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Baldwin, William
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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- Baldwin, William
- A Myrrour for Magistrates. Wherein maye be Seen by Example of Other, with howe Grevous Plages Vices are Punished: and howe Frayle Unstable Worldly Prosperity is Founde, Even of Those Whom Fortune Seemeth most Highly to Favour. London: in Fletestrete nere to Saynct Dunstans Churche by Thomas Marshe, 1563.
- ink, paper, leather
4to (7 9/16 x 5 7/16 ins.; 193 x 138 mm). Black letter with italic and roman, woodcut border to title (McKerrow & Ferguson 38), woodcut initials, "Faultes escaped in the Printing" errata leaf present at end; outer margin of title repaired, loss to outer margin of kiii and a few small holes to errata not touching text, corner of one leaf torn away and some fraying of lower margins of a few others, light scattered spotting or staining, occasional contemporary marginalia. nineteenth century rough calf to style; joints rubbed.
Provenance
John Pennington & Son (nineteenth-century bookseller's ticket) — Arthur Dalrymple (bookplate). acquisition: Seven Gables, 1963
Literature
STC 1248; ESTC S100551; Church 499; Grolier Langland to Wither 150; Pforzheimer 731
Catalogue Note
Second edition, first issue, but the important first appearance of the second part, containing eight new tragedies and Sackville's famed Induction. Thomas Churchyard's Shores Wife and Sackville's Tragedie of the Duke of Somerset are perhaps the most significant additions, the latter being a source for Shakespeare.
Though Jackson declares this edition "much more common than the first," it is an extreme rarity on the market, with only three copies at auction in the last 50 years.