May 04, 2023 - Sale 2635

Sale 2635 - Lot 127

Price Realized: $ 3,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
Shirley, James (1596-1666)
The Bird in a Cage. A Comedie. As it hath beene Presented at the Phoenix in Drury-Lane.

London: Printed by B. Alsop & T. Fawcet for William Cooke, 1633.

First edition, quarto, with the final errata leaf, The Printer to the Reader (K4) present; headlines and bottom lines intact, B2 stained; leaves washed and pressed; ex libris Frederick Spiegelberg, with gilt book ticket; bound in full crushed brown morocco by Riviere, 7 x 5 1/8 in.

STC 22436; Greg II 479; Pforzheimer 922; ESTC S117308.