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Sale 2683 - Lot 51

Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
Beaumont, Francis (1584-1616)
Poems: Viz. {The Hermaphrodite. The Remedy of Love. Elegies. Sonnets, with other Poems

London: Printed for William Hope, 1653.

Variant of the second enlarged edition, octavo; bound in full polished tan calf by Bedford, ruled in gilt, gilt-tooled spine; rebacked; the Huth copy, with bookplate and pencil notes; subsequently purchased by W.A. White with note dated 1911; purchased by the current owner in 1978; this copy washed and pressed, small repair without loss to L4; 6 1/2 x 4 1/8 in.

Wing B-1602; Wither to Prior 34.

This work includes Beaumont's poems on Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Spenser & Drayton.

From the Ken Rapoport Collection.
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