May 04, 2023 - Sale 2635

Sale 2635 - Lot 91

Price Realized: $ 1,188
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
Massinger, Philip (1583-1640)
The Great Duke of Florence. A Comicall Historie.

London: Printed [by Miles Flesher] for John Marriot, 1636.

First edition, quarto, leaf L1 printed as A1, title page trimmed slightly smaller than following leaves, inner margin of title tipped onto a guard, margins generally good, headlines cropped on four leaves; bound in 19th century half maroon morocco and patterned boards; unidentified bookplate inside front board, signed W.A. White 13 July [18]92, with his purchase note mentioning Sotheby's on ffep; 7 x 5 1/4 in.

STC 17637; Greg II 505 (A); Pforzheimer 679; ESTC S112420.