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MORE, Cresacre (1572-1649). D.O.M.S. The Life and Death of Sir Thomas Moore Lord High Chancellour of England ... by M.T.M. [Douai: B. Bellère, 1631?]. 4° (196 x 139mm). Woodcut title ornament, headbands and initials. (Title soiled and stained, some browning and soiling of text, preliminaries also waterstained, small burn hole in 201.) 19th-century mottled calf (upper joints cracked, spine chipped). Provenance: Erased inscription on title, dated March 1660; The Knight of Morar (armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITION. STC 18066.
Izaak WALTON (1593-1683). The Life of Dr. Sanderson, late Bishop of Lincoln. London: Richard Marriott, 1678. 8° (174 x 102mm). Engraved portrait. (Rust hole in I7.) Late 19th-century brown morocco tooled in gilt and black, gilt edges (front inner hinges split). Provenance: PRESENTATION COPY, title inscribed 'for my cozen Webb J: W:'. FIRST EDITION. Wing W-667.
[George CAVENDISH (1500-1561?)]. The Negotiations of Thomas Woolsey ... containing his life and death. London: William Sheares, 1641. 4° (179 x 128mm). Engraved portrait. [Bound with:] A True Description, or rather a parallel betweene Cardinall Wolsey ... and William Laud. [London:] 1641. 4°. (Both works washed.) 2 works in one volume, dark blue gilt-panelled morocco by Rivière. Provenance: John Burns (signature dated 20 December 1922, sold Sotheby's, 24 April 1944, to Maggs for £7 10s.); John Hely-Hutchinson (booklabel dated 1947, sold Sotheby's, 12 March 1956, lot 210, to Sawyer for £9). FIRST EDITION, second issue, of Cavendish's life of Wolsey. ONLY EDITION of the second tract. Wing C-1619a and Wing T-2679; together with Thomas More's Utopia, edited by Thomas Dibdin, London: William Bulmer, 1808, 4°, LARGE PAPER COPY, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with 50 engraved portraits (some spotting), brown morocco gilt by White. (6)
Izaak WALTON (1593-1683). The Life of Dr. Sanderson, late Bishop of Lincoln. London: Richard Marriott, 1678. 8° (174 x 102mm). Engraved portrait. (Rust hole in I7.) Late 19th-century brown morocco tooled in gilt and black, gilt edges (front inner hinges split). Provenance: PRESENTATION COPY, title inscribed 'for my cozen Webb J: W:'. FIRST EDITION. Wing W-667.
[George CAVENDISH (1500-1561?)]. The Negotiations of Thomas Woolsey ... containing his life and death. London: William Sheares, 1641. 4° (179 x 128mm). Engraved portrait. [Bound with:] A True Description, or rather a parallel betweene Cardinall Wolsey ... and William Laud. [London:] 1641. 4°. (Both works washed.) 2 works in one volume, dark blue gilt-panelled morocco by Rivière. Provenance: John Burns (signature dated 20 December 1922, sold Sotheby's, 24 April 1944, to Maggs for £7 10s.); John Hely-Hutchinson (booklabel dated 1947, sold Sotheby's, 12 March 1956, lot 210, to Sawyer for £9). FIRST EDITION, second issue, of Cavendish's life of Wolsey. ONLY EDITION of the second tract. Wing C-1619a and Wing T-2679; together with Thomas More's Utopia, edited by Thomas Dibdin, London: William Bulmer, 1808, 4°, LARGE PAPER COPY, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with 50 engraved portraits (some spotting), brown morocco gilt by White. (6)
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Includes an additional book, Lord Brook's Life of Sir Philip Sydney, Kent: Lee Priory Press, 1816, 2 volumes, 8°, later red morocco, bookplate of Henry Cunliffe. Limited to 100 copies. The lot contains 6 volumes not 4 as catalogued.