May 05, 2022 - Sale 2603

Sale 2603 - Lot 131

Price Realized: $ 1,820
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
Taylor, John (1580-1653)
All the Workes of John Taylor, the Water Poet Being Sixty and three in Number. Collected into One Volume by the Author.

London: Printed by I.B. [John Beale, Elizabeth Allde, Bernard Alsop, and Thomas Fawcet] for James Boler, 1630.

First collected edition, folio, engraved title signed T. Cockson, illustrated with twenty-five text woodcut portraits of English monarchs; bound in full olive morocco by Riviere with gilt decoration, washed and pressed, fore-edge cut close, occasionally touching the text with slight loss; engraved title and Mmm5 remargined, aeg., 10 3/4 x 7 in.

STC 23725; Pforzheimer 1006; Wither to Prior 862; ESTC S117734.

From the Ken Rapoport Collection.