May 05, 2022 - Sale 2603

Sale 2603 - Lot 96

Price Realized: $ 1,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 900
Jonson, Ben (1573?-1637)
The Works.

London: Printed by Thomas Hodgkin, for Herringman et al., 1692.

Folio, first collected edition, engraved frontispiece portrait of Jonson bound opposite the title; bound in full contemporary calf, rebacked; ex libris Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford (1672–1739), with his engraved armorial bookplate dated 1712 pasted on the verso of the title; engraved bookplate of Earl Fitzwilliam inside front board, back board becoming detached, 14 1/4 x 9 in.

Wing J-1006; Pforzheimer 561; Woodward & McManaway 667; ESTC R15282.

From the Ken Rapoport Collection.