Oct 24, 2024 - Sale 2683

Sale 2683 - Lot 87

Price Realized: $ 1,875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 800
Drayton, Michael (1563-1631)
Four Copies of his Poems, 1613-1637.
Four small-format examples:



1) London: Printed by W. Stansby for John Smithwicke, 1613, octavo, fifth edition, woodcut printer's device to title page; bound in contemporary calf, rebacked; STC 7221.

2) London: Printed by Willi. Stansby for John Smethwick, 1630, octavo, bound in full citron morocco gilt by David, all edges gilt; the Hoe copy, with his book ticket; Griselda Fremantle's plate pasted below; STC 7224; Langland to Wither 91.

3) London: Printed for John Smethwick, 1637, 12mo, engraved title; lacking signed blank A1, bound in full morocco in a custom slipcase and chemise; ex libris James Maidment, with bookplate; STC 7225.

4) [Another copy of the same edition], with blank signed A present, engraved title page; bound in straight-grained red morocco; STC 7225. (4)

From the Ken Rapoport Collection.