Oct 13, 2022 - Sale 2617

Sale 2617 - Lot 182

Price Realized: $ 4,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
Daniel, Samuel (1562-1619)
The Works, Newly Augmented.

London: Printed [by V. Simmes & W. White] for Simon Waterson, 1602.



Second collected edition, second issue, with only minor typographical variants from the first issue of 1601; with the pasted over cancel slip found on A5 verso in Musophilus, bound in later blind-tooled pigskin, aeg., old rebacking, joints cracked, ex libris James Cox Brady and Robert S. Pirie, with bookplates, a large copy, 10 1/8 x 6 in.

Shakespeare was influenced by Daniel's The Complaint of Rosamond, traces of which appear in Lucrece, A Lover's Complaint, and Romeo and Juliet, and also in his sonnets to To Delia.

Langland to Wither 60; Pforzheimer 249; STC 6237; Greg III p. 1051; ESTC S109249.

From the Ken Rapoport Collection.