Lot 326
Women.- Marriage.- Braithwait (Richard) Ar't Asleepe Husband? A Boulster Lecture; Stored with all Variety of Witty Jeasts, Merry Tales, and Other Pleasant Passages, first edition, first issue, 1640.
Hammer Price: £1,700
Description
Women.- Marriage.- [Braithwait (Richard)] Ar't Asleepe Husband? A Boulster Lecture; Stored with all Variety of Witty Jeasts, Merry Tales, and Other Pleasant Passages; Extracted from the Choicest Flowers of Philosophy, Poesy, Antient and Moderne History, engraved additional pictorial title, printed title within woodcut typographical border, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, X8 blank, E7&8 a little shorter, ?from another copy, washed, 20th century red crushed morocco, gilt, little rubbed, g.e., [STC 3555; Pforzheimer 76; Grolier/Wither to Prior 86; Newberry/Courtesy Books 205], 8vo, Printed by R. Bishop, for R[ichard]. B[est]. or his assignes, 1640.
⁂ First edition, first issue (ending with the errata on Y4v) of this satirical look at love and marriage.
Description
Women.- Marriage.- [Braithwait (Richard)] Ar't Asleepe Husband? A Boulster Lecture; Stored with all Variety of Witty Jeasts, Merry Tales, and Other Pleasant Passages; Extracted from the Choicest Flowers of Philosophy, Poesy, Antient and Moderne History, engraved additional pictorial title, printed title within woodcut typographical border, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, X8 blank, E7&8 a little shorter, ?from another copy, washed, 20th century red crushed morocco, gilt, little rubbed, g.e., [STC 3555; Pforzheimer 76; Grolier/Wither to Prior 86; Newberry/Courtesy Books 205], 8vo, Printed by R. Bishop, for R[ichard]. B[est]. or his assignes, 1640.
⁂ First edition, first issue (ending with the errata on Y4v) of this satirical look at love and marriage.
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