The book is not a fine specimen of typography; it contains numerous errors of all kinds, and the printer's ornaments are all such as are frequently met with in books issued before and after this date. This is especially and strikingly true of the large head-band of the archers which we have already noticed in the Bible of 1611, and of the large tail-piece used after twenty-five of the plays. The other head-pieces and initial letters are of commonplace character, and show much wear. The portrait, too, by Martin Droeshout, a young Flemish artist, "Wherein the Grauer had a ſtrife With Nature, to out-doo the life:" as Jonson assures us in his famous verses "To the Reader," is, as might be expected, hard and stiff, but it was undoubtedly done from a painting that has more claims to be considered "from the life" than any other. With all its technical faults, it "is intrinsically the most valuable volume in the whole range of English literature." Folio. COLLATION: _One leaf without signature; A, eight leaves; A-Z, Aa-Cc2, in sixes; a, two leaves; Aa3-Aa6, b-g, in sixes; gg, eight leaves; h-x, in sixes_; ¶, ¶¶, _in sixes_; ¶¶¶, _one leaf; aa-ff, in sixes; gg, two leaves; gg-zz, aaa-bbb, in sixes_. JOHN WEBSTER (1580?-1625?) 20. The | Tragedy | Of The Dutchesse | Of Malfy. | As it was Preſented priuatly, at the Black- | Friers; and publiquely at the Globe, By the | Kings Maieſties Seruants. | The perfect and exact Coppy, with diuerſe | things Printed, that the length of the Play would | not beare in the Preſentment. | VVritten by John Webſter. | [Quotation] | London: | Printed by Nicholas Okes, for Iohn | Waterson, and are to be ſold at the | ſigne of the Crowne, in Paules | Church-yard, 1623. The play was first acted about 1612. A list of the actors' names is given on the verso of the title-page, and among them stands out that of Richard Burbage, who created the part of the _Duke_. The part of the _Duchess_ was played by a boy named R. Sharpe. It is the only play of Webster's presented on the modern stage. Miss Glyn played in it in 1851, and Miss May Rorke in 1892. The first edition is called by Dyce, the most correct of the quartos. Quarto. COLLATION: _A-N, in fours. Without pagination._ PHILIP MASSINGER (1583-1640) 21. A New Way To Pay | Old Debts | A Comoedie | As it hath beene often acted at the Ph[oe]- | nix in Drury-Lane, by the Queenes | Maieſties ſeruants. | The Author. | Philip Massinger. | [Printer's mark] London, | Printed by E. P. for Henry Seyle, dwelling in S. | Pauls Churchyard, at the ſigne of the | Tygers head. Anno. M.DC. | XXXIII. This comedy retained its popularity longer than any other of Massinger's plays, and has often been revived upon the modern stage.