Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
07-08 December 1931
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/975
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    234 236 237 238 ARDEN OF FEVERSHAM IN Kent: Who was most wickedly murdered by the meanes of his disloyall and wanton wife, who, for the love she bare to one Mosby, hired two desperate Ruffins, Blacke-Will, and Shakebag, to kill him, large woodcut of the murder of Arden on the verso of the title, margin of title and sig. D3 a little discoloured, old russia, by H. Faulkner; book-label of Henry Wood, Lewisham 4to (6f in. by 5in.) London, Eliz. Allde, 1633 ** THIRD EDITION. SECOND. WITH NEW ADDITIONS OF THE PARLIAMENT SCENE, AND THE DEPOSsING oF Kina RicuHarp, title somewhat soiled, the date gone from title and restored in facsimile, and the last line of the wmprint possibly also slightly defective, several signatures and catchwords cut into (m one or two cases cut off), blue calf gilt, Utterson-Corser- Kershaw copy 4to (621. by 5yg in.) London, Printed by Iohn Norton, 1634 ** SIXTH EDITION. About twenty copies are known. PERICLES, PRINCE OF TyRE, headline of sig. 11 shaved, two or three slight stains, red morocco gilt, g.e. by F. Bedford 4to (64% im. by 54%n.) Printed at London by Thomas Cotes, 1635 ** SIXTH EDITION. About twenty copies are known. oF RoMEO AND JULIET, last line of imprint cut off removing the date, 5 ll. (sig. 1-3 and D1-2) very slightly defective and repaired, catch- word on sig. L 3 recto removed, bound for J. B. Inglis (c. 1825) in green morocco, panelled sides with. corner ornaments, cruciform acorn orna- ment wm centre; for a sumilar binding for Inglis see S. de Ricer'’s “ English Collectors ” (1930), p.97 and plate 4to (64% in. by 5in.) London, Printed by R. Young for John Smethwicke [1637] ** FIFTH EDITION. ‘Twenty-seven copies are known. BATTELL AT SHREWSBURY, BETWEENE THE KING, AND LorpD HENRY PERCY, SURNAMED HeENry Horspur oF THE NortH. With the humorous conceits of Sir Iohn Falstaffe, the ornament on sig. A 2 and headline of sig. A 4 shaved; some interlinear textual alterations in
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