May 05, 2022 - Sale 2603

Sale 2603 - Lot 84

Price Realized: $ 1,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
Drayton, Michael (1563-1631)
The Battaile of Agincourt.

London: Printed [by Augustine Mathewes] for William Lee, 1627.

First edition, small folio, lacking portrait and final blank (Ee4), ex libris poet and miniature painter Thomas Flatman (1635-1688) with his ownership signature on title and final leaf of text along with a small bust length portrait in ink on last leaf verso; bound in period boards, neatly rebacked; ex libris Edward Hailstone (1818-1890) with his large red morocco armorial bookplate tooled in gilt inside front board; fault to one text leaf printed over a paper flaw/crease, 10 1/8 x 6 in.

STC 7190; ESTC S121619; Pforzheimer 301; Langland to Wither 85.

From the Ken Rapoport Collection.