Lot 314
  • 314

(Drama)

Estimate
2,500 - 3,500 USD
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Description

  • Three Works
  • printed book
A first edition by Mathew Gwinne and two comedies by Gervase Markham and Lording Barry, all in quarto format.

Mathew Gwinne. Vertumnus. London: Nicholas Okes, 1607. Worming throughout in lower margin, upper inner corner of quires F–H cut. 19th-century cloth; faded, upper hinge cracked. First edition (STC 12555; ESTC S92800; Greg L6). provenance: F. Madan; W. Macray; Bent Juel-Jensen. — Gervase Markham. The Dumbe Knight. An Historicall Comedy. London: Printed by A[ugustine]. M[athewes]. for William Sheares, 1633. Notice to the Reader signed Lewis Machin; title-page cut round and mounted, some browning and staining, some headlines cropped, last leaf remargined. 19th-century half red roan; extremities rather worn. Second edition (STC 17400; ESTC S112119; Greg 277b; Pforzheimer 640). provenance: Thomas Jolley. acquisition: Bloomsbury, 30 September 1993, lot 100, through Bernard Quaritch. — Lording Barry. Ram-Alley: Or Merry Trickes. A Comedy. London: Printed by John Norton for Robert Wilson, 1636. Some catchwords and headlines cropped. Full brown morocco gilt by the Club Bindery, 1907. Second edition (STC 1503; ESTC S100952; Greg 292c). provenance: Charles Mathews; Beverly Chew; Huntington duplicate.  acquisition: John Fleming, 10 April 1987. 

Condition

A first edition by Mathew Gwinne and two comedies by Gervase Markham and Lording Barry, all in quarto format. Mathew Gwinne. Vertumnus. London: Nicholas Okes, 1607. Worming throughout in lower margin, upper inner corner of quires F–H cut. 19th-century cloth; faded, upper hinge cracked. First edition (STC 12555; ESTC S92800; Greg L6). provenance: F. Madan; W. Macray; Bent Juel-Jensen. — Gervase Markham. The Dumbe Knight. An Historicall Comedy. London: Printed by A[ugustine]. M[athewes]. for William Sheares, 1633. Notice to the Reader signed Lewis Machin; title-page cut round and mounted, some browning and staining, some headlines cropped, last leaf remargined. 19th-century half red roan; extremities rather worn. Second edition (STC 17400; ESTC S112119; Greg 277b; Pforzheimer 640). provenance: Thomas Jolley. acquisition: Bloomsbury, 30 September 1993, lot 100, through Bernard Quaritch. — Lording Barry. Ram-Alley: Or Merry Trickes. A Comedy. London: Printed by John Norton for Robert Wilson, 1636. Some catchwords and headlines cropped. Full brown morocco gilt by the Club Bindery, 1907. Second edition (STC 1503; ESTC S100952; Greg 292c). provenance: Charles Mathews; Beverly Chew; Huntington duplicate. acquisition: John Fleming, 10 April 1987.
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