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Auction archive: Lot number 84

SHAKESPEARE, William. Comedies, Histories and Tragedies. Published according to the true original copies. Unto which is added, Seven Plays, Never before Printed in Folio [preface by Ben Jonson], London: for H. Herringham, E. Brewster and R. Bentley, ...

Auction 07.04.1995
7 Apr 1995
Estimate
£2,000 - £3,000
ca. US$3,215 - US$4,822
Price realised:
£3,262
ca. US$5,243
Auction archive: Lot number 84

SHAKESPEARE, William. Comedies, Histories and Tragedies. Published according to the true original copies. Unto which is added, Seven Plays, Never before Printed in Folio [preface by Ben Jonson], London: for H. Herringham, E. Brewster and R. Bentley, ...

Auction 07.04.1995
7 Apr 1995
Estimate
£2,000 - £3,000
ca. US$3,215 - US$4,822
Price realised:
£3,262
ca. US$5,243
Beschreibung:

SHAKESPEARE, William. Comedies, Histories and Tragedies. Published according to the true original copies. Unto which is added, Seven Plays, Never before Printed in Folio [preface by Ben Jonson], London: for H. Herringham, E. Brewster and R. Bentley, 1685, 2°, fourth edition, with 1st state imprint, printed in double column with pagination errors as called for (lacks frontispiece portrait, provided in modern facsimile, very faint illegible 19th-century library stamp on title and library number at head of dedication, unobtrusive repairs to margins of title, repairs to corners of F3, F4, Ii4 and Qq5, corner torn away from Eee4, a few small rust holes affecting a few letters), modern calf by Riley, Dunn & Wilson (1992), morocco label, raised bands, spine lettered in gilt. [Wing S2915; Jaggard p.497; Greg III, p. 1119-1121; Pforzheimer 910]. Sold not subject to return.

Auction archive: Lot number 84
Auction:
Datum:
7 Apr 1995
Auction house:
Christie's
London, South Kensington
Beschreibung:

SHAKESPEARE, William. Comedies, Histories and Tragedies. Published according to the true original copies. Unto which is added, Seven Plays, Never before Printed in Folio [preface by Ben Jonson], London: for H. Herringham, E. Brewster and R. Bentley, 1685, 2°, fourth edition, with 1st state imprint, printed in double column with pagination errors as called for (lacks frontispiece portrait, provided in modern facsimile, very faint illegible 19th-century library stamp on title and library number at head of dedication, unobtrusive repairs to margins of title, repairs to corners of F3, F4, Ii4 and Qq5, corner torn away from Eee4, a few small rust holes affecting a few letters), modern calf by Riley, Dunn & Wilson (1992), morocco label, raised bands, spine lettered in gilt. [Wing S2915; Jaggard p.497; Greg III, p. 1119-1121; Pforzheimer 910]. Sold not subject to return.

Auction archive: Lot number 84
Auction:
Datum:
7 Apr 1995
Auction house:
Christie's
London, South Kensington
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