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Best.-Nr. 198838Manchester University Press 2003. 9780719055430. 1st edn 1st printing. 8vo. Original gilt lettered green cloth Fine dustwrapper Fine. Pp. xiv 338 no inscriptions. Manchester University Press, 2003. 9780719055430 unknown
Best.-Nr. 195896Clarendon Press Oxford University Press 1986. Reissue edn with corrections. 8vo. Original gilt lettered green cloth Fine in protective cover. Pp. xvi 732 with b&w illus no inscriptions. Clarendon Press Oxford University Press, 1986 unknown
Best.-Nr. 195893Clarendon Press Oxford University Press 1986. Reissue edn with corrections. 8vo. Original gilt lettered green cloth Fine in protective cover. Pp. xv 608 with b&w illus no inscriptions. Clarendon Press Oxford University Press, 1986 unknown
Best.-Nr. 195895Clarendon Press Oxford University Press 1986. Reissue edn with corrections. 8vo. Original gilt lettered green cloth Fine in protective cover. Pp. xii 596 with b&w illus no inscriptions. Clarendon Press Oxford University Press, 1986 unknown
Best.-Nr. 189905Routledge Warne and Routledge 1860. New edn. Tall 8vo 9½ x 6½ ins. Contemporary full mottled calf raised-ribbed spine elaborately gilt tooled with contrasting label boards with triple fillet and fleuron borders gilt tooled returns all edges gilt and marbled endpapers small abrasion at bottom edge of upper board - otherwise near Fine. Pp. viii 819 illus with engraved frontispiece and title and extra b&w plate pasted onto front prelim ink notes on paper pasted onto front prelim; some light pencil annotations on rear endpapers. Routledge Warne and Routledge, 1860 unknown
Best.-Nr. 191928John Stockdale 1811. 4to 11½ x 9¼ ins. Rebound in recent quarter calf on brown cloth blind-stamped raised-ribbed spine with label neatly re-laid new endpapers spine lightly faded - otherwise VG. Pp. xliv 721 illus with engraved portrait frontispiece frontispiece rather spotted and toned with offsetting on title page; no inscriptions. John Stockdale, 1811 unknown
1905Best.-Nr. 500039924London: David Nutt 1905. First Edition. . Hardcover. Good. Ex Library rebound in two different shades green dent to one board David Nutt, hardcover
1856Best.-Nr. 35096London: John W. Parker and Son West Strand 1856. First of the Edition. 8vo handsomely bound in three-quarter red morocco over marbled paper covered boards the joins gilt ruled the spine panel with raised bands gilt stopped the compartments richly gilt in fully tooled panels between the bands top edge gilt marbled endleaves. 288 pp. A handsome and pleasing copy the text-block clean the binding well preserved the gilt bright the hinges strong minimal age evidence. SCARCE EARLY PRINTING HANDSOMELY BOUND. Jonson of course is most remembered for his plays and poetry. His first play to be produced “Every Man Out of His Humour” featured William Shakespeare in its cast. Along with Jonson’s great body of work is a fine memoir of the author. The body of the text is composed of Epigrams The Forest and Underwoods. Ben Jonson 1572 – 1637 was an English playwright poet and actor. Jonson's artistry exerted a lasting influence on English poetry and stage comedy. He popularised the comedy of humours; he is best known for the satirical plays Every Man in His Humour 1598 Volpone or The Fox c. 1606 The Alchemist 1610 and Bartholomew Fair 1614 and for his lyric and epigrammatic poetry. He is regarded as "the second most important English dramatist after William Shakespeare during the reign of James I. Jonson was a classically educated well-read and cultured man of the English Renaissance with an appetite for controversy personal and political artistic and intellectual. His cultural influence was of unparalleled breadth upon the playwrights and the poets of the Jacobean era 1603–1625 and of the Caroline era 1625–1642. John W. Parker and Son, West Strand hardcover
1716Best.-Nr. 25512London: Printed for J. Walthoe M. Wotton. . . J. Tonson and W. Innys 1716. 6 volumes. Early antiquarian edition. Adorned with frontispieces and plates including a frontispiece portrait in Volume I. 8vo bound in fine period polished calf in very pleasing and handsome style the spines with raised bands and lettering on contrasting red and green morocco labels in gilt board edges tooled in blind edges sprinkled red. A fine handsome set and rare in this condition the joints sometime refurbished. The text blocks are only very lightly mellowed and the extremities lightly rubbed. SCARCE EARLY PRINTING HANDSOMELY BOUND. A beautiful presentation of one of the English language’s greatest writers. Jonson of course is most remembered for his plays and poetry. His first play to be produced “Every Man Out of His Humour” featured William Shakespeare in its cast. Along with Jonson’s great body of work is William Gifford’s memoir a selection of Commendatory Verses on Jonson written by his contemporaries a fine glossary and extensive index. Jonson dramatist lyric poet and literary editor is generally regarded as the second most important English dramatist after William Shakespeare. Printed for J. Walthoe, M. Wotton. . . J. Tonson, and W. Innys hardcover
