[Rarebooks] For Sale--Dancing and Maypoles, but not Bear and Bull Baiting
Joe Luttrell
rarelaw at meyerbos.com
Thu Jun 2 15:32:34 EDT 2016
May we offer,
[BOOK OF SPORTS]. The Kings Maiesties Declaration to His
Subiects, Concerning lawfull Sports to bee vsed. S.T.C. 9254.7.
Quarto. Imprinted at London by Robert Barker [etc.], London,
1633. Original stabbed self-wraps, disbound, with the first
(with signature "A") and last blanks, and the Winged Woman on
A4r, very crisp; the Taussig copy. [78224 ACT]
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$1250.00
First edition of Charles's reissue of James's Declaration,
permitting dancing and maypoles and the like (and adding wakes
and festivals), but proscribing bear and bull baiting, it
ultimately proving unenforceable and ordered publicly burnt in
1643.
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