Lot 226
  • 226

[Davenant, William]

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • The Just Italian. Lately presented in the private house at Blacke Friers, By his Maiesties Servants. London: Printed by Thomas Harper for John Waterson, and are to be sold at the signe of the Crowne, 1630
  • paper
4to (7 1/4 x 5 1/8 in.; 184 x 130 mm). Woodcut ornament on title-page, woodcut headpieces and decorative initials; light dampstain on title, one small marginal note and some minor pencil highlights. Nineteenth-century half morocco; extremities rubbed.

Provenance

William Holgate (engraved armorial bookplate) — Charles Bohn Slingluff (pencil note dated "Baltimore 1870") — James W. Ellsworth (bookplate) — Donald & Mary Hyde (bookplate, Christie's New York, 14 April 2004, lot 21). acquisition: Purchased at the foregoing sale through Bernard Quaritch

Literature

STC 6303; ESTC S109307; Greg 428

Condition

light dampstain on title, one small marginal note and some minor pencil highlights. Nineteenth-century half morocco; extremities rubbed.
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Catalogue Note

First edition.