May 04, 2023 - Sale 2635

Sale 2635 - Lot 79

Price Realized: $ 875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 800
Markham, Gervase (1568?-1637)
The Dumbe Knight. An Historicall Comedy Acted sundry times by the Children of his Maiesties Revells.

London: Printed by A[ugustine] M[athewes] for William Sheares, 1633.

Second edition, quarto, title page dusty, text leaves washed, headlines and bottom lines intact; bound in full mottled calf by Riviere; skillful paper repairs; a few letters to final leaf added in very good pen facsimile, purchased from Seven Gables in 1976; 7 x 5 1/2 in.

STC 17400; Greg I 277 (b); Pforzheimer 640; ESTC S112119; rare at auction, the last copy to sell at was this copy, purchased from Sotheby's by Seven Gables in 1976.