title: Volpone, or The Fox
variant_description: The preliminaries exist in two states: Greg 259a(i) is in the original state, while in Greg 259a(ii), a leaf was inserted, probably after A3, containing additional commendatory verses by "N. F." See also Greg 
title_page_title: VOLPONE Or THE FOXE.
title_page_author: BEN: IONSON his
title-page_latin_motto: — <i>Simul & iucunda, & idonea dicere vitæ</i>.
title_page_imprint: Printed for <i>Thomas Thorppe</i>. 1607.
paratext_dedication: Dedication <i>to</i>: Cambridge University; and the University of Oxford; <i>from</i>: Ben Jonson [¶1r]. "The Epistle" <i>to</i>: the University of Oxford; and Cambridge University; <i>from</i>: Ben Jonson [¶1v].
paratext_charachter_list: "The Persons of the Comoedye" [A4r, sometimes mis-signed A2]
stationer_entries_in_register: Oct 3, 1610: Transferred from Thomas Thorpe to Walter Burre: "2 book<i>es</i>, ... thother, Vulpone or the ffoxe".<br />Jul 4, 1635: Transferred from Walter Burre decd. to William Stansby: "by vertue of a noate vnder the hand" of Walter Burre and Matthew Lownes, Warden, "bearing date the 10<sup>th</sup> of Iune 1621 ... The ffox".
transcript_modern_spelling: Ben Jonson his Volpone or the fox simul et iucunda et idonea dicere vitae printed for Thomas Thorpe 1607