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The 1616 Folio (F1): Textual Essay

David Gants

Collation: 2o: ¶6 A-4P6 4Q4 [$3 signed; missigning 3E3 as ‘2E3’, 3L3 as ‘3K3’ (State 1 only)]; 514 ll., pp. [12] [1-2] 3-1015 [1016] (misprinting 6 as 4, 7 as 5, 8 as 6, 34 as 43, 75 as [omit] (States 1-4) or 81 (State 5), 176 as [omit], 713 as 317; in uncorrected states of formes, 5 as 3, 144 as 1.4, 656 as 665, 666 as 652, 667 as 657, 684 as 682, 999 as 99 (State 1) or 9999 (State 2)).

Contents: Preliminaries, ¶1-¶6v; Every Man In His Humour, A1-F6v; Every Man Out of His Humour, G1-P4v; Cynthia’s Revels, P5-Z3v; Poetaster, Z4-2G3v; Sejanus, 2G4-2O3v; Volpone, 2O4-2X4v; Epicoene, 2X5-3D6v; The Alchemist, 3E1-3L3v; Catiline, 3L4-3S4v; Epigrams, 3S5-3Z1v; The Forest, 3Z2-4A6v; Entertainments, 4B1-4F1v; Masques, 4F2-4Q4.

Main Title-Page [plate 251 x 162, image 248 x 161; signed 'G. Hole']: THE | WORKES | OF | Beniamin Jonson | [rule] | neque, me vt miretur turba, | laboro: | Contentus paucis lectoribus.

Variant Imprints:

(a) Imprinted at | London by | Will Stansby | An o D. 1616.

(b) London | printed by W: | Stansby, and are | to be ſould by | Rich: Meighen. | An o D. 1616.