The Ricky Jay Collection
The Ricky Jay Collection
Auction Closed
October 28, 08:54 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
(Hocus Pocus)
Richard Neve. Hocus Pocus: or the Cabinet of Legerdemain Curiosities Broke Open. London: Printed for H. Tracy, 1721
12mo (149 x 89 mm). Woodcut frontispiece, several woodcut text illustrations and diagrams, a stamp-size cut of a covered tankard laid down on C4v, advertisement on G12v; frontispiece and leaves 6–7 in quires C and E–G guarded, fore-edge of C5 remargined, upper right corners of G11–12 remargined slightly affecting text. Modern brown crushed morocco gilt-ruled turn-ins with fleur-de-lys cornerpieces, spine in 6 compartments decorated and lettered gilt.
"The second edition." A reissue of the 1721 edition of The Merry Companion with a new title-page. A11r has the heading The Merry Companion: or Delights for the Ingenious (Toole Stott).
REFERENCE:
ESTC T190366; Toole Stott 501
PROVENANCE:
Abram Clay (contemporary ownership inscription on title-page)