$2,750
[London:] Printed by H. L. for Mathew Lownes, 1611-1613. [i-vi], 363, [xvi]; [x], 56, 16, [xxvi], [iv], [xxvi], [vi], [xvi], [x], [xii], [iv]. Folio, bound in full cherry red straight-grain morocco by Riviere, raised bands, gilt-lettered and ruled spine, a.e.g., marbled endpapers. First collected edition, third "reissue" of the 1609 edition. Part 1 with the 1611 title page, this issue includes which did not appear in the first issue (present here in the presumed first edition in a single gathering of eight leaves dated 1612 on the title page). The big colophon at leaf 2H5v has the date "16012," i.e. 1612." This setting has variants of many of the woodcuts in the prior 1611 edition. Very light rubbing to boards; some very minor intermittent brownspotting; small portion of f.f.e.p. neatly trimmed; otherwise very good.
Auctioneer:
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
Date:
2013-04-10
