A pleasant conceited comedy, wherein is shewed, how a man may choose a good wife from a bad : as it hath been sundry times acted by the Earle of Worchesters Seruants

Heywood, Thomas, approximately 1574-1641, Cooke, Jo., active 1614, attributed name, author, Law, Matthew, -1629, bookseller, Purfoot, Thomas, -1639 or 1640, printer, Wolfreston, Frances, 1607-1677, former owner. MB, Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. (James Orchard), 1820-1889, former owner. MB, Barton, Thomas Pennant, 1803-1869, former owner. MB · 1621 · London : Printed [by Thomas Purfoot] for Matthew Law, and are to be sold at his shop in Paules Church-yard, neere vnto S. Augustines gate, at the signe of the Foxe · 1 picture

A 1621 London comedy by Thomas Heywood, with Jo. Cooke credited, printed by Thomas Purfoot for bookseller Matthew Law and sold at his St Paul's Churchyard shop, written for the Earl of Worcester's players. The single picture is a printer's heraldic device: a crested wild boar's head above a shield bearing three boars' heads and a single boar's head below, with a scroll inscribed 'Virtute et Fortitudine'. A designer could take from it a compact, symmetrical emblem layout where a repeated animal motif is arranged within a shield and banner.

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