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PETER HAPPà This account of the posthumous third volume of the 1640â41 edition of Jonsonâs Works (F2(3)) concentrates upon three aspects. It addresses the contribution of some of the people involved in it; it considers some characteristics of the volume; and it describes some production features, especially watermarks and some of the type used, and in doing so proposes a narrative for the bookâs production. Although there is still more work to be done on a very large topic, it reï¬ects upon whether the printer, John Dawson Jr., respected Jonsonâs wishes and intentions. Because Jonson did not live to take part in or monitor its printing, F2(3) emerged in circumstances differing from those of the earlier volumes. Yet there do remain distinct possibilities that parts of it were set from his autograph or from copies he had corrected in preparation for this collected edition.1 Participants The printing of the third volume of the Works was ï¬rst attributed to John Dawson Jr. by D. F. McKenzie, who found a number of print items in the volume in other works printed by Dawson.2 The chief of these were the factotum on B1, a damaged upper case H (3A1 and 3I3v),
Ben Jonson Journal – Edinburgh University Press
Published: May 1, 2007
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