May 05, 2022 - Sale 2603

Sale 2603 - Lot 125

Price Realized: $ 531
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586)
The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia.

London: Imprinted [by George Eld and Humphrey Lownes] for Matthew Lownes, 1605.

Fourth London edition, small folio, title page printed within elaborate woodcut compartment, lacking initial blank ¶1, fore-edge of title trimmed into woodcut, small piece of blank lower margin of R6 lacking without loss, bottom corner of Z5 lacking with loss of several letters, small marginal tears in several leaves, bound in 18th century half calf with marbled paper-covered boards, rebacked, ex libris Hearsey Keith Ziegler, with armorial bookplate, later endleaves, 10 3/4 x 6 1/2 in.

STC 22543a; ESTC S117386; Langland to Wither 216.

From the Ken Rapoport Collection.