Inigo Jones and Ben Jonson : being the life of Inigo Jones / by Peter Cunningham ; illustrated with numerous fac-similes of his designs for masques ; and Ben Jonson's conversations with Drummond of Hawthornden. Edited by David Laing.

Inigo Jones and Ben Jonson : being the life of Inigo Jones / by Peter Cunningham ; illustrated with numerous fac-similes of his designs for masques ; and Ben Jonson's conversations with Drummond of Hawthornden. Edited by David Laing.

London : Printed for the Shakespeare Society, and to be had of W. Skeffington, agent to the Society, 192, Piccadilly, 1853.

xxi, [3], 148, xxiv, 54 p., [16] leaves of plates (2 folded) : ill. (lithographs), port. (steel engraving) ; 23 cm

"... the foot notes [to Notes of Ben Jonson's conversation with William Drummond] ... have been amplified and corrected by ... Mr. J. Payne-Collier, and Mr. Peter Cunningham."-- p. xxiii, 4th count.

"London: Bradbury and Evans, printers, Whitefriars."--title page verso.

"Inigo Jones. A life of architect," first xxi, [3], 148 p., has separate title page, pagination, and signatures. Title page reads: Inigo Jones. A life of the architect; by Peter Cunnigham, esq. Remarks on some of his sketches for masques and dramas; by J. R. Planché, Esq. and five court masques; edited from the original mss. of Ben Jonson, John Marston, etc. by J. Payne Collier, Esq. ; accompanied by facsimiles of drawings by Inigo Jones; and by a portrait from a painting by Vandyck. London: Printed for the Shakespeare Society, 1848.

The 5 court masques in the above work include: The mask of queens, and The twelfth night's revels, by Ben Jonson; The montebank's mask, by John Marston; The mask of the twelve month; The masque of the four seasons.

"Notes of Ben Jonson's conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden," xxiv, 54 p. at end, has separate title page, pagination and signatures. Title page reads: Notes of Ben Jonson's conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden. January, M.DC.XIX. London: Printed for The Shakespeare Society, 1842.

"Index of persons or authors mentioned in Jonson's conversations," p. [53]-54 at end.

With: Shakespeare Society (Great Britain). Report of the Council of the Shakespeare Society to the first annual meeting of the subscribers, held on the 26th of April, 1842. [London? : s.n., 1842?]

Cunningham, Peter, 1816-1869. Inigo Jones.
Laing, David, 1793-1878. Notes of Ben Jonson's conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden.
Report of the Council of The Shakespeare Society to the first meeting of the subscribers.
Mask of the twelve months.
Mask of the four seasons.
Notes of Ben Jonson's conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden.
Inigo Jones.

Great Britain -- England -- London.

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Bound in publishers boards. Bookplate of David Belasco.

PR2888 .L5 v.17

Half-bound in speckled calf, with marbled paper boards. Bookplate of Frederick William Cosens, with motto: sub robore virtus.