BIBLIOGRAPHY.--The date of the first folio volume of Jonson's _Works_ (of which title his novel but characteristic use in applying it to plays was at the time much ridiculed) has already been mentioned as 1616; the second, professedly published in 1640, is described by Gifford as "a wretched continuation of the first, printed from MSS. surreptitiously obtained during his life, or ignorantly hurried through the press after his death, and bearing a variety of dates from 1631 to 1641 inclusive." The works were reprinted in a single folio volume in 1692, in which _The New Inn_ and _The Case is Altered_ were included for the first time, and again in 6 vols. 8vo in 1715. Peter Whalley's edition in 7 vols., with a life, appeared in 1756, but was superseded in 1816 by William Gifford's, in 9 vols. (of which the first includes a biographical memoir, and the famous essay on the "Proofs of Ben Jonson's Malignity, from the Commentators on Shakespeare"). A new edition of Gifford's was published in 9 vols. in 1875 by Colonel F. Cunningham, as well as a cheap reprint in 3 vols. in 1870. Both contain the _Conversations_ with Drummond, which were first printed in full by David Laing in the _Shakespeare Society's Publications_ (1842) and the _Jonsonus Virbius_, a collection (unparalleled in number and variety of authors) of poetical tributes, published about six months after Jonson's death by his friends and admirers. There is also a single-volume edition, with a very readable memoir, by Barry Cornwall (1838). An edition of Ben Jonson's works from the original texts was recently undertaken by C. H. Herford and Percy Simpson. A selection from his plays, edited for the "Mermaid" series in 1893-1895 by B. Nicholson, with an introduction by C. H. Herford, was reissued in 1904. W. W. Bang in his _Materialien zur Kunde des alten englischen Dramas_ has reprinted from the folio of 1616 those of Ben Jonson's plays which are contained in it (Louvain, 1905-1906). _Every Man in his Humour_ and _Every Man out of his Humour_ have been edited for the same series (16 and 17, 1905 and 1907) by W. W. Bang and W. W. Greg. _Every Man in his Humour_ has also been edited, with a brief biographical as well as special introduction, to which the present sketch owes some details, by H. B. Wheatley (1877). Some valuable editions of plays by Ben Jonson have been recently published by American scholars in the _Yale Studies in English_, edited by A. S. Cook--_The Poetaster_, ed. H. S. Mallory (1905); _The Alchemist_, ed. C. M. Hathaway (1903); _The Devil is an Ass_, ed. W. S. Johnson (1905); _The Staple of News_, ed. De Winter (1905); _The New Inn_, ed. by G. Bremner (1908); _The Sad Shepherd_ (with Waldron's continuation) has been edited by W. W. Greg for Bang's _Materialien zur Kunde des alten englischen Dramas_ (Louvain, 1905).