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The workes of Beniamin Jonson

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Type of record: Book

Title: The workes of Beniamin Jonson

Other titles: The works of Benjamin Jonson

Level: Item

Classmark: BC Safe/JON

Creator(s): Jonson, Ben (1573?-1637)

Publisher: By Will Stansby

Publication city: Imprinted at London

Date(s): 1616

Language: English

Size and medium: [12], 1015, [1] p

Manifest: https://iiif.library.leeds.ac.uk/presentation/cc/hj94yf33

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/264925

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991017216899705181

Collection group(s): English Literature

Description

Engraved t.p. signed: Guliel' Hole fecit. This t.p. also exists with two other forms of the imprint. Each play then has its own special t.p.


There are many small variants between copies.


The first leaf is blank.


Some copies have a frontispiece engraved port. of Jonson by Vaughan inserted.


Signatures: [par]⁶, A-4P⁶, 4Q⁴.


Each part has separate title-page. "Every man out of his humour", "Cynthias revels" and "Poẗaster" have each an additional title-page with woodcut border (McKerrow and Ferguson, 224).


Contents:Euery man in his humour -- Euery man out of his humour -- Cynthias reuels, or The fountayne of selfe-loue -- Poëtaster, or His arraignement -- Seianus his fall -- Volpone, or The foxe -- Epicoene, or The silent woman -- The alchemist -- Catiline his conspiracy -- Epigrammes -- The forrest -- Part of the kings entertainment -- A panegyre -- A particular entertainment -- Masques at court.


Indexed in: References: Greg, v. 3, p. 1071-1072; Ford, H. L. Collation of the Ben Jonson folios; S.T.C. 14751.

Additional description

There is no frontispiece engraved port. of Jonson by Vaughan inserted. Wanting [par]1 (blank). With the signature "Ann L'Estrange" on the title-page. In contemporary gilt stamped binding

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