John Heywoodes woorkes
Subtitle: a dialogue conteynyng the number of the effectuall prouerbes in the Englishe tounge, compact in a matter concernynge two maner of maryages : with one hundred of epigrammes, and three hundred of epigrammes upon three hundred prouerbes, and a fifth hundred of epigrams
By: whervnto are now newly added a syxt hundred of epigrams by the sayde John Heywood
Series: Early English Books, 1475-1640 -- 323:03
Publisher: Imprinted at London in Fléetestrete by Thomas Powell
Published: 1562
Place of publication: Londini
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
Subjects: Marriage; Early works to 1800; Proverbs; Epigrams
Notes: In verse.

First collected edition. A portion of the work had been printed as early as 1546, but the whole work was first issued together in 1562, and from this all subsequent editions have been reprinted.

Signatures: A-Z⁴, Aa-Dd⁴, Ee² (Q₁ folded; Ee₂, blank)

Black letter. Tailpiece; initials. On the verso of Q₁ is found the same oval woodcut portrait of Heywood as in "The Spider and the Flie", 1556.

Colophon: Imprinted At London in Fleetestrete by Thomas Powell. Cum priuilegio.

"The firste hundred of Epigrammes", "Three hundred Epigrammes, vpon three hundred prouerbes", "The fifth hundred of Epygrams" and "A sixt hundred of Epigrammes" each have special t.-p.

Cf. Clark, W.A. Early Eng. lit. 1920-25. v. 4, p. 49-51; Pforzheimer, C.H. ... Early English literature, 1475-1700. New York, 1940. v. 2, p. 473-475.

STC (2nd ed.) 13285