Lot 51
Wine.- Broadside.- Charles I. By the King. A proclamation for the prizing of wines, by Robert Barker, printer to the Kings most Excellent Majestie: and by the assignes of Iohn Bill, 1641 [i.e. 1642].
Estimate: £1,500 - 2,000
Description
Wine.- Broadside.- Charles I. By the King. A proclamation for the prizing of wines, 2 sheets, now joined vertically, 587 x 223mm., large woodcut royal arms at head, large woodcut decorative initial, woodcut tail-piece, folds, lacking a line of text at a fold, trimmed, affecting imprint, small repair to right-hand side, affecting part of 1 letter, a few small stains, lightly soiled, [Wing C2620], by Robert Barker, printer to the Kings most Excellent Majestie: and by the assignes of Iohn Bill, 1641 [i.e. 1642, at foot: 'Given at our Court at Windsor, the two and twentieth day of January, in the seventeenth yeer of our Reign'].
⁂ Exceedingly rare broadside for the pricing of wines. ESTC records only the British Library copy. 'the best Gascoin and French wines at eighteen pounds the Tun, and the Rochel wines, and other small and thin wines at fifteen pounds the Tun'.
Description
Wine.- Broadside.- Charles I. By the King. A proclamation for the prizing of wines, 2 sheets, now joined vertically, 587 x 223mm., large woodcut royal arms at head, large woodcut decorative initial, woodcut tail-piece, folds, lacking a line of text at a fold, trimmed, affecting imprint, small repair to right-hand side, affecting part of 1 letter, a few small stains, lightly soiled, [Wing C2620], by Robert Barker, printer to the Kings most Excellent Majestie: and by the assignes of Iohn Bill, 1641 [i.e. 1642, at foot: 'Given at our Court at Windsor, the two and twentieth day of January, in the seventeenth yeer of our Reign'].
⁂ Exceedingly rare broadside for the pricing of wines. ESTC records only the British Library copy. 'the best Gascoin and French wines at eighteen pounds the Tun, and the Rochel wines, and other small and thin wines at fifteen pounds the Tun'.
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