Oct 13, 2022 - Sale 2617

Sale 2617 - Lot 85

Price Realized: $ 715
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
Early Printed Books: Three British Works, 1644-1686.

Including the following small-format imprints by British authors:

1) Francis Bacon's Sermones Fideles, Leiden: Franciscus Hackium, 1644, [bound with] Bacon's Historia Regni Henrici Septimi, Leiden: Franciscus Hackium, 1647, two 12mo titles bound as one, engraved title pages in each, bound in full contemporary parchment, yapp edges, laced case construction, the Pirie copy, with bookplate on ffep, 5 x 2 3/4 in.

2) George Herbert's The Temple, London: by S. Roycroft for R.S., to be sold by John Williams Jr., 167.9 [sic], 12mo, with author portrait by White bound opposite title, "the eleventh edition," includes the double-page engraving, depicting the Church Porch & the Church, separate section for The Synagogue, and The Life; bound in older full leather boards, damaged and rebacked; one leaf with corner torn away, affecting letters on thirteen lines on each side, 5 1/2 x 3 1/8 in. Wing H-1523, ESTC R19247;

3) The Book of Common-Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, together with the Psalter of Psalms of David, Oxford: to be sold by Thomas Guy, 1686, 12mo, illustrated with forty-seven full-page engravings; no mention of the illustrations in ESTC, although they are clearly directly associated with this imprint as they bear signature letters and numbers engraved in the plate to indicate placement in the text, ESTC also notes a different collation and page count; Wing B-3678A, ESTC R172846 listing two copies worldwide, at Canterbury Cathedral & the National Library of Wales, bound in later gilt-ruled calf, ex libris Samuel Kerrich with armorial bookplate, title trimmed and mended, page edges quite worn and cut closely throughout, 4 3/4 x 2 3/8 in. (3)