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The Workes of Benjamin Jonson / the second Volume ; containing these playes, viz. 1. Bartholomew Fayre. 2. The Staple of Newes. 3. The Divell is an Asse ; [printer's mark].

Accession number
PML 16255
Creator
Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637.
Published
London : Printed for Richard Meighen, 1640.
Credit line
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes
The first edition of the second volume of the collected works, the first volume having appeared in 1616.
Each work, except the Masques, has separate t.p., the first three with imprint: London, Printed by I.B. for Robert Allot, and are to be sold at the signe of the Beare, in Pauls Church-yard. 1631. The remaining titles, dated 1640-41, give neither printer nor publisher.
Description
[831] p. ; 30 cm
Provenance
Armorial book-plate of William Gordon of Iver Gordon, Bart.; from the Irwin collection.
Binding
Three-quarter brown morocco.
Classification
Department