Apr 12, 2016 - Sale 2410

Sale 2410 - Lot 104

Price Realized: $ 4,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
MORE, THOMAS, Sir. The Workes. Title within woodcut historiated architectural border. [36], 1458 pages, with preliminaries, gatherings a-c, and unsigned leaf between pages 1138 and 1139 possibly supplied from another copy or copies. Mostly printed in black letter. Folio, 272x181 mm, remboîtage of contemporary calf, rebacked, endpapers renewed; varying soiling and toning or browning, early underscoring and partly cropped marginalia chiefly in A Dialogue concernynge Heresyes, marginal repairs or restoration on preliminaries and several other leaves without text loss, title trimmed to border and mounted, dark marginal stains on several leaves in The History of King Richard the Thirde, one word overwritten in ink on page 449, rust hole in 2s6 affecting a few words, small piece torn from blank outer margin of 2C8, small wormholes through approximately the last 120 leaves causing generally minor text loss. London: John Cawood, John Walley, and Richard Tottle, 1557

Additional Details

only collected edition in english. Gibson 73; Pforzheimer 743; STC 18076.