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[Carew (Thomas)] Coelum Britanicum. A Masque at White-hall in the Ban-queting-House, on Shrove-Tuesday-Night, the 18. of February, 1633, first edition, lacking initial blank, each f. window-mounted, page-numerals 22, 23, 32, 33, 34, 35 misprinted as 20, 21, 31, 30, 28, and 29 respectively, closely shaved at head with partial loss to some page-numerals, rust hole in D3, affecting a few letters of text, bookseller's label to pastedown, 19th-century vellum-backed boards, spine a little browned, [STC 4618], small 4to, for Thomas Walkley, and are to be sold at his shop neare White-Hall, 1634.

⁂ The scarce first edition of Carew's longest work. Inigo Jones arranged the scenery, Henry Lawes the music, and the King, the Duke of Lennox, and other courtiers played the chief parts.

Description

[Carew (Thomas)] Coelum Britanicum. A Masque at White-hall in the Ban-queting-House, on Shrove-Tuesday-Night, the 18. of February, 1633, first edition, lacking initial blank, each f. window-mounted, page-numerals 22, 23, 32, 33, 34, 35 misprinted as 20, 21, 31, 30, 28, and 29 respectively, closely shaved at head with partial loss to some page-numerals, rust hole in D3, affecting a few letters of text, bookseller's label to pastedown, 19th-century vellum-backed boards, spine a little browned, [STC 4618], small 4to, for Thomas Walkley, and are to be sold at his shop neare White-Hall, 1634.

⁂ The scarce first edition of Carew's longest work. Inigo Jones arranged the scenery, Henry Lawes the music, and the King, the Duke of Lennox, and other courtiers played the chief parts.

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