Sir Walter Raleigh in the Tower.

£4,800 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

The author’s extremely rare first separate publication, following its appearance in The Wykehamist , No. 200 (August 1885), pp. 326-28. Very skilful restoration of the rear wrapper, which had been missing a few inches at the top - the last page of text is stained accordingly, otherwise a very good clean copy, in a stout modern cloth folding case with the neat book-label of the legendary collector Simon Nowell-Smith. Only one copy appears in auction records, namely the Esher copy, which was sold as part of the great library of H. Bradley Martin in 1990, and then was re-sold at Sotheby’s in 2016.

• Year: 1885

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