May 15, 2012 - Sale 2279

Sale 2279 - Lot 119

Price Realized: $ 300
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
JONSON, BEN. The Workes. [10] (of [12]), 668, 228 pages, including engraved title; lacks the frontispiece portrait. Folio, contemporary calf, rebacked retaining original backstrip with modern calf lettering, and 19th-century marbled endpapers; unobtrusive restoration along fore edge of title and last preliminary leaf, occasional light marginal soiling and dampstaining. Signatures Henry M. Say dated 1802 on title; 19th-century armorial bookplate of Charles Edward Harris St. John. London: Richard Bishop for Andrew Crooke, 1640

Additional Details

Second edition of the first volume (of 3) of Jonson's collected works. STC 14753.