London: William Copland, 1553.
Price: $75,000.00
Bound in 18th century diced russia, boards and spine ornately tooled in gold, housed in a modern full dark blue morocco folding case by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Title page printed with an elaborate woodcut compartment (McKerrow & Ferguson 49a), text in black letter, with the inserted leaf in signature X....
London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, at the Judge’s Head, in Chancery-Lane near Fleet-Street, 1691.
Price: $7,500.00
A truly fine copy in its original speckled calf binding, corners bumped, hinges starting. The text is crisp and in fine shape aside from a tear to the upper margin of the title affecting the printed rule and the top edge of the word “Poems.” With the preliminary advertisement leaf...
London: for B. Crayle, 1688.
Price: $3,800.00
Bound in 18th c. speckled calf, serviceably rebacked, spine gilt, red Morocco label, new endpapers. A very good copy, complete with the additional engraved title and the two plates. Scattered light soiling and spotting, some dog-earing, edges of one plate silked. According to "The introduction", some of the histories are...
