May 04, 2023 - Sale 2635

Sale 2635 - Lot 10

Price Realized: $ 1,625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
Cartwright, William (1611-1643)
The Royall Slave. A Tragi-Comedy. Presented to the King and Queene by the Students of Christ-Church in Oxford. August 30, 1636.

Oxford: Printed by William Turner for Thomas Robinson, 1640.

Second edition, quarto, a nicely preserved copy bound in recent half morocco with buckram-covered boards; contents very good; purchased from Seven Gables in 1968; 7 1/8 x 5 1/4 in.

STC 4718; Greg II 570 (b); Mada I page 212; ESTC S107681 citing six copies in American libraries; rare at auction.