May 04, 2023 - Sale 2635

Sale 2635 - Lot 45

Price Realized: $ 23,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 10,000 - $ 15,000
Gascoigne, George (d. 1577)
The Glasse of Governement. A Tragicall Comedie so entituled, bycause therein are handled as well the rewardes for Vertues, as also the punishment for Vices.

London: Imprinted for C[hristopher] Barker, 1575.

First edition, second state, quarto, title page printed within border of type ornaments, lacking first and last blanks; text in black letter, some marginal soiling to first few leaves, Barker's woodcut device on verso of final leaf first signature; tears mended on L4 & M1 carefully skirting text; closed tear to fore-margin repaired on N1; bound in full red morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, aeg.; the Pirie copy, with bookplate, 7 1/4 x 5 in.

STC 11643; Greg 68 (AII); Pforzheimer 401; ESTC S105717.