Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
17-18 December 1931
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/979
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    = —— 673 674 675 676 677 678 679 eminent Persons in desperate Diseases; Englished by James Cook, portrait by R. White, calf, repavred 1679 ** Hall was Shakespeare’s son-in-law; he and his wife Susanna, the eldest daughter of the dramatist, being his residuary legatees and executors. After 1616 they lived at New Place, Stratford. Among the patients mentioned is, on page 18, Drayton the poet. The cure of the colic suffered by his wife Susanna is related on p. 16, while on pp. 7 and 25 the Nash family is mentioned, besides a great number of Stratford patients throughout. Hawkins (T.) The Origin of the English Drama, 3 vol. woodcuts, one plate cut into, half roan, Oxford, 1773— Rabelais (F.) Works, 4 vol. portrait, rebacked, 1807 (7) Langbaine (Gerard) An Account of the English Dramatick Poets, FIRST EDITION, calf, rubbed Oxford, 1691 Percy (Bishop Thomas) Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, 3 vol. lacks half-titles, calf gilt, rebacked 1839 Phillips (Hdward) Theatrum Poetarum, FIRST EDITION, lower corner margins of © 6-7 torn off, origimal sheepskin, joints weak sm. 8vo. Charles Smith, 1675 ** Contains interesting allusions to Shakespeare and Marlowe. Ritson (J.) A Select Collection of English Songs, second edition, with additional Songs by Thomas Park, 3 vol. woodcuts, calf, two covers loose, 1818—Horace. Epistles, etc.; edited by Hurd, 3 vol. calf, 1766 (6) Rump: or, An Exact Collection of the Choycest Poems and Songs relating to the late Times [Edited by A. Brome and R. Head], engraved title, slightly cut into at top, frontispiece, original sheepskin, a little broken and rubbed, from the library of David Garrick, with his book- plate Henry Brome and Henry Marsh, 1662 Shakespeare (W.) Works, 8 vol. portrait and plates, and with the advertisement in most volumes respecting Walker's pirated editions of Shakespeare, old calf, repaired J. Tonson, 1635 [1735]
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