Apr 19, 2004 - Sale 2003

Sale 2003 - Lot 55

Price Realized: $ 575
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
[CLEVELAND, JOHN.] The Character of a London Diurnall. Title within type-ornament border. [2], 6 pages. 4to, modern 1/2 speckled calf; title and last page heavily soiled. [London?]: "Printed in the Yeare, 1644" [i. e., 1645?]

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"This is a smart and witty satire on London news-sheets in general"--Madan 1708 (1644 Oxford original edition). Madan notes a London 4-leaf reprint with page 5 beginning "Gold that glisters," as in the present copy, but with no border on the title.