Oct 13, 2022 - Sale 2617

Sale 2617 - Lot 1

Price Realized: $ 9,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 8,000
Allott, Robert, ed. (fl. circa 1600)
Wits Theater of the Little World.

[London]: Printed by I.R. [James Roberts] for N.L. [Nicholas Ling], 1599.



First edition, octavo, dedication unsigned, without the cancel correcting the printing error at the top of leaf 185; woodcut printer's device to title, McKerrow 301; bound in full modern calf, ruled in blind, lettered in gilt on the spine, headcap chipped, joints rubbed; small rust hole in leaf T5; repaired hole in Aa3, bottom corner, affecting five letters some headlines slightly cropped, 4 7/8 x 3 in.

STC 382; Pforzheimer 1094; ESTC S100300; W.A. White Catalogue #3; Hoe Catalogue I (1903) 4.