1640 COLLECTED WORKES OF BENJAMIN JONSON, EPIGRAMMES DRAMA PLAYS THEATRE, FOLIO
Item History & Price
London
Printed by Richard Bishop, and are to be sold by Andrew Crooke, in St. Paules, Church-yard,
Ano D. 1640Selling here is the second edition in folio of 'The Workes of Benjamin Jonson', printed in London, 1640.
Folio, bound in worn early 19th century half calf over marbled paper covered boards, spine ornately tooled in blind and gilt lettered. Plain endpapers period with the binding.The book measures 19.5cm by 29.5cm.The contents are lacking the portrait frontispiece and the final 12pp, otherwise complete, meeting collation: [10], 668; 216pp, with engraved titlepage, decorative initials, head and tailpieces. Each of the The subsidiary plays with separately dated titlepage, "Epigrammes" begins new pagination and register.
FOR SALE WITHOUT RESERVE.Please View My Other Items For SaleCondition: Both hinges are cracked, the upper held by only a cord at time of writing, general wear and scuffing with edges bumped / abraded and spine work; please see images. The textblock is firm and edges square, the contents conversely in very good clean condition on the whole, if lightly toned and with some scattered foxing which is more notable toward front and rear, the initial few quires with water stain at head and some scattered spots and smudges, the engraved title cropped and laid down. Ten blank leaves bound in at rear, the first of them with a list of the plays written in pencil. Despite the thirteen absent leaves a better than usual copy internally, the binding worn.
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