Oct 12, 2023 - Sale 2648

Sale 2648 - Lot 63

Price Realized: $ 1,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
Goldsmith, Oliver (1728-1774)
She Stoops to Conquer: Or, The Mistakes of a Night.

London: Printed for F. Newbery, 1773.

First edition, issue with the following points: issued without half-title; "[Price One Shilling and Six Pence]" printed on title page; double rule on title out of alignment below ornament; "Diggory" not listed in the dramatis personae; no epilogue at the end; page 65 misnumbered 56; pages 81-106 misnumbered 89-114; bound in later half green morocco with marbled paper boards, old signature to title; Carlingford armorial bookplate inside front board; small dark stain to inner margin affecting approximately seven leaves; some fore margins trimmed closely; evidence of former stab sewing; 7 3/4 x 4 3/4 in.

Rothschild 1037; Tinker 1131.

Ex libris Christopher Clark Geest (1936-2023)