MACHADO, Simão, O.F.M.- COMEDIAS | PORTVGVESAS. | Feitas pello excellente Poeta, | Symão Machado. | Comedias do Cerco de Dio. | primeira, & segunda parte. | Comedias da Pastora Alfea. | primeira, & segunda parte. | Nesta vltima impressaõ, enmendadas, & acrescenta- | das, dous Entremeses, & quatro Loas famosas.- Em Lisboa: Por Antonio Aluarez. Anno de 1631.- [2], 94, [12] f.; 19 cm.- E. Apparently it is an unusual variant of the second printing, with the same date, of the comedies by Simão Machado (f. 1601-1640), a Franciscan religious, of whom little is known, who used, as a rule, the name of Fr. Bonaventura Machado. In fact, the title page does not correspond to the description by Inocêncio (I, p. 388 and VIII, p. 403) which indicates “Nesta segunda impressão...”, nor to the copy of the Samodães catalogue (1921), which reproduces a different frontispiece. The collation is also slightly different from those indicated in these two references, as it only includes two preliminary sheets. In the variants with the indication “Second impression” there are three preliminary sheets, the second integrating a dedication to D. Francisco de Sá de Meneses, Count of Penaguião. But the copy corresponds exactly to the description of the copy of the BNP. The addressee is also mentioned on the frontispiece of the reproduction of Samodães. However, this dedication disappears, both on the preliminary pages and on the title page of the present variant. Copy slightly cropped, with slight browning and occasional minor blemishes. Marginal restoration on the last leaf; two small amendments with ferrogallic paint, causing browning (f. F6 and H2). Title page with two small patched faults (± 28x21 mm), probably to remove stamps from the Livraria de Alcobaça (one still preserved on the front of the second folio). Ex-libris by Aníbal Fernandes Tomás (but not mentioned in his bookstore catalogue). Binding of the period, entirely flecked sheepskin, slightly worn, retaining the original endpapers on plain paper. Straw, 1236. Arouca, M 58.