Nov 08, 2007 - Sale 2127

Sale 2127 - Lot 203

Price Realized: $ 390
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
SIDNEY, PHILIP, Sir. The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia . . . Now the Fourth Time Published, with Some New Additions. Title within woodcut historiated border showing various allegorical figures; hand-tinted woodcut tailpiece on *6r. [4], 332 pages, [10] leaves (the first 3 foliated 335, 334, 335), 333-482, [2], 483-576 pages. Folio, late 18th-/early 19th-century 1/2 calf, spine ends damaged, front cover detached; paper toned and limp, some marginal dampstaining, paper corrosion along edges of opening leaves, title and last page soiled, blank lower inner corner of E4 torn out, portion of blank lower margin of V4 excised. London: H[umphrey] L[ownes] for Simon Waterson, 1613

Additional Details

Paginary reprint of the 1605 "fourth" edition, omitting the preface by Hugh Sandford; issue with 10-leaf continuation by Sir William Alexander inserted after 2E4. STC 22544a.3.