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Auction archive: Lot number 144

Chapbooks.- Cheap Repository Tracts.- Poaching.- [More (Hannah)] Black Giles, The Poacher..., ?1813-20.

Estimate
£150 - £200
ca. US$192 - US$256
Price realised:
£20
ca. US$25
Auction archive: Lot number 144

Chapbooks.- Cheap Repository Tracts.- Poaching.- [More (Hannah)] Black Giles, The Poacher..., ?1813-20.

Estimate
£150 - £200
ca. US$192 - US$256
Price realised:
£20
ca. US$25
Beschreibung:

Chapbooks.- Cheap Repository Tracts.- Poaching.- [More (Hannah)] "Z". Black Giles, The Poacher: With Some Account of a Family Who Had Rather Live by Their Wits Than Their Work, [Part I] - Part II, woodcut illustration to title, also woodcut tail-piece, faint browning and soiling, as issued, 8vo, by J.Evans & Son, ?1813-20. ⁂ESTC lists 2 copies apparently from this edition, in the Birmingham Central Libraries and at Princeton respectively; however, it is stated that they both have the second line of the imprint ending "Religious Tracts": the copy offered here ends "Religious". COPAC traces another copy (assumed identical to those in Birmingham and at Princeton) in the V&A: the record does not transcribe the imprint. The third line of the imprint of the copy offered here ends "West-smithfield".

Auction archive: Lot number 144
Auction:
Datum:
16 May 2019
Auction house:
Forum Auctions
4 Ingate Place
London, SW8 3NS
United Kingdom
info@forumauctions.co.uk
+44 (0) 20 7871 2640
Beschreibung:

Chapbooks.- Cheap Repository Tracts.- Poaching.- [More (Hannah)] "Z". Black Giles, The Poacher: With Some Account of a Family Who Had Rather Live by Their Wits Than Their Work, [Part I] - Part II, woodcut illustration to title, also woodcut tail-piece, faint browning and soiling, as issued, 8vo, by J.Evans & Son, ?1813-20. ⁂ESTC lists 2 copies apparently from this edition, in the Birmingham Central Libraries and at Princeton respectively; however, it is stated that they both have the second line of the imprint ending "Religious Tracts": the copy offered here ends "Religious". COPAC traces another copy (assumed identical to those in Birmingham and at Princeton) in the V&A: the record does not transcribe the imprint. The third line of the imprint of the copy offered here ends "West-smithfield".

Auction archive: Lot number 144
Auction:
Datum:
16 May 2019
Auction house:
Forum Auctions
4 Ingate Place
London, SW8 3NS
United Kingdom
info@forumauctions.co.uk
+44 (0) 20 7871 2640
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