Lot 445
  • 445

Heywood, Thomas

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
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Description

  • Heywood, Thomas
  • The Royall King, and The Loyall Subject. As it hath beene Acted with great Applause by the Queenes Majesties Servants. London: Printed by Nich[olas] and John Okes for James Becket, and are to be sold at his shop at the inner Temple neare the Gate, 1637
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4to (7 1/8 x 5 in.; 180 x 127 mm). Woodcut and printer's ornaments headpieces. Modern blue half morocco, by E. Rau, Philadelphia.

Provenance

Isaac Norris (bookplate) — William P. Norris — Sotheby's, 12 March 1962, lot 116. acquisition: Purchased at the foregoing sale

Literature

STC 13364; ESTC S104074; Greg 516; Pforzheimer 484

Condition

clean
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Catalogue Note

First edition of this verse dramatization of William Painter’s "Palace of pleasure." This copy contains the cancellans F4 with the recto catchword "That" and reads "Drammatis" on A3v.