Quarto. Limited edition of 250 copies printed on hand-made paper. [4], 164pp, [2]. Uncut and partially unopened in original publisher's vellum-backed powder blue paper boards, paper lettering-piece to upper board. Heavily rubbed, marked, and dulled, title in manuscript to spine. Internally clean and crisp.

A limited edition of Jonson's Underwoods, a poetry collection first published posthumously as 'The Underwood' in 1640. Jonson described the poems within, written across his career, as 'timber trees promiscuously growing a ‘wood’ or ‘forest’, and so felt 'bold to entitle these lesser poems of later growth by this of ‘underwood’, out of the analogy they hold to The Forest in my former book, and no otherwise'.