Oct 13, 2022 - Sale 2617

Sale 2617 - Lot 74

Price Realized: $ 688
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
Bacon, Sir Francis (1561-1626)
The Historie of the Reigne of King Henry the Seventh.

London: Printed by R[obert] Y[oung] and R[ichard] H[odgkinson], and are to be sold by R. Meighen, 1641.

Third edition, small folio, engraved portrait of Bacon at his desk, writing with a quill and wearing his distinctive hat by William Marshall dated 1640 bound opposite the title; title page printed within an elaborate woodcut compartment with columns festooned with grapes; bound in nicely preserved contemporary tan calf, lightly speckled and ruled in blind, front joint starting slightly, unsophisticated and generally well preserved; frontis and title toned, 11 x 6 3/4 in.

Wing B-298; Pforzheimer 33; Gibson 120; ESTC R11984.