12mo. [2], 96; 96; 100; 35pp, [1]. Each of the plays has a separate dated title page, pagination and register. With an engraved frontispiece and a final page of publisher's advertisements. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Extremities heavily rubbed, lower joint split, loss to head of spine, corners bumped. Internally clean and crisp, occasional inked highlighting to terminal catalogue.

A collection of dramatist Ben Jonson's (1572-1637) most popular works; including his comic masterpiece The Alchemist (1610) - one of the only Renaissance plays, besides the works of Shakespeare, to have achieved longevity and remain popular with audiences throughout the intervening centuries.

The three plays are subjoined by 'A true and exact catalogue of all the plays and other dramatick pieces, that were ever yet printed in the English tongue, in alphabetical order: continu’d down to April 1732', also issued separately. The list, compiled by bookseller William Feales (‘Where may be had Variety of Plays’), though rather comprehensive, is of limited bibliographical scope as it provides only the titles, with no regard for authorship or publication details. That said, it does furnish each entry with an abbreviation denoting the genre: 'Those Plays that have this Mark * are Acting Plays: Those with C. stand for Comedy, T. for Tragedy, T.C. for Tragi-Comedy, O. for Opera, and F. for Farce'; an intriguing early eighteenth-century publishing curiosity, clearly calculated for a commercial rather than scholarly readership.