May 05, 2022 - Sale 2603

Sale 2603 - Lot 128

Price Realized: $ 17,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 10,000 - $ 12,000
Spenser, Edmund (1552?-1599)
Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie.

London: Imprinted for William Ponsonbie, 1591.

First edition, title page printed within woodcut border, McKerrow & Ferguson 117; divisional titles for several sections, lacking the final blank; title expertly (nearly undetectably) remargined; bound in full modern green morocco gilt by Riviere, aeg., housed in half-morocco slipcase; bookplate of Charles Lilburn, the Lilburn/Gollanez/Rosenbach Co. copy [catalog 45 item # 690]; 7 x 5 in.

STC 23078; ESTC S111266; Langland to Wither 235; Hayward 23; Johnson 14; Pforzheimer 968.

From the Ken Rapoport Collection.