May 04, 2023 - Sale 2635

Sale 2635 - Lot 57

Price Realized: $ 2,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,000
Heywood, Thomas (early 1570s-1641)
A Challenge for Beautie.

London: Printed by R. Raworth, to be sold by James Becket, 1636.

First edition, quarto, disbound and housed in calf-backed folding case, bottom margin trimmed at an angle, affecting catchwords on D4, F3, & I2; C4 torn & mended; the Stockhausen copy, sold in 1974; ESTC states that the title page was printed as the final leaf in the final signature (K2); epilogue leaf (K1) present in this copy; 6 7/8 x 5 1/8 in.

STC 13311; Greg II 509; Pforzheimer 474; ESTC S104032.