May 04, 2023 - Sale 2635

Sale 2635 - Lot 18

Price Realized: $ 5,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,000
Chapman, George (1559?-1634)
The Conspiracie, and Tragoedy of Charles Duke of Byron, Marshall of France.

London: Printed by N. O[kes] for Thomas Thorp, 1625.

Second edition, quarto, two parts in one volume with separate title page to the second, three lines neatly crossed out on general title; bound in full 19th century calf with Bridgewater crowned lion tooled in blind to both boards, neatly rebacked, lacking initial and terminal blanks, ex libris Richard Heber with shelf label inside front board, sold in 1834 as part of lot 4840; Earl of Bridgewater Library; ex libris John L. Clawson and Pirie, with bookplates; purchased from Seven Gables by Pirie in 1969, with pencil annotation to that effect; 6 3/4 x 5 in.

STC 4969; ESTC S107690; Greg 274 & 275 (b); Pforzheimer 148.