Apr 03, 2008 - Sale 2140

Sale 2140 - Lot 27

Price Realized: $ 10,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
Stone Talk (Lithofonema); being, Some of the Marvellous Savings of a Petral Portion of Fleet Street, London, to one Doctor Polyglott, Ph.D. By Frank Baker, D.O.N. [pseud.]. 8vo, original violet cloth, binding cocked, spine faded, ends rubbed; 1/4 morocco folding case. With Burton's calling card laid in. London, 1865
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first edition, limited to 200 copies, of a bitter satire in doggerel, in which "Burton strikes out, in telling fashion, at many of his enemies and the constraints imposed by British society"--Casada 62. Penzer, pages 77-78 ("certainly one of the cleverest of Burton's books, although it is practically unknown").