Oct 16, 2018 - Sale 2488

Sale 2488 - Lot 106

Price Realized: $ 2,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
[MYNSHUL or MINSHULL, GEFFRAY.] Essayes and Characters of a Prison and Prisoners. Written by G. M. of Grayes-Inne Gent. Large woodcut of jailer on title. [8], 48 pages, with last leaf supplied in well-executed facsimile on laid paper. 4to, 178x135 mm, early 20th-century red levant, front joint restored, rear joint starting; contents dampstained throughout with traces of mold at beginning and end, margins trimmed entering top line of title and some headlines. London: Matthew Walbancke, 1618

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One of 3 editions published the same year of a short collection of observations on the misery of prison life by a law student jailed for debt. STC 18319.