Ben. Ionson's Execration against Vulcan
Subtitle: vvith divers epigrams by the same author to severall noble personages in this kingdome ; never published before
Contributors: Vaughan, Robert, engraver; Okes, John, active 1627-1644, printer; Benson, John, -1667, bookseller; Peake, William, distributor; Barton, Thomas Pennant, 1803-1869, former owner; Holagte, William, former owner
Publisher: Printed by J.O. [i.e. John Okes] for John Benson, and art to be sold at his shop at St. Dunstans Churchyard in Fleet-Streete
Published: 1640
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 56
Subjects: Early works to 1800; English Epigrams
Other titles: Ben Jonson's Execration against Vulcan; Ben Ionson's Execration against Vvlcan; Ben Jonson. Execration against Vulcan. Lond. 1640
Work titles: Execration against Vulcan
Notes: Signatures: Áþ(℗łA1) B-F́þ f℗ø Ǵþ.
Title within ornamental border.
With an engraved portrait of Ben Jonson (leaf A1)--signed: Ro: Vaughan fecit; at bottom: Are to be sould by William Peake.
ESTC reports that F.S. Ferguson identified A1 as the portrait leaf; however in Huntington copies reported, the chain lines are vertical, suggesting that this leaf is a cancel.
J. Okes and A. Crooke's names from STC.
With imprimatur: A4 verso, dated 1639; a variant has imprimatur dated 1640.
With final errata leaf.
Title page vignette; head- and tailpieces; initials.
English short title catalogue, S107918
Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.), 14771
Boston Public Library. Barton Catalogue, Misc., p. 308
Cataloged 20171103 gangulo
condition reviewed 20171030 cletizia
Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy halfbound in calfskin and marbled papers; title stamped in gilt along the spine. Armorial bookplate of William Holgate on the front pastedown, armorial bookplate of the Barton Library on rear pastedown. Inscription on recto of first fly leaf reads: "La Bibliotheca Anglo-poetica, No. 401. Valued at ℗Đ1.50 without the portrait. B." 
BPL perforation stamp on title page. Manuscript inscription on title page reads: William Fenwick.