It seems reasonable to suppose, in view of the fact that he was the seller of the second volume also, that Meighen became connected with Stansby after the first copies of the first volume were published. The appearance of his name in the imprint of Volume I. would mark the beginning of such a partnership; and this partnership would naturally be continuous, and not interrupted, as it would appear to be if copies bearing Stansby's name alone came after the Stansby-Meighen imprint, and before the 1640 volume. "Guliel Hole fecit" is signed to the elaborate title-page engraved on copper. This monumental structure, with its representations of Tragicom[oe]dia, Satyr, Pastor, Trag[oe]dia, Com[oe]dia, Theatrum, Plaustrum, and Visorium, shows such a considerable knowledge of Roman antiquities that we are inclined to think that Jonson himself may have had something to do with the making of it. A similar thought arises in looking at the pages engraved by Hole for Chapman's Homer, and one would like to know how far that author, steeped in his Classics, influenced the engraver. It may be a fair speculation, how far Jonson and Chapman may have influenced the development of book illustration. 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_. ROBERT BURTON (1577-1640) 18. The | Anatomy Of | Melancholy, | [Twelve lines]. By | Democritus Iunior. | With a Satyricall Preface, conducing to | the following Diſcourſe. | [Quotation] At Oxford, | Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames | Short, for Henry Cripps. | Anno Dom. 1621.