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Lot 116
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Nov 12, 2020
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JONSON, Benjamin (1572-1637). Seianus, his Fall. [Extracted from:] The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. London: William Stansby, 1616.
Small folio (280 x 174 mm). Comprising pp. 357-438. (Small repairs to text Mm5-6 with a few words supplied in facsimile some light staining or browning). Provenance: Bennett H. Jackson (bookplate).
FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, published in the month of Shakespeare's death, listing him as a player. The 1616 folio edition of Jonson's works provided a precedent for Heminges and Condell when they prepared the first folio edition of Shakespeare's works seven years later, to which Jonson provided verses. See ESTC S111817.; see STC 14751.
Property from the Collection of Edward A. Quattrocchi