Oct 02, 2002 - Sale 1944

Sale 1944 - Lot 318

Unsold
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
[SPEED, ROBERT.] The Counter-Scuffle. Whereunto is added The Counter-Rat. Written by R. S. Large engraved title vignette showing food fight; full-page woodcut street scene on D4v. [27] (of [28]) leaves; lacks final blank. Small 4to, early 19th-century calf gilt; wormhole in gutter throughout occasionally entering text, heavy foxing at beginning and end, scattered stains, outer margin of title trimmed, repair in blank outer margin of next leaf. London: J. C. for Andrew Crook, 1670

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Later edition of two humorous poems set in debtors' prison. The Counter-Scuffle was first published separately in 1621, and with The Counter-Rat in 1623. Wing S4895.<