The catalogue below provides a summary of suggested texts in the Rare Book Room that have been approved for use for multiple edition exercises, with call numbers and some notes for the pedagogical uses of these works.
Previous | NextAuthor: Jonson, Ben
Title: The Works of Ben Jonson
Edition:
- Volume the Third Containing The Alchemist. Catiline his Conspiracy. Bartholomew Fair.
London: Printed for D. Midwinter et. al. 1755
Call # 822 J 738 A5
- In nine volumes with notes critical and explanatory, and a biographical memoir by
W. Gifford, Esq. London: Printed for G. and W. Nicol et. al. 1816
Call # PR2601 .G5 v.4 Volume the Fourth
Pedagogical Uses/Notes:
- The 1755 edition includes a list of Errata Note illustration opposite the title page of The Alchemist Dedication to Lady Mary Wroth Persons of the Play The Scene, London The Principal comedians were.. Next page: Title, argument, prologue, play
- Containing The Alchemist. Catiline. Bartholomew Fair, Epigraph by Cleveland Notes on the play, then the dedication to Lady Mary Wroth, then "To the Reader" Then Dramatis Personae Next page; title, argument, prologue, play
- Compare notes of the two editions for the opening of The Alchemist The Rare Book room does have a first edition of Jonson's works, for further comparison
