May 04, 2023 - Sale 2635

Sale 2635 - Lot 29

Price Realized: $ 2,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
Dekker, Thomas (1572-1632)
The Honest Whore. With the Humours of the Patient Man, and the Longing Wife.

London: Printed by N. Okes to be sold by Richard Collins, 1635.

Quarto, fifth edition, written in collaboration with Thomas Middleton, first published in 1604; bound in the Earl of Bridgewater's full calf binding with his emblem tooled in blind on both boards and large engraved bookplate on ffep; with John L. Clawson's gilt red morocco label inside front board; a Huntington duplicate; title dusty and mounted with slight loss to upper outside corner and along gutter margin; a few headlines touched, 7 x 4 3/4 in.

STC 6505; Greg I 204 (e); ESTC S109535; rare at auction.