title: The Works. Second [and Third] Volume.
variant_description: There are two issues of this collection. In STC 14754, a general title page dated 1640 was added to the 1631 Jonson collection (STC 14753.5); many copies were bound together with volume 3 of Jonson's <i>Works</i>; and some copies contain the second edition of <i>The Devil is an Ass</i> [Greg 457b(i)]. In STC 14754a, the collection was issued with volume 3 of Jonson's <i>Works</i> and the second edition of <i>The Devil is an Ass</i> [Greg 457b(i)], but without <i>Bartholomew Fair</i> or <i>The Staple of News</i>; this issue sometimes lacks a general title page. See also STC 
title_page_title: THE WORKES ... The second Volume. CONTAINING THESE PLAYES, <i>Viz.</i> [in single column] 1 Bartholomew Fayre. | 2 The Staple of Newes. | 3 The Divell is an Asse.
title_page_author: OF <I>BENJAMIN JONSON</I>.
title_page_imprint: <i>LONDON</i>, Printed for R<small>ICHARD</small> M<small>EIGHEN</small>, 1640.
stationer_entries_in_register: Sep 17, 1658: Entered to Thomas Walkley: "a booke called Ben Iohnsons workes y<sup>e</sup> 3<sup>d</sup> volume containing these peeces ... salvo jure cujuscunq<i>ue</i>."<br />Nov 20, 1658: Transferred from Thomas Walkley to Humphrey Moseley: "Ben: Ionsons workes y<sup>e</sup> 3<sup>d</sup>. vol<i>ume</i> cont<i>aining</i> these peeces following ...".
stationer_additional_notes: Greg writes that the second and third volumes "are usually found bound together." The second volume was "originally printed by John Beale for Robert Allot" in 1631, and was reissued by the publisher Richard Meighen in 1640. The third volume "was printed for and presumably published by Thomas Walkley (though [Andrew] Crooke and John Benson both claimed interest in some of the copies it included)" (Greg, <i>Bibliography</i>, 3:1075); it was the subject of a Bill in Chancery in January 1641, which records "a great deal about the circumstances of publication" (Greg, <i>Bibliography</i>, 3:1081). 
  
  
transcript_modern_spelling: The works of Benjamin jonson the second volume containing these plays viz 1 bartholomew fair 2 the staple of news 3 the devil is an ass London printed for Richard meighen 1640