- 13
[Dekker, Thomas, translator].
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Description
- The Batchelers Banquet: Or, a Banquet for Batchelers. Wherein is prepared sundry dainty dishes to furnish their tables, curiously drest, and seriously served in. Pleasantly discoursing the variable humours of women, their quicknesse of wits and unsearchable deceits. London: Robert Bird, 1631
- PAPER
small 4to, woodcut illustration on title, main body of text in black letter, nineteenth-century crushed red morocco gilt, bookplates of Huth and André Simon, cropped affecting right edge of title, some headlines and side notes, B3 with tiny hole in text
Provenance
Huth Library, red morocco gilt booklabel; André Simon, bookplate
Literature
STC 6479
Catalogue Note
Rare. STC locates only one copy of this edition. The translation, which has been attributed to Dekker, is from the French Les quinze joies de marriage, in turn attributed to Antoine de la Sale.