Baldwin, William

Estimate

100,000 - 150,000 USD

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Description

Baldwin, William
A Myrroure for Magistrates. Wherein may be Seen by Example of Other, with howe Grevuos Plages Vices are Punished: and howe Frayle and Unstable Worldly Prosperitie is Founde, Even of Those, Whom Fortune Seemeth most Highly to Favour. London: in Fletestrete nere to Saynct Dunstones Church by Thomas Marshe, 1559.
ink, paper, leather

4to (7 3/4 x 5 /12 ins.; 192 x 140 mm). Black letter, title within woodcut ornament (McKerrow & Ferguson 38), woodcut initials, blank present after Baldwin's "Epsitle," errata/colophon leaf at end. Contemporary brown calf, blind ruled with gilt devices at center and corners of sides; corners, joints and spine ends skillfully repaired.

Provenance

Thomas Belasye, Earl Fauconberg, son-in-law of Oliver Cromwell (signatures dated 1652, 1677, and 1678 on free endpaper and title) — George Steevens (signature on title verso; King's London, 13-14 May 1800, lot 758) — Henry Bradley Martin (Sotheby's New York, May 1, 1990, lot 2583). acquisition: Purchased at the foregoing sale through Bernard Quaritch

Literature

STC 1247; ESTC 104522; Pforzheimer 730

Catalogue Note

First Edition, one of less than a dozen extant and the only one in private hands.