Author: Edgar Innes Fripp
Title: Master Richard Quyny: Bailiff of Stratford-Upon-Avon and Friend of William Shakespeare
Description: London , Oxford University Press, Henry Milford, 1924. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this biography of Shakespeare's friend Richard Quyny [Quiney] First edition. With three plates. With the scarce dustwrapper. Richard Quiney was a friend of William Shakespeare in his childhood and life in Stratford Upon Avon. When Shakespeare left Stratford to pursue his theatrical dreams, Quiney stayed and subsequently became Bailiff of Stratford-upon-Avon. Quiney is famous for having penned the only known letter to Shakespeare to survive, a request to his 'Loveinge good ffrend & countreyman' to lend a sum of thirty pounds to pay urgent debts. In a blue cloth binding in the unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, very smart with just some light wear to the head and tail of the spine. Quyny arms in gilt to the front board. Ownership ink inscription to front free-endpaper. Dustwrapper very smart with just some chipping to the head and tail of the spine and sunning to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed.

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