Oct 12, 2023 - Sale 2648

Sale 2648 - Lot 16

Price Realized: $ 3,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
Drayton, Michael (1563-1631)
Poems.

London: Printed [by Valentine Simmes] for N. Ling, 1605.

First edition, octavo, many headlines cropped with loss throughout, early sprinkled calf boards, rebacked (likely a reimboitage); purchased by Quaritch at the Stockhausen sale in 1974 and from Quaritch by the current owner in 1978; 5 1/2 x 3 3/4 in.

Langland to Wither 87; STC 9216; ESTC S109891.

From the Ken Rapoport Collection.