LLOYD, David (1597-1663)]. The Legend of Captaine Jones . London: Richard Marriot, 1656.
LLOYD, David (1597-1663)]. The Legend of Captaine Jones . London: Richard Marriot, 1656. Two parts in one, 8 o (140 x 91 mm). Engraved folding frontispiece by W. Marshall. (Some tiny worming at gutter margin.) Contemporary English sheep, red morocco lettering piece, black morocco label of Lowther added later on front cover (front hinge cracked, some rubbing). Provenance : Hugh Cecil Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale (1857-1944), avid sportsman and bon vivant , he was the inspiration for the Lonsdale cigar size, and was part of a famous wager with John Pierpoint Morgan over whether a man could circumnavigate the globe and remain unidentified (bookplate; his sale, Sotheby's, 12 July 1937); to Henry Stevens. An early edition of Lloyd's anonymously-published satire of Capt. John Smith in verse, first published in London, 1631. In it are mentions of Florida and America. The frontispiece shows a knight in armor on horseback, a sword drawn, attacking a half-naked native, with heads of human beings and a coffin in the foreground. All early editions are very scarce. Alden & Landis 656/70; Grolier Wither to Prior 524-5 (1636 and 1671 editions); Sabin 41684 and 41685n; Wing L-2631.
LLOYD, David (1597-1663)]. The Legend of Captaine Jones . London: Richard Marriot, 1656.
LLOYD, David (1597-1663)]. The Legend of Captaine Jones . London: Richard Marriot, 1656. Two parts in one, 8 o (140 x 91 mm). Engraved folding frontispiece by W. Marshall. (Some tiny worming at gutter margin.) Contemporary English sheep, red morocco lettering piece, black morocco label of Lowther added later on front cover (front hinge cracked, some rubbing). Provenance : Hugh Cecil Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale (1857-1944), avid sportsman and bon vivant , he was the inspiration for the Lonsdale cigar size, and was part of a famous wager with John Pierpoint Morgan over whether a man could circumnavigate the globe and remain unidentified (bookplate; his sale, Sotheby's, 12 July 1937); to Henry Stevens. An early edition of Lloyd's anonymously-published satire of Capt. John Smith in verse, first published in London, 1631. In it are mentions of Florida and America. The frontispiece shows a knight in armor on horseback, a sword drawn, attacking a half-naked native, with heads of human beings and a coffin in the foreground. All early editions are very scarce. Alden & Landis 656/70; Grolier Wither to Prior 524-5 (1636 and 1671 editions); Sabin 41684 and 41685n; Wing L-2631.
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