May 04, 2023 - Sale 2635

Sale 2635 - Lot 27

Price Realized: $ 5,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
Day, John (1574-1640?)
The Ile of Gulls.

London: Printed [by Augustine Mathewes] for William Sheares, 1633.

Second edition, quarto, contents washed and pressed with some headlines cropped; bound in full red morocco by Riviere, gilt title to spine and front board; purchased from John Fleming in 1973.

STC 6414; Greg I 235 (b); ESTC S109425.

Day's Ile of Gulls is very rare in its first edition of 1606. The plot is taken from Sidney's Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia.