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Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
Goffe, Thomas (1591-1629) The Careles Shepherdess. A Tragi-Comedy Acted before the King & Queen, and at Salisbury-Court with great Applause.
London: Printed for Richard Rogers & William Ley, 1656.
First edition, quarto, bibliographer Sir Walter Greg's copy, with his signature dated 1907, and his inserted photostat of the variant title page, ex libris Frederick Perkins, with the leather panel bearing his gilt arms preserved inside the front board (from the former binding); lacking the final signature of three leaves containing a catalogue of plays; bound in half red morocco; this copy sold at Sotheby's in 1961; purchased by the present owner from Seven Gables in 1969; 6 7/8 x 5 1/4 in.
Wing G-1005; Greg 761 (A); W & M 602; ESTC R6977; rare at auction, the last copy to sell at auction was the present copy, in 1961.
