Versions

Folger Encodings:
Encoding path:
British Library >
Volp
Folger copies:
Hamnet record for additional holdings at the Folger.
Call number:
Microfilm reel:
STC / 757:23

Bibliography

STC/Wing:
STC 14783
ESTC:
S122050
Greg:
259a(i)
DEEP:
504
Wiggins:
1493

Playbook

Title Page

Title:

VOLPONE Or THE FOXE.

Author(s):

BEN: IONSON

Imprint:

Printed for Thomas Thorppe. 1607.

General Title Page

Internal Title Page

Title page company(s):
Title page theater(s):
Title page date:

1607

Stationer Information

Location:
London
Printer(s):
George Eld
Uncertain: 
No
Publisher(s):
Thomas Thorpe
Uncertain: 
No
Bookseller(s):
Uncertain: 
No

Physical Description

Format:
quarto
Paratextual materials:
DEDICATION: Dedication to: Cambridge University; and the University of Oxford; from: Ben Jonson [¶1r]. "The Epistle" to: the University of Oxford; and Cambridge University; from: Ben Jonson [¶1v].
COMMENDATORY VERSES: 10: by "E. B."; "I. D."; "T. R." (2); "F. B."; "D. D."; "I. C."; "G. C."; "E. S."; "I. F." [¶4v]
ARGUMENT: "The Argument" (verses) [A4r, sometimes mis-signed A2]
CHARACTER LIST: "The Persons of the Comoedye" [A4r, sometimes mis-signed A2]

Performance

First performance:

[1605–1606]

First performed by:
King's Men