• Fine Printed Books and Manuscr auction at Christies

    Sale 5475

    Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts

    London, South Kensington

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    7 June 2010

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    • DRAYTON, Michael (1563-1631).
    Lot 78

    DRAYTON, Michael (1563-1631). The Battaille of Agincourt... The Miseries of Queene Magarite, the infortunate wife, of that most infortunate King Henry the sixt. London: William Lee, 1631. 8° (150 x 103mm). (Browned throughout, margins trimmed, occasionally touching headline, a few small marginal repairs, occasional light soiling). Blue panelled morocco gilt by Riviere & Son (new endpapers). Provenance: William Robinson (partly erased signature on title). Second edition, first published in 1627. STC 7191. [With:]

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    GBP 2,250

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    GBP 1,000 - GBP 1,500

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    DRAYTON, Michael (1563-1631). The Battaille of Agincourt... The Miseries of Queene Magarite, the infortunate wife, of that most infortunate King Henry the sixt. London: William Lee, 1631. 8° (150 x 103mm). (Browned throughout, margins trimmed, occasionally touching headline, a few small marginal repairs, occasional light soiling). Blue panelled morocco gilt by Riviere & Son (new endpapers). Provenance: William Robinson (partly erased signature on title). Second edition, first published in 1627. STC 7191. [With:]

    HUBERT, Francis, Sir (d. 1629). The Historie of Edward the Second... together with the fatall down-fall of his two unfortunate favorites Gaveston and Spencer. 8° (150 x 95mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait of Edward II, with the blank A1. (Margins trimmed, occasional affecting shoulder notes, a few occasional spots). Crimson morocco gilt by Lloyd, gilt edges (new endpapers). Originally published the previous year as an unauthorized edition as The deplorable Life and Death of Edward the Second, King of England. STC 13901. [And:]

    With 3 other works, including Thomas Blount's Boscobel (London, 1680 [i.e.1681], engraved portrait, 2 folding plates and additional separate engraved title, light occasional dust-soiling) and Thomas Wincoll's Plantagenets Tragical Story (London, 1649, engraved frontispiece portrait). (5)

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