Lot 104
Rowley (William) A Match at Mid-Night. A Pleasant Comoedie, first edition, Printed by Aug. Mathewes, for William Sheares, 1633.
Hammer Price: £450
Description
Rowley (William) A Match at Mid-Night. A Pleasant Comoedie, first edition, woodcut device on title, woodcut decorations, some headlines shaved, first 2 leaves and possibly last lacking and supplied in good facsimile, modern mottled calf, gilt, by Riviere, g.e., [STC 21421; Greg II 476], 4to, Printed by Aug. Mathewes, for William Sheares, 1633.
⁂ Provenance: Marsden J. Perry (bookplate, from the Shakesperian Library he formed); sold in Rosenbach catalogue 44 as item 418 in 1940; purchased from Seven Gables in 1968; Kenneth Rapoport (bookplate)
Description
Rowley (William) A Match at Mid-Night. A Pleasant Comoedie, first edition, woodcut device on title, woodcut decorations, some headlines shaved, first 2 leaves and possibly last lacking and supplied in good facsimile, modern mottled calf, gilt, by Riviere, g.e., [STC 21421; Greg II 476], 4to, Printed by Aug. Mathewes, for William Sheares, 1633.
⁂ Provenance: Marsden J. Perry (bookplate, from the Shakesperian Library he formed); sold in Rosenbach catalogue 44 as item 418 in 1940; purchased from Seven Gables in 1968; Kenneth Rapoport (bookplate)
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