Henry (1839) King

Lot 316: [KING, HENRY.]

Name: [KING, HENRY.]
Brand: Sotheby's
SKU: 63836vh91p

Est: £3,000 GBP - £5,000 GBPSold:

Sotheby'sLondon, United KingdomMay 27, 2004

Item Overview

Description

Poems, Elegies, Paradoxes, and Sonnets. J.G. for Rich: Marriot and Hen: Herringman, 1657

Artist or Maker

Henry (1839) King

Condition Report

8vo, first edition, title within type-ornament border, errata on final page, early nineteenth-century calf, marbled end-papers, some occasional light spotting and soiling, worming to fore-edge of A1-A3, occasional minor worming, occasional trimming to top edge, hole to L4 affecting two letters, upper cover detached

Literature

Wing K501; Hayward 109; Keynes King 3

Provenance

K. Kinaston, contemporary inscription ("K. Kinaston given mee by M:^r Hagett My 6 1663"); Edward Pennant, Roger Pennant and Francis Pennant, early inscriptions; W. Wynne, bookplate

Notes

On a front blank leaf, among other notes, is a variant text of the poem "Sic Vita" [which first appeared in Francis Beaumont's Poems, 1640] written in a nineteenth-century hand (somewhat similar to Robert Southey's).

Auction Details

The Library of John R.B. Brett-Smith

Sotheby's

May 27, 2004, 12:00 AM EST

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

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