May 15, 2012 - Sale 2279

Sale 2279 - Lot 99

Price Realized: $ 1,080
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
GREVILLE, FULKE, Baron Brooke. Certaine Learned and Elegant Workes. [4], 23-82, 298, [2] pages, including initial and final blanks. Small folio, contemporary calf, rebacked; some browning, occasional light dampstaining along fore edges, minor worming in upper inner corners toward beginning, top line of text on title page partly cropped. Early verse inscription by Anne Fisher ("fame is a Blast / and Honour but a Buble / full of decept / and constant still in trouble / says Anne Fisher"); early ownership inscription of Mrs. Anne Pepys; early 19th-century bookplate of John Somers, Lord Somers. London: E[lizabeth] P[urslowe] for Henry Seyle, 1633

Additional Details

first collected edition. Pforzheimer 437; Greg III, 1068-69; STC 12361.