Lot 317
Shadwell (Thomas) The Amorous Bigotte: With the Second Part of Tegue O Divelly. A Comedy, first edition, for James Knapton, 1690.
Hammer Price: £260
Description
Shadwell (Thomas) The Amorous Bigotte: With the Second Part of Tegue O Divelly. A Comedy, first edition, title with small ink ownership stamp to lower-margin, couple wormholes or small trace to head, generally marginal but a few times affecting letter or two of text, trimmed at head with some loss to headlines/pagination and a couple times first line of text, light soiling to title and verso of final f., some light staining to final few ff. and very light browning, 19th century morocco-backed marbled boards, worn with loss to spine, covers detached, [Wing S2835], small 4to, for James Knapton, 1690.
⁂ Another issue of the same year has "biggottee" instead of "bigotte" in title.
Provenance: Henry W. Poor (morocco book-label); Jerome Kern (morocco book-label); Jean Hersholt (bookplate to front free endpaper); Leo. E. Lowell (bookplate to front free endpaper); G.F. Green (ownership stamp to title lower-margin).
Description
Shadwell (Thomas) The Amorous Bigotte: With the Second Part of Tegue O Divelly. A Comedy, first edition, title with small ink ownership stamp to lower-margin, couple wormholes or small trace to head, generally marginal but a few times affecting letter or two of text, trimmed at head with some loss to headlines/pagination and a couple times first line of text, light soiling to title and verso of final f., some light staining to final few ff. and very light browning, 19th century morocco-backed marbled boards, worn with loss to spine, covers detached, [Wing S2835], small 4to, for James Knapton, 1690.
⁂ Another issue of the same year has "biggottee" instead of "bigotte" in title.
Provenance: Henry W. Poor (morocco book-label); Jerome Kern (morocco book-label); Jean Hersholt (bookplate to front free endpaper); Leo. E. Lowell (bookplate to front free endpaper); G.F. Green (ownership stamp to title lower-margin).
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