Feb 28, 2013 - Sale 2305

Sale 2305 - Lot 333

Price Realized: $ 360
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
WHINCOP, THOMAS. Scanderbeg: or, Love and Liberty. A Tragedy . . . To which are added, A List of All the Dramatic Authors, with Some Account of their Lives; and of All the Dramatic Pieces ever published in the English Language, to the year 1747. Engraved frontispiece and 5 plates. [12], xix, [1], 320, [30] pages. 2 parts in one volume. 8vo, modern cloth; contents toned with occasional light soiling, light dampstain in upper outer corner of opening leaves, blank lower outer corner of N4 restored. London: W. Reeve, 1747

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first edition of the author's only play, published posthumously. Pages [87]-320 contain a pioneering bio-bibliography of English dramatic literature, which was probably compiled by John Mottley. Lowe-Arnott-Robinson 28.