Earlier works in an October 18 sale held by Cheffins (22.5% buyer’s premium) included a scarce 1688 first of Randle Holme’s The Academy of Armory, or a Storehouse of Armory and Blazon, an heraldic work by the third member of a distinguished Chester family of heraldic painters and genealogists to bear that name. It made £1200.
Just the first two parts and a portion of a third had been printed before the work was abandoned by the author, who apparently found the project too costly. However, manuscripts survive in the British Library and in 1905 an edition based on them was issued by the Roxburghe Club.
Bound in modern morocco, an example of Twelfe Night… as printed over 20pp of the 1632, second folio edition of the works of Shakespeare was one previously owned by Harry Secombe. Sold by a descendant, it made £1700.