May 04, 2023 - Sale 2635

Sale 2635 - Lot 17

Price Realized: $ 2,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,000
Chapman, George (1559?-1634)
Sir Gyles Goose-Cappe Knight. A Comedy lately Acted with great applause at the private House in Salisbury Court.

London: Printed [by John Norton] for Hugh Perry to be sold by Roger Ball at the golden Anchor, in the Strand neere Temple barre, 1636.

Quarto, one of three very similar variants with slightly different imprints, with no punctuation between "barre" and the imprint date; Walter Greg's copy with his signature and photostats of the two other variant title pages based on Huntington copies (and stamped as such on versos) bound before the title; bound in half modern leather; purchased by the current owner from Maggs in 1972; some headlines cropped, 7 x 4 7/8 in.

STC 12051; Greg I 228 (b and following); ESTC S103310.