Oct 24, 2024 - Sale 2683

Sale 2683 - Lot 131

Price Realized: $ 406
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 700
Suckling, John (1609-1641)
Fragmenta Aurea. A Collection of all the Incomparable Peeces written by John Suckling.

London: Printed for Humphrey Moseley, 1648.

Second edition, octavo, engraved portrait frontispiece bound opposite the title; bound in full contemporary calf, rebacked; some contemporary marginalia including a transcription of sonnet II on front free endleaf; C7 [page 41/42] in Brennoralt supplied from another copy; purchased from Scribner's in 1972; ex libris Edward Hailctone with large gilt armorial morocco bookplate; with Jerome Kern's smaller gilt book ticket below; 6 7/8 x 4 1/2 in.

Wither to Prior 828; Pforzheimer 997; Wing S-6127.

From the Ken Rapoport Collection.