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.