Skelton, John (1460?-1529) Pithy Pleasaunt and Profitable Workes of Maister Skelton, Poete Laureate. Nowe Collected and Newly Published

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Skelton, John (1460?-1529)Pithy Pleasaunt and Profitable Workes of Maister Skelton, Poete Laureate. Nowe Collected and Newly Published. London: Thomas Marshe, [1568].
Octavo, 342 of 384 leaves, lacking [ ]1 (title),and [ ]4 (table of contents),and text leaves: G1, G2, I8, K1, R7, R8, S1, Z1-8 and Aa1-4. Margins trimmed throughout, touching some headlines and catchwords; bottom corner scorched throughout, with loss of some catchwords and last lines in the first fifty leaves; top and fore edge gilt, rebound in full modern calfskin; STC 22608; Pforzheimer 948; ESTC S111019.
Together with: John Skelton: Canon and Census compiled Robert S. Kinsman and Theodore Yonge, 1967; bound in full red morocco.
"For though my ryme be ragged, / Tattered and jagged, / Rudely rayne beaten, / Rusty and moughte eaten, / It hath in it some pyth."
Estimate $1,000-1,500

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