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On 20 January 1615, the London printer William Stansby registered with the Company of Stationers ‘Certayne Masques at the Court never yet printed written by Ben Johnson’,1 securing protection from any loss he might incur should a brother stationer subsequently print these masques. Twenty-two months later, an inventory of the stock owned by the recently deceased York stationer John Foster revealed that his warehouses held one folio copy of ‘Johnson’s Workes’, valued at 10 shillings.2 During the period circumscribed by these two recorded events, Stansby printed, proofed and published the collected plays, poems, entertainments and masques of Ben Jonson.
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Gants, D.L. (1999). The Printing, Proofing and Press-Correction of Ben Jonson’s Folio Workes. In: Butler, M. (eds) Re-Presenting Ben Jonson. Early Modern Literature in History. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230376724_3
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