May 05, 2022 - Sale 2603

Sale 2603 - Lot 100

Price Realized: $ 2,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
Lyly, John (1554?-1606)
Euphues and his England.

London: for Gabriel Cawood, 1588.

Quarto, rare early edition, title page printed within a border of type ornaments; preliminary signature ¶ of four leaves provided in modern facsimile, nicely done on appropriate paper; bound in an attractive binding of calf, period-style, tastefully ruled in blind; marginal corner losses to Ll3 restored, with approximately fifteen words on each side supplied in facsimile, 7 1/4 x 5 1/2 in.

STC 17074; ESTC S103573 listing three U.S. copies, including the present: Bond I page 103; 16th century editions are very rare at auction.

From the Ken Rapoport Collection.