Lot 59
  • 59

Carew, Thomas

Estimate
1,800 - 2,500 USD
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Description

  • Poems. London: I. Dawson for Thomas Walkley, 1640
  • paper, ink, leather
Small 8vo (5 7/8 x 3 1/2 in.; 150 x 89 mm). 7-line errata on A2, leaf G7 uncancelled; one or two page numerals or signatures just shaved, some faint staining.  Polished calf gilt by F. Bedford, edges gilt; some wear to spine, covers reattached.

Provenance

Mrs. Anne Gore (signed and dated 1664 on the fly-leaf) — Henry and Alfred Huth (book label) — William Augustus White (signed and dated in pencil 27 July 1912) — purchased by A. S. W. Rosenbach — sold Christie's New York, 22 May 1981, lot 52 

Literature

STC 4620; Hayward 76; Pforzheimer 126

Catalogue Note

First edition. One of only five known copies with leaf G7 uncancelled.