Fiddes, Richard (1671-1725) The Life of Cardinal Wolsey.

Description:

Fiddes, Richard (1671-1725) The Life of Cardinal Wolsey. London: for John Barber, 1724. Folio, with engraved portrait frontispiece and engraved plates, not collated for completeness, in contemporary boards, rebacked, 14 x 9 1/2 in.
[Together with] The Norton Facsimile [of] the First Folio of Shakespeare, London: Norton, 1968, prepared by Charlton Hinman, in publisher's half leather, with the slipcase, 14 x 9 1/2 in.
J. Alfred Gotch's Architecture of the Renaissance in England, London: Batsford, 1894, in two folio volumes, half leather and buckram boards, 18 x 13 1/2 in. [and] one other volume. (5)

Provenance: the Estate of Stratford W. Carter, Boston, Massachusetts.
Estimate $300-500


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