May 04, 2023 - Sale 2635

Sale 2635 - Lot 71

Price Realized: $ 2,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,000
Killigrew, Henry (1613-1700)
The Conspiracy. A Tragedy as it was Intended for the Nuptialls of the Lord Charles Herbert and the Lady Villers.

London: Printed for John Norton for Andrew Crooke, 1638.

First edition, quarto, later issued under the title, Pallantus and Eudora with the approval of the author; this edition was printed without his consent, based on a transcript made during the performance; a clean copy with good margins, with headlines and bottom lines intact; bound in half green morocco with marbled paper boards; ex libris Edmund William Gosse, with bookplate; lacking final blank (N4), 7 3/8 x 5 1/2 in.

STC 14958; Greg II 537 (a); Pforzheimer 570 note; ESTC S108002.