Lot 418
  • 418

Hammond, Henry

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
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Description

  • Hammond, Henry
  • Sermons Preached by that Eminent, Famous & Great Divine ... Published According to the Authors own Copies. London: Printed for Timothy Garthwait, at the King's Head in S. Pauls Church-yard, 1664
  • paper
Folio (12 1/2 x 8 in.; 316 x 203 mm). Engraved frontispiece "portrait in death" thus blackened by Edward Marshall after Wenzel Hollar dated 1663, title printed in red and black, woodcut headpieces and decorative initials; minor wormtrack in lower margin of frontispiece and title with a few light marginal spots, clean tear in bottom of text block of leaf K3 mended, occasional marginal spots or smudges. Contemporary red morocco, gilt tooled in a panel design in the style of Samuel Mearne, gilt-stamped armorial supralibros of Charles II on both covers, spine richly gilt, edges gilt; ties gone, extremities rubbed.

Provenance

acquisition: H.D. Lyon, 1977

Literature

Wing H600; ESTC R3418; on the frontispiece see Pennington 2298

Condition

minor wormtrack in lower margin of frontispiece and title with a few light marginal spots, clean tear in bottom of text block of leaf K3 mended, occasional marginal spots or smudges.
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Catalogue Note

First edition, large-paper copy, with the royal arms of Charles II.