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[004510] Jonson, Ben. Songs By Ben Jonson – A Selection from the Plays, Masques, and Poems, with the Earliest Known Settings of Certain Numbers. ill. Pissarro, L.[ucien] and Pissarro, E.[sther]. London: The Eragny Press, 1906. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Good. [7], 6-59pp, [3]. Original boards, later rebacked in matching paper

Slight disclouring to edges of covers, slightly rubbed to extremities, tissue guard to title lightly foxed, ffeps browned, book label of John Lewis to front pastedown, otherwise internally quite bright and clean

One of one hundred and fifty paper copies (with another eight on vellum)

The Pissarro’s considered this to be “their best book, but it sold badly” (Genz, pages 212-3)

Genz EP26