4th Dec, 2013 9:00 GMT/BST

Book Sale

 
Lot 47
 

47

Drayton (Michael) [Poly-olbion], A Chorographicall Description of all the Tracts, Rivers,...

Drayton (Michael)
[Poly-olbion], A Chorographicall Description of all the Tracts, Rivers, Mountains, Forests, and other Parts of this Renowned Isle of Great Britain ..., 1622, Marriott, Grismand and Dewe, folio in sixes, two parts in one, second title issued without Drayton's name, hand-coloured engraved title, hand-coloured portrait, thirty hand-coloured double-page maps, hand-coloured head-pieces, tail-pieces and initials, calf (re-backed) [Skelton 13]

Sold for £3,200
Estimated at £3,000 - £5,000


 

Printed title trimmed to gutter border and re-mounted on later gutter margin. Light foxing to title. Portrait of Henry mounted into possibly later margins. Pages with some light foxing and dust marking. A few early annotations in margins. Water stain to lower margins of O3 & O4. 'Rust' hole in P2 (not in text). Small ink stain to Y4 & Y5. Second part bound in fours, title trimmed to gutter border and re-mounted on later gutter margin, some restoration of gutters of latter leaves (Part 2, T1 onwards). Maps fixed to new gutter mounts, Some maps with neat repaired closed tears to edges. Larger repair to Monmouth map. Some dust marking and light tanning in places. More obvious stain to Middlesex map. Maps in part two have printed numbers to corners. Calf boards with more recent back strip. [Engraved title, frontis leaf, printed title, dedication leaf, portrait leaf, A8, B6 - 2C6, 2D2, title leaf, A4 - Y4]

 


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