It is a point worthy of notice that the execution of the figures in this engraving is decidedly inferior to that of the Chapman title.
Gerard Honthorst's portrait of Jonson, engraved by Robert Vaughan, whose frontispieces and portraits are found in many books of the period, is inserted in this copy. The engraving was probably issued, in its first state, as a separate print. In a second state it was prefixed to the second edition of the first volume, Printed by Richard Biſhop, and are to be ſold by Andrew Crooke, in 1640.
The famous lines,
"O could there be an art found out that might
Produce his shape soe lively as to Write,"
follow eight lines of Latin, beneath the oval frame.
Folio.
Collation: Portrait and title-page, 2 leaves; A-Qqqq4, in sixes.