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. The Actors Vindication, containing, Three brief Treatises, viz. I. Their Antiquity. II. Their antient Dignity. III. The true Use of their Quality. Written by Thomas Heywood. Et prodesse solent & delectare---- _London, Printed by G. E. for W. C._ 4^o. (7¼ × 5⅜). R. 18. 5. Collation: A⁴a⁴B-G⁴, paged. Wanting G 4 (? blank). Epistle dedicatory to Henry, Marquis of Dorchester, signed W. C. (i.e. Cartwright, the bookseller.) Epistle ‘To my good Friends and Fellows, the Actors of this City’, signed T. H. Address to the reader signed T. Heywood. Commendatory verses signed: Αλ Πρ (Greek), ‘Pessimus omnium Poëta’ (Latin), A. H., J. W., R. P., C. B., R. P., J. T. (For names represented by these initials see the ed. of 1612.) ‘The Author to his Booke’, verses signed. This edition was probably printed about 1655. Pleasant Dialogues and Dramma’s, selected out of Lucian, Erasmus, Textor, Ovid, &c. With sundry Emblems extracted from the most elegant Iacobus Catsius. As also certaine Elegies, Epitaphs, and Epithalamions or Nuptiall Songs; Anagrams and Acrosticks; With divers Speeches (upon severall occasions) spoken to their most Excellent Majesties, King Charles, and Queene Mary. With other Fancies translated from Beza, Bucanan, and sundry Italian Poets. By Tho. Heywood. Aut prodesse solent, aut delectare---- _London, Printed by R. O. for R. H. and are to be sold by Thomas Slater at the Swan in Duck-lane_ 1637. 8^o. (5⅝ × 3½). *. 2. Collation: A-V⁸, paged. Wanting A 1 (? blank.) Epistle dedicatory to Henry Cary, Baron of Hunsdon, Earle of Dover, signed. Epistle to the reader, signed. Table of contents. Commendatory verses, signed: Sh. Marmion, D. E., S. N. The volume contains, eighteen ‘Dialogues’, three ‘Dramas’, ‘An Emblematicall Dialogue’, ‘Prologues and Epilogues’, ‘Elegies and Epitaphs’, ‘Epithalamions’, ‘Epigrams’, ‘Sundry other Fancies’, ‘Annotations’ on the dialogues &c., and some verses translated from Perisaulus Faustinus. Much that appeared in this volume must have been written at least forty years before. BM 809. HOBBES, THOMAS.