Oct 24 at 10:30 AM - Sale 2683 -

Sale 2683 - Lot 127

Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
Shirley, James (1596-1666)
Poems.

London: Printed for Humphrey Moseley, 1646.

First edition, octavo, engraved portrait of the author bound opposite the title page; with divisional titles; bound in full contemporary sheepskin, rebacked and recornered; with two internal blanks present and 3 (of 4) leaves of Moseley's catalogue bound after text; with the poem "Triumph of Beauty" in an uncorrected state; portrait and title dust soiled, B1 & B2 supplied from a smaller copy; text leaves not washed or pressed; 6 1/2 x 4 in.

Wing S-3481; Wither to Prior 800; Hayward 85; Pforzheimer 933.

From the Ken Rapoport Collection.
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