- 854
Wither, George
Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 USD
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Description
- Abuses Stript, and Whipt. or Satirical Essayes. by George Wyther. Divided Into Two Bookes. London: Printed by G. Eld for Francis Burton, and are to be Solde at his Shop in Pauls Church-Yard, at the Signe of the Green-Dragon, 1613
- ink, paper, leather
8vo (6 x 3 3/4 in.; 152 x 95 mm). Woodcut initials, headpieces, one tailpiece; lacks A1,2 (blanks), A3–5 remargined, lower right corner of X8 repaired. Nineteenth-century red morocco paneled gilt by F. and T. Aitken, the spine in six compartments gilt, marbled endpapers, edges gilt; spine a trifle faded.
Provenance
Edmund Philips (armorial bookplate). acquisition: Stechert-Hafner, prior to 1966
Literature
STC 25892; ESTC S120210; cf. Grolier/Wither to Prior 1015
Catalogue Note
One of several editions first printed in 1613. With variants: "whome" on A4r, line 1, the word "quareled" or "quareld" present in line 4, and will" in the penultimate line of the same leaf.