Lot 629
  • 629

[Peacham, Henry] H.P.

Estimate
2,500 - 3,500 USD
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Description

  • A Merry Discourse of Meum and Tuum, or Mine and Thine. Two crosse Brothers, that make Strife and Debate wheresoever they come; With their Descent, Parentage, and late Progresse in divers parts of England. London: Printed by the Assignes of T[homas]. P[urfoot]. for J. Clark, and are to be sold at his Shop, under Saint Peter's Church in Cornhill, 1639
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Small 4to (7 x 5 1/4 in.; 178 x 132 mm). Woodcut allegorical title ornament, typographic and woodcut headpieces, decorative woodcut initials; title browned and cropped at top edge touching first line, small dampstain in lower outer corner, lacks initial blank leaf. Modern vellum, gilt-stamped monogram "M A W" by Riviere.

Provenance

S.R. Christie-Miller, Britwell Court (Sotheby's, 4 April 1924, lot 609) — Albert Kirby, lord Fairfax of Cameron (bookplate). acquisition: Charles W. Traylen, 1962

Literature

STC 19510; ESTC S114329

Condition

title browned and cropped at top edge touching first line, small dampstain in lower outer corner, lacks initial blank leaf. Modern vellum, gilt-stamped monogram "M A W" by Riviere.
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Catalogue Note

First edition of one of Peacham's later, humorous works.