Ben. Jonson; Peter Whalley [ed.]; Louis Du Guernier [illus.]

The Works of Ben. Jonson [Seven Volume Set]

London: D. Midwinter et al, 1756. Very Good. Item #49136

London: D. Midwinter et al, 1756. First Whalley Edition. Seven octavo volumes (20.5cm); contemporary sprinkled calf rebacked in the late 19th with endpapers replaced, spines in six gilt-tooled, compartments, red and brown gilt spine titles; twelve leaves of plates by Louis Du Guernier including portrait frontispiece at head of Vol. I (collated, three volumes bound without final blanks, else presumed complete). Boards rubbed and a bit dried at margins, Vol. IV with fairly extensive but relevant and rather charming marginalia; a Very Good and sound set overall.

The first edition of the complete works of Ben Jonson edited by Peter Whalley (1722-1791). The subscriber's list bound at the head of Vol. I seems a bit anemic, though it does include the famed actor David Garrick.

Provenance: 19th century armorial ex libris of the Lord Viscount Dillon to front pastedown of each volume except the first, which has been crudely removed. Modern ownership pressure stamps of D.H. Krivit to front free endpapers.

ESTC T83079.

Price: $750.00