Oct 13, 2022 - Sale 2617

Sale 2617 - Lot 86

Price Realized: $ 1,188
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
England, Royal Proclamations, Charles I (1625-1649)
By the King, a Proclamation Touching the Corporation of Sope-Makers of London.

London: Printed by Robert Barker and by the Assignes of John Bill, 1637.

Four large folio sheets, printed on rectos only, all sheets loose, never having been bound; deckle edges; woodcut of the royal crest at the top of the first leaf, with large woodcut initial; center horizontal folds, docketed by hand on verso of last leaf in a contemporary hand, 16 x 12 in.

STC 9099; Steele 1759; ESTC S123883, citing five U.K. libraries only, no copies in U.S. libraries.

This rare four-leaf broadside regarding soap makers in England, Wales, and the town of Barwick seeks to regulate their trade and prices in order to protect manufacturers and consumers. It mentions soap made with whale oil, olive oil, rapeseed oil, and "Crown-sope," along with prices by the pound, barrel, half-barrel, firkin, and half-firkin.