May 04, 2023 - Sale 2635

Sale 2635 - Lot 25

Price Realized: $ 1,188
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
Daniel, Samuel (1562-1619)
Musophilus: Containing a Generall Defence of Learning.

London: Printed by P. S[hort] for Simon Waterson, 1599.

Quarto, usually published as a section in Daniel's Poeticall Essayes, published the same year, although Grolier's Langland to Wither 59 suggests that different divisions of the work were originally issued separately, the unsold portions brought together for the collected volume; title page printed within woodcut compartment; bound in full 19th century morocco, neat marginal restorations to C3, E3, E4, and F3; 7 3/4 x 5 1/2 in.

STC 6261; Langland to Wither 59; Pforzheimer 245; ESTC S109286.