Volpone was first published in quarto in 1607. As the date at the end of the author's Epistle Dedicatory is February 11, 1607, this edition was evidently published in February or March, 1607-8. It does not appear in the Stationers' Register until 1610: 3° Octobris [Here follows an entry of Alchemist.] Walter Burre Entred for his Copyes by assignemente from Thomas Thorpe and with the consente xija The play was next printed in the folio edition of Jonson's works published in 1616, and has been included in all the later folios and collected editions, an account of which has been given in earlier numbers of this series. Volpone has also appeared in the following editions: The British Museum Catalogue lists Volpone, or the Fox. A comedy, etc., pp. 95, H. Hills: London, [1680?], 12°. It was included in A Collection of the Best English Plays, Vol. 4, 1711. The Three Celebrated Plays of that Excellent Poet Ben Jonson, London, 1732, contains Volpone, Alchemist, and Epicane. This was re-issued with a new title-page prefixed in 1736. Volpone is also included in Bell's British Theatre, Vol. 19, 1778, with some alterations and omissions. This edition is interesting as showing the form in which the play was then acted; the title-page describes pared by L. H. Holt, is in the Yale University I The only edition based on the quarto of 1607 appe London, 1898, with an essay on Jonson by Vincent van, and initial letters for each of the acts by Beardsley. The only annotated edition of the pla lished since the Gifford-Cunningham edition of that by Henry Blackstone Wilkins, Oxford, 190 sented as a thesis for the doctorate at the Univer Paris. It reproduces the text of the folio of 1616. B. Date and StAGE-HISTORY The title-page of the folio states that the play wa in 1605. This might be any time before March 2 New Style. Fleay noted that the reference to the which, according to Stow, was seen January 19, shows that the play was completed later than th He remarks: 'The play (which was only five w writing) must have been produced Jan.-Feb. 1606 diately before Mucedorus was acted on Sunday.' Castelain says that the play must ha played in January 1605-6, and written Novemberber 1605. Holts disagrees, and dates the first perfo |