Apr 08, 2021 - Sale 2563

Sale 2563 - Lot 21

Price Realized: $ 2,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
Brathwait, Richard (1588?-1673)
The English Gentleman.

London: Printed by John Haviland to be sold by Robert Bostock, 1630.

First edition, quarto, engraved pictorial title, double-paged explanatory "Draught of the Frontispiece," present after typographical title, ¶2, ¶4, A-Mmm4, Nnn3, leaves Ss1 and Ss2 supplied from another (smaller and not washed) copy; text leaves washed and pressed, bound in full light brown morocco by Riviere with rounded boards, ornately tooled in gilt, aeg; some staining to contents, 7 x 5 in.

STC 3563; ESTC S104636.

Provenance: from the Stephen White Collection.