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1601	Jonson, Ben	Every Man in His Humor
Reference Information DEEP #: 313 Greg #: 176a STC/Wing #: 14766 Record Type: Single-Play Playbook Play Type: Adult Professional Genre (Annals): Comedy Book Edition: 1 Play Edition: 1 Format: Quarto Leaves: 44 Date of First Publication: 1601 Date of First Production: 1598 Company of First Production: Lord Chamberlain's (Hunsdon's) Men Company Attribution: Lord Chamberlain's (Hunsdon's) Men Total Editions: 1 quarto, 2 folios in collection Title-Page Features Title: EVERY MAN IN his Humor. Author: Written by BEN. IOHNSON. Performance: As it hath beene sundry times publickly acted by the right Honorable the Lord Chamberlaine his seruants. Latin Motto: Quod non dant proceres, dabit Histrio. Haud tamen inuidias vati, quem pulpita pascunt. Imprint: Imprinted at London for Walter Burre, and are to be sould at his shoppe in Paules Church-yarde. 1601. Paratextual Material Character List: "The number and names of the Actors" [A2r] Stationer Information Printer: Read, Richard; Stafford, Simon Publisher: Burre, Walter Imprint Location: A.2 (Paul's Churchyard - Great North Door) Entries in Stationers' Register: Aug 4, 1600(?): "Euery man in his humo^r. / a booke ... to be staied". Aug 14, 1600: Entered to Cuthbert Burby and Walter Burre: "a booke called Euery man in his humo^r". Oct 16, 1609: Transferred from the widow of Cuthbert Burby to William Welby (any indirect dealing to render entrance void): "her parte with m^r Burre, in euery man in his humo^r". Mar 2, 1618: Transferred from William Welby to Thomas Snodham: "Every man in his humor. his parte." Feb 23, 1626: Transferred from the widow of Thomas Snodham to William Stansby: "Every one [sic] in his humor his [sic] parte". Jul 4, 1635: Transferred from Walter Burre decd. to William Stansby: "by vertue of a noate vnder the hand" of Walter Burre and Matthew Lownes, Warden, "bearing date the 10^th of Iune 1621 ... Euery Man in his humor". Additional Notes: Attribution of Richard Read as printer from Adrian Weiss, "Casting Compositors, Foul Cases, and Skeletons: Printing in Middleton's Age," in Thomas Middleton and Early Modern Textual Culture: A Companion to the Collected Works, gen. ed. Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino (Oxford: Clarendon, 2007), 195-225, 196.