Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
November 1926
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/691
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    Second Day 38 QUARTO Lor 271—continued. Leycesters Common-wealth: Conceived, Spoken and Pvyb- lished, FIRST EDITION, side-notes shaved on A3 and R4, and touched on p. 175, 1641; 3 vol. in 1, half calf ** Leycesters Commonwealth was re-issued later in 1641 (with the addition of Leicester's Ghost and a portrait by Marshall under the name of Robert Parson. ; 272 Nichols (John) The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth, vol. I and II only, plates, calf gilt, joints roughly mended, 1788; Progresses, ete. of James I, 4 vol. plates, original cloth, 1828—Fuller (Thomas) Worthies of England, edited by John Nichols, 2 vol. portrait, half calf gilt, 1811; ete (10) 273 PEAcHAM (HeENrRy) The Compleat Gentleman ... To which is added the Gentleman’s Exercise ... The Third Impression much enlarged ... by a very good Hand [1.e. Thomas Blount], engraved title and woodcuts, some wormholes affecting tect, 1661; Braithwait (Richard) The English Gentleman, FIRST EDITION, frontispiece, portrait by Vaughan (shaved at foot), “ Draught of the Frontispiece” (torn and mounted, type-metal ornament at top shaved), some top and one or two bottom rules cut, signature and catchwords shaved on Hh2, 1630; bound together, russia gilt, g. e. ev4 Prynne (William) The Antipathie of the English Lordly Prelacie both to Regall Monarchy, and Civill heat 2 vol. in 1, original calf, joints broken, 1641; ete. (2) 275 Selden (John) Titles of Honour, First EDITION, wormhole affect- ing a few letters of index, original vellum 1614 2°76 SHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM) OTHELLO, THE Moor oF VENICE. A Tragedy, fifth edition, 1687; Davenant (Sir William) The Siege of Rhodes: The First and the Second Part, third edition, 1663; Fountain (John) and T. Shadwell. The Royal Shep- herdess, FIRST EDITION, 1669; Dryden (John) An Evening’s Love, FIRST EDITION, damp-stained, 1671; The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards. In Two Parts, FIRST EDITION, 1672; Don Sebastian, FIRST EDITION, 1690; Lee (Nathaniel) The Rival Queens, second edition, title sht, a few catchwords defective, 1684; The Massacre of Paris, FIRST EDITION, ¢mprint shaved, 1690; Crowne (John) Darius, King of Persia, First EDITION, wmprint shaved, 1688; Mountfort (William) The Suc- cessful Straingers, FIRST EDITION, 1690; in 1 vol. half sheep 2%64 Swan (John) Speculum Mundi, First EDITION, engraved title by W. Marshall, old calf Cambridge, 1635 ** On p. 299 is a four-line quotation from “ Romeo and Juliet ” (varying from the accepted text) to which Swan has added four more lines.
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