May 05, 2022 - Sale 2603

Sale 2603 - Lot 139

Price Realized: $ 500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
Wither, George (1588-1667)
Britain's Remembrancer: Containing a Narration of the Plague Lately Past.

London: Imprinted for Great Britaine to be sold by John Grismond, 1628.

First edition, 12mo with additional engraved title page and, "The meaning of the title page," bound opposite; several leaves with paper defects mostly marginal affecting catchwords, etc.; engraved title remargined; bound in full contemporary calf ruled in blind, rebacked, new spine label and endleaves; 5 1/2 x 3 1/8 in.

STC 25899; ESTC S121916; Wither to Prior 1036; Pforzheimer 1079.

From the Ken Rapoport Collection.