Oct 13, 2022 - Sale 2617

Sale 2617 - Lot 228

Price Realized: $ 15,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
Ovid trans. Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)
All Ovids Elegies: 3. Bookes. By C.M. Epigrams by J[ohn] D[avies].

Middlebourgh [i.e. London]: [no printer, attributed to Michael Sparke in STC, no date, circa 1640.



Third unabridged edition, variant with four square type ornaments on title page; ex libris John L. Clawson with gilt-tooled morocco book label; Frederick Locker with bookplate; and William S. Stone, with bookplate; sold at Sotheby's in 1984; bound in full 19th century green textured morocco tooled in gilt, washed and pressed, with some marginal paper repairs; 5 1/2 x 3 3/4 in.

STC 18933; cf. Pforzheimer 641; ESTC S113688.

From the Ken Rapoport Collection.