Bartholomew Fair (play) with the quality of the typesetting. Copies of the 1631 typecast were circulated, though whether they were sold publicly or distributed privately by Jonson is unclear. The play was published in the second folio of Jonson's works in 1640–41, published by Richard Meighen. The play is set at Bartholomew Fair, which from 1133 to 1855 was one of London's preeminent summer fairs. It opened on 24 August each year at Smithfield, in the northwestern part of the city. Smithfield, a site of slaughterhouses and public executions, was a fitting place for a fair that was part commerce and part spectacle.
John Held Jr. wife Zelda, F. Scott Fitzgerald hired Held to illustrate his book covers, after taking a liking to his cartoon style. This represented the stylistic shift of the period from realism to abstraction which influenced the Art-Deco style of the decade. Held's first cover for Fitzgerald was a companion book of short stories for "The Beautiful and the Damned", and he subsequently illustrated "Tales of the Jazz Age" (1922) and "The Vegetable" (1923). Held also designed the cover for Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, "So Big." In addition to his archetypical flapper illustrations, Held also made linocuts and drew cartoons in a 19th-century