Lot 210
Heyrick (Thomas) Miscellany Poems, first edition, Cambridge, 1691.
Estimate: £1,200 - 1,800
Description
Heyrick (Thomas) Miscellany Poems, first edition, woodcut device to title, woodcut initials, title a little marked and browned with chipping to fore-edge, ink stain to H1, small puncture mark to outer margin running throughout, spotting, a little heavy in places, ink ownership inscription to final f., contemporary calf, rebacked, retaining original morocco label, corners sympathetically repaired, new endpapers, [Wing H1753], small 4to, Cambridge, printed by John Hayes, for the author, 1691.
⁂ First edition of Heyrick's only published collection of verse, rare in commerce. Thomas Heyrick (1650-c.1694), curate of Market Harborough, was a grand-nephew of the poet Robert Herrick.
Provenance: Jn. Bringis (ink ownership inscription dated Sep. 23, 1750)
Description
Heyrick (Thomas) Miscellany Poems, first edition, woodcut device to title, woodcut initials, title a little marked and browned with chipping to fore-edge, ink stain to H1, small puncture mark to outer margin running throughout, spotting, a little heavy in places, ink ownership inscription to final f., contemporary calf, rebacked, retaining original morocco label, corners sympathetically repaired, new endpapers, [Wing H1753], small 4to, Cambridge, printed by John Hayes, for the author, 1691.
⁂ First edition of Heyrick's only published collection of verse, rare in commerce. Thomas Heyrick (1650-c.1694), curate of Market Harborough, was a grand-nephew of the poet Robert Herrick.
Provenance: Jn. Bringis (ink ownership inscription dated Sep. 23, 1750)
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