Apr 14, 2003 - Sale 1968

Sale 1968 - Lot 59

Price Realized: $ 805
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
D'URFEY, SIR THOMAS. Wit and Mirth; or, Pills to Purge Melancholy; being, A Collection of the best Merry Ballads and Songs, Old and New. Engraved frontispiece portrait of D'Urfey in Volume 1. Woodcut music in text throughout. 6 volumes. 12mo, later 19th-century russet morocco gilt, spines darkened, Volume 1 front joint rubbed; contents unobtrusively washed, margins trimmed occasionally affecting signatures or catchwords, Volumes 2 and 6 lack half-title or initial blank. London: W. Pearson for J. Tonson, 1719

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first complete edition;