Apr 07, 2008 - Sale 2141

Sale 2141 - Lot 160

Price Realized: $ 4,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
SUETONIUS TRANQUILLUS, CAIUS. The Historie of Twelve Caesars, Emperours of Rome . . . newly translated into English, by Philemon Holland. Woodcut chapter headpieces throughout consisting of medallion portraits within varying ornamental borders. [32], 272, 39, [1] pages, including errata leaf. Folio, contemporary calf with gilt center lozenge on covers, rebacked with morocco, endpapers conspicuously renewed; some marginal soiling and dampstaining, scattered early marginalia, repaired clean tear across 2C6. Kelmscott House booklabel of William Morris. London: Matthew Lownes, 1606

Additional Details

first edition in english; issue with letterpress title including Holland's name, in the state with line 10 beginning "Together." STC 23423.