Lot 704
  • 704

[Rowley, William] W. R.

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • A Match at Midnight. A Pleasant Comoedie: As it hath beene Acted by the Children of the Revels. London: Printed by Aug[ustine] Mathewes, for William Sheares, and are to be sold at his Shop in Brittaines Bursse, 1633
  • paper
4to (7 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.; 190 x 140 mm). Woodcut ornament on title, woodcut headpiece and decorative initial; small mend in lower gutter margin of title, lightly browned throughout with some mostly marginal spotting and soiling. Nineteenth-century maroon straight-grain half morocco; small leather mend on upper cover, extremities rubbed.

Provenance

George P. Baker (signature on front flyleaf dated 4 April 1893, with bibliographic note). acquisition: Goodspeed, 1964

 

Literature

STC 21421; ESTC S116268; Greg 476; not in Pforzheimer

Condition

small mend in lower gutter margin of titlelightly browned throughout with some mostly marginal spotting and soiling. Nineteenth-century maroon straight-grain half morocco; small leather mend on upper cover, extremities rubbed.
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Catalogue Note

First edition.