One of 125 Copies
[1601] Conversation as it was by the social fire-side in the time of the Tudors. From Ye Diary of Ye Cup-bearer to her Maisty Queen Elizabeth.
[N.p.]: Imprinted by Ye Puritan Press at Ye Sign of Ye Jolly Virgin, 1601 [i.e., 1916].
Price: $350.00
About the item
Large paper copy, edition of 125 copies on paper watermarked Fabriano. Tipped-in frontispiece woodcut portrait of the cupbearer by A.E. Curtis. 24, [1] pp. 1 vols. Tall 8vo (6 x 10-1/2 inches). Japan vellum spine and grey boards, printed label on upper cover. Spine lightly soiled, bookplate removed from front pastedown. Very good. Meine 7; not in Haas.
Item #300613
An early printing of Mark Twain's ribald and scatalogical masterpiece, 1601, in facsimile of the first published edition of 1901.
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