Lot 441
  • 441

Heywood, Thomas

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
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Description

  • Heywood, Thomas
  • The English Traveller. As it hath beene Publikely acted at the Cock-Pit in Drury-lane: By Her Majesties servants. London: Printed by Robert Raworth: dwelling in Old Fish-street, neere Saint Mary Maudlins Church, 1633
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4to (7 1/8 x 5 1/8 in.; 180 x 130 mm). Woodcut vignette on title, headpieces of woodcut and printer's ornaments; top edge trimmed close touching a few headlines, the manuscript numeral "6" in upper outer corner of title. Nineteenth-century tan calf, blind-ruled border, Bridgewater supralibros stamped in blind on upper cover; extremities rubbed.

Provenance

Earl of Bridgewater (large armorial bookplate and supralibros) — Hannah D. Rabinowitz (gilt-stamped red leather bookplate). acquisition: Seven Gables, 1969

Literature

STC 13315; ESTC S104058; Greg 484; not in Pforzheimer

Condition

top edge trimmed close touching a few headlines, the manuscript numeral "6" in upper outer corner of title. Nineteenth-century tan calf, blind-ruled border, Bridgewater supralibros stamped in blind on upper cover; extremities rubbed.
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Catalogue Note

First edition.