Oct 13, 2022 - Sale 2617

Sale 2617 - Lot 209

Price Realized: $ 292
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
Langbaine, Gerard (1656-1692)
An Account of the English Dramatick Poets.

Oxford: Printed by L.L. [Leonard Lichfield] for George West and Henry Clements, 1691.



First edition, thick octavo, with errata leaf and leaf with vertically printed title present after the text; bound in full contemporary blind-tooled calf boards, contents arranged alphabetically by author, listing more than 200 authors, including a long section on Shakespeare; ex libris Donald & Mary Hyde, with their bookplate; 6 3/4 x 4 in.

Wing L-373; Pforzheimer 577; ESTC R20685.

From the Ken Rapoport Collection.