Lot 473
  • 473

Hookes, Nicholas

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 USD
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Description

  • Amanda, a Sacrifice to an Unknown Goddesse, or a Free-will Offering of a Loving Heart to a Sweet-Heart. London: Printed by T. R[atcliffe] and E.M[ottershead] for Humphrey Tuckey, at the Sign of the Black Spread-Eagle, near St. Dunstans Church, 1653
  • ink, paper, leather
8vo (6 1/2 x 4 1/4 in.; 165 x 108 mm). Engraved allegorical frontispiece, vertical half-title, title within ruled border, section title for "Miscellanea Poetica" (register and pagination continuous), integral blanks G5 and H1 present, variant with leaf a4v in state 1: comma after "lovely," but no commas after "heav'nly" and "sweetest" and 6 lines of errata; frontispiece slightly loose, residual soiling on N8v (blank). Contemporary sheep paneled in blind. Brown folding-case.

Provenance

Roderick Terry (according to pencil annotations on front free endpaper) — A.S.W. Rosenbach (card in folding-case). acquisition: John Fleming

Literature

Wing H2665; ESTC R15079; Grolier/Wither to Prior 462; Pforzheimer 504

Condition

8vo (6 1/2 x 4 1/4 in.; 165 x 108 mm). Engraved allegorical frontispiece, vertical half-title, title within ruled border, separate title-page for "Miscellanea Poetica," (register and pagination continuous), blank G5 and H1 present, variant with leaf a4v in state 1: comma after "lovely," but no commas after "heav'nly" and "sweetest" and there are 6 lines of errata; frontispiece slightly loose, residual soiling on N8v (blank). Contemporary sheep paneled in blind. Brown folding case.
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Catalogue Note

First edition, one of a few with the vertical half-title present.