An overseas buyer was prevented from purchasing the 1640 book after the UK government intervened, allowing the University of Edinburgh to buy the 'extraordinary' collectionGiving a rare insight into the thinking of a putative director in the 17th century, an "extraordinary" annotated copy of Ben Jonson's gender-swapping play Epicene has been saved for the nation by the University of Edinburgh.Printed in 1640 " around…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00AM on March 27, 2018