed Guliel. Hole. Collation: ¶^6A-4P^64Q^4,
paged. Wanting ¶ 1 (? blank) and all after P 4. Catalogue of
contents. Commendatory verses from I. Selden, Ed. Heyward, Geor.
Chapman, H. Holland, I. D. (Lat.), E. Bolton (Lat.), Franc.
Beaumont (3 copies). Each play, the 'Epigrammes' etc., 'Part of the
King's Entertainment', 'A Panegyre', 'A Particular Entertainment'
and the 'Masques' have separate titlepages. Copies present various
points of difference. In the present copy 'Every man out of his
Humour' and 'Cynthias Revels' have woodcut borders to their
respective titlepages. G 2 is not paged and has 'your true Honorer'
in the subscription. The stage direction is omitted on G5^v. The
titlepage to 'Poetaster' bears the stationer's as well as printer's
name. This is the first edition of the first volume of the
collected works, and the only one published during the author's
life. It was reprinted when the second volume was collected in
1640. The present copy has an elaborate heraldic bookplate of
Thomas Cokayne.