Mar 08, 2018 - Sale 2468

Sale 2468 - Lot 152

Price Realized: $ 3,875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,000
LOVELACE, RICHARD. Lucasta. Posthume Poems [with Elegies sacred to the Memory of the Author]. Etched frontispiece portrait by Wenceslaus Hollar, in second state. [4], 107, [3], 14 pages, including etched frontispiece to the Elegies by William Faithorne on H6v; without the plate of Lucasta, lacking in most copies. 2 parts in one volume. 8vo, 144x96 mm, late 19th-century gilt-panelled blue morocco by Riviere & Son, spine darkened to brown, joints rubbed; contents washed with light residual toning, margins trimmed entering some headlines, portrait trimmed and mounted, title rehinged and restored in upper outer corner with 4 letters in facsimile, minor marginal restoration on next 2 leaves touching a few letters. Bookplate of Charles B. Foote; signature of William Augustus White dated [18]95. London: William Godbid for Clement Darby, 1659 [i. e., 1660]

Additional Details

first edition of the second and less common of Lovelace's two collections of verse and translations. Hayward 98; Wing L3241.