William Stansby and the production of the workes of Beniamin Jonson, 1615-16

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1. The more general accounts include D. L. Gants, 'William Stansby', The British Literary Book Trade, 1475-1700 (Dictionary of Literary Biography, 170), ed. by J. K. Bracken and J. Silver (Detroit, 1996), pp. 266-74; J. K. Bracken, 'William Stansby's Early Career', Studies in Bibliography, 38 (1985), 214-16; J. K. Bracken, 'Books from William Stansby's Printing House, and Jonson's Folio of 1616', The Library, VI, 10 (1988), 18-19; C. Hill, 'William Stansby and Music Printing', Fontes Artes Musicae, 19 (1972), 7-13.
2. The more general accounts include D. L. Gants, 'William Stansby', The British Literary Book Trade, 1475-1700 (Dictionary of Literary Biography, 170), ed. by J. K. Bracken and J. Silver (Detroit, 1996), pp. 266-74; J. K. Bracken, 'William Stansby's Early Career', Studies in Bibliography, 38 (1985), 214-16; J. K. Bracken, 'Books from William Stansby's Printing House, and Jonson's Folio of 1616', The Library, VI, 10 (1988), 18-19; C. Hill, 'William Stansby and Music Printing', Fontes Artes Musicae, 19 (1972), 7-13.
3. The more general accounts include D. L. Gants, 'William Stansby', The British Literary Book Trade, 1475-1700 (Dictionary of Literary Biography, 170), ed. by J. K. Bracken and J. Silver (Detroit, 1996), pp. 266-74; J. K. Bracken, 'William Stansby's Early Career', Studies in Bibliography, 38 (1985), 214-16; J. K. Bracken, 'Books from William Stansby's Printing House, and Jonson's Folio of 1616', The Library, VI, 10 (1988), 18-19; C. Hill, 'William Stansby and Music Printing', Fontes Artes Musicae, 19 (1972), 7-13.
4. The more general accounts include D. L. Gants, 'William Stansby', The British Literary Book Trade, 1475-1700 (Dictionary of Literary Biography, 170), ed. by J. K. Bracken and J. Silver (Detroit, 1996), pp. 266-74; J. K. Bracken, 'William Stansby's Early Career', Studies in Bibliography, 38 (1985), 214-16; J. K. Bracken, 'Books from William Stansby's Printing House, and Jonson's Folio of 1616', The Library, VI, 10 (1988), 18-19; C. Hill, 'William Stansby and Music Printing', Fontes Artes Musicae, 19 (1972), 7-13.
5. Devon County Record Office (D.C.R.O.), Exeter, St Mary Major (S.M.M.), microfiche 1 and 4. The first parish register, which proceeds by the formula 'The eight day of July . . .' was copied about 1594 with the information transposed as 'william the sonne of Richarde Stansbye was bap: the 8 of Julij'.
6. E. Arber (ed.), A Transcript of the Registers of the Company of Stationers of London 1554-1640 A.D., 5 vols (London, 1875-94), 11, 173; M. M. Rowe and A. M. Jackson, Exeter Freemen 1266-1967 (Exeter, 1973), p. 83. Stansby paid his entry fine of £1 as a freeman between Michaelmas 1559 and Michaelmas 1560.
7. E. Arber (ed.), A Transcript of the Registers of the Company of Stationers of London 1554-1640 A.D., 5 vols (London, 1875-94), 11, 173; M. M. Rowe and A. M. Jackson, Exeter Freemen 1266-1967 (Exeter, 1973), p. 83. Stansby paid his entry fine of £1 as a freeman between Michaelmas 1559 and Michaelmas 1560.
8. D.C.R.O., Exeter, St Mary Arches, microfiche 3. Richard remarried Elizabeth Maunder on 8 July 1573. Over the next twenty years, they lost a son named Alexander, and two daughters named Agnes. Richard Stansby died on 21 January 1594, and an inventory of his assets was taken, with another made the following year. These value his chattels at £32 9s. 2d. and £26 3s. 1d. respectively (D.C.R.O., Orphans Court Inventory 56, items 1 & 2).ny There also survives, along with the inventories, a note in the hand of his widow Elizabeth, dated 1595, listing the payments of debts and expenses (including burial charges) during the previous year: 'besydes my howsekepynge beynge myselfe and fowre chyldren a Jorneyman and tooe prentysses which hathe stande me no small charges yn kepynge of them &tc'. (D.C.R.O., Orphans Court Inventory 56, item 3). One journeyman was probably John Medland, who was bound by Richard Stansby on 19 March 1581 and admitted by a freeman by grace of the court on 22 July 1595: Rowe and Jackson, Exeter Freemen, pp. 96, 105.
9. Two years previously the family had been devastated during an outbreak of the plague: between 7 July and 20 October 1570, the parish records list the deaths of Simon, Henry, John, Robert, Elizabeth, William, Anne, William and James Stansby. Most of the children died young: the first William was baptized on 24 February 1564 (S.M.M., microfiches 1 and 4), the second, the twin of John, on 7 September 1569 (S.M.M., microfiche 4). Another son Thomas was born on 21 February 1561 (S.M.M., microfiches 1 and 4), and buried on 9 May 1566 (S.M.M., microfiches 3 and 7). See also, P. A. Slack, The Impact of Plague in Tudor and Stuart England (Oxford, 1985), pp. 90, 113-19.
10. Arber, Transcript, II, 680. The company records for the period between 1570 and 1576 do not survive.
11. do Reginae Elizabethae' (Arber, Transcript, II, 173). Queen Mary died on 17 November 1558: the thirty-second year of Elizabeth's reign thus ran from 17 November 1589 to 16 November 1590. That Christmas 1589 is the correct date is confirmed by the fact that Windet was also fined 2s. 6d. on 12 January 1591 for 'kepinge a prentise unpresented' (Transcript, II, 863). Similarly, on 7 September 1594, he bound William Bealy, and on 8 October 1596, he bound William Wright; on 6 June 1597, he was fined 40s. for not declaring either of them (Transcript, II, 217, 827).
12. Liber A, fol. 51, 2 March 1587. Liber A is presently being edited by D. F. McKenzie.
13. L. E. Berry and D. W. Rude, 'Tanner Manuscript No. 33: New Light on the Stationers' Company in the Early Seventeenth Century', Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 66 (1972), 105-34 (pp. 106, 114).
14. D. F. McKenzie, 'Printers of the Mind: Some Notes on Bibliographical Theories and Printing-House Practices', Studies in Bibliography, 22 (1969), 1-75 (pp. 53-57). Similarly, H.-J. Martin, The French Book: Religion, Absolutism, and Readership. 1585-1715, trans. by P. and N. Saenger (Baltimore, 1996), p. 47.
15. D. F. McKenzie, 'Printers of the Mind: Some Notes on Bibliographical Theories and Printing-House Practices', Studies in Bibliography, 22 (1969), 1-75 (pp. 53-57). Similarly, H.-J. Martin, The French Book: Religion, Absolutism, and Readership. 1585-1715, trans. by P. and N. Saenger (Baltimore, 1996), p. 47.
16. v.
17. STC 13712.5 (1597). The printer's copy is Bodleian MS Add. C.165; P. Simpson, Proof-Reading in the Sixteenth, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (Oxford, 1935), pp. 76-79 (p. 78); W. S. Hill, 'Casting Off Copy and the Composition of Hooker's Book V', Studies in Bibliography, 33 (1980), 144-61. The scribe was Benjamin Pullen.
18. STC 13712.5 (1597). The printer's copy is Bodleian MS Add. C.165; P. Simpson, Proof-Reading in the Sixteenth, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (Oxford, 1935), pp. 76-79 (p. 78); W. S. Hill, 'Casting Off Copy and the Composition of Hooker's Book V', Studies in Bibliography, 33 (1980), 144-61. The scribe was Benjamin Pullen.
19. STC 13712.5 (1597). The printer's copy is Bodleian MS Add. C.165; P. Simpson, Proof-Reading in the Sixteenth, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (Oxford, 1935), pp. 76-79 (p. 78); W. S. Hill, 'Casting Off Copy and the Composition of Hooker's Book V', Studies in Bibliography, 33 (1980), 144-61. The scribe was Benjamin Pullen.
20. r. Bishop's neighbour on the west side was called Lacy; Stansby's neighbour on the east side, Bentley.
21. v. In 1636, burial in the Church at St Peter's cost 13s. 4d., compared to 4s. for a coffin in the churchyard (Lambeth Palace MS CM VIII/60).
22. r.
23. STC 22540, 13712-13, 11276, 17669, 15691, 18142.
24. r indicates that the two halves of the forme were taken out of the chase and kept separately. When the two halves of the skeleton were returned to a chase (whether the same one cannot be proved), they were placed in the reverse left-right order relative to their previous arrangement. The other half of the skeleton similarly confirms this. Though it can be inferred that the chase was borrowed for another work at the press, there is no way of knowing what that item was, the length of the interruption (if in any real sense there was one), or the type in which the text was set.
25. r. J. W. Binns, Intellectual Culture in Elizabethan and Jacobean England: The Latin Writings of the Age (Leeds, 1990), p. 424.
26. r. J. W. Binns, Intellectual Culture in Elizabethan and Jacobean England: The Latin Writings of the Age (Leeds, 1990), p. 424.
27. r.
28. Hakewill was born in the parish of St Mary Arches, Exeter, and was thus from a neighbouring parish to Stansby (DNB, VIII, 890-92). His brother William was appointed Secretary to the Society of Antiquaries when it briefly re-formed in 1614 (K. Sharpe, Sir Robert Cotton, 1586-1631: History and Politics in Early Modern England (Oxford, 1979), p. 36). They were kinsmen of Sir Thomas Bodley and William was executor of Bodley's will (DNB, II, 759 and VIII, 894-95). For Digges, see DNB, v, 973-75. Digges gave Jonson a copy of his father Leonard's Geometricall Practical Treatize Named Pantometria (1591), STC 6859, now at Worcester College, Oxford, shelfmark: 11.π.2.
29. r.
30. D. F. McKenzie, 'Printers of the Mind', 8-20. Assuming an average output of 840 sheets per annum and an average edition size of 800 copies, Stansby would have used 1400 reams of paper at 480 usable sheets per ream per annum. It should be emphasized that the figures are highly approximate.
31. r) was, in fact, Adrian Whicker, who had been apprenticed to Stansby on 5 December 1608 (D. F. McKenzie, Stationers' Company Apprentices 1605-1640 (Charlottesville, 1961), apprentice 514).
32. Arber, Transcript, III, p. 701. The purchase price of one year's turnover is consistent with other contemporary commercial transactions.
33. v. There are variant settings of the title-page unrecorded by the STC.
34. r (signed 3E3). See also, Simpson, Proof- Reading, pp. 113-14; and P. W. M. Blayney, The Texts of 'King Lear' and their Origins: Nicholas Okes and the First Quarto (Cambridge, 1982), p. 191.
35. r (signed 3E3). See also, Simpson, Proof- Reading, pp. 113-14; and P. W. M. Blayney, The Texts of 'King Lear' and their Origins: Nicholas Okes and the First Quarto (Cambridge, 1982), p. 191.
36. r (signed 3E3). See also, Simpson, Proof- Reading, pp. 113-14; and P. W. M. Blayney, The Texts of 'King Lear' and their Origins: Nicholas Okes and the First Quarto (Cambridge, 1982), p. 191.
37. v.
38. v.
39. r.
40. r. The note is not present in all copies.
41. v: 'Certaine faults, which because they would most trouble the Reader, I desire him to amend with his Pen, before he read. Most of them grew not so much from the Printer, as by the fault of the Copie, mistakings of the Hebrew or Greeke Letters, and of the quotations in the margent (which may easily be discerned) as also of Secretarie in stead of Romane, or contrariwise, and literall faults I leave to the Judicious Reader.' For further evidence, see H. S. Bennett, English Books and Readers, 1603-1640 (Cambridge, 1957), pp. 220-30; Binns, Intellectual Culture, pp. 399-435; H. R. Woudhuysen, Sir Philip Sidney and the Circulation of Manuscripts (Oxford, 1996), pp. 109-16.
42. v: 'Certaine faults, which because they would most trouble the Reader, I desire him to amend with his Pen, before he read. Most of them grew not so much from the Printer, as by the fault of the Copie, mistakings of the Hebrew or Greeke Letters, and of the quotations in the margent (which may easily be discerned) as also of Secretarie in stead of Romane, or contrariwise, and literall faults I leave to the Judicious Reader.' For further evidence, see H. S. Bennett, English Books and Readers, 1603-1640 (Cambridge, 1957), pp. 220-30; Binns, Intellectual Culture, pp. 399-435; H. R. Woudhuysen, Sir Philip Sidney and the Circulation of Manuscripts (Oxford, 1996), pp. 109-16.
43. v: 'Certaine faults, which because they would most trouble the Reader, I desire him to amend with his Pen, before he read. Most of them grew not so much from the Printer, as by the fault of the Copie, mistakings of the Hebrew or Greeke Letters, and of the quotations in the margent (which may easily be discerned) as also of Secretarie in stead of Romane, or contrariwise, and literall faults I leave to the Judicious Reader.' For further evidence, see H. S. Bennett, English Books and Readers, 1603-1640 (Cambridge, 1957), pp. 220-30; Binns, Intellectual Culture, pp. 399-435; H. R. Woudhuysen, Sir Philip Sidney and the Circulation of Manuscripts (Oxford, 1996), pp. 109-16.
44. v: 'Certaine faults, which because they would most trouble the Reader, I desire him to amend with his Pen, before he read. Most of them grew not so much from the Printer, as by the fault of the Copie, mistakings of the Hebrew or Greeke Letters, and of the quotations in the margent (which may easily be discerned) as also of Secretarie in stead of Romane, or contrariwise, and literall faults I leave to the Judicious Reader.' For further evidence, see H. S. Bennett, English Books and Readers, 1603-1640 (Cambridge, 1957), pp. 220-30; Binns, Intellectual Culture, pp. 399-435; H. R. Woudhuysen, Sir Philip Sidney and the Circulation of Manuscripts (Oxford, 1996), pp. 109-16.
45. v.
46. Simpson, Proof-Reading, pp. 140-41.
47. r.
48. v.
49. v.
50. v.
51. M. Eccles, 'Brief Lives: Tudor and Stuart Authors', Studies in Philology, 79 (1982), 107-08.
52. See also D. F. McKenzie, 'Eight Quarto Proof Sheets of 1594 set by Formes: A Fruitfull Commentarie', The Library, v, 28 (1973), 1-13 (pp. 6-7).
53. Arber, Transcript, III, 562.
54. K. J. Donovan, 'The Final Quires of the Jonson Workes: Headline Evidence', Studies in Bibliography, 40 (1987), 106-20 (pp. 119-20).
55. J. Barnard and M. Bell, The Early Seventeenth-Century York Book Trade and John Foster's Inventory of 1616 (Leeds, 1994), p. 75.
56. 2 or 221/2 sheets. On the entry of books, see also P. W. M. Blayney, 'The Publication of Playbooks', A New History of Early English Drama, ed. by J. D. Cox and D. S. Kastan (New York, 1997), pp. 383-422.
57. Camden's copy (Bodleian shelfmark: Wood D21) reads 'Gulielmi Camdeni ex dono authoris. Martij 23. 15', reflecting his use of the legal calendar. Walsall's copy is Cambridge University Library, Adv. d.48.1.
58. v.
59. Sir Edward Hoby's A Curry-combe for a Coxe-combe (STC 13540) was entered on 2 November 1614, but at 341/2 sheets the first issue was probably printed before Jonson's Workes went to the press. It was reissued (STC 13540.5) with an extra 21/2 sheets but it is unclear when these were printed. Similarly, the preface of Edward Thornes's Encomium Salopiae (STC 24043) is dated 1 January 1615. Two pamphlets (9 sheets) by Henry Peacham (who was in Utrecht at the time), A Most True Relation of the Affaires of Cleve and Gulick (STC 19512) and Prince Henrie Revived (STC 19514), were entered on 18 January. Both were set in english roman and may have some marginal relationship to Jonson's Workes.
60. STC 12526, 24176, 25433.3, 11599, 13481, 3435, 5045, 18480, 12358, 4180.5, 18523, 18753.
61. STC 25294-94.5, 7472, 1657.5-58, 23623, 10639-39.5, 21019, 4099, 19059, 20914, 20748.
62. D. F. McKenzie, 'Printers of the Mind', pp. 41-42. STC 7221.5, 15867.7, 345, 12230, 12256, 12275, 22962.
63. The most comprehensive study to date is D. L. Gants, A Descriptive Bibliography of 'The Workes of Beniamin Jonson', London: William Stansby, 1616, Ph.D. dissertation, Charlottesville, VA, 1997.
64. Records of the Court of the Stationers' Company 1602-1640, ed. by W. A. Jackson (London, 1957), p. 83.
65. See also M. B. Bland, 'Invisible Dangers: Censorship and the Subversion of Authority in Early Modern England', Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 90 (1996), 151-93 (pp. 187-88).
66. Ralegh's History sold for £1 5s. before being bound. A calfskin binding would have cost three to four shillings.
67. r; C. Herford, P. Simpson and E. Simpson, Ben Jonson, 11 vols (Oxford, 1925-52) (henceforth, Herford and Simpson), 111, 421.
68. r; C. Herford, P. Simpson and E. Simpson, Ben Jonson, 11 vols (Oxford, 1925-52) (henceforth, Herford and Simpson), 111, 421.
69. Thorpe and Burre did not take over Watkins's premises but seem rather to have established their own business: STC 111, 32, 168, 178; P. W. M. Blayney, The Bookshops in Paul's Cross Churchyard (London, 1990), pp. 27-28, 39-41, 68-69, 76-77.
70. Thorpe and Burre did not take over Watkins's premises but seem rather to have established their own business: STC 111, 32, 168, 178; P. W. M. Blayney, The Bookshops in Paul's Cross Churchyard (London, 1990), pp. 27-28, 39-41, 68-69, 76-77.
71. v. The piracy was re-issued by Blount with Marlowe's Hero and Leander (STC 17415).
72. Herford and Simpson, VIII, 16.
73. J. Lowenstein, 'The Script in the Marketplace', Representing the English Renaissance, ed. by S. J. Greenblatt (Berkeley, 1988), p. 266. See also L. Kirschbaum, 'The Copyright of Elizabethan Plays', The Library, v, 14 (1959), 231-50; J. Feather, 'From Rights in Copies to Copyright: The Recognition of Author's Rights in English Law and Practice in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries', Cardozo Arts and Entertainment Law Journal, 10 (1992), 455-73.
74. J. Lowenstein, 'The Script in the Marketplace', Representing the English Renaissance, ed. by S. J. Greenblatt (Berkeley, 1988), p. 266. See also L. Kirschbaum, 'The Copyright of Elizabethan Plays', The Library, v, 14 (1959), 231-50; J. Feather, 'From Rights in Copies to Copyright: The Recognition of Author's Rights in English Law and Practice in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries', Cardozo Arts and Entertainment Law Journal, 10 (1992), 455-73.
75. J. Lowenstein, 'The Script in the Marketplace', Representing the English Renaissance, ed. by S. J. Greenblatt (Berkeley, 1988), p. 266. See also L. Kirschbaum, 'The Copyright of Elizabethan Plays', The Library, v, 14 (1959), 231-50; J. Feather, 'From Rights in Copies to Copyright: The Recognition of Author's Rights in English Law and Practice in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries', Cardozo Arts and Entertainment Law Journal, 10 (1992), 455-73.
76. The Case is Altered was owned by Henry Walley, Richard Bonyon and Bartholomew Sutton. Walley was also obstructive over the printing of Troilus and Cressida for the 1623 Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies of Shakespeare; see P. W. M. Blayney, The First Folio of Shakespeare (Washington, D.C., 1991), pp. 17, 21.
77. The various parties to Jonson's literary property are given in Herford and Simpson, IX, 13-14.
78. Gants, Descriptive Bibliography of 'The Workes', pp. 351-52.
79. Similar arrangements for compensation over infringed copies are to be found throughout the Court Records: for instance, Records of the Court of the Stationers' Company 1576 to 1602, ed. by W. W. Greg and E. Boswell (London, 1930), pp. 32-33, 37, 40; Jackson, Records of the Court... 1602 to 1640, pp. 14, 82.
80. Similar arrangements for compensation over infringed copies are to be found throughout the Court Records: for instance, Records of the Court of the Stationers' Company 1576 to 1602, ed. by W. W. Greg and E. Boswell (London, 1930), pp. 32-33, 37, 40; Jackson, Records of the Court... 1602 to 1640, pp. 14, 82.
81. Arber, Transcript, IV, 342. Stansby did not enter the note until 4 July 1635, though it was dated 10 June 1621.
82. McKenzie, Stationers' Company Apprentices 1605-1640, p. 98, no. 1947; Jackson, Records of the Court . . . 1602-1640, p. 454.
83. McKenzie, Stationers' Company Apprentices 1605-1640, p. 98, no. 1947; Jackson, Records of the Court . . . 1602-1640, p. 454.
84. J. B. Oldham, 'Shrewsbury School Library', The Library, v, 14 (1959), 83.
85. McKenzie, Apprentices 1605-1640, p. 98 (1946); J. Venn and J. A. Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses . . . to 1751, 4 vols (Cambridge, 1922-27), III, 173-74. Godson Meighen subsequently matriculated at Jesus College, Cambridge, in Easter 1616, graduated B.A. in 1619-20, M.A. in 1623, and was living as a preacher in 1625.
86. McKenzie, Apprentices 1605-1640, p. 98 (1946); J. Venn and J. A. Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses . . . to 1751, 4 vols (Cambridge, 1922-27), III, 173-74. Godson Meighen subsequently matriculated at Jesus College, Cambridge, in Easter 1616, graduated B.A. in 1619-20, M.A. in 1623, and was living as a preacher in 1625.
87. A sample of one hundred copies with the title-page indicates that 55 per cent of the engraved title- pages have Will Stansby, 20 per cent have Richard Meighen and 25 per cent have the latest state, William Stansby. A copy was given, presumably by Meighen, to Shrewsbury School and became part of the library no later than 1618. The W. A. Clark Library large-paper copy is the only one to have a Meighen imprint.
88. So R. C. Newton, 'Jonson and the (Re-)Invention of the Book', Classic and Cavalier: Essays on Jonson and the Sons of Ben, ed. by C. J. Summers and T. L. Pebworth (Pittsburgh, 1982), p. 44.
89. Gants, Descriptive Bibliography of 'The Workes', pp. 92-153, 312-20.
90. Yale University, Beinecke Library: Shelfmark, 1977 + 422. Motto of Mildmay Fane, Earl of Westmorland (c. 1603-65) with manuscript Westmorland bookplate from 1856; Later associations with Edward Hale Bierstadt, 1891, and a presentation inscription to John Milton Berdan (1873-1949) from Alpha Delta Phi. There are two poems on Jonson written by Fane, a note on the debts of Edward Whitney, a physician, and pen flourishes signed 'Mrs Julia Dobbs'.
91. The resetting of 2S2.5 is different and later than that found in the Lowell copy at Harvard, which is contemporary with the production of the Workes.
92. Though not reproduced in Heawood, a general idea may be gained by comparing Heawood 3485-3535: E. Heawood, Watermarks Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), plates 478-80.
93. Field's hand is reproduced by W. W. Greg et al., English Literary Autographs 1550-1650, 4 parts (Oxford, 1925-32), plate XIII. The only certain signature of Brome is PRO Req 2/732. The manuscript is Lichfield Cathedral MS 68 and was edited by S. J. Steen, The English Moore (Columbia, MO, 1983). I am grateful to James Knowles for providing me with a photocopy of the signed dedication in the Lichfield Cathedral manuscript.
94. Field's hand is reproduced by W. W. Greg et al., English Literary Autographs 1550-1650, 4 parts (Oxford, 1925-32), plate XIII. The only certain signature of Brome is PRO Req 2/732. The manuscript is Lichfield Cathedral MS 68 and was edited by S. J. Steen, The English Moore (Columbia, MO, 1983). I am grateful to James Knowles for providing me with a photocopy of the signed dedication in the Lichfield Cathedral manuscript.
95. r; Herford and Simpson, XI, 491. Jonson's copy of Daniel is in the Beinecke Library, Yale University, shelfmark Ig D226 B602b, copy 3.
96. r; Herford and Simpson, XI, 491. Jonson's copy of Daniel is in the Beinecke Library, Yale University, shelfmark Ig D226 B602b, copy 3.
97. Herford and Simpson, VIII, 16.
98. Blayney, First Folio, 13. The second Bodleian copy, Douce 1.306 has 'pretium 12s.' at the top of the title-page (the price and motto were omitted in the Scolar Press facsimile). What would appear to be Jonson's gift copy to the Bodleian following his M.A. in 1619 (now placed on restricted access) has a blind-stamped panelled binding. The L'Estrange family copy, now at the Brotherton Library, Leeds, has a black gilt-stamped goatskin binding, as does (less elaborately) the large-paper copy at Princeton. Another special binding is in the Pirie collection: see H. M. Nixon, Five Centuries of English Bookbinding (Aldershot, 1978), pp. 62-63.
99. Sheet 3L of Folger STC 14751.2, Copy 2, is an untrimmed standard paper sheet in a large paper copy. See also J. A. Riddell, 'The Concluding Pages of the Jonson Folio of 1616', Studies in Bibliography, 47 (1994), 147-54 (p. 148). The copy weighed was Bodleian AA.83 Art.
100. Herford and Simpson, IX, 46.
101. The Terence is in the library of St John's College, Oxford, MS 87. Only 16 books (including the incunable) in Jonson's library were printed before 1550. For Jonson's library, see D. McPherson, 'Ben Jonson's Library and Marginalia: An Annotated Catalogue', Studies in Philology, 71 (1974), 1-106, part 5. Of the books not recorded by McPherson, only one was apparently printed before 1550 (Jonson's copy of Apicius, De re culinaria).
102. Other examples from Windet's and Stansby's printing-house of the use of large types are connected with small pamphlets and with special work where the choice avoided a conflict of resources during composition and distinguished the material as requiring care during press-work and in the warehouse. See also J. C. G. Pitcher, 'Editing Daniel', New Ways of Editing Old Texts: Papers of the Renaissance English Text Society, 1985-1991, ed. by W. Speed Hill (New York, 1993), pp. 57-73.
103. Only a few copies now retain the original blank. During the mid-1620s an engraved portrait of Jonson was prepared which survives in three states (the last used for the 1640 edition). Strictly speaking this portrait is a later insert and was generally added by binders during the nineteenth century.
104. W. Painter, Luctus consolatorius (1591), STC 19120.3. Shelfmark of the unique Folger copy, STC 11511.5.
105. The space was shortened to one em in a shaped ending in the 1620 quarto edition of Epicoene printed by Stansby; it does not recur in the Workes of 1640, or the double-columned folio of 1692. Yet all modern editors, although lacunae between words are not a traditional subject of textual discussion, have attributed a meaning to the space, departing from the idea that a written or printed text is literal. Simpson reproduced it, enlarging the space to eight ens and noting that Gifford, in the early nineteenth century, proposed instead the stage direction 'Coming Forward' (Herford and Simpson, v, 271). All other modern editors either follow Gifford, or have adopted variations upon his direction. Gifford's stage direction, however, impoverishes the complexity of the literary and theatrical moment. It was based upon theatrical conditions in the early nineteenth century where the actor had to come forward to address the audience, owing to the proscenium arch. In the early seventeenth century, the audience already surrounded the stage on three sides, as is frequently the case in more recently designed theatres.
106. The most informed discussion is Newton, 'Jonson and the (Re-)Invention of the Book', pp. 31-55.
107. The editorial problem of Sejanus has recently attracted considerable attention: W. W. Greg, Collected Papers (Oxford, 1966), p. 390; P. J. Ayres, 'The Iconography of Jonson's Sejanus, 1605: Copy-text for the Revels Edition', Editing Texts: Papers from a Conference at the Humanities Research Centre, May 1984, ed. by J. C. Eade (Canberra, 1985), pp. 47-53; B. Jonson, Sejanus his Fall, ed. by P. J. Ayres (London, 1990), pp. 1-9; J. Jowett, 'Jonson's Autorization of Type in Sejanus and other Early Quartos', Studies in Bibliography, 44 (1991), 254-65; J. Jowett, '"Fall before the Booke": The 1605 Quarto of Sejanus', TEXT, 4 (1988), 279-95. See also D. F. McKenzie, 'Censorship', the third (unpublished) Lyell Lecture, Oxford, May 1988. A facsimile edition of the Quarto was issued as part of the English Experience series (Amsterdam, 1970.
108. The editorial problem of Sejanus has recently attracted considerable attention: W. W. Greg, Collected Papers (Oxford, 1966), p. 390; P. J. Ayres, 'The Iconography of Jonson's Sejanus, 1605: Copy-text for the Revels Edition', Editing Texts: Papers from a Conference at the Humanities Research Centre, May 1984, ed. by J. C. Eade (Canberra, 1985), pp. 47-53; B. Jonson, Sejanus his Fall, ed. by P. J. Ayres (London, 1990), pp. 1-9; J. Jowett, 'Jonson's Autorization of Type in Sejanus and other Early Quartos', Studies in Bibliography, 44 (1991), 254-65; J. Jowett, '"Fall before the Booke": The 1605 Quarto of Sejanus', TEXT, 4 (1988), 279-95. See also D. F. McKenzie, 'Censorship', the third (unpublished) Lyell Lecture, Oxford, May 1988. A facsimile edition of the Quarto was issued as part of the English Experience series (Amsterdam, 1970.
109. The editorial problem of Sejanus has recently attracted considerable attention: W. W. Greg, Collected Papers (Oxford, 1966), p. 390; P. J. Ayres, 'The Iconography of Jonson's Sejanus, 1605: Copy-text for the Revels Edition', Editing Texts: Papers from a Conference at the Humanities Research Centre, May 1984, ed. by J. C. Eade (Canberra, 1985), pp. 47-53; B. Jonson, Sejanus his Fall, ed. by P. J. Ayres (London, 1990), pp. 1-9; J. Jowett, 'Jonson's Autorization of Type in Sejanus and other Early Quartos', Studies in Bibliography, 44 (1991), 254-65; J. Jowett, '"Fall before the Booke": The 1605 Quarto of Sejanus', TEXT, 4 (1988), 279-95. See also D. F. McKenzie, 'Censorship', the third (unpublished) Lyell Lecture, Oxford, May 1988. A facsimile edition of the Quarto was issued as part of the English Experience series (Amsterdam, 1970.
110. The editorial problem of Sejanus has recently attracted considerable attention: W. W. Greg, Collected Papers (Oxford, 1966), p. 390; P. J. Ayres, 'The Iconography of Jonson's Sejanus, 1605: Copy-text for the Revels Edition', Editing Texts: Papers from a Conference at the Humanities Research Centre, May 1984, ed. by J. C. Eade (Canberra, 1985), pp. 47-53; B. Jonson, Sejanus his Fall, ed. by P. J. Ayres (London, 1990), pp. 1-9; J. Jowett, 'Jonson's Autorization of Type in Sejanus and other Early Quartos', Studies in Bibliography, 44 (1991), 254-65; J. Jowett, '"Fall before the Booke": The 1605 Quarto of Sejanus', TEXT, 4 (1988), 279-95. See also D. F. McKenzie, 'Censorship', the third (unpublished) Lyell Lecture, Oxford, May 1988. A facsimile edition of the Quarto was issued as part of the English Experience series (Amsterdam, 1970.
111. The editorial problem of Sejanus has recently attracted considerable attention: W. W. Greg, Collected Papers (Oxford, 1966), p. 390; P. J. Ayres, 'The Iconography of Jonson's Sejanus, 1605: Copy-text for the Revels Edition', Editing Texts: Papers from a Conference at the Humanities Research Centre, May 1984, ed. by J. C. Eade (Canberra, 1985), pp. 47-53; B. Jonson, Sejanus his Fall, ed. by P. J. Ayres (London, 1990), pp. 1-9; J. Jowett, 'Jonson's Autorization of Type in Sejanus and other Early Quartos', Studies in Bibliography, 44 (1991), 254-65; J. Jowett, '"Fall before the Booke": The 1605 Quarto of Sejanus', TEXT, 4 (1988), 279-95. See also D. F. McKenzie, 'Censorship', the third (unpublished) Lyell Lecture, Oxford, May 1988. A facsimile edition of the Quarto was issued as part of the English Experience series (Amsterdam, 1970.
112. The editorial problem of Sejanus has recently attracted considerable attention: W. W. Greg, Collected Papers (Oxford, 1966), p. 390; P. J. Ayres, 'The Iconography of Jonson's Sejanus, 1605: Copy-text for the Revels Edition', Editing Texts: Papers from a Conference at the Humanities Research Centre, May 1984, ed. by J. C. Eade (Canberra, 1985), pp. 47-53; B. Jonson, Sejanus his Fall, ed. by P. J. Ayres (London, 1990), pp. 1-9; J. Jowett, 'Jonson's Autorization of Type in Sejanus and other Early Quartos', Studies in Bibliography, 44 (1991), 254-65; J. Jowett, '"Fall before the Booke": The 1605 Quarto of Sejanus', TEXT, 4 (1988), 279-95. See also D. F. McKenzie, 'Censorship', the third (unpublished) Lyell Lecture, Oxford, May 1988. A facsimile edition of the Quarto was issued as part of the English Experience series (Amsterdam, 1970.
113. Riddell, 'The Concluding Pages of the Jonson Folio', 147-54.
114. See also, W. H. Herendeen, 'A New Way to Pay Old Debts: Pretexts to the 1616 Folio', Ben Jonson's 1616 Folio, ed. by W. H. Herendeen and J. Brady (Newark, DE, 1991), pp. 38-63.
115. Sharpe, Sir Robert Cotton, pp. 134-36.
116. The first is in the Pierpont Morgan Library; the second (which is not large paper) is the Elizabethan Club copy at Yale, the third was sold at the Arthur Houghton sale, Christie's, 13 June 1979, lot 275, copy sold to Fleming and now in Japan; the fourth is the large-paper copy at the Huntington Library.
117. J. C. G. Pitcher, Samuel Daniel: The Brotherton Manuscript, A Study in Authorship (Leeds, 1981), vii and 189-193.