Description
The merchant royall. A sermon preached at White-hall before the Kings Maiestie, at the nuptials of the Right Honourable the Lord Hay and his Lady, upon the twelfe day last being January 6. 1607. London: Felix Kyngston for John Flasket, 1607. First edition, 4to, pp. [vi] 39, large woodcut of a galleon under sail on the title page, 19th century half morocco gilt, marbled boards, some rubbing to edges, narrow repaired worm trail, mainly interlinear, in final two gatherings but affecting a few letters, final leaf remargined at fore edge, and repaired at inner lower margin, light age discolouration, retaining at gutter the holes for its original pamphlet stitch binding.
Footnote
Note: STC 25658; Lowndes VII, p. 2924; this ed. not in Goldsmith's, or Kress. RLG records only one copy of this edition (Huntingdon). Probably the earliest edition (STC) of the four that appeared in 1607 (there was also an Edinburgh edition in the same year - Aldis).