14th May, 2024 12:00

Books & Works on Paper

 
  Lot 8
 

Baskerville Press, The Book of Common Prayer, first edition, 1760

Baskerville Press,

The Book of Common Prayer…, first edition, with later cancel title page priced at seven shillings and six pence, [Gaskell 12], text in single column, with lozenge and star border, signature dated 1761 to front free endpaper, and two further near-contemporary, some spotting throughout, bookplate remnants to front pastedown, extra gilt morocco, rubbed, some loss at head and foot of spine, cracking to joints and strengthening internally, Cambridge, 1760

[with]

Sammelband: Phineas Fletcher, The Locusts, or Apollyonists, Locustae, vel pietas Jesuitica [-The Locusts, or Apollyonists], 2 parts in one, text in Latin and English, lacking all before A1 including latin title, lacking all after p.88, [STC 11081], 1627 [bound with] Giles Fletcher, Christs triumph over and after death, title page with ‘printed by the printers to the Universitie of Cambridge’, from the second edition of ‘Christs victorie and triumph in heaven and earth, over and after death’, title and 23 leaves only, significant loss to text and restoration to corners of this work [and] Phineas Fletcher, Piscatorie Eclogs and Other Poeticall Miscellanies, lacking all before A1 including title [and] Elisa, or An Elegie upon the Unripe Decease of Sr. Antonie Irby, 1633 [and] The Purple Island, pp. 9-168 only; some wormtrailing throughout, bookplate of Charles Wynne-Finch and modern bookplate to front pastedown, 19th century mottled calf, [sold as a bound collection of fragments only]

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Sold for £227

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