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Goodall, Charles
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 USD
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Description
- Goodall, Charles
- Poems and Translations, Written Upon Several Occasions and to Several Persons. London: for Henry Bonwick, at the Red Lion in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1689
- ink, paper, leather
8vo (7 1/4 x 4 1/2 in.; 180 x 115 mm). Printed on thick paper. Very faint spotting to title and license leaf. Contemporary English red morocco gilt, paneled covers with a repeated acorn motif outer border between gilt rules, inner cornerpieces of volutes, central panel of foliate stems enclosing a filigree central ornament with a thistle at ends, initials CO and MR, spine in six compartments, raised bands and gilt, with green morocco lettering piece, gilt edges, by the Mearne Bindery. Very slight rubbing to joints and corners.
Provenance
Charles E. Dashwood (bookplate) — John Roland Abbey (bookplate; Sotheby's London, 20 June, 1967, lot 1874). acquisition: Purchased at the foregoing sale
Literature
Wing G 1092; ESTC R8475. See G.D. Hobson, English Bindings of J. R. Abbey, no. 51, for this copy
Catalogue Note
the dedication copy to "Mr. Roderick, Upper-Master at the Eaton School," with his and the author's pseudonymous initials to upper and lower covers.