Estimate: £300 - £500
Auction: 19 September 2024 from 10:00 BST
Cum Privilegio Regis Majestatis. [London: T. Harper, c.1637]. 8vo (16.7 x 10cm), 8vo, late-19th-century crushed brown morocco by Francis Bedford, spine richly gilt in compartments (second compartment with conjectural imprint ‘London 1625’ tooled in gilt), decorative gilt panels to covers, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, collates A-Y8 Z6, 391 pp., engraved approbation leaf by William Marshall with royal arms of Charles I, engraved allegorical title-page, fore margin of title-page expertly extended, discreet extensions to lower fore corners of a few leaves not affecting text [STC 2736.5]
The Library of a Scottish Gentleman
In fact the work of William Alexander, Earl of Stirling, this translation was first published at Oxford in 1631, in duodecimo format. This edition contains the Authorised translation in the margins.