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[*]

An earlier version of this paper was was presented in 1974 before the Bibliography Section of the Midwest Modern Language Association.

[1]

C. H. Herford, Percy and Evelyn Simpson, eds., Ben Jonson (1925-1952), IX, 101.

[2]

Ben Jonson, VI, 145-154; IX, 13-122 and W. W. Greg, A Bibliography of the English Printed Drama to the Restoration (1939-1959), III, 1070-1084. For a recent and somewhat adverse view of Herford and Simpson's edition see T. H. Howard-Hill, "Toward a Jonson Concordance," RORD, 15-16 (1972-1973), 17-32.

[3]

Greg, III, 1070-1073. For a description of the copyrights and contents of I F1 see Ben Jonson, IX, 13-15.

[4]

R. B. McKerrow, A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers . . . 1557-1640 (1910), pp. 7-8.

[5]

D. F. McKenzie, Stationers' Company Apprentices 1605-1640 (1961), p. 34.

[6]

William A. Jackson, ed., Records of the Court of the Stationers' Company 1602-1640 (1957), pp. 286-287.

[7]

These figures have been obtained by using Paul G. Morrison, Index of Printers, Publishers and Booksellers in STC (1950) and Index of Printers . . . in Wing (1955). Also used was William P. Williams, "An Index to the Stationers' Register 1640-1708" (to be published by The Nether Press, London).

[8]

Harry Farr, "Philip Chetwind and the Allott Copyrights," The Library, 4th series, 15 (1934), 129-160.

[9]

S. G. Dunn, "A Jonson Copyright," TLS, 28 July 1921, p. 484.

[10]

McKenzie, p. 34. For a study of other of Benson's activities see Josephine Waters Bennett, "Benson's Alleged Piracy of Shake-Speares Sonnets and Some of Jonson's Works," SB, 21 (1968), 235-248.

[11]

Allan Griffith Chester, "Thomas Walkley and the 1640 'Works' of Ben Jonson," TLS, 14 March 1935, p. 160, and Dunn, Greg, and Ben Jonson.

[12]

Court Book C 1602-1654, 4 Dec. 1643, Stationers' Company Manuscripts. I wish to thank the Master and Wardens of the Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers for the use of their unpublished records.

[13]

No trace of Henry Herbert's warrant can be discovered in his known records.

[14]

Frank Marcham, "Thomas Walkley and the Ben Jonson 'Works' of 1640," The Library, 4th ser., 11 (1930-1931), 225-265. See also Chester above.