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 INSWORTH (W. H.). THE ORIGINAL 
 HOLOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT DRAFT of 
 his famous novel CHETWYND CALVER- 
 LEY. Covering ^f^'^ pages, AfX.o. Red morocco. 
 
 This, the Original Holograph Draft (which comprises about three-fourths 
 of the finished work), is entirely different from the published version. Some of 
 the pages have been re-written by Ainsworth no less than three times— quite 
 a number have been written twice. 
 
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 AINSWORTH (W. H.). THE ORIGINAL HOLO- 
 GRAPH MANUSCRIPT DRAFT of his famous novel 
 THE SOUTH SEA BUBBLE. Coverijig a,o% pages, 
 4to. Red morocco. 
 
 This, the Original Holograph Draft (which comprises about two-thirds of 
 the completed book), is entirely different from the published version. Some of 
 the pages have been written by Ainsworth no less than three times. His 
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 AINSWORTH (W. H.). THE ORIGINAL HOLO- 
 GRATII MANUSCRIPT DRAFT of his famous novel 
 TOWER HILL. Covering 379 pages, 4to. Red 
 
 7n07'OCCO. 
 
 This, the Original Holograph Draft (which comprises about two-thirds of 
 the completed book), is enfirely different from the published version. Some 
 of the pages have been re-written by Ainsworth no less than four times — 
 quite a number have been written twice. 
 
 The charm of Ainsworth's novels is not at all dependent upon the 
 analysis of motives or subtle description of character. Of this he has little or 
 nothing, but he realizes vividly a scene or an incident and conveys the impres- 
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 ALVAROTIS (JACOBUS DE). OPUS SUPER 
 FEUDIS. A SUPERB COPY. Folio. Morocco extra. 
 
 Venice, 1477. 
 
 Editio Princeps. Of the very greatest typographical importance and 
 rarity. 
 
 Jacobus de Alvarotis, a writer ignored by most biographical dictionaries, 
 was a celebrated lawyer of Padua, born about the year 1384. The family to 
 which he belonged came originally from Hungary, and is the same family as 
 that of Speroni. Both were particularly prolific in men of genius, and the 
 family of Alvaroti produced several famous lawyers, such as the two brothers 
 Aycardinus de Alvarotis, who wrote several law books and died in 1389, and his 
 brother, who died in 1379, leaving two sons, Petrus, who taught law with 
 much success at Padua and Bologna for the space of thirty-seven years, and 
 another. Jacobus, the writer of the present book, was very learned in civil and
 
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 canon law, and studied under Bartholomeus de Saliato and Franciscus de 
 Zabarellis, Cardinal of Florence. He became a Doctor at Florence, afterwards 
 a Provost at Siena, and finally a professor at Padua. Alvarotis wrote several law 
 treatises, though the present is the only one that was printed. The author died 
 27th June 1452, aged sixty-eight years, and was buried in the Church of St. 
 Anthony at Padua. He left two sons, the elder of whom was father of another 
 Jacobus de Alvarotis or Alvarez, a celebrated lawyer who studied at Padua, at 
 Florence, at Ferrara, and lastly at Modena, where for thirty-seven years he 
 was one of the chief professors. Alvarotis died at Ferrara in 1546, at the age 
 of seventy-four, being at that time secretary to Hercules, Duke of Ferrara. 
 
 The present edition is the first of the four or five printed in the fifteenth 
 century, and offers many points of great interest to the bibliographer. The 
 
 TVPE IN WHICH IT IS PRINTED IS FOUND IN NO OTHER ROOK, thoUgh it re- 
 
 sembles very strongly that used in some books printed at Venice, " nel Bere- 
 tin convento de la Cha grande," between 1474 and 1478. It is therefore 
 
 AT PRESENT THE ONLY REPRESENTATIVE OF AN ANONYMOUS PRESS. It is alsO 
 
 a very remarkable book as regards the signatures, for while the beginning and 
 end portions are signed, a large part in the middle, nine quires containing 
 seventy-two leaves, are without signatures. This might be accounted for in 
 several ways. The early printers were accustomed to begin the printing of a 
 volume at several different places, and it is clear since the register is on the 
 first leaf of the first quire that the earliest part of the book was the last 
 printed. The second portion may have been printed first without signatures, 
 and the printer then have started to use them. Or they might have been 
 omitted because the printer could not calculate how much material the second 
 part would contain, and feared lest his signatures might overlap the second 
 series. The first hypothesis is the most probable. By 1477 signatures were 
 only beginning to come into general use and books are as often found without 
 them as with them. In one case in the present book the signature C of the 
 second alphabet has been stamped in by hand, in the very edge of the lower 
 outer margin, and hand stamped signatures are found in a few early books. 
 There is a curious difference also throughout the volume in the way the 
 directors for the coloured initials have been printed, in some cases in the 
 centre of the space, throughout other quires in the top corner. 
 
 The second edition of this book was printed in November 1477, and 
 though the colophon distinctly states " hoc opus impressum fuit Venetiis " it
 
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 was really printed at Padua by Laurentius Canozius. There appears no 
 reason for this false statement. The third edition was printed at Lyons by 
 Nicolaus i'hilippus and Marcus Reinhart in 1478, the edition mentioned in 
 an early catalogue of Payne and Foss as issued a year previously by the same 
 printers, being probably the 1478 edition with the date misread or altered. 
 The last edition was printed at Pavia in 1498 by Andreas de Boscho. Though 
 it remained unprinted for a considerable period it was not lost sight of, and 
 being a work very frequently quoted by Italian lawyers, a new edition was 
 printed in 1587 at Frankfurt, then the greatest centre of publishing. 
 
 There is a copy in tJie British Museum, but fteither the Speficer, Huth, Am- 
 herst, Ashburnham, nor Hoe libraries possessed it. 
 
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 ARCHBISHOP'S WHITGIFT'S COPY 
 
 AMERICA.— DE BRY (THEODORUS). ADMI- 
 RANDA NARRATIO Fida tamen, de Commodis te 
 Incolarum ritibus Virginae, nuper admodum ab Anglis, 
 qui a Dr. Richardo Greinvile, equestris ordinis viro eo 
 in Coloniam anno M.D. LXXXV. deducti sunt inventae, 
 sumtus faciente Dn. Waltero Raleigh equestris ordinis 
 viro Fodinaru stanni praefecto ex auctoritate serenissimae 
 Reo^inae Angfliae. 
 
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 Walteri domestico, in earn Coloniam misso ut Regionis 
 situ in diligenter observaret. Nunc autem primum latio 
 donata a CCA. Cum gratia & privilegio Caes Maiest. 
 ad quadriennium. 
 
 Bemitiful impressions of the finely engraved border to title 
 and 28 fine large engravings and map by De Bry and 
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 vero Theodori De Bry anno cioioxc (1590) Venales re- 
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 The finest known copy of this famous and precious volume, and the 
 excessively rare First Issue of the First Edition of the " Latin America " of 
 T. de Bry (see No. 140 in the Church Catalogue). 
 
 From the library of John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury, with his 
 arms impressed (in gold) on both sides of the binding, and doubtless sent by 
 De Bry to Queen Elizabeth's favourite Archbishop. 
 
 Apart from its excessively xaxe provenafice, the present example is far finer 
 than that in the Church collection, having the original blank leaf D6 which in 
 the Church example is " substituted." 
 
 The present copy agrees with the description of the first issue given in the 
 Church Catalogue, except that plates III, V, VI, VIII, IX, and XV are 
 assigned by Church to the second issue of the First Edition. Be this as it 
 may, these six plates are extremely brilliant impressions, and the volume 
 before us is certainly now in exactly the same condition as when originally 
 bound for the great Archbishop's library. 
 
 As regards size the present copy is slightly wider than the Church 
 example. 
 
 The " Privilege " is printed on a tiny slip (see Church) which is pasted 
 beneath the title, and examples with this peculiarity appear to be of great 
 rarity. The Church copy has the ordinary printed " Privilege." 
 
 The superb full-page plate of Adam and Eve (T. de Bry's chef-d'ceuvre) is 
 in the "first state." 
 
 The Dedication to Maximilian, King of Poland and Archduke of Austria, 
 later Emperor of Germany, is preceded by a superb engraving of the King's 
 Arms. 
 
 The present volume passed, some time after Archbishop Whitgift's death, 
 into the fine library of Sir Robert Abdy of Albyns, Essex, and bears his 
 ex-libris. 
 
 Sir Robert was one of the first baronets created by Charles II (in 1660). 
 
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 ARNE (THOMAS AUGUSTINE). T/ie composer of 
 ''Rule. Britanniar THE ORIGINAL HOLOGRAPH 
 MANUSCRIPT of the Words and Music of his 
 "WHITTINGTON'S FEAST." 
 Qiiite complete. Covering 250 pages, ajid dated 1776. 
 Folio. Red 7)iorocco. 
 
 The Manuscripts of Dr. Arne are of the greatest rarity. This is 
 PROBABLY THE ONLY ONE existing outside the British Museum, which possesses 
 but the score of " Judith," the only one known to the " Dictionary of National 
 Biography." 
 
 " Manuscripts of Arne's music are now rarely found, most of them 
 
 HAVING BEEN DESTROYED WHEN COVENT GaRDEN ThEATRE WAS BURNED 
 
 DOWN IN 1808." — Dictionary of National BiograpJiy. 
 
 Besides the musical manuscript and words, there are twelve pages which 
 precede it, containing the Title, Advertisement, Preface, and Words of both 
 " Whittington's Feast " and " Alexander's Feast," very neatly written, and the 
 whole manuscript, in its present arrangement, was evidently intended for the 
 press. The manuscript is dated 1776, and it is highly probable that this is 
 the last manuscript penned by Arne. He died in 1778. 
 
 It was Dr. Arne who wrote the setting to Thomson and Mallet's masque 
 "Alfred." This was "performed on Friday and Saturday, i and 2 Aug., 1740, 
 on a stage erected in the gardens of the house of Frederick, Prince of Wales, 
 at Cliveden, Bucks, at a fete given in commemoration of the accession of 
 George I, and in honour of the birth of Princess Augusta . . . This perform- 
 ance is memorable in the annals of English music, for it was for ' Alfred ' that 
 Arne composed ' Rule, Britannia,' perhaps the finest national song possessed 
 by any nation, and for which alone, even if he had produced nothing else, 
 Arne would deserve a prominent place amongst musicians of all countries." 
 
 Dr. Arne also wrote the beautiful music to Shakespeare's " As You Like 
 It" and "Twelfth Night." Perhaps the best known of his pieces next to 
 " Rule, Britannia," is the charming setting to " Where the Bee Sucks."
 
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 edition of the work, of which only two copies are known — one in the pos- 
 session of Dr. W. H. G. Flood (the biographer of Arne), and the present 
 example. 
 
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 BACH (JOHANN SEBASTIAN). HOLOGRAPH 
 MANUSCRIPT, SIGNED, i/^^^, 4to. Lip sias {Leip- 
 zig), November 2, 1725. 
 
 In Latin. 
 
 From the Meyer-Cohn collection; one of this great amateur's most prized 
 possessions. Of superlative rarity, being the only signed Bach MS. that has 
 occurred for sale during the past twenty-five years. 
 
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 BALFE (MICHAEL WILLIAM). THE ORIGINAL 
 
 HOLOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT, SIGNED, of his 
 
 "WHEN THE KING OF CASTILE." 3 pages, 
 
 oblong folio. 
 
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 CINO." HOLOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, i page, 
 folio. Ceuto, December (}, 161 7. 
 
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 BEETHOVEN (LUDWIGVAN). LETTER SIGNED, 
 
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 A receipt. 
 
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 March 1827. 
 
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 paucis lectoribus. 
 
 Imprinted at Londo7i by Will S tans by. A 71". D. 16 16. 
 Folio. Fine impression of the engraved title by William 
 Hole. Red morocco extra, Harleian tooled sides. 
 
 The excessively rare First Edition. 
 
 Besides being the first collected edition the present volume is of unusual 
 Shakespearean interest because it informs us that Shakespeare took part as a 
 tragedian in one of his rival's plays, for in the Hst of " The principall Tra- 
 gedians " at the end of " Sejanus " Shakespeare's name appears. He is there 
 described as " Will. Shake-Speare." 
 
 Not only, therefore, does this volume comprise a contemporary record of 
 Shakespeare as an actor, but also a coeval spelling of his name concerning 
 which so much has been written. 
 
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 BEVERIDGE (WILLIAM). THE CHURCH CATE- 
 CHISM EXPLAINED: for the Use of the Diocese of 
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 Ephesians vi, 4. 4to. Red morocco. Bound for Queen 
 Anne with her crowned chiffi^e in the centre and at the angles 
 of each cover gilt panels and floral ornanie7its on the sides. 
 
 London: J. Leake for W. Kettilby, 1704. 
 
 The binding of this volume is a fine example of the excellent taste of the 
 period, a direct outcome of the influence of Samuel Mearne. The sides are 
 occupied by two bold panels, one inside the other, formed by plain fillets. The 
 interior panel is enriched by a gilt roll on the inside, the outer by triangular 
 masses of tooling at the two sides and at the top and bottom. The inner and 
 outer panels are joined by a narrow roll at each angle, but the space between 
 them is left quite plain. In the centre is the Royal monogram surmounted by 
 the crown, and at each corner of the outer panel the monogram and crown 
 with palm branches on either side assumed by all the descendants of Charles I 
 in memory of his martyrdom. This use of the palm-branch, alone or with a 
 branch of cypress or laurel, is found round most of the book-stamps used by 
 markedly Royalist families. 
 
 The restrained ornament of the binding is especially effective owing to the 
 remarkably fine quality of the red morocco which was used at this period. 
 The Royal binders at this period were William Churchill and Edward Castle, 
 but the best known were Eliot and Chapman, who bound for Harley, Earl of 
 Oxford, and introduced the Harleian style of a perfectly plain side bordered 
 by a broad gilt roll. 
 
 William Beveridge, son of another William, was born in 1637 at Barrow in 
 Leicestershire. After being taught at home and at the Grammar School of 
 Oakham, he proceeded to St. John's College, Cambridge, where he devoted 
 himself to the study of Oriental languages. At the age of twenty-one he pub- 
 lished a treatise on the Excellency and Use of the Oriental Tongues, especially 
 Hebrew, Chaldee, Syriac, and Samaritan, together with a Syriac Grammar. 
 Though the book, as might have been expected, was of little value, it ran into 
 two editions. For some time he was vicar of Ealing, and while there published 
 his " Institutiones Chronologies" and his " Zuro^ti^-oi/ " or collections of 
 canons and decrees. In 1672 he was presented to the living of St. Peter's, 
 Cornhill, in 1684 made Prebendary of Canterbury, and in 1689 President of 
 Sion College. Beveridge was strongly opposed to any attempts at relaxing the 
 
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 terms of conformity and became unpopular with many divines, whilst his 
 refusal of the bishopric of Bath and Wells in 1691 gave great offence at court. 
 In 1704 he was made Bishop of St. Asaph when he addressed a letter to his 
 clergy on their duty of catechizing, and published the present book for their 
 assistance. In his place in the House he was a vigorous opponent of the 
 Union, being afraid that the Presbyterian views of Scotland might affect the 
 national Church of England. He died in the Cloisters at Westminster in 
 March 1708, and amongst other bequests left all his books to found a library 
 in St. Paul's Cathedral. Of this book very many editions were issued. 
 
 On the reverse of the title-page is the bookplate of East Apthorp, A. M. 
 Cambridge 1761. He was a prebendary of St. Paul's and was appointed 
 Chancellor in 1791. In 1792 he was made prebendary of Finsbury, and died 
 17th April 1 816, aged eighty-four. 
 
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 [BIBLIA SACRA LATINA.] F. la: Incipit epta sancti 
 Hieronymi ad Paulina psbyteit: d 01b, dine histoie libr. 
 Captm I. F Rater Ambrosius tua mihi munuscula pferens 
 detulit simul z suavissimas litte-ras: que a principio. ami- 
 citiai; fidem, pbate etc. 
 
 F. 3b, col. 2, incip. cap. i. Genes.: IN principio creauit 
 deus celum z terram Terra aut erat ianis z vacua z tenebre 
 erant super faciem abyssi : etc. 
 
 F. 421b, col. 2: Explicit Biblia impressa Venetijs p 
 Fraciscu de hailbrun z Nicolaii de frankfordia socios. 
 
 M.CCCC.LXXV. 
 
 Folio. Venice, F. de Hailbrttn & N. de Frankfordia, 1475. 
 
 Of the utmost rarity. This is the fir.st Bible printed in Venice and the 
 first of the five editions printed by Frank Renner de Hailbrun either in part- 
 nership with Nicolaus de Frankfordia or alone. Unlike the succeeding edi- 
 tions it has no printed signatures. The present copy, owing to its large 
 margins, still retains many of the manuscript signatures, and these are
 
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 peculiarly interesting. They are identical with those printed in the subsequent 
 edition, though of an unusual style. They run from a to y, omitting z, and 
 instead of being followed by a series of double letters, the usual way, the sub- 
 sequent quires are signed by numbers. 
 
 Frank Renner of Hailbrun, the printer, was at work in Venice for the 
 thirteen years 1471 to 1483, and during five (1473-1477) was in partnership 
 with Nicolaus de Frankfordia, and for a few months (147 7-1478) with Petrus 
 de Bartua. Altogether he issued about fifty books. Nicolaus de Frankfordia 
 began to print in partnership with Renner in 1473, ^"d continued with him 
 up to 1477. He then seems to have employed various printers to work for 
 him, but from 1482 to 1489 was in business by himself, almost his whole out- 
 put consisting of service books. After this date his name is found but rarely, 
 and only as employing other printers. He was still employed in 1500, when a 
 Missal was printed for him at Venice by Johannes Emericus de Spira. 
 
 This superb copy was formerly in the celebrated library of the Benedictine 
 Monastery of Saint Emmeram at Ratisbon (where many rarities in the Spencer 
 library were obtained), which was dispersed about the beginning of the nine- 
 teenth century, and contains its bookplate. Eight leaves added at the begin- 
 ning are filled with Latin verses intended to serve as a mefnoria technica to the 
 chief incidents contained in each book of the Bible, and each line is sur- 
 mounted by explanatory glosses. A few notes have been written on the 
 margins of the text in later hands, especially in parts of the New Testament. 
 On the last leaf is an explanation in German of the books of the Old Testa- 
 ment, the same explanation being written as a headline at the beginning of 
 each book. 
 
 The volume is in its original boards, covered, at a later date, in red velvet. 
 
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 BIBLIA SACRA VULGATAE EDITIONIS. Sixti V. 
 Pont. M. jussu recognita, et dementis VIII auctoritate 
 edita. 
 
 Col.: Agrippinse Sunipt. Haered. Bern. Gualteri et 
 Sociorum. \Cologne\ 1647. 
 
 6 vols. 48mo. Engraved titles. Contemporary red 7norocco,
 
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 doubU with red morocco, entirely cove^-ed with the cross of 
 Lorraine and the Greek double <i>. Probably bound for 
 Franfois Cardinal de Lorraine. 
 
 This charming edition of the Latin Bible is one of several issued by 
 B. Gualterus and his successors. The first, on account of the excellence of 
 the text, was in special favour with ecclesiastics, and well known as the " Bible 
 des eveques." The present on account of the beauty of the printing has often 
 been ascribed to the Elzevir press. 
 
 The binding of this copy in smooth red morocco is a very fine example of 
 a style which came greatly into favour in France during the second half of 
 the seventeenth century. It was known as Jansenist, named after Cornelius 
 Jansen, the founder of a very austere sect. The bindings were made to look 
 as plain as possible outside, but as a set off were often elaborately tooled on 
 the doublure. One great advantage of this style was that it necessitated the 
 use of particularly good morocco and required very superior forwarding. 
 
 For whom the present binding was executed it is difficult to state 
 absolutely. No binding bearing similar ciphers and emblems has apparently 
 been described or reproduced in any work treating of the subject. The use 
 of the double Greek ^ to represent an F or a Ph was not uncommon amongst 
 early French collectors. It was used amongst others by Francois Clausse de 
 Marchaumont, Philippe Des Portes, Feydeau de Brou, Nicolas Fouquet and 
 the celebrated Phelypeaux. The symbol of the double cross which occurs 
 alternately with the cipher is clearly the badge of Lorraine. No Duke of 
 Lorraine, however, within the period to which the binding belongs, had a 
 name beginning with an F or Ph, and it seems most probable that the binding 
 was done for Frangois, Bishop of Toul, brother of Charles, due de Lorraine, 
 who before his death in 1675 had several times lost and regained his estates. 
 
 Francois Nicolas was born in 1609, was made a Cardinal in 1627 and 
 later Bishop of Toul. His brother Charles having abdicated in 1634, he took 
 possession of the duchies of Bar and Lorraine, and forsook his ecclesiastical 
 position, though he never appears to have been in fixed possession of the 
 Duchy of Lorraine. He seems to have lived an adventurous life, living for a 
 while in Italy and later in Flanders. He died in 1670. 
 
 With the absence of all distinctive tooling it becomes impossible to assign
 
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 the workmanship to a particular binder, though the style closely resembles that 
 of Ruette, the most celebrated of the " Jansenist " binders. 
 
 THE FAMILY BIBLE OF THE DUKE AND 
 DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER 
 
 BIBLE, THE HOLY. Frontispiece after F. Hayman 
 by C. Grignion. 4to. Coittempo7'ary red morocco, with 
 dentelle border. Cambridge, i 768 
 
 The Family Bible of the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester with 
 two bookplates, one with his coat of arms and the other his monogram. The 
 Duke was the brother of George III. 
 
 Written on the first fly-leaf in the autograph of the Duke of Gloucester, 
 and signed both by the Duke (" William Henry ") and the Duchess (" Maria "), 
 is the following: 
 
 " Her Royal Highness Princess Sophia Matilda, born at Gloucester 
 House London May twenty nine, One thousand seven hundred Seventy 
 three, between the hours of eight and nine in the evening. 
 
 " His Royal Highness Prince William Frederick born at the Teodoli 
 Palace in Rome, on Monday the Fifteenth of January in the year of our Lord 
 One thousand Seven hundred and seventy six. 
 
 " We, William Henry Duke of Gloucester, and Maria Duchess of 
 Gloucester, do Declare, that the above entry of the Births of our Daughter 
 and Son is true." 
 
 William Henry was the first Duke of Gloucester and the brother of 
 George IK. Pie married on 6 Sept. 1766, Maria, dowager Countess of 
 Waldegrave, an illegitimate daughter of Sir Edward Walpole, and a niece of 
 Horace Walpole. 
 
 The two children mentioned were the only issue of the Duke and 
 Duchess — Sophia Matilda died unmarried and William Frederick was the 
 2nd Duke of Gloucester. 
 
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 i6 
 BLACKMORE (R. D.). Author of '' Lorna Dooner His 
 original correspondence with F. B. Doveton, Mrs. Kirton, 
 and Mrs. Kroeker. Consisting- of 43 HOLOGRAPH LET- 
 TERS SIGNED, written between 13th March 1877 and 
 28th May 1897. With the original envelopes addressed in 
 Blackmore's autograph. 
 
 This important correspondence also includes the proof of a poem entitled 
 " The Haunted Castle," consisting of twenty-four verses by F. B. Doveton, with 
 numerous corrections in the autograph of R. D. Blackmore, who has written 
 at the end of the poem — " Wont do. Dashed off with a cigarette instead 
 of a thoughtful pipe. The metre — Iambic dimeter — is not sufficiently 
 observed." 
 
 The first letter, which is dated from Teddington 13 March 1877, refers 
 to the German translation of his novel, "Alice Lorraine." Blackmore writes 
 " Destiny forbids me, I fear, from ever getting into Teutonic attire." In 
 the second he mentions E. Capern, whom he does not know, " except by 
 fame and from extracts from his poems." In the next letter, written in the 
 same month, he refers to his favourite sport, fishing. " R. B. Marston is 
 coming to me on Monday, for a days pike-fish'g ... I hate all bottom- 
 fishing, even that for pike, which is of course the prime of it; but perhaps 
 good sport may convert me. Fly-fishg. is my favourite pleasure and next 
 thereto snipe-shooting. But I fear, eyes that have been so much on paper 
 are worn out for the keen flight of sport." In the following letter Blackmore 
 refers to his wife's illness. In other letters he mentions having received a 
 letter " from a Dartmoor worthy, Mr. Dimond of Exeter and of Widecombe 
 fame." He will be pleased to receive a copy of Doveton's Collected Poems. 
 In a letter dated Oct. 2nd 1884 Blackmore says that he " has not left home 
 at all this summer, for I have had a most disastrous year and a dead loss of 
 ;^6oo wh. compels me to economise." — " Perhaps I am prejudiced against 
 anything Ingoldsbyian — by my special dislike of the ' Ingoldsby ballads,' 
 whose humour seems to me to be flippancy, and the main wit oddity of
 
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 rhyme and rhythm"; he also refers to his garden, "and soon I shall be 
 working with pen and spade from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. My work goes on very 
 slowly and has been delayed by 3 weeks bronchitis." " The taste of the age 
 is not for verse, and no man reads it unless he is bound." He refers to 
 the death of his wife in a letter dated February 8th 1888 : " My dear wife lived 
 entirely for me and tended me with perpetual caresses, and we scarcely ever 
 were asunder for a week at a time, and even that very rarely," etc. He has 
 lost the use of his left hand, criticizes his correspondent's poems, and 
 mentions Baring Gould. In November 1894 Blackmore writes that he is 
 " getting too old for the fly [fishing] ; and fit only to fish in Styx with the 
 black slug." Again in the same month he writes : " I doubt whether I shall 
 ever see Devon again. Don't ' bonny ' it, ' bonny ' is to [sic] Scotchified." 
 He again criticizes his friend's verses: "So far as I can tell there is some 
 beauty, and much facility in your lines; but of strong originality less trace." 
 Another letter contains more criticism, and Blackmore says of himself, 
 " 40 or even 50 years ago, I used to write verse more easily than prose, but I 
 could never get a hearing for it, and was obliged to take up prose. . . . Some 
 of it now makes me laugh though I thought it ' devilish ' fine when I wrote 
 it," etc. In a letter dated January nth 1895 Blackmore writes: " If my little 
 verse-tales see the light I shall beg you to accept a copy. Shades of Maevius, 
 is one not as good as a Punch and Judy panpiper ? " ( T/u's refers to his " Tales 
 frotfi the Telling House, ^^ published in 1896, one of his last two publications) 
 In one of the letters Blackmore criticizes the Editor of a Paper " that has 
 dared to touch literature "; he again refers to angling, and regrets that "the 
 fates will not allow him to see a Devonshire trout again." Refers to his 
 "Tales from the Telling House" again in a letter dated June 8th 1895: 
 " When my little book will be out I know not, neither care, for it is a most 
 hideous thing, and vexes me so that I decline to think of it. 'High Art'! 
 they call it." In another reference he says: " \os. net is too much for him 
 to carry, 25. (id. I proposed or ^s. at the utmost, but Elkin Mathews said 
 it would not come home," etc. 
 
 Blackmore refers to the death of " one of his old friends," Mortimer 
 Collins, " some of his things are beautiful." And in another letter mentions 
 his old school, Blundell's, where he was educated. This school figures in 
 " Lorna Doone," where "Jan Ridd " was also educated. 
 
 The last letter in this correspondence is dated 28th May 1897 (less than
 
 i6 J. PEARSON & CO. 
 
 three years before his death). Blackmore writes: " I have little time now to 
 look at anything, and seen very few of the magazines, for I can no longer get 
 about with any comfort. Though my fruit crop is utterly smashed, I have as 
 much to do as ever, and become rapidly less fit to do it." 
 
 The forty-two holograph letters, envelopes, and corrected proof sheet are 
 uniformly inlaid and bound in a Royal 4to volume of green morocco extra. 
 
 This is the sole correspondeiice of the Author of '■'■ Lorna Doofie" known 
 to us. 
 
 17 
 BOCCACCIO. THE MODELL OF WIT, Mirth, 
 Eloquence, and Conversation. Framed in Ten Dayes, of 
 an hundred curious Pieces, by seven Honourable Ladies, 
 and three noble Gentlemen. Preserved to Posterity by 
 the Renowned John Boccacio, the first Refiner of Italian 
 prose: and now translated into English. 1625. THE 
 DECAMERON containing an hundred pleasant Novels 
 wittily discoursed, . . . The last Five Dayes. 1620. 
 Pj'iitted by Isaac laggard, for Math ew Lownes, 1620, 1625. 
 Folio. Curious woodcut borders to title, and numerous 
 quaint cuts in the text. Red morocco by Bedford. 
 
 The First Complete English Translation of the Decameron. The 
 translator is unknown. An excessively rare book when perfect. 
 
 lis 
 
 18 
 
 BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON. Including 
 Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's 
 Diary of a Journey into North Wales. Edited by George
 
 5, PALL MALL PLACE 17 
 
 Birkbeck Hill, D.C.L. 6 vols. A very remarkable Extra 
 Illustrated Copy, extended to 10 vols., folio, by the insertion 
 0/1,^00 Portraits, Engravings, and Views. Together luith 
 560 AUTOGRAPH LETTERS a7id signed docu7nc7its of persons 
 7nentio7ied i7i the text. The whole very ca7'efiilly ijilaid a7td 
 bojmd to a tuiiform size. Half red 77iorocco ext7-a. 
 
 Oxfo7^d, 1887 
 
 This is by far the most carefully and lavishly " Grangerized " copy of 
 Boswell's immortal biography that has ever been in the market. It forms 
 a graphic illustration of the literary and political life of the eighteenth century 
 that can hardly be equalled. The illustration of these volumes was com- 
 menced in 1887 and only completed in 1899. The quality of the prints, 
 portraits, and above all of the autographs, leaves nothing to be desired. 
 Accompanying the " Life," and uniformly bound, is an Index volume to 
 the illustrations. There is also the original deed signed by Johnson and Mrs. 
 Thrale, besides the other executors of Thrale's will, and finally a unique copy 
 (specially printed in 1796) of Shaw's "History of Litchfield" (Johnson's 
 birthplace). 
 
 A mere catalogue description of volumes of this character must neces- 
 sarily be brief, but ///// particulars will be sent on applicatioti to intending 
 purchasers. 
 
 £750 
 
 19 
 
 BRAHMS (JOHANNES). HOLOGRAPH LETTER 
 SIGNED. 3 P<^g^s, 8vo. Dated fro7}i Bade7t Bade7i. 
 
 " Freundschaftliches Schreiben. Es ist doch schlimm, wenn man die 
 Stadt verlasst, man auch die Menschen lassen muss! Und leider! wenn ich 
 hier Wiener sehe, so habe ich nur andre her zu wiinschen." — Meyer-Cohn 
 Catalogue. 
 
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 " BRAMANTE D'URBINO " (DONATO LAZARRI). 
 HOLOGRAPH RECEIPT SIGNED, i page, 4to. 
 April 27, 1512. 
 
 Of excessive rarity. 
 
 There is no autograph of this painter, the illustrious uncle of Raphael 
 and the architect of St. Peter's, in the British Museum. 
 
 21 
 
 BRONTE (CHARLOTTE). The series of fifty-one very 
 important HOLOGRAPH LETTERS, addressed prin- 
 cipally to her most intimate friend, Ellen Nussey. Other 
 letters are to her father, her brother (P. Branwell Bronte) 
 and Messrs. Smith and Elder (her publishers). The 
 majority of these letters are of considerable length, and of 
 the most private nattire. In addition to the letters there is 
 a manuscript of Emily Bronte (who died when young), and 
 three manuscripts of P. Branwell Bronte. This correspond- 
 ence shows seven different signatures of Charlotte Bronte, 
 and really constitutes a most valuable Manuscript Biography 
 of Charlotte and the Bronte family. The whole inlaid to a 
 uniform size, folio, and bound in bi^ow^i morocco extra, gilt 
 leaves. 
 
 Probably the finest Bronte collection in existence. 
 Fuller particulars on application. 
 
 See Illustration
 
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 21
 
 Pilgrim's ProgpwEss 
 
 FROM THIS 
 
 W O R L D 
 
 T O 
 
 That which is to Come: 
 
 Deliyct'd under the 
 
 •SIMILITUOfi 
 
 O F A 
 
 D R E A M * 
 
 Wherein Is Dlfcovemij 
 
 The Manner of his Setting out, 
 His Dangerous Journey^ 
 
 AND 
 
 Safe Arrival ac theDefired Country. 
 
 By JOHN B V N T A N. 
 
 And now done into VERSE 
 By Franck Hoffman, 
 
 ■P "^ i" IIMI^* 
 
 I have ufed SimilitHdes^ Hofea. I a» to. 
 
 ~^ L N D O j^T"""""''^ 
 
 Printed hy R, iQuiiey, and are to be So!3 h^ 
 the Bookfeikrs of Zea<*on and WtHm^ef, if^.^ 

 
 5, PALL MALL PLACE 19 
 
 22 
 BUNYAN. THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS, from this 
 World to That which is to come: The Second Part. 
 DeKvered under the SimiHtude of a Dream. Wherein is 
 set forth The manner of the setting out of Christian's 
 Wife and Children, their Dangerous Journey, And Safe 
 Arrival at the Desired Countrey. By John Bunyan. I 
 have used similitudes, Hos. 12. 10. Licensed and Entred 
 according to Order. Fine impression of the curious fronti- 
 spiece. I 2 mo. In the original calf 
 
 London, Printed for Nath. Ponder at the Peacock in the 
 
 Poultry, near the Church, 1687. 
 
 The exceedingly rare Second Edition of the Second Part of this World 
 famous book. 
 
 23 
 
 BUNYAN. THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS from this 
 
 World to That which is to come : Deliver'd under the 
 
 Similitude of a Dream : wherein is Discovered The Manner 
 
 of his Setting out, His Dangerous Journey, and Safe 
 
 Arrival at the Desired Country. By John Bunyan. And 
 
 now done into Verse By F'rancis Hoffman. I have used 
 
 Similitudes, Hosea. 12. 10. Fine impression of the cuj^ious 
 
 frontispiece {containing a portrait of Bunyan asleep^ andm^any 
 
 very quaint wood e7i^ravi7igs. 12 mo. Blue morocco extra. 
 
 London: Printed by R. Tookey, and are to be sold by the 
 
 Booksellers of London and West7ninster. 1706. 
 
 The First Edition of the Pilgrim's Progress in Verse, and of
 
 20 J. PEARSON & CO. 
 
 ^/le tit77iost rarity. This is the first attempt to popularize the " Pilgrims 
 Progress" by turning it into rhyme. It is therefore an extremely desirable 
 volume. The paper on which it is printed is of poor quality, used, doubtless, 
 in order that the work should be as inexpensive as possible, so that its 
 purchase could be within reach of the masses. Therefore practically the whole 
 issue has perished. 
 
 Offor's copy was very imperfect, wanting pages 19 to 30. 
 
 Only three perfect copies are known: the present, that in the British 
 Museum, and the example in W. B. Gurney's library. 
 
 The British Museum copy is in very poor condition. 
 
 ^120 
 See Illustration 
 
 24 
 
 BUNYAN. THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS. Being a 
 facsimile reproduction of the First Edition. Moj'occo extra, 
 UNCUT. 8vo. London, 1678 (Rep. i860) 
 
 Printed on Vellum. One of but six copies so printed. 
 
 25 
 BUNYAN. THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS. A unique 
 collection of Editiones Principes of the translations of this 
 World-famous book into various languages, 
 
 a. Taith neu Siwrnai y Pererin, Tan Rith neu Gyffelybiaeth Breu- 
 ddwyd : Yn yr hwn y dangosir, I. Y Modd y mae Pechadur yn Cychwyn, neu 
 yn Dechreu ei Siwrnai, or Byd hwn tua'r Nefoedd. II. Y Peryglon y mae fo 'n 
 cyfarfod ag hwynt, yn ei Daith. III. Ei Ddyfodiad o'r diwedd ir Wlad ddy- 
 munol, neu'r Nefoedd, mewn Diogelwch. Arferais gyffelybiaethau, trwy Law y
 
 5, PALL MALL PLACE 21 
 
 Prophwydi. Hosea 12. 10. Wedi Lisenso gan K. Midgley, y 23 o fis Tachwedd, 
 1687. 12 mo. Original calf. 
 
 Printiedig yn Llundain gan J. Richardsoft, yn y Flwyddyn, 1688 
 
 The precious and possibly unique First Edition of " The Pilgrim's Progress" 
 in Welsh. 
 
 The earliest Welsh edition possessed by Offor was that of 1761 (the 
 second part only). 
 
 " A copy of the Welsh translation, published before Bunyan's decease, but 
 which had not come to his knowledge, is in the library of Miss Atherton, of 
 Kersell Cell, near Manchester. That lady, not understanding the Welsh lan- 
 guage, most readily and kindly furnished me with some particulars of this 
 rare volume, extracted in Welsh ; and it appears that the title-page exactly 
 follows the English editions. The preface is signed S. H. It has the marginal 
 notes and references." — Offor. 
 
 The present example lacks four leaves, which were never bound up with 
 the book; they were doubtless omitted by the binder through his ignorance 
 of the Welsh language. 
 
 The above was the only copy known to Offor. It is not in the British 
 Museum. 
 
 b. The Pilgrim's Progress. . . . 8vo. 
 
 Loudon: Printed by E. Hodson, for /. Deighton, Holboru, 1792 
 
 The first edition containing the remarkable error of Mordecai 
 FOR Haman, page 157. 
 
 Offor's copy was imperfect, and must have been a remarkably short one, 
 for he described it as a i2mo. 
 
 The British Museum does not possess a copy of this edition. 
 
 c. En Pillegrims Fremgang, Det er. En sand Christens Reyse fra denne 
 til den tilkommende verden; i Tvende Parter fremsat under En Lignelse af 
 en Drom, hvorudi forestilles under mange Lignelser, hvad der kand vederfarcs 
 en Christen fra bans omvendelses forste beayndelse, indtil hand efter mange 
 slags fristelser, kamp og gienvordighed omsider opnaaer sin troes erde og 
 maal, som er den evige Salighed. Sammenstrevet paa Engelst of Johannes 
 Bunian, Proedikant til Betfort. Nu paa ny igiennemseet, afdcelt i Capitler og
 
 22 J. PEARSON & CO. 
 
 mindre afdelinger, saa og med mange udleggelser, til Loeserens des storre nytte 
 og opbyggelse forsynet, og til trykken befondret. Selges her vindbund: for 24 
 skilling danske. Curious frotttispiece. 2vols. i2mo. 
 
 Kisbenhavn, udi det Kongel Wdysenhuses Bogtrykkerie, og paa dets Forlag, 
 
 Trykt af Gottmann Friderich Ktsel, Aar 1 744. 
 
 The first edition of the " Pilgrim's Progress " in Danish. 
 
 The earliest Danish edition in the British Museum is that of 
 1862 — one hundred and twenty-two years later! 
 
 Offor possessed no copy whatever of any edition in Danish. 
 
 The earliest mentioned by Dr. Brown, the latest Bunyan biographer, is 
 also the 1862 edition. 
 
 d. En Christens resa Til den Saliga Ewigheten, hwilken genom atskilliga 
 artiga Sinne-Bilder ForestSller En BotfSrdig Gud-s6kande Sials hela Tilstand, 
 Pa Engelska Spraket beskrifwen Af M. Johann Bunian, Predikant i Betford, 
 Men nu for desz fortraffelighet skull, Efter Den Tyska Ofwersattningen, 
 forswenskad Af M.L. 8vo. 
 
 Stockholm, Tryckt has Peter Hesselberg, Ar 1766. 
 
 This is the First Edition of the "Pilgrim's Progress" printed in Sweden. 
 The earliest edition in the British Museum is that of 1848, 
 eighty-two years later than the present edition. 
 
 e. Andra Delen Af en Christens resa Til den Saliga Ewigheten, hwilken 
 f6restaller Hans Hustrus Christinnans Resa, Sammaledes pa Engelska Spraket 
 beskrifwen Af M. Johann Bunian, Predikant i Betford, Men nu efter den Tyska 
 Ofwersattningen forswanskad uf M.L. 8vo. 
 
 Stockholm, Tryckt hos /oh . Georg Lange, Ar 1779. 
 
 The First Edition of the second part of the " Pilgrim's Progress," printed 
 in Sweden. 
 
 Not in the British Museum. 
 
 / Perigrina^ao de Hum Christao, ou Viagem Para a Cidade Celeste, 
 Debaixo da Allegoria de hum Sonho. Trasladada em Vulgar, por F.R.I.L.E.L.
 
 5, PALL MALL PLACE 23 
 
 Eu osinstrui por meio de muitas Visoes. Oseas 12. 10. Curious frontispiece. 
 Sm. 8vo. 
 
 Lisboa, Na Typografia Roliandiana, 1782. Com liceufa da Real Meza 
 Censoria. 
 
 The extremely rare First Edition of the " Pilgrim's Progress " in 
 Portuguese. 
 
 Offor did not possess any edition in Portuguese. 
 
 g. TuRUS AN Chriosdiughe, . . . Aistrithghe o Mbhearla Eoin Bhuniain. 
 Svo. Original boards with paper label. 
 
 Dublifi: John Robertson and Company, James Nisbet and Co., and R. Groom- 
 bridge, London, 1837. 
 
 The First Edition of the " Pilgrim's Progress " printed in the Irish (Erse) 
 language. There is no copy of this edition in the British Museum, and Offor 
 did not possess a copy. 
 
 The Advertisement states : " This little book hath long been translated 
 into not a few of the languages of Europe, and printed too; nay, it is now 
 reading by the very natives of Bengal. . . . Yet strange to say, although there 
 are no people on earth so fond of a good story, and to whom such a one as 
 this could be more welcome, the book has never before appeared in the 
 ancient and expressive tongue of old Ireland." 
 
 h. Te Tere no te Tuitarere Mei Teianei. Ao ki te ao a Muri Atu; e 
 Mea Akakiteia Mai, Mei te Mea, e Moe. Na Joane Bunyan. 
 
 Rarotonga. Printed at the Mission Press, 1846. 
 Sm. Svo. Curious frontispiece of " Pilgrim " hnoching at a door. 
 
 The First Edition of the First Translation into the language of 
 THE Pacific Islands. 
 
 /. Krossgangan ur Pessum Heimi, til hins okomna — Draumvitran — 
 eptir John Bunyan. Sniiid lir ensku af O. V. Gislasyni. Cand. Theol. Svo. 
 
 Reykjavik, i prentsmidju Islands. E. Pordarson. 1865 
 
 The First Edition of the "Pilgrim's Progress" in Icelandic.
 
 24 J. PEARSON & CO. 
 
 Presentation copy from the translator with his autograph inscription 
 (signed). 
 
 Offor did not possess any edition of " The Pilgrim's Progress " in Ice- 
 landic. 
 
 There is no copy of this First Edition in the British Museum, and the 
 earliest edition known to Dr. John Brown (the biographer of Bunyan) was 
 dated 1876 — eleven years later. 
 
 /. Ai TuKUTUKU Kei Vulagi-Lako: a ya nai Tukutuku ni nona Lako 
 mai na Vuravura o qo ki na Vuravura ena niuri mai : sa volai me Vaka sa 
 dua na todra. E vola taumada ko Misa Joni Puniyani. Sa laveti ki na vosa 
 Vaka-Viti. Sa Tabaki mai Lodoni e Peritani, 1867. 
 
 Sm. 8vo. Portrait of Butty an with facsimile of his autograph beneath. 
 Original cloth. 
 
 The First Edition of the First Translation into the Fiji language 
 
 AND OF the utmost RARITY. 
 
 k. Mbuk Asana usum hevn Obuk nte enye otode ke ererimbot emi Asana 
 aka Hevn John Bunyan ewet ke iko mbakara Alexander Robb akabare ewet 
 ke iko Efik. Frontispiece. 8vo. 
 
 Edinburgh: Messrs. Muir ye Paterson Efik. 1868 
 
 The extremely rare First Edition of the " Pilgrim's Progress " in 
 Efik (an African dialect). 
 
 The British Museum does not possess any copy in Efik. 
 
 Together 1 2 vols. Some in their original bindings and 
 
 others bound in dark blue moivcco extra. 
 
 This is believed to be the most complete collection of translations 
 extant. 
 
 26 
 
 BURNS (ROBERT). Poems, chiefly in the Scottish 
 
 Dialect. 
 
 The Simple Bard, unbroke by rules of Art. He pours the wild effusions 
 of the heart: and if inspir'd, tis Nature's pow'rs inspire. Her's all the melting 
 thrill, and her's the kindling fire. Anonymous.
 
 1 P O E M S, ll^ 
 
 
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 C H 1 £ F L Y i N THE 
 
 SCOTTISH 'dialect, 
 
 B y 
 
 ROBERT BURNS. 
 
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 THE Simple Bard, unhroke by rules of Art, 
 He pours the wild tfTufioiis of the heart : 
 And if infpirM, 'tis Nature's pov\'rs infpire; 
 Hcr's all the melting tlirill, and her's the kindling fire 
 
 Anonymous. 
 
 KILMARNOCK: 
 
 PRINTED BY JOHN WILSON. 
 
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 26
 
 5, PALL MALL PLACE 25 
 
 8vo. Green morocco prettily tooled in gold, by Bedford. 
 
 Kilmarnock : printed by John Wilson, 1 786. 
 
 The First Edition. Known as the " Kilmarnock Burns." 
 The present copy, which measures 7^^ x 4^ inches, was bound by the 
 late Francis Bedford in 1875. 
 
 See Illustration 
 
 27 
 BURNS. LETTERS FROM, TO, AND CONCERN- 
 ING SCOTLAND'S POET. An extremely important 
 Collection of ']2i Autograph Letters, MSS., Drawings, and 
 Engravings. The collection comprises, in addition, many- 
 fine portraits of the Poet, including a beautiful impres- 
 sion presented by two descendants of Rob. Burns to 
 N. Call with their autograph inscriptions and signatures. 
 Inlaid to a uniform size and forming a handsome Royal ^to 
 green morocco volume. 
 
 I. BURNS (ROBERT). A. 1. s. to Captain Richard Brown of the Ship 
 Mary and Jean, z pages, 4to. March 20/// 1788. 
 
 "... I have been getting my tack extended as I have taken a farm; and 
 I have been raking shop accounts with Mr. Creech, which both together, with 
 watching, fatigue, and a load of care almost too heavy for my shoulders, have 
 in some degree actually fever'd me. ... I am posting to my farm in Dum- 
 frieshire, where many perplexing arrangements await me . . . these eight 
 days I have been positively crazed . . .," etc. 
 
 This letter is one of a series of seven only, which the Poet addressed to 
 Captain Brown: "At Irvine the Poet began his friendship with Richard 
 Brown, a sailor whose approval encouraged him to 'endeavour' at the char- 
 acter of 'poet' but who also led him into \\cq.^^—D.N.B. 
 
 All the letters from Burns to Brown are published, but this original letter 
 
 E
 
 26 J. PEARSON & CO 
 
 differs in many respects from the published version (see Paterson's " Burns," 
 vol. V, p. 112), some words being changed and the date given as March 26th 
 1788, whereas the original is dated March 20th 1788. 
 
 2. BURNS. HIS ORIGINAL HOLOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF A 
 GLOSSARY OF SCOTTISH WORDS. 2 pages, 8vo. 
 
 The following inscription in the autograph of his son is written on the 
 first page: "My Father's handwriting, Feby. 23 1834. Robt. Burns." 
 
 3. AN UNUSUALLY INTERESTING SERIES OF 13 ACCOUNTS 
 OF PURCHASES MADE BY THE POET, 7 of which are endorsed in 
 his autograph, and one has a note "By Cash \^s. iid" also in the Poet's 
 autograph. These accounts include bills for his clothes, spirits (whisky 
 and rum), tea, boots, etc., and are dated from Ayr, 26 Feb. 1788; Dum- 
 fries, 24 Nov. 1789, 1790; 12 July, 1793; 1794; Edinburgh, 1791; Thorn- 
 hill, 28 Feb. 1 791 ; 23 Jan. 1792; thus dating one month before he took the 
 farm at Ellislmd near Dumfries and covering the period of his position as 
 Exciseman. The series end about two years before the Poet's death. 
 
 The entries in these accounts give us an intimate acquaintance with 
 Burns' life. Entries for Mrs. Burns (Jean Armour), Miss Burns, and the 
 Poet's other children are frequent. His literary pursuits are represented, for 
 he paid jQi 4^. for eight copies of the "Bee." His farming labours and 
 the Excise Office are also recalled by the account for advertising the sale 
 of his cattle dated from the Office of Excise. 
 
 These accounts likewise cover the period when some of Burns' best 
 Poems were written. His " O' a' the airts the wind can blaw," "O were I 
 on Parnassus' hill," " I hae a wife o' my ain," " Auld Lang Syne," and " My 
 Bonnie Mary," are among those written at this time. 
 
 These Accounts constitute a most valuable record of the Poet's life, and 
 are, we believe, unpublished. 
 
 4. TYTLER (A. ERASER, Lord Woodhouselee). A. I. s., To Burns. 
 2, pages, 4to. 27 Nov. 1791. 
 
 Criticizing his Poems " The Whistle " and " The Lament." 
 
 Tytler revised the later editions of Burns' Poems. 
 
 This is the only letter fro7n Tytler to Burns that has occurred for sale.
 
 5, PALL MALL PLACE 27 
 
 5. CLARK (JAMES). A. I. s., 2 pages, 4to. i8//i J^edy. 1796. To Burns. 
 Respecting the payment of money. " Your Letter makes me very un- 
 happy, the more so as I heard very flattering accounts of your situation 
 some months ago. A note is enclosed, and, if such partial payments will 
 be acceptable, this shall soon be followed by more." 
 
 Important as it throws light on the Poet's circumstances a few months 
 before his death. He died 21st July 1796. 
 
 6. SMELLIE (WILLIAM). A.l.s., 1 page, 4to. Alar. 10, 1787. To 
 Burns. Acknowledging ;^2o. 
 
 Endorsed by Burns "SmeUie receipt." 
 
 7. A TRACING OF THE AUTOGRAPH VERSE, SIGNED, written by 
 Burns "on a pane of glass at Brow." Sent to Mr. Bramwell. 
 
 These lines are as follows : 
 
 " Wha e'er shall say I wanted Grace 
 
 When I did kiss and daute her. 
 Let him be planted in my place 
 Syne say I was a fauter." 
 
 Beneath these are: 
 
 " The Exciseman and the Gentleman in Ane 
 I point thee O Findlater, for thou'rt the Man." 
 
 The following lines are also written on the back; 
 
 " On Tom Pain's Death 
 
 " All pale and ghastly Tammy Pain 
 
 Gaed down ae night to Hell. 
 The Devil shook him by the Hand 
 
 Saying Tammy — I hope y'ere well — 
 He shut him up in Dungeon Hot 
 
 And on him Barr'd the Door, — 
 Lord ! How the Devil Lap and Leugh 
 
 To Hear the B Roar. 
 
 " R. B."
 
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 8. HAMILTON (JOHN). A. l. s , i page, 4to. Sept. i6th 1839. To 
 Cochrane. Sending a copy of Burns' letter to his (Hamilton's) father 
 Gavin Hamilton, which is on the fly-leaf. 
 
 John Hamilton was the "wee Curly John's ier-oe " of Burns' Poetical 
 Dedication to Gavin Hamilton. 
 
 9. ALLAN (DAVID). The remarkable series of lO ORIGINAL DRAW- 
 INGS in water-colours by this eminent artist and contemporary of the Poet, 
 who was known as "The Scottish Hogarth." 
 
 These beautiful drawings were designed to illustrate Burns' Poetry. They 
 remained unpublished until 1798, when they were engraved for Campbell's 
 " Introduction to the History of Poetry in Scotland." 
 
 Beneath each drawing is the verse which it illustrates very neatly written 
 in gold. 
 
 10. BURNS (GILBERT). The Poefs Brother. A.l.s., 3 pages, folio. 
 2']th April 1808. To Robt. Ainslie. On the suppression of certain 
 passages in his brother's Poems. 
 
 "You will observe that everything complementary to such a person will 
 reflect discredit on the Poet's Memory, and however Robert might sport the 
 verses in question to amuse that society about Kilmarnock ... I am con- 
 fident the Poet would never have consented to the publication of them, and 
 if Mr. Cromeck wishes to be considered a friend to the Poet's Memory he 
 ought to avoid publishing anything which the Poet on sober reflection would 
 have considered discreditable to him. The Kirk's Alarm I remember well 
 and think it decidedly unfit for publication and I hope most earnestly that 
 you will get it suppressed," etc., etc. 
 
 11. BURNS (ROBERT). The Poefs Eldest Son. A. l.s., i page, 410. ^ist 
 July 1 8 1 1 . 
 
 12. BURNS (ROBERT). A. Is., 1 page, 4to. Edinburgh, is March 1822. 
 To Hurst, Robinson & Co. Relative to a portfolio of pictures. 
 
 13. BURNS (JAMES GLENCAIRN). The Poefs Son. A. Is., 7, pages, 8\o. 
 Enfield, 4th Aug. 1840. To Jas. Cochrane. Relative to his father's Poems 
 edited by Cochrane.
 
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 14. BURNS (J. G.). A.l.s., 2 pages, 8vo. 13M Dec. 1842. To R. Cole. 
 Mentions Mrs. S. C. Hall and the meeting of Lord Lytton and the Ettrick 
 Shepherd (James Hogg). 
 
 15. BLOOMFIELD (ROBERT). Author of The Farmef^s Boy." A.l.s., 
 to the Earl of Buchan, 4 pages, 4to. Comparing his Muse with that of 
 Burns. 
 
 A most remarkable letter. 
 
 "... The illustrious that has left amongst us the name of Burns, has 
 often been lowered down to a comparison with me, but the comparison exists 
 rather in circumstances than in essentials, that man stood up with the stamp 
 of superior intellect on his brow a visible greatness and great and Patriotic 
 subjects would only have called into action the powers of his mind which lay 
 inactive, while he played calmly and exquisitely the pastoral pipe. The 
 Letters to which I have alluded in my preface to the Rural Tales were 
 friendly warnings, pointed with immediate reference to the fate of that extra- 
 ordinary man — Remember Burns has been the watchword of my friend 
 I DO remember Burns, but I am not Burns neither have I his fire to 
 
 FAN OR QUENCH, NOR HIS PASSION TO CONTROL." EtC. 
 
 16. BUCHAN (D. STEUART ERSKINE, EARL OF). An extremely 
 long a. I. s. {10 pages, 4to). To Lady Elcho. 
 
 This letter contains a poem eulogizing Burns and refers to the influence 
 of Geddes upon the Poet. 
 
 The most important part of this letter is that repudiating the charge 
 against him (Lord Buchan) that he was the cause of Burns writing in the 
 Scottish dialect: 
 
 " I have been accused of encouraging Burns to write in the uncouth 
 vulgar dialect OF Scotland, but the fact is quite the contrary, as in my letter 
 of advice which was lost ... I dissuaded him from the use of it except in 
 his Pastoral Pieces where the scene was placed in Scotland. His * Vision,' 
 his ' Mary in Heaven ' and his ' Address to the Shade of Thomson ' were al 
 the fruits of my advice." Etc. 
 
 The Earl was a great admirer of Burns, and the latter sent him " Bruce's 
 Address at Bannockburn." 
 
 It was Lord Buchan who advised the Poet to fire his muse at Scottish
 
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 story and Scottish scenes," and to whom in answer he addressed the noble 
 letter published in Paterson's "Burns" (vol. iv, p. 197). 
 
 Buchan also sent an invitation to Burns to be present at the inauguration 
 of the statue of James Thomson (the Poet) at Dryburgh. The Poet declined, 
 however, but sent an Ode on Thomson. After the death of Burns in 1796 
 the Earl placed a bust in his memory beside the bust of Thomson. 
 
 It was also to Buchan that Burns wrote to say that he would " woo his 
 rustic muse ... at the ploughtail." 
 
 17, 18. SCOTT (SIR WALTER). Two a. I. s. About Burns and his 
 Monument in Edinburgh. \ pages, \\.o. To Jas. Ellis. 
 
 " I daresay you are aware of Burns' reply to a correspondent who en- 
 quired if he had written the song beginning 
 
 ' Cauld blaws the wind o'er Dennocht head.' 
 
 ' I would give ten pounds if I could answer you in the affirmative ' was, I 
 think, the purport of Burns' reply. If you have not Burns by you I will look 
 out the passage and send it to you." Etc. 
 
 19. SCOTT (SIR WALTER). A. Is., \ page, 4to. Abbotsford, i\ July, 
 18 1 9. To Geo. Thompson. Relative to Burns' Monument in Edin- 
 burgh. 
 
 " . . . It is some time since I agreed on an application from the Com- 
 mittee I believe of the Subscribers for Burns' monument at Edinburgh to 
 give two guineas. More I cannot subscribe, have already given my mite to 
 the Mausoleum at Dumfries and being considerably liable to various applica- 
 tions of this kind. I should be a very useless and unornamental member of 
 the committee, as neither my health nor inclination are such as to induce me 
 to attend to public business. . . ." 
 
 20. HAZLITT (WILLIAM). A. /., i page, 8vo. To Perry. Relative to 
 his Lectures. 
 
 "That to-morrow will be on Burns but I am afraid a very lame and 
 impotent conclusion."
 
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 21. CAMPBELL (THOS.). Poet. A.Ls., 2> pages, 4to. 2()th Sept. 1801. 
 To George Thomson. Relative to his marriage and praising Burns. 
 
 "There was a man indeed who if now Hving could have handled the 
 British Harp with the hand of a Master, and would to God he had lived to 
 do justice to other music beside that of Scotland. The unpremeditated 
 effusions of his great mind cost him no effort. The God was ever upon him. 
 The facility of his talents in clothing music with Poetry must strike you as 
 
 1 feel it most humbly myself," etc. 
 
 A remarkable letter. 
 
 22. BRYDGES (SIR EGERTON). A.Ls. li, pages, 'ivo. 8 J/aj', 1834. 
 To McCrone. Marked " Private." 
 
 A most remarkable and extremely long letter. 
 
 " I read A. Cunningham's Life of Burns from 2 a.m. Wedn. morning to 
 
 2 p.m. when I finished it. I read myself blind, faint and exhausted. I have 
 not yet recovered it: — I am weak, and low-spirited. It is an eloquent and 
 noble life oi one of the truest poets, and tioblest of bemgs\ I have not ceased to 
 tremble and shed tears at the description of his death scene. . . . 
 
 "The Poet comes out bright and pure ore from the fiery furnace! 
 
 " Yet it appears to me that something is still wanting in the delineation 
 of the character of Burns: — I am not yet quite prepared to say what. . . . 
 
 " I once had a conversation with Cromek, who asked my leave to reprint 
 Burns^ letter to Capt. Grove containing the prose narrative of Tam O'Shanter, 
 which I think at least equal to the poetry ... I place (with this exception) 
 Burns' forte on the songs. 
 
 " Be assured, tht (that) the Burns was beautiful in description, he was 
 still more beautiful in sentiment— and real unaffected sentiment will any day 
 beat imagery! 
 
 "It is Burns'' glory that he did not write as an artist\ 
 
 "If he had had an higher and more classical education, and had been 
 born in a more fashionable and worldly station of life, he would not have 
 written so well ! ! ! ! In that case his raciness and force, wd. have been filed 
 and polished down ! 
 
 "It is Burns' life, which has thrown a halo round his poetry. 
 
 " Coming from Burns I did not think at first that I should be much 
 interested by Gait."
 
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 2s. HOLMES (OLIVER WENDELL). A. I. s., to John Dougall, Esq. 
 3 pages, 8vo. Bos/on, 13M Oc/. 1889. Relative to Burns. 
 
 A very fine letter, mentioning the loss of his only daughter, and speaking 
 feelingly of Burns' Poetry: " I had recently suffered a great bereavement in 
 the death of my only and much loved daughter. . . , 
 
 "The daisies from . . . remain as when you sent them except that I gave 
 one to a lady who I knew would value it highly. ... I am proud to think 
 that my book found itself in the company of Marcus Aurelius and that it 
 should hold between its leaves the modest flower which Burns has invested 
 with a tender beauty it never drew from the soil or air in which it grew. 
 
 "You need not be surprised that Americans are frequent pilgrims to the 
 place made dear to them and to all that read his songs, by the poetry of 
 Burns. He ought to have had ten years of his life — or five at least, in 
 America, for those words of his 
 
 ' A man's a man for a' that ' 
 shew that the true American feeling belonged to him as much as if he had 
 (been) born in sight of the hill before me as I write — Bunker Hill," etc. 
 
 24. GIBSON (SIR JOHN). The great Sculptor. A.I.s. i full /^^^^, 4to. 
 3 Oct. 1848. To Jos. Mayer. 
 
 "Thence at 5 p.m. we can proceed as may be determined upon to either 
 Edinbro' or Glasgow for 8/4 each, and the next day, Saturday, spend at one 
 of these places — & at Kilmarnock & Ayr — making the Hotel, at the old 
 
 KIRK of AlLOWa', close BY BURNS' BIRTHPLACE, & THE BRIDGE WHEREON 
 
 Maggie lost her tail, our abode over Sunday. Here we have my friend 
 Mr. Auld the Keeper of the Mausoleum for our Companion — a man filled 
 with enthusiastic love of your Poet <Sc who possesses various relics connected 
 with the Great Man." Etc. 
 
 25. CUNNINGHAM (ALLAN). Wrote the Life of Burns. A. l. s., i page, 
 8vo. ir Fedj. 1839. To Geo. Virtue. Relative to his edition of Burns 
 Poems. 
 
 26. CUNNINGHAM (ALLAN). A. I. s., i page, 4to. 31 Dec. 1839. To 
 G. Virtue. 
 
 "I have now completed your Edition of Burns. All his poems, all his
 
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 epigrams, all his songs and now all his letters have been arranged in the 
 natural order of their composition and critical or historical or explanatory 
 notes added to all. This will be the best arranged as well as [the] fullest edition 
 of his poetry and correspondence which has been yet given to the world," etc. 
 
 27. CUNNINGHAM (ALLAN). A. I. s., i />age, 4to. i Mv. 1S39. To 
 G. Virtue. Relative to his Edition of Burns' Poems. 
 
 " I have put the Glossary for Burns into the hands of Mr. Rickerby, 
 . . . I have finished my undertaking and finished it well too: it has cost me 
 much more labour than I looked for, but this you know is my matter and I 
 hope the work will be, as it deserves, successful in spite of the illustrations of 
 Wright, which are not according to the spirit of the poet, the more the 
 pity," etc. 
 
 28. CUNNINGHAM (ALLAN). A. Is., 2 pages, 4to. 11 Nov. 1839. To 
 G. Virtue. Relative to Virtue's Edition of Burns and the injury which it 
 will do to an existing edition in which Cunningham also has an interest. 
 Cunningham asks for ^25 in addition to the ^100 already agreed on. He 
 again attacks Wright's illustrations. 
 
 29. CHAMBERS (ROBERT). Famous Scottish Publisher. A. I. s., ^ pages, 
 8vo. To Robert Cole. 
 
 "The accounts of Robert Anderson against Robert Burns do not come 
 down to the period when Burns had a pair of boots ruined by the Kenmure 
 thunderstorm in July 1793 but I have been able to make a note quoting them 
 for the general fact that Burns paid 22^. for his boots. Having great scruples 
 about such precious documents as yours I lose no time in returning 
 them," etc. 
 
 30. MARTIN (LADY), Helena Faucit, A. Ls., ^ pages, 8vo. /any. ^fh 1872. 
 To Mrs. Macgregor. Relative to a Ball ; she will " make Mr. Martin (Sir 
 Theodore) get himself up as Burns whom he so often has been told he 
 is like."
 
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 31. A SERIES OF SIX PROOF ENGRAVINGS ILLUSTRATING 
 BURNS' POEMS. After J. M. Wright by S. Bull, J. Rogers and 
 F. W. Topham. 
 
 1. The Spirits of the Brigs of Ayr. 
 
 2. Nae-Body. 
 
 3. Tarn O Shanter. 
 
 4. The Cotters' Saturday Night. 
 
 5. Scotch Drink. 
 
 6. Burns' Interview with Lord Daer. 
 
 4to. G. Virtue^ 1839-42. 
 
 These are the illustrations that Cunningham attacked in his letters (see 
 supra). All the above are Open Letter Proofs. 
 
 32. "THE GENIUS OF POETRY FINDING BURNS AT THE 
 PLOUGH." After H. Melville by J. Rogers. 4to. G. Virtue, 1840. 
 
 Open Letter Proof. 
 
 33. BURNS. ADDRESS TO THE DEIL. Engraving by Thos. 
 Landseer. 
 
 34. THOMSON (GEORGE). Publisher. A. 1. 3rd person, i page, 4to. 
 July 25M 1798, to Alex. Grant. Mentions "Burns' Verses." 
 
 35. THOMSON (GEORGE). HIS ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH MANU- 
 SCRIPT of the Announcement of Thomson's "Select Melodies of Scot- 
 land," etc., with the printed form. 
 
 " It was on the suggestion of the Editor (Thomson) that Burns engaged 
 in the Composition of those exquisite lyrics which now constitute the noblest 
 monument to his memory." 
 
 36-49. THOMSON (G.). A series of 14 a. I. s., covering 25 pages, folio, 
 and addressed to Hurst Robinson & Co. between March 1823 and/?//)^ 1826. 
 All relative to Thomson's Edition of Scottish Songs [including a large 
 selection from Burns' Poems.] 
 
 50. OPIE (AMELIA). A. I. s., 2 pages, 8vo. 25 JVov. 1834. To George 
 Thomson. Thanking him for his Collection of Scottish Songs.
 
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 51. CURRIE (DR. JAMES). Biographer of Burns. A.i. s., i page,^\o. To 
 Mr. Martin. Inviting him to dinner to meet Galton and Charles Blagden. 
 
 Currie wrote the Life of Burns, undertaken for the benefit of the Poet's 
 family. It narrates the facts without much art, and succeeded in its object of 
 raising money for the widow. 
 
 52. CURRIE (DR.). A PRESCRIPTION in his autograph. 1/^^^,410. 
 13 Sept. 1804. 
 
 53-65. WALLACE (ROBERT). A descendant of the national hero Sir JVilliam. 
 A series of 13 a. I. s., covering 32 pages, and addressed to G. King and 
 J. Cochrane, from Sept. 10th 1839 to Oct. i^th 1839. A remarkably inter- 
 esting series entirely relative to Burns' " Scots wha hae wi' Wallace 
 BLED," and to the proposal for illustrating the same with an engraving of 
 the Wallace arms. 
 
 ". . . . I would half the difference with Mr. Fleming and give him ;^i5 
 for Scots wha hae. I will also supply Cochrane with information as to my 
 family, which being that of Sir Wm. Wallace, will be appropriate to follow the 
 song of Scots wha hae, in the forthcoming edition." 
 
 " I shall endeavour to give you a choice of documents regarding the family 
 of Wallace and within the time you have specified. . . . Perhaps you would 
 like to see our family seal attached to an old Deed. Very few old seals are so 
 perfect, and the deed is no less curious than the Seal and highly honorable 
 for the Deed I would send is one of many, is very clear, capital and brief 
 bearing the legitimate Arms of Sir Wm, Wallace, perhaps you would give them 
 a place in your work— they are in no other — for it is only lately I received 
 the Deeds to which the seals are attached." 
 
 " If you desire it I will send the seal and deed for your inspection — which 
 must be done I suppose if you shall decide giving a plate of the arms." 
 
 " If Burns had been spared to witness and welcome Penny Postage, he 
 would have called to his aid the utmost energies of [his] great soul to record 
 the innumerable ways in which it will benefit mankind and the immeasurable 
 bonds of its influence." 
 
 " I think he (Cochrane) should give the World a Facsimile of the hand- 
 writing of Burns from the Poem and with the poem of 'Scots wha hae.' . . . 
 I am now among 'Scots wha hae.' ... I have offered to send him the true 
 
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 Wallace Arms, attached to a deed in 1464, both being in perfect preservation — 
 the Seal a proof of the estimation in which the family had been and were held 
 by the King of Scotland— the Deed a pattern proper to use in putting to 
 shame the shameless plunder imposed on all ranks in the length and breadth 
 of Deed's now-a-days used in Conveyancing. Of this seal he may also make a 
 Plate and so put on record Wallace's honour and Burns brightest — at any 
 rate his most popular song in his own handwriting — both of which, as I 
 venture to think, would be very acceptable to the Lovers of Burns." 
 
 " I am now owner of ' Scots wha hae ' ... it shall be at your service for 
 taking a Lithograph or other Facsimile from it if you shall see proper to fall 
 in with this proposal." 
 
 " I . . . now return the narrative respecting Mrs. Dunlop of Dunlop and 
 family. She was an excellent woman and showed as I think a fine and just 
 female feeling in not sanctioning the publication of her correspondence with 
 Burns — the time she lived in was in favour of her decision — this has been 
 succeeded by very different times and feelings, and now that she is gone I can 
 see no good grounds for her family persisting in refusing to gratify the 
 admirers of Burns, and of elegant female acquirements, with a sight of those 
 letters which the Poet doubtless valued highly — but ... I can be of no use 
 in aiding you to the correspondence you so properly desire to publish. . . ." 
 
 "... I have packed up carefully ' Scots vi'ha hae.' ... I have thought 
 it best to desist on reflection I see plainly your work must have a likeness 
 only of Burns. . . . And now to ' Scots wha hae ' — I think the whole should 
 be represented in exact conformity with that sent you — namely, that the 
 address of the letter, its contents and the ode should all appear. You will 
 notice two peculiarities about this document. It has neither postmark nor 
 date— and to my mind both of these present proofs of its originality. Captn. 
 Millar lived at Dalwinston where the letter is addressed to. Dalwinston is 
 only a short distance from Dumfries, where Burns lived. There is no post 
 town between the places — and therefore a carrier, or chance bearer of some 
 sort— very likely a servant of the family would carry the Gem to the Captain 
 on the day it was written." (Continuing, the writer states that the original 
 differs from the already published versions.) 
 
 The writer owned, and refers to, the famous Burns-Dunlop correspondence 
 which is now in the Morgan library. 
 
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 5, PALL MALL PLACE 37 
 
 28 
 BURTON (SIR RICHARD FRANCIS), The Trans- 
 lator of ^'The Arabian Nights r THE ORIGINAL 
 HOLOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT of his translation into 
 English Blank Verse of 
 
 "THE URAQUAY." 
 
 Quite Complete. Covering 79 pages, 4to. 
 
 Accompanying this manuscript are Burton's holograph notes upon the Ufe 
 of the author — Jose BasiUo da Gama. 35 pages, 4to. 114 pages in all. 
 
 The Preface is signed " Frank Baker," Burton's pseudonym. 
 
 Unpublished. 
 
 The original manuscripts of this most extraordinary genius are among the 
 introuvables. 
 
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 29 
 
 BYRON. POEMS written by Somebody most respectfully 
 
 dedicated (by permission) to Nobody and intended for 
 
 Everybody who can read!!! Small 8vo. Original calf, 
 
 gilt. London, 18 18. 
 
 First Edition and so excessively rare as to be missing from most Byron 
 
 collections. 
 
 Presentation Copy from Byron with the following autograph in- 
 scription on the fiy-leaf: " iMrs. Lawson from the Author with sincere regard 
 Feby. 1818." 
 
 30 
 CAMPAN (GENET), First Lady in waiting to Marie 
 Antoinette. A remarkable Series of TWENTY HOLO- 
 GRAPH LETTERS (ten of which are signed in full) and
 
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 1 DOCUMENT SIGNED, covering 43 pages, 410, and 
 
 2 pages, 8vo. There are also 5 letters from her husband, 
 Monsieur Campan. 
 
 Madame Campan was one of the most gifted and brilliant women of her 
 time. 
 
 These important letters are dated from St. Germains, Ecouen, Mantes, 
 and Croissy about the years 1799 and 1821, less than a year before her death. 
 They are chiefly addressed to her friend, Louise Cochetet, reader to Her 
 Majesty " la Reine Hortense de Beauharnais " and relate to the domestic and 
 political affairs of the Royal Family. 
 
 The whole mounted in a contemporary red morocco album, richly tooled in 
 blind and gold, tvith light blue silk end-leaves, zvith a gold border of roses. 
 Royal 4to. 
 
 In a letter to her uncle, Madame Campan refers to her occupations which 
 have increased to such an extent that she is obliged to rise at six o'clock in 
 the morning. In another it is a question of a Miss Caroline Ides or Edes, an 
 Englishwoman, a balloonist, and of Mde. de Beaumont " mon ancienne 
 titulaire comme lectrice de Mesdames." The first letter to her friend Louise 
 (reader to Hortense de Beauharnais, Queen of Holland) refers to a little 
 " cabanne '' which she has procured from one of the poor religious orders. For 
 this she desires some "tabourets," one of which is for the Queen " les 
 tabourets seront des chiffres et une grccque en noir et le fond jaune le chiffre 
 de la Reine une h (Hortense) et un B. (Beauharnais or Bonaparte) avec la 
 couronne Imperiale." Mentions the Princess Berthier and is in love with a 
 friend's English colony. Another letter is to Degothy the artist. Another, to 
 her friend Louise, refers to a widow whose husband appears to have been one 
 of the Legion of Honour. Mentions some of her pupils and the King and 
 Queen (of Holland — Louis Bonaparte and Hortense) (1807). Again in 1807 
 (April) she writes that she has lost her "joli lustre," which "je devoir a 
 I'aimable souvenir de mon aimable Reine." 
 
 Requests her to ask the Abbe Bertrand to give her (Louise) 14 chapters of 
 the " Imitation of Christ " to read every morning on her knees for penitence, 
 and commands him to find her "lustre." 
 
 The King and Queen are again mentioned and a marriage referred to. In
 
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 another letter she is extremely curious regarding "this dear Fontainebleau." 
 To the Grand-Chancelier of the Legion of Honour, Madame Campan writes 
 that Mile. Leclerc, daughter of Colonel Leclerc, commander at Hannau, 
 entered as pupil in the Maison Imperiale Napoleon on the 23rd Sept. 1810. 
 
 Under date of 31 Jan. 181 1, from Ecouen, is a document commanding 
 the Dame Tresoriere to pay the Dames Surnumeraires 499 francs 92 cent. 
 their pay for January 181 1. To Monsieur Aime Martin the writer explains 
 her method during holidays: 
 
 " When my house of St. Germains existed, Sir, and when I had collected 
 there a crowd of young pupils whom destiny reserved to play the greatest 
 roles in the world, I wished to amuse them in the days generally devoted to 
 pleasures, I did not desire to give balls however and each year a Thursday, 
 monday or on Shrove Tuesday they represented Esther and one or two pieces 
 of Mile. Genlis in which were her most beautiful thoughts," or else one of her 
 own compositions. 
 
 The Queen [Hortense] has played in one. 
 
 After the abdication of Louis Bonaparte, King of Holland, in 1810 she 
 writes again to her friend relative to our dear Queen and her sorrow. " What 
 sacrifices and what resignation it demands to support such blows of fate. Was 
 there (ever) a being more amiable? " This is no doubt relative to the abdication. 
 
 She (the Queen) complains not of the letter received at 3 o'clock in the 
 morning, and which in certain moments of the health of women could have 
 killed her. Two other letters are dated 18 16, when the writer was sixty-three 
 years of age, and in which she says she has still five years in which she will be 
 capable of undergoing a long journey. 
 
 The letter written in 1821, when Madame Campan was sixty-eight, is 
 to Mde. Rousseau, and asks that lodgings be procured in Paris for one or two 
 days which she intends to spend there. She will travel slowly. Paris was 
 never again visited, however, for Madame Campan died soon after she wrote 
 this letter. 
 
 The five letters of her husband request the favour of a " Monseigneur " 
 for a faithful company which is threatened with the loss of its honour and 
 possessions ; criticizes and returns an invoice in which the measurement of a 
 certain article is questioned, asks for samples of "verds" from Messrs. 
 Barbier and Tetard, for ten yards of "taffetas de Florence double gris 
 d'acier " for mourning, from the same people.
 
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 A letter to Monsieur Rupe asks him to pay a bill; he has not seen him 
 lately as his health is still poor; leeches were again applied to him yesterday. 
 
 The receipt of Monsieur Rupe for the 250 livres advanced is at the bottom 
 of this letter. 
 
 At the age of fifteen Madame Campan (whose maiden name was 
 Berthollet) became reader to the daughters of Louis XV, and three years 
 later y?r.T/ hdy in waiting to Marie Antoinette. 
 
 She continued her functions up till the last moment — the awful loth 
 August 1793 — when she was separated for ever from the Royal Family. As 
 her biographer states, " elle vit le fer des Marseillais leve sur sa tete quand 
 les Tuileries furent livrees au pillage"; that was after the flight of Louis XVI 
 and his family. When the unfortunate Queen was incarcerated in the Temple, 
 Madame Campan vainly endeavoured to persuade Petion to allow her to 
 accompany Marie Antoinette. This devotion nearly cost her her life, for she 
 became the object of the special suspicion of such revolutionaries as Robes- 
 pierre and Combertin. However, she evaded capture by fleeing to the valley 
 of Chevreuse. 
 
 There she learned that her sister had committed suicide at the moment 
 of arrest. 
 
 Ruined by the Revolution Madame established a school at Saint-Germain, 
 where Hortense de Beauharnais became her pupil, who had been confided to 
 her care by Napoleon six months before his marriage to her mother, 
 Josephine. 
 
 After the war in Italy Napoleon took part in two representations of 
 Esther at Madame Campan's institution, and through this acquaintance the 
 latter was appointed by Napoleon head of the famous Maison Imperiale 
 Napoleon at Ecouen. 
 
 Her acceptance of Napoleon's patronage was disastrous to her upon the 
 return of the Bourbons, her greatest fault in her accusers' eyes being that she 
 had not hesitated to accept service under a new reigning family after having 
 been so closely attached to the old. Madame Campan retired to Mantes, 
 where she lost her son, and this blow so crushed her that she gradually 
 declined and expired in 182 i, the year in which the last letter in the present 
 collection was written.
 
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 A SUPERLATIVE CAXTON 
 
 CAXTON. TULLY. His Treatises of Old Age and 
 
 Friendship, with the Declaration of Noblesse, etc. 
 
 Fol. I. recto: Here begynneth the prohemye upon the 
 reducynge both out of latyn as of frensshe in to our 
 englyssh tongue of the polytype book named Tullius de 
 Senectute, etc. 
 
 FoL 71. recto: 
 ExpHcit: 
 
 Thus endeth the boke of Tulle of olde age translated 
 out of latyn in to frenshe by laurence de primo facto at the 
 comaundement of the noble prynce Lowys Due of Burbon 
 and enprynted by me symple persone William Caxton in to 
 Englysshe at the playsir solace and reverence of men 
 growyng in to olde age the vij day of August the yere of 
 our lord. M.cccc.lxxxj: (M^O 
 
 Fol. 72. recto: Here foloweth the said Tullius deAmicicia 
 \_sic'\ translated in to onr[our] maternall Englissh tongue by 
 the noble famous Erie, The Erie of Wurcestre (Worcester) 
 sone & heyre to the lord typtoft, which in his tyme, flowred 
 in Vertue, & cunnyng, etc. 
 
 FoL 99 recto: Thus endeth this boke named Tullius de 
 Amicicia, etc. 
 
 Fol. 100 recto: Here foloweth the Argument of the 
 declamacyon which laboureth to shewe. wherin honoure 
 sholde reste: \i.e. The Declamation of Nobleness]. 
 
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 Fol. iigv^rso: Explicit per Caxton. (h^O 
 
 Folloioing the text are 77 blank leaves contempoi^ary 
 
 with the seventh-century russia binding in which the work 
 
 is bouJid. 
 
 A MOST SUPERB EXAMPLE OF CaXTON's PrESS AND POSSIBLY THE FINEST 
 THAT CAN EVER OCCUR FOR SALE. ThE TEXT IS ABSOLUTELY COMPLETE. 
 
 The present is one of otily four knoivn copies containing hvo {out of three) 
 blatik leaves. 
 
 These four copies are: 
 
 1. The present. 
 
 2. The British Museum. 
 
 3. The Eton College. 
 
 4. Lord Pembroke's. 
 
 No copy with all three blank leaves is known to be in existence. 
 
 Our copy is also the second largest known, it measures 269 x igo mm. 
 The Eton copy is uncut and measures 293 x 209 mm. 
 
 Caxton's English version of " De Senectute " " De Amicitia " and of the 
 " Controversia de Nobilitate " of Buonaccorsi has many claims on the lover 
 of literature and old books. 
 
 It is the FIRST ATTEMPT to givc to English readers a classic author rendered 
 into their own tongue; it is a memorial of some famous men, John Tiptoft, 
 Earl of Worcester, Sir John Fastolf, William Worcester the chronicler, and 
 others; while it is also a product of the first press set up in England 
 BY William Caxton. 
 
 The English translation of " De Senectute " is anonymous, and Caxton, 
 though giving full information as to the translation of the " De Amicitia " and 
 the " Controversia de Nobilitate," gives no clue as to its translator. 
 
 It has been attributed to John Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester, the translator 
 of the " De Amicitia " and the " Declamation of Nobleness," but Caxton in his 
 prologues distinctly implies that the translator was unknown to him. Blades 
 ascribes the translation to Stephen Scrope, the son-in-law of Sir John Fastolf, 
 because Caxton in his first prologue states that the work was accomplished at 
 the desire of that worthy knight, and Scrope had already translated the 
 " Dictes and Sayings of Philosophers " in 1450 for Sir John.
 
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 We are, however, left in no doubt as to the authorship of the translation 
 of the " De Amicitia"; it was translated from the French of Laurent de 
 Premierfait by that celebrated statesman and scholar, John Tiptoft, Earl of 
 Worcester. 
 
 In regard to the Declamation (by " two noble Knyghtes Romaynes ") of 
 Nobleness, the authors of the two orations purport to be Publius Cornelius 
 and Gaius Flaminius, competitors for the hand of Lucrece. 
 
 Earlier writers up to Herbert, whom Dibdin copied, ascribed this book, on 
 the authority of Leland, to a certain Bonatusius Magnomontanus. It is, how- 
 ever, a translation of the " Controversia de Nobilitate of Buonaccorso da 
 Montemagno, a noble of Pistoia distinguished for his learning and eloquence. 
 
 The complete work was issued under the patronage of Edward IV. 
 
 The type used for the main body of the book is the recast type 2, known 
 as type 2*, while the quotations and proper names are printed in the larger 
 type 3. When Caxton left Bruges he had already made the punches and 
 matrices of type 2, and he left his first type in Bruges with his partner, 
 Colard Mansion. Type 2 is therefore the first type used in England, and was 
 used in the majority of books printed up to the end of 1478. It was then 
 re-cast and some fresh letters made, and the new type was in use from the 
 beginning of 1479 until about 1484. 
 
 Apart from its being an excessively important volume from 
 Caxton's Press, this is the first edition of the first classic printed 
 IN the English language. 
 
 Mr. Gordon Duff has specially written an elaborate Monograph descriptive 
 of this volume, of which 30 copies have been printed on fine paper. 
 
 ^^2,500 
 See Illustration 
 
 32 
 
 "CEDASPE" (PABLO DE CESPEDES). HOLO- 
 GRAPH LETTER, SIGNED. 3 pages, folio. Cor- 
 dova, September 13, 1577. 
 
 A superb letter addressed to Bastiano Caccini, Rome, in which he men- 
 tions his master Zuccaro.
 
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 Letters of this illustrious Spaniard (called "the Spanish Raphael") are 
 excessively rare. He seems to have been equally famous as a painter, 
 sculptor, architect, and poet. 
 
 ^80 
 
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 CERCEAU. POESIES DU PERE DU CERCEAU. 
 
 Nouvelle Edition. 4 vols. Small 8vo. Red morocco gilt, 
 silk end-papers, gilt leaves, by Derome. A Pa^ds, 1785 
 
 Believed to be the sole copy printed on vellum. 
 Totally unknown to MM. de Bure. 
 
 34 
 CERVANTES. THE HISTORY OF THE VALOR- 
 OUS AND WITTIE KNIGHT-ERRANT. DON 
 QUIXOTE OF THE MANCHA. Translated out of 
 the Spanish, London, Printed by William Stansby, for 
 
 Ed. Blou7it and W. Barret. 1 6 1 2 
 
 THE SECOND PART of the History of the Valorous 
 
 and witty Knight-Errant, Don Quixote of the Mancha. 
 
 Written in Spanish by Michael Cervantes: And now 
 
 Translated into English. 
 
 Londo7i, Printed for Edward Blount. 1620 
 2 vols. 4to. Quaint engraved titles {in addition to the 
 printed ones) to both paj^ts. Red morocco extra by Bedford. 
 
 The First Issue of the First Edition of both volumes of the 
 First English translation. 
 
 This is a most precious copy of an excessively rare book because it con- 
 tains BOTH printed TITLE-PAGES.
 
 THE 
 
 Y 
 
 OF 
 
 THE VALOROVS 
 
 AND WITT IE 
 
 Kni 
 
 G HT 
 
 -E R 
 
 P. A N T- 
 
 DON-QV iX OT E 
 
 Of the Mdmha. - 
 
 TranJIated out of the Spanip?^ 
 
 L N D O'iV 
 
 Pf int>ed by VMkrn^ SUmshy^ {ox Eel Blount and 
 W.BArret. \ 6 \ i. 
 
 
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 A perfect copy of both parts is in an American private library, but apart 
 from that now offered, no other is known. 
 
 The present example is in splendid condition, and measures 7| by 5^ 
 inches. It was bound by the late Francis Bedford in 187 1. 
 
 The Huth copy was imperfect, lacking the printed title to Volume I. 
 
 The British Museum example of the first part not only has the title-page 
 and one leaf in facsimile, but also lacks the engraved frontispiece. 
 
 The Spanish original of Part I realized ^1,460 at auction last year in 
 
 London. 
 
 ^850 
 See Illustration 
 
 35 
 CHARLES I. ROSA-HISPANI-ANGLICA SEU 
 MALUM PUNICUM ANGL' HISPANICUM. Bril- 
 liant i^npression of the excessively rare frontispiece, contain- 
 ing' portraits of Charles I and the Infanta Donna Maria 
 of Spain. 4to. Brown morocco. Bound for Georv:^e 
 ViLLiERS, Marquis {afterwards Duke) of Buckingham, 
 with his arms impressed on the sides. 1623-4 
 
 This is THE IDENTICAL COPY presented to the Marquis of Buckingham 
 (James Fs " Steenie "), at one time the great promoter of the famous match 
 between Charles I and the Spanish Infanta, and who was, afterwards, the 
 principal means of its being broken off. The finely engraved frontispiece is 
 the very earliest state before the engraver's name was added. This beautiful 
 volume was formerly in the Bindley and Beckford collections. Examples of 
 the " Great " Duke of Buckingham's library are of extreme rarity. 
 
 It is one of the scarcest volumes relating to the projected Spanish marriage 
 which convulsed all Europe. 
 
 See Illustration
 
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 CHARRON (PIERRE). DE LA SAGESSE, trois 
 livres. 4 vols. Small 8vo. In the original vellum binding, 
 uncut. Dijon, Frautin, 1801 
 
 There were only three examples printed on vellum. The present copy 
 is still preserved in the original publisher's cases. 
 
 Vellum copies were totally unknown to MM. de Bure. 
 
 Z7 
 CHERUBINI (LUIGI). HOLOGRAPH LETTER, 
 SIGNED. ^ pages, 4to. Paris, 2^ Janvier, 181 5. To 
 a friend in Berlin. 
 
 " Tr^s-belle lettre amicale adressee a un ami de Berlin. II a ete nommd 
 chevalier de la legion d'honneur et sur-intendant de la musique du roi. S'il 
 re^ssit d'obtenir un conge de quelques mois, il s'empressera de faire le voyage 
 de Berlin et il pourrait peut-etre profiter de son sejour, pour composer un 
 opera pour Berlin, il parle de Weber, etc." — Meyer-Cohn Catalogue. 
 
 ^18 18.?. 
 
 CHOISEUL (ETIENNE FRANCOIS, DUG DE). 
 First Minister of Lotcis XV. THE ORIGINAL HOLO- 
 GRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF HIS UNPUBLISHED 
 "ME MOIRES." Covering I /\;^ pages, ioWo. Quite com- 
 plete. 
 
 An extremely important manuscript, and of extreme interest from the light 
 it throws on the vast power wielded throughout Europe by Madame de 
 Pompadour.
 
 5, PALL MALL PLACE 47 
 
 Preceding the manuscript is a neatly written title which reads: 
 
 " Memoires de la main D'Etienne Frangois de Choiseul-Stainville, Due 
 de Choiseul, Ecrits dans sa retraite de Chanteloup apres son Ministere." 
 
 " Lorsque Etienne Charavay, dirigeant sa maison d'autographes, fut 
 charge de vendre la collection laissee par M. Feuillet de Conches, il trouva 
 dans cette collection un manuscrit original contenant des memoires inedits du 
 due de Choiseul. Rediges sous forme de Lettres, ces memoires presentaient 
 par le caractere de I'ecriture comme par celui du style, la marque distinctive 
 de leur auteur. Aucun doute d'authenticite ne lui paraissant possible et les 
 DOCUMENTS RELATiFS A CHOISEUL ETANT ASSEZ RARES. Etienne Charavay 
 s'entendit avec la famille de feu Feuillet de Conches pour acheter ce manu- 
 scrit et pour s'en reserver la publication; puis il ne soumit a son ami Jules 
 Flammermont, que des etudes speciales avaient rendu familier avec I'ecriture 
 et la pensee du due de Choiseul." Etc. 
 
 For the continuation of this interesting description see the preface of 
 "Memoires du Due de Choiseul, 1719-1785," Paris, 1904, a copy of which 
 accompanies the manuscript. 
 
 Inserted is an a. I. s. of the due de Choiseul, 3 pages, 4to, 1 2 October 
 1766. 
 
 £zoo 
 
 39 
 CHOPIN (FREDERIC FRANgOIS). HOLOGRAPH 
 LETTER, SIGNED. 3 pages, 8vo. Paris, 25 Nov., 
 
 1839- 
 
 Asking the favour of the Grand Duke of Baden on behalf of a certain 
 (}uttmann who has been drawn for a conscript. 
 
 " II serait vraiment dommage que la carriere d'un artiste qui donne autant 
 d'esperance flit entravee des son debut." 
 
 Autograph Letters of Chopin are extremely rare. 
 
 £\o
 
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 40 
 CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS). ORATIONES. A 
 
 Superb Copy. Folio. Morocco extra. 
 
 Rome, Conrad Sweynheyvz and A rno/d Pannartz, 147 i 
 
 Editio Princkps of this famous classic. 
 
 Two editions of Cicero's Orations were printed in 1471, the first one 
 at Rome, and a second at Venice, by Christopher Valdarfar. The preface is 
 not fully dated, but is addressed to Pope Paul II, who died on the 28th of 
 July 147 1. The second edition is placed by Proctor last of the six books 
 printed in 147 1 by Valdarfar, though it must be placed before the 9th of 
 November since Cristoforo Moro who died on that day is mentioned as the 
 reigning Doge in the colophon. The Roman edition is also more important 
 than the Venetian, being considerably more complete, containing the Philip- 
 pics, the Orations In Verrem, Pro Roscio and others. Most probably the two 
 editions were prepared quite independently from different manuscripts. The 
 present volume opens with a long prefatory letter by Giovanni Andrea Bussi, 
 the Bishop of Aleria, who was not only a staunch friend to the printers, but 
 also the editor of most of the volumes which they printed. He was a man of 
 great learning, and for a time librarian of the Vatican. He died in 1475. 
 Pope Paul II appears also to have been a liberal patron to the printers if we 
 may judge from the many prefatory letters addressed to him, and the great 
 falling off in the productions of the press after his death: 
 
 Conrad Sweynheym and Arnold Pannartz, both Germans, introduced the 
 art of printing into Italy, settling first in the monastery of Subiaco where they 
 printed four books between 1465 and 1467, and in the latter year moving into 
 Rome, where they established their press in the palace of the two brothers 
 Pietro and Francesco dei Massimi, near the German National Hospice. Here 
 they continued to print until 1473, issuing in that period forty-eight different 
 books and editions, many being important first editions of the classics. In 
 March 1472 in the prefatory letter to one of the volumes of Nicolaus de 
 Lyra's Commentary of the Bible, an appeal was made to the Pope for assist- 
 ance, and in it the printers gave a list of all the books they had printed and 
 the number issued of each. Copies of all are known with the exception of the
 
 5, PALL MALL PLACE 49 
 
 first. This was an edition of the Donatus pro pueris of which three hundred 
 copies were printed and of which all traces have disappeared. Of the present 
 work two hundred and seventy-five copies were printed. Of many of their 
 books the printers issued some copies on vellum, but no copy of the present 
 book so printed is known. 
 
 There are copies of this Editio Princeps in the British Museum, Bodleian 
 and Rylands libraries. Lord Crawford possesses an interesting copy, unfor- 
 tunately imperfect, which was once in the French Royal Library, and has the 
 arms of Diane de Poictiers emblasoned on the first leaf. 
 
 CLOVIO (GIULIO). HOLOGRAPH LETTER 
 SIGNED, \ page, folio; Rome, September 12, 1561. 
 
 There is no autograph of this incomparable miniaturist in the British 
 Museum. 
 
 The present is believed to be the only one that has occurred for sale in 
 England. 
 
 See Illustration 
 
 42 
 COLERIDGE (S. T.). THE ORIGINAL HOLO 
 
 GRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF HIS 
 SONNET ADDRESSED TO MISS E. BULLOCK. 
 
 I page, 4to. Signed " S. T. Coleridge." Dated Nov. 181 7. 
 
 'Twas dull November: dim the Moon: each Flower 
 That in it's beams erewhile had gleam'd or glitter'd, 
 Had left our Garden, . . . etc. 
 Unpuhlished. 
 
 ^10 \os. 
 
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 COLERIDGE (S. T.). An Absolutely unique and Com- 
 plete SET OF First Editions (including special and 
 PERSONAL copies) of the works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. 
 Comprising 155 volumes 2mi/ormly bou7id in red morocco. 
 
 All the excessively rare Coleridge pieces, such as the " Ode on the Depart- 
 ing Year," j^m/^/, 1796, "Fears in Solitude," Bristol, 1796, "Conciones ad 
 Populum," 1795, "Lyrical Ballads," 1796, "Poems on the Death of Priscilla 
 Farmer," 1796, the privately printed Poems of 1798, the "Tears of a Grateful 
 People," 1820, etc., are included. 
 
 There is no copy of the "Ode on the Departing Year" in the British 
 Museum, and indeed on/y one other copy is known to us. 
 
 There are thirty-three copies of unique and important interest, among 
 which are no less than eight presentation copies from S. T. Coleridge to his 
 nephew, to Wordsworth (the Poet), and others, with his autograph inscriptions. 
 There are also six books formerly in Coleridge'' s possession and annotated in his 
 autograph {including his own Poetical Works, 3 vols. 1834); thirteen copies 
 having autograph letters inserted of Hartley Coleridge (the Poet's eldest son); 
 Sara Coleridge (the Poet's daughter); Henry Nelson Coleridge (nephew of 
 S. T. Coleridge); Joseph Cottle (Coleridge's publisher and friend); Dykes 
 Campbell (Coleridge's biographer), etc. 
 
 In addition there are three other annotated copies and three volumes of 
 original manuscript materials (in the autograph of Richard H. Shepherd, the 
 bibliographer) prepared for the 1880 edition of (Coleridge's works. 
 
 Besides which there is a remarkable collection in eight volumes of maga- 
 zine articles, newspaper cuttings, poems, letters, etc., collected by Mr. Dykes 
 Campbell, from which the " Life " of Coleridge was evidently written. 
 
 The finest Coleridge collection in existence, excelling even 
 THAT in the British Museum. 
 
 Full particulars on application. 
 
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 CONSTABLE. VARIOUS SUBJECTS OF LAND- 
 SCAPE, Characteristic of English Scenery, principally 
 intended to mark the Phenomena of the Chiaroscuro of 
 Nature: from Pictures painted by John Constable, R.A. 
 Engraved by David Lucas. Oblong folio. Green rno7'occo 
 extra, gilt leaves. 
 
 London: published by Mr. Constable, 35, Charlotte Street, 
 Fitzroy Square. Sold by Colnaghi, Dominic Colnaghi, and 
 Co. , Pall Mall East. 1833 
 
 The superb presentation Proof copy from Constable to Mr. Vaughan with 
 the following inscription in the artist's autograph : " Mr. Vaughan from Mr. 
 Constable as a mark of his sincere regard, May 5, 1836." 
 
 This inscription is written upon the original gray front wrapper and 
 Constable has written his signature "J.C. R.A.," beneath the short title 
 printed thereon. Above this title in the top right-hand corner the word 
 Proofs is printed. Moreover, inserted at the beginning is the original auto- 
 graph letter from Constable to Vaughan in which he says: "The book is one 
 of the best set of Proofs Lucas could find in looking over many, he has put 
 his name on the last No. I have \sic\ sending it as an offering to a very long 
 friendship." 
 
 In a postscript he adds: "I have not taken out the first Introduction but 
 have enclosed the last which I preferred, J.C." The two Introductions men- 
 tioned by Constable are still intact — one dated January and the other May 
 1833, and there are also five extra plates which are proofs before all 
 
 LETTERS. 
 
 The plates are most beautiful impressions and (with the exception of the 
 five additional plates) are open letter proofs. All are engraved on very 
 stout paper. The extra plates have the inscriptions written in pencil, prob- 
 ably by the engraver David Lucas, which is doubtless what Constable meant 
 when he said "he has put his name on the last No," the name of the engraver 
 not appearing.
 
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 The five additional mezzotints which were added by Constable when 
 sending this copy to his friend are: 
 
 1. Castle Acre Priory. 
 
 2. Mill near Brighton. 
 
 3. Salisbury from the Meadows. 
 
 4. Scene on the Orwell, Ipswich. 
 
 5. Opening Waterloo Bridge 181 5. 
 
 Possibly the finest copy of this volume of the great Artist's works 
 
 EXTANT. 
 
 ^180 
 
 45 
 
 CORNEILLE (P.). LE THEATRE de P. Corneille 
 reveu et corrige, et augmente de diverses pieces nouvelles, 
 suivant la copie Imprimee a Paris, 1664. 5 vols, in 4. 
 Frontispieces.— LES TRAGEDIES ET COMEDIES 
 DE TH. Corneille, revues et corrig^es, et augmentees de 
 diverses pieces nouvelles, suivant la copie imprimee a Paris, 
 1665, 1 676- 1 678, 5 vols. Together 10 vols, in 9. Fronti- 
 spieces. 8vo. Brown levant morocco extra, finely gilt backs, 
 inside borders, gilt and marbled leaves, by Trautz-Bau- 
 zoNNET. Paris, 1664-78 
 
 This is THE FINEST KNOWN COPY, measuring 131 millim. It contains the 
 ex-Ubris of M. de Montesson, and was sold in the Potier sale in 1870 for 2,400 
 francs. A minute description of this famous edition is given by M. E. Picot 
 (Bibl. Corndlienne, No. 138). 
 
 ^150
 
 LES POESIES 
 
 DE 
 
 GUILLAUME 
 
 CRETIN. 
 
 A PARIS, 
 
 De i'lmprimerie d'ANTOJNE-URBALNf COUSTfL UR.^^ 
 
 Imprimeur-Libiaire de S. A. R. Monrdgoeui. 
 
 le Due d'Oricans. 
 
 M. DCC. XXI II. 
 
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 CORNELIUS NEPOS. VITAE EXCELLENTIUM 
 I M P E R A T O R U M . In the original green vellum, wholly 
 uncut. 8vo. Parisiis, Didot, an ^7/(1799). 
 
 One of two copies printed on vellum. This was probably Marshal 
 Junot's copy (sold in 1815). 
 
 47 
 COWPER (WILLIAM). THE ORIGINAL AUTO- 
 GRAPH MANUSCRIPT of his celebrated Hymn— 
 "JEHOVAH-JIREH." 
 
 Comprising six verses of four lines each. 
 
 The hymn commences: 
 
 " The Saint should never be dismayed, 
 
 Nor sink in hopeless Fear, 
 For when they least expect his Aid, 
 
 The Savior will appear. 
 
 " This Abra'm found, he rais'd the knife, 
 
 God saw, and cried — forbear — 
 Yon Ram shall yield his meaner life, 
 
 Behold the Victim there." 
 
 Etc. 
 
 48 
 CRETIN. LES POESIES de Guillaume Cretin. Small 
 8vo. 2 vols. Contemporary morocco, gilt leaves, in a red 
 morocco case.
 
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 A Paris, de rimpi'imerie d' Antoine-Urbain Coustelier, 
 Impri7neur libraire de S.A.R., Monseigneur le Dtic d'Or- 
 Mans. 1723 
 
 A unique and beautiful copy. Specially printed on fine vellum for 
 Louis XV and bound by Padeloup for the King. The royal arms are 
 stamped on both sides of the binding. 
 
 Totally unknown to MM. de Bure. 
 
 See Illustration 
 
 THE CROKER CORRESPONDENCE 
 
 Bequeathed by his Widow to the late Follett Pennell, 
 
 Esq., and the late Rev. George Staunton Borrow, 
 
 HER Nephews and Executors 
 
 THE POLITICAL AND LITERARY CORRE- 
 SPONDENCE of the Rt. Hon. J. W. Croker. This dis- 
 tinguished man was Secretary for Ireland, 1808, Secretary 
 to the Admiralty, 1809-30, and editor of Boswell's " Life of 
 Johnson," 1831. Croker was one of the most powerful and 
 notable Englishmen of the reigns of George III, George IV, 
 and William IV, as well as the intimate friend of no less 
 than nine Prime Ministers — Perceval, Liverpool, Canning, 
 Ripon, Wellington, Peel, Derby, Aberdeen, and Palmer- 
 ston. There are fine series of letters, too, from Sir W. 
 Scott, Southey, Lockhart, and other Political and Literary 
 celebrities. 
 
 Thackeray has immortalized Croker as " Mr. Wenham " ("Vanity Fair"). 
 The most valuable portion of the Correspondence is preserved in the
 
 5, PALL MALL PLACE 55 
 
 Original Despatch Box, of the reign of George III, of wood covered with 
 brown leather in wonderful preservation. This fine box is studded with brass 
 nails, and the Royal initials " G. R." are twice repeated on the front also in 
 brass nails. The box stands upon its original carved wood stand and 
 measures 42I by 23 by 22 inches. 
 
 The principal portion of this precious and monumental correspondence is 
 as follows: 
 
 49 
 ABERDEEN (EARL OF), Premier. A series of 
 61 a.l.s., 4to and 8vo, addressed to Mr. Croker between 
 1828 and 1 85 1. There are several long and important 
 communications refuting Wraxall's insinuation that Pitt 
 received money from Lord Abercorn for making him a 
 Marquis; they also refer to the United States Boundary 
 Question, etc.; together with copies of Letters from Croker 
 to Lord Aberdeen. 
 
 £^00 
 
 50 
 ANGLESEY (H. W. PAGET, MARQUIS OF), Ge7iera/ 
 {^ fought at Waterloo) and States?nan. A series of 33 a. I. s., 
 1824-53. Very interesting letters, giving his reminiscences 
 of the Battle of Waterloo, etc. There is also a series 
 of 118 letters from Lord Ashburton on contemporary 
 politics, 1840-48, and 175 letters from Lady Ashburton (the 
 intimate friend of Thomas Carlyle). 
 
 /125
 
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 51 
 BROUGHAM (HENRY, LORD), Lord Chancellor. A 
 most splendid and important series of 450 a. I. s., chiefly 
 on political topics, addressed to Croker between 1839 and 
 
 1857. 
 
 The finest series of the great Chancellor's letters in existence. Lord 
 Brougham was on terms of great intimacy with Croker for many years, and 
 communicated with him on all sorts of subjects. In an interesting letter 
 Brougham avows himself an ardent Corn Law repealer, " but with a careful 
 acknowledgment of the claims of the land." 
 
 ^500 
 
 52 
 CANNING (GEORGE), Premier. An exceedingly im- 
 portant series of 102 a. I. s. A few were written while 
 Canning was ambassador at Lisbon, 18 14- 16, and contain 
 important references to Bonaparte and the Prince Regent. 
 He writes on April 14, 1815 : 
 
 " Observe — ^that no part of my expectation would hold out against the fact 
 — if that were physically possible — of the Prince Regent having been apprised 
 before his embarcation of the return of Buonaparte to France. No — that in- 
 telligence would fix him where he is for life. But I calculate upon his having 
 embarked before it can reach him." 
 
 ^400 
 
 53 
 CROKER (RT. HON. J. W.). A large number of 
 letters (about 250) and Papers on Political, Literary, and 
 Social Topics, including the very interesting series of 72
 
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 a. I. s. addressed to his Wife and 10 a. I. s. of Mrs. Croker 
 to J. W. Croker. Together with a number of Memoranda 
 (about 100) relative to the Croker family, including genea- 
 logical tables, drawings of family arms, etc. 
 
 CROKER (RT. HON. J. W.). A large and import- 
 ant collection of Miscellaneous Papers, etc. Consisting 
 of 250 letters from various correspondents; 135 letters 
 relating to his West Molsey properties, with plans of 
 Rose Cottage, inventories, bills, etc.; 32 of his auto- 
 graph Notebooks relative to his visits to Paris, notes on 
 Brighton, George IV and Mrs. Fitz- Herbert, notes of 
 what passed about a change of Ministry in 1832, 
 notes on Georoe HI and Lord Wevmouth, etc. His Diaries 
 for the years 1820, 182 1-7-8-9 and 1850 (some containing 
 sketches) and 2 Bank Pass Books are included. There are 
 also notes on the State of Parties during Canning's Ad- 
 ministration, Manuscript Articles for the " Quarterly 
 Review " on the French Revolution, Papers connected 
 with his Candidature for Dublin University, Official Papers 
 addressed to him, various Manuscripts, and a few engrav- 
 ings. Also a collection of 30 pamphlets (some by Croker) ; 
 a copy of the Marquis of Hertford's will and the account 
 and evidence of the Case and Appeal brought before the 
 House of Lords. 
 
 Together ^250 
 
 54 
 CURTIS (SIR ROGER), Admiral. A series of 108 
 a. I. s. 1809-14. Some of these important letters refer to 
 
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 the War with America. There are also 129 of Sir George 
 Cockburn, Admiral in the American War; 123 of T. Casey, 
 29 of Lord Canterbury, 16 of the Earl of Clancarty, 2,2, 
 of Lord Colchester, 2 of Edward Cooke and i of Wil- 
 helmina Casey. 
 
 ^105 
 
 55 
 DERBY (EDWARD, 14TH EARL OF), Premier, A 
 series of 18 a.l.s., some long and very interesting. Of 
 Louis Napoleon's coup d'etat he writes: 
 
 ... It is certain that the President has openly violated the constitution 
 which he had sworn to observe and maintain- but, on the other hand, I 
 believe that he sincerely endeavoured to make the constitution work, and 
 that his coup d'etat was not resolved upon until the inherent weakness of the 
 constitution itself had brought the machine of government to a deadlock. 
 
 ^50 
 
 56 
 DISRAELI (ISAAC), Author. A series of 20 a.l.s. 
 1820-30, on literary subjects. Of Boswell's Johnson he 
 says : 
 
 . . . My old friend, Caleb Whitefoord, who lived above me in my chambers 
 at the Adelphi, assured me the conversations were not correct, some of the 
 puns had not been immortalized. Peter Pindar once called Boswell, in a 
 letter to me, "Johnson's spitting pot." 
 
 The writer was, of course, the father of Lord Beaconsfield. 
 
 £60
 
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 57 
 ELDON (EARL OF), Lord Chancellor. A series of 
 10 a./, s., 4to and 8vo, 182 1-4, on Political matters. 
 
 £30 
 
 58 
 ERNEST {Son of George III and Duke of Ctunberland) 
 KING OF HANOVER. A series of 17 a. I. s., and 
 2 a. l. between 181 2 and 1842. 
 
 Many of these letters, which are of considerable length and of great 
 interest, refer to the Duke of Wellington, the marriage of his niece, Queen 
 Victoria, and other important topics. 
 
 ;^IOO 
 
 59 
 GUIZOT (F. P. G.), French Statesman and Historian. 
 His Important Correspondence with Croker, consisting 
 of 81 a. I. s., including long and interesting letters on 
 the Corn Laws and Free Trade, his return to France 
 after his exile, the marriage of Napoleon III, etc. Others 
 deal with his literary labours and political topics. There 
 are also the original proof sheets of Croker's Article on 
 the French Revolution with Guizot's holograph corrections; 
 letters of the Due d'Aumale and Madame de Genlis, as 
 well as copies of letters from Croker to Guizot. 
 
 /200
 
 6o J. PEARSON & CO. 
 
 60 
 HERTFORD (FRANCIS, 3RD MARQUIS OF), Fzce- 
 Chamberlain to George IV when PiHnce of Wales. Lord 
 Hertford was the original of the " Marquis of Steyne" in 
 Thackeray's " Vanity Fair " and Disraeli's " Lord Mon- 
 mouth " in "Coningsby." The series of 591 a.Ls. ad- 
 dressed (some written when Lord Yarmouth) between 
 181 2 and 1842, and 20 of the Countess Lecky. 
 
 Croker's intimacy with " Thackeray's Marquis " was the subject of much 
 caustic criticism, but there is no doubt that the friendship was an entirely 
 disinterested one, and that Croker exercised an influence for good over 
 the eccentric nobleman. 
 
 The great interest of these letters is that Lord Hertford was " Lord 
 Steyne " and Croker was " Mr. Wenham." 
 
 ^200 
 
 61 
 HOOK (THEODORE E.), Novelist and Wit. A series 
 of 1 10 a. I. s. and i a. /., 1824-1840; with 5 a. I. s. of 
 W. F. Hook and 7 a. I. s. of Robert Hook. 
 
 Croker greatly interested himself in Theodore Hook's affairs when the 
 latter was in difficulties. 
 
 Thackeray caricatured Hook, who was Lord Hertford's parasite, as " Mr. 
 Wagg," and Disraeli has him in "Coningsby " as " Lucian Gay."
 
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 62 
 HUSKISSON (W.), Statesman. A series of 35 a. I. s. and 
 I I.S., 1815-28, on politics, etc. 
 
 This well-known Statesman was killed at the opening of the Liverpool and 
 Manchester railroad in 1830. 
 
 ^100 
 
 63 
 KEITH (GEORGE, VISCOUNT), Admiral. A series of 
 99 a./.s., 1812-1818, mostly on naval matters and some 
 in reference to Bonaparte, with whom he acted as inter- 
 mediary before his deportation to St. Helena. 
 
 .^200 
 
 64 
 LAWRENCE (SIR THOMAS, P.R.A.). The 
 splendid series of 105 a l. s., 4to and 8vo, accompanied by 
 an a. I. s. of Sir R. Peel to Croker concerning this eminent 
 painter, 1815-29, 
 
 This is the most important series of Laivroice'' s Letters extant. 
 
 Croker's charming niece, Miss Croker (afterwards Lady Barrow), sat to 
 Lawrence for the famous portrait which is known to all Art lovers by Cousins' 
 beautiful engraving. The original picture in the possession of Mr. J. P. 
 Morgan is now on exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum, New York. A 
 few months previous to his death Lawrence writes : 
 
 "... The same power enables me to catch the quick momentary expres- 
 sion of beauty (as in the portrait of Miss Croker), and is the cause of my 
 present certainty in producing fidelity of resemblance. This is the one 
 advantage that I possess. But then there is a charm in the general practice
 
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 of Sir Joshua, as well as in his finest works, which we painters feel with the 
 most sensitive enjoyment, and which makes comparison with him always 
 more repugnant to me that it would be with any other painter." 
 
 ^500 
 
 65 
 LIVERPOOL (R. JENKINSON, EARL OF). Premier. 
 A series of 43 a.Ls., 1816-41, some very interesting, 
 and Croker's replies to him; also 2 a./, of Lord Lans- 
 downe; 42 letters (7 written by an amanuensis) of Lord 
 Lyndhurst, and 2 a. I. s. of Lord Lytton. 
 
 ^100 
 
 66 
 LOCKHART (J. G.). Son-in-law and Biographer of Sir 
 Walter Scott. His very extensive and important COR- 
 RESPONDENCE WITH CROKER, consisting of 
 1,088 a. I. s. from about 1820 to a very short period before 
 Lockhart's death in 1854. 
 
 These letters, which cover no less than thirty-four years, deal with a great 
 variety of literary and social topics, and are most valuable for their references 
 to Sir Walter Scott, his last illness, etc. 
 
 67 
 LOWTHER (LORD), afterwards Second Earl of Lons- 
 dale, Postmaster-General. The series of 860 a. I. s. be- 
 tween 1814 and 1856, with 10 a.l.s. of the First Earl of
 
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 Lonsdale. There are also 214 a. /. s. of E. H. Locker, 
 Commissioner of Greenwich Hospital and author of " Me- 
 moirs of Celebrated Naval Commanders." 
 
 Lord Lowther was the original of Thackeray's " Lord Colchicum " (" Pen- 
 dennis") and of Disraeli's Lord Eskdale ("Tancred"). 
 
 /250 
 
 68 
 
 MELVILLE (ROBERT, SECOND VISCOUNT). 
 Statesman, Fii^st Lord of the Admiralty. A series of 
 389 Letters written between 1809 and 185 1 ; also 6 a. l.s. 
 from Viscount Melbourne and i a. I. s. of his father, the 
 First Viscount. 
 
 69 
 MOORE (" TOM "). The Irish Poet. A series of 7 1 a. I. s., 
 4to and 8vo, 1809-45; ^^^ ^ a. l.s. of R. Montgomery, 
 In one of his letters Moore writes that it was reported 
 that Byron and he " had had a considerable and inex- 
 tinguishable blow-up — a day or two after, however, I 
 received a letter from him, beginning ' My dear Tom,' which 
 (not looking very bloody-minded) set all my apprehensions 
 to rest." 
 
 70 
 MURRAY (JOHN). The very important collection of 
 916 a. l.s. from Byron's celebrated Publisher (including 
 some from John Murray, junr.), from 1815 to 1856. These
 
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 letters, written during four Reigns, cover a very wide range 
 of literary topics, such for example as Croker's edition of 
 Boswell's Johnson and Scott's Battle of Waterloo, etc. 
 
 -^'200 
 
 71 
 PALMERSTON (VISCOUNT). Premier. The 
 series of 87 a.l.s. and 3 a. I. between 1810 and 1856. 
 These fine letters are almost entirely political. On the 
 riots and troubles of 18 19 he writes: 
 
 "The Manchester Observer of 17 July last, completely disproves the 
 assertion that was made about the sharpening of the Yeomanry swords, and 
 contains also many remarks strongly illustrating the confidence with which 
 the Radicals looked forward to the 16 of August as the consummation of 
 their revolutionary hopes and the objects which they openly professed to 
 have in view." 
 
 ^300 
 72 
 PEEL (SIR ROBERT). Premier. The very extensive 
 AND HIGHLY IMPORTANT POLITICAL CORRESPOND- 
 ENCE consisting of 617 a. I. s. and a MS. of 4 pages on 
 the Ladies of the Bedchamber Question, from 18 12 to 1847. 
 Together with 25 a. l.s. of Lady Peel ; i a. I. s. of Peel's 
 father and i a. I. s. of Eliza Peel (Sir Robert Peel's daughter). 
 
 Sir Robert Peel, of course, figures very largely in the Croker Correspond- 
 ence. Peel and Croker were on terms of the greatest intimacy for many 
 years, although they afterwards quarrelled. The letters deal with a vast 
 number of subjects, and there is no doubt that a careful perusal of them 
 would throw much light on many obscure political problems. 
 
 ^500
 
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 11 
 PERCEVAL (SPENCER). Premier, assassinated 18 12. 
 A series of 26 Letters (21 a, I. s., 4 a.L, and i i.s.), 
 1 8 10- 1 2. Croker and Perceval were on terms of preat 
 intimacy; on one packet he has written : " We lived so near 
 and saw each other so often that little passed between us 
 by letter." 
 
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 RAGLAN (LORD). The Famotts General. A series of 37 
 a.Ls., between 182 1 and 1854. Writing from "Before 
 Sevastopol," Christmas Day, 1854, he says (in regard to 
 the Crimean War): 
 
 "... The great task, however, confided to the AUied Armies is still to 
 be accomplished, and we have to contend against the difficulties of the 
 season," etc. 
 
 Lord Raglan lost a leg in the Crimean War. 
 
 75 
 RIPON (EARL OF). Premier when Lord Goderich. 
 The series of 34^. /. i"., together with 6-^ of George and 
 36 of vSir G. H. Rose, 5 of Lord Harrowby, 99 of 
 J. C. Herries, 16 of Count Fernan Nunez, 25 of Colonel 
 McMahon and 40 of Lord Farnborough. 
 
 In all there are 318 letters. 
 
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 SCOTT (SIR WALTER). A splendid series of 29 
 a./.s., between 1810 and 1831, covering about ^\ pages, 
 4to and 8vo. There is also a MS. in his autograph, 
 2\ pages, 4to, "Additional Notes on Boswell's Tour." 
 
 Scott's friendship with Croker was unbroken up to the time of the 
 former's death. On presenting " The Lady of the Lake " he writes on 
 May 3rd, 1810: 
 
 "This comes to entreat your obHging acceptance of a certain square 
 volume called The Lady of the Lake. I am now enabled to send her to 
 my friends as the Romans of yore used to lend their wives and greatly it is 
 to my own relief; for never was man more tired of his wife (and that's a bold 
 word), than I am tired of the same Lady. 1 hope, however, you will find 
 her agreeable company for an evening or two." 
 
 Scott admired Croker's poem on the "Battle of Talavera," and after 
 praising it he adds of WeUingto?/: 
 
 " I trust we shall soon hear from the Conqueror of that glorious day such 
 news as may procure us ' another of the same.' His excellent conduct joined 
 to his high and undaunted courage make him our Nelson on land . . . the 
 matter of Lucien Bonaparte is one of the most surprising which has occur'd 
 in our day. A Frenchman refusing at once a Crown & declining to part with 
 his wife is indeed one of the most uncommon exhibitions of an age fertile 
 in novelties as wonderful as portentous." 
 
 On March 19, 1826, he sends Croker a long and vigorous letter on the 
 proposed changes in Scottish law : 
 
 "... There is yet time to make a stand for there is yet a great deal of 
 good & genuine feeling left in the country. But if you Unscotch us you will 
 find us damned mischievous Englishmen." 
 
 When Scott learned of Croker's intention to edit " Boswell's Johnson " he 
 took a keen interest in the project, and on January 30, 1829, sent him a 
 remarkably interesting letter, covering eight closely written 4to pages, and
 
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 full of anecdotes of Dr. Johnson. The old Lord Auchinleck (Boswell's 
 father) was not flattered when he heard of his son's friendships: 
 
 "... great was the contempt he entertained and expressed for his son 
 James for the nature of his friendships, and the character of the personages 
 of whom he was ' engoue ' one after another. ' There 's nae hope for Jamie, 
 man,' he said to a friend; 'Jamie is gaen clean gyte. What do you think, 
 man? He's done wi' Paoli; he's off wi' the land-louping scoundreal of a 
 Corsican; and whose tail do you think he has pinned himself to now, man?' 
 — here the old judge summoned up a sneer of most sovereign contempt — 
 ' a dominie, man — an auld dominie. He keepit a schule and caa'd it an 
 acaademy ! ' " 
 
 Other communications on the same subject and of almost equal interest 
 follow. An undated letter contains a translation of a Gaelic song, com- 
 mencing: 
 
 " Come here 's a pledge to young and old 
 
 We quaff the blood red wine, 
 An health to Allan Murdant bold 
 
 The dearest love of mine." 
 
 ' 76A 
 
 SCOTT (SIR WALTER). AN ORIGINAL MANU- 
 SCRIPT IN HIS AUTOGRAPH, relative to both Bos- 
 well and Johnson. This was sent to Croker for his edition 
 of Boswell's Johnson and comprises 1 1 pages, 4to. Also 
 Autograph Notes on the same subject, 2\ pages, 4to; 
 Autograph Notes on Gaelic words, i\ pages, 4to. 
 
 Together (76 and 76A) ^600
 
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 11 
 SOUTHEY (ROBERT). A series of 21 aJ.s., covering 
 about ^6 pages, 4to and 8vo, between 181 1 and 1834. On 
 his acceptance of the Poet Laureateship he writes: 
 
 "Twenty years ago when I had a reputation to win it would have been 
 easy for me to furnish Odes upon demand on any subject. This is no longer 
 the case. I should go to the task like a school boy, with reluctance and a 
 sense of incapacity for executing it well ; but unless I could so perform it as 
 to give credit to the Office, certain it is that the Office could give none to me. 
 But if these periodical exhibitions were dispensed with & I were left to write 
 upon great events, or to be silent, according to the spirit mood, I should 
 thankfully accept the Office as a mark of honourable distinction which it 
 would then become." 
 
 Other letters dealing with his poems, etc., are equally interesting. 
 
 ^100 
 
 78 
 WELLESLEY (MARQUIS). Governor-General of India, 
 brother of the Duke of Wellington. A series of 33 a.l.s., and 
 repHes by Croker. Also others of the Wellesley family (9), 
 Wellesley-Pole (28), and Lord Maryborough (2). 
 
 In all seventy- two letters. 
 
 79 
 WELLINGTON (DUKE OF). The excessively im- 
 portant series of 186 a.l.s., between the years 1807 and 
 1852; also letters of Croker in reply. There are also 
 important notes of interviews between him and the
 
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 Duke; an interesting letter from the Duchess of WelHngton, 
 23 April 1 81 2, on the Duke's safety after the fall of Badajos; 
 Notes in the Duke's autograph concerning the 1830 pamph- 
 let; copies of important letters, etc. 
 
 Probably the finest collection extant of the " Great " Duke's letters. 
 
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 80 
 WILLIAM IV. A series of 51 a.l.s., written when Duke 
 of Clarence, addressed between 18 14 and 1828, mostly 
 relative to matters connected with the Admiralty, and one 
 a./, of the Lord Chancellor to H.R.H. 
 
 Croker, of course, was Secretary to the Admiralty at this period. 
 
 ^250 
 
 81 
 
 CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE RIGHT HON. 
 J. W. CROKER from Statesmen, Celebrities in Literature, 
 Science and Arts, Military and Naval Officers, etc. This 
 collection comprises no less than eleven thousand six 
 HUNDRED LETTERS, embracing almost the whole period from 
 his entrance into public life in 1808 to his death in 1857, 
 arranged for the most part chronologically. 
 
 Including letters from Admirals Sir T. Foley, Sir R. Bickerton, Sir 
 Graham Moore, Sir R. Calder, Sir Home Popham, Sir J. Duckworth, Lord 
 Gambler, Lord Saumarez, Sir E. Codrington, Sir J. P. Beresford, and others. 
 The Literati comprise Joseph Planta, B. Bandinel (the bibliophile), P. Bliss, 
 Sir H. Ellis, R. Polwhele, Sir C. J. Eastlake, Blackwood (the publisher), 
 W. Jerdan, W. Maginn, H. Mackenzie, J. W. Singer, Sir J. Mackintosh,
 
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 Dean Goulburn, R. C. Trench, Alaric A. Watts, J. P. Collier, H. G. Liddell, 
 Lord Mahon, Decimus Burton (the architect). Lord Annesley, Lord Clanri- 
 carde, Annie Gilbert, R. Sniirke, Hon. Douglas Kinnaird, Dean Milman, 
 John Forster, Michael Faraday, Henry Hallam, Davies Gilbert, C. R. Gleig, 
 Lord Rosse. The political celebrities include Sir F. Burdett, Sir A. Grant, 
 H. Drummond, Ei.rl Spencer, Joseph Hume, Sidney Herbert, and numerous 
 others. 
 
 ^750 
 
 82 
 
 D'ARBLAY (MME. /^^^ FANNY BURNEY). Authoress 
 of'' Evelina,'' etc. A . I. s. \ pages, 4to, October 1 1//^, 1813. A 
 long and interesting letter to her brother Charles (the 
 classical scholar) when keeping his school at Greenwich. 
 Thanking him for his care of her son Alexander, speaking 
 of the perversity and ambition of the latter, discoursing on 
 the general principles of education and on the subject of 
 prosperity which " has rendered all quiet and rational re- 
 ward of toil insipid and scarcely worth attainment." The 
 famous authoress also refers to her brother at Sittingburn 
 and to Fanny Phillips: " I am glad you 'piped' as well as 
 laughed at the prettiest verses he ever writ, for they sur- 
 prised me I confess into tears. Sweet bright blossom ! long, 
 long may she enjoy Grandfather, Father, Mother," etc. 
 
 Madame d'Arblay's letters are of the greatest rarity, 
 
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 ROBINSON CRUSOE, 
 
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 Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, 
 
 all alone in an un-inhabited liland on the 
 Coaft of A M E R I c A5 near the Mouth of 
 the Great River of O r o o n q. u e >• 
 
 Having been caft on Shore by Shipwreck, where^ 
 in all the Men peri&cd but himfelf. 
 
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 An Account how he was at Jaft as iirangely deli- 
 vered by PY RATES. 
 
 tVrittsn by Himjelf, 
 
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 Printed for W. T a y l o r at the Ship in Pater- No/ier- 
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 83 
 DEFOE (DANIEL). THE LIFE AND STRANGE 
 SURPRIZING ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON 
 CRUSOE. Frontispiece by Clark and Pine. Red morocco. 
 
 Londo7i, for W. Taylor, 17 19. 
 
 First Edition. 
 
 THE FARTHER ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE. Being 
 the Second and Last Part of his Life. With a Map of the World. 
 
 London for W. Taylor^ 1719- 
 First Edition. 
 
 SERIOUS REFLECTIONS DURING THE LIFE AND SURPRIS- 
 ING ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE, with his vision of the 
 Angehck World. London, for W. Taylor, 1720. 
 
 First Edition. 
 
 3 vols. 8vo, uniformly bound in red morocco extra. 
 First Issue of the First Edition of all three volumes, with all 
 "the points." 
 
 See Illustration 
 
 ^250 
 
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 LORD BEACONSFIELD 
 
 DISRAELI (BENJAMIN). A REMARKABLE COL- 
 LECTION OF AUTOGRAPHED PRESENTA- 
 TION COPIES of his works. In addition there is a
 
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 presentation copy of his father's (Isaac DisraeH) Life of 
 Charles I. In all there are 31 volumes. 
 
 With but one exception ("Tancred") all are First Editions. 
 
 Presentation copies of Lord Beaconsfield's works are of the very 
 GREATEST RARITY. The present collection is the only one known to us. 
 
 All are in handsome green, purple, red and blue morocco (or calf) bindings, 
 appropriately, and in some cases, most elaborately tooled in gold. 
 
 These bindings well illustrate Disraeli's love of splendour, the exceptions 
 being "The Revolutionary Epic" and "Lord George Bentinck," which arc 
 still in their original bindings, and entirely uncut. 
 
 Four autograph letters frovi Disraeli to Ids father are i}icluded. 
 
 The most important works included in the present set are: 
 
 CONTARINI FLEMING. A PSYCHOLOGICAL AUTO-BIOGRAPHY. 
 
 4 vols. Green morocco extra. Sm. 8vo. 1832. 
 
 First Edition. 
 
 Presentation Copy with the following inscriptiori : " Mrs. Meredith from 
 her affectionate friend the Author." 
 
 HENRIETTA TEMPLE, A LOVE STORY. Blue calf extra. 3 vols. 
 Svo. 1837. 
 
 First Edition. 
 
 Presentation Copy with the following inscription : " Mrs. Meredith from 
 her friend the Author." 
 
 CONINGSBY; OR THE NEW GENERATION. 3 vols. Green calf extra. 
 Svo. 1844. 
 
 First Edition. 
 
 Presentation Copy with the following inscription: "Mrs. Meredith with 
 the Author's kind regards." 
 
 William Meredith was probably Disraeli's closest friend, and was engaged 
 to his sister Sarah. The two men had been travelling together for more than 
 a year when Meredith died suddenly in Cairo. It was on this journey that 
 Disraeli acquired that knowledge of the Near East which he afterwards used 
 in "Tancred."
 
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 TANCRED; OR THE NEW CRUSADE. 3 vols. Purple morocco extra. 
 Uncut. 8vo. 1847. 
 
 Presentation copy. With the following inscription: "E. Brydges 
 Willyams from the Author." 
 
 "In 'Tancred' he leads his readers into 'the Desert,' the cradle of the 
 Arabs, from which they spread east and west and became known as the 
 Moors in Spain and the Jews in Palestine. Nothing can be more interesting 
 than his account of the manners and the men, of which neither are much 
 changed since the days of the patriarchs — nothing finer than his picture of 
 the rocks and towers of Jerusalem on the green forests of the Lebanon." 
 
 LORD GEORGE BENTINCK: a Political Biography by B. Disraeli. 
 Original clot/i, ViiCW. Svo. 1852. 
 
 First edition. 
 
 Presentation copy with the following inscription: "J.H. Delane Esq. 
 from the Author." Delane was the famous Editor of the "Times." 
 This " Life " is " a pohtical study of the highest interest and value." 
 
 DISRAELI (I.). COMMENTARIES ON THE LIFE AND REIGN OF 
 CHARLES THE FIRST, King of England. Portrait after Denning by 
 Graves. 5 vols. Blue morocco extra. Svo. 1828-31. 
 
 First edition. 
 
 Presentation copy, with the following inscription in his autograph: 
 " For William George Meredith Esqr. from his sincere friend the Author." 
 
 " This is Disraeli's most valuable work, and marked a distinct advance 
 in the; methods of historical research." 
 
 BEACONSFIELD (B. DISRAELI, EARL OF). FOUR AUTOGRAPH 
 LETTERS, SIGNED, addressed to his father Isaac Disraeli. Inlaid 
 to a uniform size with 6 portraits, 3 each of father and son and an original 
 water-colour drawing of Beaconsfield's house in Bloomsbury Square. 4to. 
 Bound in morocco extra. 
 
 Letters from Lord Beaconsfield to his father are but seldom met with. 
 
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 1. A. I. s. 4 pages. 4to. Good Friday morn. 1835. 
 
 "The Whigs cannot form a Government. It is impossible to describe 
 to you the extraordy. state of affairs. . . . Lord Grey, Mel. (Lord Melbourne) 
 and all the old constitutional, aristocratic Whigs are desirous of forming 
 a coalition with Peel, Lyndhurst, etc." etc. 
 
 2. A. I. s. ^ pages, 4to. April i, 1835. 
 
 " I take up the pen everyday to write you a bulletin and fling it down 
 again regularly in despair of conveying to you a correct or fair idea of what 
 is going on. Every hour the prospect alters. At present and Yesterday ' rums 
 is riz'; I do not doubt myself that the Government will be in a minority. . . . 
 There is no more reason now that the Tories shd. go out than two months 
 ago," etc. 
 
 3. A.l.s. 2) pages, 4to. April id>th, 1835. 
 
 "As co-alition, or as the Whigs call it amalgamation is at the present 
 moment impossible Ld. M. (Melbourne) has I understand formed his Cabt. 
 . . . Ld. Granville Somerset sent for me, to the Woods & Forests this morn- 
 ing to say that if there was a fair Parliamty. opening in consequence of the 
 formation of ye Whig Government, the Tories wd. start me," etc. 
 
 4. A.l.s. (initials). 4 pages, 4to. Feb. 7, 1836. 
 
 " The mysterious article in the Standard alluded to a rumoured division 
 in the Cabt. and that the King had written to Ld. Grey. There never has 
 been a single difference or division in the Cabinet yet. . . . The Queen goes 
 on prospering and the Whig wits say that the Psalm to be sung at Churching 
 is to be ' Lord how wonderful are thy works,' " etc. 
 
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 "NELL" GWYNNE'S AUTOGRAPH 
 
 DRAMATIC AND MUSICAL AUTOGRAPHS. A 
 Collection of about 400 AUTOGRAPH LETTERS OF 
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 ACTORS AND ACTRESSES, MUSICIANS, DRA- 
 MATIC MEN AND WOMEN, etc., etc. There are in 
 ADDITION 242 portraits of the writers of these letters (chiefly 
 choice proofs and many extremely rare), also a unique 
 collection of 158 OLD PLAY BILLS, views and other 
 illustrations. The whole arranged alphabetically in 5 large 
 folio volumes, with Baron Heath's specially printed titles. 
 Splendidly bound in full red morocco extra, g.e., ivith Baron 
 Heath's ex-libris. 
 
 The finest Dramatic and Musical Collection that has occurred 
 FOR Sale within living Memory. 
 
 This unequalled collection was formed by Baron Heath between the years 
 1830 and 1865. It contains, inter alia, a letter from Humphrey Moseley to 
 Sir H. Herbert, the Master of the Revels, respecting the Actors of the Red 
 Bull and Cockpit Playhouses, and the Plays performed there, dated 30th August 
 1660; a. I. s. of Mrs. Abingdon, 2 pp., 4to. J. Bannister, Spranger Barry 
 (relative to Garrick), Miss Bateman, Master Betty, Mrs. Billington, John 
 Braham ; two theatrical documents with the joint signatures of Colley Cibber, 
 Barton Booth and R. Wilks; Theophilus Cibber, a splendid a. I. s., 3 pp , 
 large folio, to his wife (this is a most remarkable love-letter); Thomas Davis, 
 W. Dowton, R. W. EUiston, Miss Farren (afterwards Countess of Derby), 
 W. Farren, J. Fawcett, C. Fechter, Samuel Foote, a. L s., 2 pp., 4to, excessive/}' 
 rare; David Garrick, a. 1. s., 4 pp., 4to, to his brother George, and also an 
 a. I. s., I p., 4to, quoting Shakespeare; Joseph Grimaldi. The gem of the 
 collection is the almost unique signature of " Nell " Gwynne (" E. G.") 
 TO A TREASURY RECEIPT for ^250; as wcU as the original Treasury Document 
 respecting her Annuity (granted by Charles H) of ;^5,ooo per annum: this is 
 signed by Lord Rochester and the other Lords of the Treasury. Then follow 
 J. P. Harley, J. Henderson, J. Holman, Mrs. Inchbald, Mrs. Jordan, 6 a. /.s., 
 8 pp., 4to, and i p., 8vo; Edmund Kean, a. /. s., 2 pp., 4to, a very early 
 letter (18 12), a most remarkable theatrical document illustrating his early 
 struggle for fame and of the greatest Shakespearean importance; also an a. I. s., 
 I p., 4to, an a. I. s.y 3 pp., 4to, and a signed quotation in his autograph; also
 
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 an a. I. s. from his wife and the three oj-igifial and excessively famous (and oft- 
 quoted) letters from Dr. Drury and Pascoe Grenfell which led to Kean's resctie 
 from obscurity and historical first appearance in London (as Richard HI); 
 
 C. Kean and Mrs C. Kean, Michael Kelly, J. P. Kemble, and other members 
 of the Kemble Family; T. King, C. Macklin, W. C Macready, C. Matthews 
 (several), C- J. Matthews, Mrs. Mattocks concerning the New York theatres, 
 Harriet Mellon (Duchess of St. Alban's); Joe Miller, the famous Jester and 
 Actor: this is also signed by T. Doggett; J. Palmer, Miss Pope, Tyrone 
 Power, "Perdita" Robinson, a. I. s., 4 pp., 4to; a most extraordinary love- 
 letter to a Count; Mrs. Siddons, 2 a. I. j., 3 pp., 8vo, and 2 pp., 4to; 
 
 D. Terry, Madame Vestris, Tate Wilkinson, C Young, and a host of other 
 world famous actors and actresses. 
 
 The foreign volumes include Letters of Madame Albani, Catalini, Louis 
 Contat (written during the French Revolution), Donzelli, J. Dazincourt (written 
 during the French Revolution), Garcia, Graffini, Julia Grisi, Louise Dugazon 
 (written during the French Revolution), Jenny Lind, Madame Mara, Mario, 
 Mile. Georges (Mistress of Napoleon I), Tamburini, Madame Pasta, Mdlle. 
 Clairon to Garrick, 1772: Le Kain ("the French Garrick "), relative to 
 Shakespeare's "Tempest"; Mdlle. Mars, Madame Rachel, Taglioni, Mdlle. 
 Raucourt (written during the French Revolution), Talma, etc., etc. 
 
 The musical section contains such famous names as Dr. Arne (Author 
 of " Rule, Britannia "), a. I. s., and autograph verses, Auber, Beethoven, a. I. s., 
 I p., 4to, Bellini, Berlioz, Bishop, Boieldieu, Cherubini, Sir M. Costa, Doni- 
 zetti, Gounod, Gretry,W. Horsley, Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Meyerbeer, F. Paer, 
 F. Pleydell, Rossini, Spohr, Spontini, Verdi, Wagner, Karl von Weber, 
 S. Wesley, F. Cramer, Dragonetti, F. Liszt, Moscheles, Paganini, i p., 4to, 
 and also Musical Notes in his Autograph, Thalberg, Tartini (most rare), 
 etc., etc. 
 
 The dramatic writers include G. Colman, R. Cumberland, T. Dibdin, 
 Alex. Dumas (important MSS.), T. Holcroft, Leigh Hunt, M. G. Lewis, also 
 Royal Sign Manual of Charles II on a Treasury Warrant for payment to 
 Thomas Fitz and H. Brocknell for the Royal Band of Violins, 1669. 
 
 The mezzotint portraits include J. Beard, by McArdell after Hudson, 
 first state; Master Betty, by Ward after Northcote; Colley Cibber, by Simon 
 after Grisoni; R. Wilks, by Faber after Ellys; Mrs. Kitty Clive, after Schalken; 
 Miss Foote, by T. Lupton after Clint; John Johnstone, by W. Ward after
 
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 Shee; E. Knight, proof before letters; J. Liston, by Ward after Jackson; 
 W. Powell, by J. Dixon; T. Dibdin, by Young after Philips, etc., etc. 
 
 Thirty years ago in the Ouvry sale these splendid volumes sold for ;^2 5o. 
 
 In this twentieth century it would be quite ifnpossible, irrespective of price, to 
 duplicate this collection. 
 
 ^600 
 
 86 
 DUCHAT (YVES). CARMEN. 4to. Original Vellum. 
 
 [Paris] [1625]. 
 
 Printed upon Vellum and probably the sole copy so printed. 
 The work was entirely tmknown to Brunei and to MM. de Bure. 
 The headpieces and capitals are illuminated in red, blue, and gold. The 
 text is in Greek and Latin. 
 
 Yves de Duchat was a French historian of the seventeenth century, belong- 
 ing to the same family as Louis Francois le Duchat, the poet. He styles him- 
 self in the present book Royal Historiographer in Greek and Poet, but beyond 
 the few tracts he published little is known of him. In 1620 was issued his 
 " Histoire de la guerre saincte faite par les Frangois et autres chrestiens pour 
 la delivrance de la Judee et du S. Sepulcre, composee en grec et en frangois par 
 Yves Duchat, Troyen." Another work printed in 1636 was the "Relation du 
 voyage de Godefroy de Buillon en la Palestine." The present book, which is 
 a poem on the newly renewed compact of friendship between the French and 
 English, is dated in the British Museum catalogue as 1629 with a note of 
 interrogation. The cataloguer had obviously in his mind the Treaty of Susa, 
 that triumph of Richelieu which put an end to the war between France and 
 England, but which, though restoring peace, did nothing to promote friend- 
 ship between the two countries. The compact of friendship, however, which 
 the writer alludes to was clearly the betrothal of Henrietta Maria, sister of 
 Louis Xni, to Prince Charles. 
 
 "... Rex Christus . . . 
 
 Firmis vinculis rursus junxit Francos et Anglos 
 
 Desiderabiles parans nuptias et dulces hymenaeos 
 
 Sororis Regis nostri Ludovici 
 
 Filiique magnae Britanniae moderatoris."
 
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 Now Charles was formally betrothed to the French princess in December 
 1624, and his father, James I, died on 27th March 1625, so that the poem 
 must have been composed between these two dates. 
 
 The binding of white vellum has panels on the sides formed with a three- 
 line fillet and with a floral ornament at each corner, and in the centre a 
 wreath formed of two branches. The volume had originally blue silk ties of 
 which the ends remain. 
 
 Duchat's writings are exceedingly rare. Brunet, not noticing the present, 
 mentions only one. The British Museum has a copy of this (on paper) as well 
 as his two other poems. 
 
 87 
 
 DUMAS {Perc).— THE ORIGINAL HOLOGRAPH 
 MANUSCRIPT, SIGNED, of his Comedy: 
 
 L'ENVERS D'UNE CONSPIRATION. 
 
 Quite COMPLETE. i(><^ pages. Royal 4to. 
 
 " C'est le manuscrit d'un drama qui a pour objet de rappeler la mort de 
 votre roi Charle P"" Le manuscrit a ete public." 
 
 This, the Original Manuscript, has a different title from the printed version. 
 It is: " Le Fils de Donald le Noir — Comedie en 5 actes et en Prose." 
 
 Dumas altered this title to the one given above (" L'Envers d'une Con- 
 spiration "). 
 
 There are considerable textual differences between the printed version and 
 the Original Manuscript. 
 
 Bound in red morocco extra. 
 
 A copy of the printed version is included. 
 
 88 
 
 DUPLESSI-BERTAUX. VIE DE L'ENFANT- 
 PRODIGUE tiree du Nouveau Testament & accom-
 
 1 
 
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 pagnee de douze sujets dessinEs & Graves a I'Eau- Forte 
 par Jean Duplessi-Bertaux. Green morocco extra, gilt top. 
 4to. Paris, 181 5. 
 
 This example on vellum is believed to be unique. 
 Totally unknown to MM. de Bure. 
 
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 89 
 
 EDWARD IV. LETTER SIGNED BY THE KING. 
 I page. 4to. To the Chancellor of Charles the Bold. 
 
 Canterbury, September 21st, (1462). 
 
 " Treschier et grant amy. Pour certaines matieres touchantes le bien dentre 
 nous et notre treschier et tresame cousin Le Due vostre maistre, nous en- 
 uoions apresent pardeuers lui nos feaulx et bien amez conseilliers Messire 
 Thomas Montgomery I'un des chevaliers pour nostre corps Maistre Jehan 
 Cootz docteur ez loys et Maistre Guillaume Slefelde lun de noz secretaires 
 &c. vous prions que les vueillies croire en ce quilz vous diront de par nous et 
 tenir la main a la bonne expedicion desdites matieres ainsi que aurons en vous 
 parfaicte fiance. Et treschier et grant amy nostre seigneur soit garde de vous. 
 Escript en nostre Cite de Cantirbury le XXI Jour de Septembre. 
 
 Edoward R." 
 
 [Addressed] A nostre treschier et grant amy Le S"" de Chanens Chan- 
 cellier de Bourgoingne. 
 
 A superb specimen of this Plantagenet king's autograph. 
 Edward's letters are of excessive rarity. Charles the Bold married Mar- 
 garet of York, sister of the King. 
 
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 90 
 
 QUEEN ELIZABETH AND THE MANOR OF 
 APPLEDORE IN KENT. 
 
 ELIZABETH (QUEEN). HER ROYAL SIGN 
 MANUAL AND GREAT SEAL affixed to a docu- 
 ment on vellum. Large folio. Dated 16 February 1582. 
 
 This is THE Original Indenture between " our Soveraigne Ladie 
 Elizabeth " and the Deane and Chapiter of the Cathedrall and 
 Metropoliticall Church of Canterburye " for the sale of the lease- 
 hold OF THE Manor of Appledore unto Her Majesty. 
 
 Setting forth that in consideration of the sum of ;^ioo paid before "then. 
 sealinge hereof" whereof the said Dean and Chapter "knowledge themselves 
 well and trulie contented and satisfied," and also in consideration of the sum of 
 ;^4oo of like lawful money of England to be paid as hereinafter set forth, 
 " have demised graunted and to farme letten and by theise preasents doe 
 demise graunte and to ferme let unto our saide sovereigne Ladie and Quene 
 all that their Scyte and Courtlodge of theire Manor of Appledore in the 
 Countie of Kente, togeather withall howses, barnes, Stables, courte yardes 
 and gardens there and all landes meadowes ... of the saide Dean and 
 Chapiter in Appledore afforesaid . . . with the windmill there and certein 
 landes called Pykes Bushetts Marylandes Chapell hooke in Easte marshe 
 parte of Berkand, which John Ashley sometime helde to ferme and the landes 
 called fferry meades . . . and also one hundreth fourscore and fyfteene acres 
 and three Roddes of Marsh by estimacon heretofore inclosed in the Marsh 
 called Cowlease and Threescore and three acres and one rodde (rood) of 
 Saltmarshe there, be it more or lesse, and one hundreth and eighteene acres 
 &c. by cstymacon lienge (lying) in Sharley moore . . . and all that theire 
 Chanell their with the proffitte of the Shippes cominge and entringe into the 
 same Channell and of the fflote (fleet) there with two Acres of Saltemarshe 
 lieinge (lying) nere to the late bridge there and all other the landes meadowes 
 pastures . . . now or late in the Tenure ... of Thomas Ashenden, Henry
 
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 Thomas Rychard Ashenden or Willm Ashenden . . . withall and singular 
 their appurtenances Excepte and alwaies to the saide Deane and Chapiter 
 and theire Successors reserved all and all maner of rente of Assise fee fermes 
 and other landes and teiits (tenements) parcell of the saide Manor heretofore 
 letten [let to divers others] and excepted also the view of Frankpledge and all 
 other Courtes there to be holden. . . . And also all maner of the excheate 
 forfeitures, the goodesandcattalleof ffelons, fugityves and outlawed parsonnes 
 wayffes Straies royall fyshes Deodands, wrecks of the Sea and all the Amercia- 
 mentes of the men and tennts (tenants) of the said Deane, also all trees 
 woods, etc. . . . and free ffyshinge, fowlinge, hawkinge. And huntinge within 
 the same landes . . . togeather with free libertie of ingress egresse and regresse 
 at all tymes reasonable to all maner of officers ... of the said Deane and 
 Chapiter. . . and to have and take all comodities and proffittes . . . arisinge 
 by reason of enie (any) thinge before excepted. To have and to Hold the 
 afforesaide Scite . . . from the feast of St. Michaell tharchangell which 
 shalbe in the year one Thowsand sixe hundred and Three unto thende and 
 terme of ffourtie yeres. Yealding and Paieing therefore yearlie . . . that is to 
 sale for the fyrst yeare of the saide terme . . . one hundreth fyftie and nyne 
 pounds two shillings and nyne pence of lawfull money ... at the feaste of 
 the Annuncyation of St. Marie the Virgin." Paying during the residue of the 
 term regular payments of ^^59 2s. ^d. "at Islippes tomb within the bodie of 
 the saide Cathedrall Church," With a further payment for the tenth year of 
 ^100, and in the twentieth year a further payment of another ;^ioo, and in 
 the thirtieth year another ;^ioo, etc. 
 
 The historical importance of this fine document is apparent. 
 
 It is explicitly stated (and the fact is most important) in this "Indenture," 
 that the Queen's tenure of the Manor of Appledore is to start from the Feast 
 of St. Michael the Archangel {i.e., 29th September) 1603. Queen Elizabeth, 
 however, never lived to enjoy or to possess this historic manor — she died in 
 March of the same year, 1603. 
 
 No mention is made in Hasted's "History of Kent," 1799, of the 
 leasing of the Manor of Appledore to Queen Elizabeth. Of this Manor 
 we learn that it "was in early times possessed by one Eadsey, a priest, who, 
 on his turning monk, had licence granted him by King Cnute. and Aeglife 
 his queen, in the year 1032, to dispose of it as he pleased, and he accordingly 
 gave it to the consent of Christ-church in Canterbury; and it remained part 
 
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 of the possessions of that church at the time of the conquest; and when Arch- 
 bishop Lanfranc soon afterwards divided the revenues of his church ' Apul- 
 dore,' in this division fell to the share of the monks, and was allotted for 
 their subsistence, or de cibo eoru??i, as the record of the monastery mentions it. 
 "In the tenth year of Edward II, the prior of Canterbury obtained a charter 
 of free-warren for his manor of ' Apuldre ' among others. Thomas Goldstone, 
 Priorof Christ-Church in King Henry the Vlth's reign, among other beneficial 
 acts to his convent, wholly rebuilt the court lodge of Apledore, with its offices, 
 which had been burnt down. After which it continued part of the possessions 
 of this priory till its dissolution in the 31st year of Henry VIII, when it was 
 surrendered into the king's hands, who by his dotation charter, in his 33rd 
 year, settled it on his new-founded Dean and Chapter of Canterbury, with 
 whom the inheritance of it still remains." — Hasted's History of Kent. 
 
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 91 
 
 ELIZABETH (QUEEN) AND THE EARL OF LEI- 
 CESTER. The Original Indenture, signed by the 
 Queen, and sealed with the Great Seal of England, 
 
 COMPLETING THE SaLE OF THE LoRDSHIF, ETC., OF DENBIGH 
 
 (then IN THE Earl of Leicester's possession) to Queen 
 Elizabeth. On vellum. Large folio. Dated 2 December 
 
 1585. 
 
 This is THE Original Indenture between our " saide Soveraigne 
 Ladie the Queene's Most Excellente Maiestie" and "the Righte 
 Honorable Robert Earle of Leicester." "Witnessethe that the saide 
 Earle for . . . the Somme of Seventene Thowesande Sixe hundred Powndes 
 of Lawfull Englishe monie to him in hand paide by o'' saide Soveraigne Ladie 
 hath sold and doth sell by this present unto Her Majesty the lordship and 
 Lordships of Denbighe and Denbighe lande." "And all that ye Castle of 
 Denbighe and Boroughe of Denbighe and the Forest of Denbighe together 
 with their Right members Liberties and apptnnances [appurtenances] What-
 
 5, PALL MALL PLACE 83 
 
 soever in the Countie of Denbighe in Northe Walles parcell of the Lands and 
 possessions of the late Earl of Marche." Also all the Parks known by the 
 names of " Castell Park," " Postney Park," " Mollewike Parke," " Kylforde 
 parke," " Garandrocke parke," with their rights and appurtenances. And all 
 the " deare " and wilde beasts whatsoever as well male as female within 
 those parks. Together with all Landes, meadows, feadings, pastures, Lodges, 
 howses, Buildinges, and also all the Rent roll. Likewise the land under the 
 tenure of " Owen ap Jenij ap Rees " and the land known as Hergone and 
 Heyrethron within Dunmayle. All the rents, quitrents, tenths, services of 
 Bond, etc., etc. [the list is exhaustive] within the Borough of Denbigh and 
 in Abergelly and Tallion in the said Countie of Denbigh and within the 
 " Comotte of Kynnighe ats Kynighe Issallett Ughallet ats Uchallet Istulas ats 
 Istdulas Uchdulas ats Ugdulas." Also all those Lordships and Manors of 
 Kylforde. Also the naming, making and appointing of stewards, etc. To 
 have and to hold by Her Maiestie her heires and assignes forever. The Earl 
 of Leicester asserts them to be of the yearly value of ^900. 
 
 "Provided AUwaies " that the Earl of Leicester shall pay several sums of 
 ;^55o amounting to ;^i 7,600 unto 32 persons mentioned, viz.: unto the 
 Right Honorable Wolstan Dyxie, Lord Mayor of London, upon the loth Dec. 
 1586, ;!^55o unto Sir Thomas Ramsay, Alderman, a like sum on the same 
 day. A similar sum to be paid on the same day to Sir Thos. Blanke, Knight 
 and Alderman, Martin Calthrop, Alderman, Geo. Bonde, Alderman, Richard 
 Martyn, Alderman. Upon the 12th December 1585 the same sums to be 
 paid to others, & on 13th Dec. 1585 the same amounts to Henri Billingesley, 
 to Anthonie Ratclyfe, Henrie Prannell, Richard Maye, William Elkin, Robt. 
 Brooke, Richard Saltonstall (Skinner), Hughe Offeley (leatherseller), Wm. 
 Hewitt, Wm. Whitmore (haberdasher), Richd. Hall, Arthur Malbie (fish- 
 monger), Thos. Aldersey, Gyles Garton, Thomas Smythe, Robt. Withers, 
 Roger James, Thos. Goore, Richard Piatt. 
 
 In the event of the sums not being paid this Indenture to be void and of 
 none effect and the Earl of Leicester to enjoy his own again. 
 
 This very long document concludes with the statement that the Earl is to 
 remain in possession and to receive all rents, etc., until the 3rd January 1586, 
 and that Her Majesty and the Earl have " interchangably " put their hands 
 and seals thereto. The Earl, however, has neither signed nor sealed it. 
 
 A remarkable and most important Tudor document reminiscent of Queen
 
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 Elizabeth's intimate relations with her favourite — Robert Dudley, Earl of 
 Leicester, "Sweet Robin." 
 
 At the time this Indenture was signed by Elizabeth, Leicester was pre- 
 paring to leave England as Commander-in-Chief of the Army destined for the 
 Low Countries. In the autumn of 1585 (the year this precious document 
 was signed by the Queen), Elizabeth at length resolved to intervene in the 
 Low Countries. A great English army was to be sent to the aid of the States- 
 General in this war with Spain, and the command of the expedition was given 
 to Leicester (September 1586). His intimacy with the Queen made the 
 appointment satisfactory to England's allies, but his incapacity soon showed 
 its imprudence. If Leicester landed at Flushing on December loth (as stated 
 in the " Dictionary of National Biography"), and reviewed his troop of horse 
 in London early in December, this document must have been signed by the 
 Queen about the time her favourite was reviewing his troop of horse, and just 
 before his embarkation for the Low Countries. Leicester's generalship during 
 this campaign is notorious. 
 
 The Seal attached to this Indenture is beautifully preserved and intact. 
 It bears an effigy of the Queen on horseback on one side, and another of 
 Her Majesty seated upon the throne on the other. 
 
 Documents both signed and sealed with the Great Seal very 
 rarely occur. 
 
 92 
 
 ERCKMANN-CHATRIAN. THE ORIGINAL 
 HOLOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT of their well-known 
 work, " Maitre Daniel Rock." 410, 261 leaves. 
 
 Quite Complete. Entirely in the autographs of the two 
 famous collabo7'ateurs. Red morocco extra. 
 
 Published in 1861. A copy of the printed book accompanies the manu- 
 script. 
 
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 93 
 EVELYN (JOHN). Diarist. A. /. s., i full page, 4to, 
 \<^th June, 1661. To his Wife, recommending- her to pro- 
 secute her interest with Charles II. Fine letter, with 
 
 SEAL. 
 
 " It is believed that it would be convenient you now improv'd yr. interest 
 afresh, and made another attempt for the King's promise, in reguard it is 
 certaine that sister of my L: of Bathes has lately a confirmation of wh. she 
 pretended too, so as it seemes his Matie. dos now begin to declare and owne 
 the favours which he bestows. In this affaire is no tyme to be lost & there- 
 fore consult yr friends and make more if you can," etc. 
 
 Evelyn's wife was the only daughter of Sir R. Brown, and he evidently 
 considers that she has a claim on the King's bounty, owing to her father's 
 impoverishment in the Royal service. There is also added an interesting 
 Letter addressed to Evelyn by Sir W. Coventry, referring to the Plague of 
 London, 5 Dec, 1665. 
 
 94 
 
 EVELYN (JOHN). A. L s., 2 pages, foHo. Dated 21 
 Jiine, ijo^. Addressed "for Mr. Cooper": relative to the 
 Tabulae Eveliniana. 
 
 " Hearing Sir that you are causing the Tables of Veines, Arterys &c which 
 I some years since brought out of Italy, to be accurately delineated & ingraven 
 as more correct than any yet extant or to be found among the Figures in 
 Books of Anatomy; and desirous to understand how they came to my hands, 
 I send you this little history of it for your satisfaction." The letter describes 
 how he first saw these tables and purchased them at Padua, that he lent them 
 to Dr. Scarborough at the College (of Surgeons) for a little while, " who read 
 in them," and concludes: "his Ma^'" Charles the IP"' hearing of them was
 
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 pleased to come and see them himselfe with great satisfaction. The R: Society 
 for the promotion of experimental and natural knowledge being a little after 
 instituted by that Prince, and meeting at Gresham-CoUedge, I made a present 
 of the Tables to the Repository." 
 
 The famous Tables are now in the possession of the Royal College of 
 Surgeons. 
 
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 95 
 THE FIELDING FAMILY PAPERS 
 
 FIELDING (HENRY). The Novelist. 
 
 I. THE ORIGINAL INDENTURE, signed by Henry Fielding and 
 HIS Brother and Sisters relative to the Family Estates. This 
 occupies 3 folding folio pages, on vellum. Dated Feb. 1737. The parties 
 concerned in this Indenture were: 
 
 Of the first part— (a) Davidge Gould (Uncle of Henry Fielding) of 
 
 Sharpham Park in the Parish of Glaston, Somer- 
 setshire. 
 {b) William Day 
 
 Of the second part— (^) HENRY FIELDING (the Novelist), Catherine 
 
 Fielding, Ursula Fielding, Sarah Field- 
 ing, Beatrice Fielding (his four sisters) & 
 Edmund Fielding (his only brother) 
 
 Relative to the sum of ;^3,ooo left by Sir Henry Gould (the judge and 
 grandfather of Henry Fielding) in trust for his daughter Sarah Fielding to 
 be placed at interest until such time as a fitting purchase can be made, her 
 husband to have nothing to do with it. The sum mentioned purchased 
 the estate at East Stour (see infra, Indenture No. 2). This Indenture 
 witnesseth that as Sarah Fielding died about 19 years since and left no 
 instructions with the trustees as to whom the Estate should be conveyed, that 
 up to the time of her death Henry Fielding (her son) and his Brother and
 
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 STERS witnesseth that she received the rents, profits etc. from her Estate 
 " that since her death the monies have been received by Henry Fielding 
 ' his Brother and Sisters and that the trustees — Davidge Gould and 
 iham Day are by these presents now released from their trust. 
 
 Signed and sealed by — 
 
 Endorsed : 
 
 I. 
 
 2. 
 
 3- 
 
 4- 
 
 5- 
 6. 
 
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 William Day 
 HENRY FIELDING 
 Catherine ,, 
 Ursula „ 
 Sarah ,, 
 
 Beatrice „ 
 Edmund ,, 
 
 " Davidge Gould Esqre. 
 to 
 HENRY FIELDING Esqre. 
 Conveyance in ffee Counterpart." 
 
 2. THE ORIGINAL INDENTURE QUADRU-PARTITE SIGNED by 
 
 Henry Fielding and his five Brothers and Sisters, on vellum, 
 2 folding {oX\o pages, dated yd Feb. 1737. The parties concerned in this 
 Indenture were: 
 
 Of the first part 
 Of the second „ 
 
 Of the third part 
 
 {a) Peter Davies of Wells in County Somerset. 
 
 {b) Davidge Gould (Uncle of Henry Fielding) 
 
 above-mentioned. 
 {c) William Day of London. 
 
 id) Henry Fielding: Catherine Fielding : Ursula 
 Fielding: Sarah Fielding: Beatrice Field- 
 ing : Edmund Fielding. 
 Of the fourth part {e) Robert Stillingfleet of New Sarum in Wiltshire. 
 Relative to the sale of the estate in the parish of East Stour, County 
 Dorset, concluded by Davidge Gould at the request of Edmund Fielding 
 and Sarah his Wife, in the reign of Queen Anne, and which was conveyed 
 unto the Six members of the Fielding Family above-mentioned to be 
 equally divided between them, now by this present Indenture doth assign
 
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 AND TRANSFER THE SAID ESTATE UNTO ROBERT StILLINGFLEET above men- 
 
 tioned, etc. 
 
 
 Signed and sealed by: — 
 
 
 I. 
 
 HENRY FIELDING 
 
 2. 
 
 Catherine „ 
 
 3- 
 
 Ursula „ 
 
 4- 
 
 Sarah „ 
 
 5- 
 
 Beatrice ,, 
 
 6. 
 
 Edmund „ 
 
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 William Day. 
 
 Endorsed: "Peter Davis Esqre. to Mr. Stillingfleet. Assignment of a 
 Term to attend the Inheritance in Trust for Mr. Henry Fielding and 
 others. Counterpart." 
 
 FIELDING (HENRY). HOLOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, i page, 
 folio. Basitigstoke, 15 July, 1740. To (his uncle) Davidge Gould, at 
 Sharpham Park, by Bridgewater, asking him to send the present documents 
 to the Dorsetshire Assizes. 
 
 It was only in June, 1 740, that Fielding had been called to the Bar, so 
 that this was probably his first experience of Assize work. 
 
 GOULD (DAVIDGE). Uncle of the above. HOLOGRAPH LETTER 
 SIGNED. I page, 8vo. Sharphajn Park, 23 Jdy, 1740. To Henry 
 Fielding. 
 
 This is the reply to the above letter in which Gould states that he has 
 sent the deeds. 
 
 FIELDING (SIR JOHN). Half-Brothcr of the Novelist. LETTER 
 SIGNED. 2 pages, 4to. Bow Street, Dec. 9, 1762. To Lord Holder- 
 nesse, giving him particulars of the orders he has issued for his protection 
 to and from the House of Lords. 
 
 Sir John was the blind son of General Plelding by his second wife Anne. 
 He was known as " The Blind justice."
 
 5, PALL MALL PLACE 89 
 
 FIELDING (SIR JOHN). DOCUMENT SIGNED, i page, 410. Fublic 
 Office, Bow Street, 12 Nov. 1770. Being the oath of a private soldier, 
 Thomas Davis. 
 
 Henry Fielding was born at Sharpham Park. The above deeds and 
 letters were found a few years ago among a number of old papers at a solici- 
 tor's offices, where it is believed they have remained since the firm was 
 founded about 120 years ago. 
 
 The two highly important Family Documents were unknown to 
 Miss Godden, Fielding's latest biographer. Documents in the British Record 
 Office prove that in 1738 — the year following the date of the present docu- 
 ment — Henry Fielding (then only 35) sold his Stour property, or a portion of 
 it, to Thomas Hayter for ;^2 6o. 
 
 ^600 
 See Illustrations 
 
 96 
 FIELDING (HENRY). The Novelist. HOLOGRAPH 
 LETTER SIGNED. i/^^^,8vo, lo J/^r^// 1739 (1740). 
 Acknowledging the sum of ^45, from Nourse the bookseller, 
 in part payment for the copyright of the " History of 
 Charles XIL" 
 
 Fielding's editors from Murphy to Godden were not aware of the 
 existence of any literary production of his between the abandon- 
 MENT OF PLAY-WRITING AND HIS CONTRIBUTIONS TO " ThE ChAMPION," 
 
 27th November 1739 — 12th June 1740. 
 
 This document is the sole extant evidence of Fielding's responsi- 
 bility FOR the English version of Adlerfield's Charles XH — it was 
 his first independent literary production apart from his plays. 
 
 During the past thirty years less than half-a-dozen examples of Fielding's 
 autograph have occurred for sale. In the Huth Sale the assignment of " Tom 
 Jones" sold for ^1,015. 
 
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 97 
 FOLENGO (THEOPHILO). ORLANDINO DI 
 LIMERNO PITOCCO, Nuovamente stampato, diligente- 
 mente corretto, ed arricchito di annotazioni. Ejigraved title 
 by Moreait. Red moi'occo gilt, with the Wodhull arms on side, 
 by Derome {a I'oiseau). 8vo, 
 
 Londra, e si trova a Parigi Presso Molini. 1773 
 
 Printed on Vellum and believed to be unique. 
 
 An eighteenth-century note on the fly-leaf says: "J'ai paye 600 Hvres a 
 MoHni pour cet Exemplaire qui est unique. P.D." 
 
 This was formerly in the Wodhull library and has his signature upon the 
 fly-leaf. No record is to be found in any bibliography of any edition printed 
 upon vellum, and no proof of more than one copy existing can be gathered 
 from the reasoning stated on the fly-leaf. 
 
 The title is beautifully engraved by Moreau le Jeune. 
 
 Totally unknown to MM. Ue Bure. 
 
 98 
 
 GAINSBOROUGH (THOMAS). The great Portrait 
 Painter. AN IMPORTANT COLLECTION OF 5 
 HOLOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED — two to his 
 sisters, Mrs. Dupont and Mrs. Gibbon and another to his 
 friend and rival Sir Joshua Reynolds. The remaining two 
 are relative to his last illness. There are also an holograph 
 letter of one of his daughters and a long holograph letter, 
 signed, of David Garrick referring to his portrait by Gains-
 
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 borough, etc. The zvhole inlaid to a uniform folio size, illus- 
 trated by portraits and bound in brown morocco extra. 
 
 For some unexplained reason Gainsborough's letters 
 
 ARE OF extraordinary RARITY. DuRING ^p YEARS WE HAVE 
 NOT SEEN A DOZEN IN ALL. 
 
 1. GAINSBOROUGH (THOMAS, R.A.). A. I. s., 2 J>ages, 4to. To his 
 sister Mrs. Dupont, Pall Mall, SeJ>L 29M, 1783. 
 
 " I promised John when he did me the honour of a visit in Town, to allow 
 him half-a-crown a week, which with what his good cousin Gainsboro' allow 
 him and sister Gibbon, I hope will (if applied properly to his own use) render 
 the remainder of his old age tolerably comfortable, for villainously old he has 
 indeed grown," etc. 
 
 2. GAINSBOROUGH (THOMAS, R.A.). AN ORIGINAL PENCIL 
 SKETCH of a tree. 
 
 3. GAINSBOROUGH (THOMAS, R.A.). A. I. s., 2 />ages, 4to, 31 /u/y 
 (1787), To his sister Mrs. Gibbon. 
 
 " I hope we have more affection for each other, if not more sense, than to 
 suffer what may be said in joke to make any material difference in our good 
 wishes towards each other ... I do think that poor Betsy should be allowed 
 something besides her share," etc. 
 
 4. GAINSBOROUGH (THOMAS, R.A.). A. I. s., 1 page, 4to. To SIR 
 JOSHUA REYNOLDS. 
 
 " Sir Joshua, 
 
 " I think myself highly honour'd and much obliged to you for this 
 singular mark of your favor; I may truly say that I have brought my Piggs 
 {sic) to a fine market. 
 
 " Dear Sir, 
 
 " Your ever obliged and obedient servant, 
 "Tho. Gainsborough."
 
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 This letter refers to Gainsborough's picture " Girl with Pigs " which Sir 
 Joshua Reynolds sold for him to M.de Calonne for 40 guineas more than he 
 asked for it. 
 
 The sole letter of Gainsborough's to Sir Joshua known to us. 
 
 5. GAINSBOROUGH (THOMAS, R.A.). A. l. s., 2 pages, 4to (Aj>n7 
 1788). 
 
 " What this painful swelling in my neck will turn out I am at a loss at present 
 to guess. Mr. John Gunter found it nothing but a swell'd gland, and has been 
 most comfortable in pesuading {sic) me that it will disperse by the continued 
 application of a sea water poultice. My neighbour Dr. Heberden has no other 
 notion of it. It has been 3 years coming on gradually, and having no pain 
 till lately, I paid very little regard to it, now it is painful enough indeed, as I 
 can find no position upon my pillow to admit of getting rest in Bed." 
 
 Extremely important, being relative to his last illness. 
 
 Gainsborough died in the following August (four months after he wrote 
 this letter) of a cancer, which, as is proved by the present letter, was treated 
 as a swelled gland ! 
 
 In February (1788), while attending the trial of Warren Hastings, "he 
 suddenly felt something inconceivably cold touch his neck," and on his return 
 home his wife and niece found on his neck "a mark about the size of a shil- 
 ling, which was harder to the touch than the surrounding skin and which he 
 said still felt cold." This proved to be a cancer, of which he died on the 
 2nd August 1788. 
 
 6. GAINSBOROUGH (THOMAS, R.A.). A. I s., 1 page, 4to, \st May, 
 1788. To R. Bowyer. 
 
 " I am extremely obliged to you for your kind anxiety for my recovery. 
 But as I have reason and every assurance from Dr. Heberden (who has 
 known many swellings dispersed like mine and no mischief come) I shall not 
 on any account interfere in what Mr. Hunter is about." 
 
 7. GAINSBOROUGH (MISS). Daughter of the famous Painter. A. /., 
 ^rd person, i page, 4to, z\ Jan. 1799. To Mr. Farrington. Giving a brief 
 biography of her Father.
 
 5, PALL MALL PLACE 93 
 
 8. GARRICK (DAVID). 5 CONTEMPORARY PEN AND INK 
 SKETCHES OF. 
 
 9. GARRICK (DAVID). HOLOGRAPH LETTER (SIGNED). ^P^g^s, 
 8vo, April 20 {no year). 
 
 " I am this moment returned from the play." Requests his correspondent 
 to take care of his bargain with Saunders: "why need you absolutely set him 
 to work before I come to town? . . . whatever you do let it be in writing . . . 
 you may say, that you can't determine without me and why should you — I 
 would not have you deceiv'd for ye world, or fretted by ye common craft of 
 builders — festina lente! — let me be of yr. Council. I am sorry for Thompson 
 but ye Hobby-Horse will never do. . . . Bensleys success pleases me. Poor 
 Dr. Shomberg — I hope he is better. ... My Gout is better — I ventur'd to 
 ride out too soon and had a sad bout of it— I shook it into my stomach and 
 head — but one good Dr. has manag'd me well. . . . Pray see my picture 
 BY Gainsborough upon which Derrick wrote those foolish verses, 
 why should they put 'em into the St. James' to be abused? 
 
 " I hope my dear little Ford got something for her benefit — I am proud 
 that Madam likes her silk — I thought it pretty, & was satisf'd — I intend to, 
 see her soon in it, & receive the tributary kiss — my Love to her. My Nurse 
 the best in Europe desires to be most affectly remember'd to you, etc." 
 
 An important letter relative to Garrick's famous portrait by 
 Gainsborough. 
 
 In 1766 Gainsborough painted a portrait of Garrick for the Corporation 
 of Stratford-on-Avon, it was said by Mrs. Garrick to be the best portrait ever 
 taken of " her Davy." 
 
 ^315 
 
 See Illustration
 
 94 J. PEARSON & CO. 
 
 99 
 GARTH (SIR SAMUEL), the famous Physician arid Poet. 
 THE ORIGINAL HOLOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT 
 
 OF HIS TRANSLATION OF 
 
 OVID'S METAMORPHOSIS. 
 Quite complete. Covering 517 pages. Small 4to. Red 
 morocco. 
 
 The Dedication " to Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales " is 
 signed by Garth. 
 
 The Manuscript contains a long preface wherein Garth not only gives an 
 idea of the work and points out its principal beauties, but shows the uses of 
 the Poem and how it may be read to advantage. 
 
 Written on the fly-leaf, in a contemporary hand, is " Garth's manuscript 
 Ovid Written by himself." 
 
 This fine manuscript was published in 171 7, less than two years before 
 his death (i8th Jan. 17 19). 
 
 Dr. Garth enjoyed immense fame during the reigns of Anne and George I. 
 He was one of the founders of the Kit-Kat Club, a friend of the great 
 Duke of Marlborough, Addison, Pope, Dryden, etc., and author of the 
 "Dispensary," and numerous other poems. 
 
 .^200 
 
 100 
 
 GEORGE L COPIES OF THE TREATIES WITH 
 SPAIN, 1 718 and 1720. The King's Own Copies of these 
 Important State Papers, ^a^ pages y folio. 
 
 Comprising — i. The Royal ratification of the Act of Accession of Our 
 Good Brother the Catholik King (of Spain) to the Treaty of AUyance concluded 
 at London between Us, Our Good Brothers the Emperor of Germany and
 
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 the most Christian King, the Twenty-Second day of July, 1718, and to the 
 Separate and Secret Articles, and also to other four separate Articles thereunto 
 belonging. 
 
 2. The Original Warrant for affixing the Great Seal to the above, signed 
 by George I with his Royal Sign Manual. 
 
 Two highly important historical documents. 
 
 lOI 
 
 GLUCK (CHRISTOPH). HOLOGRAPH LETTER, 
 SIGNED. 3 pages. Large folio. Vienna, 31 December, 
 1769. 
 
 This is a Gluck manuscript rather than a letter. It contains 454 words. 
 
 Addressed by Gluck "An Ihro Durchlaucht dem Fiirsten von Kaunitz 
 (P.T.) Untertiinigstes Bitten von mir innenbenanten." 
 
 "Gluck hatte den grossten Teil seines Vermogens zu einer Societiit mit 
 dem Obristleutnant Afflisio fiir dessen ' Teatral Impresa ' verwandt und war 
 auf dem Punkte, durch ungiinstige Umstande alles zu verlieren. Die aus- 
 fiihrliche Darlegung dieser Verhaltnisse sowie Bitte um Abhiilfe bilden den 
 Inhalt dieses Schreibens.— Gluck's Briefe gehoren bekanntlich zu den aller- 
 grossten Seltenheiten. Ein Brief von dem Umfange und der prachtigen 
 ausseren Erhaltung des vorliegenden diirfte aber iiberhaupt im Handel noch 
 nicht vorgekommen sein." 
 
 This is considered to be the finest letter of Gluck's in existence. 
 
 ^350 
 See Illustration 
 
 102 
 
 FROM "LA BELLE STUART'S" LIBRARY 
 
 GODFREY OF BOULOGNE: or the Recoverie of Jeru- 
 salem. Done into English Heroicall verse by Edward
 
 96 J. PEARSON & CO. 
 
 Fairfax. Portrait by Pass. Contemporary olive morocco. 
 Folio. 
 
 Lo7ido7i: by John Bill, Printer to the Kiitg' s most excellejit 
 Maiesty. 1624 
 
 " La Belle Stuart's " copy, with her autograph signature, " Francesse 
 Teresa Stuart." 
 
 The erstwhile owner of this volume, who has so gracefully inscribed her 
 name inside the cover, is known to fame as " La Belle Stuart," the heroine of 
 Grammont's " Memoirs," the animated pages of which are largely occupied 
 by her escapades at court. When she arrived from France as Maid of Honour 
 to the Queen her wondrous beauty enslaved the hearts of kings and courtiers 
 alike. " With her hat cocked and a red plume, sweet eye, little Roman nose 
 and excellent taile," she appeared to Pepys the greatest beauty he had ever 
 seen, and he "fancied himself sporting with her with pleasure," although he 
 was ready to make petulant remarks about the king becoming besotted with 
 her, and spending " half an hour together kissing her." How this " artless 
 prattler " managed to transform the libertine passions of the merry monarch 
 into something of a semblance to love, and to defeat the best laid schemes of 
 the most accomplished masters of amorous intrigue is a story too well told by 
 Anthony Hamilton, one of her many baffled admirers, to need further recital 
 here. As to the supreme quality of her beauty, if any evidence is needed 
 beyond the chorus of contemporary praise, it may be found imperishably re- 
 corded in the figure of Britannia on our coins, and on certain medals struck 
 in her honour, for which figures she was the model, the design being carried 
 out by the great medallist, Roettier. This book from her library is, curiously 
 enough, the identical work, which shares the honour with one of the folio 
 Shakespeares, of having solaced the prison life of Charles I, to whom (as 
 Prince of Wales) it is dedicated. On pages 284 and 285 some passages of an 
 especially tender nature are underscored with red crayon, and further attention 
 is called to these lines by means of a large black star at the top of the page. 
 These marks have every appearance of dating from the time of " La Belle 
 Stuart's " ownership. We are not atvare of the existence of another book from 
 her library^ and even her autograph is of extreme rarity. 
 
 \
 
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 VICAR 
 
 O F 
 
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 W A K E F I E L 
 
 T A L E. 
 
 Suppofed to be written by Himself.. 
 
 Sperate m'lferi^ caveie falices. 
 
 V O L. I. 
 
 SALISBURY: 
 
 Printed by B. COLLINS, 
 For F. Newbery, in Pater-Nofler-Row, London, 
 
 MDCCLXVI, 
 
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 5, PALL MALL PLACE 97 
 
 103 
 GOLDSMITH. THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD: A 
 
 Tale Supposed to be written by Himself. Sperate miserly 
 cavete fcelices. 2 vols. Small 8 vo. Red morocco extra, gilt 
 leaves. 
 
 Salisbury: Printed by B. Collins, for F. Neivbery, in 
 Pater-Noster-Row, London. 1 766 
 
 The First Edition. 
 
 Inserted is an autograph letter, signed, of the publisher, Benjamin Collins, 
 covering i page, 4to, dated, Salisbu/y, 14th December 1769, and addressed 
 to Mr. Nourse. Asking for copies of the second editions of Mr. Harris's two 
 books to be sent to him. 
 
 ^125 
 
 See Illustration 
 
 104 
 
 GOLDSMITH (O.). ESSAYS, POEMS, AND PLAYS. 
 
 Vellum gilt. Small 8vo. 
 
 / Printed by C. Slonian, Yarmouth, 1826 
 
 One of but two copies printed on vellum. 
 This copy belonged to Dawson Turner. 
 
 105 
 
 GONCOURT (EDMOND DE). THEOPHILE GAU- 
 TIER. Red morocco by Lortic. 8vo. 
 
 Saint- Gratien, 1878 
 Printed on Vellum. 
 
 Unique. Edmond de Goncourt's own copy with his signed autograph 
 note on fly-leaf: 
 
 " Mon exemplaire. Exemplaire unique sur peau velin d'un tirage special 
 
 O
 
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 de ma preface mise en tete du livre de Bergerat intitule: Theophile Gautier 
 Entretiens, Souvenirs et Correspondance. Edmond de Goncourt." 
 
 1 06 
 
 GOUNOD. THE ORIGINAL HOLOGRAPH MANU- 
 SCRIPT (SIGNED) of the Words and Music of his 
 
 "MAGNIFICAT." 
 
 Quite Complete. ^ pages folio, in three parts, for Sopi^ano, 
 Tenor, Bass. Each part is signed in full, " Ch. Gounod." 
 
 Written in May 1874. 
 
 On two of the parts the famous composer has written the words : " Com- 
 posed for his friend E. Silas." 
 
 107 
 
 GOUNOD (CHARLES). THE ORIGINAL HOLO- 
 GRAPH MANUSCRIPT (SIGNED) of the Music and 
 Words of his very celebrated 
 
 "NAZARETH." 
 
 Q uiTE Complete. Covering 2 2 pages folio, i^ed morocco extra. 
 
 The title (in Gounod's handwriting) reads: "Jesus de Nazareth, Chant 
 Evangelique pour Baryton Solo et Choiurs." 
 a most precious musical manuscript. 
 
 See Illustration 
 
 108 
 GRANGER (JAMES). A BIOGRAPHICAL HIS- 
 TORY OF ENGLAND FROM THE REIGN OF 
 EGBERT TO THE END OF GEORGE I, consist-
 
 jMid rL ]].cm.ruL. 
 
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 5, PALL MALL PLACE 99 
 
 ing of Characters disposed in different Classes, adapted to 
 a Methodical Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits. 
 This ii7iiqiie copy has been extended from 7 vols, to 31 folio 
 
 VOLS, by THE INSERTION OF ABOUT 4,500 MEZZOTINT AND OTHER 
 
 PORTRAITS, MANY BEING PROOF IMPRESSIONS. Thereis a Specially 
 printed title to each volume. Bound in old green morocco 
 extra. 
 
 A MOST SUPERB SET OF BOOKS. 
 
 Amongst the rarer of the remarkable collection of Mezzotint portraits 
 may be mentioned: Henry VI, by Faber; Margareta, mother of Henry VH; 
 Henry of Monmouth, by Faber; Hugo de Balsam, by Faber; and many 
 others by Faber; Edward VI; Thomas Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, by J. 
 Smith; Martin Bucer, by Houston: John Hooper, by Houston; James I. by 
 J. Smith; William Shakespeare, by C. Turner; Abraham Hondius, by J. 
 Smith; Mrs. Turnor, after Kneller; Charles I, by J. Smith; another after 
 Van Dyck, by J. Smith; Duke of Gloucester, by J. Smith; Mary, Princess of 
 Orange, after Van Dyck, by Faithorne; Lord John and Lord Bernard Stuart, 
 after Van Dyck, by McArdell; John Egerton, Earl of Bridgwater, after 
 Kneller, by J. Smith; John Hampden, by A. Miller; Drummond of Haw- 
 thornden, by Finlayson; Van Dyck, by Watson; St. Agnes (Mary Villiers, 
 Duchess of Richmond and Lennox), by J. Smith; Rachel, Countess of South- 
 ampton, after Van Dyck, by McArdell; Prince of Orange and Nassau; Lady 
 Elizabeth Cromwell, after Kneller, by J. Smith; James Harrington, by Marchi; 
 John, Earl of Exeter, after Kneller; Andrew Marvell, by J. R. Smith; Sir 
 Thomas Jones, after Claret; Sir John Chichley, after Lely, proof impression; 
 Rembrandt, after the painting by himself, and another by C. Townley; Sir 
 Peter Lely, by Becket; Sir G. Kneller, two anonymous portraits by J. Smith; 
 Guil. Wissing, by J. Smith; Sir Christopher Wren, after Kneller, by J. Smith; 
 W. Vaillant, after the painting by himself; Isabella, Duchess of Grafton, after 
 Kneller, by Faber; Henry Jenkins; Col. Blood, by G. White, proof impression; 
 Bp. Burnet, proof impression; Mr. and Mrs. Gibbons, after Closterman, by 
 J. Smith; Rev. T. Parnell; J. B. Monoyer, after Kneller, by G. White; 
 Diana Vere, Duchess of St. Albans, after Kneller, by Faber; Frances Bennet, 
 Countess of Salisbury, after Kneller, by J. Smith; Rev. John Moore, after
 
 100 J. PEARSON & CO 
 
 Kneller, by Faithorne; E. W. Jeffreyes, after Dahl, by Sympson; Wm. Cowper, 
 surgeon, after Closterman, by J. Smith; Joseph Addison (there are three 
 portraits of this distinguished author); Mrs. CentHvre, after Firmin, by Pel- 
 ham; Richard Blome; Major R. Snow, writing master, after Is. Whood, by 
 V. Hacken, fine impression ; T. Frampton, Royal Stud-keeper, after Wooton, 
 by Faber; Charles, Viscount Townshend, two portraits, one being a proof; 
 Henry Clinton, Earl of Lincoln, with Thomas Pelham, Duke of Newcastle, 
 after Kneller, by Faber; Lord Torrington, after Kneller, by J. Smith: Bp. 
 Gibson, after Murray, by Gibson; Rev. T. Langdon, after N. Tucker, by 
 Faber, Charles Dartiquenave, after Kneller, by Faber, fine; Peter King, by 
 Faber; Sir Thos. Bury, after Richardson, by J. Smith; Sylvester Petyt, after 
 R. V. Bleeck, by G. White; Wm. Hucks, after Vanderbank, by Faber; Alex. 
 Pope, by T- Smith; Sir Richard Steele, after Richardson, by J. Smith; Chris- 
 topher Wren, by Faber; William Stukely, after Kneller, by J. Smith; H. 
 Wanley, after Hill, by J. Smith; A. de Moivre, after Highmore, by Faber 
 Tycho Wing, after Vanderbank, by G. White; R. Van Bleeck, after Ipse 
 John Bannister, after Murray, by J. Smith; T. Walker (as Capt. Macheath) 
 after EUys, by Faber; Mr. Isaac (dancing master), after L. Goupy, by G 
 White; John Sturges, after Vanderbank, by Kyte, and another by White 
 Mrs. Gurney, "the Fair Quaker," after Houston; Philip Lockhart, by A 
 Johnston; Voltaire, after Sen; Owen McSwiny, after Vanloo, by Faber 
 Lay ton Smith, by Faber; Abr. Stanyan, after Kneller; Martin Folkes, after 
 Vanderbank, by Faber; the notorious Buckhorse, proof impression. 
 
 In addition to these there are numerous fine and rare mezzotint portraits 
 after Sir Godfrey Kneller; Richardson, Wissing, Murray, Riley, Closterman, 
 Schalken, Verelst, Dahl, Gibson, Russell, Vanderbank, Grace, Ellys, Reynolds, 
 Stevens, Highmore, Jervas, Ramsay, Hill, Hudson, Dandridge, Smibert, 
 Hysing, Laffontaine, Bragge, Wollaston, Latham, Hicks, Vandersaart, Stubly, 
 Parry, Knapton, and others. 
 
 Amongst the portraits (other than mezzotint) will be found: 
 William Shakespe.^re, by W. Marshall for the Poems of 1640 (extra- 
 ordinarily rare); John Milton, after Marshall, with the sarcastic Greek 
 lines beneath; Dr. Donne, by Marshall; J. Sylvester, by Vicars; Prince 
 Rupert, after Van Dyck ; Lodowick, Duke of Richmond, by Pass ; Thomas 
 Earl of Arundel, by Pass; Lord Montjoy Blunt, by T. Jenner; Francis White,
 
 5, PALL MALL PLACE loi 
 
 by Cockson; Andrew Willet, Hugo Broughton, by Payne: Sir Anthony Sher- 
 ley; Francis Lord Bacon, by Marshall, also one by Hollar; Sir Henry Hobart, 
 by Pass; Sir Horace Vere, by Faithorne, proof impression; John Milton, by 
 Faithorne; Ben Jonson, by Holl; Henry, Earl of Nassau, by Pass; John 
 Fletcher, an original drawing in sepia, by E. Bathurst; another portrait of 
 Fletcher (engraved), by Marshall; Countess of Pembroke, by Pass; Sir 
 Walter Raleigh, six scarce portraits; Aaron Rathborne, by Pass; J. Florius, 
 by Hole; William Lithgow; Catharine, Marchioness of Buckingham, by Pass; 
 Lucia Harin, by Pass; Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel, and Aletheia Tal- 
 bot; James Stewart, Earl of March, by Voerst; Henry Rich; Jerom Weston, 
 Earl of Portland: Wm. Gouge, by Faithorne; Wm. Fenner, by Hollar; John 
 Rogers; R. Carpenter, by Marshall; Ranulph Crew; James Calthorpe; Sir B. 
 Rudyerd, by J. Payne; Sir Mathew Lister; Sir John Suckling, by Marshall; 
 R. Stapylton, by Marshall; George Withers, by J. Payne; Robert Baron, by 
 Marshall; Henry Spelman, by Faithorne; John Dethick, by Lombart; John 
 Tradescant (two portraits), by Hollar; Elizabeth, Countess of Kent; Jane, 
 daughter of Arthur Goodwin, after Van Dyck; Mr. Hobson, by J. Payne; 
 Moll Cut-Purse, three portraits; Giovanni Viconte Mordaunte, by Faithorne; 
 Brian Walton, by Lombart; F. Roberts, by Cross; Arthur Jackson, by Log- 
 gan; Hugh Peters, three scarce portraits, one a proof, and a rare mezzotint; 
 Robert Leighton; Sir Samuel Morland, by Lombart, a fine proof; Alex. 
 Erskine, a proof before the numbers; John Bulwer, two rare portraits, one a 
 proof; Francis Rous, by Faithorne; Prince Rupert, after Lely; George, Duke 
 of Albemarle: Dr. Henry More, by Faithorne, another by Loggan; Thomas 
 Killigrew, by Faithorne; Valentine Greatrakes, by Faithorne; Edward Water- 
 house, by Loggan, proof impression; Sir George Wharton; Sara, Duchess of 
 Somerset; Thos. Mace, by Faithorne; Anne, Countess of Chesterfield, after 
 Van Dyck, by Faber, a beautifully executed sepia drawing by Le Belloman, 
 from the rare print; Hortense Mancini, after Lily, by G. Valck; King James 
 ye Second's Lord Chancellor endeavouring to save himself by flight; Timothy 
 Hatton, by Burghers; John Smith (writing master); Thomas Baskerville; 
 Oliver Cromwell (discovering his Chaplain on his knees, before his daughter), 
 by Bartolozzi, after Cipriani; Granny, after Laroon, etc. 
 
 There are also several rare portraits of Milton, Oliver Cromwell, Lord 
 Fairfax, Queen Mary, and Queen Anne, portraits of the English Countesses 
 by Lombart, the series of fine portraits by Houbraken and Vertue, etc.
 
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 These 31 splendid volumes form perhaps the most magnificent 
 " Grangerized " book that has ever occurred for sale — its original 
 
 COST (about a HLTNDRED years ago) must have been at least ;2{^2,000. 
 
 The portrait of Shakespeare by Marshall is alone worth ;^2oo, and 
 
 MANY hundreds OF PORTRAITS ARE, INDIVIDUALLY, OF CONSIDERABLE VALUE. 
 
 The index volume, in 8vo, interleaved, with numerous MS. additions, 
 accompanies the collection. 
 
 ^800 
 109 
 
 GRESHAM (SIR THOMAS). Founder of the Royal Ex- 
 change. A REMARKABLE COLLECTION OF FIVE 
 LETTERS SIGNED, and a document signed by him. 
 Together with a holograph letter, signed, of Thomas 
 Gresham the yottnger. These superb letters are addressed to 
 Sir Nathaniel Bacon, the brother of the famous Sir Francis, 
 Lord Verulam, and Sir Thomas Gresham's son-in-law. 
 They date from 1574 to 1579. 
 
 These seven letters are illustrated by six portraits including a brilliant 
 proof after Sir Anthony Moore of Gresham. The whole being inlaid to a uni- 
 form size and forming a handsome folio volume bound in brown morocco extra. 
 
 Sir Thomas Gresham, the famous merchant-banker, was the son of Sir 
 Richard Gresham, Lord Mayor of London. He first attained fame as a financier 
 by negociating certain loans for Edward VI in 1551. Subsequently he was em- 
 ployed on several occasions by Elizabeth, who found him exceedingly useful 
 in obtaining money from foreign merchants, and also in raising loans from 
 merchants in England. In 1566 he founded the Royal Exchange, which was 
 opened by the Queen in person (1570). When Gresham first entered the bank- 
 ing business Antwerp was the commercial centre of the world, when he died 
 the supremacy had been transferred to London. 
 
 I. HOLOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, i page, folio, from the Court at 
 London, 2,rd April 1577, to his son-in-law Nathaniel Bacon: 
 
 Relative to the birth of a grandson. 
 " Well belovyd sonne I have re'' [received] yors of the fyrst of this present
 
 5, PALL MALL PLACE 103 
 
 wherby I pseve [perceive] that itt haithe pleassed god to seand [send] my 
 Daughtyr a boye of the wyche I ame right glade praying to god to seand him 
 longe lyffe being right sorry that I cannott come ovver my sellfe to crysteny- 
 ing as my dessyr ys. And for as moche as my lorde yor ffather [Sir Nicholas 
 Bacon] ys very dessirus [desirous] to have yt don [in] his name withe the 
 wyche I am very well content there wythe. Praying you yff Willm. gillett be 
 not come ffrom the aus (?) afore this my leattr [letter] come to yr. handes that 
 you woll seand for hym to Crystenn Itt yff he be come then to apoynte yo"" 
 brother Mr. Woodhous or some other of yo'' ffryndes that wyll tacke so moche 
 paynes for me — having seant [sent] my Dawghter for to geve her soney [sonny] 
 a Cupe for to Carus [caress?] him." Etc. 
 
 2. LETTER SIGNED WITH HOLOGRAPH CONCLUSION OF 9 
 LINES. 3 pages, folio, 2\th June, 15 79) to his son-in-law. Sir Nathaniel 
 Bacon. 
 
 An interesting letter respecting two of his servants who owe him money and 
 relative to his estates in Norfolk and Suffolk, his trade with Holland. Send- 
 ing Philip Cely and advising Nathaniel to sell much of his land. Also relative 
 to his selling wool and referring to " fishinge of freashe watter fishe," etc. 
 
 3. HOLOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED. 2 pages, folio, Gresham House, 
 <^th July, 1597, to the same. 
 
 Relative to the sale of lands to his tenants. 
 
 4. LETTER SIGNED WITH HOLOGRAPH SUPERSCRIPTION. 
 2, pages, folio, 6th Sept. 1579, to the same. 
 
 Thanking him for the pains he has taken in his business, and giving in- 
 structions in connection with his estates. 
 
 5. LETTER SIGNED WITH HOLOGRAPH SUPERSCRIPTION. 
 \ page, folio, Osterley, ith October, 1579, to the same. 
 
 Referring to the Bishop of Norwich and the lease of some lands at 
 Holkham. 
 
 Gresham died a little over a month after writing this letter — 21st November 
 
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 6. DEED ON VELLUM, SIGNED, conjointly by him and by Robert 
 Boston. 
 
 Assigning a messuage at Bisbrooke, co. Rutland, to Clement Brettyn of 
 Uppingham in the same county, i6th June i574- 
 
 7. GRESHAM (THOMAS). The Younger. HOLOGRAPH LETTER, 
 SIGNED. \ page, folio, i^June, 1597, to the same. 
 
 A curious letter asking him for ^100 that Bacon owes him for books 
 (Gresham's writings). 
 
 Mentions Sir Henry Woodhous and Thomas Grymes, etc. 
 This is the sole Gresham correspondence known to us. 
 
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 GRESSET (DE). LE PARRAIN MAGNIFIOUE, 
 Poeme en Dix Chants, ouvrage Posthume. Original half 
 binding, 8vo. A Paris, chez Ant., Aug., Renouard 18 10. 
 
 Printed on Vellum. One of but two copies so printed. 
 " II en existe deux exemplaires, dont un est joint a I'exemplaire des oeuvres 
 de Gresset ci-dessus en 2 volumes, que possede M. Renouard." — De Bure. 
 
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 GRESSET, POEMES DE. Red morocco. 8vo. 
 
 Pains, Chez D. Jouaust, 1867 
 
 Printed on Vellum. One of but two copies so printed.
 
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 1 12 
 HAMPDEN (JOHN). The famous Commomvealth States- 
 ma7i. HIS SIGNATURE to an Assessment of Taxation 
 in the County of Bucks, i page, 4to, Sept. 10, 1628. 
 
 This almost unique autograph is accompanied by a very rare folio broad- 
 side: "The Humble Petition of the Inhabitants of the County of Bucking- 
 ham presented to the Kings most Excellent Majestic at Windsor, iT^ih January, 
 1642, in the behalfe of Mr. Hampden, Knight of the said County, and the 
 rest of the members of Parliament accused by his Maiestie of Treason." 
 
 This is the sole signature of Hampden that has occurred for sale during the 
 past thirty years. 
 
 113 
 
 HARTE (BRET). THE ORIGINAL HOLOGRAPH 
 MANUSCRIPT of his 
 
 THE HEIR OF THE MAC HALISH'S. 
 
 Quite Complete. Z9 P'^S^^^ 4to- Green morocco. 
 
 With numerous corrections also in Bret Harte's autograph. 
 
 114 
 
 HAYLEY (WILLIAM). THE ORIGINAL HOLO- 
 GRAPH MANUSCRIPT of his extremely famous work: 
 " THE TRIUMPHS OF TEMPER, a Poem in Six 
 Cantos." 
 
 Quite complete, consisting (9/217 leaves, \\.o. Inserted in 
 this important manuscript are proofs of the six designs of 
 
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 Maria Flaxman, engraved by William Blake in 1803. Bou7id 
 171 broio7i morocco extra. 
 
 This is the Original Manuscript entirely in Hayley's autograph, of a book 
 which was so extremely famous in the early years of the nineteenth century 
 as to be illustrated both by Blake and Romney. 
 
 " Hayley retained a traditional reputation on the strength of almost his 
 first poem, still his magmitn of us, after nearly twenty years had passed since 
 its appearance — ' The Triumphs of Temper.'" — Gilchrist's " Life of 
 Blake." 
 
 A copy of the origiTial edition of the printed zvork accompanies ihis manu- 
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 HEATH [^\CWO\.h'$^\ Archbishop of York. LETTER 
 SIGNED by him. i page, folio. Elthavi, \6th Aug., 
 1556. To Lord Cavendish. 
 
 An original Privy Council letter signed by Archbishop Heath, who helped 
 Bishop Tunstall to translate the "Great" Bible. In 1531 Heath was Vicar 
 of Hever; he was subsequently Archbishop of Stafford, Bishop of Worcester, 
 Bishop of Rochester, and Archbishop of York. He was also Queen Mary's 
 Lord Chancellor. 
 
 The Archbishop was deprived of his See by Ehzabeth, although he had 
 rendered her an immense service by proclaiming her (in the House of Lords) 
 immediately after Queen Mary's death. 
 
 This letter is dated from Eltham, i6th August 1556, and is addressed to 
 Sir William Cavendish, Treasurer of the Chamber. Sir William built Chats- 
 worth and was the husband of the famous " Bess of Hardwick." 
 
 The Privy Council, for the second time, in the name of the King 
 (Philip H) and Queen (Mary) commands Cavendish to attend the Court 
 at once.
 
 5, PALL MALL PLACE 107 
 
 The letter is signed not only by Archbishop Heath, but also by the fol- 
 lowing famous Tudor Statesmen : 
 
 1. Thomas Thirlby, Bishop of Ely (previously the first and only Bishop of 
 Westminster). 
 
 2. William Lord Paget, Lord Privy Seal. 
 
 3. Sir William Petre, Secretary of State. 
 
 4. Sir John Bourne, Secretary of State. 
 
 5. Sir John Baker, Chancellor of the Exchequer. 
 
 6. Sir Thomas Cornwaleys, Comptroller of the Household. 
 
 In the reign of Edward VI, although he had opposed the measure, Heath 
 was appointed one of the Chief Commissioners for carrying out the Act for 
 the use of the new Book of Common Prayer (1549). Refusing to sign the new 
 Ordination form for the Church of England Clergy, he was imprisoned and 
 deprived of his Bishopric by Edward VI's Government. On the accession of 
 Mary he was restored, translated to York, and the Great Seal committed 
 to him. 
 
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 HEINE (HEINRICH). HOLOGRAPH LETTER 
 SIGNED. I full page, 4to. Paris, 27 April, 1838. To 
 his publishers Messrs. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg. 
 
 Heine states that he sent the MS. of his Poems a few days ago, and 
 will send by Horse Post 3 proof-sheets in prose to be printed at the end 
 of the book as an Epilogue. Had he not been suffering from nasal catarrh 
 for six weeks the epilogue would have been in hand by now. "At all events 
 it will give you pleasure, and prove that I keep your interests in mind. There 
 will be an important literary scandal. The portrait is good, and may go in 
 front of the preface. I have mentioned it in the epilogue. My wife is 
 always ill, otherwise I am doing well." 
 
 Important being relative to his Poems. Heine's letters are of extra- 
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 HENRY VII AND THE EXPENSES FOR HIS 
 
 PRIVATE CHAPEL 
 
 HENRY VII. HIS ROYAL SIGN MANUAL TO 
 THE ORIGINAL ORDER for the payment of 40 
 shillings unto William Tolle for " syngyng brede, tukkynge 
 gyrdyll and frankyncens spent in c'" (our) Chapel " for the 
 " two yeres now passed." On velhim. Dated Greenwycke 
 {GreemvicJi) ^th Apryll The i^th yere of d" {our) Reigne 
 (1498). Addressed to "Sir Robert Litton keper of our 
 grreat Wardrobe." 
 
 The phrases in this important Tudor Ecclesiastical document may be thus 
 explained. 
 
 1. "'Syngyng brede' is the Sacramental wafer. This is a common 
 mediaeval term. 
 
 2. " ' Tukkyng gyrdyll ' would be a girdle for putting round the alb to keep 
 it from being in the way when celebrating Mass. 
 
 3. " ' Frankyncens ' is, of course, incense." 
 
 This is an order for payment of forty shillings to William Tolle for Sing- 
 ing Bread, tucking girdle and frankincense used in the Royal Chapel during 
 two years. Singing Bread was a common term in early days for the conse- 
 crated wafer in reference to the singing of the choir during Mass. Thus Hig- 
 den wrote in the fifteenth century, " The pope ordained that bread ordained 
 to sing with should be pure bread and clean." The girdle was a cord of 
 linen, silk, worsted or other material to bind round the alb at the waist, 
 the word " tucking " is used in its real sense of " gathering in " a robe. The 
 document is dated from Greenwich but does not specify for which of the 
 Royal Chapels the articles were supplied. The famous chapel of Henry VII 
 at Westminster was not begun until 1502, and the chapel at Windsor was also
 
 5, PALL MALL PLACE 109 
 
 in process of rebuilding. It was in the year of this document, 1498, that the 
 dispute arose as to where the body of Henry VI should be finally buried. 
 The abbeys of Chertsey and Westminster both claimed the body, Chertsey 
 because it had been removed from there by Richard III, and Westminster 
 because the King in his lifetime had settled to be buried there. The Council 
 held to adjudicate on the matter decided in favour of Westminster, and 
 Henry VII then determined to found a Chapel at Westminster even more 
 magnificent than the one he had designed at Windsor. The outcome of all 
 this was curious. As Stanley writes, " The language of the Westminster 
 records certainly implies that the body was removed (according to a faint 
 tradition of which no distinct trace remains) to some ' place undistinguished ' 
 in the Abbey. But the language of the wills, both of Henry VII and of 
 Henry VIII, no less clearly indicates that it remains 'according to the 
 Windsor tradition, in the south aisle of St. George's Chapel. Unquestionably 
 no solemn ' translation ' ever took place. The ' canonization ' which the Pope 
 had promised, was never carried out. The chapel at Westminster was still 
 pushed forward, but it became the chapel, not of Henry VI, but of Henry VII." 
 The Robert Litton, to whom the document is addressed, was for a 
 time one of the under-treasurers to the King. He was subsequently knighted 
 and made Keeper of the Wardrobe. He probably died in 15 13, as a docu- 
 ment of that year states that the office of Remembrancer was given on 12th 
 January to Edmund Denny vice Sir Robert Lytton. 
 
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 HENRY VII. HIS ROYAL SIGN MANUAL and 
 6 WORDS IN HIS Autograph to a leaf from the Royal 
 Treasury Accounts. On paper. 2 pages, folio. Setting 
 forth particulars of the Properties of R. Samforde and 
 T. Goodman, with the sums due from them to the King. 
 Dated 22nd Henry VII. (1507) 
 
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 HENRY VIII AND MASSES FOR HIS FATHER 
 
 HENRY VIII. HIS ROYAL SIGN MANUAL to 
 the ORIGINAL ORDER for the remission of the payment of 
 ^300 from " John, Abbot of o'" [our] Monasterie of Chestre " 
 " it being determyned that for the discharge of the soiile 
 of o^" said late Fader the same obHgracons ought of Con- 
 science to bee restored to the said Abbot and his Mon- 
 asterie." On pape7\ Dated " Grenewiche the last Day of 
 Marc he The seconde yere of oure Reigne." {i^ii) 
 
 An exceedingly important Ecclesiastical document illustrating Henry VIII's 
 early piety. It bears a most remarkable group of rare Tudor signatures. It 
 will be noticed that no less than three of Henry VH's seven executors have 
 signed this document. 
 
 Coufitersigfied by Cardinal Fisher (the martyred Bishop of Rochester); 
 Thomas Ruthall (Bishop of Durham); Richard Fox (Bishop of Winchester); 
 Thomas Howard (Earl of Surrey); John Yonge (one of Henry VH's seven 
 executors and Master of the Rolls); Sir John Fyneux (another of Henry VH's 
 executors and Chief-Justice of the King's Bench); Sir Thomas Lovell (yet 
 another of Henry VH's executors); and four other signatories. 
 
 Addressed to John Heron (afterwards Sir John). 
 
 This document is no doubt an outcome of Henry VH's will, for there is 
 in the Rolls Office a document containing " A declaration of all such sums of 
 money as hath been restored delivered and paid unto bishops, abbots and 
 priours by the lords executors of the testaments and last will of the late King 
 of noble memory. King Henry VH." The Abbot of St. Werburg's Monastery 
 at the time was John Birchenshaw, who had been elected in 1493, ^^^^ in the 
 year of this document, 151 1, began a feud with the City of Chester, which 
 appears to have ended in his removal for a time. The Abbot of Chester was
 
 5, PALL MALL PLACE iii 
 
 one of those to whom money had been paid under the late King's will, and 
 probably some differences had arisen on the point. This would account for the 
 number of the late King's executors signing the document. The signatures to 
 the document, numbering eleven, represent some of the most important men 
 of the time. John Fisher, Cardinal-Bishop of Rochester, one of the most 
 learned and liberal churchmen of his day, was the friend and adviser of Margaret, 
 Countess of Richmond, Henry VIII's grandmother, and influenced her immense 
 benefactions to Cambridge. In later life he fell under the King's displeasure 
 for denying the validity of Queen Catherine's divorce. He refused to swear to 
 the Act of Succession, and finally, in 1535, was beheaded for refusing to 
 acknowledge the King as supreme head of the Church. Thomas Ruthall, 
 though not so important a man, was secretary to Henry VII and Henry VIII. 
 He was made Bishop of Durham in 1509, and Keeper of the Privy Seal in 
 1516. He died in 1523. Richard Fox, Bishop of Winchester, who died in 
 1528, was noted as a diplomatist. Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey and Duke 
 of Norfolk, was at this time an old man, having been born in 1443. He was 
 a notable warrior and fought for Edward IV at Barnet and Richard III at 
 Bosworth. He was created Lord Treasurer in 1501 and Earl Marshal in 
 15 10, and died in 1524. John Yonge, born in 1467, after considerable 
 diplomatic work was created Master of the Rolls in 1508. He was made 
 prebendary and Dean of York in 15 14, and died two years later. Sir John 
 Fyneux was appointed in 1495 Chief Justice of the King's Bench. He died 
 in 1527. Sir Thomas Englefield, who is not mentioned in the "Dictionary 
 of National Biography," was Speaker of the House of Commons in 1497 and 
 again in 1509. He can hardly be the same as the Thomas Englefield who 
 became Serjeant-at Law in 1521 and a Justice of the Common Pleas in 1526. 
 Sir Thomas Lovell fought with Henry at Bosworth Field. In 1485 he became 
 Chancellor of the Exchequer and Speaker of the House of Commons, and was 
 made by Henry VIII Constable of the Tower. He died in 1524. Sir John 
 Cut or Cutte, who is also unmentioned in the " Dictionary of National 
 Biography," was Under-Treasurer of England, while Sir John Heron was 
 Treasurer of the Chamber. Of these persons, six, Richard Fox, Thomas 
 Howard, John Yonge, John Fyneux, Thomas Lovell, and John Cutte were all 
 executors of the will of Henry VIL 
 
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 HENRY VIII AND FALCONRY 
 
 HENRY VIII. LETTER SUBSCRIBED AND 
 SIGNED by the King addressed to Madame de La Ferte. 
 
 " Madame jay commande a Messe John Hervey I'ung des gentiB hommes 
 de ma chambre a vous pnter de p. moy une gaige de lamitie que vo'porte ces 
 Oyseaulx de Leuvre po3 vo' donner recreation en leur voUerye. Et y aurois 
 tn volu mes battre avecques vo' se nestois ung peu mallade de fiebure Madame 
 trouerez au ditquoy trois gerfaulx a gars et ung blanc quat'aut's gerfaulx 
 sors deux tierceletz et troys faulcons dont en y a ung a gart et les aut's deux 
 sors Lesquelz tous ay Bn volu eslire moy mesme que dignes destre mys en vfe 
 Faulconerye. Et ne vo' debuez surprendre de me voyr ainsy vre faulconyer 
 q'nt telz oyseaulz, se vont soubSmettre a la collombe que est exemple a ymyter 
 f) tous et pmyerement par 
 
 " Vre bon Amye 
 
 "Henry R. 
 
 "Sy doibt on leur laysse(r) prendre qlques pdr . . . labord affin q ne s . . . 
 po3 ce quyl yalong . . . s quon ne les ait fait voiles, de Caillaiz ce iij""' apres 
 disner." 
 
 A remarkably interesting letter, being entirely relative to a gift of Hawks 
 and to Falconry. It appears to be unpublished. 
 
 121 
 
 HENRI IV'S RENUNCIATION OF 
 PROTESTANTISM 
 
 HENRY IV OF FRANCE. LETTER SIGNED by 
 
 him addressed to " Mons. du Pouet, Capt. of Fifty Men
 
 5, PALL MALL PLACE 113 
 
 of Arms of my Ordnance." i page, folio. St. De?iis, 
 July, 1593. 
 
 A MAGNIFICENT AND MOST VALUABLE HISTORICAL LETTER, WHEREIN THE 
 
 King announces his adoption of the Catholic Faith. Henry was bred 
 and educated by his mother, Jeanne d'Albret, a daughter of the famous 
 Huguenot leader, Henri de Navarre. She has been described as "a woman 
 of superior merits, ardently devoted to the Protestant faith in which she 
 educated her son," and he himself had led the Huguenot forces against the 
 Cathohc League in 1576. When, however, he was on the point of gaining the 
 throne of France, he suddenly announced his intention of joining the Roman 
 Catholic Church, which he did in 1593, at the same time assuring the Protest- 
 ants of the continuation of his favour and protection. In this letter the King 
 announces to his friend, Monsieur de Pouet, the step he has taken, assuring 
 him that he has only been persuaded to it by the certainty that it is for the 
 ultimate safety of his soul. 
 
 \^Translation.'\ — " I write to make you acquainted with the resolution I 
 have made, to profess, in the future, the Catholic Religion, called Romanism. 
 Although I feel sure you are aware of this, I wished to inform you myself, in 
 order to beg you not to receive this news with any manner of apprehension 
 that this change, which concerns me only, should in any way affect what is at 
 present admitted by the law, nor the established precedents concerning your 
 religion, nor also the sympathy I have always felt for your religion. This 
 which I do at present is with every good intention, principally that I feel it 
 my duty for my salvation, and in order that I shall not differ on this point 
 from the kings, my predecessors, who have well and peacefully ruled their 
 subjects. Trusting that God will give me also grace so to do." Etc. 
 
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 HERBERT (GEORGE). THE TEMPLE. Sacred 
 Poems and private ejaculations. Being a facsimile reprint 
 of the First Edition with an introduction by the Rev. 
 
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 HOMER. ILIAD. FoL \a\ bernardvs nerlivs petro 
 MEDiCAE LAVRENTii FiLio. s. [C]Vm doctissimorum. . . . 
 Vale. FLORENTiAE Idibus lanuariis. m.cccc.lxxxviii. On the 
 
 reverse: Any-nrpiog ^ocXKoi/SuXng . . this address in Greek ending 
 
 on Fol. 20. rot. ^a : HPOAOTOT . . HEPI TH2 tot OMHPOY rENE2I02 . . 
 
 I^Ol. 9^ • • • nAOYTAPXOT EI2 TON BION TOT OMHPOT . . Fol. 39*^ ' • * 
 nEPI OMHPOT A0r02 Nr AlilNOS TOT XPT202T0M0T • . Fol. 43^' ^'^^ teXt of 
 
 the poem begins. Fol. 2^ob: . . teao2 th2 o mhpot iai a aoe. 
 Folio. Vellum. Florence, Bernardus Nerlius, 1488 
 
 A fine and large copy of the Editio Princeps of Homer's Iliad. It 
 measures 12 j by 8| inches. 
 
 The volume was formerly in the possession of an eminent Greek scholar, 
 who has annotated it throughout in Greek and Latin in a beautifully neat 
 hand. These annotations date from about 1760. 
 
 The volume came later into the possession of the Earl of Mansfield, whose 
 bookplate is inserted. 
 
 The work commences with two prefaces, one in Latin by Bernardus 
 Nerlius, on the recto of the first leaf; the other by Chalcondyles, the editor, 
 in Greek, commencing on the verso of the same leaf, then follows the bio- 
 graphy of Homer from Herodotus, succeeded by the preface to Plutarch's 
 biography of the Poet. The "Iliad" begins on the recto of the 43rd leaf, 
 ending on the verso of the 206th leaf. 
 
 The Edilio Princeps of Homer is, as Dibdin justly says, " the boast of 
 every classical collection." Bibliographers and scholars have written enthusi-
 
 5, PALL MALL PLACE 115 
 
 astically of it for centuries. It charms alike the student and the lover of 
 beautiful typographical work. The paper, ink, and workmanship form a 
 fitting shrine for the verses of the great Poet of antiquity. 
 
 124 
 
 HORAE. An exquisite Pocket Book of Hours, illustrated 
 with 53 charming miniatures of the very finest French 
 workmanship. Saec. xv. 
 
 It is an extraordinary occurrence to find a manuscript of this size (3|- in. 
 X 2\ in.) so richly decorated with miniatures and borders. 
 
 Professor Bradley considers that these miniatures are from the brush of 
 the Court painter to the art loving Rene d'Anjou, and that they date from 
 about the year 1450. 
 
 This charming little manuscript is in two parts. The first contains various 
 hour services such as the Horae Conceptionis, the Horae Trinitatis, the Horae 
 B.V.M., or the Horae S. Katherine, while the second contains a large number 
 of " memoriae," prayers, antiphons, and collects of Saints and Martyrs. The 
 various hours had special services connected with memorable events which 
 had taken place at those hours; for instance, the descent of the Holy Spirit, 
 and the Crucifixion at Tierce, the commemoration of All Saints at Sext. 
 Though containing these hour services this little book can hardly be classed 
 as a regular Book of Hours, as several of the essential parts of such a book 
 are omitted. There is no Kalendar or IJtany of the Saints, nor has it the 
 seven penitential or fifteen gradual Psalms, which occur in all regular Horae; 
 on the other hand the "memoriae" are unusually numerous. The miniatures 
 are of two kinds. There are nine larger ones representing the subjects of the 
 various Hours, such as the Trinity, All Souls, For the Dead, Corpus Christi, 
 the Holy Cross, the Virgin, St. Katherine. The remainder are small, repre- 
 senting the various Saints who are commemorated. Though small, these 
 miniatures are executed with minute care and represent some special occur- 
 rence in the Saint's life and the emblems which usually distinguish them. 
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 Eustace the holy stag, and so on. Even when several figures are introduced 
 as in the miniatures of St. Mauritius and the christian soldiers, or the eleven 
 thousand virgins, every detail is wonderfully delicate and clear. 
 
 Whenever there is a miniature on a page there is also a border round the 
 three sides. 
 
 The binding is of old French red morocco with blue silk linings. It came 
 from the library of Dr. Gott, Bishop of Truro, and contains his book-plate 
 with armorial shield of Gott quartering Rhodes. 
 
 125 
 THE PRAYER BOOK OF JUAN II 
 
 HORAE IN LAUDEM BEATISSIME VIRGINIS 
 MARIE AD USUM ROMANUM. MANUSCRIPT. 
 
 Saec. XV. 
 
 A most charming manuscript written on 180 leaves of fine vellum for " the 
 Warrior-King" of Navarre, Juan II. Being the work of a French scribe and 
 a French miniaturist it was possibly a gift from his " only ally," Louis XI. 
 
 Juan, who reigned from 1425 to 1479, was the father of Ferdinand "the 
 Catholic," the patron of Columbus. 
 
 The volume is illustrated with eight exquisite miniatures and sixteen finely 
 illuminated initial letters. The device of the King of Navarre is emblazoned 
 in the border of each of the eight miniatures. These lovely little paintings are 
 very far removed from the conventional illustrations usually found in Horae 
 of the middle fifteenth century. 
 
 Internal evidence points to this manuscript having been written and 
 illuminated in the Franche-Comte, because the Calendar contains the names 
 of five Saints who were Archbishops of Besan^on (Nizier, Prothadius, Claude, 
 Desire, and Donat). 
 
 The later owners of the manuscript were the families of Renard, Danvers, 
 and Bercin. 
 
 Antoine Renard was a famous diplomat much employed by Charles V of 
 Spain, the great-grandson of Juan II.
 
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 126 
 HOUDON (JEAN ANTOINE). HOLOGRAPH LET- 
 TER, SIGNED. 3/^^^-?, 4to; Paris, May 15, 1774. 
 
 Addressed to Friedrich Wilhelm Doell, the Sculptor. 
 
 Letters of this world-famous French Sculptor are of extraordinary rarity. 
 
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 128 
 
 HUNT (LEIGH). THE ORIGINAL HOLOGRAPH 
 MANUSCRIPT of his 
 
 "CRITICAL NOTICE OF THE LIFE AND 
 GENIUS OF BOIARDO." 
 
 Quite complete. Covering 32 pages, 8vo. With many 
 alterations in the author's autograph, and differing con- 
 siderably from the printed version. This manuscript was 
 printed in the " Stories from the Italian Poets," 2 vols. 1846. 
 
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 129 
 HUNT (LEIGH). THE ORIGINAL HOLOGRAPH 
 MANUSCRIPT of his 
 
 "STORY OF ANGELICA." 
 
 Quite complete. Z9 pct'ges, 8vo. With numerous altera- 
 tions in Leigh Hunt's autograph, and differing considerably 
 from the printed version. Nine pages are in the hand of 
 an amanuensis. 
 
 This story appeared in the " Stories from the Italian Poets " as the " Adven- 
 tures of Angelica." 
 
 130 
 
 IRVING (WASHINGTON). LIFE OF GEORGE 
 WASHINGTON. First Edition. /^ portraits of Wash-
 
 5, PALL MALL PLACE iig 
 
 ington, portrait of his wife, and View of Washington s 
 Tomb. 5 vols, large 8vo, Original cloth. 
 
 New York, G. P. Ptitnam and Co., 1856-9 
 
 Presentation Copy, with inscription in the handwriting of the Author, 
 " to Sir Arthur Ashton with the best regards of the Author. Sunnyside, 24th 
 May, 1856." 
 
 JAMBLICHUS. Fol. ia: lamblichus de mysteriis 
 Aegyptiorum. Chaldaeorum. Assyriorum Proclus in 
 Platonicum alcibiadem deanima, atq; daemone. Colophon: 
 Venetiis mense Septembri. M. HID. (1497). In aedibus 
 Aldi. Folio. Old red morocco, by Derome. Venice, 1497 
 
 A superb copy. 
 
 Editio Princeps of a rare and interesting specimen of the Aldine Press. 
 
 132 
 
 JAMES V OF SCOTLAND. AD SERENISSIMUM 
 SCOTORUM REGEM JACOBUM quintum de Sus- 
 cepto Regni Regimine a diis feliciter ominato Strena. 
 Title within woodcut border. Reprinted from the rare 
 ORIGINAL OF Thomas Davison, c. 1 565, as issued in the 
 Bannatyne Miscellany. Scotch binding of black morocco gilt, 
 ornamental panel sides, with Scottish device and Order of the 
 Garter in centres. Sm. folio. 
 
 {^Edinburgh, 1565) {Reprint 1827). 
 
 Unique. The only copy printed upon vellum. 
 
 This was formerly in the possession of David Laing. The following note
 
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 in his autograph is writlen on the fly-leaf. " The only copy of this facsimile 
 printed on vet.lum." 
 
 The title has a beautifully painted and illuminated border, and flowers 
 have been painted at the corners of each page by Wm. Penney of Mid- 
 Calder. 
 
 James V was the father of Mary Queen of Scots. 
 
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 133 
 
 JOHN OF SALISBURY {Bishop of Ckartres) POLI- 
 CRATICI DE NUGIS CURIALIU et vestigiis 
 philosophoru Joanis Salesberiensis. Printed hi red and 
 black. 8vo. Calf. Bound for Catherine of Aragon, 
 wifh her arms impressed 01 the front cover, and those of 
 Henry VIII on the reverse cover. 
 
 Paris, Berthold Rembolt et Jehan Petit, 1513. 
 
 A most wonderfully preserved example of Queen Catherine's theological 
 library and an extraordinarily rare prove naftce. 
 
 This binding is exactly similar to the Catherine binding in the British 
 Museum catalogue. 
 
 John of Salisbury, one of the most distinguished scholars of the twelfth 
 century, was born at SaHsbury about the year 1120. 
 
 The " Policraticus " was completed in 1159, and dedicated to Saint 
 Thomas a Becket, the author's intimate friend. The author was one of those 
 present with St. Thomas in Canterbury Cathedral when he was murdered 
 before the altar in December 11 70. John bequeathed his library and relics, 
 amongst them a phial of Becket's blood, to the cathedral of his diocese — 
 Chartres — whither he returned upon Becket's fall. 
 
 See Illustration
 
 4 
 
 '4 
 
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 134 
 JOHNSON (DR.). HOLOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED. 
 
 \ page, 4to. April 20, 1778. To Mrs. Thrale. 
 
 " Being to go to dine with your favourite Hamilton and to pass the evening 
 with Mrs. Ord, I write before your letter comes to me, if there comes any 
 letter. I have not indeed much to say but inclose one from Lucy, and 
 another from Taylor, keep them both for me. 
 
 " I do not think they bled Taylor enough. Mr. Thrale was saved by it, 
 and I hope he will steadily remember that when convention [?] is a cure 
 plenitude is a disease, and abstinence the true and only preventive. 
 
 " I owe Miss Thrale and Aliss Btirney each a letter, which I will pay 
 them. 
 
 " Dr. Burney gave fifty-seven lessons last week, so you find that we have 
 recourse to musick in these days of public distress. Do not forget me. . . . 
 You never date your letters," etc. 
 
 Unpublished. 
 
 An extremely interesting and very characteristic letter. The references to 
 Miss Thrale, Johnson's " Queenie," and Fanny Burney, the talented authoress, 
 are interesting. 
 
 Johnson directed the education of " Queenie " Thrale, wrote childish 
 rhymes for her, and played horses with her. She became the Viscountess 
 Elphinstone in 1814 oy her alliance with the famous Admiral. 
 
 The reference to Taylor is reminiscent of the lawsuit between him and 
 Mr. Thrale. 
 
 KNOX'S LITURGY. 
 
 KNOX (JOHN). FORM OF PRAYERS used In the 
 English Congregation at Geneva. 8vo. Blue morocco 
 extra. 1561 
 
 A little volume of superlative rarity. It was secretly printed, probably in 
 Edinburgh or in London. 
 
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 In 1534 the citizens of Geneva had accepted the Reformation, and in 1536 
 had appointed Calvin as a professor and preacher. The reforms which he and 
 his coadjutor, Farel, attempted to force upon the city proved too severe, and 
 in March 1538 he was driven from the town. After a short stay at Strasburg 
 he was recalled to Geneva in September 1541, and remained there the rest of 
 his life. Refugees from England were often in Geneva, and in 1550 a certaine 
 William Huicke made a translation of Calvin's " Form of Prayers and Cate- 
 chism," which was printed by Edward Whitchurch in 1550. It was published 
 at the instance of Thomas Brook, who appears to have been hostile to the 
 new Prayer-book, and anxious to spread Genevan views. There was no doubt 
 a considerable Puritan influence, mainly from abroad, manifesting itself in 
 England, which was partly responsible for the issue of the revised Prayer- 
 book of 1552. John Knox, after one or two short visits to Geneva, settled 
 there from 1556, until the beginning of 1559, as joint-pastor of the English 
 congregation there. Previous to this he had been for a while at Frankfurt, 
 where a fierce battle raged amongst the Marian exiles on the subject of the 
 use of the Prayer-book. Knox led the party who opposed it, and was finally 
 compelled to leave the town and return with his friends to Geneva, where, 
 supported by the authority of Calvin, their ideas of a fitting Christian ser- 
 vice were embodied in Knox's " Form of Prayers of Geneva," which was first 
 published both in Latin and English at Geneva in 1556, by Jean Crespin. 
 The preface is dated February 10, 1556, which probably means 1557 in 
 modern calculation. The present is the second edition, and it differs from 
 the Genevan issue of 1556. 
 
 The preface is dated February 10, but the year has been omitted, perhaps 
 to make the edition look up to date. In 1559 Knox left Geneva for 
 Scotland full of the influence of Calvin, which was to have so great an efl'ect 
 in shaping the character of Scottish Protestantism both in regard to doctrine 
 and to church government. In 1562 an edition of the present volume was 
 printed at Edinburgh by Lekprevik, and in 1564 the same printer issued the 
 first complete edition of the Book of Common Order with the title " The 
 Forme of Prayers and Ministration of the Sacraments, etc., used in the 
 English Church at Geneva, approved and received by the Church of Scotland." 
 It contained the Liturgy, the Catechism, and the Psalms. This continued 
 to be Scotland's service book for many years and was frequently printed. 
 The Geneva Prayers appeared again in England, soon after the opening of
 
 5, PALL MALL PLACE 123 
 
 the Long Parliament, when Convocation, Liturgy, and Episcopacy were 
 alike furiously attacked by the Puritans. Several new Service books were 
 brought forward, and amongst others " The Service, Discipline and Forme 
 of the Common Prayers and Administration of the Sacraments used in the 
 English Church of Geneva," printed in 1641. This was an abridgment 
 of Knox's book, and was presented to the Houses of Parliament though not 
 adopted. 
 
 This volume is in the British Museum, but we are quite iinable to trace the 
 whereabouts of another copy. 
 
 Queen Mary had returned from France to Scotland in August 1561, and 
 the present volume was issued a month or two at the most after her arrival 
 in Edinburgh. It was a direct attack on all that was most sacred to her, and 
 how effectively these attacks by Knox undermined her rule has for long been 
 a matter of common knowledge. 
 
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 136 
 
 KNOX (JOHN). HISTORIE OF THE REFORMA- 
 TION OF RELIGIOUN WITHIN THE REALM 
 OF SCOTLAND. First Edition. 8vo. Bhie morocco. 
 
 [ Vatitro liter, 1586] 
 
 The rarity of the first edition of Knox's world-famous book is too well 
 known to require any comment. Less than a dozen copies are known to be 
 in existence. 
 
 Being forVjidden to print his Alagnum Opus in Scotland, the manuscript 
 was confided by Knox to Vautrollier in London, who had set up sheets B to 
 Mm (pages 17 to 560) when, by order of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the 
 entire impression was seized and destroyed, with the exception of the very few 
 copies, sent previously to Knox, as the sheets left the press. 
 
 Every extant copy (like the present) commences at page 17. 
 
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 137 
 KNOX. A SERMON preached by John Knox in the Pub- 
 Hque audience of the Church of Edenbrough, within the 
 Realme of Scotland, upon Sonday, the 19 of August, 1565. 
 For the which the said John Knoxe was inhibite preaching 
 for a season. 12 mo. Bhie morocco. 
 
 \EdinburgJi\ Imp 7Hiited Anno. 1566 
 
 This is the extremely famous sermon which Knox preached before 
 Darnley. It was secretly printed in Edinburgh and so rigidly suppressed by 
 Queen Mary's orders that only two other perfect copies seem to have 
 SURVIVED, one of which David Laing sold 32 years ago for ;£i/\ S^- 
 
 On loth August 1565 Darnley went in state to St. Giles to hear Knox 
 preach. The text was from Isaiah XXVI, beginning with the 13th verse, "O 
 Lord our God, other lords besides thee have ruled us, but we will remember 
 thee only and thy name"; and quoted the passage, "I will give children to 
 be their princes, and babes shall rule over them. Children are their oppres- 
 sors, and women rule over them." He also referred to the punishment of 
 Ahab because he did not correct the idolatry of Jezebel. Darnley left the 
 church in displeasure. In the afternoon Knox was brought before the Privy 
 Council and prohibited from preaching so long as the King and Queen were 
 in Edinburgh. 
 
 138 
 
 LACROIX (M. PAUL). BALLETS ET MASCAR- 
 ADES de Cour de Henri III a Louis XIV ([581-1652) 
 recueilHs et pubHes, d'apres les editions originales. 6 vols. 
 Sm. 8vo. Original boards, uncut. Geneva 1868 
 
 Printed upon vellum. 
 
 One of but two copies so printed.
 
 5, PALL MALL PLACE 125 
 
 139 
 LA FONTAINE. THEATRE. 8vo. Vellum. En- 
 tirely UNCUT and unopened. 
 
 A Paris, dc t Imprimerie de P. Didot Vaini, 
 
 et de Firmm Didot, 1812 
 
 Printed upon vellum. One of but two copies so printed. 
 The present example was formerly in the Due d'Abrantes' library. 
 
 140 
 
 LAMARTINE. THE ORIGINAL HOLOGRAPH 
 MANUSCRIPT of the 
 
 Prospectus of " Lectures pour Tous " (Annonces 
 
 ET Prefaces). 
 
 Quite complete. 1 1 pages, 4to. 
 
 Crammed with corrections and additions by Lamartine. 
 " Lectures pour Tous " still holds the chief place among the literary 
 magazines of France. 
 
 141 
 
 LAMARTINE. THE ORIGINAL HOLOGRAPH 
 MANUSCRIPT of his 
 
 " Pr£ambule de l'Ann£e, 1858." 
 
 Quite complete. 1 1 pages, 4to. 
 
 With numerous corrections and additions by Lamartine.
 
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 142 
 
 LA MENNAIS (F. DE). THE ORIGINAL HOLO- 
 GRAPH MANUSCRIPT (SIGNED) of his 
 
 "PREMIERE LETTRE A MGR. 
 
 L'ARCHEVEQUE DE PARIS. 
 
 Quite Complete, 6\ pages. 4to. 1829 
 
 " Les Lettres a Mgr. I'archeveque de Paris ne sont a proprement parler 
 (lu'une defense du livre " Des Progres de la Revolution." C'est une demon- 
 stration nouvelle des idees fondamentales de Touvrage, un mordant pamphlet 
 contre liberalisme et le gallicanisme. Tout le monde remarqua dans ces 
 lettres une ironie impatiente de toute autorite qui annongait deja le prete 
 revoke de 1834. La coliere bouillonne dans chaqueligne, quoiqu'elle n'eclate 
 pas encore. Paul-Louis Courier n'aurait pas parle autrement des hauts dig- 
 nitaires ecclesiastiques." — Lamentiais par Mercier. 
 
 143 
 
 HUGH LATIMER (BISHOP OF WORCESTER) 
 AND EPISCOPAL PROPERTY 
 
 LATIMER (HUGH). THE ORIGINAL ORDER 
 SIGNED by him for: "Too okys (oaks) of suffycyete 
 (sufficient) tymber wt (with) ther topps and lopps out of 
 my wode called busshewoode " to be delivered unto Arthur 
 Basham, Vicar of " Clavedon," without any delay. On paper. 
 Dated \th July 1538. Addressed " To my kep (keeper) of 
 my wode callid bushewode." 
 The autograph of this eminent Bishop and Protestant Martyr is of such 
 
 GREAT RARITY THAT WE ARE UNABLE TO TRACE ANOTHER OUTSIDE THE 
 NATIONAL ARCHIVES. 
 
 Bishop Latimer was burned at the stake with Bishop Ridley at Oxford 
 in 1555-
 
 5, PALL MALL PLACE 127 
 
 Claverdon is a parish in the Henley division of the hundred of Barlichway 
 in Warwickshire, about three-and-a-half miles from Henley-in-Arden. The 
 vicar, Arthur Basham (according to Dugdale, "Andrew Bassam "), a bachelor 
 in theology, was presented to the living 4th May 1536, by the Bishop, it being 
 the solitary occasion on which he presented, as the presentation was in the 
 hands of the Archdeacon. Basham held the living until 1543. The wood 
 called Busshewood was in the parish of Lapworth, adjoining Claverdon on 
 the north. 
 
 Latimer, the son of a Leicestershire farmer, was born about 1485, and 
 educated at Cambridge, taking his Master's degree in 15 14, and his B.D. in 
 1524. In 1530 Latimer, through the influence of Cromwell, was presented to 
 the benefice of West Kingdon, in Wiltshire, but even here his free manner of 
 speaking in the pulpit led him into trouble. In 1532 he was accused of heresy 
 and brought before Convocation, but having finally made a complete sub- 
 mission was absolved, though this did not prevent him from immediately 
 getting into trouble again. In 1535 he was appointed Bishop of Worcester, a 
 position he held for only a short time, for on the passing of the Act of the 
 Six Articles, signed by the King on 28th June 1539, he, together with Shax- 
 ton. Bishop of Salisbury, resigned their livings. For a year after this he was 
 kept a prisoner in the custody of Sampson, Bishop of Chichester, but in July 
 was set free under the King's general pardon. For some years after this 
 nothing whatever is known of his life, but in 1546 he was again in trouble, 
 brought before the Council, and imprisoned, until again, by a general pardon, 
 he regained his liberty on Edward's accession. On ist January 1548, after 
 eight years' silence, Latimer again began to preach and was for a while in 
 great favour, preaching often before the King and receiving many evidences 
 of his kindness. For the last two years of the reign, however, he went into 
 Lincolnshire, and lived in retirement though still preaching. On Mary's suc- 
 cession his life of security ceased. In September 1553 a summons was sent 
 him to come to London, and on the 13th he appeared before the Council and 
 was committed to the Tower. In 1554 he was sent with Cranmer and Ridley 
 to Oxford, where his opinions were examined by the leading divines of the 
 University. In September 1555 Latimer and Ridley were finally condemned 
 as heretics, and burnt at the stake in the town-ditch, outside the city walls, 
 just opposite Balliol College. 
 
 Examples of Latimer's autograph are so rare that Turner, in his work on
 
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 mitographs, was not able to refer to any rtprodiued example. The existing 
 specimens are mostly in the Rolls Office. His signature as Bishop must be 
 extraordinarily rare, since he was Bishop of Worcester for only four years. 
 
 £zoo 
 
 LEGOUVE (GABRIEL). LA MORT DE HENRI 
 QUATRE, roi de France, tragedle en cinq actes et en 
 vers. Portraits. Bine morocco, uncut, by Bozerian. 8vo. 
 
 Paris, Renoitard, 1806 
 
 The Publisher's (Renouard) own, unique, copy, printed on vellum (the 
 only copy so printed). It has the two portraits of Henri IV by Aug. de Saint- 
 Aubin, after Pourbus, in two states, of which one is on rose-coloured 
 paper; and also the portrait of Marie de Medicis by the same artists. Inserted 
 is the original drawing of the Marie de Medicis portrait. One of the portraits 
 of Henry IV is also printed on satin. 
 
 Inserted is a Holograph Letter Signed of E. Lemaire, a friend of the 
 author, addressed to the publisher, Renouard, asking for ten copies on the 
 very best paper possible. Renouard has endorsed this letter, " il en a eu 
 douze et n'en a rien paye." 
 
 An original letter, signed by Henri IV, i page, folio, dated 27th June 
 1593 (a few days before he renounced Protestantism), is also inserted. 
 
 /lOO 
 145 
 
 LEGOUVE (GABRIEL). LE MERITE DES 
 
 FEMMES, poeme. Frontispiece by Moreau, engraved by 
 Bosq in tzvo states. 12 mo. Citron morocco. 
 
 Paris, chcz Renouard, 181 8 
 
 Printed upon Vellum. One of but two copies so printed. 
 The frontispiece is in two states.
 
 5, PALL MALL PLACE 129 
 
 146 
 LE SAGE. LE DIABLE BOITEUX. 8vo. Half 
 piu^ple morocco. Paris, 1868 
 
 Printed upon Vellum. One of but two copies so printed. 
 
 ^20 
 
 147 
 LISZT (FRANZ). THE ORIGINAL HOLOGRAPH 
 MANUSCRIPT, SIGNED, of his 
 
 " Une Marche Fun^bre." 
 Written by Liszt the day following- the death of his 
 father. 2 pages, 4to. Dated Boulogne, 2>o Aoul, 1827. 
 
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 148 
 LOCKE (JOHN). AN ESSAY CONCERNING 
 HUMANE UNDERSTANDING. In Four Books. 
 Folio. Calf. 
 
 Printed by Eliz. Holt, for Thomas Basset, at the George 
 in Fleet street, near St. Dunstan s Church. 1 690 
 
 First Edition. 
 " Shakespeare, Milton, Locke, and Newton are four names beyond competi- 
 tion superior to any the continent can put against them." — Mackintosh. 
 
 This copy is rendered unique by the insertion of Locke's splended holo- 
 graph letter (signed) covering 2 pages folio, dated Oates, 25th Jan. 1698-9, 
 
 S
 
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 addressed to Sir F. Molyneux. In this splendid letter Locke mentions that he 
 has given orders to Mr. Churchill to send his last reply to the Bishop of 
 Worcester and the last edition of his " Treatise of Education." 
 
 "As for my Essay concerning Human Understanding, it is now out 
 of print, and if it were not I think I should make you but an ill compliment in 
 sending it to you, less perfect that I designe it should be as the next Edition, 
 in which I shall make many additions to it," etc. 
 
 A SUPERB AND IMPORTANT LETTER, a portion of which (the extract ending 
 with the words " thrust into your study ") was printed by Molyneux in 
 " Familiar Letters between Mr. Locke and several of his friends " (A. and J. 
 Churchill, at the Black Swan in Paternoster Row, 1708). The remainder 
 
 OF THE letter IS UNPUBLISHED. 
 
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 149 
 
 LOUIS XII AND ANNE DE BRETAGNE. Two large 
 and very finely painted and richly Illuminated Miniatures 
 (12 in. square), of the Fifteenth Century, representing 
 "The Last Supper" and "Pentecost." Folio. Blue 
 morocco. Scbc. X V 
 
 These two large and most remarkable miniatures are superb examples of 
 the French School of Illuminators of the fifteenth century, and are most prob- 
 ably from the brush of Jean Bourdichon. They represent two large initial S's, 
 within which the figures are grouped. They are surrounded by rich borders in 
 compartments of natural flowers and floreate scrolls, amongst which are inter- 
 spersed the fleur-de-lis of Louis XII and the ermines of Anne of Brittany, some 
 having the crowned monogram A. and L. On the one with the Pentecostal 
 design occurs the Porcupine of Louis XII surmounted by the Royal Arms of 
 France. These hvo splendid paintings were commissioned by Louis XII and his 
 Queen, and are very similar to the ornaments and miniatures found in the 
 " Grandes Heures de la Reine Anne de Bretagne."
 
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 150 
 LOVER (SAMU'Eh^tke famotis Novelist. THE ORI- 
 GINAL HOLOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF HIS 
 ''OCCASIONAL POEMS." 
 
 Comprising no less than thirty original poems written in 
 a very neat hand. Covering ^^ pages, 4to {ivitk title, index, 
 etc., also in Lover s autograpJi). 
 
 Possibly THE MOST IMPORTANT MANUSCRIPT OF THE AUTHOR OF " HaNDY 
 
 Andy," eyer offered for sale. 
 
 These poems were written by Lover when quite a young man. 
 
 The following are some of the principal pieces, several of which have 
 explanatory footnotes (also by Lover) appended: — 
 
 " The Welsh Harper," a Poem of 52 lines. 
 
 " Epigram" a verse of 4 lines on " The Beggars' Opera." 
 
 Song, commencing "Tho' the tear may flow," a Poem of 2 verses (8 lines 
 each). 
 
 Address spoken in Dublin by Miss Ford on the night of her Benefit, a 
 Poem of 32 lines. 
 
 Song, commencing " Why sweet maid, thy doubts still cherish," a Poem of 
 16 lines. 
 
 Lities on the death of H.R.H. the Princess Charlotte, a Poem, of 5 verses 
 of 4 lines each. 
 
 Song, commencing " When anxious Nature fram'd the heart," a Poem of 
 16 lines. 
 
 Lities addressed to Miss Kelly, the celebrated Actress, a Poem of 27 lines. 
 
 Song, commencing " Our sages declare, we of Love should beware," a 
 Poem of 24 lines. 
 
 Lines addressed to Miss Byrne, a Poem of 4 verses (4 lines each). 
 
 Song, commencing " How oft when the Sun leaves the purple streak'd 
 sky," a Poem of 2 verses of 8 lines each. 
 
 '•^ Albert and Matilda," a Tale in verse of 149 lines.
 
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 Sofi^^y commencing " Farewell to those soft eyes of blue," a Poem of 2 verses 
 of 8 lines each. 
 
 Epigram on the removal of the four Venetian horses by Bonaparte. 
 '■'Farewell" a Poem of 9 verses (4 lines each) and a long introductory 
 
 note. 
 
 Elegy, a Poem commencing " She's gone: and Friendship sheds the bitter 
 tear," comprising 28 lines, with a long introductory note. 
 
 " The Poefs Eleciioti" snng at the Dinner given by the Citizens of Dublin 
 to Thomas Moore, a Poem of 12 verses (5 lines each). 
 
 Sotig, commencing "How swift, alas! the pleasure flies," 2 verses of 8 
 lines each. 
 
 Song, commencing "In Hfe's young morn," a Poem of 2 verses often lines 
 
 each. 
 
 " Signor Politd's Answer to the patentee's Proposition," a piece in prose and 
 
 poetry. 
 
 ''The Decree or the debate of the Muses," a Poem commencing "Jove, 
 awak'd t'other day from his sleep, by a clatter," comprising about 137 lines. 
 
 Song, commencing " Believe me my fair that my heart will unfold," a 
 Poem of 2 verses of 8 lines each. 
 
 Etc., etc. 
 
 LUCRETIUS. Titi Lucretii Cari DE RERUM NA- 
 
 TURA, libri sex. Accedunt selectae lectfones dilucidando 
 
 Poemati appositae. 2 volumes. Small 8vo. i fi^ontispiece, 
 
 6 veiy fine plates, and 6 vignettes by Van Mieris, engraved 
 
 by Duflos. Blue morocco, rich dentelle borders by Derome. 
 
 Paris, 1744 
 
 Printed upon Vellum. 
 
 A superb copy, in a magnificent binding. It is probably the Camus de 
 Limare copy which sold for ;^i44 many years ago. 
 Totally unknown to MM. De Bure. 
 
 See Illustration
 
 I ^1
 
 5, PALL MALL PLACE 133 
 
 152 
 
 LUPO (THOMAS). Musician. HOLOGRAPH LET- 
 TER, SIGNED. \ page,io\\o. Greenwich, 2 September, 
 1 61 8. To Mr. Cunningham. 
 
 In 1607 Thomas Lupo wrote, in conjunction with Thomas Giles, some 
 of the songs in a Masque " Presented before the Kinges Maiestie at White 
 Hall on Twelfth Night last, in honour of the Lord Hayes and his Bride; 
 daughter . . . to . . . Lord Dennye, Invented and set forth by Thomas 
 Campion, Dr. of Physic." The orchestra by which the music was to be 
 performed is described as follows: "On right, lo musicians, 2 lutes, Bandora, 
 double Sack bott, harpsichord, 2 treble violins — on left, 9 violins and 3 lutes, 
 and to answer both the Consorts (as it were in a triangle), 6 cornets, and 
 6 Chappell voyces were seated almost right against them." Sir William 
 Leighton's " Teares or Lamentations of a Sorrowful Soule " (1641) contains 
 two pieces by Thomas Lupo: "O Lord, O I-ord, giue eare," for four voices, 
 and " The cause of death is wicked sinne," for five voices. Thomas Myriell, 
 in his " Tristitiae Remedium, Cantiones selectissimae diversorum auctorum " 
 (Addit. MS. 29372-6), prepared for publication in 1616, has included, in 
 addition to the above-named compositions, the following by Lupo, for five 
 voices: " O vos omnes qui transitis," " Miserere mei " (in two keys), " Salva 
 nos Domine," " Heu mihi Domine," and "Out of the Deepe " (two keys). 
 The library of Christ Church College, Oxford, contains many manuscripts by 
 Thomas Lupo, including two anthems for five voices, " Heare my prayer, O 
 Lord," and "Have mercy upon mee"; a madrigal, "Ah mee, can love," a 
 song, " Daphnis," and some instrumental pieces, in three, four, and five 
 parts. Six " Fantasias " by Lupo in five parts are also among Brit. Mus. 
 Addit. MSS. 
 
 An excessively rare letter. 
 
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 153 
 LUTHER AND MELANCHTHON'S AUGSBURG 
 
 CONFESSION of 1530. 
 
 Foreword 
 
 The Diet of Augsburg met in June 1530 when the reformers laid before it 
 the celebrated Augsburg Confession, the central symbolic document of the 
 German Reformation. The Lutheran doctrine was developing on dogmatic 
 lines, and was kept more or less within the limits of authoritative statements 
 which must be strictly assented to. The Fifteen Articles of Marburg, drawn 
 up in 1529 by Luther and his fellow theologians of Wittenberg, was the first 
 of these prepared statements, and was drawn up to define clearly the points 
 on which they differed from Zwingli and the other Swiss reformers. At 
 another conference held shortly afterwards at Schwabach the Seventeen 
 Articles were prepared. These Articles meant more than mere doctrine, 
 since with the various princes, states, and towns belonging to various schools 
 of Protestant doctrine, subscription to one or other set of articles was exacted 
 as a condition of political alliance. Thus at the Diet of Augsburg there were 
 three Confessions presented, that of Melanchthon and the Lutherans, that of 
 Zwingli and the Swiss reformers, and finally the Confessio Tetrapolitana of 
 the four cities Strasburg, Constance, Memmingen, and Lindau. In 1530, 
 when the Diet was held, it was impossible for Luther to come to Augs- 
 burg. The ban placed upon him by the Emperor had not been removed, 
 and the nearest town to which he could come was Coburg. The prepara- 
 tion and presentation of the Confession was therefore left to Melanchthon and 
 though it is throughout based upon Luther's Schwabach Articles, both it and 
 the Apology, which followed it, were drawn up by Melanchthon. Preparations 
 had been made for a public reading of the Confession at the Diet on 
 June 24, but for some reason this plan was changed and it was read on the 
 following day before a private audience in the Emperor's apartments. In 
 drawing up this Confession Melanchthon had two special objects before him, 
 the one to minimize as far as possible the differences between Lutherans and
 
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 Catholics, the other to exaggerate those between the Lutherans and the fol- 
 lowers of Zwingli. 
 
 The Confession certainly marks the minimum of the Protestant revolt 
 against Rome. It points out that the differences between the two churches 
 were merely concerned with traditions and abuses, that the objects of the 
 Reformers were neither polemic nor propagandist, and that they merely 
 desired toleration for themselves, and that in that case since there was sub- 
 stantial agreement between the two churches, it was unjustifiable to exclude 
 the reformers from the Catholic Church. Melanchthon would have gone 
 further than Luther himself, and but for the opposition of the Protestant 
 princes would have conceded much more than was actually given in the 
 finished settlement. However much the Emperor desired a peaceful solution 
 of these religious difficulties, the Pope was naturally of another mind, and 
 when the Church appealed to him for protection how was he to refuse? 
 While the Diet was still sitting, an edict was announced commanding the 
 restoration of the Catholic services throughout Germany, the restoration of 
 the Church property and the reversal of all that had been done. It seemed 
 as though a religious war was inevitable, but greater dangers from outside 
 arose, and the Edicts of Augsburg remained unenforced. 
 
 The Augsburg Confession exercised a wide influence. Soon after its 
 publication an English translation was published under the title " The con- 
 fession of the faith of the Germans," and the several editions issued prove 
 that it was widely read. Its influence on the English reformation can be 
 clearly traced in the draft of the Thirteen Articles drawn up by Cranmer in 
 1538 and 1539, when the German embassy visited England. In 1553 were 
 promulgated the Forty-two Articles, which, ten years later were revised and 
 reduced to Thirty-nine, and formally adopted by the Queen and the Church. 
 These Articles contain many points of likeness and verbal resemblances to 
 the Augsburg Confession, and when they were revised and took their final 
 form in 1563 much of the new matter introduced was taken from the Con- 
 fession of Wiirtemberg, presented at the Council of Trent in 1551, and which 
 was only the Confession of Augsburg in a slightly different form. 
 
 A. Z^TYiV.— CONFESSIO EXHIBITA CAESARI 
 IN COMITIIS AUGUSTAE. Anno md.xxx. {Quota-
 
 136 J. PEARSON & CO. 
 
 lion fi'07n Psalvi 119.) 4to. Brown morocco extra by 
 Bedford. {Secretly printed) 1530 
 
 This is THE FIRST EDITION of the Latin version. It is of the greatest 
 rarity^ and no copy appears to be iti the British Museum or in Lord Cratv/ord^s 
 large Reformation collection. It is stated that a second edition appeared the 
 same year, which contains also Melanchthon's "Apologia," but as this was 
 not composed until some time after the " Confessio " it probably did not 
 appear until 1531. Doubtless a good deal of confusion by careless transcrip- 
 tion, or from the use of imperfect copies, has arisen from the date 1530 on 
 the title-page, which refers to the date of the Diet, having been taken for the 
 date of the printing. The present edition is without name of printer or place 
 of printing, and is said to have been " secretly printed in Switzerland," a rather 
 improbable statement since it expresses the views of the German reformers, 
 which were absolutely opposed to those of the Swiss. Another statement is 
 made that "such care was taken that even the Emperor it is said could not 
 obtain either before they were exhibited and read at the Diet." 
 
 A century ago the extreme rarity of this first edition was drawn attention 
 to by Panzer, who adds, in a Latin note: "This is the first Latin edition of 
 the ' Confession,' and doubtless that which Melanchthon was enquiring for in 
 the preface to the Editio princeps printed at Wittenberg in 1531." In 1531 
 a large number of reprints were issued, in Latin, in German, and the two 
 versions together. Georgius Rhaw of Wittenberg printed at least three quarto 
 editions of the bi-lingual version, and one of the Latin alone in octavo. The 
 Bodleian has a quarto edition of the Latin version printed by Georgius 
 Ulricher at Strasburg in 1531. 
 
 This copy is rendered additionally important by the insertion of a holograph 
 letter from Melanchthon, to Dr. J. Latige, March 26 1540. The celebrated 
 Reformer states : 
 
 " Although I am sorry to hear of your quarrel about de Fontibus and the 
 ill will arisen thereupon, yet I know that acting wisely you study skilfully to 
 heal such evils; but lesser offices I have studied to turn him of whom you 
 write to the use and even the honour of the church. Concerning myself if 
 he speaks a little lovingly, while yet reprehending much in me, nevertheless 
 as to this I think I can quote a Pindaric line (Greek quotation follows).
 
 5, PALL MALL PLACE 137 
 
 Certainly I have striven to maintain the Concord of the Churches and deem 
 myself to be tolerably a philosopher in that kind of thing." 
 
 Written at a most important period of the " Reformer's " life. On the 
 3rd March Philip "the Magnanimous " (of Hesse) had married his second 
 wife, Marguerite de Saale, his first being alive — this bigamy was sanctioned 
 by both Melanchthon and Luther. 
 
 B. GE/^MAA^.—ANZEIGIJNG UND BEKANTNUS 
 DES GLAUBENS UND DER LERE, so die adpel- 
 lierenden Stende Key. Maiestet auff Yetzigen tag zti 
 Augspurg oberantwurt habend m.d.xxx. 4to. Brown 
 morocco extra by Bedford. 1 5 30 
 
 This is THE TRUE FIRST GERMAN ISSUE of the Augsburg "Confession," dis- 
 tinguished from the reprints by the spelling of the word " Adpellierenden " in 
 the title. It is of singular rarity. The Tubingen edition of this year, as 
 mentioned by Graesse, is in reality one of 1535, and he quotes only two other 
 German editions; the present, consisting of seven and a half quires, and 
 another of six quires, having the word in the title spelt " Adpellirenden." 
 Two German quarto editions of 1530 are in the British Museum. A number 
 of so-called 1530 editions contain also the "Apologia," but the manuscript of 
 this was not finished and presented until September 22nd, and the Emperor 
 at that date gave the Lutherans a delay of six months to conform to his views, 
 during which time they were prohibited from writing, printing, or selling any- 
 thing on the subject. Between June and September there would have been 
 ample time to issue an edition or editions of the "Confession " itself, but as 
 we know, the first authorized edition of the " Confessio " with the " Apologia " 
 was issued in 1531, that is, after the six months prohibition had expired. 
 Though the German and Latin first editions were most probably issued at 
 the same time, the German may in one sense be called the Editio Princeps, 
 since when the "Confession" was read both versions were prepared, but when 
 the reader proposed to use the Latin version, the other was chosen, since few 
 of the German princes could understand anything but their own language. 
 The chief arbiter, the Emperor, knew little of either! 
 
 A copy of the present edition is in the Bodleian, but we are unable to 
 trace the whereabouts of any other. 
 
 T
 
 138 J. PEARSON & CO. 
 
 Inserted is a holograph letter fro?n Me/anchfhon, to Hermann Huddeus, 
 3 Oct., 1559, in which he states: 
 
 " To the man most famous in erudition and excellent in virtue Hermann 
 Huddaeus directing the doctrinal studies in renowned Minden, his dearest 
 brother. 
 
 " Man most learned in sacred doctrine and dearest brother. The disposi- 
 tion to pour out copious and sweet song is wholly the work of God, and a 
 gift which God does not grant to all. But that youths may rightly learn 
 grammar it is useful all should make little verses after whatever sort, which 
 when they do they can have more understanding of the excellence in good 
 poets. With this advice I encourage all that they should make verses and 
 sometimes in this way have stirred up the more slothful. I would wish the 
 learned and good to approve my intention; the little verses themselves I know 
 to be dry and foolish and I would rather not publish them especially when 
 both of older and of more recent ones there exist many good songs. I seem 
 to be like Marsyas or a crow croaking among swans. I have made many 
 epitaphs suitable to a sad nature in which matter it behoved me to gratify 
 honest men. I beg you to dissuade the publication. Farewell and write 
 back to me." 
 
 This letter is pubUshed in " Melanchthonis Opera Omnia," edit. Bret- 
 schneider, vol. ix, and was written but six months before his death. 
 
 The two issues ^250 
 
 154 
 LUTHER. DIE BESCHWERUNGEN DES HAY- 
 LIGEN R6. Key, und besonderlich gatz Teiitscher Nation 
 vom Stiil zu Romun seiner anliagende Gaystlichait zu 
 Worms im Reychaz tag des 1521. l^itle within woodcut 
 border. 4 to. Black morocco extra. (1521) 
 
 Editio Princeps, reprinted in Luther's " Gesammelte Schriften," vol. xv. 
 No other copy of the Editio Princeps can at present be traced. 
 
 The Diet of the Holy Roman Empire held at Worms early in 152 1 is best
 
 5, PALL MALL PLACE 139 
 
 remembered by one of its episodes, the summons and appearance of Martin 
 Luther. The publication of some of Luther's books had aroused the enmity 
 of the Holy See, and a papal bull denouncing Luther and his works was pub- 
 lished and numbers of his books burnt. Early in December 1520 Luther 
 retaliated, and on the loth invited the students of Wittenberg to witness the 
 "pious and religious spectacle" of the burning of the pontifical constitution 
 and volumes of scholastic theology. On the lighted pyre Luther placed the 
 Decretals, with other official documents, and finally the Pope's Bull with the 
 words, " Because thou hast troubled the Holy One of God, so let eternal fire 
 destroy thee." At the Diet of Worms the papal legate demanded the execu- 
 tion of the Bull and the condemnation of Luther, and he was summoned to 
 appear in April. He did not, however, receive fair trial, since he was not 
 allowed to defend or prove any of his doctrines. All he was asked to do was 
 to withdraw the doctrines which he had put forward in his works, but against 
 this he made a firm stand. In spite of the attempts of many of the Electors 
 and Princes, who, to a certain extent sympathized with Luther's views, Charles 
 the Fifth finally allied himself with Rome, and Luther was condemned. On 
 25th April he was officially told that the time for his stay in Worms was 
 ended, and that he was allowed twenty-one days' safe conduct to return home, 
 but was forbidden to preach or write by the way. On 26th May Charles 
 formally signed the Edict of Worms which condemned Luther and his 
 doctrines. 
 
 While the Reformers were aiming at a reform of doctrine in the Church, 
 the great majority of the German people were opposed to the oppression of 
 the Holy See, and were anxious for a reform of discipline. At almost every 
 Diet a list of grievances against the papal administration of the Church was 
 brought forward, though the matter rarely went further. When, after Alex- 
 ander's speech in February 1521, Luther's trial was considered by the Diet, 
 the Estates concluded their letter to the Emperor with a request that he would 
 consider these grievances, and a commission for that purpose was accordingly 
 formed and began its labours in March. These " Beschwerungen " were con- 
 cerned with disciplinary, not doctrinal, reforms, and while many embodied 
 Luther's practical complaints, Duke George of Saxony, a most orthodox 
 prince, was a large contributor. From the lists given in by the various princes 
 and rulers every grievance mentioned by more than one was entered and 
 examined by the committee, and the finished document, which tabulated one
 
 140 J PEARSON & CO. 
 
 hundred of the principal grievances, was a bitter statement and full of the 
 strongest opposition to Leo X and the Holy See. It was finally laid before 
 the Emperor in Council at the beginning of May 1521, but without result, 
 since Charles had on 8th May concluded an offensive and defensive alliance 
 with the Pope. Luther's views in these "grievances" were generally shared 
 throughout Germany, and there is no doubt that the neglect with which they 
 were treated did much to strengthen Luther's position amongst the ordinary 
 people, who, caring little about doctrine, merely looked upon him as a 
 champion against the exactions of the PajDacy. When, a little later, at the 
 Diet of Nuremberg in 1522-23, the papal legate inquired why the Edict of 
 Worms against Luther and his followers had never been enforced, he was con- 
 fronted with these hundred grievances which had also been brought forward at 
 the Diet of Worms, and ignored. This side of the conflict between the German 
 people and their demand for a Council, and the Papacy, became increasingly 
 bitter, until it resulted in the long drawn-out Council of Trent. 
 
 This volume appears to be excessively rare, the only bibliographer whom 
 we find noting it is C. C. Hirsch in his Ust of books, mainly dealing with the 
 Reformation, published in 1746. It is not to be found in the British Museum 
 Catalogue nor amongst Lord Crawford's very large Reformation collection at 
 Haigh Hall. 
 
 No name of printer, place, or date, are given, but it was evidently printed 
 after May 1521, when the document was laid before the Emperor in Council, 
 and before the holding of the Diet of Nuremberg in 1522-23, when the 
 "Centum Gravamina," the "hundred grievances," were flung in the face of 
 the Papal Legate Chieregati. 
 
 Inserted is the original letter from Charles V to his cousin the Duque del 
 Infante annou7icing his Coronation at Aixla-Chapelle. This letter is dated 
 from Brussels 24th June 1520. The Emperor states that he has written to his 
 Governor, Cardinal de Cortosa, from whom the Duke will have heard of his 
 arrival in Flanders, prosperous journey, and good reception by the King and 
 Queen. Has now reached Brussels, and is summoning the States of his 
 dominions to make the necessary provisions for their peace and good govern- 
 ment. Hopes to be in Aquisgrana (Aix-la-Chapelle) by the middle of Sept- 
 ember for his coronation, and has summoned the Electors. The delay is 
 necessary because of the distance they have to travel, especially the King of 
 Bohemia, and because the King and Queen of England are to come and re-
 
 5. PALL MALL PLACE 141 
 
 joice with him, and will be in his city of Bruges by the 22nd July at the 
 earliest, where he hopes to conclude peace and amity between himself and 
 them, and the King of France, to the benefit of all Christendom. He is also 
 awaiting the ambassadors of the Swiss Cantons, and hopes to do all that is 
 necessary for the good of that country. Having attended to the affairs of his 
 Empire he will return to Spain, where he hopes to dwell for many years, as he 
 prizes it above all his dominions. The Emperor is sure that during his absence 
 the Duke will do his utmost to enforce the commands of his Governor, Car- 
 dinal de Cortosa, and use his wisdom and prudence to remedy all disorders 
 and convince his people of his love towards them, which appears from the 
 favours granted in his last Cortes, a report of which should be sent to all the 
 towns and cities that it may appear how contrary to the truth are the reports 
 which have been circulated. 
 
 Signed " Yo el Rey." 
 
 LUTHER AND THE EDICT OF WORMS 
 
 LUTHER. EDICT WIDER DEN LUTHER. Folio. 
 
 Brown morocco extra. 1 5 2 1 
 
 Editio Princeps of this famous Edict. 
 
 The appearance of Luther before the Diet of Worms was the culmination 
 of a series of attacks made upon his doctrines by the Papacy. In October 
 1517, he had nailed up his ninety-five theses on the door of the Castle Church 
 at Wittenberg, and was in consequence summoned by the Pope to appear at 
 Rome, though the place was changed to Augsburg, where he appeared before 
 the Legate Cajetan, who demanded a recantation, without result. In 15 19, 
 Luther held his controversy with Eck at Leipzig, a meeting which resulted in 
 still further estrangement with Rome. In 1520, the Papal Bull against him 
 was issued, which he publicly burnt, along with the Decretals at Wittenberg. 
 The newly elected Emperor Charles V was pressed by the Pope to see the 
 bull executed, and Luther was summoned to appear before the Diet of Worms 
 on i6th April 1521. Between this date and the 26th, when he left Worms, he
 
 142 J. PEARSON & CO. 
 
 appeared several times at the Diet, but all efforts to make him retract were 
 witliout avail, and in spite of the efforts of his friends, sentence was passed 
 against him by Charles, and the Papal Legate Aleander was commissioned 
 to prepare the Decree against him with the necessary explanations. When 
 this was ready and translated into German, it was referred to a council, but 
 through various delays had not been signed when the last sitting of the Diet 
 was held on Saturday 25th May. After most of the princes and nobles had 
 dispersed, Charles caused the finished Edict to be read, which was agreed to 
 unanimously by those who still remained. On the following day it was signed 
 in the Minster after Mass by the Emperor. 
 
 One point about this edict is most curious and has given rise to a consider- 
 able amount of controversy. Though it was actually signed on 26th May, it 
 was ante-dated to the 8th. It appears not improbable that this may have been 
 done to persuade the world that the edict had been issued while the Diet was 
 still sitting. The words which occur in it " by virtue of the dignity, height, 
 and authority of our Imperial office, and moreover with the unanimous advice 
 and goodwill of our and the Holy Empire's Electors, Princes, and Estates now 
 here assembled " though they would suit the 8th, would not suit the real date 
 when the Diet had finished sitting. The date of a document is taken from the 
 date of its official signing, in this case the 26th, so that this edict cannot 
 properly be considered as an act of the Diet since it was produced after the 
 last sitting had come to an end, and it seems clear that the date was altered 
 to give to the document an official weight which it did not really possess. 
 
 Luther had left Worms, a month before the edict was passed, on his return 
 journey. The terms of his safe-conduct for twenty-one days were that he 
 should neither preach nor write upon the way, but these terms, as soon as he 
 thought himself fairly safe, he ignored. After preaching at Eisenach and 
 Mohra, and on his way towards Gotha, he was seized on Saturday 4th May 
 while passing through a wood and carried off to the Wartburg, an electoral 
 fortress and castle near Eisenach. The imprisonment was a mock one, worked 
 by the connivance of the Elector of Saxony to preserve Luther from his 
 enemies. The real facts soon leaked out, his friends knew he was in friendly 
 captivity and even the Papal Legate Aleander was soon in possession of the 
 secret. Litde, however, could be done. Luther's books were burned in 
 France and in London, but the Reformer was safe and his teaching spread- 
 ing. In July, in a letter to Leo X, the Archbishop of Mainz wrote, " Day by
 
 5, PALL MALL PLACE 143 
 
 day, in spite of the efforts of all good men, of the Bull of your Blessedness, and 
 the Edict of the Emperor against Martin and his accomplices, the forces of 
 the Lutherans increase." 
 
 Though Charles was willing to aid the Pope in suppressing Protestantism 
 some political emergency arose and engaged his attention. As soon as the 
 Edict of Worms was passed Charles went off to the Italian wars and did not 
 again set foot in Germany until the Council of Augsburg in 1530. So far as 
 Luther was concerned the Edict of Worms was almost a dead letter. 
 
 LUTHER. HISTOIRE DES VIES ET FAITS de 
 Trois Excellens Personnages, premiers restaurateurs de 
 I'Evangile, en ces derniers temps: a scavoir, De Martin 
 Luther, par Philippe Melancthon. De Ian Ecolampade, 
 par Vuolfgag Faber Capito, & Simon Grynel. De Huld- 
 RiCH ZviNGLE, par Osvaldus Myconius. Le tout traduit 
 nouvellement de Latin en Fran9ois, & mis en lumiere. 
 Sm. 8vo. Old French green morocco. S. I. \Genevci\ 1562 
 
 These lives of the three Reformers are important as being written by their 
 friends and contemporaries. Luther's life was written by his follower, Melanch- 
 thon, the most learned though not the strongest among the reformers, of whom 
 it was said that he passed all his life seeking religion, and never finding it. 
 Luther died in 1546, and his biography, in Latin, appears to have been first 
 printed at Erfurt in 1548. Besides the life there is an account of Luther's 
 speeches at Worms, and the oration and prayers delivered by Melanchthon at 
 his funeral. The second life, that of Johann Hausschein or Oecolampadius, 
 who died in 1531, is by two friends, Simon Trynaeus, a celebrated theologian, 
 who after being Professor of Greek at Heidelberg, came for a time to England 
 and later worked for the Reformation in Swabia, and Wolfgang Faber Capito, 
 a minister of Strasburg and very intimate with both Oecolampadius and Bucer
 
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 with whom he attended many councils. He made many attempts to reconcile 
 the differences in the reformed church on the question of the Sacrament. 
 Both Trynaeus and Capito died of the plague in 1541, the first at Basle, the 
 second at Strasburg. Their life of Oecolampadius was first published as a 
 preface to that writer's " Commentarius in prophetam Ezechielem," printed by 
 M. Apiarius at Strasburg in 1534. The last life, that of Ulrich Zwingli, who 
 died, like Oecolampadius in 1531, is by Oswald Myconius or Zeisshiissler, the 
 " Reformer of Weimar," originally a Franciscan who later in life came to 
 England for the purpose of attempting to force Lutheran opinions upon the 
 English Church. This life, written in the form of a letter to Agathius Beroniensis, 
 was written from Basle, where Myconius was the leading preacher, in 1532. 
 
 Though Luther, Oecolampadius, and Zwingli are here classed together, it 
 must be remembered that the first represents Protestant Germany, the two 
 latter Protestant Switzerland, and after the Conference of Marburg in 1529, 
 the two countries absolutely divided on the question of the Eucharist, and the 
 Continental supporters of the reformation were split into two hostile parties, 
 the Lutherans and the Reformed Church. This book, printed at Geneva and 
 under Calvin's censorship, naturally represents the latter. 
 
 The present edition is very rare mid no copy appears to he in the British 
 ATuseum. 
 
 The present copy was formerly in Heber's Collection. A former owner's 
 religious opinions are clear from the lettering on the back of the binding : 
 "Histoire des Heret." 
 
 158 
 LUTHER. HOLOGRAPH LETTER from Joachim 
 Frederick, Margrave of Brandenberg, to yt?^^/^;;/ Ernest, 
 Prince of A nhalt. 1578. 
 
 " Gracious and well-beloved Cousin, Brother and Godfather (Kinsman), 
 
 As your Highness asked me a short while ago, when you sent me the 
 
 declaration (or manifesto) of those theologians' concerning the Concord 
 
 ^ The manifesto of theologians. — This refers to the assembly of reformed 
 divines convoked in 1577 by John Casimir, Prince Palatine, at Frankfort-on- 
 Main, in order to annul and reject the Form of Concord.
 
 5, PALL MALL PLACE 145 
 
 Book^ which was drawn up at Berg," to state my true and friendly opinion of 
 the same, I will communicate this opinion to your Highness, as I understand 
 it, out of a loyal heart. I consider, after having perused the afore-mentioned 
 declaration, that the theologians of your Highness have thought and have 
 tried to lead your Highness to believe that what is written in the afore- 
 mentioned book concerning the Person and Majesty of Christ inculcates 
 doctrines contrary to those in the authoritative syi?ibolical books -.^ that it 
 confounds the natures (of Christ) or separates them and bases the presence 
 of the real body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ upon the ubiquity (omni- 
 presence). Now such doctrines are not to be found in the book in question, 
 nor does it defend them; on the contrary, it rejects them specifically in anti- 
 theses,' and denounces them. It deals with them fundamentally (thoroughly) 
 and decisively by means of controversial articles, from the Holy Scriptures 
 and the authoritative symbolical books, and from the doctrinal and contro- 
 
 ^ The Concord or Berg Book, the last of the symbolical books of the 
 Lutheran Church drawn up by order of the Elector Augustus of Saxony 
 in 1577 as a revision of the Book of Torgau, 1576. The Concord Book was 
 drawn up and composed by Jacob Andreae, Martin Chemnitz, Nie Selneccer, 
 Andreas Musculus, Christopher Cornerus, and David Chytraeus, with the 
 object of terminating the controversies of the Lutheran Church which raged 
 after the death of Luther, and to preserve that Church against the influence of 
 the Swiss reformers. The Form of Concord was the first part of the Concord 
 Book (see note 4). 
 
 ■ Berg, or Klosterberg, near Magdeburg. 
 
 ^ By the term Symbolis or Symbolical Books the Lutherans designated 
 certain books containing their articles of faith and rules of discipline. 
 
 * The Book of Concord, or Berg Buch, was divided into two parts (i) The 
 Form of Concord was an epitome containing in eleven articles the declaration 
 of the extreme Lutheran party concerning controversial questions. The 
 orthodox view of these controversial points was stated in {he. Affirmation, and the 
 opposed view which was rejected and held up to condemnation was embodied 
 in the Negatio?i or Antithesis. (2) The Solid a Declaratio, was the Concord 
 Book of Torgau with all the amendments and revisions added at Berg, in 
 which the position of the parties was stated, and the anathema pronounced 
 
 U
 
 146 J. PEARSON & CO. 
 
 versial writings of Luther. They (the theologians), therefore, betray the fact 
 that they impugn the doctrine of Luther and his irrefutable argument against 
 all kinds of Salvationists,^ and thereby not only do they attack this Berg Book 
 but also Luther's writings. Your Highness will be able to see from the en- 
 closed pamphlets that Doctor Luther held the same conception of the 
 Person and Majesty of Christ as the Berg Book. Hem they justify the syner- 
 gia," and wish to defend against the doctrine of Luther these three concurrent 
 causes in the justification of men. Item they set forth a few rigid words, 
 (juitc nakedly and without explanation which the calumnists use as the most 
 captious argument against the presence of the body of Christ in the Sacra- 
 ment,^ in the following words: if Christ be ubiquitous in both natures, how 
 was it that he had a natural human body, how was he then conceived and 
 born, how could he grow, go from place to place, sleep, hunger, allow himself 
 to be taken prisoner, suffer, die and allow himself to be buried, an argument 
 which is satisfactorily explained in the afore-mentioned Form of Concord from 
 the writings of Luther. Item they pretend that the only object with which this 
 Berg Book was conceived, was to obscure Philip [Melanchthon] and his useful 
 writings, and to render them suspect, which we, however, do not desire to do, 
 since in the Form, no useful works by learned men which agree with the pro- 
 pounded norma doctrinae are rejected, but warning is only given against all kinds 
 
 against all who inclined to the teaching of the Reformers on the subject of 
 the Eucharist and the presence of Christ in the elements, and other doctrines. 
 
 By Salvationists were meant those who put forward the necessity of 
 good works for the attainment of everlasting salvation, whereas, the extreme 
 Lutherans, headed by Amsdorf, declared that salvation could not be obtained 
 by man, that he was unable to take part in his own salvation, which was 
 purely a matter of grace. 
 
 The Synergia, from the Greek word meaning co-operation, a doctrine 
 maintaining that the co-operation of the human will with divine grace was 
 necessary for the attainment of salvation. 
 
 ' The great controversy of Transubstantiation then raging in Germany. 
 Peucer, the son-in-law of Melanchthon, was thrown into prison by the Elector 
 of Saxony for denying the real presence of Christ in the elements of the 
 Eucharist.
 
 5, PALL MALL PLACE 147 
 
 of corruption and men are exhorted to read everything cum Judido, and to 
 adjust everything according to the correct fiorma. But that PhiUp, of blessed 
 memory, should be regarded as suspect by many on account of some of his 
 discourses, that was not the motive which prompted the authors of this book, 
 neither have the writings of other loyal teachers been rejected, but it rather 
 proceeds from the fact that he, in diverse places has spoken and written am- 
 biguous words which the Sacramentarians ' have adopted in defence of their 
 views and have made use of, as I have shown your Highness in the transcript 
 which I am forwarding, in which words he is said to have departed from the 
 right Form, so that now your Highness can place the matter before the theo- 
 logians and demand from them a declaration whether they agree with it or 
 not, and your Highness can thus easily find out to what they incline. If they 
 should say that they only defend Philip in those writings in which he has 
 rightly taught, then they would be in agreement with the Form of Concord 
 and would have to join the authors in warning the people against all kinds of 
 corruptions, and would not impugn the necessary condemnation of those who 
 continue in their errors, following the example of Paul, when, from ardent 
 zeal, he pronounced a ban against an angel from heaven, whose teaching is 
 different, and who will not allow the smallest piece of sour yeast to be mixed 
 with the sweet dough of the wholesome teaching, and they could not, however, 
 for all that, justly refuse to subscribe to it (the Form of Concord). Therefore 
 it is my well-meaning opinion that your Highness should once more summon 
 the theologians at the earliest possible moment, and, because this Book, is in 
 principle, conformable to God's word, exhort them to subscribe to it, since it 
 does not hold or put forth the view that one desires thereby to approve or 
 applaud the detestable passages quoted by the theologians. As I have already 
 reported to your Highness, I had never taken pleasure in such abominable 
 discourses or in any others, nor do I take any now. And also that in the 
 Form in question such discourses or similar ones are not to be found. May 
 your Highness be pleased further to lay stress upon these Christian matters, 
 and in the light of your highly gifted mind, not to abstain from furthering such 
 necessary Christian works. Your Highness will probably remember having 
 
 ' The Sacramentarians, so designated by the Lutherans, were those who 
 denied the real presence of Christ in the Sacrament.
 
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 heard by word of mouth from us the feelings they manifest against us, which I, 
 acting upon your Highness's own request and from a loyal regard, did not 
 wish to conceal, I am at all times ready to show the same cousinly and 
 friendly goodwill. Given at Halle, March 9th of the year 78 " (1578). 
 
 {Sig?ied) "Joachim Friderich, Marggraf zu Brandeburgk. & E. L. 
 gebreuer vetter, bruder unnd gevalter. 
 
 Manu propria scripsit." 
 (Joachim Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg and your 
 Highness's loyal cousin, brother and godfather (or kinsman). 
 Written by my own hand.) 
 
 In the left-hand bottom corner of the last page of this letter is zvritten — 
 
 "My gracious and beloved consort sends your Highness and consort many 
 loving greetings, and I beseech your Highness to be good enough to give all • 
 good greetings to my dear cousin. Your Highness's Consort, and to salute her 
 in optima forma^ on my behalf." 
 
 Addressed — 
 
 "To the Highborn Prince, our gracious and beloved Cousin, Brother and 
 (Godfather) Kinsman, the Lord Joachim Ernst, Prince of Anhalt, Lord of 
 Ascanien, Lord of Zerbst and Bernburg. 
 
 To be handed to his Highness in person, and to none other." 
 
 The Concord Book was recognized and accepted by the Elector of Saxony, 
 the Elector of Brandenburgh, the Elector Palatine, and by 20 Duchies, 24 
 Counties, and 35 Cities of the Empire. 
 
 It was rejected by the Princes of Hesse, of Zweibriicken, of Anhalt, of 
 Pomerania, of Holstein, by Denmark, Sweden, and by 20 Cities of the 
 Empire.
 
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 159 
 
 LUTHER. HOZYUSZ (STANISLAW). THE 
 
 HATCHET OF HERESIES. Translated out of Latin 
 into Englyshe by Richard Shacklock. 8vo. Blue morocco. 
 
 Aegidius Diest. Antwerp 1565 
 
 Secretly printed at Antwerp and of the greatest rarity. 
 
 On the recto of the second leaf is a curious allegorical woodcut of Bishop 
 Hozyusz confronting the devil, " weary of whipping Luther and Calvine.'' The 
 tree of heresy stands between Luther and Calvin, which the bishop is about 
 to attack with his hatchet. 
 
 The original cause of this book was the publication of an attack on P. de 
 Soto by Johann Brenz, encouraged by P. P. Vergerius. Stanislaw Hozyusz, 
 bishop of Worms, wrote an answer entitled " Verae Christianae Catholicaeque 
 Doctrinae solida Propugnatio," which was issued at Antwerp in 1559 and at 
 Paris and Cologne in 1560. The first section of the book, entitled " De 
 origine haeresium nostri temporis," of which the present work is a translation, 
 was separately printed at Louvain and Paris in 1559. Richard Shacklock, the 
 translator, was educated at Cambridge, and became M.A. and Fellow of 
 Trinity in 1559. His strong devotion to the Catholic faith was the cause of 
 his leaving England, and he settled at Louvain, where he studied civil law. 
 His literary output was very small. He published a translation of the letter of 
 Osorio de Fonseca to Q. Elizabeth [" A Pearl for a Prince "], printed by Ae. 
 Diest at Antwerp, 1565, and also wrote a Latin Epitaph on Bishop Cuthbert 
 Scot, which was translated into English and answered by Thomas Drant. 
 The date of his death is unknown. The printer, Gillis van Diest (probably 
 the first of the name, and not the second as Mr. Sayle suggests) printed 
 certain English books (all of the greatest rarity) at Antwerp during the years 
 1563, 1564, and 1565; the Antwerp printing of controversial books passing 
 in the succeeding year to John Fowler, a refugee from Bristol.
 
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 1 60 
 LUTHER. DAS NEU TESTAMENT. Folio. Aforocco 
 extra, very richly tooled. 
 
 \_Augsburg?\^ \_Silvan Ottmar.'] [1522 or 1523] 
 
 A SUPERB COPY OF A VERY EARLY AND HITHERTO UNDESCRIBED EDITION. 
 
 On his way home from the Diet of Worms, where he had been put on 
 trial for his opinions, Luther, soon after leaving Mohra, was captured by some 
 armed horsemen, servants of the Elector of Saxony, and carried to the Wart- 
 burg, an Electoral fortress near Eisenach. This friendly capture was made to 
 protect Luther from his enemies, and while in retirement he applied himself 
 to the great undertaking of translating the Scriptures into German. Shortly 
 after leaving the Wartburg in March 1522, Luther wrote to Spalatin, "I 
 translated not only John's Gospel, but the whole of the New Testament in my 
 Patmos, but Melanchthon and I have now begun to revise the whole of it, and 
 it will, by the blessing of God, do us credit." The complete version was 
 finished and in the printer's hands by May, and in September the first edition 
 is stated to have been issued from the press of Melchior Lotter at Wittenberg, 
 followed by a second edition in December. Though these were the first com- 
 plete editions, several of the books are said to have been printed off separately 
 and issued slightly earlier. During the years immediately following the issue of 
 the first edition a certain number of new editions were printed, many of them 
 without date or name of printer. This is perhaps due to the vigorous measures 
 taken by the enemies of the Reformation to prevent the circulation of Luther's 
 version. The more learned adversaries attacked it on the literary side, and 
 also called in the aid of the civil authorities to assist them. Duke George of 
 Saxony forbade its use and destroyed many copies, besides punishing the 
 booksellers who sold them, and many other distinguished princes, the Elector 
 Frederick and Ferdinand of Austria issued edicts against its use. This edition, 
 which has no note of date, place, or pri?iter, appears to be from the press of 
 Silvan Ottmar, who worked at Augsburg between 15 13 and 1533. The book 
 is finely printed, with large handsome woodcut initials at the commencement 
 of each book containing figures of the evangelists and apostles. On the title-
 
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 page is a fine woodcut engraved by Hans Schaufflein of a crucifix in the clouds 
 with the saints and martyrs at the sides, and notable persons of the Old and 
 New Testament kneeling below. Schaufflein, born at Nuremberg in 1490, was 
 a famous designer on wood and a great illustrator of books, the most famous 
 being the allegorical poem of Tewrdannckhs. He died at Nordlingen in 1540. 
 The Apocalypse is illustrated with nine large woodcuts by Hans Burgmair the 
 elder, a native of Augsburg. Burgmair, though a designer, does not appear to 
 have engraved his own blocks. His best known work is the " Triumphs of 
 Maximilian," of which he was part designer, and which was left unfinished at 
 his death in 1531. The present series for the Apocalypse would appear to be 
 also unfinished since it drops short at the ninth chapter. This editmi appears 
 to be of excessive rarity. It is not in the British Museum^ nor is it tnentioned in 
 a?iy of the catalogues of noteivorthy collections of Bibles. The only bibliographers 
 who cite it are Panzer, and from him Graesse. 
 
 ^200 
 161 
 
 LUTHER. DAT NYE TESTAMENT. Mit Nven 
 Summarien . . . dorch Johaniiem Bugenhagen. 8vo. 
 Morocco extra, very richly tooled. 
 
 Hans Luft, Wittenberg, 1530 
 
 Bugenhagen's Low-German revision of Luther's "Testament." 
 The first two editions of Luther's New Testament were published towards 
 the end of 1522, and during the following few years a number of new editions 
 appeared. Luther had gathered round him at Wittenberg a number of learned 
 men to assist him in the preparation of his version of the Old Testament which 
 was issued in portions from 1523 onwards, though not published in a com- 
 plete form until 1534, and to help him in amending and improving what had 
 already been issued. One of the most important of these revisers was John 
 Bugenhagen, sometimes called from his native district Pomeranus. Born in 
 June 1485 in the island of WoUin, he was educated at Griefswald and became 
 rector of the school at Treptow. He became a convert to Luther's teachings 
 somewhat rapidly, for he is stated to have said on reading Luther's tract on 
 the "Babylonian Captivity," published in 1521, "the author of this book is 
 the most pestilent heretic that ever infested the church of Christ," an opinion
 
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 which he changed after a second reading to "the whole world is blind and 
 involved in Cimmerian darkness, and this man alone sees the truth." After 
 joining the reformers he became a preacher and theological professor at Wit- 
 tenberg, and later journeyed to Brunswick, Hamburg, Lubeck, and Copen- 
 hagen to spread the reformed doctrines and regulate the churches. He died 
 in April 1558. He was the author of many theological works, and also wrote 
 a history of Pomerania. Bugenhagen's chief work was the rendering of the 
 Scriptures into the Low Saxon dialect, and the complete Bible, to which he 
 added a Preface, short notes and summaries, was issued in 1533-4. Previous 
 to this he issued separate editions of the Pentateuch and the New Testament. 
 
 Hans Lufft, the printer, is well known to bibliographers, not only on ac- 
 count of the books he printed, but on account of a number of books in English 
 bearing his name which he certainly did not print. He was the most prolific 
 of the Lutheran printers, and issued books and tracts continuously at Witten- 
 berg between. 1 523 and 1546, including many editions of the Scriptures. 
 
 The present edition, besides an engraved title-page wath figures of Christ 
 crucified between the two thieves below an ornamental arch, has twelve plates 
 of the evangelists and writers of the Epistles prefixed to the various books, 
 and a series of twenty-six woodcuts to illustrate the Apocalypse. None of the 
 cuts appear to have any artist's or engraver's mark, but have every appearance 
 of being after the designs of Lucas Cranach, the celebrated drawer on wood, 
 who lived for a time at Wittenberg. 
 
 An editiofi of the greatest rarity. It is not in the British Museum, and the 
 Bible Society has on/y the reprint (9/1534. 
 
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 162 
 
 LYALL (EDNA). THE ORIGINAL HOLOGRAPH 
 MANUSCRIPT (SIGNED) of her very famous novel 
 
 "DONOVAN" 
 
 Quite complete. 546 pages, folio. 2 vols. Elite morocco 
 extra. 
 
 " Donovan " was the first important novel written by " Edna Lyall," and 
 her second book.
 
 5, PALL MALL PLACE 153 
 
 The manuscript is also corrected throughout by the authoress. 
 
 This novel "dealt with her religious beliefs and spiritual experiences. The 
 book won the admiration of Gladstone, who wrote to Miss Bayly (the correct 
 name of the authoress) in 1883 of its first volume as ' a very delicate and 
 refined work of art.' " 
 
 ^150 
 
 163 
 
 LYTTON (SIR E. BULWER), the famous Novelist AN 
 IMPORTANT SERIES OF 54 AUTOGRAPH LET- 
 TERS, SIGNED, BEING THE ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE 
 
 OF Lytton with Lady Morgan between the years 1826 and 
 
 1853- 
 
 Of the fifty-four letters the following may be briefly noted: 
 
 Z'?^/^//^, Sept. 4th 1826. "... I dont know whether it is lawful for authors 
 to do such things. But as you are not likely to meet with my book elsewhere, 
 perhaps you will accept it from myself," etc. 
 
 Probably referring to his volume of poems " Weeds and Wild Flowers," 
 published in 1825. 
 
 Ciraveti) Cottage^ Aug. 7 1840. "... I continue very ill — the worse, I 
 think, for the Cheltenham Waters and am going to Wiesbaden. . . ." 
 Owing to excessive industry his health broke down at this time. 
 
 Portman Sq. 1840. ". . . I am very much obliged to you for allowing me 
 the consolation of thinking my play may have beguiled a weary hour. ... I 
 have been severely unwell, but am better," etc. 
 
 1840. "I hope for ever by the great Bentley the Phalaris not of New 
 Burlington Street. . . ." 
 
 1840. Praising Lady Morgan's book. "I hear it most highly spoken of 
 and look forward with much pleasure and interest to the quiet enjoyment of 
 it at my Cottage," etc. 
 
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 25 May 1 84 1. Enquiring for the name of an Italian gentleman whom he 
 heard sing at Lady Morgan's house. 
 
 Lincoln, 21 June 1841. "Your letter finds me in a committee room. 
 Babel around me. ... It is a most severe contest here. In this district 
 Ministers are at a terrible discount." 
 
 Referring to the Election in which Lytton lost his seat. 
 
 2 pages, Svo, 6 May 1844. "You are as usual, most amiable in your 
 allusions to Schiller." 
 
 Lytton's " Poems and Ballads translated from Schiller " was published in 
 1844. 
 
 Great Malvern, 31 July 1844. "Your agreeable letter found me convers- 
 ing with you — at least in Print. I have just been renewing an old acquaint- 
 ance with the charming ' Florence Macarthy!' . . . and what a relaxation it 
 proved amidst the chilling rigours of the Water Cure. What a beautiful novel 
 it really is," etc. 
 
 1844. Praising the memory of Sir Chas. Morgan who had recently died. 
 " I have not turned to Epictetus for many long years. I shall now open his 
 Stoic pages with a more reverent feeling." 
 
 1844. " I seldom look at a newspaper when out of town, in total darkness 
 as to Henry's collision with Mr. Cochrane," etc. 
 
 1844. " Disraeli's book seems very clever and brilliant, and I always liked 
 him so much, during the time in which we were thrown together that I feel 
 unaffected sympathy in his success. Your old friend Croker must find the 
 lashes he received at your fair hands, smart again under the Conhigsby 
 discipline." 
 
 Also relative to a riverside cottage he wishes to sell. 
 
 30 Aug. 1846. "I am not surprised at the warm reception the Irish 
 
 meets with. I have not yet had the volume but shall no doubt on returning 
 to town. I am not a little proud that the preface was partially composed at 
 Knebworth." 
 
 7 Nov. 1850. "The Report in the Morning Post was an absurd election- 
 eering exaggeration." 
 
 Relative to his deafness and health.
 
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 1 85 1. He is leaving England but he requested Bentley to send T,ady 
 Morgan a copy of his " Harold." 
 
 1854. " Disraeli and Milman ought to play into each other very prettily. 
 The theologian of the jews and the Jew among the historians. That was a 
 splendid idea of Dis's by the way that the cleverest Jesuits were disguised 
 Jews! What rogues he makes them." 
 
 1855. "I am chained by tyrannical business and early in October I pro- 
 pose going abroad for the winter," etc. 
 
 The whole inlaid to a uniform size and bound into a folio volume, green 
 morocco. The letters are enriched by the addition of Sir Thomas Law- 
 rence's EXQUISITE Original Drawing for his famous portrait of Lady 
 Morgan. 
 
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 164 
 
 MAIDMENT. A BOOK OF SCOTISH PASQUILS, 
 
 1 568-1 715. Many head and tailpieces. 2 vols, 8vo. Blue 
 morocco extra, gilt top, uncut. Edinburgh, 1868 
 
 Printed upon Vellum. 
 Unique (?). 
 
 165 
 
 MADAME DE MAINTENON AND CHRISTIAN 
 
 PERFECTION 
 
 MAINTENON (MME. DE). Married to Louis XIV in 
 1684. THE ORIGINAL HOLOGRAPH MANU- 
 SCRIPT, SIGNED, of her entirely unpublished " DIS- 
 COURS SUR LA PERFECTION CHRETIENNE 
 TIRE DE PLUSIEURS AUTRES " (Auteurs). 
 
 Quite Complete, comprising 144 pages in all. Sm. 8vo. The binding is
 
 156 J. PEARSON & CO. 
 
 French red morocco stamped with the Du Plessis arms. L. A. M. Gitton Du 
 Plessis was a collector living at Blois. He collected early printing and bind- 
 ings and had some interesting manuscripts. 
 
 This exceedingly important manuscript is preceded by a holograph letter 
 (signed with her parafe) from Mme. de Maintenon to Mademoiselle de 
 Monchy. 4 pages. 
 
 The manuscript is immediately followed by another in a different hand- 
 writing (probably by the recipient of the above — Mademoiselle de Monchy) 
 entitled: Ordre du Jour. This covers 10 pages. 
 
 In her letter of Dedication the Marquise de Maintenon says : 
 
 " I will send you Mademoiselle, a book entitled ' Perfection Chretienne ' " 
 (the present Manuscript). Etc., etc. 
 
 This charming little Unpublished Devotional Book, which is signed no 
 less than twelve times with the Maintenon parafe, was written by Madame de 
 Maintenon whilst living at St. Cyr. 
 
 Frangoise d'Aubigne, Marquise de Maintenon, was one of the most striking 
 and interesting figures in the Court circle of Louis Quatorze. After a strange 
 childhood, for she was born in a prison, lived some time in Martinique, and 
 was orphaned at seven, she married at the age of seventeen Scarron the comic 
 dramatist. For nine years, from 1651 to 1660, she nursed him with the greatest 
 care and entertained the literary society which frequented his house. Soon 
 after his death she was appointed by Mme. de Montespan, the King's mistress, 
 as governess to his children, and gradually growing in favour with the King 
 she succeeded to Mme. de Montespan's position. She was always a friend to 
 the Queen, and not long after the latter's death, was privately married to 
 the King in the presence of Pere la Chaise. Always of a devotional nature 
 she founded the institution of St. Cyr for the education of poor but well-born 
 girls, which the King endowed in 1686 with the funds of the Abbey of 
 St. Denis. This school was the great work of her life, and after the death of 
 the King in 17 15 she retired there and passed her remaining years in great 
 seclusion. She was a voluminous letter writer, and besides keeping in touch 
 with her old friends wrote many letters of religious and moral advice to her 
 former pupils of St. Cyr. Late in life she appears to have written small devo- 
 tional books for her own use, and in this case made a present of one of them 
 to a particular friend. As is clear from the introductory letter the work was 
 not a compilation of her own, but unfortunately, she gives no clue either to
 
 5, PALL MALL PLACE 157 
 
 the author of the original book, or to the identity of the great lady who 
 furnished the text. 
 
 For whom the manuscript was actually written it is impossible now to 
 determine. The family of De Monchy was one of some distinction in Picardy, 
 though no member rose to great eminence. Many of its men were soldiers, 
 and many of its women religious. Andre de Monchy Seigneur de Senarport, 
 who married in 1655, had two daughters, Louise-Charlotte- AngeUque and 
 Jeanne. Raoul de Monchy, Seigneur de Moimont, who married in 1678, also 
 had two daughters. Bertrand Andre de Monchy, Marquis de Montcavrel, was 
 likewise blessed with two daughters, one of whom died in 1715, Abbess of the 
 Abbaye aux Bois. 
 
 Madame de Maintenon states in the prefatory letter that the book consists 
 of extracts from another work compiled by a man distinguished for his 
 "merite" and "noblesse," made by a friend of the writer's, a lady "de tres 
 grande qualite," who had allowed her to make another copy to be sent to 
 Mile, de Monchy who is particularly asked not to show it to anyone else. The 
 main part consists of the " Discours sur la perfection chretienne " which is 
 followed by some other miscellaneous Reflexions. At the end of the letter and 
 various sections of the book is the paraph or cypher of Madame de Main- 
 tenon, and under the first is written, probably by Mile, de Monchy, " I am 
 delighted to find your name on this book." 
 
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 166 
 
 MARLBOROUGH (JOHN CHURCHILL), the Great 
 Duke. HIS ORIGINAL LETTERS TO GEORGE I, 
 relative to the War of the Spanish Succession in the Low 
 Countries. 
 
 A most precious and remarkable Series of Nineteen War Letters from the 
 " Great " Duke of Marlborough, principally addressed to George I (when 
 Elector of Hanover), written during the progress of the War of the Spanish 
 Succession in the Low Countries. They date from 1704 to 1714. 
 
 There are also extremely important War Letters of Charles III and Philip V 
 of Spain, Queen Anne (her Sign Manual to the Original Proclamation for a
 
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 Public Thanksgiving commemorative of the Victory at Blenheim), and Prince 
 Eugene of Savoy {Marlborough's colleague). 
 
 Besides these the collection comprises Letters of Elizabeth Christine 
 (Consort of Charles III of Spain), Queen Anne (to the Count Palatine of the 
 Rhine), the Princesse des Ursins, Lord Godolphin, Lord Cholmondeley, 
 St. John Bolingbroke, Addison (the Essayist), Sir Cloudesley Shovell, and 
 Lord Stanhope. In all there are thirty-eight letters and historical documents. 
 These letters, etc., are inlaid atid bound in morocco extra forming a splendid 
 folio volume. 
 
 167 
 
 QUEEN VICTORIA AND THE PRINCE 
 
 CONSORT 
 
 MARTIN (SIR THEODORE). The Life of His Royal 
 Highness the Prince Consort. Portraits and plates. First 
 edition of each volume. 5 vols., 8vo. Original cloth. 
 
 1875-1880 
 
 The unique presentation copy from the Queen to R. Lohlein, the Prince 
 Consorfs devoted personal attendaiit. Each volume bears an inscription in the 
 autograph of Her Majesty, in every instance covering the whole of the page : 
 " R. Lohlein with the kindliest feelings from his life-long patron Victoria." The 
 first volume being published before Her Majesty was proclaimed Empress of 
 India, she has signed the inscription as Queen; in the other four volumes Her 
 Majesty signed as Queen-Empress. 
 
 These five volumes have been greatly cared for and are in spotless 
 preservation. 
 
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 MARY I AND LENTEN CEREMONIES IN HER 
 
 PRIVATE CHAPEL. 
 
 MARY L HER ROYAL SIGN MANUAL '' MARYE 
 THE QUENE" to the ORIGINAL ORDER for 
 " Oone (one) yerde of purple Vellat (velvet) to be employed 
 about our Paulmes on Pauline Sundaye next. And for the 
 tryniyng (trimming) of Brushes for the Washing of Aulters 
 in our Chapell " to be delivered unto Robert Basset Ser- 
 geant of the Vestry. On vellum. Palace at Westminster, 
 2^th March 1557. With a fine impression of the Queen's 
 seal intact. Countersigned by Thos. Thirlby, Bishop of 
 Ely and Privy Councillor. Addressed to Sir Edwarde 
 Walgrave {i.e. Waldegrave) " Master of our greate 
 Guarderobe." 
 
 Church of England documents of this nature are of the greatest rarity. The 
 present bears a superb example of Queen Mary's signature — one of the finest 
 and boldest we have ever seen. 
 
 The palms, in the service, were blessed by a priest, after exorcism, with prayer 
 and holy-water, then censed and distributed, first to the Clergy, then the men, 
 finally to the women. Meanwhile the choir sang the anthem Pueri Hebraeorum. 
 Then a procession was formed which passed through the churchyard to the 
 western door in the follov/ing order : First two thurifers and the boat-bearer, 
 secondly the cross-bearer with two acolytes, and then in succession the choir 
 boys, the choir men, the cantors, the ceremonarius, the deacon and the sub- 
 deacon, and finally the priest celebrant. It was customary in this procession 
 to carry the cross veiled and with palm branches attached, and perhaps it was 
 for this veil that the velvet was required which would necessarily for the
 
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 season between Septuagesima and Easter be purple. As regards the brushes 
 no reference can be traced in an Enghsh book, but in that very rare work, 
 Myller's " Ornatus Ecclesiasticus," printed at Munich in 1591, there is a plate 
 showing six different brushes for church use with descriptions. They are of 
 four kinds. The first two are made of twigs, strong or fine, for brushing the 
 pavements and carpets; the third kind are of fine peeled twigs or bristles, for 
 cleaning vestments and hangings. The fourth, for cleaning the altars and 
 ornaments, are to be of foxes' or martens' tails. 
 
 The Sir Edward Waldegrave, to whom the order is addressed, had been 
 attached to the Princess Mary's household, and was committed to the Fleet 
 Prison in 1551 for refusing to enforce the order of the Privy Council by 
 preventing the celebration of Mass at Mary's residence. There he fell sick 
 and was provisionally released. On Mary's accession he was highly favoured, 
 made a Privy Councillor and Master of the Great Wardrobe. During the 
 reign he received large grants of land and various honours, but after the 
 Queen's death was deprived of his employments, and shortly afterwards sent 
 to the Tower, where he died in 1561. Thomas Thirlby, who countersigned 
 the document, holds the unique honour of having been Bishop of Westminster, 
 appointed to that new bishopric by Henry VIII in 1540. In 1550 he was 
 made Bishop of Norwich. He was a strong opponent of Protestant innova- 
 tions, and was made by Mary Bishop of Ely in 1554. Refusing to take the 
 oath of supremacy to Elizabeth he was deposed, and for preaching against the 
 Reformed religion was imprisoned. He died in 1570. 
 
 This document is dated 25 March, the third and fourth year of our reign, 
 that is the third year of Philip and the fourth of Mary, so that it was signed 
 on New Year's Day 1557. In August 1555 Philip had left England for the 
 Continent, and after his departure Mary lived much in seclusion. At length, 
 on March 20 1557, five days before this document was signed, he returned to 
 England, and on the 21st the King and Queen attended in State a mass in 
 the palace chapel at Greenwich, and orders were issued for the Te Deum to 
 be sung in the churches throughout the country. On the 23rd there was a 
 royal progress through the City. J^or a year a fid a half Mary had bee ft 
 ffioitrfiing her husbafid^s absence, afid the boldfiess of the sigfiaiitre to the present 
 documefit is perhaps a mark of her relieved viifid. 
 
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 169 
 MARY STUART. LA MORT DE LA ROYNE 
 D'ECOSSE, Douairiere de France. Ou est contenu le 
 vray discours de la procedure des Anglois a I'execution 
 d'icelle, la constant and Royalle resolution de la maieste 
 defuncte: . . , Deus iniqui insurrexerunt super me, & 
 synagoga potentiii quaesierunt animam meam, & non pro- 
 posuerunt te in conspectu suo. With a woodcut of a 
 Calvaire at the end of the leaf " Au Lecteur." i6mo. 
 Blue morocco extra. {IVithout printer s na?ne or place) 1589 
 
 One of the rarest books relative to Queen Mary. Secretly Printed. 
 
 This edition is most probably the first issue of this famous book — the 
 colophon being dated 1588. It appears to be the production of a different 
 printer from any of the other described editions. The " Calvaire " occurs in 
 all, but in this is of an entirely different design. 
 
 Scott's Bibliography, No. 179. Mr. Scott could never, however, obtain a 
 copy for his own collection. 
 
 This precious little volume belonged to H.R.H. the Duke of Sussex and 
 contains his ex-libris. The Duke (a son of George III) was eighth in direct 
 descent from Queen Mary. 
 
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 170 
 
 MAZARINADES. LA FAMINE PAR LE SIEUR 
 DE LAVALISE; La Derniere Souppe a I'Ognon pour 
 Mazarin; Ballet Dance devant le Roy et la Reine Regent 
 sa Mere; Plainte du Carnaval et de la Foire S. Germain. 
 8vo. Red morocco. Paris, 1649 [1854] 
 
 This is THE ONLY COPY PRINTED ON VELLUM. 
 
 Inserted is an a. I. s. of Cardinal Mazarin. ^ pages, 8vo. 2^ July 1657. 
 
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 171 
 MEYERBEER (GIACOMO). THE ORIGINAL 
 HOLOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT, SIGNED TWICE, 
 of his composition: 
 
 " LE JARDIN DU CCEUR," Paroles de Henri Blaze, 
 Musiqiie de Giacomo Meyerbeer. Chanson pour voix de 
 soprano av. accomp. de piano. 
 Quite complete. ^ pa£-es, {olio. 
 
 "Superbe piece ecrite sur du papier de luxe avec bordure en or. Elle est 
 signee deux fois, una fois au titre, puis a la fin, Giacomo Meyerbeer, 16 dec. 
 47." — Duprez Catalogue. 
 
 172 
 
 MICHELANGELO (BUONARROTI). HOLO- 
 GRAPH LETTER SIGNED. \ page, \\.o. December 26, 
 1521. 
 
 Holograph letters are of superlative rarity. 
 Formerly in the famous Bovet collection. 
 
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 173 
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 TERS, SIGNED. Together with 5 holograph letters of 
 his wife (Euphemia Chalmers, daughter of George Gray of
 
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 Bowerswell, Perth), 2 holog-raph letters (signed) of Wil- 
 liam H. Millais, brother of Sir John, and one of Mrs. 
 Tennyson, wife of the Poet Laureate, 46 letters in all. 
 
 The whole inlaid to a uniform folio size and boimd in 
 green morocco extra, gilt leaves. 
 
 These letters are addressed to Ernest Gambart, Millais' publisher; Payne, 
 Hills, S. Mendell, Lady Anglesea, to Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone, Lord Ronald 
 Gower, etc., and date from 1859 to i88g. 
 
 The majority of this interesting correspondence is addressed to Gambart, 
 and relates to Millais' most famous paintings, portraits, and pictures. Among 
 the pictures referred to are "Over the Hills and Far away," "The Huguenot" 
 (painted in 1856, which is now in the Birmingham Art Gallery), "Helen 
 Petrie," " The Young Ladies' Instructor," etc. Among the portraits noticed 
 are those of Mr. Gladstone, Millais' masterpiece — (the letters addressed 
 to Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone being on the subject of the portrait). Lord Lytton, 
 the Duchess of Westminster, and Mr. Grote. There is also an interesting letter 
 from Millais, relative to the illness of Sir Edwin Landseer, and containing 
 his opinion that if he (Landseer) died, his remains should be interred in 
 Westminster Abbey or St. Paul's Cathedral. References to book illustration 
 also occur. 
 
 The letters are illustrated with portraits of the artist and proof impressions 
 of his book-illustrations. 
 
 This is the sole Correspondence of this eminent artist knowti to us. 
 
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 MILLET (J. FRANgOIS). HOLOGRAPH LETTER, 
 SIGNED, 3 pages, 4to; Paris, June i, 1838. Addressed 
 to Monsieur Le Marquand. 
 
 A superb letter, in which he speaks of his failure to secure the Prix de Rome. 
 His professor, who he at first imagined had something to do with his dcfi-at 
 because of his absence for some time, gave instructions the next day that he.
 
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 Millet, was to be sent to him as soon as possible. The professor sympathized 
 with him and encouraged him to remain with him, and stated that he could 
 do so free of charge, and he would assist him to gain the next year's " Prix." 
 
 Millet states that at first he was determined not to enter again for the 
 prize, but upon second thoughts considers that determination foolish, and 
 states " why should I renounce the pleasure of dreaming among those beauti- 
 ful ruins where we shall see, walking in the twilight, the long-draped majestic 
 forms coming again to think over the affairs of the Senate with one of these 
 forms conducting us." Millet has here draivti a sketch of the scene illustrating 
 this impression. The painter and his companion — the former with his artisfs 
 materials under his arm — are seen listeni?ig to a re-incarnated Senator, who is 
 poititi?ig to a ruin l>ehifid which a procession of Senators appears. 
 
 Millet closes his letter by a request that his friend will be careful not to 
 mention to anyone the fact that he is remaining with his professor free of 
 charge. 
 
 This is a highly important and probably the finest letter of Milk fs extant. 
 It was written at the period of his studies in Paris under Delaroche, and refers 
 to his competing for the famous Prix de Rome. 
 
 The name of the kindly professor is not given, but it was, in fact, Paul 
 Delaroche. 
 
 This letter is also a direct refutation of the account given in his Hfe by 
 Julia Cartwright of the famous artist's endeavour to win the coveted Prix de 
 Rome. The account in that work is given as follows: "He (Millet) was at 
 his wits' end for money, and at one time he had to give up going to Delaroche's 
 atelier for want of means to pay the yearly fee of loo francs. 
 
 " The master missed him from his accustomed place and sent him word to 
 come and see him. Millet obeyed. ' Why do you never come to the atelier 
 now?' the painter asked in a friendly tone. 'Because, sir, I am unable to 
 pay the fees,' replied Millet. ' Never mind that ! ' replied Delaroche. ' I do 
 not wish you to leave. Come all the same, and I will speak to Poisson (the 
 porter of the studio). Only say nothing about it to the other fellows, and 
 draw just what you like — big subjects, figures, studies, whatever you fancy. I 
 like to see your work; you are not like the rest of them ; and then I wish to 
 speak to you about some work in which you can be of use to me.' 
 
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 went back to the atelier. But the historical compositions in academic style 
 that were then in fashion seemed to him every day more wearisome. An artist 
 of his power could not fail to produce striking work; but in the conventional 
 figures and heavy sombre colouring of Millet's compositions at that period, it 
 was difficult to discern the germ of his future greatness. Still he persevered, 
 and in the summer of 1838 he entered the lists for the Prix de Rome. The 
 originality of his composition attracted Delaroche's notice and pricked the 
 master's conscience, for he had already promised to use his interest on behalf 
 of one of his favourite pupils, a student named Roux ; so he sent for Millet 
 and said to him : 
 
 " 'You wish to win the Prix de Rome ? ' 
 
 " ' Certainly,' replied Millet, ' or I should not have entered my name.' 
 
 "'Your composition is very good,' said Delaroche ; 'but I must tell you 
 that I am anxious to see Roux nominated this time. Next year I will promise 
 to use all my influence on your behalf.' 
 
 "This frank declaration was enough for Millet He left Delaroche's atelier 
 for good, and determined never again to look to others for help or advance- 
 ment, but to rely solely on his own efforts." 
 
 There is no autograph of this famous Frenchman in the British Museum, 
 and the present is believed to be the finest that has occurred for sale. 
 
 See Illustration 
 
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 MILTON'S PROSE WORKS (EDITIONES PRIN- 
 CIPES OF). This is the finest collection in the World of 
 the FIRST EDITIONS of Milton's Prose Works. It consists of 
 43 volumes and was brought together by a devoted ad- 
 mirer who, over a long series of years, scoured the whole 
 of England. 
 
 Neither the British Museum nor any other public institution or private 
 library can approach this collection either in extent or in importance. More- 
 over, EVERY VOLUME IS COMPLETE.
 
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 The rarity of Milton's first editions (most of which were secretly printed) 
 can be easily judged by their absence from such famous libraries as the Huth, 
 Church, and Hoe. 
 
 The first editions of Milton's Prose works having been hurriedly printed on 
 wretched paper, most of the existing copies are either imperfect or in very 
 poor condition. 
 
 OF REFORMATION TOUCHING CHURCH DISCIPLINF IN ENG- 
 LAND; and the causes that hitherto have hindered it. 4to. 1641 
 
 First Edition. 
 
 Milton's first prose work. Published anonymously. Excessively rare. 
 
 OF PRELATICAL EPISCOPACY, and whether it may be deduc'd from 
 the Apostolical times by Vertue of those Testimonies which are alledg'd to 
 that purpose in some late Treatises : one whereof goes under the name of 
 James, Archbishop of Armagh. 4to. 1641 
 
 First Edition. Milton's second prose work, also published anonymously 
 and of equal rarity with the first. 
 
 ANIMADVERSIONS UPON THE REMONSTRANT'S DEFENCE 
 AGAINST SMECTYMNUUS. 4to. 1641 
 
 First Edition. Milton's third prose work. Published anonymously. 
 
 THE REASON OF CHURCH GOVERNMENT. Urged against Prelaty 
 in two books. 4to. 1641 
 
 First Edition. Milton's fourth prose work. 
 
 AN APOLOGY AGAINST A PAMPHLET, call'd a Modest Confutation of 
 the Animadversions upon the Remonstrant against Smectymnuus. 4to. 
 
 1642 
 
 First Edition, Milton's fifth prose work. Published anonymously. 
 There is no copy in the British Mtiseiim.
 
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 APOLOGY FOR SMECTYMNUUS (AN); with the Reason of Church- 
 Government by John Milton. 
 Small 4to. Printed for John Rothwell at the Fountain and Beare in Cheap- 
 side, 71. d. {c. 1642) 
 First Edition. Milton's sixth prose work. 
 
 T/iere is no copy in the British Museum and it was unknozvn to Sir Leslie 
 Stephen. 
 
 A REPLY TO THE ANSWER (Printed by his Majesties Command at 
 Oxford) to a Printed Booke Intituled Observations upon some of his 
 Majesties late Answers and Expresses. 4to. 
 
 Lo?idon, for M. Walbancke, 1642 
 
 First Edition. Milton's seventh prose work. 
 
 Only his initials are on the title-page. There is no copy in the British 
 Afusemn and it was also unknozvn to Sir Leslie Stephen. 
 
 THE DOCTRINE AND DISCIPLINE OF DIVORCE, Restored to the 
 good of both sexes from the Bondage of Canon Law. 4to. 1643 
 
 First Edition. Milton's eighth prose work. Published anonymously. 
 
 THE DOCTRINE AND DISCIPLINE OF DIVORCE, Restored to the 
 good of both sexes from the Bondage of Canon Law. 4to. 1644 
 
 Second Edition, containing 40 additional pages. 
 
 The presentation copy to H. Jackson, the Oxford Divine, with inscription 
 IN THE Autograph of Milton, also a few corrections in his autograph in the 
 text. 
 
 A most precious volume, the inscription reads " H. Jackson ex dono 
 Authoris." 
 
 THE JUDGEMENT OF MARTIN BUCER CONCERNING DIVORCE. 
 Writt'n to Edward the Sixt, in his Second Book of the Kingdom of Christ 
 . . . Wherein a late Book restoring the Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, 
 is heer confirm'd and justify'd by the authoritie of Martin Bucer. 4to. 1644 
 
 First Edition. Milton's tenth prose work. Published anonymously. 
 There is no copy in the British Museum.
 
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 AREOPAGITICA. An Order of the Lords and Commons for the Regula- 
 tion of Printing and for suppressing the great late abuses and frequent dis- 
 orders in printing many false, scandalous, seditious, libellous and unlicensed 
 Pamphlets, etc. Black letter. Small 4to. Half morocco. 
 
 Printed for J . Wright in the Old Bailey, i6^t„ June 16. 1643 
 
 This is the original "Order" which gave rise to Milton's celebrated 
 " Areopagitica." 
 
 Excessively rare. There was no copy in the Tercente?iary Milton Exhibition. 
 Its practical extinction is easily understood, as it consists of but four leaves. 
 
 AREOPAGITICA; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the liberty of Un- 
 licenc'd Printing. Small 4to. 1644 
 
 First Edition. 
 
 Milton's eleventh prose work. Of the very greatest rarity. 
 Reprinted by the Grolier Club in 1890. 
 
 TETRACHORDON: Expositions upon the Foure Chief places in Scripture, 
 which treat of Mariage, or Nullities in Mariage. 4to. 1645 
 
 First Edition. 
 
 Milton's twelfth prose work. Only his initials are on the title-page. 
 
 COLASTERION: A reply to a nameless Answer against the Doctrine and 
 Discipline of Divorce. 4to. 1645 
 
 First Edition. 
 
 Milton's thirteenth prose work. Only his initials are on the title-page. 
 
 There is no copy in the British Museum. 
 
 THE KING'S CABINET OPENED: or, certain Packets of Secret Letters 
 and Papers, written with the King's own Hand, and taken in his Cabinet 
 at Nasby Field June 14, 1645 by Victorious Sir Thomas Fairfax; wherein 
 many mysteries of State, tending to the Justification of that cause, for 
 which Sir Thomas Fairfax joyned battell that memorable day are clearly laid 
 open. 4to. 1645 
 
 First Edition. 
 
 Milton's fourteenth prose work. Published anonymously. 
 There is no copy in the British APuseum, and it ivas unknoiun to Sir Leslie 
 Stephen.
 
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 THE TENURE OF KINGS AND MAGISTRATES: proving that it is 
 Lawfull to call to account a Tyrant, or Wicked King, and after due con- 
 viction, to depose, and put him to death. 4to. 1649 
 
 First Edition. With portrait by Faithorne inserted. 
 
 Milton's fifteenth prose work. Only his initials are on the title-page. 
 
 This tract, which appeared four days after the publication of " Eikon 
 Basilike," was not included in any edition of Milton's Works until that 
 of 1S06. 
 
 THE TENURE OF KINGS AND MAGISTRATES: proving that it is 
 Lawfull to call to account a Tyrant, or Wicked King, and after due convic- 
 tion, to depose and put him to death. . . . Published now the second time 
 with some additions. 4to. 1649 
 
 Second edition, with eighteen additional pages. 
 
 EIKON BASILIKE. The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestic in His 
 Solitudes and Sufferings. Rom. 8 More then Conqueror &c. Bona agere, 
 & mala pati, Regium est. Folding plate of the King kneeling, by JVm. 
 Marshall. Small 8vo. 1648 
 
 This exceedingly rare, genuine First Edition of the King's Book, having 
 the faulty pagination in signature G, and title (without printer's name) as 
 copied above, of which only 7 copies were known to Mr. Almack (the biblio- 
 grapher). The present copy also contains the hopelessly rare leaf of Errata. 
 
 "The first issue appeared almost before the King's body was cold(/.6'., on 
 Feby. 9, 1649). Copies were eagerly bought and carefully treasured. Forty- 
 six editions of it were issued in English during the first twelve months of its 
 sale, as well as three editions in Latin, four in French, two in Dutch, and one 
 in German. 
 
 EIKONOKLASTES in Answer to a Book intitl'd Eikon Basilike. 4to. 1649 
 First Edition. Milton's sixteenth prose work. 
 Only his initials are on the title-page. 
 
 PRO POPULO ANGLICANO DEFENSIO contra Claudii Anonymi, alias 
 Salmasii, Defensionem Regiam. i2mo. 1650 
 
 First Edition. Milton's seventeenth prose work. 
 There was no copy of the first edition in the Tercentenary Exhibition. 
 
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 EIKON AKLASTOS.— The Image Unbroken, a Perspective of the Impu- 
 dence, Falshood, Vanitie, and Prophannes, Published in a Libell entitled 
 Eikonoklastes against Eikon Basilike. Sm. 4to. Printed anno dom. 165 1 
 
 First Edition. This is the famous answer by Jane to Milton. 
 
 PRO POPULO ANGLICANO SECUNDA, contra infamem libellum 
 anonymum cui titulis 1654. — PRO SE DEFENSIO contra Alexandrum 
 Morum 1655. 2 vols, in i. i2mo. 1654-55 
 
 First Editions. Milton's nineteenth and twentieth prose works. 
 
 A DEFENCE OF THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND in Answer to Sal- 
 masius's Defence of the King. Small 8vo. 1692 
 
 The First Edition in English of " Pro Populo Anglicano." 1 650-1 654. 
 
 CABINET COUNCIL (THE), containing the Chief Arts of Empire and 
 Mysteries of State, by Sir Walter Raleigh, published by John Milton, Esq. 
 Portrait by Vaughan. Small 8vo. T. Newconil) for T. Johnson. 1658 
 
 First Edition. Published by Milton from the original manuscript then 
 in his possession. 
 
 A TREATISE OF CIVIL POWER IN ECCLESIASTICAL CAUSES, 
 showing that it is not lawful for any power on earth to compell in matters 
 of Religion. i2mo. 1659 
 
 First Edition. 
 
 Milton's twenty-first prose work. Only his initials are on the title-page. 
 
 CONSIDERATIONS TOUCHING THE LIKELIEST MEANS TO 
 REMOVE HIRELINGS OUT OF THE CHURCH, etc. The Author 
 J. M. i2mo. T. N.forL. Chapmati, in Pope's Head Alley, 1659 
 
 First Edition. Milton's twenty-second prose work, and of the greatest 
 rarity. Only his initials are on the title-page.
 
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 BRIEF NOTES UPON A LATE SERMON TITL'D THE FEAR OF 
 GOD AND THE KING. Preach'd, and since Publish'd, by Matthew 
 Griffith, D.D., and Chaplain to the late King. Wherin many Notorious 
 Wrestings of Scripture, and other Falsities are observed by J. M. 4to. 
 
 London^ Printed ui the year 1660 
 First Edition. 
 
 Milton's twenty-third prose work. 
 
 The excessive rarity of this secretly printed tract is especially mentioned 
 in the Catalogue of the Tercentenary Milton Exhibition. 
 There is no copy in the British Museum. 
 Only Milton's initials are on the title-page. 
 
 THE READIE & EASIE WAY TO ESTABLISH A FREE COM- 
 MONWEALTH. 4to. 1660 
 First Edition. Milton's twenty-fourth prose work, and one of the most 
 famous. Only his initials are on the title-page. 
 
 ACCEDENCE COMMENC'T GRAMMAR, Supply'd with sufficient Rules, 
 For the use of such (Younger or Elder) as are desirous, without more 
 trouble than needs to attain the Latin Tongue. i2mo. 1669 
 
 First Edition. Milton's twenty-fifth prose work. 
 
 THE HISTORY OF BRITAIN, that part especially now call'd England 
 from the first traditional beginning continued to the Norman Conquest. 
 4to. 1670 
 
 Brilliant impression of the portrait of W. Faithorne. 
 First Edition. Milton's twenty-sixth prose work. 
 
 ARTIS LOGICAE PLENIOR INSTITUTIO, ad Petri Rami Methodum 
 concinnata, adjecta est Praxis Annalytica & Petri Rami vita. Libris duobus. 
 1 2 mo. Londini, 1672 
 
 Portrait of the Author by W. Dolle. 
 
 First Edition. 
 
 Milton's twenty-seventh prose work.
 
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 OF TRUE RELIGION, HERESIE, SCHISM, TOLERATION, and 
 
 what best means may be us'd against the growth of Popery. 4to. Uncut. 
 
 1673 
 First Edition. Milton's twenty-eighth prose work. Only his initials are 
 on the title-page. 
 
 There was no copy in the Tercentenary Exhihitioti. 
 
 EPISTOLARUM FAMILIARUM LIBER UNUS; quibus accesserunt, 
 ejusdem, jam olim in CoUegio Adolescentis, prolusiones quaedam Ora- 
 toriae. i2mo. 1674 
 
 First Edition. 
 
 Milton's twenty-ninth prose work. 
 
 The present is Charles II's beautiful copy, and was once in the Royal 
 Library. It was bound for the King by Samuel Meare, who was Royal 
 binder from 1660 to 1683. The binding is of red morocco of very good 
 quality. The sides are left plain, with the exception of a narrow gold fillet 
 round the edges, and in each corner is stamped the Royal monogram, the 
 double C between palm branches and surmounted by a crown. A smaller 
 variety of the same stamp is repeated in each panel of the back. Mearne 
 bound books in this particular style for the King, for we find among the State 
 Papers entries of accounts like the following: " Pro colligendis IV^ (four hun- 
 dred) libris rubro corrio Turci pro Bibliotheca apud domum Sancti Jacobi." 
 
 This, the last of Milton's works printed in his lifetime and issued only a few 
 months before his death, contains some of his earliest writings. He was especially 
 anxious that two books on which he had long been working, should be pub- 
 lished while he was still alive^, his "Treatise of Christian Doctrine," and his 
 collection of Latin State papers written by him while secretary to the councils 
 of the Commonwealth and to Oliver and Richard Cromwell. 
 
 The letters, however, have a distinct value. The contents of some of them 
 are of a distinctly private and confidential nature, and from all there are to be 
 obtained a number of details about Milton's own life which would otherwise 
 have been unknown. 
 
 On the inside of the cover is the book-plate of Dr. Charles Chauncy, a 
 celebrated eighteenth century collector, whose library was dispersed in 1790. 
 It belonged later to the Rev. John Mitford (1781-1859), and contains severa 
 notes in his small, clear hand.
 
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 LITER.^ PSEUDO-SENATUS ANGLICANI, CROMWELLII, Reli- 
 quorumque perduellium nomine ac jussu conscriptae. i2mo. 1676 
 
 First Edition. Milton's thirty-first prose work. 
 There is no copy in the British Museum. 
 
 CHARACTER OF THE LONG PARLIAMENT AND ASSEMBLY 
 OF DIVINES IN 1 64 1, omitted in his other works, and never before 
 printed. 4to. 1681 
 
 First Edition. Milton's thirty-second prose work. 
 There is no copy in the British Museum. 
 
 A BRIEF HISTORY OF MOSCOVIA and of other less-known Countries 
 lying eastward of Russia as far as Cathay. Small 8vo. 1682 
 
 First Edition. Milton's thirty-third prose work. 
 
 Said by the publisher to have been written by Milton's own hand before 
 he lost his sight. 
 
 THE ARTS OF EMPIRE, AND MYSTERIES OF STATE DIS- 
 CABINETED IN POLITICAL AND POLEMICAL APHORISMS, 
 grounded on Authority and Experience, by the ever Renowned Knight 
 Sir Walter Raleigh, pubHshed by John Milton. Small 8vo. 1692 
 
 First Edition. 
 
 There was no copy in the Tercentenary Exhibition^ neither is it in the 
 British Museum. 
 
 LETTERS OF STATE TO MOST OF THE SOVEREIGN PRINCES 
 AND REPUBLICKS OF EUROPE FROM 1649 TILL 1659, to which 
 is added an account of his Life, several of his Poems and a catalogue of 
 his Works. i2mo. 1694 
 
 First Edition. Milton's thirty-fourth prose work. It was edited by his 
 nephew. 
 
 There is no copy in the British Museum.
 
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 THE SECRETS OF GOVERNMENT AND MISTERIES OF STATE 
 PLAINLY LAID OPEN, in all the several forms of Government in the 
 Christian World. Small 8vo. 1697 
 
 First Edition. Milton's thirty-fifth prose work. 
 
 There tvas no copy in the Tercentenary Exhibition, and it is not in the 
 British Museum. 
 
 THE WORKS OF MR. JOHN MILTON. Folio. 
 
 Printed in the year 1697 
 
 The Editio Princeps of Milton's collected prose works. 
 
 THE LIFE OF JOHN MILTON, containing, besides the History of his 
 Works, several Extraordinary Characters of Men and Books, Sects, Parties 
 and Opinions (by John Toland). 8vo. 1699 
 
 First Edition of the First Separate " Life " of Milton. 
 There was no copy in the Tercentenary Exhibition. 
 
 Price of the 43 volumes, ^1,500 
 
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 MILTON (JOHN). Das Verlustigte Paradels in Unser 
 gemein Teutsch durch E. G. V. B. Small 8vo. 
 
 Zei'bst, 1682 
 
 The FIRST German translation of " Paradise \.o%i,'' ds^A the only copy known 
 to us except that in the British Museum. 
 
 Having been printed at the translator's [Von Berge] expense, in all prob- 
 ability only a very few copies were issued for his friends. 
 
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 177 
 
 TOiNSON'S ASSIGNMENT OF THE COPYRIGHT 
 OF "PARADISE LOST." 
 
 Mll^TON.—TONSON {] ACOB),^/ie ce/ed7'a/ed Lonc/o7ipud- 
 /ts/ier, associated luith Milton, Dryden, Addison, Pope, Szvift, 
 and other literary men. THE ORIGINAL ASSIGN- 
 MENT (to his son) of the Copyright of Milton's " Para- 
 dise Lost" and " Paradise Regained." Signed twice by 
 ToNSON. I page. Large folio. O71 vellum. Sept. 17 18. 
 With the fine wax seal intact. 
 
 This extremely important literary document, which appears to have 
 escaped the researches of all Milton's biographers, is the original Deed by which 
 Tonson assigns his Copyrights to his son. 
 
 "And also all those three parts in four in the copy of a book intituled 
 Milton's ' Paradise Lost,' in twelve books, and also all his share or part in the 
 copy of a book intituled Milton's ' Paradise Regained,' with his other poems." 
 
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 MISSALE ROPAANUM. Ex Decretosacrosancti Concllii 
 Tridentini restitutum. Pii V. Pontif. Max. jussu aditum. 
 Folio. Contemporary red morocco richly tooled in gold ivith 
 the a7'ms of Pope Paul V on the sides. 
 
 Sala^nanca. Gulielmus Foquel, 1589 
 
 The personal Missal of Pope Paul V. 
 
 The Missal, the book containing the service of the Mass, is said to have 
 been first arranged by Pope Zachary and to have been revised and completed
 
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 by St. Gregory. At first several books were required for the service, but about 
 the tenth century these were collected into one book, and such volumes were 
 called " Missalia Plenaria." The " Missale Romanum," now in use, dates from 
 the Council of Trent, when a committee of the members was entrusted with 
 the preparation of a correct and uniform liturgy. So long did the proceedings 
 take that the work was still uncompleted when the Council dissolved. When 
 it was finished it was promulgated by Pius V on 14th July 1570, and its 
 universal use enjoined, the only exception being made in the case of churches 
 having local liturgies which had been in unbroken use for at least two 
 centuries, such as the Sarum use in England. This edition is very finely 
 printed and beautifully illustrated with engravings. These are of three classes. 
 The largest are full paged, and are at the commencement of each special 
 portion. One is signed " M.G.F.," and these plates are probably from designs 
 by Martin Galindez, a Spanish painter born in Old Castile in 1547. In 1584 
 he entered the Chartreuse of Paular, and died in 1627 after executing a num- 
 ber of devotional pictures. The series of small square cuts illustrating saints 
 and festivals has the signature "I sauri " (?) a designer or engraver not mentioned 
 by Bryan. The medium sized engravings are unsigned, but of excellent work- 
 manship. At the commencement of each portion the page has a beautifully 
 engraved border, some containing the charges of Sixtus V. 
 
 The present copy is beautifully bound in dark red morocco. Round the 
 edges of the sides runs a broad gilt band of interlaced work, and within this is 
 a panel formed by gilt and blind tooled lines. In the centre, within an oval 
 border are the arms of Camillo Borghese, Pope Paul V: " Azure, a dragon or, 
 a chief of the Empire." In the panels on the back, and in the corners of the 
 sides the two charges, the dragon and eagle, are repeated. Inside is a Bor- 
 ghese bookplate. Bound at the end, after the Missal proper, are two supple- 
 ments. The first, of two leaves, and printed by Foquel at Salamanca in 1589, 
 contains the " Proprium Missae in VigiHa S. Jacobi Apostoli." St. James was 
 said to have been buried at Compostella, the most famous shrine in the 
 middle ages in Europe, and was the patron saint of Spain. The second 
 supplement, of twelve leaves, printed at Madrid in 1584 by the widow of 
 Alfonso Gomez, contains the special masses of the saints and festivals of the 
 diocese of Toledo. 
 
 The British Museum possesses no copy of this edition.
 
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 MOLIERE. LES CEUVRES. A Paris, Chez lean Guig- 
 nard Fils, dans la grand Salle du Palais, a coste de la Cour 
 des Aydes, a rimage S. lean, mdclxvi. Avec Privilege du 
 Roy. 2 vols. Small 8vo. Engraved titles by F. C. (Fran9ois 
 Chauveau). Red morocco extra, with a dotid lure of red morocco 
 and richly gilt inside borders, by Trautz-Bauzonnet. 
 
 Paris, 1666 
 
 The edition, originate of the works of Moliere and of excessive rarity. 
 
 This superlative copy sold in 1875 for 6,000 francs. It was afterwards in 
 the Bordes Collection. 
 
 " EUe est tres rare et se vend fort cher maintenant." — Le Petit in 1888. 
 
 This extremely important edition comprises all the plays of Moliere which 
 had been published separately up to the year 1666. 
 
 The finely engraved frontispieces represent characters from Moliere's 
 comedies. 
 
 See Illustration 
 
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 MOLIERE. LESICILIEN,OU LAMOUR PEINTRE, 
 
 Comedie. First Edition. i2mo. Morocco. 
 
 A Paris, chez lean Ribon, au Palais, vis a vis la Porte de 
 
 la S. Chapelle, a f Image S. Louis. 1668 
 
 Unique, being not only absolutely uncut, but also having the 
 
 LEAVES unopened. 
 
 Apart from the morocco binding which preserves it, the volume is just as it 
 left the press 250 years ago. 
 
 No other entirely uncut and unopened example of any of Moliere's Comedies 
 is knotvn to be in existence. There is, however, an uncut (but not unopened) 
 copy of Moliere's Les Ftmnies Scavantes in Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan's library. 
 
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 This very pleasing and very animated comedy was first acted before the 
 Court of Louis XIV in 1666. It formed part of the fetes given by the King 
 at Saint-Germain, and was specially written for Benserade's Ballet des Muses. 
 
 According to the brothers Parfait, the first performance of Le Sicilien was 
 graced by the presence of the two reigning favourites, Mademoiselle La 
 Valliere and Madame de Montespan, who both danced in the ballet. 
 
 Thirty years ago an ordinary copy of this comedy sold in Paris for ;^64. 
 
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 MOLIERE. CEUVRES de J. B. Poquelin de Moliere. 
 6 vols, bound in 12 vols. Royal 4to. Handsomely bound 
 in contemporary red morocco extra, fioral gilt borders and 
 richly gilt backs in the Borzerian style, by Dietrich. 
 
 A Paris, de V hnprimerie de P. Didot V Ain^. 1 791 -1794 
 
 A MOST SUPERB BOOK, with the exception of the de/anze the finest copy of 
 Moliere extant. 
 
 Printed upon fine vellum. 
 
 Unique. It is No. 353 in De Bure's Catalogue of Books printed upon 
 vellum. 
 
 This magnificent example of vellum printing was formerly Prince Galitzin's, 
 
 and at his sale over fifty years ago it realized 1250 francs. Since it left Prince 
 
 Galitzin's library it has been enriched by the insertion of twenty-one Moliere 
 
 family documents bearing the signatures of his relatives. They are inter alia: 
 
 (a) His Father. 
 
 (d) His Wife. 
 
 (c) and (d) His Brother (J. B.) and his Wife. 
 
 (e) His Brother (Robert). 
 (/) His Sister (Catherine). 
 (g) His Uncle (Robert). 
 (h) His Nephew (Pierre).
 
 
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 {{) His Niece (Martha), 
 (y) His Niece (A. C). 
 {k) His Cousin (Nicholas). 
 (/) His Cousin (Louis). 
 {m) His Cousin (Pierre). 
 («) His Cousin (Guy). 
 
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 MONTESQUIEU. DE L'ESPRIT DES LOIS. 5 vols. 
 1 2 mo. In the original green velhim binding, uncut. 
 
 Paris, 1803 
 
 One of but two examples printed upon vellum. It is still preserved 
 in the original publisher's cases. This was probably Marshal Junot's copy 
 which was sold by auction in 1815. 
 
 Totally unknown to MM. De Bure. 
 
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 182 
 
 NATTIER (JEAN MARC). HOLOGRAPH LET- 
 TER, SIGNED. 2 pages, \lo. Paris, October 2 t^, i753- 
 
 There is no autograph of this most eminent French portrait painter in the 
 British Museum. 
 
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 See Illustration 
 
 183 
 NORTHUMBERLAND (DUKE OF). The lover of 
 Afine Boleyn. 
 
 The Original Grant of the Manor of Kelsale by Thomas, 
 third Duke of Norfolk, to Henry Algernon Percy, sixth 
 Earl of Northumberland,and Henry Stafford,son of Edward,
 
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 Duke of Buckingham. Signed by both the Earl of North- 
 umberland and Lord Stafford. On vellum. Jime 20, 1529 
 
 The autographs of the two signatories are very rare. Two fine seals 
 are attached, that of the Earl of Northumberland — a crest, and another having 
 the initials H. S. The Earl of Northumberland fell in love with Anne Boleyn 
 while a page in Wolsey's household and was scolded by the Cardinal for doing 
 so. He intended to marry the young lady, and although he had to renounce 
 her in favour of Henry VHI, the attachment lasted through life. In 1532 
 Northumberland stood in great peril. His wife, drawing doubtless upon her 
 recollection of matrimonial squabbles, accused him of a pre-contract with 
 Anne Boleyn. She confided her alleged grievance to her father, who cautiously 
 mentioned the matter to the Duke of Norfolk. Anne Boleyn ordered a public 
 inquiry. Northumberland denied the accusation, and his accusers were routed. 
 In 1536 he formed one of the Court for the trial of Anne Boleyn, but when he 
 saw her he grew ill and left the room. Anne is said to have confessed a pre- 
 contract with him in the hope of saving her life. Stafford married Ursula, 
 sister of Cardinal Pole, who was of the Blood-Royal. 
 
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 ORDO DISTRIBUTIONIS SACRAMENTI Altaris sub 
 utraqiie specie, et formula Confessionis faclendae in regno 
 Angliae. Haec Londini evulgata sunt octavo die Martii 
 Anni m.dxlviii. 8vo. Bhie moi^occo. \^Leipzig\ 1548 
 
 An English Liturgical volume of surpassing importance. 
 
 At the beginning of 1548 the English Bishops were engaged upon questions 
 concerning changes in the Liturgy. There was considerable hesitation as to 
 whether all the Mass should be said in English, but in the meantime it was 
 essential that provision should be made for carrying out the direction for 
 Communion in both kinds which had been passed both by Convocation and 
 Parliament in December of the preceding year. This work was entrusted to 
 " sundry of his Majesty's most grave and well-learned prelates and other learned 
 men in the scripture," though there is considerable uncertainty as to who these
 
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 were. After a long conference they agreed upon a " Form " which was issued 
 by Royal proclamation on 8th March 1548, and a letter was addressed by the 
 Council to the Bishops directing Easter as the time when the new Order of 
 Communion should come into use. This made no alteration in the Latin 
 Mass beyond having the English prayers for communicants inserted in the 
 middle, the English portion consisting of the Invitation, longer and shorter 
 Exhortation, Confession, Absolution, Comfortable Words, and prayer of 
 Humble Access almost in their present form, and the words of administration 
 for communion in both kinds. 
 
 The reformers abroad were watching with the greatest interest the progress 
 of the religious changes in England, and no sooner had the Order of the 
 Communion been issued than a copy was sent to Frankfurt where it was trans- 
 lated by Miles Coverdale into German and Latin. The Latin copy was sent 
 to Calvin in the hopes that he would approve it and cause it to be printed. 
 This version does not appear to have been issued. Meanwhile the present 
 version was made, signed A. A. S. D. Th., that is Alexander Alesius Scotus 
 Doctor Theologiae. It was made for the benefit of foreign reformers, like 
 A. Lasco, Peter Martyr, and Martin Bucer, who, meddling persistently with 
 the preparation of the English Prayer Book knew no word of the language. 
 Ales was born in Edinburgh in 1500, and was educated at St. Andrews. Partly 
 by the teachings and example of Patrick Hamilton the martyr, and partly by 
 the behaviour of Archbishop Beaton, Ales threw in his lot with the reformers, 
 and in 1532 fled to Ge^'many and soon became engaged in literary work on 
 behalf of the Reformation. From 1535 to 1540 Ales was in England, and 
 besides writing, was for a time lecturer at Cambridge. From 1540 to 1543 he 
 was professor of theology at Frankfurt, removing in that year to Leipzig, where 
 he mainly resided until his death in 1565. Besides translating this Form of 
 Communion, Ales also translated the first Prayer Book of 1549 into Latin to 
 make known the progress of the reformed doctrine to the foreigners with whom 
 he lived. This was pubhshed at Leipzig in 1551, but the translation was care- 
 lessly performed and, indeed, occasionally intentionally incorrect. 
 
 This excessively rare little volume was printed abroad, probably at Leipzig, 
 the date and place on the title-page being merely the intimation that the Form 
 was issued by authority at London on 8th March 1548. The only other copy 
 known to us is that in the British Museum.
 
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 ORDONNANCES (LES), DE L'ORDRE DE LA 
 TOISON D'OR. 4to. Old vellum gilt. 
 
 Christopher Plantin (1560) 
 
 Printed upon fine vellum. 
 
 This is the second issue of the Ordonnances according to Brunet, and 
 comprises eleven more pages of text than the first. 
 
 The title is followed by a beautiful full-page engraving of the coat of arms 
 of the Dukes of Bourgogne, and another full-page engraving of the Collar of 
 this famous Order, both by Cornelius Galle and each printed upon separate 
 leaves of vellum. 
 
 Inserted in the present example is a contemporary Manuscript note (an 
 introduction to one of the chiefs of the Order) also on vellum, addressed to a 
 Prince (" Monseigneur ") and presenting a Chevalier elected by the King (prob- 
 ably Francis II, the husband of Mary Stuart). 
 
 This historic order of chivalry (The Golden Fleece) was founded at Bruges 
 in 1429 by the Duke of Burgundy, Philip the Good, hence the Burgundian 
 Arms in the above work. 
 
 It was founded by him in honour of his mistress Marie de Crumbrugge, 
 whose red hair had been the object of many pleasantries. 
 
 The Order was at first limited to but twenty-four knights, but it was gradually 
 increased to fifty, the Duke being Grand Master. When the House of Burgundy 
 became extinct the Grand Mastership passed to the House of Austria. Charles V 
 transmitted it to his descendants the Kings of Spain, until the extinction of the 
 House of Austria in Spain, when, by the Peace of Utrecht, Philip V (of Bourbon) 
 King of Spain became Grand Master. The Emperor, however, wished to retain 
 the honour, and so it was agreed that it should be held concurrently by the 
 Kings of Spain and by the Emperors of Germany. 
 
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 ORDONNANCES 
 DE L'ORDRE 
 
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 DOR. 
 
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 ORDONNANCES (LES), DE L'ORDRE DE LA 
 THOYSON D'OR. 4to. In the original rich ly gilt ca If. 
 
 {Christopher Pla7itin, 1566) 
 
 This is the third issue, according to Brunet, who wrongly describes it. He 
 says: "63 pp. de texte, formant 66 chapitres," thus leaving out the additional 
 chapters (i to xxi), although giving the correct number of pages. The type 
 and ornaments are entirely different from the issue of 1560. 
 
 This was David Laing's copy. 
 
 See Illustration 
 
 187 
 PAYN (JAMES). The Original Holograph Manuscript 
 OF his best and most successful Novel, 
 
 "BY PROXY." 
 Quite complete. Comprising 565 pages, 4to. Redmorocco. 
 
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 188 
 
 PEPYS (S.). HOLOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED. 
 I page, folio, Greenwich, Oct. 24, 1665. 
 
 Relative to the disposal of some sick men whom he declines to take charge 
 of "having much more of our own proper Worke on our hands than wee feare 
 wee can quitt ourselves of soe as well as wee would." 
 
 This fine letter is signed also by Sir William Batten, the Admiral, who 
 was at this time Master of Trinity House, while Pepys was an " Elder Brother." 
 Three days after the date of this letter Pepys was appointed Surveyor-General 
 of the Victualling Office. 
 
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 PHAEDRI, FLAVII AVIANI ET ANONYMI FABU- 
 
 LAE ^SOPI^. Thick sm.Svo, Half calf . 
 
 ,/ Bj^iissels, Ludoviais Tencd, 1829 
 
 Printed upon vellum. 
 Unique. Unknown to Brunet. 
 
 " Exemplaire sur peau de velin, tire a part par ordre du Roi des Pays-Bas. 
 Chef-d'oeuvre de typographie." 
 
 190 
 
 PHILIP II (KING OF SPAIN), Husband of Queen 
 Mary I of England. AN UNPUBLISHED SERIES 
 OF THIRTY-FOUR LETTERS, thirty-two of which 
 are signed in full by the King, addressed to Pedro Men- 
 do9a, the King's Ambassador in Genoa. Together with a 
 precis of their contents. Inlaid to a uniform size and bound 
 in crimson morocco, forming a handsome folio volume. 
 
 The majority of these letters are partly written in Philip's secret cipher, 
 and bear the Royal Seal. They are countersigned by Antonio de Perez, 
 Philip's great minister, and also by Juan del Gado, Cyas, etc. and cover the 
 momentous period from January to December 1579. They refer not only to the 
 famous campaign in the Netherlands, but also to a great number of other 
 important subjects, not the least being the payment of Philip's German mer- 
 cenaries, then engaged in Flanders for the suppression of the Netherlands. 
 The great Perez fell into complete and permanent disgrace on 28th July 
 1579; the last letter (in this volume) with his signature is dated 3rd July 
 in that year. 
 
 This correspondence, which was acquired several years ago in Rome, is 
 apparently entirely unpublished, and is believed to be tlie sole correspondence 
 of Fhilip II which has occurred for sale in Great Britain. 
 
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 PHILOTES. Delia notabile & famosa HISTORIA DE 
 I FELICI AMORI del delfino di Francia, et di 
 Angelina Loria, Nobile Siciliana, Libro Secondo: Nuova- 
 mente Ritrovata, & dall'antica lingua Normanna tradotta 
 nella Italiana. Da M. Giulio Filoteo di Amadeo Siciliano. 
 hi Veneiia, Appresso Lticio Spi?ieda. 1609 
 
 The binding of these four volumes is a particularly good and representative 
 specimen of Roger Payne's work. It is of straight-grained green morocco 
 with plain sides The boards are edged with a single line fillet, while another is 
 ruled half an inch further in, both being finished at the corners with small 
 rosettes. In each corner of the frame thus formed is a delicate spray of leaves and 
 flowers. The top and bottom panels of the back are richly gilt, and the lettering 
 is in Payne's usual bold style. The insides of the covers are very distinctive of 
 Payne's work. A broad border of morocco runs round the four sides edged 
 with a gilt fillet, and each side contains a large gilt ornament made up of 
 small tools, flowers, leaves, rosettes, crescents, and at each corner is a spray. 
 The centre portion ana end papers are dull purple cob paper. 
 
 Roger Payne's work was so frequently and successfully imitated by his con- 
 temporaries and successors that much of the work now attributed to him is the 
 work of other hands. But there are certain little mannerisms and details of 
 work, which other binders might consider faults, which distinguish his 
 bindings. This is especially the case with the inside joints, usually of russia 
 leather, which are finished off in a very clumsy way, no attempt being made 
 to square them off at the corners. In the majority of his bindings the head- 
 bands are of green silk. Payne was the only binder who did every part of the 
 binding himself, all the forwarding and finishing, and his bindings have thus 
 an individuality which is wanting in the work of all his imitators, and which 
 to an expert, identifies his work at a glance. 
 
 The present copy belonged to the celebrated book collector, Richard 
 
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 Heber, and contains some notes in his hand. It is the only copy quoted by 
 Brunet (IV. 622). 
 
 See Illustrations 
 
 192 
 
 PICO DELLA MIRANDOLA (GIOVANNI FRAN- 
 CESCO). Liber de Veris Calamitatum Causis Nostrorum 
 Temporum. A remarkably fine copy. Morocco extra. 
 4to. Mitandola, Joannes Mazockius, 1 5 1 9 
 
 An extraordinarily rare and most desirable typographical volume. Not in 
 the Spenser, Huth, or Hoe libraries. 
 
 The present book is of great typographical interest, being the earlier of 
 ONLY TWO BOOKS PRINTED AT THE PRIVATE PRESS which Pico installed at 
 Mirandola after his third return to his city. The printer, Johannes Mazochius 
 Giovanni Mazocco dal Bondeno, was at work at Ferrara between the years 
 1509 and 15 1 7, where he issued a number of books, including the very rare 
 first edition of Ariosto. At Mirandola he printed only two books in 15 19 and 
 1520, and is not heard of again, nor was there any further printing in that 
 town, although Pico lived until 1533. The early bibliographers knew of no 
 book printed at Mirandola except the " Examen " of 1520, and the present 
 book seems to have been first noticed by Cotton in his " Typographical 
 Gazetteer" of 183 1, where he notes the copy in the Bodleian. So rare is it 
 that in i860 a reprint was issued at Milan by M. Calori Casii, "now first 
 produced from the unknown Mirandola edition of 15 19." 
 
 As a piece of printing it is remarkable, and the printer appears to have 
 only possessed a limited amount of material, and has used directors in place 
 of initial letters. The note on the last page is a quaint piece of writing, the 
 printer pointing out that no doubt a few stops were wrongly placed and here 
 and there letters left out, and so on; but it didn't really matter, as the least 
 educated person could see what was meant, and therefore it wasn't worth 
 printing a list of errata. In this, as in most of the writer's books, there is an
 
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 express statement that not only were they licensed by the recognized powers, 
 but also specially by the Papal authority. 
 
 Giovanni Francesco Pico was the son of Galeotto Pico, lord of Mirandola, 
 and nephew of the famous Giovanni Pico, one of the most brilliant and 
 renowned scholars of the Middle Ages. He was born in 1470, and on the 
 death of his father succeeded him as ruler. In 1502 his brother Ludivoco, 
 who had married Francesca, daughter of Giovanni Trivulzio, aided by his 
 father-in-law and the Duke of Ferrara, dispossessed him of his dominions 
 and held them until 1509. In 15 11 Julius II captured Mirandola and 
 replaced Giovanni, but in a short time he was again driven out by the French 
 troops commanded by Trivulzio. On the waning of the French power he 
 again assumed government, and became partly reconciled to his sister-in-law, 
 Francesca, though they still continually quarrelled. During the lifetime of 
 Leo X he lived a quiet life, but later on troubles arose, and on 15 October 
 1533 his nephew, Galeotto, son of Ludivoco, broke into the palace and 
 murdered him and his son Alberto. 
 
 Among his contemporaries he shone as a man of brilliant abilities. Sadoleto 
 affirmed that he knew no sovereign of the age who united, like him, ability 
 with moderation, religion with military skill, and an extensive knowledge in 
 all arts and sciences with a close application to the cares of government. 
 Symonds writes of him in his " Renaissance in Italy " : " Few of the scholars 
 could boast of wider learning and a nobler spirit." His literary work, mainly 
 produced before 1520, exhibits an amazing amount of versatility, embracing 
 as it does almost every department of literature and science, and every mode 
 of composition ; poetry, theology, antiquities, natural philosophy, morals, 
 ascetics, letters, orations, translations from the Greek, and essays. He was an 
 extreme admirer of Plato, and warmly opposed to the doctrines of Aristotle, 
 while, like his uncle, he lost no opportunity of attacking judicial astrology, 
 then a most powerful factor in all affairs. 
 
 The present work affords an excellent example of these attacks. Taking 
 as his subject the causes of the late troubles in Italy, of which he gives a 
 short account, he points out the futility of believing that they could have been 
 influenced, caused or foretold by any study of the comets or other forms of 
 astrology. Further, they are not caused by luck or chance, but are the out- 
 come of wicked deeds and ordered by providence. As usual, his arguments 
 are frequently drawn from Plato and Aristotle, and he also quotes the Fathers.
 
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 Of his other works, perhaps the most famous is the " Examen Vanitatis 
 Doctrinae Gentium," printed at Mirandola in 1520, and his tract in defence 
 of Savonarola, printed at Wittenberg in 1521. As early as 1506 he had 
 published a collected edition of his works, and others were printed along with 
 the collected works of his uncle in 1504 and subsequent editions. Several of 
 his books were translated into English at an early date. His life of his uncle 
 was translated by Sir Thomas More, and printed by Wynkyn de Worde without 
 date, and reprinted in More's works in 1577. Since then it has several times 
 been reprinted. The " Rules of a Christian Life " was translated by Sir 
 Thomas Elyot, and printed several times from 1534 onwards by Berthelet. 
 Lupset translated others, but in England, as a rule, his writings have been 
 confused with, and published under the name of, his uncle Giovanni. 
 
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 193 
 PITCAIRNE (ARCHIBALD). DISSERTATIONES 
 MEDIC A E. 4 to. Contemporary blue morocco. 
 
 Edinburgh, Robert Freebairn, 1 7 1 3 
 
 The present copy is of great interest, being the magnificently bound pre- 
 sentation copy to James Edward Francis Stuart, commonly known as the 
 " Old Pretender," son of James II and half-brother to Queen Anne. On each 
 side is the bold inscription, " Regi Scotorum Jacobo Octavo, Pitcarnius," an 
 unequivocal statement of the author's political opinions. To the Jacobites the 
 " Old Pretender" was James III of England and James VIII of Scotland. 
 
 The binding is an extre?nely fine example of the very distinctive Scottish 
 school which flourished at Edinburgh in the early years of the eighteenth 
 century. The material used was almost invariably a very deep blue-green 
 morocco, very occasionally red. The centre panel was often worked with a 
 roll, the one weak point about the bindings. The rest of the ornament was 
 all hand-tooled, and a lavish use made of gold dotting, giving a very rich 
 effect. The corners were generally filled with rather florid sprays. A very fine 
 example, much resembling the present, and worked with many of the same 
 tools, is on a copy of " The Parfait Mareschal," Edinburgh, 1696, in the British 
 Museum, and was reproduced as Plate 55 in Fletcher's "English Bookbind-
 
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 ings in the British Museum." Another peculiarity of these bindings is that 
 they are almost always lined with coloured and gilt German end-papers. 
 
 On the inner board is the book-plate of the Scots College at Paris, 
 engraved by Ingram. In the centre is a figure of St. Andrew, and on the left 
 the arms of Scotland. On the right are two shields surmounted by a cardinal's 
 hat. The first is that of Cardinal James Beaton, Archbishop of Glasgow, who, 
 at his death, in 1603, left all his fortune and library to the college, the second 
 that of some other bishop, the arms being apparently those of the family of 
 Murray. 
 
 The main portion of the library of the Scots College was dispersed at the 
 time of the Revolution, though part is believed to have been removed to 
 St. Omer. 
 
 Inserted is an autograph letter from James' Queen (Clementina) to the 
 Pope. It is dated from Boulogne, Dec. loth, 1727. The Queen's autograph 
 is of extraordinary rarity. 
 
 ^225 
 See Illustration 
 
 194 
 
 POMPADOUR (MADAME DE). THE ORIGINAL 
 MANUSCRIPT INVENTORY, covering about 500 
 pages, of the famous works of art collected by Madame de 
 Pompadour. The catalogue gives full details of her Furni- 
 ture, China, Statuary, Library, Objets d'Art, etc. Eolio. 
 Half morocco. 
 
 This manuscript constitutes the sole complete record of the vast and 
 precious Pompadour collections. 
 
 An excessively important icnpublished manuscript, and invaluable to any 
 future biographer of this extraordinary woman. 
 
 There were one hundred and sixty-six auction sittings, commencing from 
 29th November 1764, and continuing till 7th May 1766. The Inventory,
 
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 though succinctly drawn up, illustrates the importance of the superb works of " 
 art collected by the Marquise. The total realized amounted to an enormous 
 sum. All the items are priced. 
 
 195 
 
 THE DUNCIAD AND RAPE OF THE LOCK 
 
 POPE (ALEXANDER). A Most Valuable and In- 
 teresting Series of 23 Holograph Letters (Signed) of 
 THIS EMINENT PoET, being the Original Correspondence 
 with his Pubhsher, Charles Bathurst and others. These 
 letters contain references to "The Dunciad," " Rape of the 
 Lock," " Homer," his " Miscellanies," and other Publica- 
 tions. Together with a letter from Bathurst to Pope, and 
 another from Thos. Edwards. 
 
 There are also Original Holograph Letters from Pope 
 to Slingsby Bethel, Chas. Brinsdon, Mr. Buckley, Thos. 
 Dancastle, W. Fortescue, Dr. Oliver, etc. Several are 
 UNPUBLISHED. Together with the Original Agreement, 
 signed by the Publisher John Knapton, assigning unto 
 Andrew Millar one moiety in the Works of Pope. 
 
 Inlaid to a ttniforni size, forming a handsome 4to volume 
 in red morocco. 
 
 A. I. s , ^ pages, 4to. Chiswick, Oct. 18 (1717). To Thos. Dancastle. 
 
 Entreating him to return the 14th book, which Dancastle has copied. 
 " But be pleas'd to keep by you the original, for fear of any accident. I have 
 just ended the 15th which must wayt a better opportunity and may perhaps 
 by that delay grow the more correct. If it travels too young, it may come 
 home again like most young Travellers, very unfinished and unentertain- 
 ing," etc. 
 
 Important. Referring to his "Iliad of Homer."
 
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 A. l. s., 2 pages, 8vo. Tzvick'nham, Feb. i2,th 1719/20, to John Hughes, 
 praising his Tragedy, and begging him to let some ladies of Pope's acquaint- 
 ance have a side box to witness it. 
 
 The Tragedy referred to is Hughes' "The Siege of Damascus." Hughes 
 died the night it was produced, 17th February, the day indeed before this 
 letter was written. 
 
 A. I.S., 2 pages, 8vo {June 1739), to Wm. Fortescue. 
 
 "... I had been called for home on occasion of ye Fire in my neigh- 
 bourhood." Details his movements. " I beg you to forward Mrs. Blunt's 
 business," etc. 
 
 Unpublished. 
 
 Mrs. Blount was the mother of Martha Blount, the great friend of the 
 Poet, to whom he dedicated many of his Poems. " Pope bequeathed to Miss 
 Blount ;^i,ooo, three score of his books, his household goods, chattels and 
 plate, the furniture of his grotto, the urns in his garden, and the residue after 
 all legacies were paid." 
 
 A. I. s., I page, 8vo. Endorsed " Delivered 3 Feby. 1740-1." To Bathurst. 
 
 Relative to the '-Miscellanies." "I send you some additional pieces yet 
 unprinted which might be inserted in ye two or three vols, of Miscellanies 
 instead of Dean Swift's, and those removed into my volume." Mentions also 
 Lintot and Knapton (publishers). 
 
 Unpublished. 
 
 A. I. s., \ page, Svo. June 15 (1741). To Bathurst. 
 
 Acknowledging a gift of minerals from Mr. Edwards and saying that he 
 (Pope) is staying with Lord Bathurst and will put the " Miscellanies " in order 
 as soon as he returns. 
 
 A. I. s., \ page, ^io. July 19M 1741. To Bathurst (his publisher). Relative 
 to the printing of his " Miscellanies." 
 
 " . . . . I wish you wd. resolve upon printing, in ye manner I mentioned, 
 ye Miscellanies: for I am now perfectly at leisure, wch. I shall not be a 
 month longer. I am sure it will turn out much to their advantage & as for 
 mine, I have no Terms to make with you, but only to serve you, in the little
 
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 improvement y' I shall make— By putting all ye Verses into ye last Vol (as ^ 
 was originally intended as you'l see by ye first Paragraph of Dr. Swifts and 
 my Preface)." 
 
 ^. /. s., \ page, 8vo. Twickenham, 29 Aug. (1741). To Bathurst. 
 
 "... I shall print some thing more of Scriblerus, & add to what is 
 already done. But it will be in Quarto, & ye New Part of ye Volume be above 
 two thirds of ye old. ... if ye have any mind to treat for ye Impression, I 
 will give you ye refusal. I have endeavord to serve you as to a Volume of all 
 Dr. Swift's Pieces, collected & more Selected than ye present : It wd. be for 
 His Honour . . ." 
 
 A. I. s., r page, 8vo. Tzvickenham, Oct. \Zth (1741). To Bathurst. 
 Advising the delivery of " The Books of Miscellanies, with my note 
 how to rectify several mistakes for ye future when you reprint." 
 
 A. I. s., I page, 8vo. Twickenham, Oct. 23 (174 1). To Bathurst. 
 Inviting him to dinner. 
 
 A. I. s., I page, 4to. Miv. 15 (1741). To Bathurst. 
 
 Mentions Knapton and Mr. Arbuthnot, who will not have his sermon 
 printed. 
 
 Unpublished. 
 
 A. I. s., I page, Svo. Arlington Street, Monday (1741). To Bathurst. 
 
 Bathurst is requested by Pope to send him a line as to what Corbett says 
 to him, " And if he persists in his design of pyrating, pray watch his motions 
 & I'll file a Bill. Twill be best of all if you can find of what Press he does it." 
 
 A. I. s., 1 page, 4to. 20 Nov. 1741. To the Rev. Charles Brinsdon. 
 
 "... I find my Lord B(olingbroke) is extremely alarmed at the last 
 account he had of your father. I wd. have come to see him this day, but must 
 be satisfied to hear he is so much better (as they tell me he is)," etc. 
 
 The Rev. Charles Brinsdon's father was Lord Bolingbroke's private 
 secretary. 
 
 Unpublished.
 
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 A. /. s. I page, 8vo. Wensday (1741) to Mr. Cole. 
 
 "I wd. be glad to know what you did, or wt past with Corbet? I believe 
 he will not proceed, having reed, since a Letter from him of Recantation, so 
 yt I believe you need not file a bill, however I'm glad you spoke to him — If he 
 plays cunning, I shall have him watched & inform you further . . ." 
 
 Cole was solicitor to the Stationers' Company, and this letter was written in 
 reference to a pirated edition of Pope's Letters which Corbet was going to have 
 printed. 
 
 A.l.s. I page, 4to. Aug. 4, 1742. To Mawhood. 
 
 Mentions Warburton. " I am assured by Council there is no Pretence for 
 his (Warburton) paying your attorney's bill. I therefore desire you to think 
 better of it, and pay it to the Bearer. ... If not I can only acquaint Mr. 
 W(arburton) to take any course he thinks proper." 
 
 Unpublished. 
 
 A.l.s. 1 page, ^to. Thursday, Sept. 2nd {i^ ^2). To Mawhood. 
 " If this should meet you in town I shall be glad to finish Mr. W's 
 (Warburton) commission this afternoon. . . ." 
 Unpublished. 
 
 A. I. s. I page, 4to. Twickenham, February 20th, to Mr. Buckley. 
 
 Regrets his inability to see him so soon as Thursday, as he is engaged 
 with company, and " planting some things wch will otherwise be too late for 
 ye season." He adds: "On my return to town I will meet you anywhere 
 . . . tho the affair the Dr. mentioned to you I think will keep you cool," etc. 
 
 Unpublished. 
 
 A.l.s. 1 page, 4to. March 18, to Mr. Slingsby Bethel. 
 
 "The bearer of this is my nephew, who has been long conversant in the 
 West Indies, and used those parts as Master and Supercargo. He thinks he 
 can acquaint you with some improvements that may be made in Sir William 
 Codrington's Estates," etc., etc. 
 
 A. l. s. I page, 4to. Sunday, to Wm. Fortescue. Arranging a meeting at 
 Chelsea. Mentions Mrs. Howard. 
 
 Unpublished. Mrs. Howard (afterwards Lady Suffolk) was George IPs 
 mistress. 
 
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 A. I. s. I page^ 4to. Sitnday nighi, to Dr. Oliver. Pope wishes he could 
 spend more time with his correspondent as his infirmities confine him too much. 
 Mentions Warburton who has been ill. 
 
 Unpublished. 
 
 Dr. Oliver was the leading practitioner of Bath. His success was mainly 
 due to the friendship of Pope, Warburton and the rest of the guests at Prior 
 Park. 
 
 A. I. s. (initials), i page, 4to. Sept. 20, to Richardson. Relative to his 
 portrait which Richardson had painted. 
 Unpublished. 
 
 A.l.s. 2^ pages, 4to. Twick'nham, Nov. 15, inquiring about Ralph Allen, 
 of Bath, about whom he has been unable to obtain any information except 
 that he was seriously ill, and detailing the remedies he has adopted for his 
 own complaints. 
 
 Unpublished. 
 
 Ralph Allen was the original of Fielding's " Squire Allworthy." 
 
 A. I. I page, 4to, n.d. To Arbuthnot. 
 
 "... if you would add anything I send it you open," etc. 
 
 Bathurst (Chas.). A. l. s. i page, 4to. To Pope. Asking if he (Bathurst) 
 is to allow Lintot's claim to the key to " The Rape of the Lock." 
 
 In reply to the letter from Bathurst, Pope has written (on the same sheet) : 
 " Mr. Lintot has had no Right to the Key to the Locke these many years, the 
 Term expir'd in ye year 29 or 30. But till then I presume Mr. Motte allowed 
 it. If not, you may set ag" it your Right to ye Small poems in ye end of 
 Mr. Lintot's third volume of my Works 8vo, to which your Right from 
 Mr. Motte yet continues." 
 
 Unpublished. 
 
 Edwards (Thos.) A.l.s. i page, ^to. iS/w/j;, 1741. To Pope. Relative 
 to some Minerals which were late in arriving. 
 
 Knapton (J.). Mimous Publisher. THE ORIGINAL AGREEMENT 
 SIGNED. \ page,{o\\o. 6 Jan. 1756. Assigning one moiety of the Works 
 of Pope unto Andrew Millar (the publisher) for ^425, 
 
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 196 
 PORTA (GIOVANNI BATTISTA DELLA). The 
 
 Founder of the Science of Physiognomy. THE ORIGINAL 
 HOLOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT of his— 
 " DE EA NATURALIS PHYSIOGNOMONIAE 
 PARTE, que ad manuum lineas spectat. Libri Duo." 
 
 Quite Complete. Covering 63 pages, 4to, veiy neatly 
 written, and containing 7iumerous drawings of hands, feet, 
 claws, etc., by Porta himself. Bou7id iii the original limp 
 vellum. 
 
 A MOST VALUABLE AND EXTREMELY IMPORTANT MANUSCRIPT. It is One 
 
 of the great writer's treatises on Physiognomy, doubtless written by him for 
 one of his noble patrons. 
 
 Giovanni Battista della Porta, the Founder of the Science of Physiognomy, 
 Natural Philosopher and Mathematician, was born at Naples in 1540. He 
 devoted the greater part of his life to the sciences, established academies for 
 their promotion, and was the inventor of the Camera Ohscnra. He wrote 
 treatises on Natural History, Optics, Hydraulics, Physiognomy, and Agri- 
 culture, and also thirty-seven dramatic pieces, which are so rare that Apostolo 
 Zeno expressed the wish that they should be collected together as a curious 
 monument of the old Italian Theatre. 
 
 The SOLE Manuscript of this famous scientist known to us. 
 
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 197 
 QUIN (JAMES), Actor. HOLOGRAPH LETTER 
 SIGNED. 2 pages, /\X.o. Bath, 2 June, 1763, to George 
 Townshend (afterwards 4th Viscount). 
 
 Quin writes that he has passed an evening with Mrs. Horatio Townshend 
 and Major Long who benefit by the waters. Asks him to accept his sincere
 
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 have now before you prospects which few are blessed with." 
 
 An excessively rare autograph. It is the only one that has occurred for 
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 198 
 
 RABELAIS. LES SONGES DROLATIQUES DE 
 PANTAGRUEL ou sont contenues plusieurs figures de 
 I'invention de Maistre Francois Rabelais, avec une intro- 
 tion et des remarques par M. E(dwin) T(ross). Plates. 
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 Printed upon vellum. 
 
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 Perron de la Sainte Chapelle. m.dc.lxxiii. Avec Privilege 
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 by Trautz-Bauzonnet. 
 
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 This is the edition originate of Racine's famous chef-d'oeuvre. " Cette Edition 
 originale contient quelques vers qu'on ne retrouve plus dans les suivantes. 
 La tragedie de Alithridate fut representee avec beaucoup de succes au com- 
 mencement de Janvier 1673, par la troupe de I'Hotel de Bourgogne. C'est 
 a cette epoque que Racine fut regu h I'Academie frangaise."— y^^Z?^ Le Petit. 
 
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 200 
 
 RAEBURN (SIR HENRY), R.A. HOLOGRAPH 
 LETTER, in the third person, i page, 4to ; 30 November 
 1801. 
 
 In reference to one of his pictures 
 
 Letters of this most famous Scots artist are of equal rarity to those of 
 Gainsborough and Romney. 
 
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 201 
 
 "RAPHAEL" (RAFFAELLO SANZIO). HOLO- 
 GRAPH RECEIPT, SIGNED, i page, folio; Rome, 
 I November, 15 14. 
 
 A matchless example of this immortal painter's autograph. 
 There is no autograph of Raphael in the British Museum and no other can 
 be traced as having occurred for sale in Great Britain. 
 
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 202 
 
 READE (CHARLES). THE ORIGINAL HOLO- 
 GRAPH MANUSCRIPT (SIGNED) of 
 
 A COMEDIETTA. 
 
 Written in French, quite complete. Covering 55 pages, 
 folio. Red ^norocco. 
 
 Reade has written upon the original cover : " A comedietta written in 
 
 FRENCH BY CHAS. READE, ROUGH DRAFT." UNPUBLISHED. 
 
 An important fact about this particular manuscript is that it is in french 
 — and it is fair to assume that it is probably the only manuscript written 
 BY Reade in that language. 
 
 ^105 
 203 
 
 RICHARDSON, "SIR CHARLES GRANDISON " 
 
 AND "CLARISSA" 
 
 RICHARDSON (SAMUEL), Novelist. HOLOGRAPH 
 LETTER SIGNED. \ pages, 4to, 13//^ Feby, 1750-51. 
 To Thomas Edwards, chiefly in reply, in characteristic 
 and highly appreciative terms, to certain criticisms by the 
 latter of " Sir Charles Grandison." 
 
 "... How kind are you to think of Harriet Byron ! But as the Metro- 
 politan says, you are good Mr. Edwards. I have taken her to task. There 
 is one Passage where, I think, she lay open to Censure. A pert Baggage ! . . . 
 I designed her to have a livelier turn than Clarissa. . . . But not to be in the 
 least wanting as to Purity of Manners. No vile Accommodation to the Times ! 
 She should not have my good Man, if she was in the least indelicate in her
 
 I 
 
 5, PALL MALL PLACE 199 
 
 Morals . . ." with the transcription of the aforesaid paragraph, the '■'' objktible 
 {sic) Passage" ruled out ^^ ivith pale red ink" (still faintly visible) and a 
 quotation of another passage to be scratched out, "... for fear of hinting at an 
 Extenuation for Unchastity in a Man." Again thanking his critic, Richardson 
 continues, ^^ I would in viy intendedly exemplary characters be even more pure 
 than Milton, since he in one Place, mentions the amorous Disport of the First 
 Pair." The latter half of the letter refers to various mutual friends, with a 
 request to "make my respectful compliments ... to the lovely Ladies who 
 have been affected by the Distresses of Clarissa." 
 
 A most remarkable letter replying to criticisms of Richardson's third novel, 
 "Sir Charles Grandison," published in 1753. 
 
 Thomas Edwards, an intimate friend of the author, was himself an author, 
 having written several sonnets (one of which is mentioned in the above letter) 
 and an " ironical supplement " to Warburton's edition of Shakespeare, under the 
 title of "Canons of Criticisms," 1747. Amongst a number of sonnets printed 
 at the end of that volume, are two addressed "To the Author of Clarissa" 
 and of " Sir Charles Grandison." 
 
 The finest Richardson letter known to us. 
 
 ^55 
 
 204 
 ROME. DE HISTORIA ROMANA LIBELLUS. 
 
 Fol. i^, Angelus, etc. Fol. 2^ {14th line). Sexti Rufi viri 
 consularis Valenti ano Augusto de historia Ro. libellus 
 Inciplt. Colophon : Sexti Rufi Consularis Valentiano 
 Augusto de Historia Ro. LibelP Finit. 4to. Old vdlurn. 
 
 [G. Sachsel and B. Golsch. Rome, 1474) 
 
 Examples of this early Roman press are of the greatest rarity. 
 
 These printers, who like most of the early ones in business at Rome were 
 Germans, had a brief and mysterious career. They issued only six books, two 
 of which are dated, one 7th June, the other 9th August, 1474. The type they 
 used is a very coarse Roman, and both the upper and lower case show a com- 
 bination of two different sized founts. It has a very strong resemblance to
 
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 the type used at a shortly previous date by J. P. de Lignamine, another Roman 
 printer. There is a copy of the book in the British Museum and the John 
 Rylands Library, but fione in the Bodleian. The present book, sometimes 
 known as the " Breviarium verum gestarum popuh Romani " is a short 
 summary of the growth of the Roman Empire from its foundation, up to the 
 time of the two brothers Valens and Valentinianus. 
 
 The present remarkably fine copy, having the very rare blank leaf, was 
 formerly in the collection of Michael Wodhull. 
 
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 205 
 ROME. RACCOLTA di Niim° 320 Vedute si antiche, che 
 moderne della Citta di Roma. Large 8vo. Contemporary 
 green morocco, with dentelle border. Rome (1750) 
 
 Printed upon Vellum. 
 
 There are 320 views printed in sets of four to a page, after A. Franzetti by 
 Torsanguigna. 
 
 Brunei could only record one example printed on vellum (probably the 
 present). 
 
 206 
 
 ROMNEY (GEORGE). HOLOGRAPH LETTER 
 SIGNED. 3 pages, 4to, March 13, 1794. To his son the 
 Rev. John Romney. 
 
 " I have painted four pictures that do me more credit than any I have 
 painted before, Milton, the Indian Woman, Ophelia from Hamlet as a com- 
 panion, and a picture of Susanne." 
 
 Romney's letters are almost as rare as Gainsborough's.
 
 5, PALL MALL PLACE 201 
 
 207 
 ROUSSEAU (JEAN -JACQUES). HOLOGRAPH 
 LETTER SIGNED. 3 pages, 410, to his publisher, 
 Duchesne; Motiers, 11 aout, 1765. 
 
 '^ Belle et interessante lettre relative a un de ses ouvrages. II lui retourne 
 les planches corrigees, et il compter rester a Metiers tout Thiver, afin d'etre a 
 portee de voir les epreuves. II desire avoir quelques bonnes epreuves de ses 
 portraits, on lui en demande de tous les cotes et il a ete force de reprendre a 
 Mile, le Vasseur celui qu'ii lui avait donne. On a imprime a Lyon une lettre 
 anonyme ou I'auteur, homme tres considere et tres digne de I'etre, rendait un 
 compte tres fidele des tracasseries que le clerge de ce pays lui a suscitees. 
 M. de Montmolin, ministre de ce village, a cru devoir faire imprimer, en 
 reponse, une dizaine de lettres tres dignes de lui dans lesquelles il debite 
 tant de mensonges et traite I'anonyme si brutalement qu'il I'oblige a continuer 
 sa relation et a se nommer. II publiera plusieurs pieces et entre autres une 
 longue lettre ou il rend compte de ce qui s'est passe entre M. de Montmolin 
 et lui depuis son arrivee dans ce pays. ' Je ne m'imagine pas que toutes ces 
 tracasseries interessent beaucouple public ou vous etes; cependant, comme on 
 aime assez a connaitre un peu en detail les manoeuvres des gens d'Eglise. 
 peut-etre que cette raison pourrait rendre ce nouvel ecrit interessant. D'autant 
 plus que ce ministre qui est un intrigant ne manquera pas de remplir la 
 France et les journaux de sa brochure.'" 
 
 Probably relative to Emile. 
 
 208 
 
 FOX AND THE DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE 
 
 ROWLANDSON (THOMAS). HISTORY OF THE 
 WESTMINSTER ELECTION, containing every Ma- 
 terial Occurrence, from Its Commencement on the First of 
 April to the Final Close of the Poll on the Seventeenth of 
 
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 May; to which is prefixed a Summer Account of the Pro 
 ceeclings of the Late ParHament, etc. Folding frontispiece ' 
 and numerous folding plates by Rowlandson. 4to. Morocco 
 extra, top edge gilt, uncut. 1784 
 
 A UNIQUE COPY, There are inserted — 
 
 1. Eight of the original Unpublished drawings by Thomas Row- 
 landson. 
 
 2. SIX HOLOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED of the celebrated Duchess 
 of Devonshire " who devoted her utmost efforts to secure the return of her 
 friend C J. Fox at the famous Westminster election of 1784." 
 
 The famous Gainsborough portrait of the Duchess is well known. 
 
 3. A Letter to her Grace the Duchess of Devonshire. 4to. Fielding and 
 Walker, i^TJ. 
 
 4. FOX (C. ].), candidate for the Westminster election of i']2>/[. HOLO- 
 GRAPH LETTER SIGNED, i page, 4to. 
 
 The Delightful Series of Letters from "the Beautiful Duchess" in 
 her Seventeenth Year (shortly after her marriage) are ex- 
 tremely interesting as the following extracts aptly demon- 
 strate: 
 
 {a) A. I. s. 2 pages, 4to, JiiTie 13, 1774, to her Sister Lady Harriet 
 Spencer. 
 
 " I am obliged to you for your note and ask you a thousand pardons my 
 Dearest Sister for my going without seeing you. . . , My brother and Lord 
 Clermont are at Putney. ... I was very sorry to part with him [her brother] 
 so soon. Grace is very much pleased with Cheswick, they have been walking 
 about all the evening. ... I wish you would begin a head in black chalk for 
 me and not forget practising my favourite Lesson and Rondeau on the 
 Harpsichord. 
 
 "Adieu my Dearest Sister 
 
 " Believe me ever sincerely yrs., 
 
 " G. Devonshire."
 
 5, PALL MALL PLACE 203 
 
 {b) A./.s. I page, 4to, June i$th, 1774. To the Same: a most affectionate 
 letter. 
 
 " I could not let Dennis go to Wimbledon without writing a word to you 
 my Dearest Sister as I know you are good enough to me to be happy at hearing 
 de mes nouvelles, and believe me that the Love and Friendship that you show 
 for me is returned with the greatest sincerity by me that I feel the greatest 
 happiness in the thoughts of being beloved by ma chere soeur and living with 
 her in the truest friendship. 
 
 " Adieu ma chere soeur croyez moi avec beaucoup de sincerite votre aff. 
 
 " G. Devonshire." 
 
 {c) A. /., 3 pages, 4to {in French) to the Same: a charming letter, re- 
 iterating her sentiments of affection towards her sister, stating that she 
 had got up at seven o'clock to write to her, suggesting mutual help and 
 encouragement in their joint studies, etc. 
 "... Nous avons icy aussi des fracas pour les Elections, My lord Frederick 
 
 qui doit etre elu pour Derby y donne un bal Samedi ou je dois aller — Je n'ai 
 
 jamais vue les Demoiselles Lewis sont elle amiable si elle sont cela doit vous 
 
 faire une agreable societe a Althorp " — etc. 
 
 (d) A. /. {iti French). 3/a^^x, 4to., Hardwick, Oct. i6th, 1774, to the Same: 
 a delightful letter giving a charming view of the world as seen by a young 
 Duchess, and anticipating her future interest in elections. 
 
 " C'est avec bien de plaisir ma chere soeur que je reponds a votre charmant 
 lettre elle ma fait un plaisir que je ne scaurais exprimer et soyez persuadez 
 mon aimable Ami que bien loin de m'ennuier. Vos lettres doivent me charmer 
 puisqu'elles me vienent de vous et quel sont de nouvelles marque de votre 
 tendresse — Assurement La Personne a qui la Duchesse de Masarin [car s'etoit 
 elle] mettoit un croix pour exprimer — Je vous aime devoit en reponse avoir 
 quelque figure qui vouloit dire Et moi je vous aime autant quel que ce fut, je 
 devrai m'en servire en vous ecrivant . . . Je suis Enchante du petit triomphe 
 de Maman et je suis charme que I'Election c'est si bien termini. Je crois ma 
 chere Soeur que vous avez eu beaucoup de plaisir en voyant les fracas d'une 
 Election comme cela devois vous paroitre tout a fait nouveau — Je mamuse 
 beaucoup icy — jai du temp pour la Lecture mais malheureusement nous
 
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 n'avons que fort peu de Livres— Je me promene plus que je ni faisait a Chats- 
 worth et je suis toute a fait suprise de trouver que mes jambe peuvent me 
 porter aussi loin qu'elle font. Je monte beaucoup a cheval . . J'ai commencer 
 un dessin de la vielle maison . . . Voici ma chere soeur les occupation de ma 
 Vie Champetre, Le Whist et la Conversation remplissent le rest," etc. 
 
 ,^ 
 
 (e) A. L s., ' G. Devonshire ' {iti Fretich). 2 pages, 4to. Chatsworih: another 
 
 very charming letter to the Same, full of sisterly affection. 
 
 " Mille et Mille remerciments ma chere Soeur pour votre charmante lettre 
 — soyez assure que votre Georgini aime son Henriette autant quil est possible 
 . . . Nous sommes Amies et doublement liee par le sang et par I'Amitie — nous 
 somme eloignee I'une de I'autre, faisons bonne usage d'une si triste necessite. 
 Ecrivons nous nos projects pour nos etudes, etc., et faisons part lune a I'autre 
 des avancement que nous faisons dans la lecture le Dessein la musique "—etc. 
 
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 209 
 
 RUBENS (PIETRO PAUOLO). HOLOGRAPH 
 LETTER (in Italian), SIGNED. -^ pages, io\\o. Madrid, 
 22 April, 1629. 
 
 A superb letter. 
 
 Rubens writes that he has received his correspondent's letter of the 5th 
 February, under cover to the Ambassador of Flanders, wonders where it has 
 been detained so long. Rejoices to hear that he and his brother are in good 
 health; also that M. Preise is well and remembers him; he sent the latter his 
 portrait before leaving Flanders, hopes it arrived safely. Fears the bad season 
 will prevent him from going to visit him in Provence, may be obliged to go 
 elsewhere, but may pass through Paris first. Thanks him for the fine heroic 
 inscription devictis Rusellanis, the author should compose another showing 
 that external victory is more glorious than that which is intestine. Caesar's 
 veni vidi vici might apply to his most Christian majesty. The articles of the 
 treaty are infamous to Spain, the Ministers could hardly threaten war in more 
 insulting terms than they treat of peace. The Duke of Saxony always seems
 
 
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 to be valiant against Spain, but succumbs easily to the arms of France. Has 
 heard of the capture of the fleet from new Spain, due to good fortune rather 
 than courage, the victors are ashamed not to have taken a single prisoner. It 
 is reported that the general and officers are to be sent, under arrest, from 
 Seville for trial. The fleet was very rich for it brought the extraordinary grant 
 from Peru, as well as the usual treasure. The caravel and galleon from Goa, 
 which it was feared had also fallen into the hands of the Dutch, have arrived 
 safely, which is some consolation. Sends remembrances to the Abbot of St. 
 Ambrose, and M. de la Motte. 
 
 (Signed) " Pietro Pauolo Rubens." 
 
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 210 
 
 RUBENS (PIETRO PAUOLO). HOLOGRAPH 
 LETTER (in Italian), SIGNED. 2pages,{oX\o. Addressed 
 to Monsieur de Puy at the house of Councillor de Thou in 
 Paris. Antwerp, 17 Septe77iber, 1626. 
 
 In the course of this letter Rubens remarks that Monsieur Valavez must, 
 by now, have left Paris; he is grieved to lose the best correspondent in the 
 world. Does not wish to put M. de Puy to the trouble of writing, but will be 
 grateful for occasional copies of the best public news sheets. Regrets that he 
 cannot do the same but no news is published there, except reports by char- 
 latans, unworthy of a gentleman's notice. Has nothing to relate, having 
 written at length in his last letter to M. Valavez concerning the attempt of 
 the Dutch upon Kildrecht, and the defeat of the King of Denmark by Tilly. 
 The Dominican Michael Ophovio who was in prison at Heusden and the 
 Hague, and in peril of his life for having tried to persuade Van Kessel, 
 Governor of Heusden, to some treason, was consecrated bishop of " Boldveq" 
 on the 1 3th September and has thus happily exchanged the halter for the mitre. 
 
 (Signed) " Pietro Pauolo Rubens." 
 
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 RUSKIN. THE STONES OF VENICE. The Founda- 
 tions. By John Ruskin, Author of "The Seven Lamps of 
 Architecture," "Modern Painters," etc., etc. With Ilhistra- 
 tio7is drawn by the Author. Super royal 8vo. 3 vols. 
 Original cloth, uncut. 
 
 Lo7idon: Smith, Elder, and Co., 65 Cornhill. 1851 
 
 First Edition. 
 
 The presentation copy from the Author to the Sage of Chelsea — 
 Thomas Carlyle — with Ruskin's autograph presentation inscription 
 ON the half-title. 
 
 When one remembers that both the giver and the recipient of these 
 volumes were great writers, both imbued with such high ideals and both work- 
 ing indefatigably for the attainment of those ideals, a more interesting copy of 
 this famous work could not be conceived. 
 
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 SAINT-LAMBERT. LES SAISONS, POEME. 8vo. 
 Flenron on title, 4 vignettes by Choffard, and 5 plates by 
 Moreau, engraved by Delaunay, Duclos, Prevost and Simonet. 
 — Contes, Poesies fugitives et Fables Orientales. 2 plates 
 by Moreau. Green morocco extra. ATnsterdam, 1775 
 
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 French illustrated books of this period. A superb and Unique Copy, the 
 plates by Moreau being in Two States, with the letters, and Proofs Before
 
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 pressions and Proofs " tirees a part." 
 
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 SAND (GEORGES). THE ORIGINAL HOLO- 
 GRAPH MANUSCRIPT (SIGNED) of her 
 
 " La Reverie A Paris." 
 
 Quite Complete. Covering 39 pages. 8vo. Together 
 with a Holograph Letter to Louis Ulbach, to whom the cele- 
 brated Authoress presented this fine Manuscript. In this 
 letter she states that the Manuscript {sent to Ulbach with this 
 letter) is a retrospective impression. 
 
 Manuscripts of Georges Sand are most rare. 
 
 " Georges Sand " — Armandine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin, baroness Dudevan 
 — was contemporary with Dumas pere et fils^ and with the poet Alfred de 
 Musset. 
 
 214 
 
 SCHUBERT (FRANZ). HOLOGRAPH LETTER 
 (SIGNED). I page, ^oWo. Vienna, 1816 
 
 This superb letter was one of Herr Meyer-Cohn's most treasured 
 Possessions. Schubert's letters are of the greatest rarity. 
 
 " Eingabe, auf Stempelpapier, an die ' Hochlobl. K.K. Stadthauptmann- 
 schaft.' Er bittet unterthanigst ihm die erledigte Musik-Direktor-Stelle zu 
 Laibach in Gnaden zu verleihen. Nach Mitteilung iiber seinen musikalischen 
 Lehrgang, seine Kenntnisse der Komposition etc. ' Gelobt er, die bestmogliche 
 Verwendung seiner Fahigkeiten, um einer gnadigen Bittgewahr vollkommen
 
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 derzeit Schuleghiilfe der Schule seines Vaters zu Wien am Himmelpfortgrunde 
 No. lo." — Meyer- Cohft Catalogue. 
 
 ^200 
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 215 
 SCOTLAND.— PAPERS RELATIVE TO THE RE- 
 GALIA OF SCOTLAND. (Including a True Account 
 of the Preservation of the Regaha of Scotland by Sir 
 George Ogilvie of Barras, Bart., Edinburgh 1701.) Edited 
 and presented to the Bannatyne Club by William Bell. 
 Folding plates and facsimiles. 4to. In the original half 
 morocco uncut. Edinburgh, Privately prijited, 1829 
 
 Printed upon vellum. One of but three copies so printed. 
 The present was David Laing's copy. 
 
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 SCOTT (SIR WALTER). —LOCKHART (J. G.) 
 
 ANCIENT SPANISH BALLADS Historical and 
 
 Romantic. 
 
 4to. Engraved title after the author [J. G. Lockhart) 
 
 by W. H. Lizars. Original boaj^ds, uncut. 
 
 William Blackwood, Edinburgh, and T. Cadell, London. 
 
 1823 
 First Edition. 
 The presentation copy from Sir Walter Scott to the Marchioness
 
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 OF Abercorn, with his signed autograph inscription on the fly-leaf as 
 follows : 
 
 " For the most noble Marchioness of Abercorn, from her grateful and 
 attached friend Walter Scott. The frontispiece drawn by the Author." 
 
 This, the First Edition, contains many Poems afterwards omitted. 
 Scott was the fatherin-law of J. G. Lockhart. 
 
 The volume was formerly in the library of Lord Napier, and has his book- 
 plate. 
 
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 SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS). OPERA. Folio I^ 
 Incipit Lucii Annei Senecae cordiibensis liber de moribus 
 in quo notabiliter & eleganter vitae mores enarrat. Folio 
 2^ (fifth line), Incipit liber Lucii Annei Senecae de formula 
 honestae vitae: vel de quattuor virtutibus cardinalibus. 
 Folio. Brown morocco. 
 
 Colophoji: Impressum Tarvisij per Bernardum de 
 Colonia Anno domini m.cccc.lxxviij. 
 
 / Treviso, Bernardus de Colonia, 1478 
 
 An Incunabula of the highest interest and rarity. 
 
 The printer of this edition of Seneca, Bernardus de Colonia, is only knozvn 
 to have printed three books: " Majus, de priscorum proprietate verborum " in 
 1477; the present book in 1478, and the " Dissensio inter Papam et Floren- 
 tinos " without date. Unlike most of the printers who worked at Treviso he 
 made use of a small and neat gothic type of rather peculiar form, which is 
 particularly noticeable as containing the diphthongs, and this type was fre- 
 quently copied, especially by the printers at Basle and Nuremberg. 
 
 This copy, which contains the excessively rare blank leaf, found a home 
 in France from a very early period, and belonged to some religious order at 
 Sens in Champagne, as may be seen from the partly defaced inscription at the 
 foot of the first page. There are two other inscriptions in French below the 
 
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 colophon, the first stating that the book was given by Jehan beuf (?), bachelor 
 in theology, to a brother of the order Celestines at Sens. On the title is a note 
 and autograph of Jacques Rousseau, dated 15th September 1661. Rousseau, 
 who was born in Paris in 1626, became a pupil of the famous artist, Herman 
 van Swanevelt. Later he studied in Rome and returned to Paris. Owing to 
 the edict of Nantes he fled to Holland and thence to London where he was 
 employed to decorate Montague House, afterwards the British Museum, and 
 part of Hampton Court. He died in London in 1694. 
 
 The first possessor of this remarkable copy of Seneca was evidently a 
 scholar of some repute, for he has written in (in a contemporary hand) the 
 headlines: De Remediis fortuito2|Z Primus declamationum; De Beneficiis; 
 De Ira, etc. 
 
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 A UNIQUE SECOND FOLIO 
 
 SHAKESPEARE. MR. WILLIAM SHAKE- 
 SPEARE'S COMEDIES, HISTORIES, AND 
 TRAGEDIES. Published according to the true Originall 
 Copies. The second Impression. Portrait by Martin 
 Droeshout. 
 
 Londo7i, Printed by Tho. Cotes, for Robert Allot, and are 
 to be sold at the signe of the Blacke Beare in Paiils Church- 
 yard. 1632. [^Colophon at end.^ Printed at London by 
 Thomas Cotes, for John Smethwick, William Asp ley, Richard 
 Hawkins, Richard Meighen, Robert Allot, 1632 
 
 The Second Folio. A remarkably fine and entirely unwashed copy 
 bound in red morocco. 
 
 The present folio is corrected and augmented throughout, and presents 
 certain differences in the setting up and printing from the ordinary copies 
 as described by Mr. Pollard.
 
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 Differences from Mr. Pollard's Collation. 
 
 Head Title (leaf x) " to their first Originall " is here printed on a fresh 
 Hne. 
 
 Misprints. Signature bb instead of cc. 
 Pagination. \i is unnumbered. 
 P. 88 (in the repeats) printed correctly. 
 P. 164 printed correctly. 
 
 Manuscript Corrections and Augmentations. 
 
 First pagination. 
 
 Page 2, Col. I. " And (thou) his onely heire" — "Thou " written in. 
 "To thinke oth' teene " — " teene " altered to " tune." 
 " Though all the signories " altered to " Through all," etc. 
 Page 3, Col. 2. " Yea, his dead Trident shake " altered to " his dread," etc. 
 " Some tricks of desperation " — the first e in desperation 
 has been added in ink. 
 Page 4, Col. I. "Which is't thou canst demand?" — " hich " of " which " 
 
 scored out. 
 "Save for the sinne that he did littour " altered to "Save 
 for the Sonne that she did littour." 
 Page 8, Col. i. "Which th-owes thee much to yeeld" altered to "which 
 
 sh-owes thee much to yeeld." 
 Col. 2. "The Man i'th Moone's too slow" enclosed in brackets. 
 " (And by that destiny) " — second bracket added. 
 Page 9, Col. 2. " had but his fish painted " altered to " this fish," etc. 
 Page 10, Col. 2. " Cal(iban) " altered to "Ste(phanie)." 
 
 " Delight in them set off" altered to "sets off." 
 Page 1 1, Col. 2. "Thy eyes are almost set in thy heart " altered to "thy 
 
 head." 
 Page 13, Col. I. Alteration to "vigilance." 
 
 Page 15, Col. 2. " beyond yon cell " altered to " beyond yor cell." 
 Page 16, Col. 2. Alteration to "I will have none on't." 
 Page 17, Col. 2. "My Dukedome of thre" altered to "thee."
 
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 Page 27, Col. 2. "lent me wit to plot his drift " altered to " this drift." 
 
 Page 31, Col. 2. " then I prove loyall " — L written in. 
 
 Page 38, Col. 2. " we will include all jarres " — i in include written in. 
 
 Second pagination . 
 
 Page 6, Col. 2. " And if yon " altered to " and of yon." 
 
 " io^a«." altered to " CzV." 
 Page 206, Col. I. "Must fetch him in; he (?) Papers" altered to "his 
 
 Papers." 
 Page 207, Col. I. "To heare this of him; and could wish you were" — 
 
 " you " corrected. 
 Page 209 (120), 
 
 Col. I. "For this to ruminate on this so farre" — the first "this" 
 
 scored out. 
 Page 216, Col. I. "Continue in my Liking; nay, gave notice" altered to 
 
 " gave not notice." 
 Page 228, Col. I. "To make your house our Towre: you a brother of us" 
 
 altered to " were you a brother of us." 
 
 Third pagination. 
 
 Page 7, Col. I. "If that he praise himself, bring the praise forth " altered 
 
 to " If he praise himselfe, that brings the praise forth." 
 Page 8, Col. i. "Our imputation shall be oddely poized" altered to "Our 
 
 reputation." 
 Page 13, Col. 2. "Hel(ena)" written in. 
 
 " Par(is) " scored through. 
 Page 16, Col. I. "That through the fight I beare in things to love" — "in" 
 
 and " to " transposed. 
 Page 17, Col. 2. "That all the Greekes," etc. — " Greekes " corrected. 
 Page 20, Col. 2. "Injurious time, which now with a robbers haste" — 
 
 " which " written in. 
 Page 21, Col. I. "He cut thy thy throate" — the second "thy" scored 
 
 through. 
 Page 24, Col. 2. "Cressida come(s) forth to him" — s written in.
 
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 Page 26, Col. 2. " For we would count give much to violent thefts " altered 
 
 to " As to give much by violent thefts." 
 
 These corrections are in a Stuart handwriting — they appear to be entirely 
 original and unpublished. 
 
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 SHAKESPEARE. MR. WILLIAM SHAKE- 
 SPEARE'S COMEDIES, HISTORIES AND 
 TRAGEDIES. Published according to the true Original 
 copies. Unto which is added seven Plays, never before 
 printed in folio: viz., Pericles Prince of Tyre. The London 
 Prodigal. The History of Thomas Lord Cromwell. Sir 
 John Oldcastle Lord Cobham. The Puritan Widow. A 
 Yorkshire Tragedy. The Tragedy of Locrine. The 
 Fourth Edition. Portrait by Martin Droeskout, with the 
 verses by Ben Jonson beneath. Folio. Red morocco, gilt 
 edges, by Clarke and Bedford. 
 
 London, Printed for H. Herringman, E. Brewster, and 
 R. Bent ley, at the Anchor in the New Exchange, the Crane 
 in St. Paul's Church-yard, and in Russell-Street, Covent 
 Garden. 1685 
 
 A beautiful unwashed copy bound by Clarke and Bedford (about the year 
 1840) for W. T. B. Ashley. Its size is most unusual, being 143?^- inches in 
 height and 9 inches wide. 
 
 The present copy is unique inasmuch that before the leaf of Dedication " To 
 the most Noble and Incomparable pair of Brethren William Earl of Pembroke 
 and Philip Earl of Montgomery " there are inserted original letters 
 OF both of these extremely famous men. 
 
 The letter of the elder brother (the Earl of Pembroke) is entirely holo- 
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 coronation of Charles I. It is addressed to his uncle, the Earl of Leicester, 
 and signed " Yo"" Lo"' most affectionate nephew and servant Pembroke." 
 
 The letter of the younger brother (the Earl of Montgomery) was written 
 during the Civil War to Colonel John More (the Regicide). It is dated from 
 Whitehall 5th August 1647, ^"d signed "yo"'. most affectionate and assured 
 ffriend Pembroke and Mont^." (he had become Earl of Pembroke on the 
 death of his elder brother in 1630). 
 
 William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, not only has the enduring honour of 
 the dedication of the Shakespeare " Folios " but was also (according to Shake- 
 speare's biographers) the famous " Mr. W. H." to whom the Poet dedicated 
 so many of his "Sonnets." The autographs of both brothers are of extra- 
 ordinary rarity. 
 
 This is without doubt the most desirable copy of the famous 
 " Fourth Folio " in existence. 
 
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 SHAKESPEARE. THE WORKS OF MR. WILLIAM 
 SHAKESPEAR: in Six Volumes. Adorn'd with Cuts. 
 Revis'd and Corrected, with an Account of the Life and 
 Writings of the Author. By N. Rowe, Esq. Frontispiece 
 containing a portrait of Shakespeare to each volume and 
 plate to each play by Van der Gucht. 6 vols. 8vo. Original 
 panelled calf. 
 
 Printed for Jacob Tonson, zvithin Grays- Inn Gate, 
 
 next Grays-Inn Lane, i 709 
 
 Volume the Seventh. Containing Venus & Adonis. 
 Tarquin & Lucrece. And His Miscellany Poems. With 
 Critical Remarks on his Plays, etc. to which is Prefix'd an 
 Essay on the Art, Rise and Progress of the Stage in
 
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 Greece, Rome and England. Fi^07itispiece representing 
 Venus regaj'dmg the wojinded Adonis. 8vo. Original 
 panelled calf, nniforni with the Plays. 
 
 Printed for E. Cnrll at the Dial and Bible against St. 
 Dimstans Churchy and E. Sanger at the Post- House at the 
 
 Middle- Temple Gate. 1710 
 
 Together 7 vols. 1709, 17 10 
 
 The First Complete Edition of Shakesp?:are's Plays and Poems. 
 
 This precious edition also contains the First Life of Shakespeare as 
 well as the first criticism of his works. 
 
 It is, too, the First Illustrated Edition. These illustrations are of 
 the very greatest importance as they are the very earliest existing records of 
 the manner in which the plays were mounted, and of the costumes worn by 
 the early Shakespearean actors. 
 
 Absolutely perfect copies, of the seven volumes (with all the plates) such 
 as the above, are of the greatest rarity. 
 
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 SHAKESPEARE'S DRAMATIC WORKS; with ex- 
 planatory notes to which is now added, a copious Index 
 by the Rev. Samuel Ayscough. Portrait, engraved by 
 W. Slier win. Thick 8 vo. Original calf . London: 1790 
 
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 on the inside of the front cover. The volume also contains his book-plate. 
 
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 SHAKESPEARE.-HANMER (SIR THOS.). The 
 Original Holograph Manuscript of his 
 "GLOSSARY EXPLAINING THE OBSOLETE 
 AND DIFFICULT WORDS IN THE PLAYS OF 
 
 SHAKESPEAR." 
 Quite complete, /[^^pages. Royal 4to. Old green morocco. 
 
 A fine and boldly written Manuscript, with numerous emendations and 
 additions also in Hanmer's autograph. The manuscript appears to be unpub- 
 lished. 
 
 Sir Thomas Hanmer's edition of Shakespeare, which appeared in 1743-4, 
 was the first "which," says Dibdin, "appeared in any splendid typographical 
 form." 
 
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 SHAKESPEARE.— A GODLY EXHORTATION, by 
 occasion of the late iudgement of God, shewed at Parris- 
 garden, the thirteenth of Januarie: where were assembled 
 by estimation; aboue a thousand persons, whereof some 
 were slaine; & of that number, at the least, as is crediblie 
 reported, the thirde person maimed and hurt ... By John 
 Field . . . At London: Printed by Robert Walde-graue . . . 
 and Hefiry Ca7're . . . [At end:) January . i 7 . 1583 . /, /\ 
 Small 8vo. P rutted mostly in black letter. Morocco extra. 
 
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 13th January 1583, which was a Sunday, the gallery collapsed while crowded 
 ^v^th spectators of the baiting of a bear. 
 
 "This is a tract of the highest degree of rarity; the only copy I have 
 heard of as being in any public library is that in the University Library of 
 Cambridge. The British Museum has, I find, a copy, but it must have been 
 bought in late years." — The Halliwell-Philllips' Shakespearean Rarities, 
 1891. 
 
 224 
 SHELLEY (MARY W.). The second Wife of the Poet. An 
 EXTREMELY IMPORTANT Series of 5 HOLOGRAPH LET- 
 TERS, addressed to Leigh Hunt and his Wife. They 
 are intimate letters, and are all relative to Shelley 
 
 BEFORE and AFTER HIS TRAGIC DEATH. ThEY ALSO RELATE 
 
 TO HIS Poems and to his Will. 
 
 HOLOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED "MARY \V. SHELLEY." \ page, 
 4to. Bath, January 13, 181 7. To Mrs. Leigh Hunt. Respecting the 
 Poet. 
 "I am going to trouble you with a very impertinent commission, but Mr. 
 Shelley's thoughtlessness must be my excuse. Will you be so kind as to ask 
 him for his dirty linen and send it to the wash for him. . . . Will you also 
 tell me how Mr. Shelley continues under the reaction of this hateful busi- 
 ness. ..." 
 
 HOLOGRAPH LETTER. 4 pages, \\.o, unfinished. Leghorn, Aug. 28, 
 18 1 9. To Mrs. Leigh Hunt. Referring to their life in Italy and to the 
 Poet's work and health, etc. 
 
 " We are very dull at Leghorn and I can therefore write nothing to amuse 
 you. We live in a little country house at the end of a green lane surrounded 
 by a.podere; these podere are just the things Hunt would like — they are like 
 our kitchen gardens with the difference only that the beautiful fertility of this 
 country gives them — a large bed of cabages \sic\ is very unpicturesque in 
 
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 England — but here the furrows are alternated with rows of grapes festooned 
 on their supporters — it is filled with olive, fig and peach trees and the hedges 
 are of myrtle which have just ceased to flower — their flower has the sweetest 
 faint smell in the world like some delicious spice — green grapy walks lead you 
 through the vines — the people are always busy — and it [is] pleasant to see 
 three or four of them transform in one day a bed of indian corn to one of 
 celery — they work this hot weather in their shirts or smock frocks (but their 
 breasts are bare) their brown legs nearly the colour only with a rich tinge of 
 red in it with the earth they turn up — They sing not very melodiously but 
 very loud — Rossini's music — ' Mi revedrai mi ti revedro " and they are accom- 
 panied by the a'ca/a a kind of little beetle that makes a noise with its tail as 
 loud as Johnny can sing — they live on trees and three or four together are 
 enough to deafen you — it is to the a'ca/a that Anacreon has addressed an ode 
 which they call to a grasshopper in the English translations. 
 
 " Well here we live — I never am in good spirits — often in very bad — and 
 Hunt's portrait has already seen me shed so many tears that if it had his heart 
 as well as his eyes he would weep too to [i"/<f] in pity — but no more of this or 
 a tear will come now, and there is no use for that. 
 
 " By the bye a Hint Hunt gave about portraits — the Italian painters are 
 very bad — they might make a nose like Shelley's & perhaps a mouth, but I 
 doubt it; but there would be no expression [in] it. — They have no notion of 
 anything except copying again and again their old masters — and somehow 
 mere copying however divine the original does a great deal more harm than 
 good. 
 
 " Shelley has written a good deal and I have done very little since I 
 have been in Italy— I have had so much to see — and so many vexations — 
 independant of those which God has kindly sent to wean me from the world 
 if I were too fond of it — S.[helley] has not had good health by any 
 
 MEANS— AND WHEN GETTING BETTER FATE HAS EVER CONTRIVED SOMETHING 
 TO PULL HIM BACK — HE NEVER WAS BETTER THAN THE LAST MONTH OF HIS 
 
 STAY IN Rome except the last week — then he watched 6o miserable 
 DEATHLIKE HOURS WITHOUT CLOSING HIS EYES & you may think what good 
 that did him. 
 
 " We see the Examiners regularly now four together just two months after 
 the publication of the last — these are very delightful to us. I have a word to 
 say to Hunt of what he says concerning Italian dancing — the Italians dance
 
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 very badly — they dress for their dances in the ughest manner — the men in 
 Httle doublets with a hat and feathers — they are very stiff — nothing but their 
 legs move — & they twirl and jump with as ill grace as may be — it is not for 
 their dancing but their pantomime that the Italians are famous. You remem- 
 ber what we told you of the ballet of Othello — they tell a story by action so 
 that words appear perfectly superfluous things for them — In that they are 
 graceful agile impressive & very affecting so that I delight in nothing so much 
 as a deep tragic ballet — but the dancing — unless as they sometimes do — they 
 dance as common people — for instance the dance of joy of the Venetian 
 citizens on the return of Othello — is very bad indeed. 
 
 " I am much obliged to you for all your kind offers and wishes — Hunt 
 WOULD DO Shelley a great deal of good — but that we may not think of — 
 His spirits are tolerably good — But you do not tell me how you get on — How 
 Bessy is & where she is — Remember me to her — Clare is learning thorough 
 base and singing— we pay 4 crowns a month for her master — he comes 3 times 
 a week cheap work this — is it not — at Rome we pay 3 shillings a lesson & the 
 master stayed two hours. — The one we have now is the best in Leghorn — I 
 write in the morning— read latin till two when we dine — then I read some 
 English book and two cantos of Dante with Shelley — In the evening our 
 friends the Gisbornes come so we are not perfectly alone — I like Mrs Gis- 
 borne very much indeed but her husband is most dreadfully dull and as he is 
 always with her we have not so much pleasure in her company as we other- 
 wise should — Her son is the pattern of good boys — I'hornton & Johnny 
 should take pattern by him — he is only thirty years of age and always does as 
 he is bid — this is no exaggeration although that age, he is under as complete 
 a subordination as few boys of twelve are — this however is all to his praise 
 for he is very clever." 
 
 HOLOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED in full " Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley." 
 3 pages, 4to. Dated "5, Bartholomew Place, Kentish Town, 30 October, 
 1826." To Leigh Hunt, mainly referring to Shelley's intended legacy 
 
 TO THE latter. 
 
 " Am I guilty of any want of tact in addressing these few lines to you at 
 the present moment? I trust not — or if I am mistaken in my hope, yet I en- 
 treat you to set down my undelay to the account over seal [zeal] ; and a wish, 
 in part the birth of circumstance, to relieve your mind from a part of that
 
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 care which I know is now oppressing it. I shall be too happy if you permit 
 any act of mine to have that effect. I told you long ago that our beloved 
 LOST Shelley, intended on rewriting his will to have left you a legacy; I 
 think the sum he mentioned was ^2,000. I trust that hereafter you will not 
 refuse to consider me your debtor for that sum, merely because I shall be 
 bound to pay you by the laws of honour, instead of a legal obligation. 
 
 "You would of course be better pleased to have received it immediately 
 from DEAR Shelley's bequest, but as it is well known that he intended to 
 make such an one, it is in fact the same thing, and so I hope by you to be 
 considered. Besides your kind heart will receive pleasure from the knowledge 
 that you are bestowing on me the greatest pleasure I am capable of 
 receiving. 
 
 "This is no resolution of to-day's; but found from the moment that I 
 knew my situation to be such as it is, I didn't mention it, because it seemed 
 almost like an empty boast to talk and resolve on things so far off. But 
 futurity approaches; and a feeling haunts me as if this futurity was not very 
 distant. I have spoken vaguely on the subject to you before, but now, your 
 having had a recent disappointment, I have thought it as well to explain in 
 exact terms the meaning I attached to my expression. 
 
 " I have as yet made no will, but if in the meantime I should chance to 
 die, this paper may serve as a legal document to prove that I give and /^e- 
 queath to you, dear Leigh Hunt, the sum of two thousand pounds sterling. 
 
 " But I hope we shall both live — I to accomplish our Shelley's inten- 
 tions; you to honour me as far as to permit me to be their executor. 
 
 "I have mentioned this subject to none; and do not intend; an act is 
 not aided by words especially an act unfulfilled, nor do I see that this letter 
 requires an answer — at least not till after the death of Sir Timothy Shelley; 
 — when perhaps this explanation would have come with a better grace; but I 
 trust to your kindness to put my writing now to a good motive." 
 
 HOLOGRAPH LETTER. 3 pages, 4to {signature cut away). Dresden, 
 17 August (1842). To Leigh Hunt. 
 
 " I can only say if Lord Leigh will join us it will go hard with Percy and 
 me but that we will contribute to so dear and memorable a work you may 
 count on ^lo for the Xmas quarter. I wish that I heard of other success and
 
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 prosperity for you. I saw advertized, that your poem was reprinted in Galig- 
 nani's weekly journal to which he transfers what he considers most worthy of 
 our literature. When I get to Florence I shall try to read this and read your 
 poem. 
 
 " We have made a long journey since I wrote. We found here Pearson who 
 has set several of Shelley's Poems most beautifully to music (Novello pub- 
 lished them) and has a great musical genius. He is very German in his Music 
 — but there is much beautiful melody in some of these songs, in the Arethusa 
 for instance and in the Spirit of Night — but they are very difficult to play. He 
 is now writing an opera which he hopes to have brought [out] at Vienna. Mean- 
 while he talks of accompanying us to Florence — towards which we shall make 
 progress (it is a long way off) in about lo days. The Elbe has no water for 
 steamers— or we had hoped for a beautiful voyage to Prague. The drought in 
 this part of the world is become disastrous. Every (thing) is dried up — the 
 heat is oppressive beyond description. It is impossible to go to galleries or 
 sights. Doing so the other night in some small degree I was knocked up and 
 quite ill. No rain, no clouds, each day the sun makes its progress through the 
 sky scorching & stewing, a thunderstorm never intervenes to check or change 
 t he heat — water is sold about the town and the people are forbidden to wash 
 their houses not to use the water a superfluity of caution I should imagine for 
 the Germans are not given to much washing and there is still water in the Elbe 
 though it may be walked across. We regret not being among mountains, but 
 after spending last year in a Welch valley, rained on the whole time it did not 
 occur to us that we should be in danger of being broiled alive in Dresden in 
 the month of August. We visited (helped by the Railroad) Berlin on our way 
 hither. The gallery there is a very good one admirably arranged. All things 
 in Prussia you know are so arranged as to half convert a republican — all is 
 done by the king in the best way. There is free ingress to the Gallery to every 
 one. Among all the pictures none delighted me so much as the adoration of 
 the kings by Raphael. A large picture in his first style. The colors all faded 
 yet what is left, the expression of the faces, the grace and simplicity of the 
 figures are quite matchless. One kneeling Angel in particular. There is 
 adoration, humility and perfect self forgetfulness and much inexpressable 
 sweetness that none but Raphael could have put on canvas. The Mother and 
 Child (di San Sisto) here are very fine but quite different. There is much 
 more majesty and grandeur but less simplicity and sweetness. The Magdalene
 
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 you mention is very lovely so tearful yet composed — hoping yet regretting. 
 There are other fine Correggios in the Gallery. 
 
 " As I said we go towards Florence. One of our party is ordered a warmer 
 climate. I fear Florence will be scarcely temperate enough for him. Percy's 
 friend Knox (whom you met at our house) has a complaint of the heart — a 
 painful disorder attended by great nervousness and distress requiring great 
 quiet and composure, and he has many things to worry him. He is writing 
 and will bring out a volume of poems this autumn — a copy shall be sent you, 
 get it well noticed if you can. . . . Percy desires to be most kindly re- 
 membered." 
 
 HOLOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED "MARY SHELLEY." a pages, 4to. 
 Futney, 20 April, 1844. To Leigh Hunt, mainly respecting Shelley's pro- 
 posed legacy to the latter. 
 
 "... Twenty years ago in memory of what Shelley's intentions were, I 
 said that you should be considered one of the legatees to the amount of 
 ;^2,ooo. ... I need scarcely mention that when Shelley talked of leaving 
 you this sum he contemplated reducing the other legacies — and that one 
 among these is (by a mistake of the Solicitor) just double what he intended it 
 to be. Twenty years have of course much changed my position. Twenty years 
 ago it was supposed that Sir Tim""^* would not live five years. Meanwhile a 
 large debt has accumulated — for I must pay back all on which Percy and I 
 have subsisted as well as what I borrowed for Percy's going to college. In 
 fact I scarcely know how our affairs will be. Moreover Percy shares now my 
 rights — that promise was made without his concurrence— and he must concur 
 to render it of avail — nor do I like to ask him to do so till our affairs are so 
 settled that we know what we shall have — whether Shelley's uncle may not go 
 to law — in short till we see our way before us. 
 
 "It is both my & Percy's great wish to feel that you are no longer so 
 burthened by care & necessity — in that he is as desirous as I can be — but the 
 form & the degree in which we can do this must at first be uncertain. 
 
 "From the time of Sir Timothy's death I shall give directions to my 
 banker to honour your quarterly cheques for ^^30 a quarter, and I shall take 
 steps to secure this to you & to Marianne if she should survive you. 
 
 "Percy has read this letter and approves — I know your real delicacy about
 
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 money matters & that you will at once be ready to enter to my views — & feel 
 assured that if my present debt should press if we have any command of money 
 we will take care to free you from it. 
 
 " Anxiety we shall not have for neither Percy or I will allow ourselves to 
 be anxious where matters of necessity are not concerned — but worry & busi- 
 ness enough we shall have. 
 
 " I believe we are going into Hampshire on Monday — when we return we 
 hope to see you & Percy will call to see how you are and I hope find you are 
 better." 
 
 A more interesting series of letters relative to the Poet can hardly be conceived. 
 
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 224A 
 
 SHELLEY (PERCY B.). ADONAIS, an Elegy on the 
 
 death of John Keats. Frontispiece after JV. B. Scott, etched 
 
 by Ever shed. 8vo. Original half vellum. 
 
 Pisa with the types of Didot, 1 8 2 1 
 
 Printed upon Vellum. 
 
 The reprint edited by H. Buxton Forman in 1876. 
 
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 SURVILLE (MADAME DE). POESIES DE MAR- 
 GUERITE-ELEONORE CLOTILDE de Vallon- 
 Chalys depuis Madame de Survile, poete fran9ois du 
 XV^ Siecle, publiees par Ch. Vanderbourg. 2 volumes. 
 Small 8vo. Frontispiece and six plates, 5 in two states, and 
 I in four states, plain and coloured. Gi^een morocco, richly 
 tooled dentelle border, gilt top, uncut, by Capt^. 
 
 Pa^ds, Didot famd 1804 
 
 Printed upon vellum. One of but two examples so printed. 
 
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 226 
 SWINBURNE. A REMARKABLE SET OF FIRST 
 EDITIONS of the Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne. 
 The set comprises no less than 72 volumes, including: 
 
 The Queen Mother Rosamond. Two plays. 8vo. In 
 ///^ORIGINAL DARK PURPLE CLOTH WITH PAPER LABEL (contain- 
 ing the err OT hi the Poet's name ''A. G. Swinbur^ie " for A. C. 
 Siuinbiirne) on the back intact, entirely uncut. 
 
 Less than twenty copies of this excessively rare first edition had passed 
 into circulation when it was withdrawn. 
 
 DEAD LOVE. 8vo. I?i the Original brick-red coloured paper wrappers, 
 
 ENTIRELY UNCUT. 
 
 London : John W. Parker mid Sons, West Strand. 1 864 
 A little book of great rarity and of extreme interest. It has never 
 been reprinted. 
 
 THE CHILDREN OF THE CHAPEL. 8vo. /// the Original red cloth. 
 
 London. 1864 
 
 This story is by " Mark Dennis " {i.e. Miss Gordon = Mrs. Disney Leith), 
 but most of the verse scattered throughout is by Swinburne. It is extremely 
 RARE. The Poems by Swinburne have never appeared elsewhere than in this 
 little book. 
 
 ATALANTA IN CALYDON. 4to. /;/ the Original white buckram, 
 ENTIRELY uncut. Lotidon : Edward Moxon and Co. 1865 
 
 Of this edition only one hundred copies were printed. 
 The binding is ornamented in gold by D. G. Rossetti. 
 
 LAUS VENERIS. 8vo. Ln sheets, entirely uncut. 
 
 London: Edivard Moxon and Co. r866 
 
 Of the utmost rarity — there is no copy in the British Museum. 
 
 "The only example of this exceptionally interesting little volume which
 
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 has come into the market in recent years was priced ;^30." — T. J. Wise 
 in 1896. 
 
 " Very few copies were printed, most of which were distributed 
 
 AMONGST PRIVATE FRIENDS." — Ibid. 
 
 POEMS AND BALLADS. 8vo. In the original green cloth. Entirely 
 UNCUT. london: Edivard Moxon and Co. 1866 
 
 The rare Moxon issue. 
 
 Edward Moxon was rendered nervous by the unreasoning and hysterical 
 criticism flung at the book, and the storm of opposition roused by certain of 
 its contents. He resigned his commission as Mr. Swinburne's pubUsher, and 
 allowed it to pass into the hands of John Camden Hotten. 
 
 NOTES ON POEMS AND REVIEWS. 8vo. As issued, stitched without 
 ivrappers. London: John Catuden Hotten, Piccadilly. 1866 
 
 " Examples of (this) the genuine first issue are of very mtich greater scarcity 
 than is generally supposed, most of the copies sold as ' First Editions ' being 
 in reality specimens of the spurious second issue. The variation in the 
 imprint, however, removes any difficulty in deciding whether an example be a 
 copy of this spurious issue, or a genuine princeps." — T. J. Wise. 
 
 CLEOPATRA. Square 8vo. In the original plain dark brown 
 wrappers. Uncut. London: John Catnden Hotten, Piccadilly. 1866 
 
 Concerning this excessively rare little volume Swinburne wrote: 
 " Mr. George Meredith, I remember, strongly (and no doubt justly) 
 remonstrated with me for producing such a farrago of the most obvious com- 
 monplaces of my ordinary style — as it was in '66, or thereabouts. The verses 
 were never intended for reproduction or preservation, but simply scribbled off 
 as fast as might be to oblige a friend whose work I admired — just as in the 
 preceding year I had written a few lines on his picture of ' Spring,' which 
 appeared in the Royal Academy catalogue of that year. I should no more 
 have thought of reproducing the one improvisation than the other. My im- 
 pression is that the best thing about the poem ('Cleopatra') is the motto — 
 from an imaginary 'Fall of Antony,' 1655." The poem was "written to 
 
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 illustrate a drawing by F. Sandys, in which Cleopatra is represented as 
 treading on a consecrated vestment." 
 
 " The poem was entirely dropped by its author, and is not included in a?ty 
 of his collected volumes, neither is there any reason to anticipate that it ever 
 will be."— T. J. Wise. 
 
 UNDER THE MICROSCOPE. 8vo. In the original stone-coloured 
 PAPER WRAPPERS. LoudoH : D. White, 22, Coventry Street, W. 1872 
 
 Extremely rare. 
 
 This copy has the rare slip of Errata at the end. 
 
 " The manner in which copies of ' Under the Microscope ' have been 
 absorbed is remarkable. Five hundred copies were printed in 1872, and until 
 quite recent years examples of these were readily obtainable. Now copies 
 
 OCCUR AT increasingly LENGTHENED INTERVALS." T. J. WisC in I906. 
 
 THE DEVIL'S DUE. A Letter to the Editor of "The Examiner." By 
 Thofnas Maitland. 8vo. Uncut. For private circulation, 1875 
 
 Of the very greatest rarity — only one other copy was KNOWN TO 
 
 T. J. Wise. It is probably the rarest of all Swinburne first editions. 
 
 As stated upon the title-page this tiny brochure of eleven pages was printed 
 "for private circulation." 
 
 The Poem is the Author's " most searching and scathing satire " and is an 
 attack (under the pseudonym of Thomas Maitland) on Robert Buchanan, a 
 consequence of the latter's " Fleshly School of Poetry." 
 
 The pamphlet was rigidly suppressed in consequence of the unexpected 
 result of the action for libel brought by Buchanan against the proprietor of 
 "The Examiner," in which it likewise appeared. 
 
 LE TOMBEAU DE THEOPHILE GAUTIER. 4to. Red morocco. 
 
 Paris: Alphonse Lemerre, Editeur, 27-29, Passage Choiseul, 27-29. 1873 
 
 Swinburne's own copy of this — the first and only edition. It has 
 
 his autograph inscription of five lines and 32 ANNOTATIONS AND COR- 
 RECTIONS ALSO IN HIS AUTOGRAPH. 
 
 This is, too, ONE of the few copies that has an etched portrait of 
 Theophile Gautier as frontispiece.
 
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 The following Poems are by Swinburne: 
 
 (i) Sonnet (with copy of "Mademoiselle de Maupin "). 
 
 (2) Memorial Verses on the Death of Theophile Gautier. 
 
 (3) Ode: "Quelle fleur, O mort, quel joyau, quel chant." 
 
 (4) Sonnet: "Pour mettre une couronne au front d'une chanson." 
 
 (5) In Obitum Theophili Poetae Clarissimi. 
 
 (6) A Poem in Greek. 
 
 These Greek verses (fifty-six lines in all) have never been reprinted. 
 The whole of the above six contributions are signed " Swinburne." 
 
 A WORD FOR THE NAVY. A POEM. 8vo. In the original pale 
 
 GREEN WRAPPERS. 
 
 London: C harks Ottky, Landon, and Co. 1887 
 
 Not MORE THAN TWENY-nvE COPIES WERE PRINTED. It is therefore ex- 
 cessively rare. 
 
 This edition must not be confounded with the August issue of the same 
 year. 
 
 THE QUESTION, MDCCCLXXXVII. A Poem. 8vo. In the original 
 GREEN PAPER 'WKX^VE.Yi.5, protected by another cover of brown morocco extra. 
 
 London: Charles Ottley, Landon, and Co. 1887 
 
 Excessively rare. Only 25 copies were printed. 
 
 The Question was dropped by its author, and is not included in any of 
 Swinburne's collected volumes; and considering the controversial nature of 
 the subject treated, it is in the highest degree improbable that it will ever 
 be revived. 
 
 THE JUBILEE, MDCCCLXXXVII. Square 8vo. Printed on thick Dutch 
 {Van Gelder) hand-made paper in the original pale green paper 
 WRAVPKRS, protected by another cover of tvhite vellum, entirely uncut. 
 
 Lo7idon: Charles Ottley, Lafidon, atid Co. 1887 
 
 Excessively rare — only 25 copies were printed.
 
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 GATHERED SONGS. Small 4to. Pritited on Dutch ( Van Gelder) hatid- 
 made paper. In the original pale green wrappers, entirely uncut. 
 
 London: Charles Oitky, Landoti, and Co. 1887 
 
 Excessively rare. Twenty-five copies only having been printed. 
 They were not offered for sale. 
 
 THE BRIDE'S TRAGEDY. 8vo. Printed upon hand-made paper. 
 In the original plain paper wrappers, of a pale buff colour. 
 ENTIRELY UNCUT. London : Printed privately, 1889 
 
 Excessively rare, being privately printed. 
 
 THE BALLAD OF DEAD MEN'S BAY. 8vo. In the original paper 
 wrappers, of a pale buff colour, entirely uncut. 
 
 London: Printed privately, 1889 
 
 Excessively rare, being privately printed. 
 
 A SEQUENCE OF SONNETS ON THE DEATH OF ROBERT 
 BROWNING. Square 8vo. In the original dark slate-coloured 
 
 PAPER wrappers, ENTIRELY UNCUT. 
 
 London: Printed for private ci?-ailation, 1890 
 
 Excessively rare. 
 
 "The Prefatory Note states that ' a few copies only have been printed 
 IN THIS separate FORM more befitting the occasion.' It may safely be 
 prophesied that these 'few copies,' forming as they do a connecting link 
 between two of the foremost Poets of the age, will at no distant date prove to 
 occupy a conspicuous position in the list of modern poetical rarities." 
 
 THE BALLAD OF BULGARIE. 8vo. In the original plain paper 
 
 WRAPPERS, OF A PALE ORANGE COLOUR. 
 
 London: Printed for private circulation, 1893 
 
 Exceedingly rare, being privately printed. 
 
 " The Ballad of Bulgarie " appeared only in the private pamphlet 
 here described. " It has never been reprinted in any shape or form, 
 and it is in the highest degree improbable that it ever will be revived."
 
 5, PALL MALL PLACE 229 
 
 GRACE DARLING. 8vo. In the original white "Japanese vellum " 
 BOARDS. Lo7tdo?i: Printed only for private circulation, 1893 
 
 Excessively rare, being privately printed. 
 
 This is one of the thirty copies printed upon Whatman's hand- 
 made paper. 
 
 LETTERS FROM ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE TO JOHN 
 CHURTON COLLINS, 1873-1886. 8vo. In the original blue 
 paper wrappers, entirely uncut and unopened. 
 
 London: Printed for private circulation, 1910 
 This privately printed pamphlet is excessively rare, only 20 copies 
 
 HAVING been printed. 
 
 ^550 
 
 227 
 TASSO (TORQUATO). GERUSALEMME LIBER- 
 ATA con note Ossia spiegazione de' luoghi piu oscuri, 
 dilu-cidazioni grrammaticali ed imitazioni dai Classici An- 
 tichi. II tutto Riveduto da Romualdo Zotti. 2 vols. 
 8vo. hi the 07'iginal red morocco, watered silk fly-leaves. 
 
 London, 1806 
 
 Printed upon vellum. One of but two copies so printed. The 
 binding is of particularly good straight-grained morocco, with very neat gold 
 borders, and with broad inside borders tooled similarly in gold. It is strongly 
 reminiscent of Roger Payne. 
 
 This was Colonel Stanley's copy. 
 
 Totally unknown to MM. de Bure. 
 
 228 
 
 TAYLOR (JEREMY). Bishop of Dozvn, author of the 
 
 '' Holy Livingr HOLOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED. 
 
 I full page, folio. November 15, 1656: (To John Evelyn 
 
 the diarist). 
 
 " . . . S"" I could not but smile at my own weakenesses, & very much love
 
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 the great candor and sweetnesse of your nature that you were pleas'd to 
 endure my English poetry: but I could not bee removed from my certaine 
 Knowledge of my owne greatest weakenesses in it: but if I could have had 
 your Lucretius when I had occasion to use these extractions out of it, I should 
 never have ask'd any man's pardon for my weake version of them, for I would 
 have used none but yours." 
 
 Evelyn's Essay on Lucretius was published this same year, 1656. 
 
 This great Bishop's letters are of the utmost rarity. 
 
 229 
 
 TENNYSON'S AUTOGRAPHED "IDYLLS OF 
 
 THE KING" 
 
 TENNYSON (ALFRED, LORD). THE UNIQUE 
 ORIGINAL SET OF DORE'S PROOF ILLUS- 
 TRATIONS TO TENNYSON'S "IDYLLS OF THE 
 KING." 1868 
 
 Each of the eight Proofs bears the autograph signatures of: 
 
 1. Tennyson. 
 
 2. Dord (the Artist). 
 
 3. The Engraver. 
 
 These Proofs are on India paper and measure i6| by 12 inches. They 
 have been carefully mounted and bound in red morocco extra, forming a 
 handsome folio volume. 
 
 This is the only set of Proofs or, indeed, of illustrations of any kind 
 to his Poems signed by Tennyson that are recorded. 
 
 The first proof is Dore's portrait of the Poet himself surrounded by 
 numerous characters from the "Idylls." 
 
 The remainder of these charming proofs illustrate the following passages 
 from the "Idylls": 
 
 I. "... It was the Time when first the question rose 
 About the founding of a Table Round,
 
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 That was to be, for love of God and men 
 
 And noble deeds, the flower of all the World." — Vivien. 
 
 2. "... and all day long we rode 
 
 Thro' the dim land against a rushing wind, 
 That glorious roundel echoing in our ears. 
 And chased the flashes of his golden horns 
 Until they vanish'd by the fairy well." — Ibid. 
 
 3. " . . o I found a fair young squire who sat alone 
 And carv'd upon his knightly shield of wooci 
 
 . . . the scroll ' I follow fame.' 
 
 And speaking not, but leaning over him, 
 
 I carv'd a Gardener putting in a Graff, 
 
 With this for motto, ' Rather Use than Fame.' "—Ibid, 
 
 4. "... Then rose Elaine and glided thro' the fields, 
 And past beneath the weirdly sculptur'd gates 
 
 Far up the dim rich city to her king. . . ." — Elaine. 
 
 5. "... Set in her hand a lily, o'er her hung 
 The silken case with braided blazonings. 
 And kiss'd her quiet brows, and saying to her 
 ' Sister, farewell for ever,' and again 
 
 ' Farewell, sweet sister,' parted all in tears. 
 Then rose the dumb old servitor," etc. — Ibid. 
 
 6. "... And Lancelot answer'd nothing, but he went, 
 And at the inrunning of the little brook 
 
 Sat by the river in a little cove, and watch'd 
 The high reed wave, and lifted up his eyes 
 And saw the barge that brought her moving down 
 Far off, a blot upon the stream. , . ." — Ibid. 
 
 7. "They found a naked child upon the sands 
 Of dark Tintagil by the Cornish sea; 
 
 And that was Arthur; and they foster'd him 
 
 Till he by miracle was approven King. . . ." — Guinevere. 
 
 These beautiful illustrations were designed by Dore for the 1868 edition. 
 The " Idylls " of Tennyson are so well known wherever the English
 
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 language is spoken that comment upon them may seem superfluous. Yet the 
 following note, from the " Dictionary of National Biography," is appropriate: 
 
 "The 'Idylls of the King' appeared in the autumn of 1859, and received 
 a welcome so instantaneous as at once to restore its author to his lost place 
 in the affections of the many. . . . The Duke of Argyll had predicted that 
 the 'Idylls' would be 'understood and admired by many who were incapable 
 of understanding and appreciating many of his other works,' and the pre- 
 diction has been verified. At the same time such poems as 'Elaine' and 
 ' Guinevere ' became at once the delight of tlie most fastidious, and the least. 
 Men so different as Jowett, Macaulay, Dickens, Ruskin, and Walter of the 
 'Times' swelled the chorus of enthusiastic praise." 
 
 According to Monsieur Claretie, Dore's illustrations to Tennyson's "Idylls" 
 rank with his best inspirations, and are enough to secure the lasting fame of 
 any artist. Dore was at home in Tennyson's exquisite dreamland. He 
 revelled in the succession of pictures, Merlin resting against an old oak, the 
 exploits of Lancelot, the heroic deeds of the Knights of the Round Table, 
 the black shadows of the forest, the enchanting lakes. Poet never had daintier 
 dressing than the Laureate had in the " Idylls of the King." It was said of 
 them, "their issue has given wings to the muse of Mr. Tennyson! These 
 wings bore them to foreign lands and gave them new homes " (Blanchard 
 Jerrold's " Life of Dore "). 
 
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 TENNYSON (ALFRED LORD). THE LAST 
 TOURNAMENT. By Alfred Tennyson, D.C.L., Poet 
 Laureate. Small 8vo. Green morocco extra, top edge gilt, 
 UNCUT. Strakan, 1871 
 
 A Trial Copy issued before the First Edition (of which less than a 
 dozen copies are recorded). 
 
 This and Mr. Wise's example are the only two Trial Copies known to 
 us (see " The Athenaeum " article enclosed in the volume). 
 
 This excessively rare volume was unknown to Shepherd when compiling 
 his Tennyson Bibliography. 
 
 £7S
 
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 231 
 
 TENNYSON. PARABLES FROM NATURE, by 
 Mrs. Alfred Gatty. i8mo. Three eiLgraviiigs. Original 
 blue cloik, \5^c\5T. London, Bell and Daldy, 1857 
 
 The presentation copy from Lord Tennyson to Henry Cameron 
 with the following inscription on the inside of the front cover in the great 
 Poet's autograph : 
 
 " Henry Herschel Hay Cameron 
 
 from 
 
 Alfred & Emily 
 
 Tennyson 
 
 May 12M/57." 
 
 At this period the Poet Laureate was engaged upon the Arthurian Poems. 
 " Enid " was ready in 1856 and " Guinevere " in 1858. 
 
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 TRISSINO (G.). L'lTALIA LIBERATA da' Goti di 
 Giangiorgio Trissino. Riveduta, e corretta per 1' Abbate 
 Antonini. 3 vols. 8vo. Red morocco extra. 
 
 Parigi, Appresso Cavelier nella strada di S. Giacomo. 
 Cailleau, alia Piazza di Sorbona. Brunei il figlio, al 
 Palazzo. Bordelel, nella strada di S. Giacomo. Henry, nella 
 strada di S. Giacomo. 1729 
 
 Printed upon vellum. Unknown to De Bure. 
 
 From the Marquis Salsae's library with his fine armorial ex-libris in each 
 volume. 
 
 The author was a celebrated Italian poet (who died in 1550) of an ancient 
 and illustrious family. Because of the early death of his father his education 
 
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 was at first neglected, but he studied later in life under Demetrius Chal- 
 condylus at Milan. Going to Rome in 1503 his knowledge of literature, 
 mathematics, physics, and architecture, drew to him the literati and learned 
 of the day. His most famous work, " Sophonisba," a tragedy, established his 
 reputation throughout Italy. Trissino was employed as a negociator by Leo X 
 and Clement VII, whose complete favour he won. When Charles V was 
 crowned Emperor at Bologna, Trissino acted as train-bearer to the Pope, 
 an honour usually reserved for the most illustrious Princes. 
 
 Domestic troubles and the ingratitude of a son by his first wife clouded 
 the brightness of his fame, and despoiled him of a great part of his wealth. 
 Most of the great men of his time esteemed him, among whom were Rucellai, 
 Giraldi, Crescimbeni, Girolamo Molino and Palladio, who sought his advice in 
 architectural matters. 
 
 Trissino's "Sophonisba," is described by Voltaire as "la premiere 
 tragedie raisonnable et purement ecrite que I'Europe ait vue apres tant de 
 siecles de barbaric." Voltaire imitated Trissino's work in his own 
 " Sophonisbe." 
 
 The present poem, " L'ltalia Liberata," Trissino wished to be his cJief- 
 d'oiuvre, and for twenty years he was engaged in its composition. 
 
 YALTA (PIERRE LUDOVIC). Ad honorem Trinitatis 
 Immense Patris & filii & spiritus sancti unius dei : Opus- 
 culum quodda a Petroludouico Valta Christianissime regie 
 maiestatis consiliario & hospitii magistro nunc autem 
 miseratione diuina Episcopo Riuensi: Super qualibet dic- 
 tione symboli apostolici deuote compositii Incipit. Quod 
 sacre theologie facultati Parisii presentatum fidei orthodoxy 
 consonum approbatum est. 4to. Brown morocco gilt. 
 
 Paris y Jodocus Badius, 1 5 1 5
 
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 A SUPERB Liturgical volume printed on fine vellum. Only two 
 
 OTHER VELLUM COPIES ARE KNOWN. 
 
 The present book is beautifully printed on fine vellum by the scholar- 
 printer, Josse Bade, usually known from his native place, Assche, as Badius 
 Ascensius. Working first under Jean Trechoel, the printer of Lyons, he re- 
 mained there until that printer's death in 1498, when, marrying his daughter 
 Hostelye, he removed to Paris. For a time he worked for others, but in 1503 
 started in business for himself continuing until his death in 1535. He was a 
 learned man and edited many of the books which he produced. 
 
 This book is remarkable for the number and beauty of the initial letters, 
 and on the verso of the title is a woodcut of St. Peter holding the keys and a 
 book. Copies even on paper appear to be very rare; it is not mentioned by 
 Brunet or other bibliographers. There are copies on vellum in the Vatican 
 Library and in the Bibliotheque Nationale, but no others appear to be known. 
 The present beautiful copy was formerly in the library of the Convent of 
 S. Maria Major at Rome. 
 
 An old tradition of the church and dating back at least to the time of 
 Rufinus in the fourth century affirms that the Apostles before they departed 
 for their special labours, met together to consider about a common statement 
 of doctrine. A much later tradition, though by some attributed to St. Augustine, 
 asserts that each Apostle, by divine inspiration, recited in succession one 
 article of the Creed. This tradition became exceedingly popular in mediaeval 
 times and finds frequent expression both in literature and art. We find repre- 
 sentations of the Apostles both in pictures and in stained glass windows, each 
 having his sentence from the creed attached, and often in printed books and 
 manuscripts where the creed occurs, the names of the Apostles are given in 
 the margin or as heading to each article. 
 
 This work was apparently composed in or before 1497, in which year a 
 copy was submitted to the professors in the faculty of Theology at Paris. 
 It was written on ten leaves, and certified to contain nothing opposed to 
 sound doctrine. Maittaire, Panzer, and Hain all quote an edition printed at 
 Paris in 1497, but no such edition exists. Each simply quotes from the other, 
 and the original authority appears to be the Nova Bibliotheca of Labbaeus. 
 The mistake probably arose from a careless scrutiny of the last page with the
 
 236 J. PEARSON & CO. 
 
 date 1497. The binder of the present copy has fallen into this error and dated 
 it 1497. 
 
 We learn that the book was approved by the doctors of Paris, and after- 
 wards sent " in forma libelli " in the form of a book, which doubtless means a 
 printed book, to Pope Leo X, who added an indulgence to those who should 
 recite it. This indulgence was dated 6th August 15 16, so that the book sent 
 to the Pope was the vellum copy of this edition now in the Vatican. 
 
 In 15 16 two editions were issued by Badius, both dated 25th October, and 
 both printed in octavo. One contains twenty-four, the other twenty-eight 
 leaves, the latter having the University sanction and papal indulgence printed 
 in full. These editions contain some small woodcuts besides the cut of 
 St. Peter. 
 
 Little is known of Pierre Ludovic A^alta, who is ignored by all biographical 
 dictionaries. The title-page of this book tells us that he was bishop of Rieux 
 and a Counsellor of the King. In 1500, however, he presented a manuscript 
 of this book, exquisitely written and illuminated on twenty-three leaves of 
 vellum to Isabella, Queen of Spain. From it a few more details are derived. 
 It is dated from Granada where the author was staying with an Embassy, and 
 he speaks of himself as a native of Chalons-sur-Maine, and an archdeacon of 
 Angers. 
 
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 234 
 
 "VERONESE (PAUL"). Paolo Caliari. HOLO- 
 GRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, addressed to Signer 
 Marcantonio Gandini at Treviso. Venice^ March 28M, 
 1578. 
 
 The great painter sends Gandini particulars of his negotiations for the 
 purchase of a house and land either at Piambino, Voghera, or Castelfranco, 
 and informs him that he has been requested to go and view two estates at 
 Vossega, which yield a profit of 5 per cent., but it is so far that he is not 
 inclined to do so. He cannot give an answer to his invitation until one of 
 the above transactions is completed. Veronese finally states that he has bought
 
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 the house of which he has told him several times; the matter will be con- 
 cluded by Easter Day. 
 
 Prays God for the health of his family, etc. 
 
 (Signed) " Paolo Caliari, painter." 
 
 See Illustration 
 
 235 
 VIRGIL. PUBLII VIRGILII MARONIS BUCOLICA, 
 GEORGICA ET AENEIS. 4to. Magnificently bound in 
 contemporary red jnorocco, richly gilt. 
 
 Birmingham, John Baskerville, 1757 
 
 A SUPERB BINDING, POSSIBLY AN EARLY EXAMPLE OF ROGER PaYNE. 
 
 In 1754 John Baskerville issued his first piece of printing, a proposal for 
 printing Virgil, but it was not until three years later that this Virgil, his first 
 BOOK, was published. Baskerville was born in 1706 at Wolverley in Worcester- 
 shire, and in early life earned his living as a writing master. About 1750 he 
 was wealthy enough to start a letter foundry, and though he did not engrave 
 the type himself, he spent very large amounts of money, amounting to about 
 ;;^8oo, in getting the most skilled engraver to cut founts after his designs. 
 His Virgil was received by some as a most beautiful production, by others it 
 was condemned, but in 1758 the University of Oxford commissioned from 
 him a fount of Greek type, which, however, turned out a failure. 
 
 By the book-trade Baskerville's work was badly supported, and in disgust 
 he attempted to dispose of his printing material abroad, but without success. 
 He continued printing from 1760 to 1773 issuing editions of the Bible and 
 Prayer-book, the works of Addison and Congreve, " Aesop's Fables " and a 
 series of classics in quarto and octavo. After his death in 1775 his widow 
 carried on the foundry for a short time, but in 1779 succeeded in selling the 
 type to a French society for ^3,700, who used it for printing the great edition 
 of Voltaire's works. Baskerville's work is noteworthy for its extreme simplicity. 
 Everything depends on the beauty of the type and the regularity of the printing 
 and spacing. In the Virgil and many other of his books there is not a single 
 ornament, headpiece, or engraved initial to attract or divide the attention.
 
 238 J. PEARSON & CO. 
 
 The binding of the present volume is a verv magnificent piece of 
 WORK BY AN UNCERTAIN BINDER. The material used is red morocco, and each 
 cover is ornamented with a broad border built up with a number of small tools, 
 giving the appearance of a rich Harleian binding. The inside covers are doubld 
 with red morocco, and have in the centre a panel of green silk with scalloped 
 edges. The border round the panel is also richly tooled, and one of the sections 
 of the frame is made with diamonds of inlaid blue leather. The edges are gilt 
 and tooled with a pattern picked out in blue. The end leaves are of green 
 silk. The panels of the back are tooled with sprays of leaves and flowers with 
 a rich dotted background in the style of Roger Payne. With the exception of 
 a narrow fillet at the edge, the whole ornament is worked up from small tools. 
 
 The binding is apparently later than the book, but, apart from the Roger 
 Payne tools, there is no clue to the binder or the person for whom it was 
 bound. An Earl's coronet occurs frequently in the tooling. 
 
 -^75 
 See Illustrations 
 
 236 
 VOLTAIRE. CEUVRES. Nouvelle Edition, Revue, 
 corrigee & considerablement augment^e, avec des Figures 
 en Taille-douce. 
 
 Portrait of Voltaire by Folkema, fleurons on the titles and 
 18 plates by de Brie, de Troy, and Vleughels, engraved by 
 La Cave, Duflos, Folkema, Tanje, de Putter, and Philips. 
 4 vols. 8vo. Red 7norocco extra, elegantly tooled in gold, 
 doubUwith red morocco zvith heavily gilt border. A beautiful 
 binding by the nephew and successor of Derome le jeune — 
 Bradel I'Aind, with his ticket. 
 
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 The volumes are corrected throughout either by Voltaire or his 
 
 SECRETARY. 
 
 This is a highly important and exceptionally interesting copy of a notorious 
 edition of the " CEuvres." It was later in the possession of the famous French 
 publisher, Firmin-Didot, as will be seen by the inscription on the fly-leaf of 
 volume I. {See Illustration, No. 2.) 
 
 Bengesco states that Voltaire " avait donne a Helvetius une exemplaire qui 
 avait fait partie de la bibliotheque de Firmin-Didot." 
 
 The inscription in Didot's autograph informs us that the volumes were 
 given to him in 1796 at the house of Mde. Helvetius, at Auteuil, by the 
 Comte de la Roche, the host and friend of Helvetius. That was twenty-five 
 years after the death of the philosopher. 
 
 The manuscript corrections and additions throughout are very numerous, 
 and were absolutely essential as the work was so carelessly printed. 
 
 Although announced (before publication) by Voltaire and the Mercure de 
 France as " une magnifique edition," yet a more faulty one could scarcely 
 have been issued. This is seen by the quantity of manuscript additions and 
 corrections contained in this example which number 107, one of them being 
 no less than four pages in length. 
 
 Voltaire definitely states that he partook in the task of seeing this edition 
 through the press, and yet so many serious errors are comprised that the 
 author, says Bengesco, " prit le parti de faire corriger a la main." 
 
 The author certainly had copies corrected throughout for certain of his 
 friends and patrons. 
 
 Examples were thus corrected and sent to 
 Helvetius (the present copy). 
 Cideville. 
 
 Marquis d'Argenson (now in the Bibliotheque de I'Arsenal). 
 President Henault (two copies, one on large paper, which is now in 
 the Bibliotheque Nationale). 
 
 Thieriot. 
 Voltaire wrote to Helvetius on 6th July 1739 stating that some copies of 
 the work were already in Paris. 
 
 From internal evidence this copy is apparently one of the very earliest, if 
 not the earliest issued, for at the end of volume 2 is the title-page of " Zayre," 
 which is repeated in volume 3 where the play appears. Moreover, Bengesco
 
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 states that the work was printed on " grand papier fin," but this example is on 
 very poor paper, which points to its being a proof copy. 
 
 At the end of volume 3 is Voltaire's comedy, " L'Enfant Prodigue," printed 
 at Amsterdam by Ledet and Co. in 1739 (an edition unknown to Bengesco), 
 preceded by a fine frontispiece which evidently belongs to his " Henriade," 
 and is here misplaced. Again, at the end of volume 4, " La Vie de Moliere," 
 printed at Amsterdam by Jean Catuffe in 1739, appears. These additions, 
 which are not parts of the work, were apparently sent to Helvetius with this 
 copy of the " CEuvres," as they are scored like the rest of the book. 
 
 The present copy was doubtless sent to the philosopher Helvetius with 
 the letter from Voltaire stating that the work was in Paris in July 1739. So 
 that with absolute certainty it can be said that seven corrected copies exist, 
 viz., the present (sent to Helvetius); the Cideville; the Argenson; the Henault 
 (2) examples, and the Thieriot. 
 
 Of these, two are beyond private ownership, viz. : the Henault large paper 
 copy (in the Bibliotheque Nationale), and the Argenson copy (in the Biblio- 
 theque de 1' Arsenal). 
 
 The number of the manuscript corrections and additions apparently differ 
 in each recorded example. 
 
 The copy mentioned by Bengesco in which the number of corrected pages 
 is given, has 46 corrected pages, but in the present example there are 87 cor- 
 rected pages and the corrections number 107. As before stated one of these 
 emendations covers 4 pages, and replaces the printed pages 187 and 188 in 
 volume I. 
 
 The inscription in gold on the doublure of the front cover of volume i, 
 states that the volumes are pencilled by Helvetius. The pencillings are in 
 red and black. 
 
 The fleurons upon the title-pages differ in regard to position from the 
 Beuchot and Bengesco copies. In the former the fleuron signed by La Cave, 
 and dated 1738, and which differs from the three other fleurons, is on the 
 title-page of volume 4, the fleurons to tomes i, 2, and 3, being signed Duflos 
 and dated 1728. 
 
 In the Bengesco copy, all the fleurons are alike and, with the exception of 
 that to volume 4, which is signed Yver and dated 1728, are signed Duflos. 
 
 The present example differs from both of these, for the fleuron signed by 
 La Cave and dated 1738 is comprised but is on the title-page of the first
 
 5, PALL MALL PLACE 241 
 
 volume, the fourth volume having the fleuron by Yver and dated 1728, the 
 other two fleurons are by Duflos. 
 
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 VOLTAIRE. COMMENTAIRES SURCORNEILLE. 
 D'apres le precede de Firmin Didot. 4 vols., 8vo. Vellum, 
 
 ENTIRELY UNCUT. 
 
 A Paris, Pierre Didot f AinS, et de Firmin Didot. 1806 
 
 Printed upon Vellum. One of but two copies so printed. 
 This was the Due d'Abrantes' copy. 
 
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 VOLTAIRE. LA PUCELLE D'ORLEANS. Poeme 
 
 en Vingt-un chants, suivi de Corisandre. 26 plates by Du- 
 
 plessi-Bertaux, on India paper. Thick 12 mo. Green 
 
 morocco. Paris, A. Nepveu, 1824 
 
 Printed upon Vellum. 
 
 " Cette edition n'a ete tiree qu'a vingt six exemplaires, dont dx sur peau 
 de velin." 
 
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 VOLTAIRE. ROMANS. D'apres le precede de Firmin 
 Didot. 3 vols., 8vo. Vellum, entirely uncut. 
 A Paris, Pierre Didot VainS, et de Firmin Didot. 
 
 An VIII. (1800.) 
 
 Printed upon vellum. One of but two copies so printed. 
 
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 240 
 WAGNER (RICHARD). HOLOGRAPH LETTER 
 SIGNED. 3 very full pages, large 410, A lisbrunn, 2 1 Nov. 
 '51, addressed to Van Ziegesar of Weimar, who had com- 
 missioned him to write an opera for Weimar: 
 
 [Iranslation.] I have just communicated to my friend Liszt in greater 
 detail that about which you also will doubtless desire to be further informed, 
 when you learn that I hereby duly notify to you that I shall not be able to 
 carry out the main clause in the agreement, in accordance with which I was 
 bound to write a new opera for Weimar. I, therefore, beg you to be gracious 
 enough to dissolve this contract. 
 
 You will learn from Liszt that it was my honest and earnest desire to 
 write in the near future a work suitable for performance in Weimar, but that 
 I eventually became conscious that the poetical theme I had selected for the 
 purpose would make quite different and much more extensive demands for 
 its artistic production, so that I now find myself engaged upon a subject 
 which, even reckoning on the best of health, must take me three full years' 
 work. Under these circumstances, it became my duty to address the above- 
 mentioned request to you. To the best of my belief, however, when you 
 offered me that contract you had in mind, not so much a commission for work 
 which you stipulated should be carried out unconditionally within a certain 
 specified time, but, rather, you merely intended to provide me in this, the 
 only seemingly suitable manner, with a subsidy which would secure for me the 
 utmost possible freedom from domestic cares while engaged in the composi- 
 tion of an art-work. While feeling that I cannot sufficiently thank you for this, or 
 indeed for all the delicate consideration you have shown me, yet I must not, 
 on the other hand, fail to recognise that that contract has likewise its strictly 
 official aspect, from the working of which I must at the same time entirely 
 dissociate myself. This course seems to me the more necessary that you have 
 been forced by ill-health — a cause which I sincerely deplore — to give up for a 
 time your position as Intendant at the Weimar theatre, and moreover, as I 
 now hear, in spite of your recovery, you have to absent yourself from this post
 
 5, PALL MALL PLACE 243 
 
 for another year as it belongs to your successor for that period. I feel under 
 the strongest obligation, as regards yourself as well as Liszt, to avoid causing 
 anyone who has warmly interested himself on my behalf in the above- 
 mentioned matter, the slightest embarrassment; a contingency which might 
 seriously be feared should I, on the one hand, prove incapable of fulfilling 
 the contract to the letter, and should on the other, not punctually carry 
 out the only condition necessary and requisite for the fulfilment of the con- 
 tract. Be, therefore, kind enough to forgive me if I earnestly request you to 
 return to the treasury of the Court Theatre (Hoftheatre) the sum of 200 
 thalers which I received through your kind intermediary in two monthly 
 drafts (in July and at the end of October), and to be good enough to obtain 
 for me, in consideration of the refunding of this sum, the release from my 
 promise to deliver a new opera for the Weimar Court Theatre by July i, 
 1852. 
 
 With this, I take leave of you in your character of theatre Intendant in 
 order to assure you as my kindly-disposed benefactor and friend, that my 
 connection with you in this my last — I sincerely believe my very last — 
 dealings with the theatre of the present day, has done me an extraordinary 
 amount of good. I consider, moreover, that your temporary severance from 
 the directorship of the Weimar Theatre for so long a period will prove 
 highly prejudicial to that Institution, because, if any energy should now be 
 brought to bear upon dramatic art, and a higher tendency be thereby 
 imparted to it, every step must be taken with careful deliberation and rigor- 
 ous perseverance, whereas the least vacillation, the slightest relapse into the 
 pernicious grooves of modern practices must render any effort in pursuit of 
 progress ever more fundamentally unsuccessful. Judging from the most 
 recent accounts which have reached me concerning the state of affairs in the 
 Weimar Theatre, I can no longer entertain any hope for the prosperity of this 
 institution. May this, nevertheless, not prove to be the last time that I shall 
 have entered into friendly relations with you. May the cordial expression of my 
 warmest thanks for the very pregnant interest you have displayed in my work, 
 and even in my person, induce you to continue to extend to me in the future 
 also your friendly disposed consideration ; etc. 
 
 A REMARKABLY IMPORTANT AND CHARACTERISTIC LETTER. It IS ENTIRELY 
 UNPUBLISHED. 
 
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 241 
 
 WAGNER AND "TANNHAUSER" 
 
 WAGNER (RICHARD). HOLOGRAPH LETTER 
 SIGNED. 3 pages, 8 vo. Paris, i st Jtily, 1 8 6 1 
 
 To Franz Abt at Brunswick asking him for his fee of 50 Louis d'or for 
 the performing rights of " Tannhauser." If he cannot manage to obtain 
 50 Louis d'or he must be satisfied with 30. Wagner also thanks Abt for his 
 endeavours: ^^ 7uenn er endlick, nachdem auf alien iibrigen deutschen Theater ti 
 meine Opern bereits einheimisch gewordefi sind, wenigstens der Tannhauser auch 
 dem Braunschweiger Publikum vorgefuhrt iverden soil." 
 
 A precious and entirely unpublished letter. 
 
 242 
 
 WAGNER (R.). HOLOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED. 
 
 3 ve7y closely written pages, 8vo. Venice, Nov. 27, 1882. To 
 an intimate friend. It is written in a state of the greatest 
 irritation, and Wagner complains warmly of the conduct 
 of Messrs. Voltz and Batz with respect to " Tristan and 
 Isolde": 
 
 Einen Vertragsentwurf fiir Tristan (mit [Angelo] Neumann), weswegen es 
 zu einem Prozess gegen Letzteren von Seiten der Herren V. & B gekommen 
 war. . . . Diese Angelegenheit steht so scandalbs, dass ich mich entschlossen 
 habe, bloss um nicht als Dummkopf behandelt zu werden, sie auf das 
 Energischste in Ordnung bringen zu lassen. Alles, was zwischen niir und 
 Voltz u. Batz als wirklicher Vertrag aussieht, ist so wurmstichich, dass es vor 
 keinem ernsten Richterspruch bestehen kann. . . . 
 
 He ends with these words : 
 
 . . . ich trotze jedem Prozessverfahren, und selbst auf die Grefahr hin, nie
 
 ^n fm/t/d/. 
 
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 Beinga Dlfcourfe of 
 
 FISH and FISHING, 
 
 Not unworthy the pcrufal of mod Anglers* 
 
 Simon Peter /i/rf, Igodfifhing: anitbejfaid, ff^e 
 alfowilgovfithtbce. John i 1.5. 
 
 LfndQJty Printed by T, Maxey for Rich. MARRtoT,in 
 S.VunfiaHS Churct*/ar4 Fleetfttect, »653. 
 
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 mehr eine Note von diessem Werke (Tristan) in den Theatem spielen zu 
 lassen. Mein Ehrgelfiihl leidet diess nicht anders. . . . Mit diesetn Gesindel 
 habe ich Lust meine Zahne zu wetzen. . . . 
 
 An extremely important and unpublished letter, written but te?i iveeks before 
 his death. 
 
 243 
 
 WALTON (IZAAK). THE COMPLEAT ANGLER 
 or the Contemplative Man's Recreation. Being a Dis- 
 course of Fish and Fishing, not unworthy the perusal of 
 most Anglers. 
 
 Simon Peter said, I go a fishing and they said. We also 
 wil go with thee. John 21. 3. 
 
 Title within a cartouche composed of dolphins and other 
 fishes, and numerous small engravings. Small 8vo. Red 
 morocco tooled in dlind and gold by Roger Payne. 
 
 London, Printed by T. Maxey for Rich. Afarriot, in 
 S. Duns tans Churchyard Fleetstreet. 1653 
 
 A SUPERLATIVE COPY OF THE FIRST ISSUE OF THE FIRST EDITION, with the 
 
 error "contention" in stead of "contentment." Page 217 is printed upside 
 down. The beautiful Roger Payne binding is in admirable preservation. 
 
 This particular copy belonged to John Venables (his autograph signature 
 is on the top blank margin of the title-page), who was probably a descendant 
 of Robert Venables, the friend of Izaak Walton and the author of the "Ex- 
 perienced Angler." 
 
 The volume, which is beautifully clean throughout, measures 5f by 3^ 
 inches, and with the exception of the Van Antwerp example (which sold in 
 1907 for ;^i,29o), is believed to be the finest copy extant. 
 
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 244 
 WASHINGTON (GEORGE). LETTER SIGNED by 
 
 him. 2 pages. Folio. Nov. 26th ij^t^. " To the Ministers 
 Elders and Deacons and Members of the Reformed 
 German Congregation in the City of New York," being 
 a reply to their congratulatory address upon his entry into 
 New York: an interesting document full of the noblest 
 expressions of lofty patriotism. 
 
 " The illustrious and happy event, on which you are pleased to congratu- 
 late and welcome me to this City, demands all our gratitude; while the 
 favourable sentiments you have thought proper to express of my conduct, 
 entitle you to my warmest acknowledgment. 
 
 " Disposed at every suitable opportunity to acknowledge publicly our 
 infinite obligations to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe, for rescuing our 
 Country from the brink of destruction; I cannot fail at this time to ascribe 
 all the honour of our late successes to the same glorious Being. And if my 
 humble exertions have been made in any degree subservient to the execution 
 of the divine purposes, the contemplation of the benediction of Heaven on 
 our righteous Cause, — the approbation of my virtuous Countrymen, and the 
 testimony of my own Conscience, will be a sufficient reward, and augment my 
 felicity beyond anything which the World can bestow. 
 
 " The establishment of Civil and Religious Liberty was the motive which 
 induced me to take to the Field, — the object is attained — and it now remains to 
 be my earnest wish and prayer that the Citizens of the United States would 
 make a wise and virtuous use of the blessings placed before them, and that 
 the reformed German Congregation in New York may not only be conspicu- 
 ous for their religious character but as exemplary in support of our inestimable 
 acquisitions, as their Reverend Minister has been in the attainment of them." 
 
 The "illustrious and happy event" referred to at the beginning of this 
 precious letter was the termination of the War for American Independ- 
 ence AND the withdrawal OF THE ENGLISH TROOPS. 
 
 The capitulation of Yorktown and surrender of Lord Cornwallis (19 Oct.
 
 5, PALL MALL PLACE 247 
 
 1 781) was the virtual end of that war, although the British troops did not 
 evacuate New York until Nov. 1783. 
 
 The delay was due to the necessity of procuring the official note of Peace 
 from England. This did not reach Washington until 17 April 1783. 
 
 On the 2nd Nov. Washington read his farewell address to the army and on 
 the 25th Nov., the day before the above letter was written, he made his triumphal 
 entry into New York, upon which occasion the Reformed German Congrega- 
 tion of New York presented him with their congratulatory address to which 
 
 THE PRESENT LETTER IS WASHINGTON'S REPLY. 
 
 WASHINGTON AND GEORGE III'S MADNESS 
 
 WASHINGTON (GEORGE). HOLOGRAPH LET- 
 TER SIGNED. Mount Vernon, February ^tk, 1789. 
 3 pages, 4to. To Samuel Powell. 
 
 The most important Washington letter that has ever occurred 
 FOR sale in Great Britain. 
 
 " The letters which you did me the honour of writing to me on the 6th 
 and 26th of last month came duly to hand; and their enclosures were safely 
 delivered to my nephew, Bushrod Washington, who has lately become a 
 resident of Alexandria — where, and at the Courts in its vicinity, he means to 
 establish himself in the practice of the Law. — No apology, my dear Sir, on 
 this or any other occasion was, or will be, necessary for putting any letter you 
 may wish to have safely conveyed to a friend in these parts, under cover 
 to me. — 
 
 "All the political manoeuvres which were calculated to impede, if not to 
 prevent the operation of the new government, are now brought to a close 
 until the meeting of the new Congress ; and although the issue of all the 
 Elections are not yet known they are sufficiently displayed to authorize a 
 belief that the opposers of the government have been defeated in almost every 
 instance. — Although the elections in this State are over, it will be some time 
 (from the extent of it) before the Representatives to Congress can be finally
 
 248 J. PEARSON & CO. 
 
 announced. From conjecture, however, it is supposed the majority will be 
 Federalists — some are so sanguine as to believe that seven out of the ten will 
 be so — but this, as I have already said, is altogether conjecture — and vague 
 conjecture — for much pains has been taken — and no art left unessayed to 
 poison the mind, and alarm the fears of the people into opposition. — In the 
 list of the Electors which has been published by the Executive authority of 
 this State, there appears (as far as I am acquainted with the characters of the 
 gentlemen) eight decided friends of the New Constitution. 
 
 " j5t' the cause of the British King's insanity what it may, his situation (if 
 alive) merits commiseration. — Better, perhaps, would it have been for his nation, 
 though not for ours (under present prospect) if this event had happened at the 
 time. Doctr. Franklin, you say, supposes his Majesty s constitution was first 
 tinged with the Malady under which he is now labouring. 
 
 " Mrs. Washington, the Major and Fanny and others under this roof, write 
 in best wishes and affectionate regards for Mrs. Powell and yourself." 
 
 Historically this is one of the most interesting letters ever penned by 
 Washington. It appears to be entirely unpublished and was written 
 
 THE DAY AFTER HIS ELECTION AS THE FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED 
 
 States. Washington's reference to George Ill's first attack of madness is most 
 remarkable. In the autumn of 1788 the King returned to Windsor after taking 
 the waters at Cheltenham, and on i6th Oct. got wet while walking. The next 
 day he was taken ill, and on the 22nd signs of derangement appeared. How- 
 ever, he got better, and on the 24th held a levee. His mind dwelt on the 
 loss of the American Colonies. While at Windsor on 5 Nov. he became de- 
 lirious, and for a while it was thought that his life was in imminent danger. 
 On 5 Dec. his physician stated to the Privy Council that his disease was not 
 incurable, but it was impossible to say how long it might last. 
 
 246 
 
 WEBER AND SPOHR 
 
 WEBER (CARL MARIA VON). HOLOGRAPH 
 LETTER SIGNED. 3 full pages, 4to, Feb. 22, 1813,
 
 5, PALL MALL PLACE 249 
 
 addressed to Fr. Rochlitz, of Leipzig. A superb letter and 
 
 OF THE GREATEST IMPORTANCE. 
 
 Weber writes to his "dearest friend " to inform him and his dear wife, who 
 have always taken such an interest in his welfare, of his appoiritmeiit as Kapell- 
 meister [conductor] and director of the Royal Bo hemiatt Opera at Pragtie with 
 a three years' contract. He relates how he had hardly set his foot on the 
 paved streets of Prague when he was enthusiastically set upon on all sides by the 
 citizens and hailed as the saviour of their opera and of the glories of 
 Bohemian music. He was to take up his duties in earnest at Michaelmas. 
 The present operatic company would be disbanded at Easter, and it would 
 take him all his time to engage new forces and get them into working order 
 by September for the re-opening of the opera-house. His contract gave him 
 an annual holiday of three months in the summer, which would perhaps 
 enable him to carry out his longed-for journey to Italy. In the summer he 
 intends making a tour through some of the German cities with the Impres- 
 sario Herr Liebich, beginning with Munich, Mannheim, etc., in order to see 
 some of the artistes himself. There is not much time left for composition. 
 With the exception of two songs, he has only finished an Andante and Rondo 
 Ungarese for the famous fagottist Brandt,' of Munich, which was played at 
 his concert on the 19th, and about which Gansbacher" is going to send him 
 a critical opinion. Some one has told Weber of a review of the "Hymne"' 
 
 ' George Frederick Brandt was a pupil of Ritter, in Berlin, and one of the 
 best virtuosi on the fagotto of his day in Germany; he was appointed first 
 fagottist of the Court Orchestra of Munich in 1800. 
 
 ■ Johann B. Gansbacher, the conductor and composer, was the pupil of the 
 famous Abt Vogler; he formed with Meyerbeer and Weber the famous trium- 
 virate of friends, immortalized by Weber in a series of letters published in 
 the Music Journal " Caecilia " (Mainz). 
 
 ^ The " Hymne " was the "In Seiner Ordnung Schafft der Herr," which he 
 conducted in Leipzig a short time before writing this letter. Rochlitz had sup- 
 plied Weber with the text thereof. Writing to Gansbacher from Berlin, 14th July 
 1812, Weber says: " I have got a beautiful text for a cantata from Rochlitz, 
 which I intend to compose and to give in Leipzig for the first time at the 
 
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 in the Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung but he has not yet been able to get a 
 sight of it. It is to be performed on 6th March at a concert Weber is giving. 
 Weber wants to know what his friend thinks of Spohr's ' engagement in Vienna. 
 So far as he knows him, he does not consider him at all suited for the post. 
 
 Weber's heart is set on finding a good subject for an opera. Is there, then, 
 nothing of the sort forthcoming from any quarter ? 
 
 Scionda has at last written about the opera, and asking the time limit 
 Miller wants to give " Silvana " ' for his benefit, etc. 
 
 This is the finest Weber letter known to us. 
 
 247 
 WEBER (CARL MARIA VON). HOLOGRAPH 
 LETTER, SIGNED. 2 pages, 410. Dresden, 3 Dec- 
 ember, 18 1 5. Addressed to Charles Kemble (the famous 
 actor and manager of the Royal Theatre, Covent Garden). 
 Written in English. 
 
 A most important letter, in which the great composer accepts the offer of 
 ;^5oo for his musical setting to "Oberon." The conditions concerning his 
 acceptance of the offer are stated by Weber in this letter. 
 
 New Year." And writing to the same on 25th November 18 12 from Gotha : 
 " I have this moment written the last note of Rochlitz's hymn, which will, I 
 hope, please you; there is a little fugue at the close." 
 
 ' Spohr was on a concert-tour with his wife — a virtuosa on the harp — in 
 Vienna, where he had triumphed over the French violinist Rode when he 
 received the offer of a post as conductor at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna 
 at the end of 18 12. He threw up this post in 1816 in consequence of dis- 
 sensions, and was appointed the next year conductor in Frankfort. 
 
 2 The opera "Silvana" was composed to the libretto of Hiemer called 
 " Waldmadchen," by Weber, whilst staying with Eugen, Duke of Wurtemberg, 
 in Stuttgart. Julius Miller was one of the best German tenors of the day, a 
 friend of Weber's, and a composer of several operas.
 
 5, PALL MALL PLACE 251 
 
 When it is remembered that Weber died in London only six months after 
 this letter was written, and that, at the time of his death, the composer was 
 either directing or had just finished directing "Oberon," the unusual interest 
 of the present letter will be at once recognized. 
 
 These Weber letters are accompanied by a letter from Dr. Georg Kaiser, 
 the authority on Weber, containing his notes upon them. 
 
 248 
 
 WILKES (JOHN). THE ORIGINAL HOLOGRAPH 
 MANUSCRIPT of his CORRESPONDENCE WITH 
 HIS LAWYER, W. Peter Fountain. A series of twenty- 
 five letters dating from 1779 to 1782. 
 
 A valuable series of letters of this remarkable man. 
 
 It is extremely doubtful whether any other series of Wilkes' letters is 
 extant. 
 
 Some of the letters were written from King's Bench Prison whilst Wilkes 
 was imprisoned there. 
 
 This highly important correspondence deals with Wilkes' political and 
 private difficulties, and to many of the letters Fountain has added notes. 
 
 John wakes' was perhaps the ?nost extraordinary Englishman of the 
 eighteenth century. 
 
 The collection is illustrated throughout with fine contemporary portraits 
 of Wilkes, among which are: 
 
 1. Three-quarter length seated, after Pine, by Kitcheman. Royal 4to. A 
 very brilliant mezzotint. 
 
 2. Ditto, ditto. 8vo. Mezzotint. 
 
 3. Head and shoulders, after Pine, by Dickinson. Royal 4to, 1774. 
 Another very brilliant mezzotint. 
 
 4. Whole length, standing, without artist's or engraver's names. Mezzo- 
 tint. 
 
 5. The same, coloured. 
 
 6. Half length, after Pine, by Bocquet. A brilliant stipple engraving.
 
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 7. Three-quarter length, after Hogarth, by Baufe. A brilliant line en- 
 graving. Etc. 
 
 The whole inlaid to a uniform size, and bound in brown morocco extra, 
 forming a handsome royal 4to volume. 
 
 249 
 
 WILLIAM I OF BAVARIA. Das buech der gemein- 
 
 land-pot; Landsfordniing, Setziing und Gebreiich des 
 
 Fiirstennthiimbs in obern und nidern Bayrn. Im funftzehn 
 
 hUndert und sechtzehenden Jar aiifgericht, lit, 0Otf). 
 
 Printed in red and black, title in large red gothic letters, 
 
 with a large woodctit of two knights holdi^ig a shield zvith 
 
 marks h.w. and h.l. printed upon thick vellum. Folio. 
 
 Bound in the original oak boards, half pigskin, with clasps. 
 
 " Von netieni ziidrilckhen hevolhh habit zu Milnchen an 
 
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 250 
 
 WOLSEY (CARDINAL). LETTER SUBSCRIBED 
 AND SIGNED BY HIM. i page, ^to. 
 
 " Gentlemen, 
 
 " I commend myself to you cordially in order to inform you of the 
 business I have had with the Emperor (Charles V) for the smoothing away 
 of the differences between the King your Master (Francis I) and him. I send 
 to you the bearer of this letter to whom I beg you to give complete faith
 
 5, PALL MALL PLACE 25 
 
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 and trust. And on this subject Give you to God who may give you, Gentle- 
 men, good Ufe and long. At Bruges this Tuesday 20th August [15 21]. 
 
 •'Your good friend, 
 
 T. C.ARLis Ebor." 
 [Thomas Cardinalis Eboracensis]. 
 
 Addressed: "To Monsieur the Chancellor of France the Sieur de la Palice, 
 the first President of the Court of Parliament at Paris, the Sieur de la Bastye 
 and the other Ambassadors of France being at Calais." 
 
 This letter is of supreme historical importance because it was written 
 whilst Wolsey was presumed to be acting as an arbiter between the Emperor, 
 Charles V, and the King of France, Francis I. The letter, indeed, may be 
 regarded as a link with the Field of the Cloth of Gold pageant. 
 
 After the meeting of Henry VI 11 and Francis I at the Field of the Cloth 
 of Gold, '"twixt Guisnes and Ardres," in 1520, the Emperor and the King of 
 England met at Gravelines on loth July that same year. At this meeting, 
 which was regarded with distrust by France, the marriage of the Emperor with 
 the Princess Mary, already recently betrothed to the Dauphin, was discussed, 
 in spite of the fact that Charles V had pledged himself to marry the French 
 King's daughter Charlotte. 
 
 A Treaty was concluded between the two Monarchs by which they promised 
 that no new treaty with France which should bind either to those matrimonial 
 alliances which both had contracted with that country, should be made within 
 two years. 
 
 Henry then wrote to Francis informing him that the Emperor's ministers 
 had made dishonourable proposals for breaking off the marriage treaties. 
 Francis, however, was not deceived and although Wolsey persuaded him from 
 open resentment, yet matters were now drifting towards a war which eventually 
 broke out between the Emperor and the King of France. Charles therefore 
 called upon Henry to assist him as he had bound himself to do. Henry, how- 
 ever, required to know first who was the real aggressor, and Wolsey crossed to 
 Calais to hear the deputies from both sides (29th July 152 1). 
 
 Among the commissions which the Cardinal was charged with by Henry 
 was the settling of the differences between the Emperor and Francis. 
 
 Conferences were opened under Wolsey's presidency at Calais on the 
 7th August. The Emperor had come to Bruges to be near at hand, and the
 
 254 J PEARSON & CO. 
 
 Cardinal was requested by the deputies to negotiate with the Emperor direct 
 owing to a hitch in the proceedings. Persuading the French deputies to 
 remain at Calais until his return Wolsey visited Charles at Bruges. 
 
 // zvas tvhile tvith the Emperor at Bruges that the Cardinal wrote the 
 
 present letter, but, of course, his real business at Bruges was not to settle 
 
 differences between Charles and Francis as he states in the present letter, that 
 
 was only a ruse, but to conclude a secret offensive and defensive alliance 
 
 against France. This had already been planned before Wolsey left England. 
 
 ^^200 
 
 WORDSWORTH. This is believed to be the only 
 COMPLETE SET OF FIRST EDITIONS of his 
 works ever offered for sale. In all 27 volumes, of which 25 
 are uncut. The whole are uniformly botmd in red levant 
 morocco extra. 
 
 The set comprises : 
 
 AN EVENING WALK. An Epistle, in Verse. Addressed to a Young 
 Lady, from the Lakes of the North of England. By W. Wordsworth, B. A. 
 of St. John's, Cambridge. 4to. 
 
 Londoti: Printed for /. Johnson, St. PauVs Church- Yard. 1793 
 
 Wordsworth's first appearance in print, written at the age of nineteen, 
 while at college in 1787-9, but not published until four years later. Ex- 
 tremely RARE, WITH THE UNPAGED LEAF OF ErRATA. 
 
 " Joseph Johnson, who published for many of the revolutionary party, 
 brought out the ' Evening Walk ' and the ' Descriptive Sketches ' early in 
 1793. In both poems the metre and diction conform to the conventions of 
 the old-fashioned school to whom Pope was still the recognized model. '■ The 
 Evening Walk,' composed during his college vacations spent at the lakes, is 
 remarkable for its series of accurate transcripts of natural scenery, obviously 
 made on the spot." 
 
 The " Evening Walk " was considerably revised in later editions. It shows 
 Beattie's influence. Many years afterwards, in 1836, Wordsworth said it was
 
 5, PALL MALL PLACE 255 
 
 addressed to his sister Dorothy, " Not an image in it which I had not 
 observed." 
 
 The present example is wider by \ of an inch than the Hoe copy. 
 
 DESCRIPTIVE SKETCHES in Verse. Taken during a Pedestrian Tour 
 in the Italian, Grison, Swiss, and Savoyard Alps. By W. Wordsworth, B.A., 
 of St. John's, Cambridge. " Loca pastorum deserta atque otia dia." — Lucret. 
 "Castella in tumulis — et longe saltus lateque vacantes." — Virgil. 410. 
 
 London: Printed fo/- /. Johnson, St. FatiFs Churchyard. 1793 
 
 Extremely rare. With the leaf of errata. 
 
 Wordsworth's second appearance in print. 
 Written in 179 1-2, at the age of twenty, on the banks of the Loire, during 
 a trip resulting from a disappointment in love, and, like the " Evening Walk," 
 a curious mixture of fine poetry and commonplace, even bathos. Coleridge 
 wrote of it before he met Wordsworth : " Seldom, if ever, was the emergence of 
 a great and original poetic genius above the literary horizon more evidently 
 announced." 
 
 The " Descriptive Sketches " describes the journey to Switzerland, and 
 was composed in France, where he helped a fading memory of details from 
 the work of the French painter Raymond, who in 1781 translated Archdeacon 
 Coxe's letters from Switzerland, with additional notes. 
 
 " The poem recalls Goldsmith's ' Traveller,' and illustrates Wordsworth's 
 politics at the time of its composition. He bewails the harsh lot of the poor 
 peasant in language recalling the hunger-bitten peasant of Blois. It leads up 
 to an eager expression of sympathy for the defenders of liberty in France." 
 
 This and the " Evening Walk " are two of the rarest books in 
 THE English Language. Probably less than half-a-dozen of each have 
 survived. 
 
 POEMS: by Francis Wrangham, M.A., Member of Trinity-College, Cam- 
 bridge. Quotation in Greek. (Tweedell. Prolus VIII.) 8vo. Uncut. 
 
 London: Sold by /. Maivman, 22, Poultry. 1795 
 
 A Large Paper Copy. 
 
 The translation of Wrangham's French stanzas is by Wordsworth.
 
 256 J. PEARSON & CO. 
 
 LYRICAL BALLADS, with a few other Poems. 8vo. Uncut. 
 
 London: Printed for J. and A. Arch, Gracechurch- Street. 1798 
 
 Extremely rare, with the leaf of errata and uncut. An uncut copy sold 
 for ;^34 \os. in 1910. 
 
 " The most remarkable incident of this time was the walk of 13 Nov. 1797, 
 when the two poets proposed to compose a joint Ballad to be sold for ^5 to 
 pay for their tour. The Ancient Mariner thus begun was left to Coleridge. 
 This led to talk of a joint publication to which Coleridge should contribute 
 poems showing the dramatic truth of supernatural incidents, while Wordsworth 
 should try to give the charm of novelty to ' things of every day.' The result 
 was the publication of the ' Lyrical Ballads.' " 
 
 POEMS, in Two Volumes, by William Wordsworth, x\uthor of The Lyrical 
 Ballads. "Posterius graviore sono tibi Musa loquetur. Nostra: dabunt 
 cum securos mihi tempora fructus." 2 vols. 8vo. Uncut. 
 
 Lofidon: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Pees and Orjne, 
 
 Paternoster Row. 1807 
 
 A fine copy — extremely rare, being uncut and having the half titles and 
 leaf of "erratum." 
 
 "A collection of poems in two volumes appeared this year, including 
 the odes to ' Duty,' and upon the ' Litimations of Immortality,' ' Miscellaneous 
 Sonnets,' sonnets dedicated to 'Liberty' and poems written during a tour in 
 Scotland." 
 
 CONCERNING THE RELATIONS OF GREAT BRITAIN, Spain and 
 Portugal, to each other, and to the Common Enemy, at this Crisis; and 
 specifically as affected by the Convention of Cintra: the whole brought to 
 the test of those Principles, by which alone the Independence and Freedom 
 of Nations can be Preserved or Recovered. " Qui didicit patriae quid 
 debeat: Quod sit conscripti, quod judicis officium; quae Partes in bellum 
 missi ducis." By William Wordsworth. 8vo. uncut. 
 
 London: Printed for Lotigman, Ifjirst, Pees and Orme, 
 
 Paternoster Row. 1809 
 
 " The Spanish rising, however, roused Wordsworth thoroughly. He 
 sympathised heartily with the patriotic resistance to Napoleon, and was
 
 5, PALL MALL PLACE 257 
 
 shocked by the permission granted to the French army to return to their own 
 country. He expressed his feehngs in a pamphlet (the present) which 
 Canning is said to have regarded as the most eloquent production since 
 Burke's. It takes a high moral ground, and, if rather magniloquent, is forcibly 
 written." 
 
 THE EXCURSION, being a portion of the Recluse, a Poem. By William 
 Wordsworth. 4to. Uncut. 
 
 London : Printed for Longman^ ffursf, Rees, Orme and Brozvn, 
 
 Paternoster Row. 1 8 1 4 
 
 " ' The Excursion ' marks the culmination of Wordsworth's poetical 
 career. Jeffrey's famous phrase, ' This will never do! ' was really the protest 
 of literary orthodoxy against a heresy the more offensive because it was growing 
 in strength. Southey, Keats, and Crabb Robinson now put Wordsworth by 
 the side of Milton." 
 
 POEMS by William Wordsworth; including Lyrical Ballads, and the Miscel- 
 laneous Pieces of the Author. With Additional Poems, a new Preface, and 
 a Supplementary Essay. Frofitispiece after Sir G. Beaumont by J. C. Bromley 
 and S. IV. Reynolds. 2 vols. 8vo. uncut. 
 
 London : Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 
 
 Paternoster Roiu. 1 8 1 5 
 
 THE WHITE DOE OF RYLSTONE; or the Fate of the Nortons. A 
 
 Poem. By William Wordsworth. Frontispiece after Sir G. Beaximont by 
 
 Bromley. 4to. uncut. 
 
 London: Printed for Longmati, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Broivn, Paternoster 
 
 Row, by James Ballantyne and Co., Edinburgh. 181 5 
 
 THANKSGIVING ODE, January i8th, 1816. With other Short Pieces, 
 chiefly referring to recent public events. By William Wordsworth. 8vo. 
 
 uncut. 
 London: Printed by Thomas Davison, Whitefriars, for Lotigman, Hurst, 
 
 Rees, Orme and Brown, Paternoster Row. 18 16 
 
 Of this period of the Poet's life Sir Leslie Stephen wrote: 
 " He [Wordsworth] had become respectable and conservative. To the 
 
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 258 J. PEARSON & CO. 
 
 liberals he appeared to be a renegade. Shelley expresses his views in a 
 sonnet, and in 'Peter Bell the Third,' the first ' Peter Bell,' being the parody 
 by John Hamilton Reynolds brought out when Wordsworth's poem was 
 advertised. Browning's ' Lost Leader ' gives a later version of this sentiment. 
 Wordsworth's 'Thanksgiving Ode 'in 1815 [this is a mistake, the ' Ode ' was 
 published in Jan. 1816] (to which Shelley refers) shows how completely he 
 shared the conservative view." 
 
 A LETTER TO A FRIEND OF ROBERT BURNS: occasioned by 
 an intended republication of The Account of the Life of Burns, by Dr. 
 Currie; and of the Selection made by him from his letters. By William 
 Wordsworth. 8vo. Uncut. 
 
 London: Printed for Longman, Llurst, Rees, Orme and Broum, 
 
 Paternoster Row. 1 8 1 6 
 
 THE WAGGONER, a Poem. To which are added, Sonnets. By William 
 
 Wordsworth. " What 's in a Name? " " Brutus will start a spirit as soon as 
 
 Caesar!" 8vo. Uncut. 
 
 London: Printed by Strahan and Spottiswoode, Printers Street; for 
 
 Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme afid Brown, Paternoster Row. 181 9 
 
 PETER BELL, a Tale in Verse, by William Wordsworth. Frontispiece after 
 
 Sir G. Beaumont by Bromley. 8vo. Uncut. 
 
 London: Printed by Strahan and Spottiswoode, Printers Street; for 
 
 Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, Paternoster Row. 1 8 1 9 
 
 "'Peter Bell' is said to have been Wordworth's 'most successful' book 
 
 up to that time, an edition of five hundred having been sold in the year 
 
 and a second published." 
 
 THE RIVER DUDDON, a Series of Sonnets: Vaudracour and Julia; and 
 Other Poems. To which is annexed a Topographical Description of the 
 Country of the Lakes in the North of England. By William Wordsworth. 
 8vo. Uncut. 
 
 Lotidon: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 
 
 Patertioster Row. 1820 
 
 "The Sonnets on the Duddon, chiefly written about 1820, show his true 
 power."
 
 5, PALL MALL PLACE 259 
 
 A DESCRIPTION OF THE SCENERY OF THE LAKES in the 
 
 North of England. Third Edition (now first pubUshed separately) with 
 Additions and illustrative remarks upon the Scenery of the Alps. By 
 William Wordsworth. Folding Map. Small 8vo. Uncut. 
 
 London : Pi-mted for Lojigman, Hurst ^ Rees, Or me and Brown, 
 
 Paternoster Row. 1822 
 
 ECCLESIASTICAL SKETCHES. By William Wordsworth. Svo. Uncut. 
 London : Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 
 
 Paternoster Row. 1822 
 
 MEMORIALS OF A TOUR ON THE CONTINENT, 1820. By William 
 Wordsworth. 8vo. Uncut. 
 
 London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brozvn, 
 
 Paternoster Roio. 1822 
 
 " In 1820 the Poet made a four months' tour with his wife and his sister 
 and other friends up the Rhine to Switzerland, met Robinson at Lucerne, 
 and, after visiting the Italian lakes, returned by Paris." 
 
 YARROW REVISITED, and other Poems. By William Wordsworth. 
 
 " Poets . . . dwell on earth 
 To clothe whate'er the soul admires and loves 
 With language and with numbers." — Akenside. 
 
 8vo. Uncut. 
 
 London : Printed for Lofigman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Long- 
 man, Paternoster Row ; and Edivard Moxon, Dover Street. 1835 
 
 "In I S3 1 Wordsworth went to Scotland, chiefly to see Scott, whom he 
 visited in September at Abbotsford. A fine sonnet. Yarrow Revisited, com- 
 memorates this last meeting." 
 
 THE SONNETS of William Wordsworth. Collected in one volume with a 
 few additional ones, now first published. 8vo. Uncut. 
 
 London: Edward Moxon, Dover Street. 1838
 
 26o J. PEARSON & CO. 
 
 ODE, performed at the Senate House, Cambridge, on Tuesday, 6th July 
 1847, in the presence of Her Majesty, at the first pubhc commencement 
 after the Installation of His Royal Highness the Prince Albert, Chancellor 
 of the University, written by William Wordsworth, Esqre, D.C.L., Poet 
 Laureate, set to music by Thomas Atwood Walmisley, Mus. Doc, M.A. 
 Trin. Coll., Professor of Music in the University and Organist of Trinity 
 and St. John's Colleges. Price 10^. Folio. Uncut. 
 
 London: Published {for the Author) by Chappell, Music Seller io Her 
 
 Majesty, 50, New Bond Street. 1849 
 
 THE PRELUDE, or Growth of a Poet's Mind; an Autobiographical Poem: 
 by William Wordsworth. 8vo. Uncut. 
 
 London: Edward Moxofi, Dover Street. 1850 
 
 A posthumous publication. 
 
 Wordsworth died 23rd April this same year (1850). 
 
 This work was largely drawn upon by Sir Leslie Stephen when writing his 
 life of the Poet. 
 
 MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, Poet Laureate, D.C.L. By 
 Christopher Wordsworth, D.D., Canon of Westminster. Portrait of Dora 
 Wordsworth after Gillies by Armytage. 2 vols. Uncut. 
 
 London: Edward Moxon, Dover Street. 185 1 
 
 Of this work the Poet's biographer states: 
 
 "The Memoirs of WiUiam Wordsworth by Christopher Wordsworth (after- 
 wards Bishop of Lincoln) his nephew, 1851, 2 vols., 8vo, gives a useful though 
 not very full narrative." 
 
 THE RECLUSE. By William Wordsworth. 8vo. Uncut. 
 
 London: Macmillan and Co.., and New York. 1891. All rights reserved. 
 Printed on Large Whatman Paper. - 
 
 " When finishing ' the Prelude,' he says that the task ' of his life ' will be 
 over if he can finish the ' Recluse ' and a narrative poem of the epic kind. 
 The epic was never begun."
 
 
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 A DESCRIPTION OF THE WORDSWORTH AND COLERIDGE 
 MANUSCRIPTS, in the possession of Mr. T. Norton Longman. With 
 three facsimile reproductions. Edited with notes by W. Hale White. 4to. 
 Uncut. 
 
 Longman, Green and Co., 39, Paternoster Row, London, Neiv York, 
 
 and Bombay. 1S97 
 
 The Collection, ^400 
 
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 WYER'S PRESS. THE ARTICYLES OF THE 
 CHARTOURE AND LYBERTYES OF ENG- 
 LANDE CALLED MAGNA CARTA that is to saye 
 the great Chartoure. With the Chartoure of Foresta. 
 
 At end: Impry7ited by me Robert Wyer. 12 mo. Dhie 
 morocco extra. \_Londoii, c. 1535] 
 
 This unique (?) little book contains an English Translation of the 
 Great Charter and Charter of the Forest, issued by Edward I. Who the 
 translator was is not mentioned, but the work has been done in a curi- 
 ously careless manner. In the fifth article, which relates to the duties of 
 guardians towards minors in England, the guardian is bound to maintain the 
 "vineyards." The word in the original has been mis-read "vinaria," and 
 translated "vineyards," when it is really "vivaria," otherwise "fish-ponds"! 
 In article 29 the well-known mortmain act, the beginning is here given, " Be 
 it lawful! from henceforth," etc., in place of " Be it unlawful," etc. 
 
 Robert Wyer, the printer, is mentioned as a printer in the lay Subsidy 
 accounts as early as 1524, but nothing is known of his press before 1530. He 
 lived at the sign of St. John Evangelist in the parish of St. Martin-in-the- 
 Fields, and from 1530 to 1560 issued a very large number of small popular 
 books. Of this particular volume no trace can be found, nor is it mentioned by 
 Plomer in his bibliography of Wyer. The book which generally goes under the
 
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 to the Charter itself, a great number of early statutes. 
 
 The First Article concerns the liberty of the " Churche of Englande," 
 that she shall " be free and have all her ryghts hole and her lybertyes 
 unhurte." 
 
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