Poems by Sir Henry Wotton, Sir Walter Raleigh and Others. WOTTON (Sir Henry).

£500.00

Aldine device on the title, woodcut head and tail pieces.

8vo. [166 x 102 x 15 mm]. lxxv, [i], 136 pp. Later 19th century binding by Zaehnsdorf (signed in gilt on front turn-in and with blind stamp on rear endleaf) of brown goatskin, the covers tooled in gilt with a fillet and panel enclosing a repeated design of a flower, leafy stems and dots. Smooth spine lettered and dated in gilt with a repeated flower, leafy stems and dots, the edges of the boards tooled with a gilt double fillet, the turn-ins with fillets and leafy stems, green silk endleaves, gilt edges. (Rebacked preserving the original spine).
London: Basil M. Pickering, 1857

A very good copy in a fine Zaehnsdorf binding almost invisibly repaired by Aquarius. With "O.A.K." bookplate, featuring an oak, designed by E. D. French in 1897.

Stock no. ebc7663

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