Brave Translunary Things
from the Works in Prose and Verse of Ben Jonson
Selected by Alexander B. Grosart
FIRST EDITION
SCARCE BINDING
Benjamin Jonson (1572 - 1637) was an English playwright and poet. Jonson's artistry exerted a lasting influence upon English poetry and stage comedy. He popularized the comedy of humours; he is best known for the satirical plays Every Man in His Humour, Volpone, or The Fox, The Alchemist and Bartholomew Fair and for his lyric and epigrammatic poetry. "He is generally regarded as the second most important English dramatist, after William Shakespeare, during the reign of James I." Jonson was a classically educated, well-read and cultured man of the English Renaissance with an appetite for controversy (personal and political, artistic and intellectual) whose cultural influence was of unparalleled breadth upon the playwrights and the poets of the Jacobean era (1603-1625) and of the Caroline era (1625-1642).
Publisher: Elliot Stock, London
Copyright: 1895
Condition: This book is in good condition. Hardcover. Original green cloth boards are lightly worn along edges and corners. Hinges tight. Binding square. Deckled edges. Top edge gilt. Pages are still uncut. The text block is crisp and clean. A lovely frontispiece portrait of Ben Jonson graces the beginning of this handsome book.
232 pages, 3.75" x 6"
LOC B1 S1
from the Works in Prose and Verse of Ben Jonson
Selected by Alexander B. Grosart
FIRST EDITION
SCARCE BINDING
Benjamin Jonson (1572 - 1637) was an English playwright and poet. Jonson's artistry exerted a lasting influence upon English poetry and stage comedy. He popularized the comedy of humours; he is best known for the satirical plays Every Man in His Humour, Volpone, or The Fox, The Alchemist and Bartholomew Fair and for his lyric and epigrammatic poetry. "He is generally regarded as the second most important English dramatist, after William Shakespeare, during the reign of James I." Jonson was a classically educated, well-read and cultured man of the English Renaissance with an appetite for controversy (personal and political, artistic and intellectual) whose cultural influence was of unparalleled breadth upon the playwrights and the poets of the Jacobean era (1603-1625) and of the Caroline era (1625-1642).
Publisher: Elliot Stock, London
Copyright: 1895
Condition: This book is in good condition. Hardcover. Original green cloth boards are lightly worn along edges and corners. Hinges tight. Binding square. Deckled edges. Top edge gilt. Pages are still uncut. The text block is crisp and clean. A lovely frontispiece portrait of Ben Jonson graces the beginning of this handsome book.
232 pages, 3.75" x 6"
LOC B1 S1