Property From The Collection of Robert S Pirie Volumes I & II: Books and Manuscripts

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Lot 478
  • 478

James I

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
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Description

  • James I
  • His Maiesties Poeticall Exercises at vacant houres. Edinburgh : by Robert Walde-graue printer to the Kings Maiestie. Cum priuilegio regali, [1591]
  • ink, paper, vellum
4to (6 1/2 x 5 ins.; 160 x 125 mm). Title-page with woodblock border, woodcut head- and tailpieces; title rubbed and small hole to border with some light staining and inner margin repaired, with Sonet on M1 but lacking "La Lepanthe," a few corrections to text in a near contemporary hand. Modern gilt-paneled limp vellum by Sangorski.

Provenance

acquisition: Bent Juel-Jenson

Literature

STC 14379; ESTC S108288; Pforzheimer, 529

 

Catalogue Note

first edition of this James I first work, also contains work by Henry Constable and Henry Lok. "The Lepanto of James" has a separate title, but continuous signatures.