Book ID: 20908

The Last Fight of the Revenge, and the Death of Richard Grenville (A.D. 1591)

Markham, Gervase; Lamartine, Alphonse De

Edinburgh: Privately Printed, . Limited. Hardcover. Very Good.

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Custom-bound in contemporary three-quarter red calf and red cloth, calf ruled in gilt; spine lettering gilt; spine ruled in gilt; top edge gilt; marbled endpapers. Head of spine very slightly chipped; extremities rubbed, and spine slightly age-darkened; otherwise a tight, very bright copy with virtually crisp interior and many pages still unopened. Related by Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Richard Hawkins, Ian Huygen van Linschoten, Lord Bacon, and Sir W. Monson, together with The Most Honorable Tragedie of Sir Richard Grinuile [Grenville], Knight, by Gervase Markham (1595). Edited by Edmund Goldsmid (1886). Bound in with The Life and Times of Christopher Columbus, Translated from the French of A. [Alphonse] de Lamartine (1887). Bibliotheca Curiosa, 4 vols. in one. xix + 66 + 72 + 64 + 78 pp. Each volume has title-page; also reproduces original title-pages of A Report of the Trvth of the Fight about the Isles of Acores this last Sommer (1591) and Gervase Markham’s extended ballad, The Most Honorable Tragedie of Sir Richard Grinuile, Knight (1595). The Columbus biography is by 19th century poet and politician, Alphonse de Lamartine. Custom-bound in contemporary three-quarter red calf and red cloth, calf ruled in gilt; spine lettering gilt; spine ruled in gilt; top edge gilt; marbled endpapers. Head of spine very slightly chipped; extremities rubbed, and spine slightly age-darkened; otherwise a tight, very bright copy with virtually crisp interior and many pages still unopened. The first two volumes were published in an edition of 275 small-paper copies and 75 large-paper copies; the last two in 275 small-paper copies only.

Book ID 20908
Publisher Privately Printed
Publisher Place Edinburgh
Size 8vo
Language English