7^ 4^ : ^ 4^! 4i^ UC-NRLF ^B 233 ST3 ^tt'l't'l^ttil^tf ^tf^l'il'fftilj'ffti No. 422. 1922. English Literature and Printing FROM THE XVth to XVIIIth CENTURY. PART I.— A to L, SELECTED FROM THE STOCK OF MAGGS BROS. 34 ® 35, CONDUIT STREET, New Bond Street. LONDON, W. Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2007 with funding from Microsoft Corporation http://www.archive.org/details/englishliteraturOOmaggrich FRONTISPIECE. * TKf^ nuf^ ntpiit- mnH n 9op 3rtf T^otft^f A3 of fti^^vt PfK^ ^ttt^vppc(tr(\c C^c^lmp fame (\c ^Cauief pit tS miiffitioS^e t>t^tt4 >^lfin He ff(iit |>c pm^ petfi per t$9tmtsf m ?i0 mmtm Of 0115 p^ fH)nft»e wii 0«rtv ^ii/J oO )/«• ^f milii 1$ oner rif w^iW^in pet f(%i |;f t©tftrji»|f ffotHtnc fhtttt m Wt)t^ fhttc ?Esop and other Eminent Mythologists; with Morals and Reflexions by Sir Roger L'Estramge. Large portrait of V Estrange by White after Kneller, and plate. Fables and Storyes moralized. Being a second part of the Fables of yEsop, and other Eminent Mythologists, etc. 2 vols., folio, fine copy in original calf. London, 1694-99. £3 3s 1 1 AFRICA. L. (S.). A Letter frotn a Centlemati of the Lord Ambassador Howard's Retimiei, to his Friend in London: Dated at Fez, Nov. 1, 1669. Wherein he gives a full Relation of the most Remarkable Passages in their Voyage thither, aind of the present State of the Countries under the Power of TlAFFALETTA, Emperour of Morcm:cO; With a brief account of the Merchandizing Commodities of AFRICA; As also the Manners and Customs of the People there. 36 pp., small 4to, new boards. London, Printed by W. G. for Moses Pitt, 1670. £3 IDs MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35. Conduit Street, London, W. 3 Africa — continued. 12 The Moores Baffled, being a Discourse concerning Tanger especially when it was under the Earl of Teviot; by which you may find what methods and Government is fittest to secure that place against the Moors, in a letter from a learned person (long resident in that place) at the desire of a person of quality. With the scarce folding plate of Tangiers engraved by Hollar. Small 4to, fine copy in full calf gilt, g. e. London, 168 1. £10 10s 13 A Short amd Strange Relation of some part of the Life of Tafi- letta, the great Conqueror and Emperor of Barbary, by one that hath lately been in His Majesties service iri that Country. With the very rare engraved portrait of Tafiletta. Small 4to, full calf. London, 1669. £6 6s 14 A True Relation of the Inhumane and UnparalleI'd Actions, and BaHbarous Murders of Negroes or Moors: committed on three English- men in Old Calabar in Guinny; together with a short but true account of the Customs and Manners and Growth of the Country, which is very Pleasant. Small 4to, half calf, neat. London, 1672. £8 lOS Uncut, in Original Wrappers. 15 AKENSIDE (Mark). The Pleasures of Imagination. A Poem in three books. Vignette on title. First Edition. 4to, a remarkable copy, in its original paper wrap- pers, edges entirely uncut. London, Dodsley, i744- £6 "'^S * * ^ Excessively Rare in this fine state, " In this poem, as an elegant critic has observed with great propriety, he has united the grace of Virgil, the colouring of Milton, the incidental expression of Shakespeare, to paint the finest features of the human mind, and the most lovely forms of true morality and religion." Printed by the '* Anonymous Schoolmaster " at St. Albans, 1480. 16 ALBERTUS. Liber Modorum Signifioanfli. One and a half leaves of this excessively rare book, printed at St.. Albans by '* The Anonymous Schoolmaster,'' 1480'. Preserved in a portfolio, buckram sides, leather back, lettered both on sides and back. *»lo loS * * * NO PERFECT COPY OF THIS EXCESSIVELY HARE BOOK IS KNOWN TO BE IN EXISTENCE. SPECIMENS OF THE BOOKS PRINTED BY ''THE ANONYMOUS SCHOOLMASTER" ARE THE RAREST OF ALL ENGLISH INCUNABULA, FAR RARER THAN ANYTHING CAXTON PRINTED THE SCHOOLMASTER ISSUED ONLY EIGHT BOOKS, AND WORKED FROM 1480 TO 1486. MAGGS BROS.. 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 17 ALBIN .Eleazer). A NaturaJ History of English Song-Blrds, including such foreign birds as are usually brought over and esteemed for their singing: their proper Management, Diseases, and Cures. To which are added, figures of the cock, Hen, and egg of each species, exactly copied from Nature, and curiously engraven on copper. _, ,- j Frontispiece, and numerous copper -f late engravings of birds. Post 8vo, original calf. London, 1779. 12s 6d The Earliest Reformed Portion of the English Liturgy. 17a fALES, SEU HALES (Alexander, Scotus).] Ordo DIstrlbutioiiis Saora- mentj Altarfs sub utraque Speoie. 12 leaves, i2mo, full morocco, g. e. Haec Londini Evulgata sunt octavo die Martii anni 1548. £25 ♦ ♦ * THE CX)MMUNION OFFICE OF EDWARD VI. AND THE EARLIEST RE- I«X)RMED PORTION OF THE ENGLISH LITURGY ; made known to the churches abroad by ALES who afterwards translated the Prayer Book into Latin. This Latin version of the English Reformed Communion Service appeared a year before the First English Prayer Book. Alexander Ales, Lutheran divine, was born at Edinburgh, 1500. At Wittenberg in 1533 he made the acquaintance of Luther and Melanchthon, and he came to England in August 1535 the bearer of a letter and a book for King Henry from Melanchthon. " In the reign of Edward VI. Alesius seems once more to have visited England, where Archbishop Cranmer employed him to translate into Latin the first liturgy of King Edward V I, for the use of Martin Bucer and Peter Martyr, whose views on the • Communion Book ' were desired by Cranmer, but who lacked the requisite know- ledge of the English tongue. It is with reference to this piece of work and the changes afterwards introduced into the communion service that, at a disputation held at Oxford 18 April, 1554, between Latimer and a numerous body of opponents, the prolocutor Dr. Weston declared that a * runagate Scot did take away the adora- tion or worshipping of Christ in the sacrament ; by whose procurement that heresy was put into the last communion book; so much prevailed that one man's authority at that time.' " D.N.B. i8 ALLE8TREE (Richard). Forty Sermons, whereof Twenty-one are now first pubhsh'd, the greatest part preach'd before the King and on solemn «^as">ns. To these is prefixt an Account of the Author's Life. H^^M portrait by Loggan; title and text ruled with red lines. Folio, full contemporary morocco gilt, gilt edges. London, 1684. £1 153 19 A^^ANACKS. A Collection of Fourteen rare Astrological Almanacks lOr the year 1678. Bound in i vol., thick i2mo, full contemporary red morocco gilt London, 1678. ^ ^fo iqs *StoTe ^Whfti^^P^^ p"^"^ under the names of Lilly, Partridge, Andrews, Gadbury, )ulJ2iiaSc :~ ' ' *'*^®"' *^®''® '^ *^® following very curious Quaked ^ Jt? jlifi^^?.^^'"'*"^^ /e*" ^^® P«°P^« ca"e; or, Memoirs of the B — R — D Family, in a Series of Poetical Epistles. First Edition. 4to, full calf. London, 1766. £1 16s 30 AN APOLOGIE OF PRIVATE MASSE, spred abroade in writing without name of the Authour ; as it seemeth, against the offer & protestacion made in certayne Sermons by the reverent father Bisshop of Salsbune; With An Answer to the Same Apologie. Set foorth for the Maintenance & Defence of the Trueth. Woodcut title to the Second Part. Small 8vo, full morocco gilt, g. e., by Lewis. London ^ Thos. Pozuell, 1562. £4 4s Large Paper Copy. :;i ARIOSTO. Orlando Furioso, In English Heroical Verse by S^ John Harington, of Bathe, Knight, now thirdly revised & amended, with the addition of the Author's Epigrams. Engraved title, ivith medallion portraits, and full-fage engravings in the text. Large Papeir Copy. Folio, fine copy in the original calf, joints neatly repaired. London, Printed by C. Miller, 1634. £15 15s ^ * * The translator, Sir John Harington, was godson of Queen Ehzabeth. He studied law at Lincohi's Inn, but not to much purpose, for his reputation as a wit and a man of the world was soon established, and he looked to court favour rather than tlie exercise of a profession. About 1584 he married Mary, daughter of Sir George Rogers of Cannington in Somerset, but marriage does not seem to have sobered his exuberant spirits. His epigrams began to pass current, and he enlivened the court by his sallies, which were not always adapted to a fastidious taste. Among other things, he translated for the amusement of the ladies of the court the story of Giocondo, from the twenty-eighth book of Ariosto's " Orlando Furioso," and his translation was handed about in manuscript till it fell into the hands of the queen. She reprimanded Harington for corrupting the morals of her ladies by translating the least seemly part of Ariosto's work, and ordered him as a punishment to leave the court for his country house till he had made a translation of the whole. To this we owe the translation of the " Orlando Furioso," which was first published in folio in 1591, and reissued in 1607 and 1634. It is written in the same stanza as the original, and is easy and flowing. It is rather a paraphrase than a translation. As a preface to it Harington wrote '' An Apologie of Poetrie," an essay in criticism which resembles Sir Philip Sidney's treatise of the same name. The most remark- able part of it is that concerned with his use of metre, especially his defence of two- syllabled and three-syllabled rhymes. (D.N.B.). MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street. London, W. 32 ARITHMETIC. Flower (R). The Siqiercfigit. In one Line of these Superdigits Arithmetic is wrought by Motion, instead of Mental Reckoning, also the Universal Decimal Series, which Series, upon the Superdigit, reduceth any Denominations of Com. Weight Measures, Time, &c., into decimals infinitely continued by Inspection. The whole being a New Arithmetic, invented by R. Flower. Original Manuscript on upwards of 330 pp.y with diagrams, etc. Small 4to, half calf. Circa 1780. £3 lOs With interesting Note on fly-leaf by J. O. Halliwell, on this treatise. ♦ « * 33 ARMIN (Robert). The Valiant Welshnnan, or the True Chronicle History of the Life and Valiant Deeds of Caradoc the Great King of Cambria now called Wales. As it hath been, sundry times acted by the Prince of Wales his Servants. Woodcut frontispiece. Small 4to, bound by Riviere in full polished calf gilt, g. e. London, 1663. £31 10s * * * The Frontispiece appears for the First time in this the Second Edition. 34 ARMSTRONG (John). Misoellames. 2 vols, in I, small 8vo, original calf , rebacked. London, 1770. £1 8s *** Thomas Campbell's (the poet) copy, with his book-plate, and his Autograph Signature on title-page. 35 ARNOLD (Richaid). Chfonjole of London, 1521, In this boke is conteined ye names of the baylyfs, Custose, mayers and sherefs of ye cyte of London from the tyme of Kynge Richard the fyrst & also the artycles of ye Chartour & lybartyes of the same Cyte. And of the chartour and lybartyes of England with other dyvers maters good and necessary for every cytizen to understand and knowe. Black Letter, woodcut initials. Small folio, fidl morocco, blind tooled (no place or date of Printing but circa 1521). £15 15s ♦ * * Margins of a few leaves and blank portion of last leaf restored, and some worm holes, but otherwise a good copy of a very rare book. In this book appeared the famous old English ballad of the Nut-Brown Maid. Arnold's work is a commonplace book dealing with London antiquities. It contains the chief charters granted to the city, accounts of its customs, and notes on a variety of topics chiefly but not entirely connected with commerce. Hearne called it a chronicle ; but its only claim to that title rests on its opening section, which gives, with occasional historical notes, a list of the names of the " Baylifs, Gustos, Mairs, and Sherefs " of London. Arnold himself gives the book no name ; Douce, its latest editor, christens it the *' Customs of London." MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. g 36 ASCHAM (Roger). The Scholemaster, Or plaine and perfite way of teaching children, to understand, write, and speake, the latin tonge, but especially purposed for the private bringing up of youth in Gentlemen and noblemens houses, and commo- dious also for all such, as have forgot the Catin tonge, and would, by them selves, without a Scholemaster, in short time, and with small paines, recover a sufficient habilitie, to understand, write and speake Latin. Small 4to, calf. At London, Printed by John Daye, 1571. £9 9s Bouud up at end is POOL (J.) THE YOUTH S GUIDE; or ENGLISH ACCIDENCE, 1670. Some marginal notes cut into. Although his method failed to gain currency. Ascham's '* Scholemaster " at once took its permanent place as an English classic. The whole work abounds with choice anecdotes, admirable reflexions, pregnant sentiments from pagan authors, scholarly criticisms; and exhibits throughout, moreover, a deep yet kindly estimate of the boy nature, which makes it one of the most suggesstive and fascinating books in the English language, and justly entitles the author to the praise bestowed upon him by Gabriel Harvey of being " a flower spring of humanity." 37 ToxophiluSy The Schoole, or partitions of Shooting contayned m J:wo bookes, Written by Roger Ascham And now newly perused. Pleasaunt for all Gentlemen and Yomen of England for their pastime to reade, and profitable for their use to follow both in Warre and peace. Black Letter, ivoodcnt border to title. Small 4to, newly bound in fidl calf gilt, g. e. At London, Printed by Abell Jeffes, 1589. £18 18s * * * The book is written in dialogue form betweeii Toxophilus (Ascham himself) and Philologus, a Greek tutor of Cambridge (doubtless Sir John Cheke). The first part formed an argument in favour of archery as a recreation for students. The English Works of Roger Ashami, containing, a Report of the Affairs of Germany and the Emperor Charles the Fifth's Court : Toxophilus, or the School of Shooting : The School- master : Letters to Queen Elizabeth : with notes and observations, and the Author's Life by James Bennet. 4to, calf. London, circa 1760. £1 10s SQ ASTROLOGY. Blackwel (James). Th« Nativity of Mr. Will. Lilly Astrologically pe'rformecf; shewing how he hath lived, and by what death he may probably die. For the satisfaction of Astrologers and others. Small 4to, 15 pp., neiv boards. London, Tho. Johnson, 1660. £1 16s *** " Wm. Lilly, a celebrated English Astrologer, was born in 1602. He was em- ployed by both parties during the Civil War; he, however, gained more from the parliamentary party ; and the predictions contained in his almanacs had a wonderful effect upon the soldiers and common people." This pamphlet is really an attack on him. 10 MAGGS BROS.. 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. Astrology — continued. Presentation Copy. 40 Cadbury (John, Student in Physick and Astrology). Cardlflies CobN: or An Appeal to the learned and Experienced Observers of Sublunars and their Vicissitudes, whether the Cardinal Signs of Heaven are not most influential upon Men and Things proved by X Remarkable Genitures, &c. In a Reply to the learned Author of Cometomantia : wherein the character of Gassendus is defended, and sundry other Starry- Truths are Justified. Small 4to, bound by Riviere in full mottled calf gilt ^ g. e. London, 1684. £8 8s *** Presentation Copy from the Author to John Gibbon, Blue-Mantel at Arms, with inscription by Gadbury on fly-leaf, MS. nativity by him of Gibbon and numerous Notes, and further a long and most interesting Autograph letter of Gadburv's on Astrological Subjects. 41 Gassentfus (Petrus). The Vaitity of Judiciary Astrology, or Divination by the Stars. Lately written in Latin, by that great Schollar and Mathematician, the illustrious Petrus Gassendus; mathematical Pro- fessor to the King of France. Translated into English by a person of quality. With engraved portrait. Small 8vo, old calf, rebacked. London, 1659. 15S 42 ASTRONOMY. Hevelius (J.). Animadversions on the first part of the Machina Coelestis of the Honourable, Learned, and deservedly Famous Astronomer Johannes Heveliiis, Consul of Dantzick; together with an Explication of some Instruments made by Robert Hooke, Professor of Geometry in Gresham College. With three folding plates. Small 4to, itew boards. London, 1674. £1 15s 43 Hooke (Robert). Lectures and Collections made by Robert Hooke on Comets and the Microscope. Illustrated with five folding plates. Small 4to, neiv boards. London, 1678. £1 15s 44 AUGUSTINE (St.). Of the CItie of Cod. With the Learned Comments of lo. Lod. Vives. Englished by J. H.[ealey]. Thick folio, original calf {rebacked). London, Printed by George Eld, 1610. £1 lOs ♦*• First Edition of the first English translation. MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. II 45 BACON (Sir Francis). CertaJne Miscellany Wotks of the Right Honour- able Franci?i Lo. Verulam, Viscount S. Alban. Published by William Rawley. First Edition. Small 4to, straight- grained morocco, g. e. London, i62g. £4 10s Include — Warre with Spaine ; Holy Warre ; a Digest to be made of the Lawes of England, and History of King Henry the Eight. 46 The Confession of Faithi: Written by Sr. Francis Bacon. Woodcut -portrait on title. First Edition. Small 4to, fidl crushed morocco extra, g. e. Printed in the Year 1641. £38 lOs * * -x- " Jt has been stated that the religious feelings and sentiments of Bacon are almost everywhere to be found in his various works, but it is not from such ' inci- dental allusions,' as Spedding says, that ' we are left to gather his Creed.' In his own Confession we have it explicitly set forth. This formulary was first printed in quarto form in the year 1641, and is a little work of excessive rarity. Indeed, this special edition was unknoAvn to Lowndes and Hazlitt, and of late years, so far as I know, only two copies have appeared for sale — one in May, 1903, and the other in May, 1905, both at Messrs. Sotheby's rooms. It contains a large portrait of Bacon on the title. It was probably written in the year 1603, and it is interesting to remember that at this very time his life was full of anxiety, not only with weighty problems of State, but also with pressing private concerns. In his ambition he was then most eager to obtain high office under James the First, and the appointment of King's Counsel was then bestowed upon him." (G. W. Steeves.) Spedding closes his remarks on this subject thus: "If any one wishes to read a summa theologiae digested into seven pages of the finest English in the days when its tones were finest, he may read it here." 47 The Elements of the Common Lawes of England, branched into a double Tract : the one containing a Collection of Some principall Rules and Maximes oj the Common Law, with their Latitude and Extent, explicated for the more facile Introduction of such as are studiously addicted to that noble profession, the other the use of the Common Law, for preservation of our Persons, Goods and Customes of this Land. First Edition. Small 4to, original velluyn. London, 1636. £6 6s 48 The Elements of the Common Lawes of England, branched into a double Tract; the one containing a Collection of some principall Rules & Maximes of the Common Law, with their Latitude & Extent explicated for the more facile Introduction of Such as are studiously addicted to that noble Profession, the other the use of the Common Law, for preservation of our Persons, Goods & Good Names. According to the Lawes & Customes of this Land. Small 4to, original calf. London, 1639 £4 4s 12 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. Baoon (Sir Francis) — continued. 4Q The Essayes or Counsels CIvill and Morall. Newly enlarged. Small 4to, original calf. London, Printed by John Beale, 1639. £4 4s 50 SI The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh. Portrait and engraved title. First EjdiTION. Folio, original calf. London, Printed by W . S tans by, 1622. £7 7s The Hcstorie of the Reigne of King Henry the Seventh, whereunto is now added a very use full and necessary Table. With large portrait of Marshall. Folio, old calf. London, 164 1. 18s 52 History, Naturall and Experimental!, of Life and Death, or of the Prolongation of Life. First Edition in English, with the fine emblematic frontispiece by Glover, and the *' Impimatur " leaf. l2mo, original calf. London, Printed by John Haviland, 1638. £8 8s 53 The Natural! and Experimentan History of Winds, &c. Written in Latine by the Right Honorable Francis Lo : Verulam, Viscount St. Alban. Translated into English by R. G. Gent. First Edition. i2mo, original calf. £8 8s 54 Of the Advancement and Profioienoe of Learning, or the Parti- tions of Sciences, IX Bookes, written in Latin b}^ the most eminent Illus- trious & Famous Lord Francis Bacon, interpreted by Gilbert Watts. Portrait of Bacon and engraved portrait by Marshall. Folio, new fidl calf. Oxford, 1640. ^ £5 5s ♦ * * First Edition in English of the enlarged Latin work of Nine books edited and translated by Gilbert Watts, It is of peculiar interest to Shakespeare-Bacon theorists, as the Four Pages of Cyphers (pp. 266-269), appear in it for the first time. MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35. Conduit Stfeet, London, W. 13 Bacon (Sir Francis) — continued. John Locke's Copy of Bacon's Sylva Sylvarum. SS Sy*^a Sylvaruim. 1 1 1 a . 1 Or, a Natural History in Ten Centuries : whereunto is added Art^les of Enquiry touching Metals and Minerals (with separate title dated lO^L/J the History, Natural and Experimental, of Life and Death; or, ot the Prolongation of Life (with separate title); and the New Atlantis, a work unfinished (with separate title). Portrait and engraved title. Folio, an uncut copy in boards. London, 1664. £21 A most interesting and valuable copy, formerly belonging to the great Philosopher John Locke, with his autograph signature inside the front cover, and an Index ot 3 leaves at the beginning in his handwriting. Books from John Locke's Library are of very rare occurrence, and as a rule only bear his autograph. c^6 The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon, Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning, divine and humane. First Edition. Small 4to, full calf, gilt back, g. e. Printed for Henrie Tomes, 1605. £31 lOS *** The " Advancement of Learning " is one of the landmarks of what high thought and rich imagination have made of the English language. "It is the first great book in English Prose of secular interest ; the first book which can claim a place beside the ' Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity.' It contains some of Bacon's finest writings." (R. W. Church.) £;6a The Two Bookes of Sr Francis Baoon, Of The Proficience & Advancement of Learning, Divine & Humane. Small 4to, full mottled calf gilt, g. e., by Riviere. Oxford, 1633. £3 3s 57 Life and MisceJianeous Works of Rt. Hon. Francis Lo. Verulam, Viscount St. Alban. Published by W. Rawley. Small folio, calf. London, 1670 £2 15s With Portrait of Bacon — Life — a Preparatory to the History, Natural and Experi- mental — The Charge, touching Duells — The Apology in certain imputations concern- ing the Earl of Essex — War with Spain — The Holy War — An Offer to King James of a Digest — Reign of Henry VIII. (each work with a separate title-page). i;8 Bacotliana, or Certain Genuine Remains of Sr Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam and Viscount of St. Albans; in arguments Civil and Moral, Natural, Medical, Theological, and Bibliographical; now the first time faithfully published. Portrait of Bacojz. First Edition. Small 8vo, neiv full mottled calf, g. e. London, 1679. £2 15s 14 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, VV. 50 BACON (Phannel). The Kite; an Heroi-Comical Poem. First Edition, an uncut copy on Large Paper. Royal 8vo, original lurafpers. Oxford^ 1772. £1 5s 60 BADGER in the Fox-Trap^ or a Satyr upon Satyrs. A Poem. 8 pp. Folio, new hoards. Circa 1681. 18s 61 BAKER (Sir Richard). A Chronicle of the Kings of England, from the Time of the Romans Government, unto the Death of King James the First. Whereunto is added. The Reign of King Charles the First, and King Charles the Second. Engraved title. Thick folio, original calf. London, i6g6. 16s 62 Theatrum Redlvivum; or, the Theatre Vindicated in Answer to Mr. Pryn's Histrio-Mastix : wherein his groundless Assertions against Stage-Plays are discovered, his Mistaken Allegations of the Fathers manifested, as also what he calls his Reasons, to be nothing but his Passions. Small 8vo, original calf. London, 1662. £8 ICs * * * This Work was written by Sir Richard Baker whilst a prisoner for Debt in Fleet Prison. It was not published till after his death. " There are interesting references here to the Elizabethan Actors Tarlton, Burbage, and Alleyn, and much good sense in the General Argument." (D.N.B.) 6.S BAKER (Thomas). Tunt)ridg;e Walks; or, the Yeoman of Kent. A Comedy, as it is Acted at the Theatre Royal, by her Majesty's Servants, by the Author of " The Humour o' the Age." First Edition. Small 4to, buckram. Printed for Bernard Lintott, at the Middle Temple-Gate, Fleet Street, 1703. £3 3s *** Thomas Baker, who flourished at the commencement of the 18th Century, was the son of an eminent attorney of London. " Tunbridge Walks" is his most celebrated Comedy. Tn it he has introduced a character named ** Maiden," which was intended by the Author as a portraiture of himself. 64 BALLAD Upon the Suppression of Conventicles. 2 pp., folio, new boards. London, 1685. 14s 65 BALZAC (J. L. Quez de). The Choyce Letters of Monsieur de Balzac, written to several! Grand and Eminent persons in France. Whereunto are annexed the familiar letters of Monsieur de Balzac to his friend Monsieur Chapelain. Never before in English. With engraved portrait. Small 8vo, old sheepskin. London, 1658. 14s I MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 15 66 BANKS (John). Cyrus the Great: or the Tragedy of Love. First Edition. Small 4to, new boards. London, 1696. £2 2s * * * This play was at first forbidden, but afterwards came on and met with very good success. Downes says that Smith, having a long part in it, fell ill upon the fourth day and died. This occasioned it to be laid aside, and it was not acted after- wards. 67 Vertlte Betray'd: or, Anna Bullen, a Tragedy. First Edition. Small 4to, full straight grain morocco gilt. London^ 1682. £3 15s Has an interesting reference to Shakespeare in the Dedication. * * * This tragedy, on the story of Anna Boleyn, was the most successful of all Banks' works, and held the stage until 1766. 68 BARBOUR (John). The Life and Acts of thei most Victorious Conqueror Robert Bruce King of Scotland, Carefully corrected from the edition printed by Andro Hart in 1620. Black Letter. Small 4to, original calf. Edinburgh, 1758. £1 5s 6q BARCLAY (John). Argenis. Cum Clave, hoc est, nominum propriorum elucidatione hactenus nondum edita. Thick i2mo, old morocco, with clasps. Elzevir, 1627. £1 5s * ^ ^ First of the seven Elzevir editions. Eulogised by Cowper, the poet, as a romance- *' It has merits of another kind worth looking into. . . In his characters the critic has gradually worked out Henry III. of France, Henry IV., Phillip II. of Spain, Queen Elizabeth, the Guises, Pope Urban VIII., John Calvin, and many political celebrities." — Hill Burton. 70 Icon Animorum. First Edition. i2mo, old calf. London, 1614. 12s 6d 71 The MirrOiUr of Mindes, or, Barclay's Icon Animorum, Enghshed by T(ho.) M(ay). First Edition. Thick small 8vo, original vellum. London, 163 1. £2 2s Treats of France, Germany, Spaine, Hungary, Polonia, Moscovia, Turkes, Jewes, etc. Slightly wormed. 72 Barclay's Argenis. The Phoenix; or, the History of Polyarchus and Argenis. Translated from the Latin, by a Lady (Clara Reeve). 4 vols, in 2. Small 8vo. Fine copy, full calf gilt. London, 1772. £1 10s A scarce translation of Barclay's famous Latin satire, first published in 1621. i6 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 1 73 BARON (Robert). Mirza, a T^ragedie. Really acted in Persia, in the last Age. Illustrated with H'lstoricall Annotations, the Author R. B., Esq. First Edition. Small 8vo, original calf. London, Printed for Humphrey Moseley, N.D. £10 10s *** This is Baron's best known work. " The story of this play is the same as that which Denham made tlie groundwork of his ' Sophy,' and which may be found in Sir Thomas Herbert's 'Travels ' ; yet Baron has handled it in a different manner from that author, having finished three complete acts of this before he saw that tragedy; nor found himself then dis- couraged from proceeding, on a consideration of the great difference in their respec- tive pursuits of the same plan. Baron has made Jonson's ' Catiline ' in great ineasure his model, having not only followed the method of his scenes, but even imitated his language ; and anyone may perceive that his ghost of Emirhamze Mirza is an evident copy of that of Sylla in ' Catiline,' It is, however, a good play, and is commended by five sets of verses by his Cambridge friends; but it does not seem to have been acted." — W. C. Hazlitt. 74 BARROW (Isaac). Lectiones XVIII., Cantabrigiae in Scholis publicis habitae; in quibus opticorum phaenomon genuinae rationes investigan- tur, ac exponuntur. Small 4to, original calf {re backed). Londini, 1669. Also bound in same volume : Lectiones Geometricae. Londini, 1670. £1 lOs *** First Editions of the Author's two chief Mathematical Works. According to the Preface, Newton revised and corrected the work and added matter of his own. 75 Th© Warks af the Learned Isaac Barrow. Published by the Reverend Dr. Tillotson. The Second Volume containing Sermons and Expositions upon all the Articles in the Apostles' Creed. With finely engraved portrait by Loggan. Thick small folio, full contemporary morocco gilt, gilt lines on sides, g. e. London, 1683. £1 lOs *** The Earl of Chatham studied Barrow's Sermons as models of eloquence, and confessed that he was more indebted to them than to any other work, ancient or modern, for the energy which so peculiarly marked his own parliamentary harangues. 76 BA8KERVILLE PRESS. /Esop. Select Fables of /Esop and other Fabulists. With frontispiece (blank margin repaired), and many illustrations. Small 8vo, calf. Birmingham, John Baskerville, 1761. 18s Ty — Book Of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, together with the Psalter. Royal 8vo. Fine Copy in new full calf, g. e. Cambridge, John Baskerville, 1760. £4 4s MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 17 Baskerville Press — continued. 78 CatuJIi, Tibulli, et Propertii Opera. 4to, new calf gilt^ g. e. Birmmgham, J . Baskerville^ ^77^- £4 10s 79 Fellows (John). Hymns on Believers' Baptism. Small 8vo, original calf. Birmingham {Baskerville^^ '^77}- ^1 2s 80 Horace. Quintus Horatius Flaccus. Small 8vo, full morocco, gilt lines on back and sides, gilt edges. Birmingham, Baskerville, 1777. 14s 81 Milton (John). Paradise Lost. A Poem. Paradise Regained. A Poem, in Four Books. To which is added Samson Agonistes: and Poems upon Several Occasions. 2 vols., small 4to. LARGE Paper Copy of Baskerville's finely printed edition, in old English dark blue morocco, blind tooled, gilt edges. Birmingham, Printed by John Baskerville, 1758. £9 9s ** * Presentation Copy from John Home, the Author of " Douglas," with an interest- ing Poem in his handwriting and signed. 82 Somervile (WilHam). The Chase, a Poem; to which is added Hobbinol, or the Rural Games. Royal 8vo, original tree calf, gilt back, and borders on sides. Baskerville Press, Birmingham, 1767. £1 12s *** One of the works printed by R. Martin, during the period, when Baskerville announced his intention of foregoing all connection with the printing press, follow- ing B, Franklin's reply that the French Government would not purchase his Press. First few leaves stained. 83 Terence. Publli Terentit Afri Comoediae. 4to, new calf gilt, g. e. Birminghamiae, J . Baskerville, 1772. £4 lOs 84 Terence. Publli Terentii Afri Comoediiae. Small 8vo, original calf gilt. Birmingham, 1772. 7s 6d 8s SaMiist. C. Crispu® Sallustius, et L. Annaeus Florus. 4to, new calf gilt, g. e. Birminghamiae, J . Baskerville, 1771. £4 lOs i8 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. Baskerville Press — continued. 86 — ^ — Testamentum Novum, Grseoe. Baskerville's beautifully printed Edition. A Magnificent Copy in contemporary full blue morocco ^ the sides most elaborately decorated with wide border of floral sprays ^ birds ^ etc.y full gilt backy inside dentelle^ leather joints ^ g. ^., by Baumgarten. Oxford, Typis /. Baskerville, 1763. £14 14s 87 BATE (George). Eletichus Matuuim tiuperomtn in Anglia; simul ac Juris Regii et Parlamentarii brevis enarratio. i2mo. A very fine copy in its original morocco binding, the sides covered with gold ermine spots, ivithin a border of tear-drops, edges gilt. Lutetide Parisiorum, Pro R. R. An. Dom. 1649. £4 4s A pretty copy in a very unusual style of binding of this celebrated defence of Charles I. It was written by George Bate. 88 BATE (John). Th© Mysteries of Nature and Art, In four severall Parts. The first of Water- Works; The second, of Fire Works; the third, of Drawing, Colouring, Limming, Paynting, Engraving, and Etching; The fourth, of sundry Experiments. The Third Edition, with many additions. Engraved and printed title-pages, and numerous woodcuts in the text. Small 4to, half calf. London-. Printed by R. Bishop for Andrew Crook, 1654. £1 16s 89 BAXTER (Richard). The Certainty of the World of Spirits fully evinced by the unquestionable Histories {Apparitions Operations Witchcrafts Voices, &c., proving the Immortahty of Souls, the Malice and Misery of the Devils and the Damned, and the Blessedness of the Justified. First Edition. Small 8vo, half calf. London, 1691. £2 5s * * * i3y Richard Baxter, Author of '' The Saints' Everlasting Rest." MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. ig Baxter (Richard) — continued. Presentation Copy. 90 A Christian Directory; Or a sum of Practical Theology, and Cases of Conscience: directing Christians how to use their Knowledge and Faith, how to improve all Helps and Means, etc. Portrait by White^ and engraved emblematical title. Folio, original calf^ covered with canvas^ and lettered. London, 1678. £10 lOs * * * A most interesting memento of the great Presbyterian Divine and Author. Pre- sented by him to the then Minister of his birthplace, Eaton Constantine, in Shrop- shire, and bears the following signed inscription in the Author's autograph: — *' As a testimony of my Love to the place of my ancestors habitation, I desire the present minister of Eaton Constantine, to accept this booke from Ri. Baxter." 91 The Saints' Everlasting Rest; or, a Treatise of the Blessed State of the Saints in their enjoyment of God in Glory. Wherein is shewed its Excellency & Certainty; the Misery of those that lose it, the Way to Attain it, & Assurance of it: & how to live in the continual delight- ful Foretasts of it, by the help of Meditation. First Edition. Small 4to, full levant morocco by Riviere, gilt edges. London, 1650. £16 16s * * * Complete with the General Title, the three separate titles (Second, Third and Fourth parts), the Errata leaf and tl.e poem by Herbert, 4 pp. at end. " ' The Saints' Everlasting Rest ' in its deep piety, its clear and beautiful style, the dignity and enthusiasm and modernness of its language, have made it an English classic. Narrow as Baxter's system may seem, we feel that he is more tolerant than his creed, and at the root of all his stubborn individuality lies a true and tender conscience. If the Nonconformity of the Stuart age laid heavy burdens on men's shoulders, it suffered from the consequences of its actions. In its provision for men of religion it brought upon itself the severity of secular opinion. But it left two priceless gifts to lEnglish literature and English religion in the ' Pilgrim's Progress ' and the ' Saints' Rest.' " — (William Holden Hutton.) 92 BAYLY (Lewis). The Practise of Pietie. Third Edition, profitably amplified by the Author, with elaborate engraved title by Elsfrak. Thick i2mo, contemporary calf, the sides and back covered with gold tooling of floriated devices, having in the centre of each cover tlie Arms of the Stationer' s Company, t/te edges gilt and gauffered. London, Printed for John Hodgetts, 16 13. £33 lOs A charming little volume in a remarkable state of preservation. Dedicated "To the High and Mighty Prince Charles, Prince of Wales," and in all probability was prepared for presentation to him. It is preserved in a levant morocco pull-off case. 20 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. The Original Manuscript. 93 BEALING (Captain Richard). Boadicea; or, The British Queen. A Tragedy. The Original Manuscript most beautifully written in a copper- plate hand on 66 leaves, with title-page written in elaborate letters, and ivith an Original Drawing in sepia of the Death of Boadicea as heading to the " Dramatis Personae.'' Foho, iit a contemporary English binding of crimson morocco, elaborate gold panelled sides, gilt back, g. e. 1722. £21 * * * This important and hitherto unknown play was the subject of a long article in THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT for August 22, 1918. It was described in that paper as follows : — " Boadicea or The British Queen, a Tragedy, by Captain Richard Bealing, 1722, is a folio volume, in contemporary red morocco, with panelled sides and gold tooling. It is beautifully written in a large, clear, round hand, almost certainly the work of a professional scribe. At the end of the volume there is pasted a vellum leaf on which is carefully drawn and tricked the genealogical tree of the author's family, and signed ' Tho. Harvey, Pinx. 1730 ' ; and to the explanatory text is added, in a much later hand, the information that the author's only daughter married Major Simon Bradstreet, whilst their only daughter married Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Garstin. The grandfather of the author, another Richard Bealing (whose mother's name was Chomley), married a Miss Constable, and their son was Marmaduke Bealing, who matriculated at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, March 24, 1693-4, aged seventeen, and who married Anne, daughter of James Hearnes ; their only son, the author, married Sarah Surby. There can be no doubt that the genealogical tree was compiled, after his death, for his only daughter, Anna Elizabeth Bealing, as it has on its base a crescent inscribed with her name, ' A. E, Bealing.' Captain Richard Bealing, J. P. for Middlesex, died on October 20, 1723, ' at a very advanced age.' The play was probably written some years before 1722, and probably under the influence of Addison's Cato, which was produced at Drury Lane in 1713. " The subject of Boadicea, which Captain R. Bealing took as that of his play, had already engaged John Fletcher, who wrote a tragedy of it in 1611, and on many later occasions it formed the inspiration of the writers of other pieces for the stage. Bealing' s Boadicea reveals the influence of Addison and the patriotism which glowed so fiercely in the earlier years of the eighteenth century. He may possibly have been inspired to write the tragedy from a passage in Addison's Freeholder of January 16, 1715: — ' And let those who have outlived their husbands never forget their countrywoman, who headed her troops in person against the invasion of a Roman army, and encouraged them with this memorable saying: '* I, who am a woman, am resolved upon victory or death ; but as for you, who are men, you may, if you please, choose life and slavery." ' The motto which he selected for his play consisted of two lines from the author of Cato : — '' ' 'Tis Liberty that crowns Britannia's Isle, And makes her Barren Rocks and her bleak Mountains smile.' " There are five acts, and the last scene fittingly closes with the death of the Queen, whose final speech concludes : — '' ' But gallant Adoc, Whose breast ever was inspir'd with virtue, And his country's glory: shall try once more What Arms can do to save her from the yoak - These Romans would impose : — He in the fight Beheld Protea fall, close by his side : Inrag'd he drove the foe across the plain. Do thou, O Heav'n! to recompense my fate. Prosper his Arms, and save my country.' MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 21 Beating (Captain Richard) — continued. " In the epilogue, spoken by Cassibelan, the author anticipated trouble with the critics; and he gets his blow in first when he declares: — '* ' He freely owns our Modern Critick he despises, Whose censure solely from ill-nature rises.' ''Lest there should be any doubt as to which critic he refers to, the name of 'Mr. D is ' is written in the margin. But John Dennis was not to have the chance to add another playwright's scalp to his belt." 94 BEAUMONT (Francis) and FLETCHER (John). The Elder Brother, A Comedy, as it is now acted at the Theatre Royal. Small 4to, new boards. London^ 1678. £2 2s 95 — \ A King and No King, Acted at the Black-Fryars, by his Maies- ties Servants. And now the fourth time printed, according to the true Copie. Small 4to, full calf gilt. London^ Printed by E. G. for William Leake, 1639. £3 3s * * ^ A very fine copy, with many uncut leaves. 96 The Maides Tragedy, as it has been divers times Acted at the Black Friers by the Kings Maiesties Servants. The Fifth Impression, revised and refined. Woodcut on title. Small 4to, boards. London, Printed by E. P. for William Leake, 164 1, £4 4s 97 The Wild-Goose Chase. A Comedie, as it hath been Acted with Singular Applause at the Black-Friers : being the Noble, Last and Onely Remains of those In- comparable Drammatists. First Edition. Folio, full -polished calf gilt, g. e., by Riviere. London, Printed for Humphrey Moseley, 1652. £30 Tall copy, blank corner of last three leaves neatly repaired. 12 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. Beaumont (Francis) and Fletcher (John) — continued. 98 Works. First Edition. Comedies and Tragedies r Francis Beaumont) written by \ and \ Gentlemen (^ John Fletcher ) Never printed before And now published by the Authours Originall Copies Si quid habent veri Y atuni praesagia, vivam. London Printed for Humphrey Robinson, at the three Pidgeons, and foi Humphrey Moseley at the Princes Armes in St. Pauls Church Yard 1647. THE FIRST EDITION, with the beautiful portrait engraved bjA^ Marshall. Folio, old calf. London^ 16^7. £75 •* * * Edited by the poet Shirley. It is dedicated to Philip Earl of Pembroke, and the publishers remind Lord Pembroke that the works " of the then expired Sweet Swan of Avon Shakespeare " were also dedicated to him. There are probably no two books so frequently quoted from the various Shakespeare J] commentators as the folio Beaumont and Fletcher and the folio Ben Jonson. (No.ji| 954 of this Catalogue.) Shakespeare is eulogised in the commendatory verses by Denham, Howell, Buck, Cart- wright, and Birkenhead. *' The dramas of Beaumont and Fletcher stand higher than those even of Ben Jonson, and, of all the dramatic writings of that day, come nearest to the magic circle which encloses Shakespeare. Their wonderful knowledge of stage effect doubtless helped their popularity. At the same time, they abound in striking beauties, both of thought and language, and the general tone of their works is of an elevating character." First Illustrated Edition. 99 The Works of Mr. Francis Beaumont and Mr. John Fletcher; iri Seven Volumes. Revis'd and Corrected : With some Account of the Life and Writ- ings of the Authors, and adorned with Cuts. A Large Paper Copy of the First 8vo (and First Illustrated) Edition, adorned zvith portraits of Beaumont and Fletcher^ and a plate to each Play. 7 vols., royal 8vo, original calf. London^ Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1711. £14 148 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 23 Beaumont (Francis) and Fletcher (John) — continued. 100 Works. In Ten Volumes. Collated with all the former Editions, and Corrected. With Notes Critical and Explanatory by the late Mr. Theobald, Mr. Seward of Eyam in Derbyshire, and Mr. Sympson of Gainsborough. 2 portraits. 10 vols., 8vo. Fine Copy in original calf. London, Printed for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper in the Strand, 1750. £5 5s 10 1 BECKFORD (Wm). Recollections of an Excursion to the Monasteries of Alcobaca and Bataiha: by the Author of " Vathek." First Edition. Portrait. 8vo, calf gilt. London, 1835. 8s 6cl 102 BEHN (Mrs. Aphra). A Pindarick Poem on the Happy Coronation of his most Sacred Majesty James IL and his illustrious Consort Queen Mary. First Edition. Folio, nezv boards. London, 1685. ^2 tOs (One or two bottom lines touched by the binder.) By the First Printer at Norwich, England. 103 BELIJDENISSE ende eenvoudige wtlegginge des waerachtigen gheloofs . . . in Switzerlant. Small 8vo, vellum. Anno 1568. Gheprint tot Nordwitz by Antoniuin Solemne. (Nor- wich, 1568.) £34 * * * This is one of, if not the first book printed at Norwich. It is " A CONFESSION OF FAITH BY THE MINISTERS OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST IN SWITZERLAND AND IN FRANCE," and ours is the only copy of the book that we can trace. It formerly belonged to Lord Amherst, of Hackney, who in 1877 exhibited it in the Caxton Exhibitions. The copy lacks two leaves (37 and 38), but is otherwise in excellent condition. Accompanying the volume is a letter of Quaritch's to Lord Amherst, dated 1876, in which he writes : — " IT SEEMS TO BE A UNIQUE COPY. ... I HAVE NOT TRACED A COPY ANYWHERE, THE VOLUME IS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION, IN THE ORI- GINAL VELLUM WRAPPER." Two other works (Psalms and New Testament) were printed in 1568 by this printer at Norwich; there is no record as to which of the three actually appeared first. " During the persecutions in the Netherlands, under the Duke of Alva, there was a considerable influx of the inhabitants of those countries into the south-eastern parts of England, and a great number of them found a welcome home in the city of Norwich. " Here settled one, Anthony de Solemne, or Solempne, introducing the art of printing, which, says Blomefield, in his History of Norfolk, ' was so well approved of by the city, that they presented him with his freedom.' This was in 1570, when Solemne had also obtained the Queen's authority to exercise his art." The productions of this press are all remarkably scarce, and mostly printed by Solemne for the use of his countrymen in their own language. 104 BETTERTON (Thomas). Life, wherein the Action and Utterance of the Stage, Bar, and Pulpit, are consider' d, also The Amorous Widow, a Comedy, by T. Betterton. Oval portrait after Kneller. %vOy original calf gilt. London, 17 10. £1 4s 24 MAGGS BROS , 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. BIBLES. The Great Bible. 105 The Byble in Englyshe of the largest and greatest volume, auctorysed and apoynted by the Commaundements of cure moost redoubted Prynce, and Soueraygne Lorde Kynge Henyre the VIII., etc. With Woodcut General Title and 'New Testament Title, containing the Holbein Borders, with CromwelV s Arms erased, and woodcut titles to farts 2, 3 and 4, in compartments, together with woodcuts in the text. Royal folio, bound by Bedford in full levant morocco gilt* g. e. Printed by Edwarde Whitechurch, 1 541. £47 lOSt A fine and perfect Copy. The headlines of four or five leaves are a little cut into. The Sixth Great Bible and the fifth with Cranmer's Prologue. " The hole byble of the largyest volume " which Thomas Cromwell, as the King's vice-' regent, in an injunction to the Clergy, ordered to be set up in '' sum convenient place wythin the said church that j^e have caire of, where as your parishoners may most^ comodiously resorte to the same and reade it." In April, 1541, Anthony Marler received permission to sell copies of the Great Bible unbound for x.s. sterling, and bound, being trimmed with bullyons, for xii.s. sterling (equivalent to about £6 and £7 5s. to-day). And in the next month a royal pro- clamation announced the heavy penalties to which each parish was liable which failed to provide its church with a copy by the November following. The First Critical Edition of the New Testament in English. 106 The Newe Testament of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Conferred diligently with the Greke, and best approued translations. With the arguments, as wel before the chapters, as for every Boke & Epistle, also diuersities of readings, and moste profitable annotations of all harde places : whereunto is added a copious Table. Printed on green paper. ^^^^ Small 8vo, green morocco, gilt edges. IBl Geneva, Printed by Conrad Badius, 1557. £15 15s * * * Some marginal notes shaved in the binding. This neat octavo is the earliest English Testament printed in roman type, and withl verse divisions. With its elaborate apparatus of arguments, notes, and tables, it forms the first critical edition of the New Testament in English. This version of the New Testament is ascribed to William Whittingham, one of th band of English reformers who found an asylum at Geneva. The text is based upon Tindale's, compared Avith the Great Bible, and largely influenced by Beza's Latin translation. Though this version forms the groundwork of the New Testament in the Geneva Bible of 1560, it is a distinct work, due to one translator, as the Address To the. Reader seems to show. Fry asserted that the text of this Testament was not reprinted in any of the numerous Geneva Bibles or separate Testaments, from 1560 to 1644, which he had examined. MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 25 Bibles — continued. First Edition of the Genevan Bible. 107 The Bible and Holy Scriptures conteyned in the Olde and Newe Testament. Translated according to the Ebrue and Greke and conferred with the best translations in divers langages. With moste profitable annotations upon all the hard places, and other things of great importance as may appeare in the Epistle to the Reader. Woodcut on title. 4to, straight- grain red morocco. Geneva, Printed by Roivland Hall, 1560. £21 *** The First Edition of the ''Geneva Version," and the earliest Complete Bible printed in Roman type and with verse divisions. Translated by W. Whittingham. Anthony Gilby, Thomas Sampson, and, perhaps, others, at Geneva. A VERY TALL COPY. The first title and following leaf margined and facsimiled, and lacking two of the preliminary leaves ; also some other leaves margined and repaired. It contains, however, the five Maps on separate leaves, which are usually missing. The Geneva Bible showed a distinct advance on its predecessors, and, appearing as it did in compact form, with Roman type and verse divisions, obtained speedy and permanent popularity. Its arguments and numerous explanatory notes (often dis- tinctly Calvinistic in tone), which amount to a running commentary, endeared it especially to the Puritans, and for three generations it maintained its supremacy as the Bible of the people. Its phrases find an echo in Scripture quotations from Shakespeare to Bunyan. Between 1560 and 1644 at least 140 editions appeared of the Geneva Bible or Testament. Examination of King James' Bible of 1611 shows that its translators in correcting the Bishops' Bible were influenced more by the Geneva than by any other English version. This is also the First Issue of the "Breeches Bible," having the rendering breeches for aprons, in Gen. iii. 7. In Ecclus. XV. 13 occurs the following error: "The Lord hateth all abomination of errour : and they that feare God wil love it." The First Issue of the Bishops' Bible, 1568. '' The ' Treacle ' Bible." 108 The Holie Bible, conteyning the Olde Testament and the Newe. Printed in Black Letter. Portrait of Queen Elizabeth on first title, one of the Ecirl of Leices- ter on title of Fart 11., and one of Lord Burleigh at the beginning of the Psalms, numerous fine woodcuts within borders, some by Virgil Solis, and ttumero2is figured and ornajnental initials, including Leda and the Swan, and other classical subjects. Thick large folio, old calf. London, R. Jugge, 1568. £63 * * * The first issue of the Bishops' Bible, which is hardly ever found perfect. This is a perfect copy; the first title has blank margins renewed, and there are a few slight repairs to the blank margins of last four leaves. In typography and illustration this is perhaps the most sumptuous in the long series of' folio English Bibles. This version was undertaken by Matthew Parker, Arch- I 1 26 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. Bibles — continued. bishop of Canterbury, with the assistance of many bishops and well-known Biblical scholars. This was the second attempt made by the heads of the English Church to translate the Bible for the use of all English-speaking people. The first, in Henry VIII. 's time, failed, from their being unable to decide how many Latin words should be retained. But that the Bishops at both periods should be equal to such a task, one requiring Biblical research and accurate critical scholarship, is a proof that in those days the sees were filled by the Bishop of Rome, and afterwards by the Crown, not from favouritism and political motives only, as has often been represented, but by men of the highest attainments. Although initials were affixed by most of the translators to their work, it was the desire of Parker that the translation should be regarded as the work of the Church, and not of private men. As each translator finished the parcel (as it was called) assigned to him he returned it to the Primate, who super- vised it. When complete it was properly and formally sanctioned by Convocation, and a copy was presented to Queen Elizabeth on Oct. 5, 1568. The following curious reference to Christopher Columbus occurs at Psalm XLV., verse 9: " Ophir is thought to be the Ilande in the west coast, of late founde by Christopher Columbo : fro whence at this day is brought most fine golde." This is also called the '* Treacle " Bible on account of the reference in Jeremiah VIII. verse 22 : — *' Is there no treacle in Gilead? " The Earliest Complete Latin Bible Printed in England. log Testamenti Yeteris Biblia Sacra Sive Ljbri Canonici, Priscae ludaeorui Ecclesiae a deo Traditi. Latini recens ex Hebraeo facti, brevibusqu( Scholiis illustrata ab Immanuele Tremellio & Francisco lunio. Accesse- runt libri qui vulgo dicuntur Apocryphi. Latine redditi & notis qui- busdam aucti a Francisco Junio. Multo omnes quam ante emendatius editi. Small thick 4to. Fine Copy in the original binding of oak boards covered with sta^nfed leather^ introducing the Tudor Rose, Croivned portcullis, etc. London, 1580. £7 lOs The Editio Princeps of the Roman Catholic Version of the New Testament in English. no The New Testament of Jesus Christ, translated faithfully into EngHsh out of the authentical Latin. In the English College of Rhemes. First Edition. Fine tall copy, and has inserted to face title-page a curious engraving, entitled, " Time's Lecture to Man,'' with verses within engraved border. Small 4to, full calf gilt, gilt border on sides. Printed at Rhemes by John Fogny, 1582. £10 * * * This was translated from the Vulgate by Gregory Martin, under the supervisio: of William Allen (afterwards Cardinal Allen), and of Richard Bristow. This Rheims New Testament exerted a very considerable influence on the version o' 1611, transmitting to it not only an extensive vocabulary, but also numerous dis tinctive phrases and turns of expression. Alien was the first President, and Bristow was Moderator (or Prefect of studies) o ^1 [ MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 27 Bibles — continued. the English Roman Catholic College, established in 1568 in connection with the University of Douai, and removed temporarily to Rheims, 1578-93. Martin was one of the original scholars of St. John's College, Oxford, and is described in Wood's Athenae Oxonienses as follows: "He was a most excellent linguist, exactly read and vers'd in the Sacred Scriptures, and went beyond all of his time in humane literature, whether in poetry or prose." In 1570 he joined the College at Douai, and became Lecturer in Hebrew and Holy Scripture. He died at Rheims, in October, 1582. The translation was essentially Martin's work. The keenly controversial matter which accompanies the text is ascribed to Bristow. The Censure and Approbation is signed by four ecclesiastics of Rheims : Petrus Remegius, Hubertus Morus, loannes le Besgue, and Gulielmus Balbus, The Preface criticises certain renderings of the English Bibles, mentioning some editions by their dates. Editio Princeps of the Roman Catholic Version of the Old Testament IN English. 1 1 1 The Holie Bible faithfully translated into English, out of the Authentioal Latin. Diligently conferred with the Hebrew, Greeke, and other Editions in divers languages. With Arguments of the Bookes, and Chapters : Annotations : Tables : and other helpes, for better under- standing of the text : for disco verie of Corruptions in some late transla- tions : and for clearing Controversies in Religion. By the English College of Doway. 2 vols., thick small 4to, full calf. Printed at Doway by Laurence Kellam, at the signe of the holie Lambe. 1609-10. £10 lOs * * ^ The Editio Princeps of the Roman Catholic version of the Old Testament in English. This version of the Old Testament was based on the same lines, and came from the same hands, as the Rheims New Testament of 1582. The complete work is commonly known as the " Douai-Rheims version," or briefly the '' Douai Bible." The Preface to the Rheims New Testament speaks of the Holy Bible long since trans- lated bj^ us into English, and the Old Testament lying by us for lacke of good meanes to publish the whole in such sort as a worke of so great charge and importance requireth. Twenty-seven years later the Preface to the Old Testament expressly ascribes the long delay in its publication to one general cause, our poore estate in banishment. After referring to those that translated it about thirtie years since (clearly Martin and his coadjutors), the editor explains only one thing we have donne touching the text, whereof we are especially to geve notice . . . we haue againe conferred this English translation, and conformed it to the most perfect Latin Edition, i.e., the authorised recension of the Vulgate published under the authority of Clement VIII. in 1592. Cardinal Allen (1532-94) had assisted in this revision of the Latin text. 28 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. Bibles — continued. The First Authorised Version — The " He " Bible. 112 The Holy Bible. Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New ; newly Translated out] of the Originall Tongues, and with the former translations diligentl; compared and revised, by his Maiesties special Commandement. Woodcut titles. Thick folio, full morocco gilt, with the Arms of\ the Curzon family on sides, g. e. London, R. Barker, 1611. £52 lOsI *** The Editio Princeps of King James's Bible, commonly known as the '' Author-J ised " Version, or the " He " and *' She " Bibles. This copy has the '* He " reading in Ruth iii,, 15. There were several issues of this book ; this is believed to be the second issue. This " Authorised " Version of the Sacred Volume is that which is still in common i use, and many millions of copies have been printed since its first appearance in 1611. The First Authorised Version — The '* She " Bible. 113 The Holy Bible. Another Copy of the First Authorised Version. Thick folio, full inorocco gilt. London, R. Barker, 161 1. £30j *** This copy has the '' She " reading in Ruth iii., 15. Fine tall copy, measuring 16| by 11 inches. Blank margin of First Title repaired. English Binding of the Early Seventeenth Century. 114 The Holy Bible, with the Genealogies. London, 1616. The Psalmes in Metre, by Sternhold and Hopkins, 161 5. Book of Common Prayer, 1615. Together in i volume, thick small 4to. London, 161 5-16. Bound by John and Abraham Bateman, the Royal Binders to Kingj James /., contemporary English morocco, gilt back, the sides coverec with gold tooling, ornamental corner and centre -pieces, gilt gauffred^ edges. £15 15s Dos-A-Dos Binding. 1 1 5 The New Testament. i2mo. London, 1626. The Booke of Common Prayer. i2mo. London, 1627. Bound dos-a-dos. Contemporary English binding of brown calf, sides covered with a floral device in gold, gilt gauffred edges. MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 2g Bibles — continued. 116 The Holy Bible. Authorized Version (with Common Prayer and Musical Psalms). Very small type, woodcut title. 8vo, contemporary English calf, full 'gilt floreate back, semis of flames on sides, with centre and corner laurel branches and initials S. B., gilt gauff red edges. London, 1629. £11 lis Embroidered Binding. 11; The Third Part of the Bible: (After some division.) Containing five excellent Bookes : most commodious for all Christians. i2mo. Very beautiful example of English Embroidered Binding of the time of Charles I., generally ascribed to the Nuns of Little Gidding. Ground work of white satin with both covers and side decorated ivith a floral device worked in coloured silks and with further ornamentation in gold and silver throughout, gilt gauffred edges, silk end leaves. London, 1632. £35 Magnificent English Needlework Binding. 1 1 8 The Holy Bible, conteynmg the Old Testament and the New. Engraved titles. Folio. Contemporary English silk binding with ornamental needlework design, the front cover containing centre piece of ** the Deity,'' worked in silks of varied colours and silver threads, surrounded by an elaborate and raised frame, composed of silver threads; with corner medallions of the Apostles worked in silk and silver threads. The back cover is executed in a similar design, the centre-piece containing " the Saviour,'' but two corner medallions only, with ties, g. e. London, 1633. (See Illustration, Plate No. I.). £225 An elaborate and beautiful Specimen of Needlework Binding. 1 19 The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and the New Testament, newly translated out of the Originall Tongues. Woodcut borders to titles. Black Letter. 2 vols., large folio, full russia. London, Barker, 1640. £4 4s *** A Fine Copy of the last of the folio " Black Letter " Bibles. 30 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. Bibles — continued. Embroidered Binding. 120 The New Testament. London^ 1640. The Whole Booke of Psalmes: Collected into English Meter. London^ 1640. Together in i volume, i6mo. A very charming specimen of English Embroidered Binding of the first half of the seventeenth century. Groundwork of white satin ^ both covers decorated with a large tulip and other ornamentation^ in coloured silks, spangles, and gold and silver thread, the back decorated with a rose and primroses, in silks and gold and silver thread. £52 lOs •jt * * A Very Fine Example, and in unusually fresh condition. Scotch Embroidered Binding. 121 Old Testament and the New. London, 1642. The Psalmes of David in Meeter as they are sung in the churches of Scotland. Edinburgh, 1643. Together in i vol., 8vo. {title missing to Old Testament). Scotch embroidered binding of the first half of the seventeenth cen- tury. On both covers a circular central panel and in each corner the device of a thistle, executed in silk over leather thongs {someivhat worn). £7 10s Field's Parliamentary Bible. 122 Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments, also the Psalms in Metre (by Sternhold, Hopkins and others). Engraved title with view of London. Bound in 2 vols., 24mo, full red morocco gilt, gilt leaves. London, J. Field, 1658. £2 7s 6d' A copy of the rare so-called " spurious " edition, printed in Holland, Described in Darlow's Catalogue (No. 522). Lowndes says of it : ''In the same year (1658), bearing imprint London, by J. Field, was printed in Holland one of the most correct and beautiful editions of the Bible seldom found in good preservation." The present copy is a very fine one. MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 31 Bibles — continued. The Preaching Bible. 123 The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and the New. Newly translated out of the Original Tongues and with the former translations diligently compared and revised. Appointed to be read in Churches. Double columns. Fine engraved title. Small 4to. Very fine Copy in old English blue morocco extra, gilt edges. Cambridge, Printed by John Field, printer to the Universities, 1668. £1 IGs *** This edition is known as the " Preaching Bible " from its adaptability for pulpit use. The First Edition of the Old Testament in Irish. 124 Irish Bible, Leabhuir na beintiomna (The Books of the Old Testament translated into Irish by the care and diligence of Doctor William Bedel, late Bishop of Kilmore in Ireland, and for the publick good of that Nation). Printed at London, 1685. Tiomna Nuadh ar d'Tighearna agus ar Slanaigheora Josa Grisd (The New Testament). London, 168 1. Together in one volume, thick small 4to, calf. 1685-168 1. £21 * -x- * The Editio Princeps of the Old Testament in the Irish language, and the Second Edition of the New Testament. "The Old Testament was translated by William Bedel, or Bedell (1571-1642), the eminent Bishop of Kilmore, who died from the results of hardships endured in the Irish Rebellion of 1641 ; aided by Murtagh O'Ciong, or King (who had assisted William Daniel in preparing the N.T. of 1602), and Dennis O'Sheriden, or Sheridan; though it was not printed till more than forty years after the death of the principal translator. The translation was made in the first instance from the English Bible, the marginal readings of which are sometimes preferred to the textual readings ; but it appears to have been to some extent compared with other versions nnd — imme- diately before publication — revised by A, Sail, Narcissus Marsh, Provost of Trinity College, Dublin, and subsequently Archbishop of Armagh, and other scholars. ''This edition (consisting of about 500 copies), like the New Testament of 1681, with which it is uniform, was printed with the Irish type presented by the Hon. R. Boyle, and chiefly at his expense. " The type was modelled on that which had been cast for the Jesuits, and which was used by them in printing Irish Books at Louvain and Antwerp from 1608 to 1728, for circulation among Roman Catholics in Ireland. Boyle's type continued in use down to so late as 1820, and the matrices still exist, in the possession of Messrs, Stephen- son, Blake and Co. and Sir Charles Reed and Sons, the type-founders," 32 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. Bibles — continued. '.^ The " Vinegar " Bible. $■ A Magnificent Copy Printed Entirely on Vellum. -V 125 The Holy Bible Containing the Old Testament and the New, newly trans- lated out of the Original Tongues and with the former translations dili- gently compared and revised. Frontispieces, Ninnerotis Vignette Engravings and Initial Letters by Vander Gucht & Du Bosc. Proof Impressions. Printed Entirely on Vellum (646 leaves) ruled with red lines. 2 vols. Thick large folio in contemporary binding of blue velvet, the Crest of the Original Noble Owner the Earl of Chandos engraved on silvered plates and mounted on both sides of eacJi. volume. Oxford, John Baskett, 17 17. £420 *** A MAGNIFICENT COPY— one of four known copies printed entirely upon vellum. (The red lines from title of Vol. I. have set off a little on to Frontispiece as invariably happens.) The other three copies are respectively in the British Museum, Bodleian Library, and the third formerly in Blenheim Palace. This latter copy was sold at the Sunderland Sale in 1818, and the Catalogue stated that " it is probably the only copy on vellum likely to occur for sale." This edition is called *' The Vinegar Bible " from an error in the running title at Luke, Chapter xx., where it reads, " The Parable of the Vinegar," instead of " The Parable of the Vineyard." It is also styled, punning on the publisher's name, ''■ A Basket-ful of Errors " on account of other curious literal errors. 126 The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments; newly trans- lated out of the Original Tongues, and with the former Translations diligently compared and revised. 2 vols., i2mo, elaborate contemporary Scotch binding of morocco, ^ sides completely covered with gold tooling. fl Edinburgh, Printed by James Watson, 17 19. £6 6s 27 The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New. With the Psalms. Engraved title. Thick 8vo. Scotch binding of the first half of the eighteenth cen- tury, black morocco, gilt back, the sides gilt tooled, with centre panel, corner fleurons of leaves, roses, and other ornamentations , gilt edges. Edinburgh, 1722. £4 4s I Plate I. Magnificent English XVIlth Century Needlework Binding. (Holv Bible). London, 1633. " See Item No. 118. Plate II, From the Library of King James I. op England. (Cope. Godly Meditacion upon XX Select Psalmes). London, 1547. See Item No. 41 '3 a. MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 33 Bibles — continued. 128 The Old and New Testament (but commencing with Jeremiah, and with title to New Testament only). Thick 8vo. A fine s-pecimen of English Early Eighteenth Century binding by a successor of Mearne^ sides completely covered with delicate gold tooliftg, panel on both sides of a scroll ribbon device formed by double gold lines and gold dots with rosette ornamentations y inside of panel adorned with circles and semi-circles and floral ornaments with stars and dots, floral corner pieces , gold curves, etc., gilt back^ gilt edges. Londott, 1734. £10 lOs 129 The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New. Thick Svo. Contemporary English binding^ crimson morocco^ sides decorated with a cottage pattern in the delicate English gold tooling of the period, consisting of curves, circles, floral devices, stars, dots^ etc., gilt edges. London, 1741. £16 16s 130 The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments; newly trans- lated out of the Original Tongues, and with the former translations dili- gently compared and revised. i2mo. Contemporary Scotch binding, blue morocco, sides covered with gold tooling, in centre of both covers a rose-window design in gold ^ with floral sprays, circles, and semi-circles, dots, etc., gilt edges. Edinburgh, 1743. £1 lOs 131 The Holy Bible. Translated from the Latin Vulgat: diligently compared with the Hebrew, Greek, and other Editions in divers languages. And first published by The English College at Doway, Anno 1609. Newly revised and corrected, according to the Clementin Edition of the Scriptures. With Annotations for clearing up the principal Difficulties of Holy Writ. 4 vols., small Svo. Fine Copy in full calf. Printed in the Year 1750. 16s * * * The Roman Catholic version of the Bible as published at Doway. 34 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street. London, W. Bibles — continued. The " Immaculate " Edition. 132 The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments; translated out of the Original Tongues; and with the former Translations diligently compared and revised. 2 vols., thick i2mo. Fine Copy in full blue morocco gilt, inside doublure, g. e. Edinburgh, Printed by Sir D. Hunter Blair and J. Bruce, 181 1. £4 4s *** This is called the ''Immaculate" Edition, printed in small pearl type (said to be the smallest ever used in Scotland). The " Immaculate " Edition. 133 The Holy Bible. Ditto. Large Paper Copy. 2 vols., small 8vo, in conte^nporary crimson morocco, broad gold dentelle border, g. e. Edinburgh, Printed by Sir D. Hunter Blair and J. Bruce, 18 11. £5 10s 134 The Souldiers Pocket Bible. Printed at London by G. B. and R. W. for G. C, 1643. Reproduced in facsimile with an introduction by Francis Fry. Printed on Vellum. Post 8vo, half red morocco. London, 1862. £2 15s 135 BIRD FANCIER'S RECREATION (The). Being curious Remarks on the nature of Song-Birds, with choice Instructions concerning the Taking, Feeding, Breeding and Teaching them, and to know the Cock from the Hen. Also the manner of taking Birds with Lime-Twigs, and the Pre- parations necessary thereto. With an account of the Distempers inci- dent to Song-Birds, and the Method to cure them. With a curious woodcut frontispiece, and nine pages of extra con- temporary manuscript matter and a draiving bound in at end. i2mo, original calf (rebacked). London, 1728. £2 2s 136 BISHOP (Matthew). The Life and Adventures of Matthew Bishop of Deddington in Oxfordshire. Containing an Account of several Actions by Sea, Battles and Sieges by Land, in which he was present from 1701 to 171 1, interspersed with many curious Incidents, entertaining Conver- sations and judicious Reflections. Written by Himself. Svo, original calf. London, Printed for /. Brindley, 1744. 15s MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 3$ 13; BLACKMORE (Sir Richard). Eliza; an Epick Poem, in ten Books. To which is annex' d An Index, explaining Persons, Countries, Cities, Rivers, etc. Title ruled in red. FoHo, original calf gilt. London, 1705. 18s 138 Prince Arthur, an Heroick Poem in ten Books. First Edition. Folio, original calf. London, 1695. ^^ "^^ 139 BLAIR (Robert). The Grave, a Poem. First Edition. 4to, vellum. London, Printed for M. Cooper, 17 ^'i. £1 5s 140 BLAKE (Wm.). Silver Drops; or Serious Things. Written for the Ladies Charity- School-house of Highgate. With 4 engraved plates, including a view of the House. i2mo, contemporary full morocco. Circa 1670. £1 16s 141 BLOME (Richard). The Fanatick History; or, An Exact Relation and Account of the Old Anabaptists, and New Quakers. Being the summe of all that hath been yet discovered about their most Blasphemous Opinions, Dangerous Practises, and Malitious Endevours to subvert all Civil Government both in Church and State. Together v^ith their Mad Mimick Pranks, and their ridiculous actions and gestures, enough to amaze any sober Christian. Which may prove the Death & Burial of The Fanatick Doctrine. Brilliant impression of the portrait of Charles II. Small 8vo, original calf. London, Printed for J . Sims, 1660. £3 lOs^ 142 BLUNDEVILLE (T). M. Blundevile, His Exercises, containing Eight Treatises, the titles whereof are set downe in the next printed page : which Treatises are verie necessarie to be read & learned of all young Gentlemen, that have not been exercised in such disciplines ; & yet are desirous to have knowledge as well in Cosmographie, Astronomic & Geographic, as also in the Arte of Navigation, in which Arte it is im- possible to profite without the helpe of these, or such like instructions. With maps and diagrams. Thick 4to, original calf. London, 1606. £6 lOs * * * With the Description of Universall Maps, and Cards ; and also the Use of Ptolemy and Table, etc, etc. 36 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 143 BO DEN HAM (John). Politeuphuia; Wits Commonwealth. Newly cor- rected and amended. i2mo, original calf. Printed by R. Young, London, 1641. £1 lOs * * * Title-page and some pages of the Index scribbled on. *** Though usually ascribed to Bodenham, this "methodical collection of the most choice and select admonitions and sentences, compendiously drawn from infinite variety," was doubtless compiled by Nicholas Ling. 144 Politenphia; Wits Commonwealth. Newly corrected and amended. i2mo, original calf. London, 1669. £1 5s 145 BONATUS. Concerning showers and- the Mutations of the Air, and what things are conissant about them. ALBOHAZAN HALY. Concerning the Judgment of the Starres. BONATUS. Concerning the Revolutions of Yeares. PTOLOMEUS. Centiloquium or Aphorasmes. Turned into English by Thomas Blackburne. English Manuscript neatly written on 256 leaves of paper in the XVIth Century. Folio, original calf, rebacked. {England, XVIth Century.) £22 146 BOSTON (Thomas). Human Nature in its Four-Fold State, in several practical Discourses. First Edition. Thick post 8vo. Edinburgh, 1720. £1 5s 14; BOSWELL (Sir Alexander). Clan Alpin's Vow. A Fragment. 8vo, half morocco neat, uncut, t. e. g. Edinburgh, 181 1. 15s * * * With Autograph Letter and Seal of the Author. Sir A. Boswell was the eldest son of the celebrated James Boswell. 148 Songs, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. First Edition. 8vo, half morocco. Edinburgh, 1803. 10s 6d MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 37 149 BOSWELL (James). An Account of Corsica, the Journal of a Tour to that Island ; and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli. With folding map of Corsica. First Edition. 8vo, old calf, rebacked. Glasgow, 1768. £10 lOs *** ROBERT SOUTHEY'S COPY, with " Robert Southey, Keswick, Jany. 3, 1811," written at foot of title, and a long note of ten lines in his autograph on fly-leaf, from one of Gray's letters. " Mr. Boswell's book has pleased and moved me strangely, all (I mean) that relates to Paoli. He is a man born two thousand years after his time. The pamphlet proves what I have always maintained, that any fool may write a most valuable book by chance, if he will only tell us what he heard and saw, with veracity. Of Mr. Boswell's truth I have not the least suspicion, because 1 am sure he could in- vent nothing of this kind. The true title of this part of his work is a Dialogue between a Green Goose and a Hero." 150 The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson. First Edition. 8vo, half calf gilt, uncut, t. e. g. London, 1785. £4 4s 1 5 1 The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides. Large Paper Copy of the First Edition. 8vo, calf, rebacked. London, 1785. £5 5s 152 The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson. Containing some Poetical Pieces by Dr. Johnson, relative to the Tour, and never before published ; A Series of his Conversation, Literary Anecdotes, and Opinions of Men and Books. Second Edition, revised and corrected. 8vo, full tree calf. London, 1785. 18s * * * This Second Edition contained additional matter by the Author. J 53 ^ Letter to the People of Scotland on the alarming attempt to infringe the Articles of the Union and introduce a most pernicious innovation by diminishing the number of the Lords of Session. First Edition. 8vo, half calf. London, 1785. £1 16s 154 The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., comprehending an account of his Studies and numerous Works, with his Epistolary, Correspond- ence and Conversations with many eminent persons. Portrait, etc. First Edition. 2 vols., 4to. Fine Copy in half calf gilt. London, 1791. £32 lOs 155 Life of Samuel Johnson. The Second Edition, revised and augmented. For trait. 3 vols., thick 8vo, original calf . London, 1793. £3 3s 38 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street. London, W. Boswell — continued. 156 The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. The Third Edition, revised and augmented. Portrait, etc. 4 vols., 8vo, original calf. London, Printed by Baldzvin and Son, 1799. £3 3s 157 — The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. The Fourth Edition, revised and augmented. Portrait, etc. 4 vols., 8vo, original calf. Lofidon, Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1804. £1 5s 158 BOYLE (Chas., third Earl of Orrery). As You Find it. A Comedy. As • it is Acted at the New-Theatre, in Little-Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, By Her Majesty's Servants. First Edition. Small 4to, nezu boards. London, Printed for R. Parker, at the Unicorn, under the Piazza' s of the Royal Exchange, MDCIII. (1703). £1 lOs 159 BOYLE (John, Duke of Orrery). Verses, by a young Nobleman, on the Death of His Grace the Duke of B . {London, 1736.) A Poem to the Memory of Edmund Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham, etc. Dublin, 1 74 1. The two editions of the one Poem in one volume with explanatory note (comprising 5 pp.) in Author's handwriting. 8vo, contejnporary morocco gilt, gilt borders on sides, g. e. £3 lOs 160 BOYLE (Robert). Experiments, Notes, etc., about the Mechanical Origine or Production of divers particular Qualities; among which is inserted a discourse of the imperfection of the Chymist's Doctrine of Qualities; together with some reflections upon the Hypothesis of Alcali and Acidum. Thick small 8vo, original calf. London, 167 1. 10s 6d 161 New Experiments, Physico-Mechanical, touching the Spring of the Air and its Effects (made for the most part, in a new Pneumatical Engine). With a Defence of the Author's Explication of the Experi- ments against the Objections of F. Linus and Thos. Hobbes. Folding plate. Small 4to, original calf gilt. Oxford,, 1662. £2 2$ MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 39 162 BRAITHWAITE (R). Drunken Barnaby's Four Journeys to the North of England, in Latin and English Verse, to which is added Bessy Bell. Frontispiece and one plate. i2mo, full calf, by Riviere. London, 1716. £4 4s * * * In this (the 2ncl) Edition appears for the first time introductory matter and an index. Halliwell-Phillips makes a long reference to this little Book in his illustra- tions of "As You Like It." The reference is also given in Lee's Shakespeareaiia. 163 BREREWOOD (Edward). Enquiries Touching the diversity of Languages and Religions, through the chiefe parts of the World. Small 4to, half calf. London, Printed by John Bill, 1622. £1 Is 164 BROOKE (Henry). The Fool of Quality; or, the History of Henry Earl of Moreland. 5 vols., small 8vo, original calf. London, 1766-70. 12s 6d 165 BROWN (Alexander). Ars Piotoria; or, an Academy treating of Draw- ing, Painting, Limning, and Etching. To which are added Thirty Copper Plates expressing the choicest, nearest and most exact Grounds and Rules of Symetry ; Collected out of the most Eminent Italian, German, and Netherland Authors. Portrait of the Author engraved by R. J . Wood and copperplates at end. Folio, original calf. London, Printed by J . Redmayne , for the Author, and are to be sold by him at his Lodging, at the Sign of the Angel, the Corner of James Street and Long Acre, and Richard Tompson at the Sun in Bed- ford Street, and {by) Arthur Looker at the Globe in the Strand near the New Exchange, 1669. £3 lOs * * * Pasted on end leaf is the large pictorial Trade Card of Arthur Tooker, " Stationer at the Globe, in the Strand, over against Salisbury Hous." This is one of the rarest of Booksellers' Trade Cards. 166 BROWNE (Sir Thomas). Certain Miscellany Tracts. Written by Thomas Brown, Kt., and Doctour of Physick, late of Norwich. Portrait. First Edition. Small 8vo, original calf. London, 1694. £2 2s 167 Christian Morals, pubhshed from the Original and Correct Manu- script of the Author, by John Jeffery, D.D., Arch-Deacon of Norwich. First Edition. i2mo. Fine Copy in contemporary morocco, g. e. Cambridge, 17 16. £5 5s * * * Dedicated by Elizabeth Lyttleton, Sir Thos. Browne's daughter, to the Earl of Buchan. 40 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 3'^, Conduit Street, London, W. Browne (Sir Thomas) — continued. 168 Pseudodoxia Epidemica; or, Enquiries into very many received Tenents, and commonly presumed Truths. First Edition. FoHo, original calf. London, Printed by T. H. for Edward Dod, 1646. £5 15s J. Russell Lowell's Copy. 169 Pseudodoxia Epidemica. The Second Edition, corrected and much enlarged by the Author. Together with some Marginall Observations, and a Table Alpha- betical! at the end. Folio, original calf, new back. London, Printed by A. Miller, 1650. £10 lOs *** An interesting copy, having belonged to J. Russell Lowell (with his autograph twice repeated), given by him to Charles Eliot Norton, and by him to Sara Norton. I/O Works. Containing: — L Enquiries into Vulgar and Common Errors. II. Religio Medici : With Annotations and Observations upon it. III. Hydriotaphia ; or, Urn-Burial: Together with The Garden of Cyrus. IV. Certain Miscellany Tracts. With Alphabetical Tables. Engraved portrait of Sir Thomas Broivne. First Collected Edition. Thick small folio, original calf. London, Printed for Tho. Basset, etc., 1686. £5 5s 1/2 BUCK (Geo.), The History of the Life and Reigne of Richard the Third. Brilliant impression of the fine portrait of Richard by Cross. Folio. Fine Copy in original calf. London, 1646. £4 4s 173 The History of the Life and Reigne of Richard the Third. Another Edition. Fine portrait by Cross. Small folio, original calf gilt, with Arms of Sir Hugh Wyndham on sides. London, 1647. £2 lOs MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street. London, W. 41 174 BUCKINGHAM (Geo. Villiers, second Duke of). A Ballad. Folio, new boards. Circa 1675. 15s * * * This Ballad attacks the Duke of Buckingham in a most violent manner ; it also refers to the First Duke of Buckingham and the latter's assassination by John Felton. 175 BULWER (J.). Chirologia: or the Naturall Language of the Hand. Com- posed of the Speaking Motions, and Discoursing Gestures thereof. Whereunto is added ChironomiA; or, the Art of Manuall Rhe- toricke. Consisting of the Naturall Expressions, digested by Art in the Hand, as the chiefest Instrument of Eloquence, by Historicall Mani- festos exemplified out of the Authentique Registers of Common Life, and Civill Conversation. With TYPES, or ChyrOGRAMS : A long- wish'd-for illustration of this Argument. Both Parts Complete, ivith the two beautifully engraved fro7itis- pieces and the engraved -plates. 8vo, original calf. London^ Printed by Tho. Harper, 1644. £6 18s *** This copy possesses the rare first leaf, having the word '' Chirotheca " within an engraved ornament. i;6 BUNYAN (John). Dirt wip't off: or, a Manifest Discovery of the Gross Ignorance, Erroneousness and most Unchristian and Wicked Spirit of one John Bunyan, lay-preacher in Bedford, which he hath shewed in a Vile Pamphlet publish't by him against the *' Design of Christianity " (by E. Fowler, Bishop of Gloucester). First Edition. Small 4to. Clean and sound copy in half calf neat. London, 1672. £5 5s I -J -J A Discourse upon the Pharisee and Publican. With frontispiece containing portrait. i2mo, calf (rebacked). London, for John Marshall (1688). 10s 6d * * * A scarce early edition. 178 The Holy War, made by Shaddai upon Diabolus, for the Regain- ing of the Metropolis of the World ; or the Losing and Taking Again of the Town of Mansoul. A very good tall copy of the exceedingly rare FIRST EDITION, lack- ing the folding plate, but with a fine impression of the portrait by White. Small 8vo, original calf. London, 1682. £12 12s *** Macaulay stated that ''if the 'Pilgrim's Progress' did not exist, 'The Holy War ' would be the best allegory that ever was written." 42 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, Londcxn, W. Bunyan (John) — continued. I -g The Pilgrim's Progress, from this World to that which is to come. The Second Part, dehver'd under the Simihtude of a Dream; wherein is set forth the Manner of the Setting out of Christian's Wife and Children. Curious woodcuts. i2mo, calf {rebacked). London, 1755. ''^S Uncut Copy. 180 A Relation of the Imprisonment of Mr. John Bunyan, Minister of the Gospel at Bedford, in November, 1660. His Examination before the Justices, etc. Written by himself, and never before published. 8vo, half morocco y uncut ^ t. e. g. 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Glasgow, Circa 1795-7. £9 9s *** Contains several Poems by Robert Burns, including "Tarn O'Shanter." 190 PoemSy chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, including all the Poems and Songs, printed at Edinburgh in 1787, also his Life and an Appen- dix, containing his other Select Pieces. Vignette title. 2 vols., i2mo, boards, uncut. Berivick-upon-Tweed , 1801. £4 4s 44 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35. Conduit Street, London, W [Burns (Robert)] — continued. igi The Works of Robert Burns, with an Account of his Life, and a Criticism on his Writings. To which are prefixed some Observations on the Character and Condition of the Scottish Pleasantry. With portrait. The first Philadelphia Edition of Burns' Complete Works as edited by Dr. Currie. 4 vols., small 8vo, original calf. Philadelphia, 1801. £3 lOs 192 BURTON (Robert). The Anatomy of Melancholy. What it is, with all the kindes, causes, symptomes, prognosticks, and Several Cures of it, by Democritus, Junior. The Second Edition (but the First in Folio size), folio, original half calf. Oxford, 1624. £14 14s 193 The Anatomy of Melancholy. The Fourth Edition, corrected and augmented by the Author. Title-page engraved in compartments, including portrait of Burton; together with the leaf " The Argument of the Frontispiece " in verse. Folio, original calf . Oxford, Printed for Henry Cripps, 1632. £6 18s 194 The Anatomy of Melancholy. . The Fifth Edition, corrected and augmented by the Author. Engraved title in compartments, zvith the leaf of explanation {in verse) facing it. Folio. "Nice copy in original calf neat. London, 1638. £5 18s 195 BURTON (William). A Commentary on Antoninus, his Itinerary or Jour- nies of the Romane Empire, so far as it concerneth Britain wherein the first foundation of our Cities, Lawes and Government according to the Roman Policy are clearly discovered. Portrait and map engraved by Hollar. Folio, original calf. London, 1658. £2 2s 196 BUSY-BODY (The); or. Successful Spy: being the Entertaining History of Mons. BiGAND, a Man infinitely Inquisitive and Enterprising even to Rashness; which unhappy Faculties, nevertheless, instead of ruining, raised him from the LOWEST OBSCURITY to a most SPLENDID FORTUNE. Interspers'd with several HUMOROUS STORIES. The whole contain- ing great Variety of Adventures, equally Instructive and Diverting. 2 vols., i2mo, original calf. London, Printed for F . Cogan, 1742. ISs MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 45 197 BUTLER (Joseph, LL.D.). The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed. First Edition. 4to, old calf gilt. London, 1736. £3 3s The great Theological Classic. 198 BUTLER (Samuel). Hudibras, in three parts, written in the Time of the Late Wars, corrected and amended, with large annotations and a preface by Zachary Grey. Portrait and plates. 2 vols.. Large Paper Copy. Thick royal 8vo, original calf. Cambridge, 1744. £6 6s igg Hudibras, in three parts. Another Edition. With large annota- tions, and a Preface by Zachary Grey, LL.D. With portrait and illustrated with the set of plates by Hogarth. 2 vols., 8vo, original calf gilt. London, 1772. 10s 6d 200 The Loyal Satyrist; or, Hudibras in Prose. Written by an un- known Hand in the time of the late Rebellion, but never till now , published. First Edition. Small 4to, new boards. London, 1682. 18s 201 BYSSHE (Edward). The Art of English Poetry. Containing L Rules for making Verses. H. A Collection of the most Natural Agreeable and Sublime Thoughts, viz.. Allusions, Similes, Descriptions and Characters of Persons and Things, that are to be found in the best English Poets. HL A Dictionary of Rhymes. 2 vols., small 8vo, original calf gilt. London, 17 18. 15s 202 C/ESAR. The Eyght Bookes of Gaius Julius Caesar. Conteyning his Martiall Exploytes in the Realme of Gallia and the Countries bordering uppon the same, translated oute of Latin into English by Arthur Goldinge. Black Letter. Woodcut title, small 8vo, calf. Imprinted at London by Willyam Seres, 1565. £18 18s The very rare First Edition of Golding's translation. 203 The Eight Bookes of Caius Julius Caesar. Translated out of Latin into English by Arthur Golding. Another Edition. Small 4to, calf. hnprinted at London by Thomas Este, dwelling in Aldersgate Streete, 1590. £10 lOs * * * The first four leaves are shorter than the rest of the book. 46 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. Caesar — continued. 204 Edmundess (Clement, Remembrancer of the Cittie of London). Observations upon Caesar's Commentaries. Engraved Frontispiece. Folio, original calf. London, 1655. £1 10s 205 CALVIN (John). Sermons of Master John Calvin, upon the Booke of Job. Translated out of French by Arthur Golding. Woodcut border to title. Thick folio. Fine Copy in contejttporary English binding of calf, adorned with blind stamps, brass corner bosses. London, 1^7^. £10 10s 206 CAMBRIDGE POEMS. Epioedium Cantabrigiense (on the Marriage of George of Denmark and Queen Anne), Cantabrigiae, typis Academicis 1708 — Academiae Cantabrigiensis carmina funebria in obitum Annae; Cantab. 17 14 — Academiae Cantabrigiensis Luctus in obitum Georgii L Cantabrigiae 1727 — Carmina ad Thrs. Holies, Ducem de Newcastle in- scripta, cum Acad. Cantab. Bibliothecae Restituendae Causa, Cantab. 1755 — Gratulatio Acad. Cantab. Natales Georgii Walliae Principis Walliae, Cantab. 1762 : in one vol. Fine copies, bound in half russia gilt, 1708- 1762. £4 15s The whole comprises a large number of Poems in Latin, Greek, and English, by Cam- bridge students, among whom may be noted Joshua Barnes, Edward Stanley, Thos. Bentley, Edw. Brome, Wm. Dyer, William Hanmer, Richard Farmer, Wm. Hayley, etc., etc. 207 CAMDEN (William). Britannia. Sive Florentissimorum Regnorum, Angliae, Scotiae, Hiberniae, et Insularum adiacentium ex intima anti- quitate Chorographica descriptio. With folding maps and plates. Thick small 4to, half calf gilt. London, 1600. £1 5s 208 Britain; or, A Chorographicall description of the most flourish- ing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the Hands adioyn- ing, out of the depth of Antiquitie. Written first in Latine by Wilham Camden; translated newly into English by Philemon Holland. Finally, revised, amended, and en- larged with sundry Additions by the Author. Thick folio, full calf {re-backed). London, 1610. £3 3s . MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35. Conduit Street, London, W. 47 Camden (William) — continued. 209 Remains concerning Britaine; but especially England, and the Inhabitants thereof. Reviewed, corrected, and increased. Small 4to, full calf. London, printed by John Legatt for Simon Waterson, 1614. 18s 210 Remaines concerning Britain. Another Edition. Engraved portrait. Small 4to, full calf gilt, gilt lines on sides, g. e. London, 1657. £2 2s Printed by Wynkyn de Worde. 211 [CAPGRAVE (John).] Nova Legenda Angliae. Printed in Black Letter. Both sides of the preliminary leaf oc- cupied with a large woodcut of the Saints, Martyrs and the Holy Trinity, which is repeated on the obverse of the final leaf; the reverse has Wynkyn de Worde' s device. A Very Fine Tall and Clean Copy of the First Edition of this famous Book, and in unusually perfect state, except that a portion of the two large woodcuts at beginning and end is in facsimile. Folio, bound by Bedford in full levant morocco, gold decoration on sides, gilt back, g. e. {Colophon) Explicit (Noua legeda anglie), Impressa lodonias : i domo Winadi de Worde : comoratis ad signu solis : in vico nucupato (the fletestrete). Anno dni MCCCCCXVI. xxvij. die Februarij (15 16). £85 * * * This book on the Lives of British Saints is one of the most meritorious and use- ful books printed by Wynkyn de Worde, and is ahnost always found defective of the woodcut leaves which appear in this copy. It includes the Life of St. Thomas a Becket, which is suppressed from many copies. 48 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street. London. W. The Book which Shakespeare Placed in Hamlet's Hands. 215 CARDANUS (H). Cardanus Comforte. Translated into Englishe and published by Commaundement of the Right Honourable the Earle of Oxen ford. Woodcut border on title. Small 4to, nissia. Imprinted at London, 1573. £20 Translated by Thomas Bedingfeld, and contains preliminary Letter and Verses by liiomas Churchyard. An extraordinary rare and highly important Shakespearean volume. It was, says Douce in his '' Illustrations " of Hamlet, *' A book which Shakespeare had certainly read." And Hunter says that " it seems to be the book which Shakespeare placed in the hands of Hamlet." Hunter's account of it is so important that it is here transcribed in full : — *' Having shewn that the Poet's original intention was that Hamlet should give utter- ance to the sentiments in this celebrated soliloquy immediately on having perused a certain book, it becomes a point of reasonable curiosity to inquire whether Shake- speare had more particularly in his mind any one book, and, if so, what book it was. The passage would lose something of its effect if we supposed that the whole was merely artificial, that there was no one book thought of, but the mind was thrown upon a confused heap of writers of all ages who may have touched upon these awful topics. This would lead to the conclusion that there was some one book more particularly in his mind, and it may I think be determined what particular book it was. Douce has noticed the resemblance between the expression " ' To die, to sleep, No more ? ' and the following passage : ' In the Holy Scripture, death is not accounted other- wise than sleep, and to die is said to sleep.' (' Illustrations of Shakespeare,' vol. ii., p. 238.) This passage occurs in a book entitled ' Cardanus' Comforte,' and this seems to be the book which Shakespeare placed in the hands of Hamlet.' " — Lee's Shakespeareana. 216 CAREW (Richard). The Survey of Cornwall and An Epistle concerning the Excellencies of the English Tongue. Now first published from the Manuscript. With The Life of the Author by H C , Esq. 4to, calf. London, 1723. 18s 21; CARTER (Richard). The Sohismatick Stigmatized. Wherein all Make- bates are branded : whether they are Eves-dropping-newes-carriers, Murmurers, Complainers, Railers, Revilers, etc., with all the Rabble of Brain-sicks, who are enemies to Old England's Peace. Small 4to, 20 pp. 'New boards. London, 1641. 18s 218 CARTWRIGHT (Thomas). An Answere to Master Cartwright his letter for ioyning with the English Churches : whereunto the true copie of his sayde letter is annexed. Small 4to. New boards. London, circa 1590. 18s *** Cartwright (1535-1603) has been described as ''the head and most learned of that sect of dissenters then called Puritans." The above work is an answer to an answer written nnto Master Harrison at Middleborough by Cartwright. MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, VV. 49 219 CARTWRIGHT (Wm.). Comedies, Tragi-Comedies, with other Poems, by WilHam Cartwright. The Ayres and Songs set by Mr. Henry Lawes, Servant to His late Majesty in His Pubhc and Private Musick. London, Printed for Humphrey Mosely, and are to be sold at his Shop, at the Sign of the Prince' s Arms in St. Paul's Church-yard. 165 1. First Edition, 8vo, with fi7ie impression of the portrait of Cart- wright by Lombart. Thick small 8vo, original calf, joint repaired. £15 15s Two letters on title-page and a few marginal notes touched by the binder. * * * This copy contains the cancelled leaf of verses by Henry Davison and Richard Watkins, and also the leaves containing the substituted Poems hy the same authors. Mr. Halliwell-Phillips only possessed an imperfect copy. The volume is referred to in Shakespeare's *' Centurie of Prayse " on account of the Shakespeare allusions in the Commendatory verses, namely: — *' To the Memory of Mr. William Cartwright. '' How had we lost both Mint, and Cojn too, were That salvage love still fashionable here. The sacrifice upon the Funerall Wood All, the deceas'd had er held deer and good ! We would bring all our speed, to ransome thine With Don's rich Gold, and Johnson's silver mine; Then to the pile add all that Fletcher writ, Stamp'd by the Character a currant Wit : Suckling's Ore, with Sherley's small mony, hj Hey wood's Old Iron, and Shakespear's Alchemy." William Bell. '^ To the deceased Author of these Poems. "For thou to Nature had'st joyn'd Art and skill. In Thee Ben Johnson still held Shakespear's Quill : A Quill, rul'd by sharp judgment, and such Laws, As a well studied Mind, and Reason draws." Jasper Mayne. '' William Cartwright not only wrote some of the best poems and plays of his time, and preached some of the best sermons, but as a reader of metaphysics in his University, he earned especial praise. King Charles wore black on the day of his funeral, and fifty wits and poets of the time supplied their tributary verses to the volumes, first published in 1651, of Comedies, Tragi-Comedies, with other Poems, by Mr. William Cartwright, late Student of Christ Church in Oxford, and Proctor of the University. The Airs and Songs set by Mr. Henry Lawes." " There is in this book a touching portrait of young Cartwright, evidently a true likeness, with two rows of books over his head, and his elbow upon the open volume of Aristotle's Metaphysics. . . . He rests on his hand a young head, in which the full underlip and downy beard are harmonized to a face made spiritual by in- tensity of thought. Cartwright died, in his thirty-second year, of a camp |ever that killed manj^ in Oxford." — Henry Morley. 50 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 220 CASA (J). The Arts of Grandeur and Submission; or, a Discourse con- cerning the behaviour of Great Men towards their Inferiours. Written in Latin by Joannes Casa, Archbishop of Benevento, and rendered into Enghsh by Henry Stubbe. i2mo, new boards. London, 1665. 10s 6d * * * Foot of title cut. 221 CASIMIRE, The Odes of Casimire, translated by G. Hils. With Intro- ductory Poem and engraved title. i2mo, old calf (re backed). Printed for Humphrey Moseley at the Princes Armes in Pauls Churchyard, 1646. £2 10s * * * Some leaves cut close in margin. 222 CASTIGLIONE (Count Baldessar). The Courtyer, divided into foure bookes. Very necessary and profitable for yonge Gentilmen and Gentil- women abiding in Court, Palaice, or Place, done into Englyshe by Thomas Hoby. The First Edition in English. Black Letter, small 4to, full calf. London, 1561. £9 9s * * * This copy does not contain the supplementary leaf containing the Letter to Sir J. Cheeke. 223 The Courtier. Another Edition. 8vo, original calf. London, Printed for A. Bettesivorth, etc., 1724. lOs 6d 224 CATHOLICS. An Unpublished Manuscript of the Early XVI. Century, on Catholics (especially Jesuits), with references to Garnett and his associates, the Gunpowder Plot, etc., in the form of a Dialogue between a Knight and a Doctor. Very clearly written on 120 pp. 4to, original vellum binding. Circa 1606. £4 4s 225 CENTLIVRE (Mrs.). Love's Contrivance; or, Le Medecin malgre Lui. A Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane. First Edition. Small 4to, new boards. 1703. £2 2s 226 Works of the celebrated Mrs. Centlivre, with a new Account of her Life. First Collected Edition. Portrait. 3 vols., i2mo, half calf. London, 176 1. £3 3s MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 51 22; CERVANTES (Miguel). The Life and Exploits of the ingenious Gentle- man, Don Quixote de la Mancha. Translated from the Original Spanish, by Charles Jarvis. First Issue of this translation, with fine bnpressions of the 68 large plates by Vander Gucht after Vanderbach. 2 vols., roy. 4to, original calf, rebacked. London^ /. and R. Tonson, 1742. £4 15s 228 A Story of Two Damsels, translated from the Spanish by Thomas Shelton. i2mo, calf gilt, r. e. Printed in tJie Year 1742. 16s 229 Two Humorous Novels, viz. I. A Diverting Dialogue between Scipio and Bergansa, two Dogs belonging to the Hospital of the Resur- rection, in the City of Valladolid ; giving an Account of their Lives and various Adventures, etc. IL The Comical History of Rinconete and Cortadillo. Now first translated from the Spanish Original. i2mo, full calf gilt, red edges, by Riviere. London, 1741. 10s 6d Title slightly defective. 230 CHALKHILL (John). Thealma and Clearchus. A Pastoral History, in smooth and easie Verse, written long since, by John Chalkhill, Esq., an acquaintant and friend of Edmund Spencer. Fine Copy of the FIRST EDITION. 8vo, full morocco gilt, g. e. London, Printed for Benj. Tooke, at the Sltip in S. Paul's Church- Yard, 1683. £26 10s * # * '< The poem, which possesses considerable merit, was edited by Izaak Walton, whose preface is dated 7 May, 1678, thongh the work was not published till five years later, when the editor was ninety years old. Walton, who had known the writer, says of him : ' And I have also this truth to say of the author, that he was in his time a man generally known and as well belov'd ; for he was humble and obliging in his behaviour, a gentleman, a scholar, very innocent and prudent ; and indeed his whole life was useful, quiet, and virtuous.' In the ' Compleat Angler,' published thirty years before, there occur two songs — ' O, the sweet contentment,' and ' O, the gallant fisher's life ' — signed ' lo Chalkhill.' So meagre were the facts known of the author of '■ Thealma and Clearchus ' until a comparatively recent period that the Rev. Samuel W. Singer, in the introduction to a reprint of the poem issued from the Chiswick Press in 1820, advanced from the theory, afterwards adopted by a writer in the ' Retrospective Review,' that Walton was its author as well as its editor, and that Chalkhill was altogether ' a fictitious personage.' But Mr. F. Somner Merry weather, in two letters in the ' Gentleman's Magazine ' for 1860, has shown from the Middle- sex county records that towards the close of Queen Elizabeth's reign Ivon or Ion Chalkhill, Gent., was one of the coroners for that county, and that he subscribed his name ' Ion ' and sometimes ' lo Chalkhill,' just as it is subscribed to the songs in Walton's ' Angler.' It is conjectured, therefore, that the coroner may have been identical with the poet. Moreover it is worthy of note that Walton married Ann Ken, a sister of Bishop Ken and daughter of Thomas Ken, an attorney, by his first wife. This Thomas Ken married a second wife, Martha Chalkhill, the second daugh- ter of John Chalkhill, of Kingsbury, in Middlesex, and of Martha, his wife, daughter of Thomas Brown, great-aunt to John Brown, who was clerk of the parliament." — D.N.B. 52 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 231 CHAMBERS (Sabin). The Garden of Our B. 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Together 48 pp., i2mo, newly bound in half calf, uncut, t. e. g. Printed and Sold in Aldermary Church Yard, London. C . 1750. £1 10s 236 The Famous History of the Seven Wise Masters of Rome; Containing, Many Excellent and Delightful Examples, with their Explanations, etc. 24 pp., i2mo, newly bound in half calf, uncut, t. e. g. Printed and Sold in Aldermary Church Yard, Bow Lane, London. C. 1750. 18s 237 The Famous History of the Seven Wise Mistresses of Rome; Wherein the Treachery of Evil Ministers is discovered, Innocency cleared, and the Wisdom of the Seven Wise Mistresses displayed. 24 pp., i2mo, newly bound in half calf, uncut ^ t. e. g. Printed and Sold in Aldermary Church Yard, Bow Lane, London. C. 1750. £1 I MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 53 Chap Books — continued. 238 The Famous History of Tom Thumb. Wherein is declared, His Marvel- lous Acts of Manhood, Full of Wonder and Merriment. 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A True and Genuine Relation of the Life and Death of Mr. Henry Smith, who was executed March 28, 1741, at Dorchester, for the murder of Joan Mew, etc. Wi^/i curious cuts. 5 tracts bound in i vol., small 8vo, half calf. London^ 1717-1741. £1 10s 263 The Life and Perambulation of a Mouse, by M. P. Illustrated with numerous cuts. 2 vols, in I, i2mo, original -paper covers. London, circa i7go. 10s 6d 264 The Mad Pranks of Tom Tram, Son-in-Law to Mother Winter. Together with His Merry Jests, odd Conceits, and pleasant Tales, very delightful to Read. The Three Parts, 72 pp., i2mo, newly bound in half calf, uncut, t. e. g. Printed and Sold in Aldermary Church Yard, Boiv Lane, London. £2 2s 265 Nixon's Cheshire Prophecy, At Large Pubhshed from Lady Cowper's correct Copy in the Reign of Queen Ann. With Historical and Political Remarks; And Several Instances wherein it has been Fulfilled. Also, His Life. 24 pp., i2mo, newly bound in half calf, uncut, t. e. g. 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C . 1750. £t 270 The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood. A Tale. 24 pp., i2mo, newly bound in half calf, uncut, t. e. g. Printed and Sold in Aldermary Church Yard, Bow Lane, London, C. 1750. £1 271 A True Tale of Robin Hood. 24 pp., i2mo, 7iewly bound in Jtalf calf, uncut, t. e. g. Printed and Sold in Aldermary Church Yard, Bow Lane, London. C. 1750. £1 10s 272 The Unfortunate Concubines: The History of Fair Rosamond, Mistress to Henry H., and Jane Shore, Concubine to Edward IV., shewing how they came to be so. Numerous curious wood engravings. i2mo, original sheep. London, Circa 1720. 18& 273 Wanton Tom; or, the Merry History of Tom Stitch, the Taylor. Both Parts in one volume. 48 pp., i2mo, newly bound in half calf, uncut, t. e. g. Printed and Sold in Aldermary Church Yard, London. C . 1750. £1 15s 274 The Witch of the Woodlands; or, the Cobler's New Translation. 24 pp., i2mo, neivly bound in half calf, uncut, t. e. g. Printed and Sold in Aldermary Church Yard, Bow Lane, London. C. 1750. £1 5« MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. Chap Books — continued. 275 The World Turn'd Upside Down; or, The Folly of Man; Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations. Upon Uncommon Subjects. Illustrated with 12 curious cuts, truly adapted to each Story. 24 pp., i2mo, neivly bound in half calf, uncut, t. e. g. Printed and Sold in Aldermary Church Yard. C. 1750. £1 lOs 276 CHAPMAN (Geo.). Bussy D'Ambois: A Tragedie: as it hath been often presented at Paules. A Fine Copy of this exceedingly rare play. Small 4to, handsomely bound in full levant morocco, g. e., by Riviere. London, Printed for William Aspley, 1608. £65 * * ^ The most popular of Chapman's plays. 277 May-Day. A witty Comedie, divers times acted at Blacke Fryers. First Edition. Small 4to, bound in full calf extra, g. e. London, 161 1. £12 12s *** Charles Lamb was of opinion that of all the English dramatists '* Chapman ap- proaches nearest to Shakespeare in the descriptive and didactic, in passages which are less purely dramatic." " May Day " was a broadly humorous comedy full of diverting situations. (Some leaves a little shaved.) 278 CHAPMAN (George) and SHIRLEY (James) The Tragedie of Chabot Admirall of France; as it was presented by her Majesties Servants, at the Private house in Drury Lane. First Edition. Small 4to, fidl polished calf gilt, g. e. London, 1639. £22 10s *** This play is more evenly written than Chapman's earlier tragedies; and we may suppose that, having been left imperfect by Chapman, it was revised and completed by Shirley, losing much of its original roughness in the process of revision. KING CHARLES FIRST. 279 Chaloner (Thos.). Disposal of the King's Person. A Speech made in the House of Commons the 26th day of October 1646 (upon the Reading of the Scotish Papers, the same day, In reply to the votes of both Houses of Parliament of the 24th Sept. concerning the disposall of the King's Person) spoken by Thomas Chaloner, a member of the said House. Small 4to, 15 pp., new boards, uncut. 1646. 18s MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 59 Charles I- — continued. King Charles' Victories at Edge Hill and in the North. 280 A Collection of Prayers and Thanksgivings, used in His Majesties Chappel, and in His Armies. Upon occasion of the late Victories against the Rebells, and for the future successe of the Forces. Pubhshed by His Majesties Command. 14 pp., small 4to, unbound. Oxford, 1643. £1 Is 281 Coronae Carolinae quadratura sive Perpetuandi Imperii Carolini ex quarto pignore felioiter susoepto captatum Augurium. With the curious Folding Frontispiece. Small 4to, vellum. Oxford, L. Lichfield, 1636. £6 6s *** This little work consists of Poems in English by W. Cartwright, Dudley Digges^ Edgar Bathurst, George Hall, and others, all of Oxford University. 282 Eikon Basilike, the Pourtraicture of His Sacred Maiestie in His Solitudes and Sufferings. 8vo, original sheepskin. 1648. £2 lOs 283 Eikon Basilike. The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestic in his Sohtudes and Sufferings. Folding Frontispiece engraved by Marshall of the King Kneeling in Prayer, with descriptive verse below. 8vo. Fine Copy in contemporary black morocco, g. e. 1649. £2 2s 284 The Humble Petition of the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled, To the Kings most Excellent Majesty for a Pacification betweene His Majesty and both Houses. 4 pp., small 4to, nezv boards. London, 1642. £1 Is * * * An attempt to reconcile King and Parliament and prevent Civil War, asking the King to remove the Forces from Hnll, Newcastle, Tynmouth, and Lincplnshire. 285 A Journall of the Proceedings in the ParKament holden att Westminster in the Third and Fourth yeares of the raigne of or Soueraigne Lord Kinge Charles. Conteyning twoe Sessions, The First beginninge the XVHtli of March, and endinge the XXVI^h of June then next followinge Ano. Dni : 1628. The Second begininge the XXth of January in the same yeare and endinge the Xth of March followinge. Anno Domini 1628. A Manuscript Journal, extending to 1,234 pages, of the Proceed- (Continued over) 6o MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. Charles I. — continued. ings in Parliament from day to day, clearly written in the Court Hand of the Period, with a title-page, and a Portrait of King Charles, as Frontispiece. Thick folio. Fine Copy in contemporary old English 7norocco, gold- ornament in centre^ Tudor Rose and gold lines and the letters A. D. on either cover. £8 8s * * * On the fly-leaf is written in a contemporary hand : '* This is my Nephew, John Dawes's " ; therefore the initials on cover are those of the first owner. 286 The Reign of King Charles, an History disposed into Annalls. The Second Edition, revised, and somewhat enlarged. With A Reply to some late Observations upon that History. Small folio, full calf. London, 1656. lOs 6d 287 A Solemn League and Covenant, for Reformation and Defence of Rehgion, the Honour and Happinesse of the King, and the Peace and Safety of the three Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland. Engraved on 8 leaves, printed on one side only. With illustrations. Small 4to, calf. 1643. Very rare. £16 16s * * * Bound up at the end are two Proclamations, one for supporting the King and tlie other the Parliament, 1642-3. Trial of King Charles I. 288 The Charge of the Commons of England, against Charls Stuart, Kmg of England, of High Treason, and other High Crimes, exhibited to the High Court of Justice, By John Cook Esquire, Solicitor General, appointed by the said Court, for, and on the behalf of the People of England. 8 pp., small 4to, unbound. London, Printed for Kapha Harford, 1648. £5 5s Trial of King Charles I. 289 Collections of Notes taken at the Kings Tryall, at Westminster Hall, on Saturday last, Janua. 20, 1648, and the Charge of High-treason read against the KING. With the severall Speeches made by the King, the Lord President, and the Councell which exhibited the Charge against Him. Which Notes were taken by H. Walker, who was present at the Tryall that day. January 20, 1648, Imprimatur THEODORE JENNINGS. 6 pp., small 4to, unbound. London, Printed by Robert Ibbitson, 1648. £1 Is MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 61 Charles !■ — continued. Trial of King Charles I. 290 A Perfect Narrative of the whole Proceedings of the High Court of Jus- tice in the Tryal of the King in Westminster Hall, on Saturday the 20, and Monday the 22 of this instant January. With the several Speeches of the King, Lord President, and Solicitor General. Published by Authority to prevent false and impertinent Relations. The three parts together. 39 pp., small 4to, unbound. London^ Printed tor John Flayford^ 1648. £2 2s Judges of King Charles L 291 A List of the Names of the Judges of the High Court of Justice, for Tryall of the King. Appointed by an Act of the Commons in England in Parliament Assembled, and a List of the Officers of the said Court, by them Elected. A Folio Sheet, printed on one side only. London for R. /., 1649. ^5 5s Execution of King Charles. 292 King Charls His Speech made upon the Scaffold at Whitehall-Gate, imme- diately before his Execution, on Tuesday the 30 of Jan. 1648. With a Relation of the maner of his going to Execution. Published by Special Authority. 14 pp., small 4to, unbound. London^ Printed by Peter Cole, 1649. £3 3s See also under Civil War. KING CHARLES SECOND. Proclaiming of King Charles 2Nd. 293 A Proclamation. Although it can no way be doubted, but that his Majes- ties Right and Title to his Crowns and Kingdoms, is and was every way compleated by the death of his Royal Father, without the Ceremony or Solemnity of a Proclamation, yet since Proclamations in such cases have been always used ... we therefore . . . do . . . heartily, joyfully and unanimously acknowledge and proclaim . Charles the second, as being lineally, justly and lawfully next heir of the Blood Royal of this Kingdom . . . and that . . . he is of England and Scotland France and Ireland the most potent, mighty and undoubted King. Folio broadside. Printed in Black Letter on one sheet. London, 1660. £3 3s 62 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London. W. Charles II. — continued. Charles IL's Restoration. 294 Act for a Solemn Anniversary Thanksgiving, for His Majesties Restaura- tion to the Royal Government of His Kingdoms. Printed in Black Letter, one side of a large folio sheet. Edinburgh, Printed by Evan Tyler , Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty, 1661. £1 lOs 295 Acts and Proclamations of Charles II. Anno Regni Caroh IL Regis Angliae, Scotiae, Franciae, & Hiberniae, Duodecimo. An Act for the speedy Provision of Money, for Disbanding and Paying off the Forces of this Kingdom both by Land and Sea. 1660. An Act for Supplying and Explaining certain Defaults in An Act Entituled, An Act for the speedy provision of Money, &c. 1660. An Act of Free and General Pardon, Indemnity, and Oblivion. 1660. 1660. An Act for Confirmation of Indicial Proceedings. 1660. An Act for removing and preventing all Questions and Disputes concerning the Assembling and Sitting of this present Parliament. 1660. An Act for the Confirming and Restoring of Ministers. 1660. An Act for raising Sevenscore thousand pounds, for the compleat Disbanding of the whole Army, and paying off some part of the Navy. 1660. An Act for the Encouraging & Increasing of Shipping and Naviga- tion. 1660. An Act to Prevent Frauds and Concealments of His Majesties Customs and Subsidies. An Act for the Regulating of the Trade of Bay-Making in the Dutch Bay-Hall in Colchester. A Subsidy Granted to the King of Tonnage and Poundage. An Act for the Continuing the Excise until the Twentieth of August, 1660. An Act for the present Nominating of Commissioners of Sewers. An Act for the speedy disbanding of the Army, and Garrisons of this Kingdome. An Act for the Inabling the Souldiers of the Army Now to be dis- banded, to Exercise Trades. His Majesties Most Gracious Speech, together with the Lord Chan- cellors, to the Two Houses of Parliament, on Thursday the 13 of Sep- tember, 1660. Together in folio volume, original calf. London, 1660. £6 6s MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W 63 Charles li- — continued. 296 Augustissimo Et Optimo Regi Caroio Secundo, In statuam ei in medio Mercatorum Foro positam. 4 pp., folio, new boards. London, 1684. ^^ ^^ 297 Bird (John). Ostenta Carolina; or the Late Calamities of England. With the Authors of them. The Great Happiness and Happy Government of K. Charles IL ensuing, Miraculously Foreshown by the Finger of God in two wonderful Diseases, the Rekets and Kings-Evil. 91 pp., small 4to, new hoards. London, 1661. 15s 298 The Confession of Edward Fitz-Harys for endeavouring to Dethrone the King. Broadside, small folio. London, 168 1. 6s 299 The King's Dispensing Power. Exphcated and Asserted. Pamphlet, 8 pp., small folio, unbound. London, 168 1. 7s 6d 300 Ogilby (John). The Kings Coronation: being an Exact Account of the Cavalcade, with a Description of the Triumphal Arches, and Speeches prepared by the City of London for his late Majesty Charles the Second, in his passage from the Tower to Whitehall. 18 pp., folio, unbound and uncut. London, 1685. £2 lOs 301 The Relation of His Majesties Entertainment passing through the City of London, to His Coronation : with a Description of the Triumphal Arches, and Solemnity. 35 pp., folio, unbound. London, 1661. £2 lOs Against Duels. 302 A Proclamation against the Fighting of Duells. In which it is stated that duels are becoming much too frequent, especially among the higher classes. " And which ought not to be, upon any provocation, we remember- ing that the Sin of Murder is detestable before God, and . . . Scan- dalous to Christian Religion, and contrary to Law. Any offender shall, apart from incurring our displeasure become incapable of holding or hoping to hold any office in our service. There is to be no intercession and no pardon for offenders." Broadside, printed on one side of folio sheet, with the Royal Arms at top. London, August 13, 1660. £3 3s 64 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. Charles II. — continued. Accession Pardon. 303 Proclamation concerning His Majesties gracious Pardon. Broadside. Printed on one side of folio sheet. London, 1660. £3 3s Coronation Pardon. 304 Proclamation concerning His Majesties Coronation Pardon. Printed on one side of a large folio sheet, with the Royal Arms at top. London .Printed by John Bill, 1661. £3 3s Commencing: — '' The King's Most Excellent Majesty, since his return to the Exercise of the Regall Powers of his Crown, hath passed an Act of General Pardon, Oblivion, and Indemnity, and hath also directed Charters of Pardon according to a form pre- scribed to issue under His Great Seal, which have been sued forth by many of his Subjects," etc. 305 A Proclamation for In Bringing of His Majesties Hangings, Household Stuffe, and other Furniture, &c. Edinburgh, Printed by a Society of Stationers, 1660. £2 2s Printed on one side of a folio sheet. 306 Proclamation for the Payment of the Subsidy and Aulnage upon all Woollen Clothes and Draperies. Broadside. Printed on one side of a folio sheet. London, 1660. £2 2s 307 A Proclamation for Prevention of Disorders which may be committed by Souldiers. Printed in Black Letter on one side of a large folio sheet, with the Royal Arms at top. London, Printed by the Assigns of John Bill and Christopher Barker, 1672. 10s 6d Commencing: — " The King's Most Excellent Majesty having found it necessary during the present War to raise more Souldiers, and to form them into Regiments, and dispose of them in several Quarters until there should be occasion for their Service against the Enemy, And being desirous that during their continuance in their Quarters no kind of Rudeness or Misdemeanour should be committed by any of his Souldiers to the grievance or dissatisfaction of any of His Subjects." 308 Proclamation for the preventing of Exportation of Wools, Woollen- Yarn, etc. Broadside. Printed on one side of a folio sheet. London, 1660. £2 2s Plate TIL fLOVES I RIDDLE 1^6ihm'^-nfitS fun ^'iO^Qm^' aijft*'.,%YO, original calf . London, ly/]^^. 10s 6d 523 — The Oeconomy of Human Life; translated from an Indian Manu- script, written by an ancient Bramin. To which is prefix' d, An Account of the Manner in which the said Manuscript was discovered. First Edition. Post 8vo, newly bound by Riviere in full calf, gilt back, gilt lines on sides, uncut, t. e. g. London, 175 1. £1 10s 524 DONALDSON (J.). A Panegyrick upon the most Honourable, Ancient and Excellent Art of Wright-Craft. Small 4to, boards. Edinburgh, 17 13. 8s 6(1 525 DONNE (John). Biathanatos. A Declaration of that Paradoxe, or Thesis, that Selfe-homicide is not so Naturally Sinne, that it may never be otherwise, wherein the Nature, and the extent of all those Lawes, which seeme to be violated by this Act, are diligently surveyed. First Edition. Small 4to, original calf (jebacked). London (1644). £15 15s ** Biathanatos is the earliest of Donne's controversial writings. His neurotic tempera- ment had for many years been fascinated by the thought of suicide, and in this work, written probably in 1608, he sought by the most ingenious casuistry to justify the act of self-destruction. ' Whensoever any affliction assails me,' he wrote in the preface, ' me thinks I have the keyes of my prison in mine owne hand, and no remedy presents it selfe so soone to my heart, as mine own sword.' Donne was unwilling either to publish or to destroy this curious and characteristic product of his brain, and it was therefore handed round to his friends in manuscript. His desire was that after his death the book should still be preserved but not published ; his son never- theless assumed the responsibility of making it public, and it was duly licensed on September 20, 1644. The title-page of the first issue is not dated and appears to be unfinished, but this was probably an oversight on the part of the printer." — G. Keynes. no MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London. W. Donne (John) — continued. 526 Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, and Severall steps in my Sicknes : digested into 1. Meditations upon our Humane Condition. 2. Expostulations, and Debatements with God. 3. Prayers, upon the Severall Occasions, to him. First Edition. Thick small 8vo, original calf, rebacked. London, 1624. £13 13s *** When Convocation met in 1623, Donne was cliosen prolocutor, and in November of the same year he fell ill with what seems to have been typhoid fever. He was in considerable danger, and hardly expected to recover. During all his illiless his mind was incessantly at work; a feverish restlessness kept him still with the pen in his hand from day to day, and almost from hour to hour. He kept a kind of journal of his words and prayers, and hopes and yearnings during his sickness, and on his recovery he published the result in a little book, which was very widely read at the time, and went through several editions during the next few years. It was entitled ' Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, and Several Steps in my Sickness.' It was dedicated to Prince Charles. Copies of the original impression are rarities." — D.N.B. 527 Encaenia. The Feast of Dedication. Celebrated at Lincolns Inn, in a Sermone there upon Ascension Day, 1623, at the Dedication of a new Chappell there, consecrated by the Right Reverend Father in God, the Bishop of London. Preached by John Donne, Deane of St. Pauls. First Edition. Small 4to. Fine copy, bound in full polished calf gilt, g. e., by Riviere. London, 1623. £18 18s 528 The First Sermon Preached to King Charles, at Saint James, 3 April, 1625, by John Donne, Deane of Saint Pauls. First Edition. Small 4to, newly bound in polished calf gilt, g. e., by Riviere. London, 1625. £14 14s * * * Tliis was the first sermon that King Charles the First heard after his accession. 529 Juvenilia; or, Certaine Paradoxes and Problemes. First Edition. Small 4to. Fine Copy, handsomely bound by Riviere in full crushed levant morocco, g. e. E. P. for Henry Seyle, 1633. £21 **♦ "Donne's Juvenilia are clever and entertaining trifles, which were probably written before 1600 during the more wanton period of their author's life. Owing to their scurrilous nature they could not be published during Donne's lifetime, but in 1632, shortly after his death, part of them were licensed by Sir Henry Herbert. The licences were granted on October 25, 1632, but on November 14 an order of inquiry was delivered at the King's command by the Bishop of London calling upon Sir Henry Herbert to explain before the Board of the Star Chamber his reasons " why hee warranted the booke of D. Duns paradoxes to bee printed." The inquiry, how- ever, was ineffectual in preventing the publication of the book, the title-page of (Continued over) MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, iii Donne (John) — continued. which is dated 1633. It is not known through what channels the publisher, Henry Seyle, obtained possession of the text, but it is probable that the publication was quite unauthorised, and took place even without the knowledge of John Donne, Jun., who, in his edition of 1652, makes no reference to any previous issues. Although the King did not succeed in stopping the publication of the Juvenilia, the licences were withdrawn, so that when the demand for the book encouraged the publication of a second edition during the same year, the publisher took upon himself to issue it unlicensed." — (Keynes.) 530 POEMS By J. D., with ELEGIES ON THE AUTHOR'S DEATH. LONDON : Printed by M. F., for John Harriot, and are to be sold at his shop in S. Dunstans Church-yard in Fleet-street, 1633. First Edition. Small 410. Handsomely bound by Riviere in full crushed levant morocco ^ g. e. A VERY FINE COPY. £50 531 Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. Wit/i beautiful portrait of Donne by Marshall. i2mo, original calf. London^ 1639. £10 10s 532 Poems, etc-, with Elegies on the Author's Death. To which is added divers copies under his own hand never before printed. Small 8vo, original calf. London, 1669. £1 16s Wants portrait of Donne. 533 A Sermon upon the XX Verse of the Y Chapter of the Booke of Judges, wherein occasion was justly taken for the Publication of Some Reasons, which his Sacred Maiestie had been pleased to give, of those Directions for Preachers, which hee had formerly sent foorth. Preached at the Crosse the 15th of September, 1622. Small 4to, full polished calf. Riviere, g. e. London, 1622. £18 18s *** This is Donne's First Printed Sermon. ''It was delivered at Paul's Cross on 15th Sept. to an enormous congregation, in obedience to the King's commands, who had just issued his ' Directions to Preachers,' and had made choice of the Dean of St. Paul's to explain his reasons for issuing the injunctions.'' — D.N.B. 112 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 534 DORSET. Blandford. Blake (Malachi). A Brief Account of the Dread- ful Fire at Blandford Forum in the County of Dorset which happened June iv., Mdccxxxi, Together with a Sermon preached at Blandford, June 4, 1735, being the Day set apart by the Protestant Dissenters there for Prayer and Humihation under the Remembrance of that said Providence. Folding plan of the Town. 116 pp., small 8vo, unbound. London, 1735. 10s 6d 535 DOUGLAS (Garvin, Bishop of Dunkeld). Virgil's /Eneis translated into Scottish Verse. A New Edition wherein the many errors of the former are cor- rected, to which is added a large Glossary, explaining the difficult Words, which may serve for a Dictionary to the Old Scottish Language, Folio, original calf. Edinburgh, 17 10. £1 lOs 536 DOUGHTY (John). The Kings Cause rationally, briefly, and plainly debated, as it stands Defacto. Against the Irrationall, groundless mis- prisions of a still deceived sort of People. 45 pp., small 4to, unbomid. 1644. £1 Is * * * This tract is by John Doughty, of Merton College, Oxford. It was issued without Printer's or Publisher's name or Place of Publication. After the Restoration Doughty petitioned the King for a vacant prebend in West- minster Abbey on the ground that when prevented from preaching he had justified the cause of the King and the Church by his pen. 537 DRAYTON (Michael). Poly-Olbion: or, a Chorographicall Description of Tracts, Rivers, Mountains, Forests, and other Parts of this renowned Isle of Great Britaine, with intermix- ture of the most Remarquable Stories, Antiquities, Wonders, Rarityes, Pleasures, and Commodities of the Same : Digested in a Poem by Michael Drayton, with a Table added, for direction to those occurrences of Story and Antiquitie, whereunto the Course of the Volume easily leades not. Finely engraved title by W. Hole, and brilliant impression of the Portrait of Prince Henry by Hole, together with the 30 double-paged Maps, and with the printed title to both parts. The Two Parts Complete. Folio, full morocco, centre gold orna- ment on sides, g. e. London-. Printed by Augustine Mathewes, 1622. £18 18s MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 113 Drayton (Michael) — continued. 538 Works. Containing: — I. The Battle of Agincourt. II. The Barons* Wars. III. England's Heroical Epistles. IV. The Miseries of Queen Margaret, the Unfortunate Wife of the most Unfortunate King Henry VI. V. Nymphidia : or the Court of Fairy. VI. The Moon-calf. VII. The Legends of Robert Duke of Normandy, Matilda the Fair, Pierce Gaveston, and Tho. Cromwell E. of Essex. VIII. The Quest of Cynthia. IX. The Shepherd's Sirena. X. Poly-Olbion, with the Annotations of the learned Selden. XI. Elegies on several occasions. XII. Ideas. Being all the Writings of that celebrated Author, now first collected in one volume. First Folio Edition. Large folio, original calf, inorocco back. London: Printed by J. Hughs, 1748. £3 3s 539 Works, with an Historical Essay on his Life and Writings. Engraved frontispiece. Best Edition. 4 vols., 8vo, original calf. London, 1753. £4 18s 540 DRESS. The Dangerous Consequences of Luxury, Excess of Apparel, and other Foreign Vices, lately imported among us, considered. With a Word to the Army. 4to, faper covers. L^ondon, 1737. 18s 541 DRUMMOND (William). The History of Scotland, from the year 1423, until the year 1542. Containing the Lives and Reigns of James the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th. With several Memorials of State during the reigns of James VI. and Charles ist. With a Prefatory Introduction by Mr. Hall. Illustrated with a fine impression of the portrait of the author by Gaywoody and the portraits of the five James' s. First Edition. ¥o\\o, old calf (re backed). London, i6sS- £5 5s 114 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street. London, W. 541a DRUMMOND (William, of Hawthornden). Poems. The second im- pression. Woodcut border to title. Small 4to, old brown calf {rebacked), g, e. Edinburgh^ Printed by Andro Hart, 1616. £150 *** OF THE GREATEST RARITY. OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION OF DRUM- MOND'S POEMS PUBLISHED IN THE SAME YEAR ONLY ONE COPY IS KNOWN. ALTHOUGH CALLED THE SECOND IMPRESSION ON TITLE, IT IS THE SAME IN ITS CONTENTS AS THE FIRST, WITH MERELY A CHANGE OF TITLE. MR. HEBER WAS OF OPINION, ON A MINUTE AND CAREFUL COMPARISON OF THE TWO, THAT THEY WERE BOTH TYPOGRAPHICALLY THE SAME EDITION, AND THAT THE CHANGE IN THE TITLE-PAGE IN THE SECOND WAS MERELY ON ACCOUNT OF SOME OTHER MATTER BEING ADDED AT THE END. The present copy is a very good one, with separate titles to VRANIA, or SPIRITUALL POEMS, and MADRIGALLS, and EPIGRAMMES, but margins of six leaves re- stored. Edward Phillips {nephew of Milton) says of Drummond that "neither Tasso nor Guarini, nor any of the most neat and refined spirits of Italy, nor even the choicest of our English poets, can challenge to themselves any advantages above him, nor any attribute superiour to what he deserves ; nor shall I think it any arrogance to maintain, that among all the severall fancies, that in these times have exercised the most nice and curious judgements, there hath not come forth anything that deserves to be welcom'd into the world with greater estimation & applause. . . . Had there been nothing extant of him but his History of Scotland, consider but the Language, how florid and ornate it is ; consider the order, & the prudent conduct of his Story, and you will ranke him in the number of the best writers, and compare him even with Thuanus himselfe. Neither is he lesse happy in his Verse than prose : for here are all those graces met together that conduce any thing toward the making up of a compleat & perfect Poet, a decent and becoming majesty, a brave & admirable height, & a wit so following, that Jove himselfe never dranke Nectar that sparkled with a more spritly lustre." The writer of an excellent article on the Poems of Drummond in the Retrosp. Rev. has conjectured that this passage may not improbably reflect the opinion of Milton himself on these Poems and their author, and on that account is of some value. Whether this conjecture be true or not, it is well known that Milton was an admirer of the poet of Hawthornden, and that some of his graceful epithets and phrases are to be traced in Milton's writings. (Corser's Collectanea Anglo-Poetica.) MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 115 JOHN DRYDEN. 542 Absalom and Achitophel. A Poem. London, 168 1. The Second Part of Absalom and Achitophel. A Poem. London, 1682. First Edition of each par^ Folio, bound by Rivie?e in full -polished calf gilt, g. e. £16 16s *** The Extremely Rare First Edition of the most celebrated of Drydeii's Political Satires, and perhaps the greatest Satire in English, " In one respect this poem stands alone in literature. A party Pamphlet dedicated to the hour, it is yet immortal. No poem in our language is so interpenetrated with contemporary allusion, with contemporary portraiture, with contemporary point, yet no poem in our language has been more enjoyed by succeeding generations of readers. Scores of intelligent men who know by heart the characters of Zimri and Achitophel are content to remain in ignorance of the political careers of Buckingham and Shaftesbury. The speech in which Achitophel incites his faltering disciple has been admired and recited by hundreds who have been blind to its historical fidelity and to its subtle personalities." 543 Albion and Albanius: an Opera, perform' d at the Queen's Theatre in Dorset Garden. First Edition. A Fine Uncut Copy, foho, half morocco. London, 1685. £15 15s 544 Amboyna: a Tragedy. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal. First Edition. Sm-aXl ^X.o, new boards. London, 167-^. £8 lOs *** This play was written in and about the second Dutch war in 1673. It is dedi- cated to Lord Clifford of Chudleigh, and was '' contrived and written in a month." 545 Annus Mirabilis, the Year of Wonders, M.DC.LXVI., an Historical Poem. Also a Poem on the Happy Restoration and Return of his Late Sacred Majesty Charles the Second. Likewise a Panegyrick on his Coronation, together with a Poem to My Lord Chancellor. Small 4to, original calf (rebacked). London, 1688. £4 4s 546 Britannia Rediviva: a Poem on the Birth of the Prince. First Edition. 14 pp., folio, half morocco. London, Printed for J. Tonson, 1688. £7 7s 547 Britannia Rediviva: A Poem on the Birth of the Prince. First Edition. Small 4to, full mottled calf gilt by Riviere, g. e. London, 1688. ^5 5s *** "Written on the birth of the most ill-starred of all Princes of Wales, born in the purple." Ii6' MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35. Conduit Street, London, W. Dryden (John) — continued. 548 Cleomenes, the Spartan Heroe, a Tragedy as it is Acted at the Theatre Royal. Written by Mr. Dryden; to which is prefixed the Life of Cleo- menes. First Edition. 4to, new boards, leather back. London, Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1692. £4 lOs * * * Dryden has not deviated farther from history than a fair poetic license may warrant. The additions he has made to the real story are chiefly the scene in which the Spartans are nearly starved, the love of Cassandra for Cleomenes, the whole character of Cleora, and nearly the whole of Cleanthes. The piece is considered to be one of the most successful specimens of heroic drama Dryden produced. 549 The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards: In Two Parts. Acted at the Theater-Roy alL Both Parts First Edition. Small 4to, neiv boards, leather back. In the Savoy, Printed by T . N . for Henry Herringman, 1672. £18 18s *** This Play is preceded by An Essay " Of Heroique Playes " which contains much Shakespeare matter, his " Pericles," "Winter's Tale," ''Love's Labour Lost," and " Measure for Measure " being specially referred to. The two parts of the Conquest of Granada are written in rhj^me, and were very suc- cessful. They are never flat or dull, and they have much bustle and incident, with many good lines. Dr. Johnson gives them an extravagant eulogy. The prologue was spoken by Nell Gwyn in a hat of the circumference of a cart-wheel : " The house was immediately in convulsions, and the King wanted but little of being suffocated with laughter." 550 De Arte Graphica, The Art of Painting, by C. A. Du Fresnoy, with Reniarks, translated into English together with an Original Preface con- taining a Parallel betwixt Painting and Poetry. Frontispiece. FIRST EDITION. Small 4to, original calf. London, 1695. * £3 3s * * * This book, according to Mr. Gosse, is one of the rarest of Dryden's Works to find in First Edition. 55 1 An Elegy on the Usurper 0. C, by the Author of Absalom and Achitophel, pubhshed to shew the Loyalty and Integrity of the Poet. A folio broadside folded into 8vo vol. , new boards. London, Printed for J. Smith, 168 1. £3 3s 552 Eleonora: A Panegyrical Poem, dedicated to the Memory of the late Countess of Abingdon. FIRST EDITION. Small 4to, half morocco, g. e. London, 1692. £4 4s ♦" The Hoe Copy sold for £17. MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 117 Dryden (John) — continued. 553 An Evening's Love; or, the Mock Astrologer. First Edition. Small 4to, full red straight- grain morocco gilt, gilt edges. In the Savoy, 167 1. £10 lOs *** Prefixed is a very interesting preface on the merits of the old dramatists. This contains some important notices of Shakespeare, and of the origin of iiis plays. 554 The History of the League, Written in French by Monsieur Maimbourg. Translated into English according to his Majesty's Command. With engraved frontispiece. Thick 8vo, original calf. London, 1684. "^^^ 555 Juvenal (Decimus Junius) and Aulus Persius Flaccus. Satires. With explanatory Notes at the end of each Satire. To which is Prefix' d a Discourse concerning the Original and Progress of Satire. Translated into English Verse by Mr. Dryden and other Eminent Hands. First Edition. Folio, full calf. London, Tonson, 1693. *2 2s 556 Marriage A-la-Mode. A Comedy. First Edition. Small 4to, new boards. London, 1673. £12 12s *• * * The serious part of this drama is apparently founded on the story of Sesostris and Timareta, in the " Grand Cyrus." The comic scenes in this play are executed with spirit, and contain much witty and fashionable raillery, and the character of Melautha is pronounced by Gibber to ex- hibit the most complete system of female foppery that could possibly be crowded into the tortured form of a fine lady. 557 The Medall. A Satyre against Sedition. By the Author of Absalom and Achitophel. First Edition. Small 4to, nezu boards. London, 1682. £2 15s 558 CEdipus: a Tragedy. First Edition. Small 4to, new boards. London, 1679. £8 8s * * * The first and third acts were written by Dryden, who drew the machinery of the whole ; the remainder was by Nat. Lee. 559 (Edipus. Another Edition. Small 8vo, boards, uncut. London, Printed for J. Tonson, 1734. £"• "iS Il8 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. Dryden (John) — continued. 560 A Poem upon the Death of his Late Highness, Oliver, Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland. First Edition. Small 4to, bound by Riviere in full crushed morocco extra^ g. e. London, William Wilson, 1659. £26 Fine and tall copy. The Hoe copy sold for £52 10s. 561 A Prologue (and Epilogue) written by Mr. Dryden, to a New Play call'd The Loyal Brother, etc. First Edition. 2\)\)., ioVio, half 7norocco. 1682. £10 10s 562 Prologue to the Duke of Guise, written by Mr. Dryden: Spoken by Mr. Smith. First Edition. 4 pp., folio, half levant morocco, g. e., by Riviere. London, 1683. *"'® ""Os *** Includes as well as the Prologue, the "Epilogue, written by the same Author. Spoken by Mrs. Cooke," and " Another Epilogue intended to have been vSpoken to the Play, before it was forbidden last summer, written by Mr. Dryden." XXX '' The Duke of Guise, A Tragedy," was written by John Dryden and Nat. Lee, its object was to serve the Duke of York, whose succession was opposed. Dryden was severely attacked for this piece, which was considered as levelled at the then enemies of the English Court. 563 Prologue to the King and Queen, At the Opening of their Theatre. Spoken by Mr. Betterton, written by Mr. Dryden. Together with the Epilogue, Spoken by Mr. Smith, written by the same Authour. 4 pp., folio, half morocco. London, Jacob Tonson, 1683. ^^^ "^^ 564 Prologue to His Royal Highness upon his first appearance at the Duke's Theatre since his return from Scotland. Written by Mr. Dryden, spoken by Mr. Smith. First Edition. Printed on one side of a, folio leaf. Bound by Riviere in half levant morocco, g. e. London, 1682. £10 lOs * * * An exceedingly rare poetical piece by Dryden. 565 The Spanish Fryar; or, the Double Discovery. First Edition. Small 4to, new boards. London, 168 1. £5 5s * * * Langbaine charges the author of this play with casting a reflection on the whole body of the clergy in the character of Dominick the Friar, and seems to imagine it a piece of revenge practised for some opposition he met with in his attempt to take orders. The plot of the comic parts is founded on a novel called the ^' Pilgrim," written by Bremond. MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London. W. iig Dryden (John) — continued. 566 Troilus and Gressida; or, Truth Found too Late. A Tragedy. To which is Prefix'd, A Preface Containing the Grounds of Criti- cism in Tragedy. First Edition. Small 4to, new boards. London, 1679. £5 5s * * * This is Shakespeare's Play altered by Dryden. The preface contains some highly interesting Shakespearian matter, including some quotations from Hamlet and Richard II. The prologue is spoken by Mr. Betterton representing the Ghost of Shakespeare. 56/ Tyrannick Love, or The Royal Martyr. A Tragedy. First Edition. Small 4to, half calf. London, 1670. £10 10s *** Nell Gwyn took the part of "Valeria," daughter to Maximin. At the end of the play Nell Gwyn in this character, lying " dead " on the Stage, the bearers come to carry her off, she says to one of them : — *' Hold, are you mad? You damn'd confounded dog I am to rise and speak the Epilogue." Curll says that Kin^ Charles II. was so captivated by the humorous manner in which she spoke the Epilogue, that when she had done, he went behind the scenes and carried her off that night. 568 Tyrannick Love. Third Edition, reviewed by the Author. Small 4to, new boards. London, 1677. 15s 569 The Vindication or the Parallel of the French Holy-League, and the Eng- lish League and Covenant, Turn'd into a Seditious Libell against the King and his Royal Highness, by Thomas Hunt and the Authors of the Reflections upon the Pretended Parallel in the Play called The Duke of Guise. First Edition. Small 4to. Fine Copy bound by Riviere in full -polished calf gilt, g. e. London, Frinted for Jacob Tonson, 1683. £4 4s * * * Dryden, in this work, makes reference to Shakespeare as follows : — '' Am I tyed in Poetry to the strict rules of History? I haue follow'd it in this Play more closely, than suited with the Laws of the Drama, and a great Victory they will haue, who shall discover to the World this wonderful Secret, that I haue not observ'd the Unities of place and time ; but are they better kept in the Farce of the Libertine destroy'd? 'Twas our common business here to draw the Parallel of the Times, and not to make an Exact Tragedy : For this once we were resolved to erre with honest Shakespear." f20 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. Dryden (John) — continued. 570 The Wild Gallant: a Comedy. First Edition. Small 4to, new boards. London, 1669. £10 lOs *** This was Dryden's first attempt in dramatic writing. The plot, as the author confesses, is borrowed. It was first acted in February, 1663. He introduces some most extraordinary matter in this comedy. 571 Walsh (William). A Dialogue Concerning Women, being a Defence of the Sex. Written to Eugenia. With Preface by Dryden. First Edition. Small 8vo, old calf (jebacked). London, 1691. £3 3s 572 Works. In Four Volumes. The Collected Edition of Dryden's Works, Composed of the pieces as published separately, bound together and issued with a General Title-page, each piece, with one exception, having its own title-page and separate pagination. 4 vols., small 4to, original calf. £31 lOs Comprising : — Vol. I. Of Dramatic Poesie. An Essay. 1693. The Wild Gallant. A Comedy. 1694. The Rival-Ladies. A Tragi-Comedy. 1693. The Indian Emperour : of the Conquest of Mexico. 1694. Secret Love: or, The Maiden Queen. 1691. Sir Martin Marr-All : or, The Feign'd Innocence. 1697. The Tempest: or, The Enchanted Island. 1695. An Evening's Love : or, The Mock-Astrologer. 1691. Tyrannick Love : or, The Royal Martyr. 1695. The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards. In Two Parts. Fifth Edi- tion. 1695. Vol. II. Marriage A-la-Mode. A Comedy. 1691. The Assignation : or, Love in a Nunnery. 1692. Amboyna. A Tragedy. 1691. The State of Innocence, and Fall of Man. 1695. Aureng-Zebe. A Tragedy. 1694. All for Love : or, The World Well Lost. 1692. The King Keeper: or, Mr. Limberham. 1690. Oedipus. A Tragedy. 1696. Troilus and Cressida : or, Truth Found Too Late. 1695. The Spanish Fryar : or, The Double Discovery. 1690. MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. I3r Dryden (John) — continued. Vol. III. The Duke of Guise. A Tragedy. 1687. The Vindication : or, The Parallel of the French Holy-League, etc. 1683. Albion and Albanius. An Opera. 1691. Don Sebastian, King of Portugal. A Tragedy. 1692. Amphitryon : or. The Two Sofia's. A Comedy. 1694. King Arthur: or, The British Worthy. First Edition. 1691. Cleomenes, the Spartan Heroe. First Edition, 2nd Issue. 1692. Love Triumphant : or. Nature will Prevail. First Edition. 1694. Vol. IV. A Poem upon the Death of Oliver Cromwell. 1659. Annus Mirabilis. The Year of Wonders, an Historical Poem. Also a Poem on the Happv Restoration and Return of His Late Sacred Majesty Charles the Second, etc. 1688. Astrea Redux. A Poem on the Happy Restoration and Return of his Sacred Majesty Charles the Second. 1688. To His Sacred Majesty. A Panegyrick on his Coronation, 1688. To My Lord Chancellor Presented on New-years-day. 1688. Mac Flecknoe. (Without separate title-page.) Absalom and Achitophel. A Poem. 1692. The Medal. A Satyre against Sedition. 1692. Religio Laici : or, A Layman's Faith. 1683. Threnodia Augustalis, A Funeral-Pindarique Poem Sacred to the Happy Memory of King Charles II. 1685. The Hind and the Panther. A Poem. In Three Parts. 1687. Britannia Rediviva. A Poem on the Birth of the Prince. 1688. Eleonora. A Panegyrical Poem. First Edition. 1692. 573 Comedies, Tragedies and Operas. With finely engraved portrait by Edelinck after Kneller. First Collected Edition. Large Paper Copy. 2 vols., folio, original calf . London ^ 1701. £4 4s 574 A Collection of his Writings. Comprising Original Poems and Translations. 2 vols. 1743- — Dramatick Works. Portrait and plates. 6 vols. 1762. — Miscellaneous Works. 4 vols. 1767. — Works of Virgil. Plates. 4 vols. 1792. — Satyrs of Juvenalis and Persius. 1754. — Fables. 1774. Together 18 vols., i2mo, half calf gilt. London, V. Y. £3 15s 575 DU BARTUS. His Deuine Weekes and Workes translated by Josuah Sylvester, now fourthly corr : and augm : Engraved title by Hole. Small thick 410, contejnporary full morocco gilt. London, 1613. £3 lOs * * * With Commendatory Verses by Ben Jonson, Saml. Daniel, J. Hall, J. Davies of Hereford, and others. 122 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 576 DUELLING. Cursory Reflections on the Single Combat or Modern Duel. 4to, boards, uncut. London, '^77?>- "^^S " After the Old and most Surprising Way of Macbeth." 577 DUFFET (Thomas). The Empress of Morocco, a Farce, acted by his Majesties Servants {with the) Epilogue being a New Fancy after the old and most surprising way of Macbeth performed with new and costly Machines, which were invented and managed by the most ingenious operator Mr. Henry Wright. First Edition, with the very rare engraved Frontispiece of Griffin the Actor, as Queen Mother. Small 4to, vellum. London, 1674. £25 * * * Exceedingly Rare — described in Lee's Shakespeareana, No. 273, where 1^ pages are occupied with the description of the Epilogue, the sub-title of which is " AN EPILOGUE SPOKEN BY HECCATE AND THE THREE WITCHES ACCORDING TO THE FAMOUS MODE OF MACBETH." In the text of the Epilogue some of Shakespeare's words are used with slight change and burlesqued. 578 DUNTON (John). A True Journall of the Sally Fleet. With the Pro- ceedings of the Voyage. With a List of Sally Captives, Names, and the Places where they dwell. Small 4to, boards. London, 1637. £1 Is The " Description of the three townes in a card " is missing. 579 D'URFEY (Thomas). Albion's Blessing. A Poem panegyrical on his Sacred Majesty King William III., and On his happy Return and the Pub- lishing the late Glorious Peace. First Edition. Folio, new boards. London, 1698. £2 2s 580 The Malecontent; a Satyr: Being the Sequel of the Progress of Honesty, or a view of Court and City. First Edition. Foho, new boards. Londdn, 1684. £3 10s 581 ^ — The Progress of Honesty; or, a View of a Court and City. A Pindarique Poem. By T. D. First Edition. ¥o\\o, half morocco. London, 16Z1. £2 10s 582 The Royalist: A Comedy. First Edition. Small 4to, half calf. London, 1682. £3 10s * ♦ * This play met with good success. It contains, with other songs, one by Frances Quarles (from his '* Shepherd's Oracles. "> MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 123 D'Urfey (Thomas) — continued. 583 Wit and Mirth; or, Pills to Purge Melancholy. Being a Collection of the best Merry Ballads and Songs, Old and New. Fitted to all Humours, having each their proper Tune for either Voice, or Instrument; most of the Songs being new set. Portrait. 6 vols., small 8vo. Very fine copy in the original calf gilt. London, 1719-20. £18 18s *** The Original Issue of the Most Complete Edition of this famous collection of Songs. The first two volumes are entirely filled with D'Urfey' s own Songs with a few of his poems and prologues at the end. Sir Richard Steele in the Guardian wrote concerning the collection: "A judicious author some years since published a collection of sonnets, which he very successfully called 'Pills to purge Melancholy.' I cannot sufficiently admire the facetious title of these volumes, and must censure the world of ingratitude, while they are so negligent in rewarding the jocose labours of my friend Mr. D'Urfey, who was so large a contributor to this treatise, and to whose humorous productions so many rural squires in the remotest parts of this island are obliged for the dignity and state which corpulency gives them. The story of the sick man's breaking an imposthume by a sudden fit of laughter, is too well known to need a recital. It is my opinion, that the above pills would be extremely proper to be taken with asses' milk, and mightily contribute towards the renewing and restoring decayed lungs." 584 DYALOGE. A Proper Dyaloge betwene a Gentillman and a Husbandman eche complaynyge to other their miserable calamite through the ambicion of Clergye, with a Compendious Olde Treatyse shewynge howe that we ought to have the Scripture in Englysshe. Hans Luft. 1530. Reproduced in facsimile with an Introduction by Francis Fry, F.S.A. Post 8vo, half red 7norocco. London, 1863. £2 2a One of a few copies printed entirely on vellum. 585 DYER (John). Poems; viz., Grongar Hill; The Rums of Rome; The Fleece, in four books. With plates. Small 8vo, original calf. London, 1761. 10s 6d 586 D. (J.). The Knave in Graine, New Vampt. A witty Comedy, acted at the For time many dayes together with great applause, written by J. D. Gent. First Edition. Small 4to, limp vellum. London, 1640. £15 15s 587 EDMONDS (Clement). Commentaries of his Wars in Gaih'a, and the Civil Wars betwixt him and Pompey. Translated into English, with many excellent and Judicious Observations thereupon. As also the Art of our Modern Training, together with the Life of Cassar, by Clement Edmonds. Full-length portrait, plate of medals, and numerous plans of battles. Folio, original calf {rebacked). London, 16'/'/. £1 Is I2!4 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 588 EDUCATION. Todd (J). The School-Boy and Young Gentleman's Assistant, being a Plan of Education. Containing the Sentiments of the best Authors under these following Heads, viz.. Health, Manners, Religion, and Learning. Small 8vo, original calf. Edinburgh^ Printed in the Y ear 1748. £5 15s *** A very rare little volume. Dedicated to James, Duke of Hamilton. 589 EIKON BASILIKE. The Pourtraioture of His Sacred Majesty King Charles II. With his Reasons for turning Roman Catholick; published by K. James. Found in the Strong Box. Portrait of the King as frontispiece. Small 8vo, old calf. Printed in the Year 1694. £1 5s * * * This Edition was privately printed. 590 ELIZABETH (Queen). D'Ewes (Sir Simonds). The Journals of all the Parliaments during the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, both of the House of Lords and House of Commons. Revised and published by Paul Bowes. ' Frontispiece of Queen Elizabeth in Parliament. Folio, full russia gilt. London^ 1682. £2 5s 591 Digges (Sir Dudly). The Compleat Ambassador, or Two Treaties of the intended Marriage of Queen Elizabeth of Glorious Memory, com- prised in Letters of Negotiation of Sir Francis Walsingham her Resi- dent in France, together with the Answers of the Lord Burleigh, the Earl of Leicester, Sir Thos. Smith and others. Engraved Frontispiece by Faithorne of the Queen seated in State supported by Lord Burleigh and Sir F. Walsingham. YoliOf original calf . London^ 1655. £1 10s 592 Forbes (P.). A Full View of the Public Transactions in the Reign of Q. Elizabeth. In a series of Letters and Papers of State written by herself and her principal Ministers and by the foreign Princes and Ministers with whom she had Negotiations, published from original and authentic Manuscripts in the Paper Office, Cottonian Library, and other public and private Repositories at home and abroad. Numerous facsimiles of autographs of eminent persons. 2 vols., folio, full russia extra, full gilt backs y yellow edges. London, IT A^o. Very fine copy. £1 15s MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. i«5 Elizabeth (Queen) — continued. 5Q3 Speeches delivered to Queen Elizabeth on her visit to Giles Brydges, Lord Chandos, at Sudeley Castle in Gloucestershire; with a Preface by Sir Egerton Brydges. Portrait of Giles Brydges. Large Paper Copy. Small folio, full calf, rebacked, g. e. Privately Printed at the fress of the Priory, 18 15. £1 2s 6d Fore-edge Painting. 594 ELLIS (George). Specimens of the Early English Poets. Small 8vo. Bound in etruscan calf, gold border on sides, gilt back. A fine example of fainted edges, having on the fore-edge under the gold a water-colour drawing of an English landscape, with jnansion in back- ground. London, 1790. £21 595 ELYOT (Sir Thomas). The Boke Named The Governour devised by Sir Thomas Elyot Knyght. Black Letter, Small Svo, old half vellum gilt. London, 1557. £3 10s 596 EMBLEMS, Emblems for the Entertainment and Improvement of Youth; containing hieroglyphical and Enigmatical devices, relating to all Parts and Stations of Life. Together with explanations and proverbs in French, Spanish, Italian, and Latin, alluding to them, and translated into English. With engraved frontispiece and 62 curious woodcuts. Svo, original calf . London, circa 1755. 12s 6d 597 Tolson (P.). Hermathenae, or, Moral Emblems and Ethnick Tables. With explanatory notes. Engraved title and 60 finely engraved emblematical illustrations. Svo, original calf. Circa 1720. 15s * * * Vol. I. all published. 59S ENGLAND. A Journey to England, with some Account of the Mannerb and Customs of that Nation. Written at the Command of a Nobleman in France. Made in English. Svo, half morocco. London, Printed and Sold by A. Baldwin, 1700. 10s 6d * * * A curious and early Account of Old English Ale and Alehouses, Bowling Greens, Hyde Park, 111 Manners of the People, Ladies who go to Taverns, Spring Gardens, etc. 126 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London. W. 599 EPICURUS'S Morals, collected partly out of his owne Greek Text^ in Diogenes Laertius, and partly out of the Rhapsodies of Marcus Antoninus, Plutarch, Cicero, & Seneca. And faithfully Englished. With portrait. Small 4to, full calf. London, 1656. £1 5s 600 ERASMUS. L'Estrange (Sir Roger). Twenty Two Select Colloquies out of Erasmus Roterodamus; pleasantly representing several superstitious Levities that were crept into the Church of Rome in his days. With engraved -portrait. 8vo, old calf {rebacked). London, 1699. 6s 601 The Paraphrase of Erasmus upon the Newe Testament. Woodcut titles. First Edition. 2 vols., small folio, handsomely bound by Riviere in full crushed 7norocco extra, full gilt backs, gilt borders on sides, with corner and centre pieces, g. e. London, E. Whitchurche, 1548-9. £26 * * * This commentary was appointed by public authority to be placed in all our churches. The first volume was edited by Nicholas Udall, and the second by Coverdale, John Olde, and Leonard Coxe, The Paraphrase upon the Revelation was written by Leo Jude, and translated by Edmonde Allen. Vol. I. has prefixed to the whole, a preface "Unto the Kynges Maiestee " ; another "To the Jentill christian reader " ; and an epistle dedicatory " To the moste vertuous Ladie Queue Katherine dowager." Each of them by Nicholas Udall. Before S. Mark, S. Luke, S. John, and the Acts of the Apostles, are other dedications to the Queen Dowager, the first by Thos. Key, the others by Nich. Udall. The leaves of each of these books are num- bered separately. Vol. II. begins with a dedication to the King, by " Myles Couer- dall," an address to the Christian by John Olde. The Catholic epistles are dedicated to Lady Anne Dutchess of Somerset. The leaves of the epistles, etc., are numbered separately. 602 ETON. Bentham (Dr. Edward). Elogium Famae Inserviens Jacoi Eton- ensis, sive Gigantis; or, the Praises of Jack of Eton, commonly called Jack the Giant, collected into Latin and English Metre after the Manner of Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, John Burton, and others, etc., by a Master of Arts. 8vo, half calf, uncut, t. e. g. Oxford, S. Parker, 1750. £1 4s 603 Perse (WiUiam). A Sermon Preached at the Anniversary Meeting of the Eton-Scholars, At St. Mary le Bow, on Decemb. the 6. 168 1. 38 pp., small 4to, new boards. London, 1682. 18s MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 127 604 ETON VERSES (Manuscript). Way (L). Poemata Juvenilia Manu- scripta in quatuor tomos distributa Studio atq opera Ludovici Way, Etonae. A Collection of upwards of 60 productions of various contributors, in the autograph of Lewis Way. 188 pp., with index. Small 4to, original calf neaL 1786. £1 lOs 605 ESQUEMELING (John). Bucaniers of America: or, a True Account of the Most Remarkable Assaults Committed of late Years upon the Coasts of The West Indies, By the Bucaniers of Jamaica and Tortuga, Both English and French. Wherein are contained more especially, The unparallel'd Exploits of Sir Henry Morgan, our English Jamaican Hero, who sack'd Puerto Velo, burnt Panama, &c. Written originally in Dutch, by John Esquemeling, one of the Bucaniers, who was present at those Tragedies. The Second Edition, Corrected, and Inlarged with two Additional Relations, viz. the one of Captain Cook, and the other of Captain Sharp. Now faithfully rendred into English. The Four Parts Complete. Illustrated with mafSy -portraits of the Buccaneers^ and Scenes of their Exploits. 4to, original calf. London, 1684-5. £68 * * * The first three parts were written in Dutch by the Buccaneer Esquemeling. The translator's name is not known. The fourth part was written by the English Buccaneer Basil Ringrose. The publisher, William Crook, was sued for Libel by Sir Henry Morgan, on account of the description of him as a pirate — in the London Gazette, June 8, 1685, the Publisher made his public Apology. ''Westminster, June 1. There have been lately Printed and Published two Books, one by Will. Crook, the other by Tho. Malthus, both Intitled The History of the Bucaniers : both which Books contained many False, Scandalous and Malitious Re- flections on the Life and Actions of Sir Henry Morgan of Jamaica Kt. The said Sir Henry Morgan hath by Judgment had in the Kingsbench-Court, recovered against the said Libel 200L. Damages. And on the humble Solicitation and Request of Wil- liam Crook, hath been pleased to withdraw his Action against the said Crook, and accept of his Submission and Acknowledgement in Print." 128 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 14TH Century Manuscript of Euclid written in England. 606 EUCLID. The Fifteen Books of Euclid's Elements. Written in Latin on 152 leaves of vellum (9 by 5| inches) by an English scribe in the fourteenth century in S7nall gothic letters^ initials fainted in blue with red fen flourishes. With numerous geometrical designs to Euclid'* s Propositions very neatly drawn in red in the margins. At the end is another Mathematical treatise in Manuscript, viz. : — Campanus, Tetragonismus, id est circuh quadratura, in Latin, with numerous geometrical designs very neatly drawn in red. 8vo, vellum. {England^ 14th Century.) (See Illustration, Plate No. VIIL). £175 In 1487 the manuscript was in the possession of Richard Brynkle5% who has written his name and the date in Greek characters at the end of the volume. This Richard Brynkley was an important official of the Franciscan Order in England, 607 EUSEBIUS. The Aunoient Ecolesiastioall Histories of the First Six Hun- dred Yeares after Christ, wrytten in the Greeke tongue by three learned Historiographers, Euse- bius, Socrates, and Evagrius, whereunto is annexed Dorotheus' Lives and Endes of the Prophets, Apostles and 70 Disciples. All which authors are faithfully translated out of the Greek tongue and now per- used and corrected by Meredith Hanmer. Last of all herein is contained a briefe chronographie collected by the said Translator, with a copious Index of the Principall matters throughout all the Histories. Folio, calf. London, 1585. £5 5s 608 The Ancient Ecclesiastical Histories. Another Edition. Folio. Fine copy in its contemporary old English calf binding, with heavy gilt corner pieces and centre. London, 1607. £7 lOs Blank margins of a few leaves slightly wormed. 609 The Ancient Ecclesiasticall Histories. Another Edition. Folio, original old calf. London, 1650. £1 5s 610 EVELYN (John). A Character of England as it was lately presented in a letter to a Noble Man of France. First Edition. i2mo, original calf. London, 1659. £7 15& Plate XI. ':^^t:f^w,-^g-r5S^v c cj:^ ^SS - - »^ •" O » ^nr- t3 w a f= $i^ >» t^ r? O = ^. ■^^#-s.a II ft ^ • il ^■1 an is 8^,S O P^ Ph o iBfcu..-.-....^. Plate XII. Sin an J tlie Sonic (tln/j-J L /':ry/tnr^aT Handf, Hie Sinner (now) hr Afljon ^rcaiii^ Ita^ids \ WKfk \f/l\nt CLier 'im,p-iotu J'rjt/- lux Heart ActJ' ffn ( cmmittii'ia Sm^ ' " n/r-jdir/tr/jr , From Jenner's Aces of Sin. Sea Item No. 904. MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. I2g Evelyn (John) — continued. 6 1 1 Kalendarium Hortense: or the Gard'ners Ahnanac, directing what he is to do Monthly throughout the Year and what Fruits and Flowers are in Prime, to which is now added in this eighth Edition, a new Conservatory or Green House with many other useful additions. Frontispiece, title in red and black. i2mo, new full calf gilt. London, 1691. £1 I6s 5i2 Of Gardens. Four Books (in Verse). First written in Latine Verse by Renatus Rapinus, and now made Enghsh by J. E. First Edition. Small 8vo, full calf, g. e., by Riviere. London, 1673. £5 5s *** Dedicated to Earl of Arlington, with his Arms engraved on title and next leaf. 613 A Philosophical Discourse of Earth relating to the Culture and Improvement of it for Vegetation, and the Propagation of Plants, etc. First Edition. Small 8vo, full calf, g. e., by Riviere. London, 1676. £4 4s 514 Sylva: or, a Discourse of Forest-Trees, and the Propagation of Timber in his Majesties Dominions, as it was Deliver' d in the Royal Society the XVth of October, 1662, upon Occasion of certain Quaeries Propounded to that Illustrious Assembly, by the Honorable the Prin- cipal Officers, and Commissioners of the Nav}^, to which is annexed Pomona, or, an Appendix concerning Fruit-Trees in relation to Cider, also Kalendarium Hortense, or, Gard'ners Almanac. First Edition. Folio, nezu full mottled calf, g. e., by Riviere. London, 1664. £5 18s 615 Silva: or, a Discourse of Forest-Trees. Another Edition. With Notes by A. Hunter, M.D., F.R.S. With fine engraved portrait of John Evelyn and 40 plates. Large thick 4to, original calf. York, 1776. £1 Is *** Subscribers' copy, with the original receipt bound in. 616 A Discourse of Medals, Antient and JMi.dern. Together with some Account of Heads and Effigies of Illustrious, and Famous Persons, in Sculps, and Taille-Douce, of Whom we have no Medals extant; and of the Use to be derived from them. To which is added A Digression concerning PHYSIOGNOMY. Numerous engravings of Medals in the text. First Edition. Folio, original calf neat. London, Printed for Benj. Tooke, 1697. £2 2s (^o iMAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. Evelyn (John) — continued. 617 — The History of the Three late famous impostors, viz., Padre Ottomano, Mahomed Bei, and Sabatai Sevi, the one, pre- tended Son & Heir to the late Grand Signior, the other, a Prince of the Ottoman Family, but in truth, a Valachian Counterfeit, & the last, the suppos'd Messiah of the Jews, in the Year of the true Messiah, 1666, with a brief Account of the ground, & occasion of the present war between the Turk & the Venetian. First Edition. Small 8vo, original calf. In the Savoy, 1669. £5 15s 618 — An Idea of the Perfection of Painting demonstrated from the Principles of Art, and by Examples : translated by John Evelyn from the French of Roland Freart. First Edition. Small 8vo, original calf. In the Savoy, 1668. £5 lOs 619 FACETIAE. Collection of twelve Curious Tracts. Comprising: — An Answer to a Whimsical Pamphlet, call'd The Character of Sir John Edgar, etc. Written by Sir John Edgar's Baker, mention'd in the 3d Theatre. London, 1720. Whipping-Tom; or, A Rod for a Proud Lady, etc. Fifth Edition. London, 1722. A Dedication to a Great Man Concerning Dedications, etc. The Fourth Edition, Corrected, with a Preface. London, 17 19. Bickerstaff's Aesop; or. The Humours of the Times, Digested into Fables. London, N.D. Canary-Birds Naturaliz'd in Utopia. A Canto. London, N.D. The Art of Beauty: A Poem. Humbly address'd to the Oxford Toasts. L^ondon, 17 19. The Town Assemblies. A Satyr. L^ondon, 1717. The Island of Content : or, a New Paradise Discovered. London, 1709. A full and Authentick Narrative of the intended Horrid Conspiracy and Invasion. London, 17 15. The Court Miscellany, in Prose and Verse. London, 17 19. An Epistle from the Princess Sobieski to the Chevalier De St. George. By Mr. N. Amhurst. London, 17 19. The Rise and Progress of the Rebellion in Scotland, against King Charles the First. London, 17 16. Together in i vol., 8vo, original calf {rebacked). £6 15s MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 131 Trade and Comjmerce. 620 FAIRFAX (Lord). A Declaration of his Excellency the Lord Fairfax, Lord General, and His Councel of War, concerning their Resolution to preserve and protect the Freedom of Trade and Commerce. Broadside, printed on one side of a folio sheet. Lo7idon, 1648. £2 2s 621 FALCONER (William). The Shipwreck, a Poem, in Three Cantos, by a Sailor. Folding map and engraved plate. First Edition. 4to. Fine tmcut copy, in half morocco, t. e. g. London, 1762. £4 4s 622 The Shipwreck, a Poem, in Three Cantos. WilA folding map. First Edition. 4to, half calf. London, 1762. £1 623 [FALKLAND (Lord)]. History of the Life, Reign, and Death of Edward II., King of England. With the Rise and Fall of his great Favourites, Gaveston and the Spencers. Fine portrait. Folio, half morocco. London, 1680. 14s Shakespeare's '' Seven Ages of Man." Parodied by Sir Francis Bacon. 624 FARNABY (Thos.). Florilegius Epigrammatum Graeoorum, Eorumque Latius Versu a Variis Redditorum, With the rare folding plate. First Edition. i2mo, full morocco extra, gilt leaves. London, F . Kyngston, 1629. £14 14s An excessively rare little volume, of which the importance has been greatly enhanced by the Baconian theory in regard to the authorship of Shakespeare's Plays. One of the pieces translated into Greek by Farnaby is a Parody on Shakespeare's " Seven Ages of Man," which he ascribes to Sir Francis Bacon. These English Verses of Bacon, commencing: — " The Worlds a Bubble, and the Life af Man lesse than a Sjmn," are given in full with B'arnaby's Greek Version on opposite page. The advocates of the Baconian theory dwell not a little on the statement of John Aubrey the antiquary : — " that Bacon was ' a good poet, but concealed,' as appeared by his letters. See excellent verses of his Lordship's which Mr. Farnaby translated into Greek J and printed botli in his Anthology" — • The World's a bubble, and the Life of mmi Icsm than a Span." Etc. The Verses of Bacon, of which Aubrey quotes the above opening lines, were a parody on certain Latin ones on the " Seven Ages of Man," and Bacon's English rendering is printed with Farnaby's Greek on opposite pages. 132 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 625 FARREN (Miss, Countess of Derby). The Testimony of Tmth to Exalted Merit; or, A Biographical Sketch of the Right Honourable The Countess of Derby; in refutation of a false and scandalous libel. With the beautiful stipple bust portrait of the Countess of Derby. Third Edition. 4to, sewn. London, 1797. £2 2s 626 FEATLEY (Daniel). Anoilla Pietatis; or, the Hand-Maid to Private Devo- tion : Presenting a Manuell to her Mistresse furnished with Instructions, Hymnes and Prayers. Fitted for the Daies of the Weeke, Feasts, Fasts of the Church. The Seventh Edition, carefully corrected and enlarged. W' ith engraved title. i2mo. Fi^ie copy in old English red morocco ^ g. e. London, 1647. £1 lOs 627 FENCING. Hope (Sir VV). The Compleat Fencing-Master: In which is fully Describ'd all the Guards, Parades and Lessons, belonging to the Small-Sword; as also the best Rules for Playing against either Artists or others, with Blunts or Sharps, together with Directions how to Behave in Single Combat on Horse-back. Illustrated with copperplates. Small 8vo, full russia. London, 17 10. £2 5s 628 A New, Short, and Easy Method of Fencing; or. The Art of the Broad and Small-Sword Rectified and Compendiz'd. Wherein the Practice of the Two Weapons, is reduced to so Few and General Rules, that any Person of .an indifferent capacity, and ordinary Agility of Body, may in a very short time attain to, not only a sufficient Know- ledge of the Theory of this Art, but also to a considerable Adroitness in Practice. ^m.2iM/^\.o,origi7ialcalf. Edinburgh, 1707. £2 2s 629 FENELON (Archbishop). Instructions for the Education of Daughters. Translated from the French and revised by George Hickes. i2mo, original calf. Glasgow, 1750. lOs 6d With Autograph Signature of Alexander Boswell on fly-leaf. 630 FENTON (E.). Mariamne, a Tragedy acted at the Theatre Royal in Lincolns-Inn-Fields. First Edition. 8vo. London, 1723. The Unhappy Loves of Herod and Mariamne, introductory to Mr. Fen- ton's New Tragedy of that Name. 8vo. London, 1723. Philips (Mr.). Humphrey Duke of Gloucester, a Tragedy as it is acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane. First Edition. 8vo. London, 1723. Memoirs of Humphrey Duke of Gloucester (as they relate to the Story of Mr. Philip's Tragedy). 8vo. 1723. Together in one vol., 8vo, original calf. London, 1723. £3 3s MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 133 631 FERGUSON (James, F.R.S.). Astronomy explained upon Sir Isaac Newton's Principles, and made easy to those who have not studied Mathematics. With ij folding -plates. London^ 1/64. Lectures on Select Subjects in Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, and Optics, with the use of the Globes and the Art of DiaUing. With 23 curious and interesting folding -plates of machinery, etc. London^ 1764. Supplement to the above. With 13 similar folding copperplates. London^ ^7^7- Priestley (Joseph, LL.D., F.R.S.). A Familiar Introduction to the Study of Electricity. With four copperplates. 4to. London, 1768. Bound in one vol., thick 4to, contemporary calf. £1 lOs 632 FERGUSSON (Robert) Poems. Engraved title. First Edition. 8vo. Fine Uncut Copy in the original wrappers. Edinburgh, printed by Walter and Thomas Ruddiman, 1773. En- closed in buckram case. £18 18s * * * Very rare in this state. 633 FIELDING (Henry) Amelia. First Edition. 4 vols., small Svo, original calf. London, 17^2. £7 lOs *** << Of all his novels, it leaves the j&nest impression of quiet, domestic delight, of the sweet home feeling, and the humanities connected with it. We have not the glad spring or the glowing summer of his genius, but its autumnal mellowness and miti- gated sunshine, with something of the thoughtfulness befitting the season. Amelia herself, the wife and mother, arrayed in all matronly graces, with her rosy children about her, is a picture of womanly gentleness and beauty, and unostentatious hero- ism, such as never leaves the imagination in which it has once found a place." 634 A Clear State of the Case of Elizabeth Canning, who hath sworn that she was robbed and almost starved to Death by a Gang of Gipsies and other villains in January last, for which one Mary Squire now lies under Sentence of Death. First Edition. 8vo. Fine uncut copy in the original wrappers, as issued. London, 1753. *10 lOs 635 Examples of the Interposition of Providence in the Detection and Punishment of Murder, containing above thirty Cases, in which this dreadful Crime has been brought to Light. First Edition. i8mo, half calf. London, 1752. £1 10s Margin of one leaf damaged and a few letters missing. 134 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. Fielding (Henry) — continued. 636 Dramatic Works. In three volumes. 8vo. original calf . Londo7i, 1755. £19 19s For this Collected Edition the publishers used the actual separate published editions of the Plays. No less than 12 of the 21 plays are First Editions : — Love in several Masques. A Comedy. First Edition. London, 1728. The Author's Farce : With a Puppet- Show, Call'd The Pleasures of the Town. Third Edition. London, 1750. The Coffee-House Politician. First Edi- tion. London, 1730. The Tragedy of Tragedies : or The Life and,^ Death of Tom Thumb the Great. Fourth Edition. London, 1751. The Letter-Writers : Or, A New Way to Keep a Wife at Home. First Edition. London, 1750. The Grub-Street Opera. To which is added. The Masquerade. A Poem. 1728. First Edition. London, 1731. An Old Man taught Wisdom : or. The Virgin Unmasked. A Farce. The Fourth Edition. London, 1749. The Universal Gallant. First Edition. London, 1735. Pasquin. A Dramatick Satire on the Times : Being the Rehearsal of Two Plays, viz., A Comedy call'd THE ELECTION: and a Tragedy call'd THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COM- MON SENSE. The Third Edition. London, 1754. The Lottery. A Farce. The Fourth Edi- tion. London, 1748. The Temple Beau. A Comedy. First Edition. London, 1730. The Modern Husband. A Comedy. The Second Edition. London, 1732. The Mock Doctor : or, The Dumb Lady Cur'd. A Comedy. The Fourth Edi- tion, with additional Songs and altera- tions. London, 1753. The Co vent-Garden Tragedy. First Edi- tion. London, 1754. The Debeauchees : or. The Jesuit Caught, Third Edition. London, 1750. The Miser. A Comedy. Third Edition. London, 1754. The Intriguing Chambermaid. First Edition. London, 1750. Don Quixote in England. A Comedy. First Edition. London, 1754. The Historical Register, For the Year 1736. As it is Acted at the New Theatre in the Hay-Market, To which is added a verv Meriy Tragedv, called EURY- DICE HISS'D, Or, A Word to the Wise. First Edition. London, 1741. Tumble-Down Dick : Or, Phaeton in the Suds. First Edition. London, 1744. Miss Lucy in Town. A Sequel to the Virgin Unmasqued. A Farce : With Songs. First Edition. London, 1742. 637 The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews, and of his Friend Mr. Abraham Adams, written in imitation of the Manner of Cervantes, Author of Don Quixote, Fine Copy of the First Edition. 2 vols.,, small 8vo, original half calf. London, 1742. £28 *** ''What is London in the mouths of Hume and Richardson, and Boswell? A place of elegant manners, refined ideas, general enlightenment, knowledge, enter- prise, wealth, liberality. What are London and England in the pictures of Hogarth and the pages of Fielding? * No better than they should be,' certainly: full of poverty, low vice, coarse indulgence, and sheer brutality, relieved now and then by exhibitions of good sense, courage, and love of learning. Parson Adams, the simple- minded clergyman in * Joseph Andrews,' who goes up to London to sell his sermons to some publisher and meets on the way to and from the country with as many adventures as Don Quixote himself, is a literary creation of unsurpassed merit ; nor are the personages that surround him, thougli less interesting, drawn with less ability." — Thomas Arnold. MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35. Conduit Street, London. W. 135 Fielding (Henry) — continued. 638 The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews. Second Edition, Revised. 2 vols., small 8vo, original calf. London^ 1/42. £4 4s 539 _ Miscellanies. First Edition. Large Paper Copy. 3 vols., royal Svo. Fine copy in the original calf. London, 1743. £18 18s *** These volumes contain "Early Poems," "Essays," "Journey from this World to the Next," and " The Life of Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great." 640 A Proposal for Making an Effectual Provision for the Poor, for Amending their Morals, and for rendering them useful Members of the Society. First Edition. Svo. Fine uncut copy in the original wrappers. London, 1753. £9 9s * * * This is a very elaborate scheme for the erection of a county poor-house. Fielding's remarks upon the operations of the poor-laws show both knowledge and intelligent reflection. — D.N.B. 641 A Proposal for Making an Effectual Provision for the Poor. Another Copy of the FIRST EDITION. Svo, half calf. London, 1753. £3 10s 642 A True State of the Case of Bosavern Penlez, who suffered on Account of the late Riot in the Strand, in which the Law regarding thes.e offences, and the Statue of George the First, commonly called the Riot Act, are fully considered. First Edition. Svo, full mottled calf gilt, g. e., by Pratt. London, A. Millar, 1749. Fine Copy. £2 15s 643 FIELDING (Sir John). A Plan for Preventing Robberies within twenty miles of London, with an Account of the Rise and Estabhshment of the real Thief takers. To which is added Advice to Pawnbrokers, Stable- keepers and PubHcans. First Edition. Svo, new boards. London, 1755. £1 lOs 136 MAGGS BROS.. 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London. W. 644 [FIELDING (Sarah).] The Adventures of David Simple; containing An Account of his Travels Through the Cities of London and Westminster, in the Search of a Real Friend. With a Preface by Henry Fielding. First Edition. 2 vols. 1744. Familiar Letters between the Principal Characters in David Simple, and Some others. A Sequel to his Adventures. To which is added, A Vision. 2 vols. 1752. The Adventures of David Simple. Volume the last, in which his History is concluded. 1753- Together 5 vols., small 8vo, full calf. London, 1744-53. £3 lOs 645 The Adventures of David Simple. First Edition. 2 vols., i2mo, original calf. London, Printed for A. Millar, 1744. £2 2s 646 Familiar Letters between the Principal Characters in Oavid Simple, and Some others. To which is added, A Vision. First Edition. Large paper copy. 2 vols., royal 8vo, original calf. London, 1747. £1 lOs First Fire Insurance Prospectus. 647 FIRE INSURANCE, An Enquiry, Whether it be the Interest of the City to insure Houses from Fire; and whether the Insured may expect any advantage thereby, more than from the Insurance-Ofhce already Setled. The Excessively Rare First Prospectus of a Fire Insurance Company ever issued. 4 pp., folio, neiv boards. {L^ondon, 168 1.) £5 5s *** Bottom line and side margin damaged. 648 FLAMING ISLANDS (The), or a full description and Account of the strange and terrible fire lately broke out of the Ground in the Island Fyal (Fayal) in Threescore and Ten, several places. As also in some other neighbouring Islands. 8 pp., small 4to, new half morocco gilt, g. e. L.ondon, 1672. £4 lOs The Island of Fayal lies not far from tlie Port of Goa, on tlie East Indian Coast. 649 FLATMAN (Thomas). On the Death of our late Sovereign Lord King Charles II. of. Blessed Memory. A Pindarique Ode. First Edition. Folio, new boards. London, 1685. £2 2s 650 On the Death of the illustrious Prince Rupert; a Pindarique Ode. First Edition. Folio, neiv boards. L^ondon, 1683. *2 2s Plate XI 11 iUe First Collected Edition of Ben Jonson's Works. 1616-40. See Item No. 954. Plate XIV. Frontispiece to Killichew's ComedirvS anp Tkacedies. First Edition. See Item No. 963. MAGGS BROS.. 3^ & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 137 Flatman (Thomas) — continued. 65 1 A Pindarique Ode on the Death of the Right Honourable Thomas Earl of Ossory. First Edition. Yo\\o, new boards. London, 16^1. £1 14s * * * It is said that the Duke of Ormonde on receiving this Ode on tlie death of his SOB, was so pleased with it, that he sent the poet a diamond ring. 652 Poems and Songs. The Very Rare FIRST EDITION. Small 8vo, full red morocco gilt, gilt edges. London, 167^. £6 6s 653 A Song for St. Caecilia's Day, Nov. 22, 1686. Written by Mr. Tho. Flatman : And Composed by Mr. Isaac Blackwell. First Edition. Folio broadside, new boards. London, 1686. 18s 654 FLAYELL (John). Husbandry Spiritualized; or, The Heavenly Use of Earthly Things. Consisting of many Pleasant Observations, Pertinent Apphcations, and serious Reflections, and each Chapter concluded with a Divine and suitable Poem. Small 4to, original calf, rebacked. London, 1669. £2 2s 655 FLEMING (A.). The Footepath to Felioitie, whiche everie Christian must walk in. Printed within borders, i2mo, in its contemporary binding of calfy covered with gold tooling. London, Printed by Peter Short, circa 1580. £3 3s An interesting example of 16th century English Lyonnese binding. The book is slightly imperfect. 656 FLETCHER (Giles). Christs Victorie and Triumph in Heaven and Earth, over and after Death; in verse. The Second Edition. Small 4to, half calf gilt. Cambridge, 1632. £1 lOs 657 FLETCHER (John). The Elder Brother. A Comedie, acted at the Blacke Friers, by his Maiesties Servants. FIRST Edition. Small ^to, full calf gilt, g. e. London, Imprinted by F. K. for /. W. and J. B., 1637. {Repair en last leaf.) £23 lOs 1.1^8 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 658 FLETCHER (Phineas). The Locusts; or, Apollyomsts. Locustae vel Pietas Je- suitica Per Phineam Fletcher CoUegii Regalis Cantabrigiae Apud Thomam & Joannem Bucke celeberrimae Academiae Typographos. Anno Dom. MDCXXVII. The First Edition, with the two title-pages (Latin and English). Small 4to. Fine copy bound by Riviere in full crushed levant morocco gilt^ g. e. Cambridge^ 1627. £45 *^*THIS IS FLETCHER'S FIRST BOOK, AND MILTON HAS CONFESSED THAT TO IT HE OWED HIS IMMORTAL WORK " PARADISE LOST." In this poem Fletcher uses the Fall of Lucifer as a device to explain the strength of the Church of Rome, whose machinations are made to culminate in the Gun- powder Plot. He Avrites with the bitterness that might be expected from an Engush clergj'man of the time. Fletcher Avas steeped in Spenser's poetry, and carried on the Spensarian tradition. In his work is to be found Spenser's diffuseness, his use of allegory, many variants of his stanza and the echo, often a beautiful echo, of his music. Moreover, Milton knew the work of Fletcher as intimately as he, or Fletcher, knew the work of Spen- ser. And so one of the prettiest and most intricate problems that is to be found in literature arises on the question of what is known as influence. The best example of the affinity between the work of Milton and the work of Phineas Fletcher is to be found in a comparison between the way in which Milton treats that stock episode of the miracle play, the Fall of Lucifer, and the way in which Fletcher treats it. In The Apollyonists, the Fall of Lucifer is a prelude to an onslaught upon the Jesuits : the great opening is narrowed to the confines of religious hatred. But the sympathy which Milton could not but feel for the rebel transformed the figure of Satan from a fine conception to one of immortal grandeilr. Milton humanised the devil, Fletcher diabolised the priest. Their meeting-point is found in Fletcher's lines — "To be in heaven the second he disdaines : So now the first in hell and flames he raignes, Crown'd once with joy and light: crown'd now with fire and paines." and in the Miltonic — "■ Better to reign in hell than serve in Heav'n." 659 F LLOYD (Thomas). Tartarian Tales; or, A Thousand and One Quarters of Hours. Written in French by the celebrated Mr. Guelletee; the whole now for the first Time translated into English by Thomas Flloyd. i2mo, full calf gilt (rebacked). London, 1759. 6s MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London. W. 139 660 FLORIO (John). Vocabolario Italiano and Inglese, A Dictionary Italian and English, formerly compiled by John Florio, and since his last edition Anno 161 1, augmented by himselfe in his life time, with many thousand words, and Thuscan phrases, now most diligently revised, corrected and compared, with La Crusca, and other approved Diction- aries, whereunto is added A Dictionary English and Italian, with severall proverbs and Instructions for the speedy attaining to the Italian Tongue, never before published, by Geo. Torriano. Thick folio, original calf. London^ 1659. £2 2s 661 FOOTE (Samuel). Dramatic Works. Frontispiece. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. 4 vols., 8vo, full calf. London, 178 1. £1 16s Contains the First Issue of several of the Plays. 662 FORTUNE TELLING. Flamstead (Dr.) and Mr. Partridge. New Fortune- Book; containing A Treatise of Moles; and their various Significations in all parts of the human body, explained. New-Invented method of knowing one's fortune by a pack of cards. The art of Palmestry, Physiognomy and the reading of dreams. Frontispiece, containing two ctirious woodcuts of an astrologer, and a card -party, also 7nany woodcuts in the text. i6mo, full morocco. London, 1729. £2 2s 4t** Several headlines and margins slightly cut into. Scarce and curious. 663 FOUGASSES (Thomas De). The Generall Historie of the Magnificent State of Venice. From the First Foundation thereof untill this Present. Collected by Thomas de Fougasses; Englished by W. Shute. First Edition. . Thick folio, full calf (rebacked). London, 1612. £8 lOs *** The most reliable of the early histories of Venice. p ,. . ,, Contains valuable illustrations of Shakespeare's ''Merchant of \enice and "Othello." 664 FOX (George), STUBS (John) and FURLEY (Benjamin). A Battle-Door for Teachers and Professors to learn Singular & Plural; wherein is shewed forth by Grammar, or Scripture Examples, how several Nations and People have made a distinction between Singular and Plural. Small folio, full brown morocco gilt. London, 1660. £8 88 I40 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. The First Edition. 665 FOXE (John). Book of Martyrs. Rerum in Ecclesia Gestarum, quae postremis et periculosis his temporibus evenerunt, maximarumque, per Europam Persecutionum, ac Sanctorum Dei Martyrum, ceterarumque rerum si quae insignioris exempH sint, per Regna et Nationes Commen- tarii. PARS PRIMA, in qua primum de rebus per Angham et Scotiam gestis, atque in primis de horrenda, sub Maria nuper Regina, persecu- tione, narratio continetur. Basileae^ 1559- Pars Secunda, quum autem in prima parte saltem Anghae et Scotiae, a D. Joanne Foxo Anglo, superioribus annis sint annotatae, hac demum secunda nunc primum res memorabiles Martyrum per Germaniam. GaUiam, et Italiam a Joannis Hussi tempore ad praesentem 1563 annum gestae, copiosissime quam uspiam aHbi continentur. Authore Heinrico Pantaleone. 1563. 2 vols, in I, folio, full brozvn inorocco^ old style, gilt leaves. £10 lOs *** This is the Editio Princeps of John Foxe's Martyrology, It embodies matter not included in the earliest English edition of 1563, and of some pieces it is the only depository. The long-lost treatise, " De Coena Domini," of Bishop Hooper, the MS. of which he delivered to his wife the night before he suffered, with instruc- tions to forward it to Bullinger to be printed at Basle, was here discovered, and thence it was published in the second volume of the Author's Remains by the Parker Society. The second is the continuation, which, as Foxe gave no signs of proceeding with his work, Pantaleo was urged to undertake. The publisher, Oporinus, was prohibited by the Pope from publishing any further books. 666 FRANCIS (Philip). Eugenia: a Tragedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre- Royal, Drury-Lane. First Edition. 8vo, new boards. London, 1752. 15s *** The part of Mercour in this play is taken by David Garrick, who also wrote and spoke the Prologue. Shakespeare's Legal Knowledge. 667 FRAUNGE (Abraham). The Lawiers Logike, exemplifying the praecepts of Logike by the practise of the common Lawe. First Edition, with the rare folding .leaf . Small 4to, original vellum. London, 1588.' £15 15s An exceedingly tall copy in its original binding. There is a slight stain on the extreme lower margin. A book of great interest to the Shakespearian student, as from it Shakespeare is believed to have obtained his legal knowledge. Abraham Fraunce was educated at St. John's Coll., Cambridge, at the expense of Sir Philip Sidney. Most of his works are in verse, and his '' Lawyer's Logick " is partly in poetry. George Peele describes him as "A peerless sweet translator of our time." - " * The book is dedicated to the Earl of Pembroke in rhymed hexameters. Quota- tions from English and Latin Poets appear in the Text, and Fraunce appends Virgil's second eclogue in the Original and in his own hexametrical transhition (afterwards reprinted at the end of the *' Ivy church ") as well as analysis of the Earl of Northumberland's case and of Stanford's Crown Pleas. MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street. London, W. 141 668 FREEMAN (Mark). The Downfall of Bribery; or, the Honest Men of Taunton, a new Ballad Opera as it was lately performed by a Company of Players at a certain noted Inn at Taunton in Somersetshire. First Edition. 8vo, uncut. London (1733). 10s 6cl 669 FREEMASONRY. Collection of 11 Almanacks for 1776, the first being The Free-Mason's Calendar : or, an Almanac, for the Year of Christ 1776, containing besides an accurate and useful Calendar of all Remark- able Occurrences for the Year, many useful and curious Particulars relating to Masonry. In one vol., thick post 8vo, old calf. London ^ 1776. £2 lOs *** The remaining Almanacks are: The Gentlemans Diary; The Ladies' Diary: A Loyal Almanack; Merlinus Liberatus ; Parker's Ephenieris ; The English Apollo; Season on the Seasons; Tycho Wing's Almanack; Wing, a Prognostication; The Coelestial Atlas. 6;o The Constitutions of the Antient and Honourable Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons, containing their History, Charges, Regula- tions, &c. Collected and Digested, by Order of the GRAND LODGE, from their old Records, faithful Traditions, and Lodge-Books, for the Use of the Lodges, By James Anderson, D.D., and carefully Revised, Continued, and Enlarged, By JOHN Entick, M.A. A New Edition, with Alterations and Additions, By a Committee appointed by the Grand Lodge. Frontispiece. 4to. A Superb Example of contemporary English binding of crimson morocco, the sides completely covered with gold tooling of flowers', birds, vases, and geometrical designs, doublures of blue morocco elaborately tooled in gold, with floral sprays, etc., gilt leaves. London, Printed for Brother W. Johnston, 1767, In the Vulgar Year of Masonry 5767. ^31 lOs ***With the Bookbinder's (Robert Black) trade ticket pasted on fly-leaf inside A finer specimen of eighteenth century English binding it would be difficult to find. 671 Dodd (WiUiam). An Oration delivered at the Dedication of Free- Masons' Hall, Great Queen-Street, Lincoln's Inn-Fields, on Thursday, May 23, 1776. Small 4to, nezu boards. London, 1776. £1 16s 672 Oliver (George). The Star in the East, shewing the Analogy which exists between the Lectures of Freemasonry, the mechanism of initiation into its Mysteries, and the Christian Religion. i2mo, half calf. London, 1825. 5s 142 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. ^]^ FROISSART. An Epitome of Frossard: or A Summane Collection of the most memorable Histories contained in his Chronicle, chiefly concerning the State of England and France. Wherein 1 he famous Warres and Conquests of King Edward the third, with the honourable atchieve- ments of the Blacke Prince, and other his ^onnes, both in Fraunce, Spaine, and Portugall, are compendiously described. Entermixed with other historicall occurrents of those times, very worthy, and profitable to be had in remembrance : Compiled in Latin by John Sleydane, and translated into English, by P. Golding. Small 4to, full calf gilt, g. e. London, 1608. £2 lOs 674 FROST FAIR. Wonderful News from the River of Thames. Folio, new boards. London, Printed on the Frozen-Thames, 1683. £1 5s * * * The music and words of a song written at the time of the Great Frost, when the Thames was completely frozen over, and dealing with the Fair erected on the ice. 675 FULLER (Thomas). The Cause and Cure of a Wounded Conscience. First Edition. i2mo, original calf. London, 1647. £1 5s 676 Historie of the Holie Warre. Curious engraved title and folding map of Palestine by W. Marshall. Small folio, original calf. Cambridge, 1640. £1 4s 677 The History of the Worthies of England, Who for Parts and Learning have been eminent in the several Counties. Together with An Historical Narrative of the Native Commodities and Rarities in each County. Portrait engraved by Loggan, and the Index at end. First Edition. Folio, full calf, morocco back, g. e. London, Printed by F. G. W . L. and W . G. for Thomas Williams, 1662. £6 6s * * * On page 126 is found an interesting notice of Shakespeare. This is highly valuable as being the first biographical notice of the poet. The date of Shakespeare's death is left blank, and Halliwell-Phillipps remarks that Fuller " was not even at the pains to ascertain the year of the poet's decease." '' William Shakespeare was Iborn at Stratford-on-Avon in this county, in whom three eminent poets may seem in some sort to be compounded: 1. Martial in the warlike sound of his surname, whence some may conjecture him of a military extraction hasti-vibrans or Shake-speare. — 2. Ovid, the most naturall and witty of all poets, and hence it was that Queen Elizabeth, coming into a grammar-school made this contemporary verse, * Persius a crab-staffe, bawdy Martial, Ovid a fine wag.' — .'i. Plautus, who was an exact comoedian, yet never any scholar, as our Shake- speare, if alive, would confess liimself, etc. He died anno Domini 16 — , and was buried at Stratford-upon-Avon, the town of his nativitj'." MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 143 Fuller (Thomas) — continued. 6/8 Joseph's Party-Goioured Coat. Containing A Comment on Part of the II. Chapter of the I. Epistle of S. Paul to the Corinthians. Together with several Sermons. By T. F. First Edition. Small 4to, full calf. London, 1640. £4 4s 679 FUMEE (Mart.). The Historie of the Troubles of Hungarie: Containing the pitifull losse and ruine of that Kingdome, and the warres happened there, ifi that time, betweene the Christians and Turkes. Newly translated out of French into English, by R. C. Gentleman. Small folio, origifial calf. London, hnfnnted by Felix Kyngston, 1600. £8 8s Presentation Copy. 680 GADBURY (John, Student in Physick and Astrology). Gardines Goeli: or An Appeal to the learned and Experienced Observers of Sublunars and their Vicissitudes, whether the Cardinal Signs of Heaven are not most influential upon Men and Things proved by X Remarkable Geni- tures, &c. In a Reply to the learned Author of Cometomantia : wherein the character of Gassendus is defended, and sundry other Starry-Truths are Justified. Small 4to, bound by Riviere in full mottled calf gilt, g. e. London, 1684. ^8 8s ** * Presentation Copy from the Author to John Gibbon, Blue Mantle at Arms, with inscription by Gadbury on fly-leaf, MS. nativity by him of Gibbon and numerous Notes, and further a lonp; and most interesting Autograph letter of Gadbury's on Astrological Subjects. 681 GALILEI (Galileo). Mathematical Discourses Concerning Two New Sciences relating to Mechanicks and Local Motion, in Four Dialogues. With an Appendix concerning the Center of Gravity of Solid Bodies. Done into English from the Italian by Tho. Weston. 4to, newly bound in half calf gilt, uncut. London, 1730. £4 15s 682 GAMBLING. De Moivre (A). The Doctrine of Chances; or, A Method of Calculating the Probabilities of Events in Play. The Second Edition, Fuller, Clearer, and more Correct than the First. 4to. Fine specimen of eighteenth century English binding, crim- son morocco, the centre of both sides ornamented with gold tooling of curves, semi-circles, floral spays, stars, and dots, the whole forming a large cross, wide gold dentelle border, full gilt back, g. e. London, Printed for the Author, 1738. £4 lOs 144 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35. Conduit Street, London^ W. Gambling — continued. 683 [Downe (Rev. J., Rector of Instow, Devon).] A Defence Of the Lawfulnesse of Lots in Gaming; against the Arguments of N. N. Small 4to (51 pp.), unbound. Oxford, 1633. £1 5s This tract has separate title and pagination, but appears to have been originally part of another book. 684 GAMES. Seymour (Richard). The Court Gamester; or, Full and Easy In- structions for Playing the Games now in Vogue, after the best Method; as they are Play'd at Court, and in the Assemblies (viz. OMBRE, PlC- QUET, and the ROYAL GAME OF Chess. Wherein the Frauds in Play are detected, and the Laws of each Game annex' d, to prevent Disputes. Written for the Use of the Young Princesses. Small 8vo, original calf. London, Printed for E. Curll, 17 19. 14s 685 GARFIELD (John). Salmasius His Dissection and Confutation of the Diabolical Rebel MiLTON, in his Impious Doctrines of Falshood, Maxims of Policies, and destructive Principles of Hypocrisie, Insolences, Invec- tives, Injustice, Cruelties, and Calumnies against his Gracious Sove- raign KING CHARLES I. Made legible for the satisfaction of all Loyal and Obedient Subjects : But by reason of the rigid Inquisition after Persons and Presses by the late merciless Tyrant Oliver Cromwel, durst not be sold publickly in this Kingdom, under pain of Imprisonment, and other intollerable Dammages. With brilliant impression of the -portrait of King Charles I. Small 4to, original calf binding. London, Printed for J. G. B., 1660. £9 9s *** The dedication copy to King Charles II., with his Royal Arms in blind stamped on each cover. 686 GARRICK (D.). The Chances. A Comedy with alterations. First Edition. 8vo, seivn. London, 177^^ £1 Is ♦** Altered from Beanmont & Fletcher's Play with the same title. 687 The Sick Monkey, a Fable. First Edition. 23 pp., 4to, 7tew boards. London, 1765. £1 1s 688 An Ode to Garrick, upon the Talk of the Town, II pp., 4to, new boards. London^ Printed for M. Cooper, 1749. £1 10s MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 145 689 GARTH (Sir Samuel, M.D.). Dispensary; a Poem. First Edition. 4to, boards, imait. London, 1699. Very rare. £6 6s *** Garth's design for establishing a charitable foundation for supplying the sick poor with medicines at prime cost, being warmly opposed by the apotliecaries and some of the College, gave rise to this admirable satire. 5qo The Dispensary; another Issue. With frontispiece. 8vo, original calf. London, 1699. 8s 6d 691 GAUGER (M.). Fires Improv'd, being a New Method of Building Chim- neys so as to prevent their Smoaking. Translated from the French by J. T. Desaguliers. g folding plates, iirao, full calf . London, 1715. 14$ 692 GAY (John). The Beggar's Opera, as it is acted at the Theatre Royal in Lincolns-Inn-Fields . . to which is added the Musick engraved on Copper-plates. The First Edition. 8vo, calf. London, 1728. £25 * * * The First Edition of this renowned play is exceedingly rare. The music was engraved on copperplates too large for the pages of the printed book, consequently it is a little cut into as usual. The Beggar's Opera was produced on January 29, 1728, and made its author's name a household word. " It spread into all the great towns of England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. The fame of it was not confined to the Author only ; the Ladies carried about with them the favourite songs of it on their fans • and houses were furnished with it in Screens. The person who acted Polly, till tnen obscure, became all at once the favourite of the town; her Portrait was engraved and sold in great numbers ; her life written ; books of letters and verses to her published; and pamphlets made even of her Sayings and Jests." (Pope's Works, 1735.) 693 The Beggar's Opera, as it is Acted at the Theatre Royal, in Lincoln's Inn-Fields. Third Edition. London, 1773. Coffey (Chas.). The Beggar's Wedding. A New Opera. London, 1729. Gibber (C). Love in a Riddle, a Pastoral. London, 1719. Timon in Love; or, the Innocent Theft. A Comedy. London, 1733. The four plays in i vol., 8vo, original calf, rebacked. London, V .Y . «3 lOs 146 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London. W. Gay (John) — continued. 694 The Captives. A Tragedy, as it is Acted m Drury Lane, by His Majesty's Servants. First Edition. 8vo, full calf^ g. e. London, 1724. £1 10s 695 Court Poems, viz., L The Basset-Table. An Eclogue. H. The Dra wing-Room. IIL The Toilet. Publish'd faithfully, as they were found in a Pocket-Book taken up in Westminster Hall, the Last Day of the Lord Winton's Tryal. First Edition. 8vo, full polished calf gilt, g. e,, by Riviere. London, 1706. £6 10s 696 The Distressed Wife. A Comedy. First Edition. 8vo, new boards. London, Printed for Thomas Astley, 1743. £2 2s 697 Fables. The Excessively Rare First Edition of each volume. With numerous copperplate engravings by Gravelot and others. Fine Copy. 2 vols, in i, small 4to, original calf. London, Printed for J . Tonson and J. Watts, 1727-38. £21 *^4fr << The most finished productions of our poet, and those to which he will owe his reputation with posterity, are his ' Fables ' — the finest in the language. They are written with great spirit and vivacity ; the versification is generally smooth and flowing ; the descriptions happy and appropriate, and the moral designed to be conveyed is, for the most part, impressive and instructive." — Charles D. Cleveland. 698 Fables. With Italian Translation by Gian Francesco Giorgetti. 8vo, original calf. London, 1773. 6s 699 Fabulae Selectae, auctore Joanne Gay, latine redditae, interprete Ch. Anstey. 8vo, original wrappers, uncut. Londini, 1798. lOs 6d 700 The Fan, A Poem in Three Books. By Mr. Gay. -First Edition. Folio, full levant morocco, g. e., by Riviere. London, 1714. £12 12s 701 Miniature Pictures. Written Originally by Mr. Gay. Newly adapted to the most Fashionable and Public Characters, of Both Sexes, Now Living; Whether in The Church, The Senate, Westminster-Hall, The Court, The Navy^ The Army, The City, or The Theatres. Containing above 600 portraits, all of which are acknowledged striking likenesses. 4to, boards, uncut. London, Printed for Mr. Sfnith, 1781. £2 2s MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 147 Gay (John) — continued. 702 Poems on Several Occasions. 2 vols., small 8vo, original calf. London, 1737. lOs 6d Contains: Rural Sports; The Fan; The Shepherd's Week; Trivia; The What d'ye call it; Miscellaneous poems. 703 The Shepherd's Week. In Six Pastorals. With engraved frontispiece and 6 plates. First Edition. 8vo, nezu boards. London, lyi^. 12s 6d 704 Trivia; or, the Art of Walking the Streets of London. Large Paper Copy of the FIRST EDITION, with tJie View of a London Street on -page i. 8vo, calf. L^ondon, N.D. £3 iQs 705 Two Epistles: Qne to the Right Honourable Richard, Earl of Burlington : The other to a Lady. Svo, full neiv polished calf gilt, g. e., by Riviere. London, B. Lintott, N.D. (1720). £4 4s *** The Rare First Edition of Part I. The Epistle to a Lady having been pre- viously published. 706 GAY (Joseph). The Petticoat: an Heroi-Comical Poem, in two Books. First Edition. Svo. Fine copy in the original ivrappers, uncut. London, 1716. £14 14s 707 Ditto. Second Edition. Svo, 7tezv boards. London, 17 16. 10s 6d 708 GERARDE (John). The Herball; or General Historie of Plantes, Gathered by John Gerarde, of London, Master in Chirurgerie. With the finely engraved title by William Rogers (in brilliant state}, portrait of the Author, and hundreds of woodcuts, A VERY Fine Copy of the Excessively Rare First Edition. Thick folio, old calf. Imprinted at London by John Norton, I5g7 £42 *** The publication of this volume made Gerarde' s name a household word — it is dedicated to Lord Burghley and contains more than 1,800 woodcuts. The book has many references to localities in various parts of England for scarce plants, and many allusions to persons and places now of high antiquarian interest. He lays claim to a purely scientific object, but accepts much contemporary folklore. In the opening pages figure some quaint verses by '' Thomas Thorney, Master in Chirurgerie." The engraved title, besides containing a portrait of the Author, has a view of the gardens of his house in Holborn. 148 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. Gerarde (John) — continued. 709 The Herball or General Historie of Plantes. Enlarged by Tho. Johnson. Foho, old calf {rebacked). London, 1633. £10 lOs * * * With an engraved title, containing a portrait of the author by J. Payne, and very numerous woodcuts in the text. A work still much esteemed. 710 The Herball or Generall Historie of Plants. Very much Enlarged and Amended by Thomas Johnson Citizen and Apothecarye of London. Engraved title-page in co7npartments, and hundreds of woodcuts in the text. Thick folio, full calf. London, 1636. £8 18s 6d 711 THE GENTLEMAN'S GALLING. First Edition. WitJi most brilliant impression of the engraved title-page and frontispiece. Small 8vo. Yery fine copy, in contemporary English morocco, g. e. London, Printed for T. Garthwait, 1660. £3 3s * * * Does not contain the epistle to Mr. Garthwait. 712 GERMANY. The Invasions of Germanie, with all the Civill, and bloody Warres therein, since the first beginning of them in Anno 16 18, and continued to this present yeare 1638. With numerous portraits. London, 1638. The Warnings of Germany, by wonderfull signes, and strange Prodigies scene in divers parts of that Countrye between the Yeare 16 18 and 1638. All faithfully collected out of credible High Dutch Chron- icles, and other Histories, by L. Br. Cap. Illustrated with engravings. London, 1638. A Briefe and True Relation of the bloody Battell fought between D. Bernard Saxon Weymar, and the Italian Duke of Savelly. Illustrated with engravings. London, 1638. Lacrymae Germaniae: or, The Teares of Germany. Unfolding her woefull distresse by Jerusalems calamity. Translated out of the high Dutch coppy. Folding plate. L.ondon, 1638. Together, the four books, in 3 vols., small 8vo, half calf, g. e. London, 1638. £7 10s MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. i^g 713 GESSNER. New Idylles. Translated by W. Hooper, M.D. With A Letter to M : Fuslin, on Landscape Painting, and the Two Friends of Bourbon. A Moral Tale, by M. Diderot. Wzt/t engraved title-page, vignettes, and the series of -plates en- graved by Sfarroiv after Gessner's pictures. Large Paper Copy, imperial 8vo, original calf, rebacked. London, 1776. £3 iQs 714 GIBBON (E.). Miscellaneous Works, with Memoirs of his Life and Writings, composed by himself, illustrated from his letters, with Notes by John Lord Sheffield. First Edition. 2 vols., 4to, half morocco. London, 1796. £1 lOs 715 GESTA ROMANORUM. Containing Fifty Eight remarkable histories, collected originally from the best and most ancient Roman Records. By A. B. Illustrated with curious cuts. i2mo, new half calf. London, 1722. £1 6s 716 GLOVER (Richard). Medea. A Tragedy. First Edition. 4to, new boards. London, 1761. £1 Is 717 GODARTIUS (Johannes). Of Insects; done into English, and Metho- dized, with the Addition of Notes. (By Martin Lister, M.D.) With numerous engraved folding plates, etched upon copper, by Mr. F. PL Small 4to. Fine copy in full contemporary crimson morocco, g. e.^ by Kalthoeber, with binder's ticket. York, 1682. £4 4s * * ■'^ Only 150 copies of this book were printed. 718 GODFREY (Sir Edmund Bury). Garnets GhOSt, Addressing to the Jesuits, met in private Caball, just after the Murther of Sir Edmund-Bury God- frey. Written by the Author of the Satyr against Virtue (not yet printed). Folio, new boards. Circa i^i^J^. 18s * * * Sir Edmund-Bury Godfrey was Justice of the Peace for Westminster, and to Mm Titus Oates first brought the narrative of his ''Popish plot." In October, 1678, Godfrey was found murdered near Hampstead, and the public, panic-stricken by Oates's desperate allegations, promptly laid the crime at the door of the Roman Gfatholic priests. 150 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. ;i9 GODWIN (William). Memoirs. With portrait of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin. An uncut copy of the First Edition. i2mo, original boards. London^ i/QS. £3 3s /20 [GODWIN (Francis). 1 Annales of England. Containing the Reignes of Henry the Eighth, Edward the Sixth, Queene Mary. Written in Latin by the Right Honorable and Right Reverend Father in God, Francis Lord Bishop of Hereford. Englished and enlarged by Morgan Godwyn. Woodcut title. Small folio, calf gilt. London, 1630. £1 Is 721 GOETHE. GlavidgO>, A Tragedy, In Five Acts. Translated from the German of Goethe. 8vo, new boards. London, Printed for J . Jolmson, i/gS. lOs 6d 722 GOLDSMITH (Oliver). The Art Of Poetry on a New Plan; illustrated with a great variety of examples from the best English Poets, and of Trans- lations from the Ancients. First Edition. 2 vols., sm. 8vo, half morocco. London, 1762. £1 lOs * * * This work was revised by Oliver Goldsmith. 723 The Deserted Village* a Poem. Engraved vignette on title. First Edition, ^lo, original half calf . London, lyjo. £42 * * * Bound in the same volume are four other Poetical Pieces. 724 Dr. Goldsmith's celebratefl Elegy on that Glory of her Sex, Mrs. Mary Blaize. A very rare early Chap-book edition, illustrated ivith 12 clever coloured plates. i2mo, original limp boards. London, J . Harris, 1808. £5 5s 725 Essays. The genuine issue of the FIRST EDITION. Vignette on title. London, W. Griffin, 176^. £3 3s 726 The Life of Riohard Nash, of Bath, Esq.; extracted principally from his Original Papers. Portrait. First Edition. Zvo, original cloth. London, 17^2. £3 3s MAGGS BROS , 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 151 Goldsmith (Oliver) — co7itinued. 727 A New and Acuurate System ef Natural History, by R. Brookes. Plates. 6 vols., small 8vo, half calf. London, 1763. £3 lOs * * * Revised for the Author, by Oliver Goldsmith, to which he contributed the Preface and Several Introductions to the various Sections. 728 The Poetical and Dramatio Works of Oliver Goldsmith, with an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author. Portrait. First London Edition. 2 vols., Svo, original calf. London, 1780. £1 16s 7 2Q Poems and Plays. To which is prefixed, the Life of the Author. Vignette title. FIRST EDITION. Small Svo, original calf gilt, re- backed. Dublin, 1777. £4 lOs Published three years before the London Edition. 730 Poems and Plays. A Large and Thick Paper Copy of the FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. Svo, full neiv morocco gilt, g. e. Dublin, 1777. £10 lOs 73 1 Poems and Plays by Oliver Goldsmith; to which is prefixed the Life of the Author. Portrait, within a decorative border. Small Svo, original calf. London, Newbery, 1780. £1 lOs A scarce edition. It contains ''several Additions and Corrections never before printed; being the only perfect one ever published of this celebrated Author's Poems." 732 Retaliation; a Poem. Including Epitaphs on the most distinguished Wits of this Metro- polis. Vignette -portrait on title. FIRST EDITION. 4to, half calf, g. e. London, 177^. £30 **^ Early issue of the First Edition, having the two leaves at end, "Explanatory Notes," but wants half-title. 733 Shei Stoops to Conquer; or, the Mistakes of a Night. A Comedy. First Edition. Svo, newly bound by Riviere in full crushed morocco gilt, g. e. London, 177'^. £35 * * * Early issue of the First Edition, with the errors in the pagination, and the absence of Diggory from the Dramatis Personae. IS2 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. Goldsmith (Oliver) — continued. 734 — She Stoops to Conquer. First Edition (the second issue which contains the half-title). 8vo, handsomely bound by Riviere in fidl polished calf, g. e. London, for F . Newbery, 1773. £18 18$ William Cowper's Copy. 736 The Travelter, a Poem. Vignette on title. /\X.Oy fidl calf neat. London, 1778. £6 18s William Cowper's copy, with his Autograph on title, " Wm. Cowper, the gift of Lady Hesketh, 1786." In same vol, are: Goldsmith's Deserted Village, 1779; Hay- ley's Ode to John Howard, 1780; Epistle to a Friend on the Death of John Thornton, 1780." 737 — The Vicar of Wakef $^ &naf; iiwti vfi y-^t m ^pH$^ #0ift\*(i» 1^1112^0 tsm^^n fi%n*c imu^ tme i^^n mp^ »$ tgd f^^ rt# ft»|i- c%)msl!t.:\ intent €f ^h= €\^^>lilUf ^-^iitsTij ':A€) v-Skuf^ mill? t\ itiin «$iSero ?V^ ti>_0ie fii^g %^{%^U rtieiiiif|%) V... ^i| : K'lf5 «S-d?4la* Hot a Hirfliaimt %M^ x^t\-: v.,i,.timffW Si\\ ft in iJtrcf t^ (t>^ i*»ltt^i.,„..., ,.,. , ,.^-r ;^t It rti0ff v|vri,f#|? 744a GOWRY CONSPIRACY: A Fourme of Prayer with Thankesgiving To be used by all the Kings Maiesties louing Subjects every yeere the . Fift of August, being the day of his Highnesse happie deliverance from the Traiterous & bloodie attempt of the Earle of Gowry & his brother, with their Adherents, set foorth by Authoritie. Woodcut on title. Small 4to, full levant morocco gilt, g. e., by Bedford. Imprinted at London, 1606. £9 lOs MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 155 745 COWER (John, Master of Arts of Jesus College, Cambridge). OvidS Festivals, or Romane Calendar translated into English Verse equinu- merally. First Edition. i2mo, full olive morocco gilt. Printed by Roger Daniel, Printer to the University of Cambridge^ 1640. ^^ 4S 746 CRAY (Thomas). Ode perfarmetl in the Senate House at Cambridge July I, 1769, at the Installation of His Grace Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Grafton, Chancellor of the University. The First Edition. 8 pp., 4to, bound by Riviere in full levant morocco, g. e. Cambridge, I76g. £42 * * ^ " Gray is one of the few, the very few, of our greatest poets, who deserves to be studied in every Hne for the apprehension of that wonderful sweetness, power, and splendour of versification which has made him (scholastic and difl&cult as he is) one of the most popular of writers. The secret of his supremacy consists principally in the consummate art with which his diction is elaborated into the most melodious concatenation of syllables to form lines." Gray could never compose voluntarily ; his genius resembled the armed apparition in Shakespeare's master-tragedy. " He would not be commanded." When he wished to compose the "Installation Ode," for a considerable time he felt himself without the power to begin it ; a friend calling on him, Gray flung open his door hastily, and in a hurried voice and tone, exclaimed in the first verse of that ode — Hence, avaunt ! 'tis holy ground ! — (7. Disraeli.) 747 Paems. First Collected Edition. Small 8vo, original calf. London, Printed for J. Dodsley, 1768. £3 lOS 748 Poems. Frontispiece and vignette on title and at end. First Dublin Edition (published the same year as the First London Edition). i2mo, original calf . Dublin, 1768. lOs 6d 74Q The Latin Odes Ot Mr, Gray, in Enghsh Verse, with an Ode on the Death of a favourite Spaniel (by E. B. Greene). First Edition. 4to. An uncut copy, seivn as issued. London, 1775. "^8s 10 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. Cifay (Thomas) — continued. 7:50 Six Poems. Designs by Mr. R. Bentley for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray. Six full-page plates, together with Head and Tail Pieces, after Bentley by Mutter. Large and Thick Paper Copy, with fine impressions of the illustra- tions. Folio, calf. London, 1766. £5 5s 751 Poems. The beautiful Edition printed at the Bodoni Press. Small folio. A Very Fine Copy in full contemporary English red morocco gilt, g. e. F.arma, Printed by Bodoni, 1793. £5 15s Thomas Gray's Copy, with Numerous Manuscript Notes by him. 752 London and its Environs described, containing an account of whatever is most remarkable for grandeur, elegance, curiosity or use in the City and in the Country Twenty Miles round, decorated and illustrated with a great number of views in perspective, engrdved from original drawings, together zvith plans 6 vols., 8vo, original calf . London, 1761. £52 lOs * * * From the Library of the celebrated Poet Thomas Gray, each vohime profusely annotated by him — in all several hundred Marginal Notes in his extremely neat Auto- graph, many of considerable length. It was these Notes that the celebrated Anti- quary, Pennant, owned himself much indebted to for many corrections and observa- tions on the Antiquities of London. These volumes afterwards passed into the possession of the Rev. J. Mitford, the Editor of Gray's Works. 753 GREEN (Matthew). Th© Spleen, an Epistle, inscribed to his particular Friend Mr. C. J. First Edition. 8vo, full morocco gilt, g. e., by Bedford. ^ London, 1737. £2 5s 754 GREGORY (John). Gregorii Opuscula; or. Notes and Observations upon Some Passages of Scripture, with other Learned Tracts. 1650. Gregorii Posthilima; or Certain Learned Tracts. Together with a short Account of the Author's Life; and Elegies on his much-lamented Death. 1650. De /Eris & Epoohis. Shewing the Several Accounts of Time among all Nations, from the Creation to the present Age. 1649. The Assyrian Monarchie, being A short Description of its Rise and Fall. 1649. The Desoriptien and use of the Terrestrial Globe. 1649. Together in i vol., small 4to, original calf. London, 1649-50. £1 5s MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 157 755 GREENE (Robert). Greenes Garde of Fancie, Wherein the Folly of those Caipet Knights is cteoipherecf, Which guiding their course by the compase of Cupid, either dash their ship against most dangerous Rocks, or else attaine the haven with pain and peril. Wherein also is described in the person of Gwydemus, a cruell Combate between Nature & Necessitie. Small 4to, full morocco, g. e. At London, Printed for William Ponsonby, 1587. £75 *** Title, Dedication and signature F2. in facsimile. THIS THE SECOND EDITION HAS ADDED FOR THE FIRST TIME 'THE DEBATE BETWEENE FOLLTE AND LOVE." THE FIRST EDITION WAS PUBLISHED IN 1584 UNDER THE TITLE OF '' GWYDONIUS." OF THIS HOWEVER ONLY ONE COPY IS KNOWN, THE CHRISTIE MILLER COPY, WHICH SOLD FOR £770. OF THIS SECOND EDITION, WE CANNOT TRACE THE SALE OF ANY OTHER COPY. "The pamphlets which were written by the poet Robert Greene in the last years of his life, give a wonderfully vivid picture of the London that he lived in. The osten- sible purpose of these pamphlets is moral, to warn ignorant youth against the thou- sand and one devices of rogues and sharpers. But their value to us is rather in their realistic description of the life of the town that Shakespeare knew." 756 The Honorable History of Frier Bacon, and Frier Bungay. As it was lately plaid by the Prince Palatine his Servants, Woodcut on title. Small 4to, full crushed levant morocco extra, g. e. London, 1655. (See Illustration, Plate No. IX.). £25 The First Book Printed at Eton. 7^7 GREGORIUS NAZIANZENUS (S.). In Julianum Invectivae duae (Graece), edidit by R. Montagu. 4to. Tall Copy in the original calf binding. Etonae in Collegia Regali excudebat Joannes Norton, 16 10. £5 5s * * * The First Book printed at Eton, and the first in Greek characters. Printed with the *' Silver Type," the fount invented by Sir Henry Savile. 758 GREVILLE (Sir Foulk). The Five Yeares of King James, or, The Condi- tion of the State of England, and the Relation it had to other Provinces. Small 4to, half morocco. I^ondon, 1643. 148 158 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. Presentation Copy. 759 GREW (Nehemiah). Musfleuimi Regalis SO€ietatis, or a Catalogue and Description of the Natural and Artificial Rarities belonging to the Royal Society and preserved at Gresham Colledge, whereunto is subjoyned the Comparative Anatomy of Stomachs and Guts. Portrait and numerous engraved -plates. Folio, contemporary full morocco, g. e. London, 168 1. £1 5s * ^ * Presentation Copy from the Author, with his Inscription on lower margin of title. 760 GRYMESTONE (Ed.). The Imperiail History from the first foundation of the Roman Monarchy to this present tyme. Engraved and printed titles. Thick folio, original calf. London, 1623. £1 16s The Poet, Gabriel Harvey's Copy. 761 GUAZZO (Steeven). The Civile Conversation written first in Italian, and nowe translated out of French by George Pettie, devided into foure bookes. In the first is conteined in generall, the fruites that may bee reaped by conversation, and teaching ho we to knowe good companie from yll. In the second, the manner of conversation, meete for all persons, which shall come in any companie, out of their owne houses^ and then of the perticulat points which ought to bee observed in companie betweene young men and olde. Princes and private persons, learned and unlearned. Citizens and Strangers, men & women. In the third is perticularly set f oorth the orders to bee observed in conversation within doores, between the husband and the wife, the father and the sonne, brother and brother, the Maister and the servant. In the fourth, the report of a banquet. The First Edition. Small 4to. A Fine Copy in its original vellum binding. London, Richard Watkins, 158 1. £65 *** From the library of the celebrated Elizabethan poet, Gabriel Harvey, with his autograph Signature on top of title-page. This is one of the books which was read by William Shakespeare, indeed, from it he partly obtained the idea for his celebrated speech " All the World's a Stage," in "As You Like It." Douce, in his ''Illustrations of Shakespeare," writes as fol- lows : " There are likewise two other probable sources that are worthy of notice on this occasion. The first is Withal's short dictionarie in Latine and English. The other is Pettie's translation of Guazzo's Civile conversation, where one of the partie introduces the saying of some philosopher ' that this world was a stage, we the players which present the comedie.' " MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W., 1 5g 762 GUEVARA (Don Antony of). The Dial of Princes. Compiled by the Reverend Father in God, Don Antony of Guevara. Enghshed out of the French by T. North ; with an ampHfication also of a fourth booke annexed to the same, entituled, The Favored Courtier, never heretofore imprinted in our vulgar tongue. Black Letter, folio, original stamped calf ^ zvith the initials of the Binder, ** R. Br (rebacked). London, R. Tottill and T. Mar she, 1568. £25 Sir Thomas North, the translator of this famous book, exerted a powerful influence on Elizabethan writers, and has been described as the first great master of English prose. 763 GUNPOWDER PLOT. His Majesties Speech in this last session of Par- liament, as neere his very words as could be gathered at the instant; together with a discourse of the maner of the discovery of this late in- tended Treason, joyned with the Examination of some of the prisoners. Small 4to, half calf. London, 1605. ^2 2s 764 GYPSIES. Carew (Bampfylde-Moore). An Apology for the Life of Mr. Bampfyldte-Moore Carew, commonly called the King of the Beggars. With folding portrait of Bampfylde-Moore Carew. Small 8vo, original calf. I^ondon, 1775. lOs 6d Charles II. 's Copy. 765 G. (J.). Th© Sage Seinator Dellneatedi: or, a Discourse of The Qualifica- tions, Endowments, Parts, external and internal, Office, Duty and Dig- nity of a Perfect Politician. With a Discourse of Kingdorns, Republi- ques, & States-Popular. As also, Of Kings and Princes : To which is annexed. The New Models of Modern Policy. i2mo. Fine Copy in the original calf. London, Printed by J a. Cottrel, for Sam. Speed, 1660. £6 6s *** From the Library of King Charles II., with his initials '' C.R." surmounted by a crown in gold on sides. 766 HABINGTON (W ) Castara, The Third Edition, corrected and augmented. Frontispiece by Marshall. i2mo. Fine copy, bound by Riviere in full crushed levant morocco extra, g. e. London, 1640. £7 15s * * * With separate title-pages to the Second and Third Parts. Castara is a collection of Poems in praise of the Author's wife, Lucy Herbert, daughter of 1st Baron Powis, The third part, which appears in this edition for the first time, contains the cliaracter of " The Holy Man," and 22 devotional or meditative poems. l6o MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35. Conduit Street. London. W. j^y HALE (John). Golden Remains of the ever Memorable Mr, John Hales, of Eton College, etc. With the shrouded portrait of the Author lying on a Bier, and en- graved title by Hollar. First Edition. Small 4to, full levant morocco, g. e. London, 1659. £4 4s 768 HALE (Sir Matthew). A Disoourse touching Provision for the Poor. First Edition. i2mo, original calf . London, 16^^. £1 5s The Earliest Known Placard of Tight-Rope Dancing. 769 HALL (Jacob). The Broadside Advertisement of his Performance, printed on one side of a quarto sheet, with the Royal Arms at top. £10 lOs * * * This Broadside is, as far as we can trace, unique, and is the earliest one known of such a performance, Jacob Hall was the celebrated entertainer of his kind. In 1668 he attained his greatest popularity. The court encouraged him, and he described himself as " sworn servant to his Majestie,-' Lady Castlemain, afterwards Duchess of Cleveland, to avenge herself on Charles for neglecting her, fell, according to Pepys and Grammont, '' mightily in love " with him. In April, 1668, he was a regular visitor at her .house, and received a salary from her. A placard was issued describing the performances of *' himself and those of Mr, Richard Lancashire, with several others of their companies," Hall and his friends promised '' excellent dancing and vaulting on the ropes, with variety of rare feats of activity and agility of body upon the stage, as doing of somersets and flipflaps, fij^ing over thirty rapiers, and over several men's heads, and also flying through several hoops," Hall finally challenged " all others whatsoever, whether Englishmen or strangers, to do the like with them for twenty pounds, or what more they please," On 4 September, 1679, William Blaythwaite, in a letter to Sir Robert Southwell, mentioned that he had just witnessed Hall's exhibition of agility, Robert Wild, in his " Rome Rhymed to Death," 1683; Dryden, in his epilogue to Nat Lee's " Mithridates " ; Dr, John King, in his " Collection of Riddles," refer to his skill, and in the second edition of the collection entitled " Wit and Drollery " (1682) he is described as still delight- ing London with his jumping. — (D,N,B.), 770 HALLE (Edward). Th© Union of the Two Nohle and Illustrate Famelies of Lancastre and Yorke Beeyng long in continual discension for the croune of this Noble Realme, -with all the actes done in bothe the tymes of the Princes, bothe of the one linage & of the other, beginnying at the tyme of King Henry the Fowerth, the first aucthor of this devision, & so successfully proceadyng to the Reign of King Henry the Eight, Woodcut title and ivoodcut initials. First Issue of the FIRST EDITION. Folio, Fine copy in modern pigskin, blind tooled, g. e. London, R. Grafton, 1548. £18 18s Shakespeare must have consulted Halle's Chronicle continuously whilst composing King Henry V, King Henry VI, King Henry VITI, Pericles, Othello, etc. A portion is reprinted in Capeirs '•' School of Shakespeare." MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London. W. 161 771 HAMILTON (Dukes of). Burnet (Gilbert). The Memoires of the Lives* and Actions of James and William, Dukes of Hamilton and Castleherald, &0,, in which an Account is given of the Rise and Progress of the Civil Wars of Scotland. With many letters, instructions, and other Papers, written by King Charles the I. never before published. All drawn out of or copied from the Originals. Wii/t fortrait of James, Duke of Hamilton, by White. Folio, original calf. London, 1677. £1 lOs Unique Copy, with the Large Folding Plate. 772 HARRINGTON (James). The Commonwealth of Oceana. Dedicated to His Highnesse the Lord Protector of the Common- wealth of England, Scotland and Ireland. First Edition. Small folio, original calf. London, 1656. £10 lOs * * * This copy is, we believe, unique, having the very large folding engraved broad- sheet " The Use and Manner of the Ballot." This plate was prepared for issue with the work, but was not ready when it was published. Engraved on the sheet is : " This figure had it binn timely finished should have had a place in Mr. Harrington's Oceana ; a worke methodicaly unfoulding the mistries of all past Governments : & shewing how by slow & undiscerned degrees, the late Monarchy in England is come to a naturall period & desolucion ; & that it is impossible to fix any other Govern- ment or prevent a Comonwealth in this Nacion but by ye interposition of force ^^// c^//. London, 1671. £2 10s 202 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street. London, W. 958 KEITH (George). The Way to the City of God described, or, A Plaine Declaration how any man may, within the day of Visitation given him of God, pass out of the unrighteous into the righteous state, etc. Written in the Year 1669, in the time of his being a close Prisoner in the Tolbooth at Edinburgh. Whereunto is added, The Way to Discern the Convictions, Motions, etc., of the Spirit of God, etc. Written in the time of his confinement in Aberdeen, in the year 1676. Small 8vo, original calf. 1678. £1 1s 959 A Christian Catechisme, for the Instruction of Youth, and others to whom it may be useful on the grounds of Christian Religion, and Practice of Christian Piety. i2mo., original calf. London^ 1698. 12s 6d 960 KEMBLE (J. P., the celebrated Actor). Fugitive Pieces, in Verse. Small 8vo, full calf extra, gilt leaves. York, 1780. £3 3s The original issue, and extremely scarce, having been rigidly suppressed by the Author, who paid upwards of £10 for some copies. The First Edition containing the Famous Hymns '' Awake My Soul " AND '' Glory to Thee, my God, this night." 961 KEN (Bishop). A Manual of Prayers for the Use of the Scholars of Winchester College and all other Devout Christians. Revised. i2mo, original calf. London, i6g2. £5 5s *** The First Edition of this famous Manual to contain the Supplement "Three Hymns" by Bishop Ken, viz., "Awake my soul and with the sun" (Morning Hymn), "Glory to thee, my God, this night" (Evening Hymn), "Lord now my sleep does me forsake " (Midnight Hymn). 962 KILBURNE (Richard). A Topographie, or Survey of the County of Kent, with some Chronological, Historicall, and other matters touching the same: and the several Parishes and Places therein. Portrait by Cross. Small 4to, orig. calf. London, 1659. £3 15s * * * With annotations in margins by a contemporary hand. 963 KILLIGREW (Thomas). Comedies and Tragedies. Written by Thomas Killigrew, Page of Honour to King Charles the First. The First Collected Edition, with a fine impression of the very rare portrait by Faithorne {the author seated with his books, a dog at his feet). Folio, calf neat {portrait margined). London, Printed for Henry Herringman, 1664. (See Illustration, Plate No. XIV.) £36 Robert Harley's copy, with his bookplate, and his name in gold letters on title. ** * The volume contains (1) ''The Princesse, or Love at First Sight," a tragi- comedy; (2) "The Parson's Wedding," a comedy, which has been reprinted in MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 203 Killigrew (Thomas) — continued. successive editions of Dodsley's ''Old Plays"; (3) "The Pilgrim," a tragedy; (4) the first part of " Cicilia and Clorinda, or Love in Arms," a tragi-comedy ; (5) the second part of the same; (6) " Thomaso, or the Wanderer," a comedy; (7) the second part of " Thomaso " ; (8) " Claracilla," a tragi-comedy; (9) " The Prisoners," a tragi-comedy; (10) the first part of " Bellamira her Dream, or the Love of Shadows," a tragi-comedy; (11) the second part of " Bellamira." Each of these plays has a separate title-page dated 1663 or 1664, Three of them (Nos. 1, 2 and 8) were acted before the civil war, and there is no record of a performance of any of the others. Few of them, indeed, seem to have been intended for the stage, those that are in two parts consisting, as Genest observes, of plays in ten acts divided into halves, the first part bringing with it nothing in the shape of a denouement of action. The " Parson's Wedding " is outspoken enough for Wycherley, and verbose enough for the Duchess of Newcastle. It has wit of a sort, and Congreve has con- descended to adopt some of its jokes. According to Langbaine, its intrigue of " Careless and Wild circumventing the Lady Wild and Mrs. Pleasance into mar- riage " is an incident in several plays, as 'Ram Alley,' "Antiquary,' &c., but in none so well managed as in this play." — (D.N.B.) 964 KILLIGREW (Sir William). Four New Playes, viz.: The Siege of Urbin \ Selindra \ ^ ^ .. Love and Friendship ^^^^y- ^-omedies. Pandora, a Comedy. / The First Folio Edition. Folio, original calf. Oxford, 1666. £7 7S *** The First Collected Edition of these Plays and the First Edition of '' The Siege of Urbin." 965 KING (D.). The Vale Royal of England, or the County Palatine of Cheshire Illustrated. Also an excellent Discourse of the Island of Man. Map and numerous plates. First Edition. Folio, original calf. 1656. A Complete Copy. £4 5s King Charles II. 's Copy. 966 KNELL (Paul). Five Seasonable Sermons. As they were preached before Eminent Auditories, upon several Arguments. Contemporary binding of morocco, with the large Arms of King Charles 11., to whom the book is dedicated, in gold on sides, corner ornaments in gold, gold lines, gilt edges. 8vo. London, 1660. £5 5s 204 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 967 KNIGHTS OF MALTA. Vertot (Mons. L'Abbe de). The History of the Knights of Malta. With 71 finely engraved for traits of the Grand Masters^ etc.^ and 4 maps. 2 vols., folio, original calf. London, 1728. £3 5s King Charles I.'s Copy. 968 KNOLLES (Richard). The Generall Historie of the Turkes from the first beginning of that Nation to the rising of the Othoman Familie, with all the notable expeditions of the Christian Princes against them, together with the Lives and Conquests of the Othoman Kings and Emperours. Engraved title and portraits. Thick folio, original calf. KING CHARLES THE FIRST'S COPY, with his Arms in gold on sides {joints neatly repaired^. London, A. Islip, 1638. (See Illustration, Plate No. XV.) £45 969 KORAN. Malezair (Sieur du Ryer, Lord of Malezair). The Alcoran of Mahomet, translated out of Arabique into French; and newly Englished, for the satisfaction of all that desire to look into the Turkish vanities. Small 4to, original sheep. London, 1649. 18s 970 LACKINGTON (James). Memoirs of the Forty-Five First Yeares of the Life of James Lackington, Bookseller. Written by Himself. With portrait. Small 8vo, neivly bound in half blue morocco gilty uncut, t. e. g. London, 1794. 15s 971 THE LADIES' LIBRARY: or, Encyclopaedia of Female Knowledge, in every Branch of Domestic Economy: comprehending, in Alphabetical Arrangement, Distinct Treatises on every practical subject, necessary for Servants and Mistresses of Families. 2 vols., 8vo, half calf. London, 1790. i 10s 6d Contains a Section devoted to Small Pox. 25 pp. Also contains engraved Portrait of Dr. Buchan. 972 LAMBARDE (WilHam). A Perambulation of Kent conteining the description, Hystorie, and Customes of that Shyre, written in the yeere 1570 by WilHam Lambarde of Lincolnes Inne Gent: first published in the yeere 1576, and now increased and altered after the Authors owne last copie. Black Letter, map of England, and the folding ** Carde of the Beacons, in Kent.'' Small 4to. Fine Copy in full russia, g. e. London, 1596. £5 5s MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 205 973 LANGBAINE (Gerard) An Account of the English Dramatick Poets; or. Some Observations and Remarks on the Lives and Writings of all those that have published either Comedies, Tragedies, Tragi-Comedies, Pastorals, Masques, Interludes, Farces, or Operas in the English Tongue. First Edition. Small 8vo, new calf antique. Oxford, 1691. £3 15s Includes notices of Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, Middleton, Heywood, etc. 974 The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets; also an exact account of all the plays in the English Tongue; first begun by Mr. Langbaine, improved and continued by a careful hand (Chas. Gildon). - Small 8vo, half calf. London, circa 1698. £2 2s 975 LANGHAM (William). The Carden of Health: containing the sundry rare and hidden vertues and properties of all kindes of Simples and Plants. Together with the manner how they are to bee used and applyed in medicine for the health of man's body, against divers diseases and infirmities most common amongst men. Second Edition, corrected and amended. Small thick 4to, full calf, g. e. London, Thomas Harper, 1633. £4 4s * * * Bottom of title stained and slightly defective. 976 LATHAM (Symon). FaJcowry: or the Faulcon's Lure and Cure, the ordering and training up of all Hawkes in generall, especially the Hag- gard Faulcon Gentle. Woodcut on title. Latham's New and Second! Booke of Faulconry, concerning the ordering and training up of all such Hawkes as was omitted in his printed Booke of the Haggard Faulcon, etc. . . . Published for the delight of noble mindes and Instruction of Yong Faulcons. Numerous woodcuts of Hawks, etc. First Edition. Dedicated to Sir Thos. Munson and Sir Patrick Hume. Small 4to. Fine Cofy in full red levant morocco, -panelled sides, inside dentelles, g. e., by F. Bedford. London, 1633. £16 16s 206 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. f^T7 LAUD (William, Archbishop of Canterbury). Artioles exhibited in Par- liament against William, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1640. 4 leaves. Small 4to, boards. Printed in the yeare 1640. 12s 6(1 * * * These articles maintain the accusation of High Treason against Laud. 978 The Bishop's Potion; or, a Dialogue betweene the Bishop of Canterbury and his phisitian. Wherein he desireth the Doctor to have a care of his Bodie and to preserve him from being let blood in the neck when the Signe is in Taurus. Woodcuts on title. Small 4to, half calf. Printed in the yeer 164 1, £4 4s Q79 The Copie of a Letter sent from William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, the 28 of June, 1641, unto the Universitie of Oxford: specifying. His willingnesse to resigne his Chancellor-ship, and withall deploring his sad Estate now in the time of his Imprisonment. 2 pp., small 4to, unbound. Printed in the yeare 164 1. £1 1s q8o ^ — Herbert (Thomas). An Answer to the most Envious, Scandalous, and Libellous Pamphlet, entitled Mercurie's Message, or The Copy of a Letter sent to William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, now prisoner in the Tower. 8 pp., small 4to, unbound. £3 15s Imprint at bottom, cut into. "Woodcvit of a hand holding dagger, and portrait of Archbishop on reverse of the Title. q8i Merouries Message, or The Coppy of a Letter sent to William Laud, late Archbishop of Canterbury, now prisoner in the Tower. Woodcut portrait of the Archbishop^ on title-page. 8 pp., small 4to, half morocco. Printed in the Yeare, of our Prelates feare. 164 1. £4 4s *** An Attack in verse upon William Laud ending with '' An Accrosticall Caveat to beware of Ambition." Q82 — Mercurie's Message Defended, against the vain, foolish, simple, and absurd cavils of Thomas Herbert, a ridiculous Ballad Maker. 2 pp., unbound. London, printed 164 1. £4 4s With woodcut on title of Herbert holding his answer to the Archbishop, Herbert's Head is in the Hangman's Noose, by which he is being drawn to the scaffold. MAGGS BROS.. 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 207 Laud (William, Archbishop of Canterbury) — continued. Q83 A PrognosticatiOin upon W. Laud, late and last bishop of that sea; writt Ano. 1640. An extremely rare broadside, consisting of one en- graved leaf, with a curious copper-plate at the head, representing Laud's execution, which took place on Jan. 10, 1644. Folio, new boards. Circa 1644. £1 1s 984 — Prynne {William). Caniterbuirles Doom©; or, The First Part of a Compleat History of the Commitment, Charge, Try all. Condemnation, Execution of William Laud. Containing the severall Orders, Articles, Proceedings in Parliament against him, from his first Accusation therein, till his Tryall. With two portraits. Small folio, original calf. London, 1646. 15s Q85 The Recantation of the Prelate of Canterbury, being his last Advice to his Brethren the Bishops of England; to consider his Fall, observe the Times, forsake their Wayes, and to joyne in this good work of Reformation (interspersed with Verse). Small 4to, unbound. Fine tall copy, with several uncut bottom margins. London, 1641. £2 lOs Archbishop Laud's Copy of his own Famous Work. q86 — A Relaitiotii of Th© Conference betweene William Lawd, then, Li^- Bishop of St. Davids, now Lord Arch Bishop of Canterbury : and Mr. Fisher the Jesuite, by the Command of King James of ever blessed memorie, with an Answer to such exceptions as A. C. takes against it. Engraved portrait of Laud. The Archbishop's Own Copy, with his Arms in gold on sides, g.e. ¥o\\o, original calf (joints strengthened). London, 1639. £14 14s *** Archbishop Laud's Own Copy of this, the First Complete Edition. It is the most famous series of Arguments between the English Protestant Church and the Roman Catholics. " On 23 April, 1622, James sent for Laud, asking him to iise his influence with the Countess of Buckingham, who was attracted towards the church of Rome by the arguments of Percy, a Jesuit who went by the name of Fisher. By the King's orders there had been two conferences held in her presence between Fisher and Dr. Francis White, and on 24 May, 1622, a third conference was held, in which Laud took the place of W^hite. The subject then discussed was the infallibility of the church. *' Laud's arguments on this occasion, together with their subsequent enlargement in his account of the controversy published in 1639, mark his ecclesiastical position in the line between Hooker and Chillingworth. On the one hand he acknowledged the church of Rome to be a true church, on the ground that it ' received the Scriptures (Continued o\!er) 208 MAGGS BROS.. 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. Laud (William, Archbishop of Canterbury) — continued. as a rule of faith, though but as a partial and imperfect rule, and both the sacra- ments as instrumental causes and seals of grace.' He strove against the position ' that all points defined by the church are fundamental,' attempting as far as pos- sible to limit the extent of ' soul-saving faith.' The foundations of faith were ' the Scriptures and the creeds.' When doubt arose 'about the meaning of the articles, or superstructures upon them — which are doctrines about the faith, not the faith itself, unless when they be immediate consequences — then, both in and of these, a lawful and free general council, determining according to Scripture, is the best judge on earth.' Laud, in short, wished to narrow the scope of dogmatism, and to bring opinions not necessary to salvation to the bar of public discussion by duly authorised exponents, instead of to that of an authority claiming infallibility." — D.N.B. Q87 Seven Sermens preached upon Several Ocaasions. First Edition. \2mo,, full morocco, g. e. London, 16^1. £1 5s q88 — A Speech delivered in the Starr-Chamber, on Wednesday the XlVth of June, MDCXXXVII, at the Censure, of John Bastwick, Henry Burton, and William Prinn; concerning pretended Innovations in the Church. First Edition. Small 4to. Fine copy in contemporary vellum. London, Printed by Richard Badger, 1637. £6 6s * * * Complete with the Dedication to the King, 11 pp. Lowndes states that only 25 copies of this dedication were printed. ***.'' Archbishop Laud had ordered various changes in the Church Ritual, which were intended merely to remove illegal abuses ; but it was inevitable that some of them should be regarded as evidence of his intention to draw the Church into a path which would ultimately lead to a reunion with Rome* This was especially the case with his direction for fixing the communion table at the East end of the Churches. The opposition created was the greater, as Rome was at the same time making an effort to extend her influence in England, and in that effort Laud was naturally, though quite untruly, regarded as an accomplice. . . . *' The puritans attacked him and his system with scurrilous bitterness. When, on 14 June 1637, three of them, Prynne, Burton, and Bastwick, were brought up for sentence in the Star-Chamber, Laud seized the opportunity of delivering this speech, which is as instructive on his position as a disciplinarian as the conference with Fisher is on his views concerning doctrine. In the course of his speech Laud referred bitterly to a book issued by Bishop Williams under the title of ' The Holy Table, Name and Thing,' in which a compromise in the dispute about the position of the communion table was recommended." — (D.N.B.) 989 The True Copie of a Letter sent from the Most Reverend William Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury to the University of Oxford, when he resigned his Office of Chancellour. Published by Occasion of a Base Libell and Forgery that runs under this Title. And also the Answer of the University to the said letter. 8 pp., small 4to, unbound. Oxford, 164 1. 15s MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 209 XIVth Century Manuscript in English. 990 LAURENCE (Brother, a Dominican Monk). The Book Of Vices and Virtues m English. Illuminated Manuscript written by an English scribe (XIVth Century), on 112 leaves of vellum (lof by /J inches), written in Gothic characters, 42 long lines to a page. Decorated with 15 large initials with elongations forming borders of scrap and bar work ornamented with floral designs, painted in bril- liant colours and illuminated, numerous smaller capitals in burnished gold on coloured grounds. Folio, original oak boards covered with stamfed calf (rebacked). {England, XIVth Century.) (See Illustration, Plate No. XVI.) £210 With bookplate of Andrew Coltee Ducarel of Doctor's Commons, and inscription ''Dec. 0, 1777." This curious MS. was presented to Dr. Ducarel by Mr. Frank vSmythies of Colchester. The name of an earlier owner (16th Century) also occurs, 'VRobt. Paynell de Grayes Inne etc." Manuscripts (in English) of this work which was first composed in French in the year 1279 are uncommon. The work was written by Frere Lorens, the Confessor of Philippe III. (the "Bold") of France, in 1279. It is an exposition of the Christian Doctrine, containing ex- planations and commentaries on the Ten Commandments, the Seven Deadly Sins, the Twelve Articles of Christian Belief, etc. It enjoyed a wide popularity in the 14th and 15th centuries, being translated into Dutch and English, editions being printed by Caxton, Wynkyn de Worde and Pynson. The first printed edition of this work in the original French was published in 1502 by Verard. QQi LAYATER'S Looking-Glass; or, Essays on the Face of Animated Nature, from Man to Plants. Frontispiece. 8vo, full contemporary red morocco gilt (rebacked). London, i8oo. 10s 6cl 992 LAVENDER (T). The Travels of Fcwre English Men and a preacher into Africa, Asia, Troy, Bythinia, Thracia, and to the Blacke Sea; and into Syria, Cilicia, Pisidia, Mesopotamia, Damascus, Canaan, Galilee, Samaria, Judea, Palestine, Jerusalem, Jericho, and to the Red Sea. Begun in the Yeere of Jubile 1600, and by some of them finished in the yeere 161 1, and others not yet returned. Small 4to. Black Letter, very fine copy in full levant morocco gilt^ g. e. London, 1612. £12 12s 993 LAW. Atkyns (Sir Robert). An Enquiry into the Power of Dispensing with Penal Statutes. Together with some Animadversions upon a Book writ by Sir Edw. Herbert. Folio, new boards. London, 1689. lOs 6d * * * Dealing with the case of Sir Edw. Hales who was fined £500, under the Act " for preventing Dangers which may happen from Popish Recusants," for failing to take the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance. 2!0 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. Law — continued. 994 Blackstone (Sir W). Commentaries on the Laws of England, in four books. Twelfth Edition, with the last corrections of the Author and with notes and additions by Edward Christian. Illustrated ivith 12 engraved portraits of the Judges in their robes. ^Yo\?,., %\o, half calf . London, 1793-4. £2 2s * * * '' They are the most correct and beautiful outline that ever was exhibited in any human science." 995 Blackstone (WilHam). The Great Charter and Charter of the Forest, with other Authentic Instruments, to which is prefixed an In- troductory Discourse containing the History of the Charters. Engraved initials and tail-pieces. Royal 4to, ftill russia gilt. Oxford, 1759. £3 lOs 996 Dugdale (W.). Origines Juridioiales, or Historical Memorials of the English Laws, Courts of Justice, forms of Tryal, Law-writers, Law- books, Innes of Court and Chancery; also a chronologic of the Lord Chancelors and Keepers of the great Seal. Second Edition, with additions. With the six fine engraved por- traits of the judges. ¥o\\o, calf rebacked. London, 167 1. £3 3s From the library of the celebrated Earl of Chesterfield. 997 Fitzherbert (Sir Anthony). La Graunde Abridgement. 3 vols., folio. Printed in Law French, without a Title or Printer's Name, but attributed to Wynkyn De Worde (wants leaf of Arms, and a few leaves in Volume I. defective). Half morocco. AMi millencimo quigetesimo sexto decimo (15 16). The First Edition of the Rarest of English Law Books. £25 Ames, and Lowndes following him, stated that there was an Edition of 1514 — a copy of which was in the Lincoln's Inn Library. This, however, is an error. The copy in the Lincoln's Inn Library being 1516 as this, and no Earlier Edition can be traced. Sir Anthony Fitzherbert (1470-1538) was the most celebrated Judge of his day. On 11 June, 1529, he was one of the commissioners appointed to hear causes in chancery in place of the chancellor, Wolsey. On 1 Dec. following he signed the articles of impeachment exhibited against Wolsey, one of them being to the effect that ** cer- tain bills for extortion of ordinaries " having been found before Fitzherbert, Wolsey had the indictments removed into the chancery by certiorari, " and rebuked the same Fitzherbert for the same cause." On 1 June, 1533, he was present at the coronation of Anne Boleyn. He was one of the Commission that (29 April, 1535) tried the Carthusians, Robert Feron, John Hale, and others for high treason under MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 211 Law — continued. • the statute 25 Hen. VIII, c. 22, the offence consisting in having met and conversed too freely about the king's marriage. He was also a member of the tribunals that tried Fisher and More in the following June and July. His earliest and greatest work, '' La Graunde Abridgement," is a digest of the year books arranged under appropriate titles in alphabetical order : it is also more than this, as some cases are there mentioned which are not to be found in the year-books, but which have, nevertheless, been accepted as authorities in the courts. Though not absolutely the earliest work of the kind, for Statham's abridgment seems to have had slightly the start of it, Fitzherbert's was emphatically the " grand abridgment," the first serious attempt to reduce the entire law to systematic shape. As such it served as a model to later writers, such as Sir Robert Broke or Brooke, whose *' Graunde Abridgement " is, indeed, merely a revision of Fitzherbert's with additional cases, and Henry Rolle, Chief Justice of the King's Bench, 1648, whose " Abridgement des Plusieurs Cases et Resolutions del commun Ley," published 1668, was designed rather as a supplement to Fitzherbert and Brooke than as an exhaustive work. 998 Hale (Sir Matthew). The History of the Pleas of the Crown; now first published from his Lordship's Original Manuscript, and the several References to the Records examined by the Originals, with large Notes by Sollom Emlyn. Portrait. 2 vols., folio, calf. In the Savoy, 1736. £1 5s * * * From the Library of Lord Chesterfield. 999 The Lawes Resolutions of Women's Rights: or, the Lawes Pro- vision for Women. A Collection of such Statutes and Customes, with the Cases, Opin- ions, Arguments, and Points of Learning in the Law as doe properly concerne Women. Small 4to, original calf. London, 1632. £2 15s 1000 Le Liver des Assises & plees del Corone moues & dependants denaunt les Justices Sybien en lour circuits come aylours, en temps le Roy Edwarde le tierce, iadis Roy Dengleterre, ouesque un Table des principall matters delplees del Corone. Printed in Black Letter in Norman French, with Prologue in English. Folio, original calf. London, Richard Tottell, 1561. £5 5s 1 00 1 — L' Estrange (Ro.). Tully's Offices. In three Books. Turned out of Latin into English. Small 8vo, original calf. L^ondon, 1680. 5s 212 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. Law — continued. 1002 Littleton's Tenures, in English. Black Letter. i2mo, original calf. Imprinted at London in Fleetstrete^ within Temple Barre at the signe of the Hand and Starre by Ry chard Tottill, 1583. £2 lOs 1004 March (John). Amicus Reipublicae. The Common-wealths Friend. An Extract and Speedie Course to Justice and Right, and for Preventing and Determining of Tedious Law-Suits. i2mo, original calf. London, 165 1. 15s 1Q05 Philo-Dicaeus. The Triumphs of Justice over Unjust Judges. Folio, new boards. London, 168 1. 16s * * * The above work, dedicated to the Lord Chief Justice Scroggs, deals with the Corruption of Judges, citing as examples, the 44 Justices hanged for false judg- ments in one year during the reign of King Alfred, the case of the Ld Chief Justice Tresilian in the reign of Richard 2nd, the crimes of Empson and Dudley in Henry VIII. 's timej the proceedings of the Ship-money-Judges in the reign of Charles 1st, etc. 1006 ^ Sheppard (Wm.). Englands Balme; or, Proposals by way of Grievance and Remedy; humbly presented to His Highness and the parliament, towards the Regulation of the Law, and better administra- tion of Justice. i6mo, original calf. London, 1657. £1 lOs ioo/ Year Books of Edward Hi. London, Tottyll, 1561. Year Books of Edward Y. London, Tottel, 1569. Year Books of Henry IV. Colophon at end ** Imprynted at London, 1570," while the date on title-page is 1575. Year Books of Henry VI. London, Tottyl, 1570. t Together, 4 vols., thick folio, original calf. 1561-75. £12 128 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 213 1008 LAWRENCE (John). The Clergy-Man's Recreation: shewing the Plea- sure and Profit of the Art of Gardening. Frontispiece and three large folding plates. 8vo, original calf (jebacked). London, Printed for Bernard Lintott, 1 7 16. £2 2s 1009 LEARN TO LYE WARM, or. An Apology for that Proverb, Tis Good Sheltering under an Old Hedge; containing Reasons, wherefore a Young Man should Marry an Old Woman. Written in a Letter to K. D. by the Command of a per- son of Honour. Small 4to, half calf. London, 1672. £10 lOs I GIG LE BLOND (Le Sieur Alexander). The Theory and Practice of Gar- dening, wherein is fully handled all that relates to Fine Gardens, com- monly called Pleasure-Gardens, as Parterres, Groves, Bowling-Greens, etc. Translated from the French by John James of Greenwich. With 3G engraved folding plates. First Edition. Thick 4to, old original calf. Fine clean copy. London, 1712. £6 6s loioa Ditto. Second Edition. Thick 4to, original calf (rebacked). London, 1728. £4 18s iGii LEE (Nat.). Caesar Borgia, Son of Pope Alexander the Sixth. A Tragedy. First Edition. Small 4to, nezv boards. London, 1680. £3 3s IG12 Constantino the Great. A Tragedy acted at the Theatre Royal by their Majesties Servants. First Edition. 4to, boards. London, 1684. ^* "^Os The *' Epilog ae " is by John Dryden, and the "Prologue" contains the oft-quoted couplet respecting the unmerited neglect of Spenser, Butler and Cowley. '* Tell 'em how Spencer starv'd', how Cowley mourn'd, How Butler's Faith and Service was return'd ; " 10 1 3 Gloriana; or, the Court of Augustus Caesar. Acted at the Theatre Royal. First Edition. Small 4to, new boards. London, 1676. £3 3s 10 1 4 Lucius Junius Brutus; father of his Country. A Tragedy. First Edition. Sm^ll ^to, boards. London, i6%i. £4 10s 214 -MAGGS-BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Sheet, London, W. Lee (Nat.) — continued. 10 1 5 The Massacre of Paris. A Tragedy. First Edition. Small 4to, new boards. London, 1690. £2 2s *** The last leaf contains *' A Catalogue of Some Plays," including: "Mr. Shake- spear's Plays in one large fol. volume, containing 43 Plays," and Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, King Lear, Julius Csesar, Merchant of Venice, Macbeth. 1016 Piso's Conspiracy. A Tragedy Acted at the Duke's Theatre. First Edition. Small 4to, new boards. Printed by T. M. for W. Cademan, at the Popes-Heady in the Lower-Walk of the New Exchange, in the Strand, 1676. £3 17s 6d This is Lee's Tragedy of Nero, a little altered. 10 1 7 Theodosius: or, The Force of Love. A Tragedy, acted by their Royal Highnesses Servants at the Duke's Theatre, with the Musick betwixt the Acts. First Edition. Small 4to, half bound. London, 1680. £9 10s *** This play met with great success. The scene lies in Constantinople. It was assisted in the representation by several entertainments of singing in the solemnity of Church Music, composed by Purcell, being the first he ever furnished for the stage. 1018 The Tragedy of Nero, Emperour of Rome, as it is Acted at the Theatre Royal. First Edition. "^m-diSS. \Xo, boards. London, 167 S- £4 10s *** Nat. Lee's First Play. 1 019 Dramatick Works. Engravings by G. Vander Gucht. 2 vols., small 8vo. London, 1736. 10s 6d Containing : (Edipus, Theodosious, Princess of Cleve, Lucius Brutus, Mithridates, Caesar Borgia, Constantine the Great, Duke of Guise. 1020 LELAND (John). A Learned and True Assertion of the Original Life, Actes, and Death of the most Noble, Valiant, and Renouned Prince Arthur, King of Great Brittaine, Who succeeding his Father Uther Pendragon, & right nobly governing this Land sixe & twentie years, then dyed of a mortall wounde receyued in battell, together with victory over his enemies. Collected and written of late yeares in lattin by John Leyland, newly translated into English by Richard Robinson. Wo-odcut Coat of Arms on reverse of title {as usual, cut into). Small 4to, full morocco gilt, g. e., by Riviere. London, Imprinted by John Wolfe, 1582. £36 * * * The Extremely Rare First Edition. Written in defence of the authenticity of the Arthurian fables, in reply to Polydore Vergil. MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street. London, W. 215 102 1 L'ESTRANGE (Sir Roger). The Observator; or, Question and Answer. The Complete Set of the 931 Original Numbers of this famous periodical, together with the title-pages, prefaces and contents. 3 vols, in 2, thick folio, original calf. 168 1-6-7. ^"^0 lOs * * * This periodical was commenced by vSir Roger L'Estrange for the purpose of defending King James II. and his Court against the charge of Popery. The first number appeared on Wednesday, 13 April, 1681, and it was originally designed to appear twice a week, on Wednesdays and Saturdays. But after No. 30 (6 July, 1681), when the title was changed to "The Observator in Dialogue," and the interlocutors were named Whig and Tory, three or four numbers usually appeared eacli week. No. 113, on 18 March, 168^, bore as its sole heading " The Observator," together with a list in small type of the subjects treated in the sheet. The first series ended on Wednesday, 9 Jan., 168|, with No. 470. In the second series, begun on Thursday, 10 Jan. 168|, the interlocutors were re-named Observator and Trimmer. This series ended on Saturday, 7 Feb., 168^^, with No. 215. The third and last series, beginning on Wednesday, 11 Feb. 168 1^, ended with No. 246 on Wednesday, 9 March, 168f . Each series on its completion was issued separately in volume form with indexes, and to the third volume (London, 1687) was prefixed ** A Brief History of the Times," dedicated to posterity, in which Oates and his plot were finally exposed. In this periodical L'Estrange dealt unsparingly with dissenters and whigs. In Nahum Tate's contribution to " Absalom and Achitophel," pt. ii. (published in November, 1682), L'Estrange, under the name of Sheva, was extravagantly praised for his loyal zeal in meeting in his paper the attacks on the government of " factious priests and seditious scribes." '* He with watchful eye Observes and shoots their treasons as they fly, Their weekly frauds his keen replies detect, He undeceives more fast than they infect." 1022 A Very Remarkable Collection of 32 Pamphlets by Roger L'Estrange (as listed under), all small 4to, with the exception of the first, which is a large folded Broadside. Very thick small 4to, original calf. 1679-1683. £18 18s Comprises : — The Committee or Popery in Masquerade. A large folio broadside — the upper part occupied with a caricature Engraving, introducing Presbyterians, Quaker, Ranter, Mugleton, Independent, etc., with poetical explanation below. London, 1681. A Seasonable Memorial in some Historical Notes upon the Liberties of the Presse and Pulpit. London, 1681. Narrative of the Plot set forth for the Edification of His Majesties Liege-People. 1680. Discovery upon Discovery. 1680. A Further Discovery of the Plot. Dedicated to Dr. Titus Oates. 1681. Tyranny and Popery Lording it over the Consciences, Lives, Liberties, and Estates both of King and People. 1681. The Free-born Subject : or, the Englishman's Birthright. 1681. An Apology for the Protestants. 1681. The Relaps'd Apostate. 1681. (Continued over) 2i6 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. L' Estrange (Sir Roger) — continued. The Reformed Catholique : or, the True Protestant. The Casuist Uncas'd in a Dialogue betwixt Richard and Baxter. 1680. The Case Put, concerning the Succession of the Royal Highness the Duke of York. 1680 L'Estrange's Case in a Civil Dialogue betwixt Zekel and Ephraim. 1680. Toleration Discuss'd in two Dialogues. 1681. An Account of the Growth of Knavery. 1681. Notes upon Stephen College. 1681. A Word concerning Libels and Libellers. 1681. The Reformation Re form' d : or, a Short History of Newfashioned Christians. 1661. The Shammer Shamm'd. 1681. Citt and Bumpkin. First Part. 1681. Citt and Bumpkin. Second Part. 1681. L'Estrange No Papist. 1681. The Character of a Papist in Masquerade. 1681. A Reply to the Second Part of the Character of a Popish Successor. 1681. An Answer to the Appeal from the Country to the City. 1681. L'Estrange His Appeal Humbly Submitted to the King's most Excellent Majesty and the Three Estates assembled in Parliament. 1681. A Memento. Treating of the Rise, Progress, and Remedies of Seditions. 1682. The Accompt Clear 'd : In Answer to a Libel, intituled A True Account from Chichester. 1682. The Holy Cheat. 1682. The Dissenters Sayings. 1683. The Dissenters Sayings. Second Part. 1681. Considerations upon a Painted Sheet entituled, the Speech of the late Lord Russell to the Sheriffs. 1683. Sir Roger L'Estrange, Tory Journalist and Pamphleteer, was born in 1616 and died 1704. In 1663 he was appointed '' Surveyor of the Imprimery," or Printing Presses. All printing offices in England and vendors of books and papers were under his control, and he was authorised to enter and search their houses. He was also one of the licensers of the press, and had the sole privilege of writing, printing and publishing anything of the character of a newspaper or public advertisement. Dr. Johnson regarded him as the first writer upon record who regularly enlisted him- self under the banners of a party for pay and fought for it through right and wrong. 1023 LEWIS (M. G.). Romantic Tales. Containing: Mistrust; The Admiral Guarino; Bertrand and Mary Belle; The Lord of Falkenstein; The Anaconda; The Dying Bridge; The Four Facardins; Oberon's Hench- , man ; My Uncle's Garret-Window ; Bill Jones ; and Amorassan. First Edition. 4 vols., post 8vo, original half calf. London, 1808. £1 lOs 1024 LEYBOURN (Wm.). The Compleat Surveyor: containing the whole Art of Surveying of Land, by the Plain Table, Theodolite, Circumferentor, and Peractor ; hereunto is added the manner how to know whether Water may be conveyed from a Spring head to any appointed place or not, &c. For trait and diagrams. Folio, original calf. London, 1653. £2 lOs MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 217 1025 LEYGESTER (John). The Civil Warres of England, briefly related from His Majesties first setting up his Standard, 164 1, to this present personall hopeful Treaty, with the lively Effigies and Eulogies of the chief Commanders. 21 finely engraved copper-plate portraits. Small 8vo, original calf. London, 1649. £6 18s 1026 LHOYD (H). The History of Cambria, now called Wales: a part of the most f amour Yland of Brytaine, written in Brytish language above two hundreth yeares past : translated into English by H. Lhoyd Gentleman : Corrected, augmented and continued out of Records and best approoved Authors, by David Powel Doctor in divinitie. First Edition. Small 4to, Black Letter, old calf. Imprinted at London by Rafe Newberrie and Henry Denhaniy 1584. £7 10s * * * This book is of importance and interest to the collector of Americana, as being the first to attribute the discovery of America by Europeans to Madoc ap Owen Gwyneth and his companions in the twelfth century. It is on the account of the matter contained in this volume that all subsequent controversies on the question have been founded. 102; LILLE (Abbe de). The Gardens, a Poem. Translated from the French. With fine engraved frontispiece and 8 charming vignettes by F. Bartolozzi. Large 4to. Fine Copy in full conternporary straight- grained green morocco by C . Kalthober, with binder^ s ticket, gilt back and borders to sides, edges gilt. London, T . Bensley, 1798. £1 5s 1028 LILLO (Geo.). Fatal Curiosity; a true Tragedy of Three Acts. 8vo, new boards. London, 1737. 12s 6cl * -jt * With Prologue written by Henry Fielding, 1029 LILLY (John). Sixe Court Comedies often Presented and Acted before Queen Elizabeth by the Children of her Maiesties Chappell, and the Children of Paules. Written by the onely Rare Poet of that Time, the Witie Comical! Facetiously-Quicke and unparalell'd John Lilly. Thick i2mo, old calf {some headlines cut into). London, Printed by William Stansby for Edward Blount, 1632. £4 15s First Collected Edition and the First in which the Lyrics appear. The Editor (E. Blount), describes this collection as *' The greatest treasure our Poet left behind him, are these six ingots of refined invention, richer than gold." 2f'8 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 1030 LILLY (William, Student in Astrology). Monarchy or no Monarchy in England. Grebner his Prophecy concerning Charles Son of Charles, his Great- nesse, Victories, Conquests. The Northern Lyon, or Lyon of the North, and Chicken of the Eagle discovered who they are, of what Nation. English, Latin, Saxon, Scotish and Welch Prophecies concerning England in particular^ and all Europe in generall. Passages upon the Life and Death of the late King Charles. Aenigmaticall Types of the future State and Condition of England for many years to come. With the Astrological Diagrams^ and the 19 curious full-page wood- cuts at end. First Edition. Small 4to, full calf. London^ Printed for Humfrey Blunden^ 165 1. £8 15s *** In this work Lilly asserted that ''England should no more be governed by a King." Two of the Hieroglyph ical engravings he declared portrayed the Plague and Fire of London respectively. 1031 LINCHE (Richard). The Fontaine of Ancient Fiction. Wherein is lively depictured the Images and Statues of the Gods of the Ancients, with their proper and perticular expositions. Small 4to, calf, rebacked. London, Printed by Adam I slip, 1599. £9 9s *** In this " strange borne child of idlenesse," as he calls it, the author takes each of the Latin Gods in turn, and then collates from classical writers the passages in which his attributes are described. 032 LINCOLN. The Prisoner against the Prelate: or, A Dialogue between the Common Goal and Cathedral of Lincoln. Wherein the true Faith and Church of Christ are briefly discovered and vindicated. Written by a Prisoner of the Baptised Churches in Lincolnshire (Thomas Gran- tham). Small 8vo, original calf. N.D, 15s 1033 LITANY (New). A New Litany for the Holy Time of Lent. One leaf, folio, new boards. Oxford, circa 1688. 14s A very scurrilous poem, with '* Imprimatur, Ob. Walker " at foot. MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 21^ 1034 i-ITHGOW (William). The Totall Discourse, Of the Rare Adventures, and painefull Peregrinations of long nineteene Yeares Travayles, from Scotland, to the most Famous Kingdomes in Europe, Asia, and Africa. Perfited by three deare bought Voyages, in Surveighing of Forty-eight Kingdomes ancient and Moderne; twenty one Rei-publickes, ten abso- lute Principalities, with two hundred Hands. With woodcut frontispiece. Thick 4to, stamped calf {some blank margins restored). London, 1632. * £10 10s LITURGIES (PRAYER BOOKS, ETC.)- 1035 ^^ Accompt of all the Proceedings of the Commissioners of both Per- swasions, appointed by his Sacred Majesty, according to Letters Patents, for the Review of the Book of Common Prayer, etc. London, 1661. A Petition for Peace; with the Reformation of the Liturgy, as it was presented to the Right Reverend Bishops by the Divines appointed by His Majesties Commission. London, 166 1. A Sober and Temperate Discourse, concerning the Interest of Words in Prayer, the just Antiquity and Pedigree of Liturgies, or. Forms of Prayer in Churches. London, 166 1. The three tracts in i vol., small 4to, rough calf. London, 1661. £1 lOs 1036 The Ancient Liturgy of the Church of Jerusalem, being the Liturgy of St. James, Freed from all latter Additions and Interpolations of what- ever kind, and so restored to it's Original Purity. With an English Translation and Notes, as also an Appendix, containing some other Ancient Prayers. 4to, half calf. London, 1744. £1 lOs King Edward VIth Prayer Book. 1037 The Booke of the Common Praier & Administracion of the Sacramentes, & other Rites & Ceremonies of the Churche; after the use of the Churche of Englande. Title within woodcut border. First Edition. Folio, vellum. London, Richard Grafton, 1549. , £35 Title repaired and a portion in facsimile, also with Signatures An. and Vi. and the last leaf in facsimile. 220 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W Liturgies (Prayer Books, etc.) — continued. Laud's Scottish Prayer Book. 1038 The Booke of Common Prayer, & Administration of the Sacraments & other parts of Divine Service for the use of the Church of Scotland. FoHo, original calf, rebacked. Edinburgh, 1637. £14 14s *** The First Edition of Archbishop Laud's Scottish Prayer Book, the compulsory use of which created such an uproar throughout Scotland. Charles I.'s Common Prayer and Bible. 1039 The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of The Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England. Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, 1638. The Holy Bible, conteyning the Old Testament and the New. Title within an emblematic woodcut border. Printed at London by Robert Barker, 1639. The Whole Booke of Psalmes. Collected into English Meeter, by Thomas Sternehold, John Hopkins, and others, conferred with the Hebrew, with apt Notes to Sing them withall. London, Printed by E. Griffin and I. Raworthy 1638. {One leaf defective). Together in one volume, small folio, contemporary morocco, gilt leaves. [Sold] *** KING CHARLES I.'s COPY, with his Royal Arms in gold on both covers. Embroidered Binding. 1040 The Book of Common Prayer. London, 1639. The Holy Bible: Containing the Old Testament and the New. London, 1639. The Whole Book of Psalmes, Collected into EngKsh Meeter. London, 1638. Together in one vol., thick small 8vo. English embroidered binding of the time of Charles I., ground work of white satin, on the upper cover is full-length figure of Father Time with his scythe, enclosed in an oval border of silver thread, raised flowers in the corners of coloured silk and silver thread; on the lower cover is a full-length figure of a lady in a blue dress, and holding in right hand a crown, enclosed in an oval border of silver thread, raised flowers in corners of coloured silk and silver thread, the back adorned with raised device of flowers and berries, insect, and bird, in coloured silk and silver thread. £42 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 221 Liturgies (Prayer Books, etc.) — continued. 1 04 1 Book of Common Prayer. A briefe Discourse of the troubles begun at Frankeford in Ger- many, An. Dom. 1554, about the Booke of Common Prayer and Cere- monies; and continued by the Enghshmen there, to the end of Q. Maries Reign. Small 4to, half calf. London^ 1642. 15s The " Sealed Book " of Charles 2ND. 1042 The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church according to the Use of the Church of England, together with the Psalter or Psalms of David. Engraved title, -printed in Black Letter and ruled in red. A Fine Copy in Conte7nporary full morocco, g. e. London, 1662. £6 6s * * * A Large Paper Copy of the " Sealed Book " of Charles 2nd, styled thus by reason of the official copy being sealed with the Great Seal of England, and deposited in the Tower of London. It is the First Edition of the Common Prayer, revised by a Convocation of Clergy, and submitted to the Savoy Conference, and the last in which any alteration was made by public authority. At the end are Special Prayers to be used upon the Fifth day of November (Gun- powder Plot), King Charles Martyr, King Charles 2nd's Birthday and Restoration. Engraved Throughout. 1043 The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, according to the use of the Church of England, together with the Psalter or Psalms of David. Sturt's beautiful Edition, engraved by him on copper plates and illustrated with portraits of George I. and Prince and Princess of Wales, vignette engravings on nearly every page, ornamental border to title and other decorations {as usual lacks the pointer to dial). 8vo. A beautiful copy in contemporary crimson morocco, sides elaborately gold tooled all over (in the style of Mearne), g. e. London, 1717. £6 10s 1044 The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church According to the Use of the Church of England, Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, Pointed as they are to be Sung or Said in Churches. Sturt's beautiful Edition, with exquisite engraving at the head of each page, surrounded by an ornamental border, ornamental initial letters, and with portraits of King George and Prince and Princess of Wales. 8vo. Contemporary English black morocco binding, sides elabo- rately tooled in blind with decoration of floral sprays and circles and semi-circles. London, John Baskett, 17 17. £2 18s 222 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35. Conduit Street, London, W. Liturgies (Prayer Books, etc.) — continued. 3045 The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of the Church of England : Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, Pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches. 8vo. English Early \%th Century binding, black morocco y decorated in the ** Cottage Roof " style, sides completely covered with gold tool- ing composed of curves, circles, stars, dots, and floral ornamentation, gut edges. London, Printed by John Baskett, 1726. £5 5s 1046 The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments,. and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, according to the Use of the Church of England, together with the Psalter or Psalms of David. Thick royal 8vo. A fine copy in contemporary crimson morocco, full gilt back, the sides containing a Cottage Roof design, and elabo- rately decorated zvith vases y leafy scrolls^ birds ^ dogs, etc., g. e. Cambridge, Baskerville, 1760. £25 1047 Confession of Faith; together with the Larger and Lesser Catechismes composed by the Assembly of Divines at Westminster. Small 4to, original calf. (1658.) £1 Is The Commonwealth Prayer Book. 1048 A Directory of the Publike Worship of God throughout the Three King- domes of England, Scotland, and Ireland. Together with an Ordinance of Parliament for the taking away of the Book of Common-Prayer, and for establishing and observing of this present Directory throughout the Kingdom of England, and Dominion of Wales. 46 pp., 4to, unbound. London, March 13, 1646. £2 2s 1049 Henry Ylll. The Primer set furth by the Kinges Majestie & his clergie to be taught lerned and red, & none other to be used thorowout all his Dominions. Imprinted at London by Richard Grafton, XVII August, 1546. Reprinted without any Alteration. Portrait. Post 8vo, original calf, rebacked. Circa 1750. ' 18s 1050 L' Estrange (Hamon). The Alliance of Divine Offices, exhibiting all the Liturgies of the Church of England since the Reformation : as also the late Scotch Service-Book, with all their respective variations. And upon them all Annotations. The Third Edition. To which are added, in this Edition, The Form of Ordination, etc., Additions and Alterations in the Liturgy, etc.. Prayers in the Convocation, Form of Prayer used in K. Ch. Second's Chapel at the Hague, Prayers in the time of an Invasion, Prayers at the Healing. Small folio, original calf. London, 1699, £1 lOs MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 223 Liturgies (Prayer Books, etc.) — continued. 105 I The Orthodox Communicant, by way of Meditation on the Order for the Administration of the Lord's Supper, or Holy Communion. Engraved throughout with vignettes at heady and ornamental borders. Small 8vo, contemporary morocco^ blind tooled. London, J. Sturt^ 1721. £1 15s Original Manuscript. 1^52 Pious Devotions to be used upon several occasions. Written Anno Domini 1645, A very legibly written Original Manuscript on 1 17 leaves, small 8vo, 171 its original binding of full morocco, with the initials L. N . on sides. £5 5s An interesting volume of Private Prayers, prefaced by Poems signed T. N. " Upon this Booke of pious devotions," ''To ye devotte Soule," "On the Authore of these Pious devotions." It concludes with 77 pp. of "Private formes of prayer, fit for these sad times, written in ye yeare 1645." 1053 Queen Elizabeth's Prayer Book. A Booke of Christian Praiers, collected out of the Ancient Writers ; worthy to be read with an earnest minde of all Christians in these dangerous and troublesome times. Full-length woodcut portrait of Queen Elizabeth kneeling, on reverse of title; each page surrounded with wood engravings of the Dance of Death ^ Biblical Scenes, etc. Small 4to, bound by Bedford in full broivn morocco gilt, gilt leaves. London, 1608. £14 I4s 1054 Sarum Manual. Sacra Institutio Baptizandi. Matrimonium Celebrandi, Infirmos Ungendi Mortuos Sepeliendi, ac alii nonnulli Ritus Ecclesias- tici Juxta usum insignis Ecclesia Sarisburiensis. Printed in red and black. Small 4to, original vellum. Duaci, 1604. ^15 ISs * * -jt Very rare. Portions of the Baptism and Marriage Service are in English. The Douay editions of the Manual (of which none appear to have been printed after 1610) were carried into England by disguised priests and seldom escaped destruction when their owners were caught or hunted. Hence they are comparatively more rare than even those of Queen Mary's time — In fact this book was still more obnoxious to the authorities than even the " Missale Parvum " printed at the same time. The ''Idolatrous Ceremonies" which the disguised priests used to perform with th& help of this work, were the most dangerous and detested portions of their labour. 224 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. Liturgies (Prayer Books, etc.) — continued. J 05 5 The Service, Discipline and Forme, of the Common Prayers and Ad- ministration of the Sacraments, used in the English Church of Geneva. As it was approved by that most reverend Divine, M. John Calvin, and the Church of Scotland. Humbly presented to the most High Court of Parliament, this present yeare 1641. Small 4to, new boards, London ^ 164 1. lOs 6d 1506 Liturgical Tracts. Collection of 13 Tracts. 1637-1643. Small thick 4to, original calf. £3 lOs XI) The Holy Table, Name, and Thing more anciently, properly and literally used under the New Testament than that of an altar. (2) A Display of Arminianisme, being a discovery of the old Pelagian Idol Free-will, with the new Goddesse Contingency by John Owen. ^3) The Hypocrite discovered and cured, by Samuel Torshell. • ■(4) The Laws and Statutes of Geneva. (0) The Star to the Wise, 1643; the Lady Eleanor her petition. (6) Satisfaction concerning Mixt Communions ; in answer to the doubts of some, who abstain from the Sacrament of the Lords Supper, because wicked persons are present. Etc., etc., etc. First English Edition of Livy. 1058 LIVY. The Romane Historic written by T. Livius of Padua: also the Breviaries of L. Florus : with a Chronologic to the whole Historic, and the Topographic of Rome in old time: translated out of Latine in English by Philemon Holland. Woodcut portrait. Thick folio, original calf gilt. London^ Printed by Adam Islify 1600. £10 lOs * * * A Sound and Tall Copy of the First English translation of this great Classic. 1059 LLOYD (Robert). The Capricious Lovers. A Comic Opera, as it is per- formed at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane. The Music composed by Mr. Rush. First Edition, "^mo, new boards. London, i'j6^. £1 Is 1060 LOBEIRA (Vasco). Amadis of Gaul, from the Spanish Version of Gar- ciordonez de Montalvo, by Robert Southey. 4 vols., i2mo, old calf. London , 1803. 16s MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 225 1061 LOCKE (John). A Collection of Several Pieces of Mr. John Locke, never before printed, or not extant in his Works. 8vo, original calf^ rebacked. London ^ 1720. £1 lOs 1062 A Letter concerning Toleration. London^ 1689. A Second Letter concerning Toleration. London^ 1690. Both First Editions. Small 4to, new boards. London, 1889-90. £2 lOs 1063 A Letter to the Right Reverend Edward Ld Bishop of Worcester, concerning some Passages relating to Mr. Locke's Essay on Human Understanding; in a late discourse of his Lordship's in Vindication of the Trinity. First Edition. 8vo, original calf. London, 1697. £1 Is 1064 Some Considerations of the Consequences of the Lowenng of Interest and Raising the Value of Money. First Edition. i2mo, original calf. London, 1692. £1 lOs 1065 Two Treatises of Government. In the former the False Prin- ciples and Foundation of Sir Robert Filmer are detected. The latter is an Essay concerning Civil Government. 8vo, original calf. London, 1698. . . 9s 1066 Two Treatises of Government. Another Edition. Portrait. 8vo, full contemporary red morocco. London, 1764. tSS Brand Hollis's copy, with his emblematic designs on the binding. 1067 Posthumous Works, viz.: I. Of the Conduct of the Understanding. II. An Examination of P. Malebranche's Opinion of Seeing all things in God. III. A Discourse of Miracles. IV. Part of a Fourth Letter for Toleration. V. Memoirs relating to the Life of Anthony first Earl of Shaftsbury. To which is added, VI. His New Method of a Common-Place-Book, written originally in French, and now translated into English. First Edition. 8vo, original calf. London, Printed by W . B. for A. and J. Churchill, 1706. £1 226 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. Rebuilding of London after the Fire. T068 LONDON, Broadside. An Act declaring what Streets and straight and narrow Passages within the City of London and Liberties thereof, Ijurnt down in the late dismall Fire, shall be enlarged and made wide, and to what proportion; for notification thereof to the Owners or Parties interested in the Ground to be taken away for the said enlargements. Broadside, printed on one side of two folio sheets, with the Arms of London at head of first sheet. Printed by James Flesher, Printer to the Honourable City of London (1667). £10 10s 1069 Brydall (J.). Camera Regis; or, A Short View of London, con- taining the Antiquity, Fame, Walls, Bridge, River, Gates, Tower, Cathedral, Officers, Courts, Customs, Franchises, etc. 8vo, original calf. London^ 1676. 15s 1 0/0 Charter House. A Relation of the Proceedings at Charter- House, Upon Occasion of KiNG JAMES the IL His presenting a PAPIST To be admitted into that HOSPITAL In Vertue of His Letters Dispen- satory. ^ pp., folio, new boards. London, Printed for Walter Kettilby, at the Bishop' s-Head in St. PauVs Church-Yard, 1689. ^2 2s 1 07 1 The City of London's Plea to the Quo Warranto. An Informa- tion brought against their Charter In Michaelmas Term, 1681. Wherein It will Appear, That the Liberties, Priviledges, and Customs of the said City cannot be Forfeited, or Lost by the Misdemeanor of any Officer or Magistrate thereof. Nor their Charter be Seized into the King's Hands for any Mis-usage or Abusage of their Liberties and Priviledges, they being Confirmed by divers Ancient Records and Acts of Parliament made before and since Magna Charta. Also How far the Commons of the said City have Power of Chusing and Removing their Sheriffs. 31 pp., folio, new boards. London, Printed in the Year 1682. £1 Is 1072 The Replication to the City of London's Plea to the Quo War- ranto brought against their Charter, by Our Sovereign Lord the King In Michaelmas Term, 1681. 13 pp. London, 1682. The Sub-Rejoinder of Mr. Attorney General to the Rejoinder Made on the behalf of the Charter Of the City of London. 1 1 pp. Together in i vol. , folio, neiv boards. London, Printed for 5. Mearne, 1682. £1 1s MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 227 London — continued. 1073 Fire of London. A True and Faithful Account of the Several Informations exhibited to the Honourable Committee appointed by the Parliament to Inquire into the late Dreadful Burning of the City of London, together with other Informations touching the Insolency of Popish Priests and Jesuites and the Increase of Popery brought to the Honourable Committee appointed by the Parliament for that purpose. 35 pp., small 4to, unbound. London^ 1667. ^^ ^S 1074 f*''© o* London. Upon the Rebuilding the City. The Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, and the Noble Company of Batchelors Dining with him, May 5th, 1669. Poem in 4 11. S.L.^ Printed in the Year 1670. i2mo, half bound (the catchwords of 2 11. cropped). £1 lOs 1075 Hall (Rev. Francis). An Examination of the Diall set up in the Kings Garden at London in 1669. In which very many sorts of Dyalls are contained by which besides the Houres of all kinds diversly ex- pressed many things also belonging to Geography, Astrology, and Astronomy are by the Sunnes shadow made visible to the eye, amongst which very many dialls, especially the most curious, are new inventions, hitherto divulged by none. Many curious copperplate engravings. 60 pp., small 4to, unbound. Liege ^ 1673. £3 15s Shakespeare's London. 1076 Londinum Antiqua. This plan shews the Antient extent of the famous Cities of London and Westminster as it was near the beginning of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, by Randulp Aggus, 1578. Large plan, measuring 75 by 36 inches, re-engraved by Vertue and published by Society of Antiquaries, 17 '^y, mounted on linen and folded to Zvo size, in case, half calf. £3 3s * * * Only two copies of the Original Issue of 1578 are known. 1077 Ogilby (John). The Relation of His Majesties Entertainment passing through the City of London, to his Coronation, with a Descrip- tion of the Triumphal Arches and Solemnity. First Edition. Folio, an uncut copy in boards, London, 1661. £2 lOs 22S MAGGS BROS., 34 & 33, Conduit Street, London, W London — continued. Cromwell's War Tax on London. 1078 An Ordinance and Declaration of the Lords and Commons, that the Lord Major and Citizens of the City of London, for the better securing and safety thereof, shall have full power and authority accord- ing to their discretion, to trench, stop, and fortifie all high-waies leading into the said City, as well within the Liberties, as without, as they shall see cause. And for the better effecting thereof, shall impose upon all the Inhabitants within the same, upon every house worth 5I. a yeare six pence, and every house of greater rent after the rate of two pence in the pound. Also, an Ordinance of both houses for an Assessment to be made in the severall Parishes of England for the relief e of maymed Souldiers, Widdows, and Fatherlesse children. 6 pp., small 4to, unbound. London^ 1642. £2 2s 1079 St. Paul's Cathedral. His Majesties Commission giving power to enquire of the Decayes of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul in London, & for the repairing of the same. Smdll 4to, full russia gilt. London, 163 1. £1 14s 1080 St. Paul's Cathedral. Three Poems of St. Paul's Cathedral, viz.. The Ruins, The Rebuilding, The Choire. 12 pp., folio, /lalf morocco. 1697. £1 5s 108 1 Stationers Company, The Charter and Grants of the Company of Stationers of the City of London, now in force, containing an account of the Freemen's Rights & Privileges fairly protliiced and explained in order to ascertain the Authority annexed to the Office of Master & Wardens; an Appendix shewing that the Court of Assistants was imposed upon the Freemen by a charter granted by Charles IL Vost^wo, original calf . London, 1741. 10s 6d 1082 Warrant sent from the Lord Major and' Aldermen, to all the trained Bands in London, and the Liberties thereof. 6 pp., small 4to, new boards, leather label. L^ondon, 1642. £2 2s 1083 — Waterhouse (Edward). A Short Narrative of the late Dreadful Fire in London: Together with certain Considerations remarkable therein, and deducible therefrom; not unseasonable for the Perusal of this Age. Written by way of Letter to a Person of Honour and Virtue. i2mo, original calf. London, Printed by W . G. for Rich. Thrale, 1667. £2 2s MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 229 1084 LORDS (House of). Orders Concerning Mr. Seldens Collection of Records of Precedents touching Nobility made by Order & for the use of the House of Peers. A.D. 1620, 162 1. Original Manuscrij)t signed at foot of the sixth page by WILLIAM COWPER, Clerk of Parliament. 173I. Folio. English i^th Century binding y crimson morocco y elaborate decoration in centre of both covers in delicate gold toolingy gold dentelle border consisting of crownSy roses y thistlesy shamrocky crosseSy and floral sprays y g. e. £12 lOs King George IIIrd's Copy. 1085 Remembrances for Order and Decency to be kept in the Upper House of Parliament by the Lords when His Majesty is not there. . . Leaving the Solemnity belonging to His Majesty's coming to be Mar- shall' d by those Lords to whom it more properly . . . appertains. Contemporary Manuscript neatly written on 163 pages and ruled with red lines. 8vo. Contemporary binding of crimsin morocco y gold -panel sides y with floral ornamentation y and in centre the Royal Arms of King George Ill.y full gilt backy gilt edges. Circa 1767. £3 3s King George HIrd's Copy. . 1086 Standing Orders from 1660 to 1814. Manuscript. Thick 8vo, contemporary red morocco gilty with Arms of King George III. on sides y g. e. 15s 1087 LOREDANO (G. F.; a Noble Venetian). The Ascents of the Soul; or, David's Mount towards God's House, being Paraphrases on the Fifteen Psalms of Degrees; rendered into English. With brilliant impression of the frontispiece by Faithorney contain- ing portrait and a view of Venice. Londony 168 1. La Scala Santa; or, a Scale of Devotions, Musical and Gradual; in metre, with the Music. Engraved frontispiece. Londony 168 1. In one vol., folio. Fine Copy bound by Pratt y full dark blue morocco y gilt edges. 168 1. £10 lOs 1088 LOTTERIES. An Elegaick Essay upon the Decease of the Groom- Porter and the Lotteries. FoHo, new boards. London^ 1700. lOs 6d 230 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 1089 LOVE (James, Comedian). Cricket, an Heroic Poem, illustrated with the Critical Observations of Scriblerus Maximus, to which is added An Epilogue, caird Bucks Have at Ye AIL Spoken by Mr. King, at the Theatre Royal in Dublin in the character of Ranger in the Suspicious Husband. First Edition. Small 4to, unbound and uncut. London^ Printed for the Author^ i77o. £5 5s " The following little Poem . . . may serve to entertain the true lovers of Cricket, by a Recollection of many Particulars, at a time when the game was cultivated with the utmost assiduity, and patroniz'd by the personal appearance and management of some of the most capital people in the Kingdom." (Preface.) 1090 LOVEDAY (Robert). Hymen's Praeludia; or. Love's Master-Piece. Being that So-much Admired Romance, intituled Cleopatra. In twelve parts. 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The History of, the Moderne Protestant Divines. Containing their Parents, Countries, Education, Studies, Lives, & the yeare of our Lord in which they dyed. With a true register of all their severall Treatises, & Writings that are extant, faithfully translated out of Latine by D. L. Engraved title in compartments, also 45 portraits, including Eras- mus, Melanchthon, Luther, Calvin, Beza, Bale^ Tindall, Foxe, etc., etc. Small 8vo, original calf . London, 1637. £3 36 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 231 1094 LYLIE (John). Euphues. The Anatomy of Wit. Verie pleasant for all Gentlemen to reade, and most necessarie to remember. Wherein are contained the delights that Wit foUoweth in his youth, by the pleasant- ness of Love : and the happinesse he reapeth in age, by the perfectnes of wisedome. London, 161 3. ' Euphues and his England. Containing his voiage and adventures: Mixed with sundry pretty discourses of honest love, the description of the Country, the Court, and the manners of the lie. Delight full to be read, and nothing hurt full to be regarded : where- in there is small offence by lightnesse given to the wife, and lesse occa- sion of loosenes proffered to the wanton. London, 1609. 2 vols, in I, small 4to. A Magnificent Copy in the original vellum binding. London, Printed for William Leake. £42 *** ''Numerous passages have been pointed out in Shakespeare's plays as proofs of his extensive indebtedness to Lyly's 'Euphues' for sentiments and phrases. Polonius's advice to Laertes is borrowed from Euphues's advice to Philantus, but many other parallels for it might be found. It is more certain that Shakespeare ridiculed Lyly's style in his earliest comedy, Love's Labour's Lost, and accurately caricatured its vapid artificiality in Falstaff's remark, ' Though the camomile, the more it is trodden on the faster it grows, yet youth, the more it is wasted the sooner it wears.' '' Shakspere, too, may have been indebted to ' Euphues ' for many of his notions abqut such birds and animals as pelicans, ostriches, crocodiles, basilisks, and scorpions. Mr. Rushton, in his book ' Shakspeare's Euphuism ' brings forward more than a hundred passages in the plays on various subjects, taken, more or less directly, from Lyly's work, though many of them are proverbs and allusions such as might have occurred to both writers independently. The better-known animals that Lyly intro- duces, both in ' Euphues ' and in his dramatic works, are almost always mixed up with some absurd superstitions or wild exaggeration, and in these too he is followed by Shakspere. ** It is cited, too, by Douce in his 'Illustrations' of 'The Merchant of Venice'." — (Shakespeareana) . 1095 Euphues the Anatomie of Wit. Corrected and Augmented. London, Printed by John Haviland, 1636. Euphues and His England. London, John Haviland, 1636. Together both parts in i vol., small 4to, handsomely bound by Riviere in full levant morocco extra, g. e. £28 " ' Euphues ' is a story, relating the adventures, correspondence, and conversations of a young gentleman of Athens, who gives his name to the work, and of his friend Philautus, a native of Naples. The young men are engaged in the pursuit of a strictly moral training. Tne scene of the first part is laid in Naples, that of the (Continued over) 232 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. Lyiie (John) — continued. second part in England. There is practically no action, and the author mainly dis- cusses educational or religious problems, love, and the proper conduct of life. The section on education, called * Euphues and his Euphoebus,' is directly borrowed from Plutarch on ' Education.' When treating of England, the author introduces some shrewd comments on the extravagances of his contemporaries' fashions of dress. But the leading interest of the book lies in its prose style, which is chiefly charac- terised by a continuous straining after antithesis and epigram. Lyly, when enforc- ing his sententious moralisings, delights in long series of short parallel sentences, all in the same syntactical form, and embodying fantastic similes drawn from natural history or classical mythology. Pliny's * Natural History ' appears to have supplied him with many of his illustrations, as Plutarch supplied him with much of his sentiment. He had at the same time an ear for alliteration, and was liberal in the use of the rhetorical question." — (D.N.B.) 1096 LYTTELTON (George, Lord). Poetical Works. Finely printed at the Foulis Press. Folio, calf gilL Glasgow, Andrew Faults, lySy. £1 12s 6(1 Printed by Wynkyn de Worde. 109; LYNDEWODE (Wilhelmus). Constitutiones Provinciales Ecclesie Anglicae. Gothic Letter. First leaf with title and a woodcut of Lindwood, full length, in his -pontificals , with a pastoral staff in his hand, and Caxton^s device (used by Wynkyn de Worde) on last page. Small 8vo, full morocco with wide and elaborately gold tooled den- telle, by Clarke. Westminster^ Wynkyn de Worde, In domo Caxston, 1496. £225 * * * A very fine copy of this exceedingly rare book, with wide margins, the blank margins of four or five leaves mended, touching two or three words. 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