Henry (1839) King

Lot 317: [KING, HENRY.]

Name: [KING, HENRY.]
Brand: Sotheby's
SKU: yesr7qbu5o

Est: £2,000 GBP - £3,000 GBPSold:

Sotheby'sLondon, United KingdomMay 27, 2004

Item Overview

Description

Poems, Elegies, Paradoxes, And Sonets. For Henry Herringman, 1664

Artist or Maker

Henry (1839) King

Condition Report

8vo, first edition, second issue, cancel title within type-ornament border, annotations to title-page, pp.97 and 152, later speckled calf, spine gilt in compartments, marbled endpapers, gilt dentelles, gilt edges, light spotting and soiling to title-page, occasional shaving to side notes, title-page border slightly shaved at top edge, annotations to title-page and within preliminaries, binding rebacked and rubbed, upper cover detached

Literature

Wing K502; Grolier Wither to Prior 511; Keynes King 4

Provenance

Hugh Galbraith Reid, pencil annotation (Sotheby's, 10 May 1894); John Brand, bookplate; Elkin Mathews, bookplate; H. Bradley Martin, bookplate (Sotheby's, New York, 30 April 1990, lot 2980)

Notes

This re-issue of King's works contains a cancel title-page followed by the leaves of the original 1657 edition together with the addition of nineteen leaves at the end of the volume.

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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