Oct 24, 2024 - Sale 2683

Sale 2683 - Lot 83

Price Realized: $ 812
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
Corbert, Richard (1582-1635)
Certain Elegant Poems.

London: R. Cotes for Andrew Crooke, 1647.



First edition, octavo; this issue extended by two signatures to 85 pages; title page printed within a border of type ornaments; final leaf [page 85] supplied from another copy; lacking preliminary blank (A1), second blank (E4) present; bound in full gilt-tooled red morocco by Wallis in a custom case; ex libris Harold Greenhill and David & Lulu Borowitz with bookplates; old childish writing on verso of title and in scattered places throughout; this copy washed and pressed; 5 1/2 x 3 3/8 in.

Wing C-6270; Wither to Prior 197; Hayward Poetry 90.

From the Ken Rapoport Collection.