May 05, 2022 - Sale 2603

Sale 2603 - Lot 85

Price Realized: $ 2,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
Drayton, Michael (1563-1631)
The Muses Elizium, Lately Discovered by a New Way Over Parnassus.

London: Printed by Thomas Harper for John Waterson, 1630.

First edition, quarto, Drayton's last published work; small blank corner of title restored, title dusty, final leaves a bit shorter and dust-soiled, a few other text leaves with corner paper repairs; lacking A1 (first blank), bound in full brown morocco tooled in gilt, ex libris Warwick Castle with two bookplates, 7 1/4 x 5 1/2 in.

STC 7210; ESTC S109889; Pforzheimer 304; Langland to Wither 71.

From the Ken Rapoport Collection.