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Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,000
Heywood, Thomas (early 1570s-1641) A Pleasant Comedy, called A Mayden-Head Well Lost. As it hath beene publickly acted at the Cocke-pit in Drury-lane, with much applause: by her Maiesties Seruants.
London: printed by Nicholas Okes for Iohn Iackson and Francis Church, 1634.
First edition, quarto, large woodcut to title page and leaf H3 (both neatly folded along fore-edge, preserving the image); lacking first and last blanks (A1 & I4); paper flaw to the bottom outer corner of E3; bound in full dark blue morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe; the Pirie copy, with bookplate 7 1/8 x 5 1/16.
STC 13357; Greg II 493; ESTC S104069; rare at auction, this copy sold in the Pirie sale in 2015, before that, the last copy to sell was offered in 1934.
