Oct 24, 2024 - Sale 2683

Sale 2683 - Lot 20

Price Realized: $ 7,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
Jonson, Ben (1572-1637)
The Workes.

Imprinted at London by W. Stansby, 1616.



First collected edition, folio, engraved allegorical title page by William Hole featuring figures representing elements of theater arts (mounted); lacking initial blank; ex libris Cambridge Shakespearean scholar and editor of A Bibliography of English Printed Drama to the Restoration, Sir Walter Wilson [W.W.] Greg (1875-1959) with his bookplate, signature & intertextual pencil notes in the text referring to printing variants found in other copies; bound in full modern crushed red morocco ruled in gilt, joints and endcaps rubbed; 10 1/2 x 7 in.

STC 14752; Greg III 1070-1073; Pforzheimer 559; ESTC S112455.

Rasmussen-Hines Collection of Shakespeare & Renaissance Literature.