May 04, 2023 - Sale 2635

Sale 2635 - Lot 133

Price Realized: $ 875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 800
Shirley, James (1596-1666)
The Opportunitie. A Comedy.

London: Printed by Thomas Cotes for Andrew Crooke, [1640].

Quarto, one of three variants of the first edition, woodcut ornament to title page; disbound, tear to title and following leaf (repaired); multiple holes along inner gutter from former stab sewing; headlines cropped on three leaves; disbound, housed in a modern acid-free folder, 6 7/8 x 5 in.

STC 22451a; Greg II 575 (dagger); Pforzheimer 932; ESTC S117248.