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MARKHAM (FRANCIS) The Booke of Honour. Or, Five Decads of Epistles of Honour, FIRST EDITION, FRANCIS WILLUGHBY'S COPY, Augustine Matthewes, and John Norton, 1625 image 1
MARKHAM (FRANCIS) The Booke of Honour. Or, Five Decads of Epistles of Honour, FIRST EDITION, FRANCIS WILLUGHBY'S COPY, Augustine Matthewes, and John Norton, 1625 image 2
ENGLISH LITERATURE AND HISTORY
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MARKHAM (FRANCIS)
The Booke of Honour. Or, Five Decads of Epistles of Honour, FIRST EDITION, FRANCIS WILLUGHBY'S COPY, Augustine Matthewes, and John Norton, 1625

1 December 2021, 12:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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MARKHAM (FRANCIS)

The Booke of Honour. Or, Five Decads of Epistles of Honour, FIRST EDITION, FRANCIS WILLUGHBY'S COPY, woodcut initials and ornaments, light arc of dampstaining in lower margin (touching letters) of some leaves, from Epistle 6 onwards several passages noted with an ink mark in the borders, in 2 places with a word ("Ptolemis", p.99; "except Northumberland", p146) in an early hand, contemporary limp vellum gilt, sides with 2 gilt borders, 4 corner-piece ornaments and a larger central ornament, some soiling, one corner slightly nibbled [ESTC S114266], 4to (280 x 180mm.), Augustine Matthewes, and John Norton, 1625

Footnotes

Francis Willughby's copy of The Booke of Honour by Francis Markham (1565–1627), who as a writer "was a greater stylist, though much less prolific, than his more celebrated sibling, Gervase Markham" (ODNB).

Provenance: Francis Willughby, inscribed "F. Willughby" with pressmark "E:1:5" on the title-page, and "Fra Willughby Sola fides nessificat" on opening blank; "Christies No. 561, 17/6/25", pencil note on front free endpaper.

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