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Jonson, Ben. THE WORKES OF BENIAMIN JONSON. LONDON: WILL STANSBY, 1616 Folio (326 x 211mm.), Humphrey Dyson's large paper issue of the first collected edition of Jonson's plays, masques, entertainments, and non-dramatic poetry, preliminary blank (¶1), engraved title-page by William Hole (Greg's variant *1 state), contemporary brown morocco, covers with two panels in gilt and blind embellished with ornaments at corners of central panel together with centre ornament, spine gilt in compartments with morocco lettering piece, gilt edges, brown morocco-backed folding box by Zaehnsdorf, minor hole to A5 not affecting text, minor paper flaw to O1, minor loss to corner of 3A1 not affecting text, minor hole to 3B4 not affecting text, minor paper flaw to 3O5 and minor hole to 3Z3 not affecting text, other minor tears or chips, some damp-staining throughout, binding rubbed and worn with some minor worming, lacking ties