One or two highlights from the March 29 sale by Bonhams (25/20/12% buyer’s premium) of books from the library at Glyn Cywarch featured in last week’s issue (ATG No 2287).
A few more are noted here – among them a 1530 Estienne of Paris edition of the Comoediae of Plautus that brought a much higher than expected £34,000.
Acquired by the 4th Lord Harlech from Maggs in 1951, this was a copy once owned by the Latin teacher, royal tutor, sometime headmaster of Eton and playwright, Nicholas Udall – and it was a source for, and influence on his own pioneering English comedy, Ralph Roister Doister.