Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Folger Shakespeare Library Digital Image Collection
Source Creator:
Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637.
Source Title:
[Works. 1616] The workes of Beniamin Ionson.
Source Created or Published:
1616
Physical Description:
pp.1000 || 1001: "The Irish Masque"
Source Call Number:
STC 14751 copy 5
Digital Image File Name:
62709
Digital Image Type:
FSL collection
Hamnet Bib ID:
164104
Hamnet Holdings ID:
157788
HAMNET CATALOG RECORD:
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Creator (Hamnet):
Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637.
Uniform Title (Hamnet):
Works. 1616
Title (Hamnet):
The workes of Beniamin Ionson.
Alt. Title (Hamnet):
Workes of Benjamin Jonson
Place of Creation or Publ. (Hamnet):
Imprinted at London :
Creator or Publisher (Hamnet):
By Will Stansby,
Date of Creation or Publ. (Hamnet):
ano. D. 1616.
Physical Description (Hamnet):
[12], 1015, [1] p. ; 30 cm (fol.)
Folger Holdings Notes (Hamnet):
Imperfect: [par.]1-6 and A1 lacking. Separate dated title pages in following states (cf. Greg): "Every man out of his humour": state 2, "Cynthia's revels": state 1 and "Poetaster": state 3. Leaf G1 misbound as A1. Plus engraved portrait of author by Ro: Vaughan. Holes in leaves 2D4 and 3E3, affecting text. Provenance: inscription on front paste-down: "W.P. Wheeler January, 1853"; armorial bookplate of Theodore W. Whipham; armorial bookplate of Thomas Drane (motto "spes"); bookplate of W.T. Smedley (motto "forward")
Notes (Hamnet):
Mostly in verse.
Notes (Hamnet):
The title page is engraved and signed "Guliel[mus] Hole fecit".
Notes (Hamnet):
The first leaf is blank.
Notes (Hamnet):
The subsidiary plays each have separate dated title pages. Of these, "Every man out of his humour", "Cynthia's revels", and "Poetaster" have title pages in varying states; see Greg for details. Pagination and register are continuous.
Notes (Hamnet):
This description includes large-paper copies, and a variant state of the imprint: "London : Printed by W. Stansby, ano. D. 1616;" see James Riddell, "Variant title-pages of the 1616 Jonson folio," The Library, ser. 6, 8:152-156. Another issue has "Rich. Meighan" in the imprint.
Notes (Hamnet):
A number of sheets exist in two different settings, and certain of these appear to be reprints done much later; see Greg, and "Studies in Bibliography" 40:106-20; 49:149-168; and 50:408-408.
Notes (Hamnet):
A continuation was published without general title page in 1631.
Notes (Hamnet):
Unprinted court masques entered 20 January 1615.
Notes (Hamnet):
Signatures: [par.]⁶ A-4P⁶ 4Q⁴; [par.]1 blank.
Notes (Hamnet):
copy 7 Condition reviewed 200700411 L-shaped tears within margins p.179 and p.729; running tear through margin at foot near gutter p. 791 EB DFo
Notes (Hamnet):
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2000. Fortune (catalog entry 71) DFo
Notes (Hamnet):
Copy 5 Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2006. "Noyses, sounds, and sweet aires" (catalog entry 68) DFo
Citations (Hamnet):
STC (2nd ed.), 14751
Citations (Hamnet):
Greg, III, p. 1070-3(*)
Citations (Hamnet):
Pforzheimer, 559
Citations (Hamnet):
ESTC S111817
Citations (Hamnet):
ESTC S126501
Subject (Hamnet):
Promptbooks.
Subject (Hamnet):
Annotations (Provenance)
Subject (Hamnet):
Made-up copies (Publishing)
Associated Name (Hamnet):
Hole, William, d. 1624, printmaker.
Associated Name (Hamnet):
Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. (James Orchard), 1820-1889, former owner.
Associated Name (Hamnet):
Harmsworth, R. Leicester Sir, (Robert Leicester), 1870-1937, former owner.
Associated Name (Hamnet):
Smedley, William T. (William Thomas), b. 1851, former owner.
Associated Name (Hamnet):
Lacy, Theophilus, former owner.
Associated Name (Hamnet):
Trevenen, T., Rev., former owner.
Associated Name (Hamnet):
Warwick Castle (Warwick, England). Shakespeare Library, former owner.
Call Number (Hamnet):
STC 14751 Copy 5

[Works. 1616] The workes of Beniamin Ionson.