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Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
Massinger, Philip (1583-1640) Three New Plays; The Bashful Lover, The Guardian, The Very Woman.
London: 1655.
First edition, octavo; portrait mounted and supplied; lacking the general title page; divisional titles for each of the three plays present; a neatly restored copy in original sheepskin boards; sold as a duplicate from the Folger Shakespeare Library, with "F.S.L. Dupl." stamp inside back board; purchased by the current owner from Seven Gables in 1969; bookplate of an unidentified Earl of Guilford of Wroxton Abbey pasted inside front board, along with a few notes of North family members to title and final leaf; repairs slightly aged; a pleasing copy with red morocco lettering piece; losses to headcap; 6 1/8 x 4 1/4 in.
