May 04, 2023 - Sale 2635

Sale 2635 - Lot 132

Price Realized: $ 4,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
Shirley, James (1596-1666)
The Maides Revenge. A Tragedy. As it hath beene Acted with good Applause at the private house in Drury Lane.

London: Printed by T[homas] C[otes] for William Cooke, 1639 [i.e. 1640].

Quarto, variant of the first edition, likely printed in early 1640; a large example, ex libris James William Ellsworth with bookplate; signed J.R. Lowell, Elmwood on title; from the Rosenbach Collection, with typed card insert; bound in full red straight-grained morocco, rubbed; some faint water staining; 7 1/8 x 5 1/2 in.

STC 22450; Greg II 562 (A); Pforzheimer 930; ESTC S117245.