Lot 140
Royalist sympathiser.- Beaumont (Joseph) Psyche: or Loves Mysterie, first edition, Printed by John Dawson for George Boddington, 1648.
Estimate: £600 - 800
Description
Royalist sympathiser.- Beaumont (Joseph) Psyche: or Loves Mysterie, first edition, title within typographic border, lacking initial blank, some water-staining, Xx3 with short tear into text, margins browned, contemporary sheep, rebacked and repaired, [Wing B1625], folio, Printed by John Dawson for George Boddington, 1648.
⁂ First edition of Beaumont's extensive allegorical poem, written in eleven months following the author's expulsion as a Cambridge fellow for his royalist sympathies.
Description
Royalist sympathiser.- Beaumont (Joseph) Psyche: or Loves Mysterie, first edition, title within typographic border, lacking initial blank, some water-staining, Xx3 with short tear into text, margins browned, contemporary sheep, rebacked and repaired, [Wing B1625], folio, Printed by John Dawson for George Boddington, 1648.
⁂ First edition of Beaumont's extensive allegorical poem, written in eleven months following the author's expulsion as a Cambridge fellow for his royalist sympathies.
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