Mar 07, 2019 - Sale 2501

Sale 2501 - Lot 152

Price Realized: $ 1,040
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
PERKINS, JOHN. A Profitable Booke . . . treating of the Lawes of England. [24], 168 leaves. Mostly printed in black letter. 12mo, 98x55 mm, contemporary calf, lacks ties, front cover detached; margins trimmed without text loss, worming in outer margins not impairing legibility; 1/4 leather folding case. Early signature of Henry Blaake on title; armorial bookplate of Sir George Chetwynd (1783-1850), barrister at Lincoln's Inn, on front pastedown; unidentified 19th-century armorial bookplate on facing endpaper with later inscription to the jurist Harlan Fiske Stone from "his friend & student [illegible] Stinson." STC 19640; Beale T428. London: in aedibus Janae Yetsweirt, 1597