Publication
The drama was entered into the Stationers' Register on 16 June 1631; later that year, both parts were published together, in a quarto by the bookseller Richard Royston. The typsetting of the volume may have been done in the shop of Miles Flesher, a printer who worked repeatedly for Royston in the early 1630s. The quarto bears Heywood's dedications of the two parts to two friends: Part 1 to John Othow and Part 2 to Thomas Hammon, both lawyers of Gray's Inn.
The 1631 quarto was the sole edition of the work prior to the nineteenth century.
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