FIRST PRINTING IN ENGLISH OF THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN

A Restitution of the Decayed Intelligence: In Antiquities. Concerning the most noble and renowmed [sic] English nation.

Antwerp: Robert Burney and to be sold at London in Paules-Churchyeard, by John Norton and John Bill, 1605.

Price: $1,500.00


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First edition. Engraved title-page vignette of the Tower of Babel, 10 half-page engravings in text, coat of arms after p. 338. [xxiv], 338, [14] pp. 8vo. FIRST PRINTING IN ENGLISH OF THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN. Nineteenth-century calf and boards by John Jones, Liverpool, with his label and Liverpool Library bookplate. Rebacked, preserving spine, covers worn, title-page and final leaf backed with linen, three letters on title supplied in pen facsimile, foxing throughout, first two gatherings detached. STC 21361; ESTC S116255.

Item #263577

Includes the first printing in English of the Pied Piper of Hamelin on pages 85-88.