Oct 13, 2022 - Sale 2617

Sale 2617 - Lot 151

Price Realized: $ 4,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 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; bound in full crushed red morocco, elaborately tooled in gilt by Chambolle-Duru and housed in a custom slipcase; purchased at the David & Lulu Borowitz sale in 1977; with Harold Greenhill's bookplate pasted inside front board; 7 1/4 x 5 1/4 in.

STC 3563; Wither to Prior 66.

From the Ken Rapoport Collection.