
ENGLISH LITERATURE AND HISTORY
Lot 117•
CAMDEN (WILLIAM) The Historie of the Most Renowned and Victorious Princesse Elizabeth, Late Queene of England, FIRST EDITION, Benjamin Fisher, 1630
19 August 2020, 13:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £1,912.50 inc. premium
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[CAMDEN (WILLIAM)]
The Historie of the Most Renowned and Victorious Princesse Elizabeth, Late Queene of England, FIRST EDITION, engraved portrait frontispiece of Elizabeth, headlines cropped and a handful of running titles shaved, paper flaw to 2B1 touching side-note, contemporary calf, rebacked preserving original spine [ESTC S4171], folio (265 x 170mm.), Benjamin Fisher, 1630
Footnotes
WITH THE BOOKPLATE OF SHAKESPEARE'S EDITOR, THOMAS HANMER.
Provenance: Charles Crompton, ownership inscription on title; "Pretium 00-15-00, Anno Domini 1668", inscription on title possibly in his hand; Thomas Hanmer (1677-1746), editor of Shakespeare, large bookplate dated 1707 on verso of title.