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KILLIGREW (HENRY)
The Conspiracy. A Tragedy as it Was Intended for the Nuptialls, of the Lord Charles Herbert, and the Lady Villiers, first edition, John Norton, for Andrew Crooke, 1638

25 March 2015, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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KILLIGREW (HENRY)

The Conspiracy. A Tragedy as it Was Intended for the Nuptialls, of the Lord Charles Herbert, and the Lady Villiers, first edition, woodcut device on title, without final blank, paperflaw to leaf C4 resulting in small loss of text, several gatherings misbound, green crushed morocco gilt by Riviere & Son, g.e. [STC 14958], small 4to (185 x 135mm.), John Norton, for Andrew Crooke, 1638

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This first edition was surreptitiously published in 1638, its text having been printed "from a false and imperfect transcript, the original copy being then (together with the writer of it) in Italy", as the corrected 1653 edition entitled Pallantus and Eudora explains.

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