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Lot 109: CONGREVE, WILLIAM.

Est: £400 GBP - £600 GBPSold:
Sotheby'sLondon, United KingdomMay 27, 2004

Item Overview

Description

The Birth of the Muse. A Poem. To the Right Honourable Charles Montague, Chancellour of the Exchequer... for Jacob Tonson, 1698 [1697]

Artist or Maker

Condition Report

folio, first edition, title-page annotated by Narcissus Luttrell with price '4d' and revision of date to '19 Novemb. 1697', twentieth-century half brown calf, marbled boards by Riviere, black morocco lettering-piece on spine, minor off-setting to blank end-papers, binding slightly rubbed

Literature

Wing C5845; Pforzheimer 193

Provenance

Narcissus Luttrell, annotation; Britwell Library (Sotheby's, 30 March 1927, part of lot 484) [unbound]; Harmsworth Library (Sotheby's, 28 March 1939, lot 237) [bound]

Auction Details

The Library of John R.B. Brett-Smith

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Sotheby's
May 27, 2004, 12:00 AM EST

34-35 New Bond Street, London, LDN, W1A 2AA, UK