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Heywood, Thomas (d. 1641) The Iron Age [and] The Second Part of the Iron Age.
London: Nicholas Okes, 1632.
Quarto, two parts bound together in one volume, each title page with a large woodcut illustration, the first showing Hector holding a boulder and Ajax an uprooted tree, commencing to destroy one another; the second part depicting the Trojan horse inside the gates of the city; large woodcut printer's device on colophon of part one, blank following colophon leaf genuine & present; lacking initial blanks (both A1) in each part; bound in full red morocco gilt by Riviere, aeg.; titles trimmed closely, cropping woodcuts slightly and touching a few lines of text; 7 x 5 1/4 in.
STC 13340.5; Greg II 467 & 468 (AII); ESTC S104048, citing eleven U.S. institutional holdings; rare at auction.
Heywood wrote four plays in his "Age" series: Golden, Silver, Bronze, and this, the Iron Age, the final work in the series.
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