The book collector's guide : a practical handbook of British and American bibliography / by Seymour de Ricci.

  • Seymour de Ricci
Date:
1921
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Credit: The book collector's guide : a practical handbook of British and American bibliography / by Seymour de Ricci. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in various states. — £ 15.10.0 Huth (Nov. 1911, n. 408) red mor. by Riviere, many proofs added. BAKER (Sir Richard). 1568-1645 A Chronicle of the Kings of England. London, D. Feare, 1643. Fol. Front, by Marshall and portr. by Van Dalen. Often reprinted, down to 1733. $30-40. — £6 Hibbert (Apr. 1902, n. 32) mor.; $110' Hoe (Apr. 1911, I, n. 167) mor., by The Club Bindery (now Huntington). BALE (John). 1495-1563 Among his numerous and scarce writings, the five following Interludes are deserving of mention: A Comedy concerning three Laws of Nature, Moses and Christ. Imprented per Nicolaum Bamburgensen, 1538. 8°. - [Another edition]. London, Th. Colwell, 1562. 8°. Only two copies known: Brit. Mus. (from Sotheby’s [Mostyn], 31 May 1907, n. 428; £ 101) ; Huntington (Devonshire copy). A Tragedy or Interlude manifesting the chief Promises of God unto Man. 1538. 40. Three copies known. Brit. Mus.; Huntington (Jolley-Griswold copy) ; Elizabethan Club, Yale (Sotheby’s [Mostyn] 31 May 1907, n- 427: £ 170). - [Another edition]. London, John Charlwood for Stephen Peele, 1577. 40. Huntington (the Steevens-Roxburghe-Jolley-Devonshire copy, no other known). A brief Comedy or Interlude of John Baptystes preach¬ ing in the Wilderness, 1538. 40. No copy now traceable. A brief Comedy or Interlude concerning the Temptation of our Lord and Saver Tesus Christ by Sathan in the Desert, I538- 4°. Bodl., the only copy known. The Interlude of Johan the Evangelist. London, John Waley [ab. 1555]. 40. Two copies known: £ 102 Sotheby’s, 27 June 1906, n. 957 (now Brit. Mus.) ; £ 51 Sotheby’s [Mostyn], 31 May 1907, n. 429 (now T. J. Wise).
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