Daniel, Samuel

4to (7 1/2 x 5 3/4 in.; 190 x 145 mm). Engraved title with portrait of the author within an historiated border by T. Cockson, woodcut initial, woodcut and typographic head- and tailpieces, leaf E4 a cancel (as usual) in first state; lacking initial blank leaf, a few tiny marginal spots. Contemporary limp vellum with fold-over flaps, manuscript title on spine, in a red morocco solander case, by Mounteney; ties gone.

Gerard Schaap (d. 1662, Dutch diplomat to the Swedish and Danish courts, with his purchase note in top margin of title, in trans.: "bought at London 15 August 1622") — Herschel V. Jones (gilt-stamped leather label, Anderson Galleries, 3 December 1918, lot 400) — Seth Sprague Terry (gilt-stamped leather label, American Art Association—Anderson Galleries, 4 December 1935, lot 112, — Harold Greenhill (bookplate) — H. Bradley Martin (bookplate on bottom pastedown, Sotheby's, 1990, lot 2746). acquisition: Purchased at the foregoing sale through Bernard Quaritch

STC 6245; ESTC S109257; Grolier/Langland to Wither 54

lacking initial blank leaf, a few tiny marginal spots. Contemporary limp vellum with fold-over flaps, manuscript title on spine, in a red morocco solander case by Mounteney; ties gone.
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First complete edition. This was the first appearance of the seventh and eighth books, and was the last separate edition of this title. A fine, clean copy.