Lot 99
Quarles (Francis) Solomons Recantation, entituled Ecclesiastes Paraphrased, first edition, by M. F. for Richard Royston, 1645.
Hammer Price: £700
Description
Quarles (Francis) Solomons Recantation, entituled Ecclesiastes Paraphrased, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, worming to inner margin, ink marks or corrections in an early hand, ink ownership inscription of Edmund Harrington dated 1666 along with later inscriptions to endpaper, modern antique-style calf, light fading to spine, [Wing Q116], small 4to, by M. F. for Richard Royston, 1645.
⁂ Scarce, we can trace only 3 copies of the first edition at auction in the last 70 years.
Description
Quarles (Francis) Solomons Recantation, entituled Ecclesiastes Paraphrased, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, worming to inner margin, ink marks or corrections in an early hand, ink ownership inscription of Edmund Harrington dated 1666 along with later inscriptions to endpaper, modern antique-style calf, light fading to spine, [Wing Q116], small 4to, by M. F. for Richard Royston, 1645.
⁂ Scarce, we can trace only 3 copies of the first edition at auction in the last 70 years.