May 04, 2023 - Sale 2635

Sale 2635 - Lot 40

Price Realized: $ 3,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
Fletcher, Phineas (1582-1650)
Sicelides a Piscatory, As it hath been Acted in Kings Colledge, in Cambridge.

London: Printed by I[ohn] N[orton] for William Sheares, 1631.

First edition, quarto, ink inscriptions to title, contents good, bound in 17th century speckled and blind-tooled English sheepskin, edges untrimmed, rebacked, new endleaves, possibly a skillfully executed reimboitage; ex libris Bibliotheca Piscatoria Lynniana, the angling collection of John C. Lynn sold in London in 1959, with bookplate, 7 1/16 x 5 1/8 in.

STC 11083; Greg II 443; ESTC S102382; rare at auction.