Mar 08, 2018 - Sale 2468

Sale 2468 - Lot 131

Price Realized: $ 875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
JONSON, BEN. The Works. [12], 264, 281-368, 371-382, 393-744, [4] pages, including engraved frontispiece portrait of Jonson. Folio, 354x222 mm, modern russet oasis gilt by Gray Parrot; marginal toning throughout, heavy browning on 2Z2.3 and 3C², oxidized signature on verso of portrait showing through on recto, blank lower outer corner of portrait and upper margin of A6 conspicuously restored, 19th-century owner's handwritten addendum mounted on the table of contents, clean tear all the way across B4, small rust holes in O4, Q4, and 4K3 minimally affecting text, narrow strip torn off blank outer margin of 2G3, light marginal dampstaining on last several leaves. London: Thomas Hodgkin for H. Herringman et al., 1692

Additional Details

first complete collected edition. Pforzheimer 561; Wing J1006.