Mar 09, 2017 - Sale 2438

Sale 2438 - Lot 162

Price Realized: $ 281
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
MORE, THOMAS, Sir. Epigrammata. [4] (of [6]), 182, [4] (of [6]) pages, including engraved additional title and imprimatur leaf; lacks initial blank and one of the 2 blanks at end. 16mo, 108x84 mm, contemporary sheep, spine worn, minor stains on covers; occasional soiling and mostly marginal stains. Armorial bookplate and signature of the historian Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee (1747-1813). London: J. H. for Humphrey Mosley, 1638

Additional Details

Second separate edition and first printed in England. More's Latin version of epigrams from the Greek Anthology was first published with the 1518 original edition of Utopia and separately in 1520. Gibson 58; STC 18086.