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Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
English Drama Performed at Trinity College, Cambridge, 1630s. Pedantius, [and] Roxana, Two Titles Bound Together. 1) Pedantius. Comoedia Olim Cantabrig. Acta in Coll. Trin., London: Excudebat W[illiam] S[tansby], Impensis Roberti Mylbourn, 1631, published anonymously, variously attributed to Edward Forset, Anthony Wingfield, Walter Hawkesworth, and Thomas Beard, first edition, 12mo, woodcut border surrounding title, two full-page engravings of the main characters: Dromodotus & Pedantius; trimmed closely, with cropping of some catchwords, one leaf with lateral paper flaw tear across middle repaired with tape;
2) William Alabaster's (1567-1640) Roxana, Tragaedia, olim Cantabrigiae, Acta in Col. Trin., London: Excudebat R. Badgerus, Impensis Andreae Crook, 1632, first year of publication, one of two issues printed in 1632, based on Luigi Groto's (1541-1585) La Dalida, lacking colophon leaf, E6; two 12mo volumes bound as one, in contemporary English calf boards, speckled and ruled in blind, 4 3/4 x 2 1/2 in. (2)
Prudentius: STC 19524; Greg II, L9; ESTC S114425; Roxana: STC 249; Greg II, L11 ESTC S100480; both titles rare at auction.
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