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The Workes of Beniamin Jonson

Title-page Attribution: As above
Title page engraved and signed ‘Guliel[mus] Hole fecit’
First state of the imprint
Other Copies: 43

1616

Author: Jonson, Ben
Title: The Workes of Beniamin Jonson
Publication Location: London
Editor: Imprinted at London by Will Stansby
Date: 1616
Language: English
No of scans: 1038
Type: Print
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Did you know?

  • that the Bodmer holds the largest collection of early Shakespeare editions outside the Anglophone world? 
  • that the original price for a bound copy of the First Folio when it was first published in 1623 was about £1? 
  • that Bodmer bought most of his Shakespearean books from the American collector A. S. W. Rosenbach in 1951?
  • that the Bodmer contains 24 early modern printed English books which survive in just 10 or fewer copies?
  • more than 230 copies of the First Folio survive, but the Bodmer copy is the only one in Switzerland?