Inigo Jones and Ben Jonson : being, the life of Inigo Jones
Print Book, English, 1853
Printed for the Shakespeare Society, and to be had of W. Skeffington, [London], 1853
257 pages in various pagings, 15 unnumbered leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Two works; each work has special t.p. dated 1842-1848, with separate paging
Inigo Jones special t.p.: Inigo Jones : a life of the architect / by Peter Cunningham. Remarks on some of his sketches for masques and dramas / by J.R. Planché. And, Five court masques : edited from the original mss. of Ben Jonson, John Marston, etc. / by J. Payne Collier ; accompanied by facsimiles of drawings by Inigo Jones ; and by a portrait from a painting by Vandyck
Titles on added t.p. after special t.p.: Life of Inigo Jones. Remarks on the costume, etc., of some of the sketches by Inigo Jones. The mask of queens, and the Twelfth night's revels. Three court masks : viz., The mountebank's mask ... : The mask of the twelve months : The mask of the four seasons
Title varies for 2 masques: The masque of queenes; The twelvth night's revells; The masque of the twelve months
Ben Jonson special t.p.: Notes of Ben Jonson's conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden, January, M. DC. XIX.; preface signed David Laing
Preface to Ben Jonson (p. xxiii) states that "the foot notes, illustrating some of the consise or obscure allusions, have been amplified and corrected, by ... J. Payne Collier, and Mr. Peter Cunningham."
Includes: Report of the Council of the Shakespeare Society to the first annual meeting of the subscribers, held on the 26th April, 1842