May 04, 2023 - Sale 2635

Sale 2635 - Lot 9

Price Realized: $ 4,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
Brome, Richard (d. circa 1652)
The Sparagus Garden: A Comedie. Acted in the Yeare 1635. by the then Company of Revels, at Salisbury Court.

London: Printed by J. Okes for Francis Constable, 1640.

First edition, quarto, the issue with only the epilogue printed on L4 verso (some copies have the prologue and epilogue on A4 recto); bound in modern half green morocco with marbled paper boards, a nicely preserved copy; the Huth copy, ex libris John Kershaw; C.H. Wilkinson; and David & Lulu Borowitz, with bookplates; sold in 1977 in the Borowitz sale; with E.H. Dring's 1962 Quaritch collation in pencil on rear flyleaf; 7 1/2 x 5 1/4 in.

STC 3820; Greg 587 A*; ESTC S106714.