The Works of Ben Jonson, Which Were Formerly Printed in Two Volumes, are Now Reprinted in One to Which is Added a Comedy Called the New Inn

The Works of Ben Jonson, Which Were Formerly Printed in Two Volumes, are Now Reprinted in One to Which is Added a Comedy Called the New Inn

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Publisher

Thomas Hodgkin for H. Herringman, E. Brewster, T. Bassett, R. Chiswell, M. Wotton, G. Conyers

Author

Jonson, ben[jamin]

Reference

1118

[12], 1-264, 281-368, 371-374, 377-382, 393-744pp, [4]. Full contemporary calf, raised bands, spine in seven panels, edges sprinkled.

Rebacked and recornered, later title label to second panel, leather slightly rubbed, small repaired split to head of front joint. Internally there is a small burn hole to the bottom margin of T3 (not affecting text), Zz2 and Zz3 browned, as is Ccc (as usual), complete despite the erratic pagination.

Engraved portrait frontispiece.

This is the first complete collected edition, the first one volume edition and the last of the folio editions, with the New Inne included for the first time (cf. Pforzheimer).

Pforzheimer 561

Period

Folio

Year

Good+

Binding

Full Calf

Publish Place

London

Publish Year

1692

Edition

First Thus

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