Lot 708
  • 708

Rutter, Joseph

Estimate
1,500 - 2,500 USD
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Description

  • The Shepheards Holy-Day. A Pastorall Tragi-Comaedie. Acted Before both their Majesties at White-Hall, by the Queenes Servants. With an Elegie on the Death of the Most Noble Lady, the Lady Venetia Digby. Printed by N[icholas]. and J[ohn]. Okes, for John Benson, and are to be Sold at his Shop in St. Dunstans Church-Yard in Fleetstreet, 1635
  • ink, paper, leather
8vo (6 5/8 x 4 1/4 in.; 170 x 108 mm). Title within a border of printer's ornaments, others within text, one woodcut initial; some soiling on title-page, light staining in a few quires. Nineteenth-century taupe morocco paneled gilt, outer fleur-de-lys cornerpieces, inner fan-tool cornerpieces, center lozenge composed of four acorns, smooth spine lettered gilt, tan endpapers; mild discoloration, very minor rubbing to extremities.

Provenance

John Bellingham Inglis, 1780–1870 (binding). acquisition: Christopher Edwards, 2006

Literature

STC 21470; ESTC S116288; Greg 499

Condition

8vo (6 5/8 x 4 1/4 in.; 170 x 108 mm). Title within a border of printer's ornaments, others within text, one woodcut initial; some soiling on title-page, light staining in a few quires. Nineteenth-century taupe morocco paneled gilt, outer fleur-de-lys cornerpieces, inner fan-tool cornerpieces, center lozenge composed of 4 acorns, smooth spine lettered gilt, plain endpapers and edges; mild discoloration, very minor rubbing to extremities.
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Catalogue Note

First edition.