Apr 12, 2010 - Sale 2210

Sale 2210 - Lot 100

Price Realized: $ 2,160
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
DUGDALE, WILLIAM, Sir. The Antiquities of Warwickshire. 11 etched plates on 10 leaves by Wenceslaus Hollar, including 6 double-page; 5 double-page maps; full-page and text illustrations throughout. [16], 826, [14] (of [16]) pages, including etched frontispiece portrait of Dugdale by Hollar and errata leaf at end; lacks final blank. Folio, 348x224 mm, late 18th-/early 19th-century diced russia gilt, rebacked retaining original backstrip; light dampstain in outer margin of opening leaves, minor marginal worming toward end generally not affecting text or images, map between pages 486-87 and plates between pages 532-33 backed with paper and rehinged, preliminaries and X4 possibly supplied from another copy. Armorial bookplate of John Peachey, Esq., dated 1782; Westdean Library booklabel; signature of John Throgmorton Middlemore. London: Thomas Warren, 1656

Additional Details

first edition. Upcott, page 1247-59; Wing D2479.