Oct 24, 2024 - Sale 2683

Sale 2683 - Lot 7

Price Realized: $ 2,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
Dekker, Thomas (1572-1632)
The Second Part of the Honest Whore, with the Humors of the Patient Man.

London: Printed by Elizabeth All-de for Nathaniel Butter, 1630.

First edition, quarto, the Huth copy with his and John L. Clawson's gilt-tooled book tickets inside front board; bound in 19th century half calf; title trimmed down, blank corner of following leaf trimmed away; 7 x 5 in.

STC 6506.

This title, one of the last in the Taming of the Shrew genre, also makes allusions to Othello and As You Like It.

Rasmussen-Hines Collection of Shakespeare & Renaissance Literature.