Apr 12, 2010 - Sale 2210

Sale 2210 - Lot 179

Price Realized: $ 5,520
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
JONSON, BEN. The Workes. Engraved frontispiece portrait and general title. 3 volumes in 2. Folio, 284x184 mm, late 19th-/early 20th-century calf gilt by Riviere, joints cracked or starting; contents toned and foxed with scattered stains, few minor marginal repairs, portrait and general title washed, Volume 1 has clean tear in B2, gatherings ²G6 and ²H6 transposed, and final gathering possibly supplied from another copy. Bookplates of John E. Russell and Kenneth Garth Huston. Greg III, 1073-76 and 1079-82; STC 14753-54. London: Richard Bishop for Andrew Crooke, 1640