May 04, 2023 - Sale 2635

Sale 2635 - Lot 103

Price Realized: $ 2,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
Middleton, Thomas (d. 1627)
The Mayor of Quinborough: A Comedy.

London: Printed for Henry Herringman, 1661.

First edition, quarto, a large unwashed copy, headlines and bottom lines intact; bound in later half morocco, ex libris Anthony Trollope, with his armorial bookplate, purchased from Ximenes in 1968; 7 x 5 1/4 in.

Wing M-1984; Greg 815 (AI); Pforzheimer 697; ESTC R14092.

Despite the setting of the title page in this copy, The Mayor of Quinborough is a tragedy, not a comedy. Copies with the correct designation do exist.