Every Man in His Humour

Every Man in His Humour is a 1598 play by the English playwright Ben Jonson. The play belongs to the subgenre of "humours comedy", in which each major character is dominated by an over-riding humour or obsession.

^ There was no separate printing in 1616; the title page reproduced appears to be a divisional title from the so-called 'third issue' of the "Works" of 1616; copies of this were 'made up' substantially later with some of the sheets printed from a later setting of the type, it is a leaf of this very much later setting, not the 1616 issue, that is the subject of the reproduction. See W. W. Greg, A Bibliography of the English Printed Drama to the Restoration, III, pp. 1070–3(¹) and Studies in Bibliography 30:75–95.

[1] There was no separate printing in 1616; the title page reproduced appears to be a divisional title from the so-called 'third issue' of the "Works" of 1616; copies of this were 'made up' substantially later with some of the sheets printed from a later setting of the type, it is a leaf of this very much later setting, not the 1616 issue, that is the subject of the reproduction. See W. W. Greg, A Bibliography of the English Printed Drama to the Restoration, III, pp. 1070–3(¹) and Studies in Bibliography 30:75–95.

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