May 04, 2023 - Sale 2635

Sale 2635 - Lot 16

Price Realized: $ 3,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
Chapman, George (1559?-1634)
Monsieur D'Olive.

London: Printed by T[homas] C[reede] for William Holmes, 1606.

First edition, quarto, variant with the word "was" (and not "vvas") on the fourth line of the title; Creede's woodcut device to title page, a large unwashed and seemingly untrimmed copy, with a few ink spots to title; lacking final leaf with list of character names titled "Actors" (H4) supplied in photocopy from the Harvard copy; bound in full modern red morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe; purchased from Seven Gables in 1968; 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.

STC 4984; Greg I 236 (A [dagger]1); Pfrozheimer 156; ESTC S107962; uncommon at auction.