Killigrew (Henry) The Conspiracy a Tragedy, as it was intended, for the Nuptialls, of the Lord Charles Herbert and the Lady Villiers, first edition, title with woodcut ornament, woodcut initials and head-pieces, title repaired and restored at head with first word of title supplied in very good facsimile, A2&3 neatly repaired and restored at head, not affecting text, a few other ff. with minor paper repairs to margins, A2 with paper flaw to foot, affecting a few letters of text, K3 paper flaw to foot with loss of catch-word, N2 with loss to upper corner, light damp-staining to latter half, bookplate, 20th century half morocco, gilt, by Riviere & Son, g.e., [STC 14958], by Iohn Norton, for Andrew Crooke, 1638. ⁂ A juvenile work by Killigrew, printed surreptitiously apparently without access to either the original copy or its author. A corrected edition titled Pallantus and Eudora was published in 1653. Provenance: Louis H. Silver (bookplate).
Killigrew (Henry) The Conspiracy a Tragedy, as it was intended, for the Nuptialls, of the Lord Charles Herbert and the Lady Villiers, first edition, title with woodcut ornament, woodcut initials and head-pieces, title repaired and restored at head with first word of title supplied in very good facsimile, A2&3 neatly repaired and restored at head, not affecting text, a few other ff. with minor paper repairs to margins, A2 with paper flaw to foot, affecting a few letters of text, K3 paper flaw to foot with loss of catch-word, N2 with loss to upper corner, light damp-staining to latter half, bookplate, 20th century half morocco, gilt, by Riviere & Son, g.e., [STC 14958], by Iohn Norton, for Andrew Crooke, 1638. ⁂ A juvenile work by Killigrew, printed surreptitiously apparently without access to either the original copy or its author. A corrected edition titled Pallantus and Eudora was published in 1653. Provenance: Louis H. Silver (bookplate).
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