Ben Jonson. The Man and His Work. A Tale of a Tub. The Case is Altered. Every Man in His Humour. Every Man out of His Humour. Cynthia's Revels. Poetaster. Sejanus. Eastward Ho. Volpone, or The Fox. Epicoene, or The Silent Woman. The Alchemist. Catiline. Bartholomew Fair. The Devil is an Ass. The Staple of News. The New Inn. The Magnetic Lady. The Sad Shepherd. The Fall of Mortimer. Masques and Entertainments. The Poems. The Prose Works. An Historical Survey of the Text. The Stage History of the Plays. Commentary on the Plays. Play Commentary. Masque Commentary. Commentary. Jonson's Literary Record. Supplementary Notes. Index. Edited by C.H. Herford, Percy (and Evelyn) Simpson.
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1925-86. Eleven volumes, volumes I, II, IV, VIII, X and XI first editions, the others reprints. Some plates and facsimiles, volumes I, II and IV with the bookplate of the poet and critic Vivian de Sola Pinto, some other mostly brief inscriptions to front endpapers, one paste down with an owner's ink stamp to the paste down, volume XI ex-library with a bookplate and two small stamps to the title. Original gilt titled buckram or cloth, volume VII still with its wrapper, some general rubbing otherwise a good set. Item #30774
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