v^.^ -(rM TWO HUNDRED EXTRAORDINARILY IMPORTANT BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS AND AUTOGRAPH LETTERS 2B-mD ON SALE BY J. (PEARSON & CO. 5, PALL MALL PLAGE, LONDON, S.W. TtUgraphic and Cable Addreis : " Parabola, London " ALL THE CONTENTS OF THIS CATALOGUE ARE ENTIRELY FREE OF DUTY THE HISTORY OF AERONAUTICS AND AVIATION Messrs. J. Pearson and Co. have for disposal a Monumental and unquestion- ably Unique Library relative to the History of Aeronautics and Aviation. It comprises 68 volumes (bound in 67). There are: (i) No less than 143 Original Drawings, Pictorial Illustrations both coloured and uncoloured (many being of extreme rarity) and early notices of balloon ascents; the whole being carefully inlaid and mounted in a folio volume. (2) Two volumes of Autograph Letters of famous Aeronauts and original accounts of balloon ascents: (3) Medal commemorating the success of the Brothers Montgolfier in bronze, 1783, and 3 Trade Tokens, in bronze, with representations of balloons. (4) A collection of 65 volumes (bound in 64) relative to Aeronautics and Aviation, comprising THE FIRST Book ever Published Containing an Illustration of an Air-Ship and five books printed before the invention of Balloons in 1783. The books date from 1670 to 1890, and therefore illustrate the History for over 200 years of Man's Battle with the Air. Many of the volumes in this Library were unknown to the foremost French authority and bibliographer upon this subject — Monsieur Tissandier. The most important work in the history of ballooning — that of Faujas de St. Fond (including the extremely rare second volume) is comprised, and so is also the first Dutch edition of this famous work. Besides, there are — the rare Account of the First Aerial Voyage made in England (accomplished by Lunardi) — the copy in this Collection is signed by the intrepid aeronaut; the book con- taining the first account of the first aeronaut killed in a Montgolfier balloon, also the first account of the first attempt to cross the Channel from the Continent, and a presentation copy of the extremely rare work by Garribo. Besides the above there is a complete set of the EXCESSIVELY Rare Bal- LON-Poste — a news-sheet which was published during the Siege of Paris in 1870-71, and was carried by balloon to residents outside Paris. The Original Drawings comprise an extremely beautiful (1783) miniature painting (signed) of MM. Charles and Robert's (the first to ascend in a balloon) descent into the grounds of the Due de Chartres. The pictorial engravings comprise many of extreme rarity (before 1800) and the equally rare early caricatures. The whole Collection is most appropriately and uniformly bound in half green morocco e.xtra. The complete illustrated catalogue will be sent to intending purchasers. The price of the entire collection is ;^8oo. / .' fallow LESIUS(A.). ORDO DISTRIBUTIONIS SACRA- MENTI ALTARIS sub utraque specie, et formula confessionis faciendae in Regno Angliae. Haec Lon- dini evulmta stmt octavo die Martii anni m.d.xlviii. 12 mo. Morocco. [Wolfgang Gunter, Leipzig?) 1548 This tiny Anglican volume is so excessively rare that but one other copy is known to us — that in the British Museum. The Order of Communion under both kinds was the first publication of Edward's reign in the direction of the reformation of the Church of England Liturgy. It was drawn up, apparently at Windsor, by a committee of twenty-four, and was the outcome of the Parliamentary action of the previous year. The first part of the book is taken up with the King's edict, which is followed by the notice of communion addressed by the " Pastor " to the congregation. The second and more important part contains the form of service for Communion under both kinds, after the communion of the priest, for the laity assembled before the altar, and concludes with a special blessing at dismissal. The epilogue to the book is signed A.A.S.D.Th., standing for Alexander Alesius Scotus Doctor Theologiae. This eminent reformer was born in Edinburgh in 1500, and edu- cated at St. Andrews, where he showed strong bias against the reformation. Of the original English book of March 1548 there were at least three variant editions, all printed by Grafton, and copies of all three are in the British Museum. The more extreme of the reformers, like Cranmer, were anxious to obtain the opinion of the most eminent foreign reformers on the new service, and since many of the latter had not sufficient knowledge of English, this Latin version was made and published for their benefit. At the end of March, Coverdale, in a letter to Calvin, stated that having seen the book he had " forthwith translated it into German and Latin " and suggested that it should be printed, but whether this was ever done is not known. Very probably it was forestalled by this version of Alesius. How important a position he held amongst the authorities of the period is well shown in the words of Dr. Weston, who, arguing at Oxford in 1554, said: "A runagate Scot did take away the adoration or worshipping of Christ in the sacrament, by whose procurement that heresy was put into the last com- munion book, so much prevailed that one man's authority at that time." 1 2 139S7 J. Pearson & Co. 2 AINSWORTH (W. H.). THE ORIGINAL HOLOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT DRAFT of his famous novel CHETWYND CALVE RLEY, covering 2,9^ pages, 410. Red tnorocco. This, the Original Holograph Draft (which comprises about three-fourths of the finished work), is entirely different from the published book. Some of the pages have been re-written by Ainsworth no less than three times; quite a number have been written twice. ^125 3 THE UNDESCRIBED ISSUE OF THE FIRST EDITION BACON (FRANCIS). THE HISTORIE OF THE RAIGNE OF KING HENRY THE SEVENTH. Engraved portrait of Henry VII by John Payne. Folio. London Printed by IV. Stansby for W. Lownes and W. Barrett. 1622. The extremely rare (and hitherto undescribed) First issue of the First Edition, con- taining many differences from the ordinary First impressions. A superlatively fine copy in the original calf binding. There are very many differences of spelling, and in the founts of the italics. In very numerous instances the italic capitals A, B, C, E, H, I, K, S, T, W, Y differ, and in the small italic types the final e, n and st vary. And in a few cases words which are printed in italics in the present issue are printed in roman type in the ordinary issue. The differences in spelling are chiefly in that of " he" and " be." This extremely important volume is rendered additionally valuable because of the insertion of an original letter, signed and subscribed by King Henry VII, addressed to his brother-in-law Louis XII of France. It is dated " From our town of Redying [Reading] nth October." This precious letter is of great historical importance and interest. After the usual compliments Henry acknowledges letters dated from Blois 20th September last. Henry notes that Louis has informed his squire of the body, Mathieu Basgnier, now Ambassador in France, of various reports that have reached him, though he does not believe them, and wonders that the Sieur de la Guntuze should so often send such reports which are but lies. It is not the first time he has tried to cause dissension between them. Henry rejoices that Louis declares that he does not, and never will, believe them, he has written more fully to the Ambassador. He thanks Louis cordially for warning him of these reports and for the honourable reception and favours bestowed on his Ambassador. Pall Mall Place Signed and subscribed in the King's autograph, "Your good and loyal Brother Henry R." Below are given the differences between the two issues — the first column as printed in the undescribed issue and the second column as in the ordinary issue: Page 7- Hee other issue He. 9- as it seemeth )) In brackets. 10. Uncle No bracket after " law ". )i Unckle. II. Hee )> He. Enemies 9) Enimies. Hee >■ He. Some italics in a different fount. 12. Eyther J> Either. Hee >l He. 13- Hee If He. Councell )» Counfell. Some italics in a different fount. 14. mercie » mercy. '5- Maior » Major. 16. Entrie 1) Entry. 17- assaile II assayle. hee »l he. 18. Lord II Lord. Duke » Duke. Ladie II Lady. Traitors II Traytors. Arthuh II Arthur. Britaines 11 Brittaines. 19- Hee (on 1. 2) II He(onl. i). Physi-cians (on 11 . 2 & 3) l» Physicians (on 1. 2). Wee II We. 20. Conceits II Conceipts. 21. bee II be. Shee II She. 22. foorth II forth. Councell II Counfell. hee II he. 23- bee II be. hee II he. neare II neere. sailed II sayled. councellors II counjellors. Earle II Earle. J. Pearson & Co. Page 23. Earles Other issue Earles. .. 24- Duke 11 Duke. hee »> he. .. 31- Weft II West. » 33- Party II Partie. ,. 44- King II King. .. 45- King 11 King. „ 49- beeing ji being. hee u he. Brittaine n Britaine. bee u be. „ 50- bee n be. hee n he. ,. SI- hee 11 he. ,. 52- retaineth 11 retayneth. Pages 52 to 61. Printed in italic type. Many letters differ. Page 62. Force other issue Forces. hee 11 he. >. 65. hee 11 he. „ 66. bee II be. 1, 69. hee 11 he. ,. 71- hee 1) he. ,, 72- Inch- 11 Inclo- ., 75- Justices II st different fount, ,, 76. Wools 11 Woolls. „ 78. hee II he. ,, 79- hee 11 he. bee 11 be. „ 82. Hee II He. voide 11 Void. ,, 85. hee 11 he. „ 86. hee II he. bee II be. » 89. bee II be. hee II he. ,. 90- hee 11 he. ,, 91- bee II be. 1. 92. hee 11 he. unto II u different fount. .. 93- hee 11 he. he II e different fount. answere II a}is7iier. his n is different fount. King II King. Pall Mall Place >g 6 93- resi other issue St differs. somwhat >> somewhat. 11. 25-27 many differences of type, n 94- bee I) be. }j 97- there »j where. bee ji be. )» 99. hee }) he. )» lOO. bee i» be. hee )i he. Parliamant )> Parliament. Chancellours )) Chancellors. i> lOI. hee ») he. Strengthening ji Strengthning. j» I02. beeing 11 being. hee u he. failed >* fayled. ii I03- hee n he. Englishmen i» English-men. » 105. lose »» loose. hee M he. Ostentation }t St different fount. )) 107. warre »j Warre. Justing )) St different fount. hee 1) he. 11 108. sawe ») saw. n 109. hee recovered }) he had recovered. blowe l» blow. 11 no. Excester n Excester. » III. The first half of page does not correspond line for line, but text same except Tearmes other issue Termes. » 116. raysed )i raised. 1) 120. Monarchs ») Monarches. n 123. foorth ** forth. }} 126. Heerein ji Herein. » 139- sundry II sundrie. t) 143- seizing 11 seazing. defense II defence. )) 145- Successors II Successours. )} 146. beene 11 been. 1) 147. Councell II CounJ'ell. )) 150. heere II here. mee II me. )» •52. Henrie II Henry. J, Pearson & Co. Page 152. moued „ 156- Duke ef „ 158. al ,, 160. sodainly „ 161. Fktniih » i64' doo duty Countrey Archbishoppe Skreens ,. 165. antient Familie Salisburie fansying „ 166. Abekgavennie „ 169. Battels .. 171- peeces ,, 173- Smoak Wars Councell ,> 175- Patriots " 179- a-peece imbouldened beganne „ 181. Wals „ 184. Pitie Councell >. 195- Playes „ 196. Katharine „ 198. hearty ao enuied » 203. fare „ 204. Wherof .. 205- Katherine „ 216. Vacabonds other issue mooued. )] Duke of. 1) all. >i suddenly. 1) Flernmish. » doe. i> dutie. 1) Countrie. i> Archbishop. II Skreenes. II Ancient Family. II Salisbury. 11 fancying. II Abergavennie. II Battaiks. 11 pieces. II Smoake. II IVarres. II Cmtnsell. II Patriotes. II apiece. I] imboldened. II began. 11 Walles. II Pittie. 11 Counsell. II Plates. II Katherin. II harty. II to. 11 enuyed. II faire. 11 whereof. II Katherin. It Vagabonds. £^so BACON (FRANCIS). OPERUM MORALIUM ET CIVIL- lUM TOMUS. Qui continet Historiam Regni Henrici Septimi. Sermones Fideles. Tractatum de Sapientia Veterum. Dialogum de Bello Sacro. Et Novam Atlantidem. Curd et Fide Guilielmi Raw- in jjlr'^^n^ / Jbf^'i •jiw^ / '^ l^jj^y^^^l^ M&^^ n^r^iZ^ >J ^y*-n-'i^ V*^-x r y ^^ ,'^y.^jf/^cy^f//-i^<. «^).V^*^ /Crt**<-^»^^='~''i*-V^»*-**-' .,Xy^ yi^uS C^/}^^^^ tn^'-*^ "-^-^J^-;/^,. :K-^'<^^«:^'S-?'Z^ "•, 7«^-^y /. .• / .\fn.^/' jO-^^ -. ^/^^^,--*^ /jrts^^^' tfSjlC^^^^ / %^^ X'.J/ .SA^^ *^ £. ^-^ if^^ 5, Pall Mall Place 7 ley. . . . In hoc volumine, iterem excusi, includuntur Tractatus de Augmentis Scientiarum. Historia Ventorum. Historia Vitae et Mortis, LARGE PAPER, calf extra, line tooled with fleurons, g. e. by F. Bedford. Folio. Excusum typis Edwardi Griffini, etc. 1638. A superb large paper copy of the Editio Princeps of his " Works." 5 BACON (FRANCIS). The Two Bookes of, OF THE PROFICI- ENCE AND ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING, DIVINE AND HUMANE. To the King. 410. Original gilt vellum. At London, Printed for Henrie Tomes, and are to be sould at his shop at Graies Inne Gate in Holborne, 1605. First Edition. A fine, large, and unwashed copy. It measures 7I by sf inches. 6 BEETHOVEN (LUDWIG VON). HOLOGRAPH LETTER, signed, 4 pages, 4to. " Der ganze musikalisch wichtige und interessante Brief handelt uber sein Werk Variationen fiir Klavier 'avec un violon obligate.' Anfang: Lieber, Bester! Gestern Abend erhielt ich meine Variationen, Sie waren mir wahrhaftig ganz fremd geworden, und das freut mich, es ist mir ein Beweis, dass meine Composition nicht ganz alltaglich ist. — Unterschrift: Ihr Sie verehrender Freund Ludwig v. Beethoven." — Meyer-Cohn Collection. .^120 See Illustration 7 BEETHOVEN (LUDWIG VON). THE ORIGINAL HOLO- GRAPH MANUSCRIPT of the first draft of his " Tyroler Lied" " Wenn ich in der Fruh' aufsteh'." Written for voice, piano, violin, and violoncello. 2 pages, oblong folio. " Diese Skizze liefert den Beweis, dass Beethoven den Gedanken hegte auch deutsche Volkslieder so zu bearbeiten, wie er zahlreiche schottische, irische und wallisische 8 J. Pearson & Co. Volkslieder bearbeitet halte. Die Aufschrift zu dieser Skizze ist von Anton Schlinders Hand, ebenso wie die unten auf der ersten Seite befindlichen VVorte: ' Autographe de Beethoven constat*? par A. Schindler. Souvenir a Monsieur Alexandre Thayer de Boston. Jede einzelne Seite des Manuscripts enthalt 3 ftinfreihige Systeme, die bis auf das letzte System vollstandig beniitzt sind." From the Thayer Collection. -^100 8 FROM TASSO'S LIBRARY. BEMBO (PIERRE). LE PROSE (rivedute da Varchi). Folio. Venice, 1525. This most precious copy of the great Italian poet Bembo's works, is annotated throughout by Tasso. The present famous volume was in Tasso's possession whilst he was imprisoned in the Hospital of Saint Anne between the years 1579 and 15S6, and literally every leaf is enriched with his manuscript notes and annotations. This splendid manuscript relic of the great Italian poet passed from the possession of Professor Rossini (Tasso's biographer) to George Hibbert, from Hibbert's world-famous library into that of Sir William Tite, and finally to the late Mrs. Singleton (better known under her tiom de plume of " Violet Fane "). The volume is in its old binding just as Tasso handled it, but preserved in a morocco case. This important Tasso manuscript has never been publis/ied. ;^200 9 BEZA'S OWN COPY OF HIS PSALMS. BEZA (THEODORE). LES PSAUMES DE DAVID, mis en rime Francoise par Clement Marot et Theodore de Beza, avec la prose en marge. Woodcut title. Old Lyonnese calf, with elaborate tooling in gold, with the initials T. B. {Theodore Beza) in the centres of each cover; gilt leaves. 12 mo. Geneve, A. Rivery, 1576. A unique and most precious volume. It is Theodore Beza's own copy of his version of the Psalms. In addition to his initials on the binding the volume also contains his autograph inscription at end — " Theodorus Beza Genuae scripsi VI. Martii anno ultima Dei et Servatoris nostri Domini Patientiae 1597. Qui Deum reveretur quid merito reformidet." The provenance of this little book could not well be more interesting from the share 5, Pall Mall Place which Beza had in the authorship — especially as the volume, besides being inscribed by Beza, was bound for him. This extremely interesting volume was afterwards in the library of Heber, and has his library stamp on a fly-leaf at the end of the volume. From Heber's library it passed into that of M. Lort, who has written his name inside the front cover and added the following: " This was Beza's own copy; see his name at the end, and ye initials of it on ye cover. T. B." lO BEZA (THEODORE). A. I. s., 2 pages, folio, Geneva, 8 March 1594, to Dr. James Grynaeus, pastor of the Church at Basle. (Abstract.) " I doubt not you think of us day and night, but there is nothing fresh worth writing of in my recent affairs. We had a fair on the 2 2d much thronged from the neighbourhood. Yesterday the envoy of this republic after a year's absence returned from France, and announced to us thatBourges, Amiens, and other cities of Picardy, through which the Spaniards if they invade France will have to pass, have treated with the King. The people of Lyons, where there having been a tumult, one among the French, a Spaniard killed and 4 men wounded, the citizens were divided into 4 factions and swords were drawn, having by consent of the greater number suddenly agreed on obedience to the King [Henry IV], have deprived five of their chief magistrates because they seemed to favour conspiracy, of authority, and threw the badges of their conspiracy into the bonfires, which were lighted to testify their joy. Which example there is great hope of the rest of France following. The King himself scarcely acts after right counsel, yet uses the prudence and moderation which commend him to all, and in letters written by his own hand has testified his good will totvards me. But his sister [Catharine de Navarre] continues in the profession of the truth and, from letters shown to me by our envoy, she will never depart from the true religion in which she has been educated. By the King's command the ministers of the church have been summoned out of all the provinces and many nobles whom they thought were good catholics. There is to be in July a general synod of the French churches for their union in doctrine and discipline and common defense, at Montauban, to which other churches outside our confession are to be invited. The enemy of our peace is gathering supplies at Milan, with intentions as to Lyons or ourselves. Continue to love us and pray for us. Geneva . 8 . March . 1594. " Thine Beza." 1 1 BYBLE (THE) in | Englyshe, that is to say the con- | tent of all the holy scrypture, bothe | of ye olde and newe testament, truly | translated after the veryte of the | Hebrue and Greke textes, by ye c lo [. Pearson & Co. dy- I lygent studye of dyverse excellent | learned men, expert in the forsayde | tonges. | Folio. Very cwious woodcut border to title, representing Henry VIII, Cranmer, and Cromwell, distrihding copies of the Holy Script^ires. Title printed in red and black. TBlflCfe iLCttCt- Brown morocco. Prynted by Richard Grafton <2f | Edioard Whitchurch. \ Cum privilegio ad imprimai- \ dum solum. 1539. Printed partly in Farts and partly in London. This is the hopelessly rare and exceedingly important .F/W/ .£■« K«.-,.. ^.v-wli v^^v. Vv>.<.f';'— Xn..i>< v*~-'-> ~.1V«-X«, J.K.-i. -k -.,K IK.^ ).,,l,l. ,;. t,...K , ^,1 II. c?,. ,t, ',13 N.V.V KkW 1V.'. «-«. «taK -1.- IVJIV. 1. ««lll I TVvtiij^ n. a. ^.K^ i-tC. 1# ^K»y ■* ^^\ Uj ).k4 ../'■''■".*• — .*- W. -»..,» K,— -V.X. K. ..w, u.K*.,\. ... ». A*v^ .K4 ..t.t»<.' pK»(— .*,J JK,, w:U.j.» -!>- >w. (I. K,u .,,4 iv.V, »H.. i«.»> ..,,, .v'. v^.i.,,u. J.V.— Kv. e.,.— l..i\l, V» Jl.4'-r9<} ■K* ,. Ko. ».,K- . j^iil. '■ ►•^ r:-"/i, "—>•■>•» .-«.^<■■.~K^u' -K-..V „k'..k u ».,. i5 "~m>;^^imimmkj- — -» f..«a^ v4i.u.v... ^ii^.v.,.^ ,. .,^, „, . i,„A„i ^,^ PAIklCK l;kAN\Vl:l,I, r.UdNTK '9 5, Pall Mall Place 17 CHARLOTTE BRONTE TO ELLEN NUSSEY BRONTE (CHARLOTTE). The series of fifty-one very important holograph Letters, addressed principally to her most intimate friend, Ellen Nussey. Other letters are to her father, her brother (P. Branwell Bronte) and Messrs. Smith and Elder (her publishers). The majority of these letters are of considerable length, and of the most private nature. In addition to the letters there is a manuscript of Emily Bronte (who died young), and three manuscripts of P. Branwell Bronte. This correspondence shows seven different signatures of Charlotte Bronte, and really constitutes a most valuable Biography of Charlotte and the Bronte family. The whole inlaid to a ziniform size, folio, and bound in brown tnorocco extra, gilt leaves. Probably the finest Bronte collection in existence. Fuller particulars on application. See Illustration ;^500 20 BURNS AND "CLARINDA" BURNS (ROBERT). HOLOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED " SYLVANDER," 6h pages, 4to. One of the most famous of the much discussed letters to Clarinda (Mrs. M'Lehose). It appears as No. 12 in " Burns and Clarinda correspondence," 1843. This extremely long and most important letter differs from the published version given in Paterson's edition, Burns' Works (vol. v, page 20). There, brackets are added where they are not, sentences transposed, the spelling altered here and there and in one instance, the word " former " is used for " last." A footnote (in the " Burns and Clarinda Correspondence "), alluding to the postscript of this letter states that the " lines which followed have been torn off the original MS." This was done by Clarinda herself. Also McLEHOSE (MRS.). HOLOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED "CLARINDA." 3 pages, 4to. To Burns. This letter is No. i8 in the above-named volume of correspondence. D i8 j. Pearson & Co. Here again this original differs from the version as published. The printed version omits inverted commas in two instances, "will" is used for "shall," three words are omitted, brackets left out, one sentence entirely misconstructed and the words: "I figure you in a state of celibacy," transcribed " I forgive you in a state of celibacy." BURNS TO CLARINDA. "You are right, my dear Clarinda: a friendly correspondence goes for nothing, except one write their undisguised sentiments — Yours please me for their intrinsic merit, as well as because they SiTe yours; which I assure (you), is to me a high recommendation. Your religious sentiments. Madam, I revere. — If you have, on some suspicious evidence, from some lying oracle, — learnt that I despise or ridicule so sacredly important a matter as real Religion, you have, my Clarinda, much misconstrued your friend. — ' I am not mad, most noble Festus.' Have you ever met a perfect character? Do we not sometimes rather exchange faults than get rid of them? For instance; I am perhaps tired with and shocked at a life, too much the prey of giddy inconsistencies — and thoughtless follies; by degrees I grow sober, prudent and statedly pious — I say statedly, because the most unaffected devotion is not at all inconsistent with my first character — I join the world in con- gratulating myself in the happy change. But let me pry more narrowly into this affair; have I, at bottom, anything of a secret pride in these endowments and emendations? have I nothing of a Presbyterian sourness, a hypercritical severity when I missed all those nameless and numberless modifications of indistinct selfishness, which are so near our own eyes that we can scarce bring them within our sphere of vision, and which the known spotless cambric of our character hides from the ordinary Observer? "My definition of Worth is short: Truth and Humanity respecting our fellow creatures; Reverence and Humility in the presence of that Being, my Creator and Pre- server, and who, I have every reason to believe, will one day be my Judge. — The first part of my definition is the creature of unbiassed Instinct ; the last is the child of after Reflection. — Where I found these two essentials; I would gently note, and slightly men- tion any attendant flaws — flaws, the marks, the consequences of Human nature. " I can easily enter into the sublime pleasures that your strong imagination and keen sensibility must derive from Religion, particularly if a little in the shade of misfortune; but I own I cannot without a marked grudge, see Heaven totally engross so amiable so charming a woman as my friend Clarinda; and should be very well pleased at a circum- stance that would put it in the power of Somebody happy Somebody, to divide her atten- tion, with all the delicacy and tenderness of an earthly attachment. "You will not easily persuade me that you have not a grammatical knowledge of the English language. — So far from being inaccurate, you are elegant beyond any woman of my acquaintance, except one whom I wish you knew. " Your last verses to me have so delighted me, — that I have got an excellent old Scots air — that suits the measure, and you shall see them in print in the ' Scots musical Museum' a work publishing by a friend of mine in this town. — I want four stanzas; you gave me but three, and one of them alluded to an expression in my former letter; so I Aa ^^^'j^'-^^^'^vn^, iy^cjJJ- iyy\s^ -cA)/y^' ^ij^' /rn^Ajtf /^^^ 6\?i^fncL '>/i^y^\ *^^>n«- ^ i^^i^'^-y v^" ^v\' /tT >vv\ t , ^4^ c/^/^ rX/t r '^ f* r>^— 5, Pall Mall Place 19 have taken your two first verses with a slight alteration in the second, and have added a third, but you must help me to a fourth. Here they are: the latter half of the first stanza would have been worthy of Sappho; I am in raptures with it — " ' Talk not of Love, it gives me pain, For Love has been my foe: He bound me with an iron chain, And sunk me deep in woe. But Friendship's pure and lasting joys My heart was form'd to prove: There, welcome win and wear the prize. But never talk of Love. — Your Friendship much can make me blest, O, why that bliss destroy ! Why urge the odious (only) one request, You know I must (will) deny! ' "The alteration in the 2nd st. is no improvement, but there was a slight inaccuracy in your rhyme. The 3rd. I only offer to your choice, and have left two words for your determination. The air is ' The banks of Spey ' and is most beautiful. " Tomorrow evening I intend taking a chair and paying a visit at Park Place to a much valued old friend. If I could be sure of finding you at home, and I will send one of the chairmen to call, I would spend from five to six o'clock with you, as I go passt. — I cannot (say) more at this time, as I have something on my hand (tha)t hurries me much. — I propose giving you the first (ca)ll, my old friend the second, and Miss Nimmo as (I) return home. — Do not break any engagement for me, as I will spend another evening with you at any rate before I leave town. " Do not tell me that you are pleased when your friends inform you of your faults. — I am ignorant what they are; but I am sure they must be such evanescent trifles, com- pared with your personal and mental accomplishments, that I would despise the ungener- ous, narrow soul who would notice any shadow of imperfections you may seem to have, any other way than in the most delicate, agreeable rallery. " Coarse minds are not aware how much they injure the keenly feeling tie of bosom friendship, when in their foolish officiousness — they mention what nobody cares for recollecting. — People of nice sensibility and generous minds have a certain intrinsic dignity that fires at being trifled with, or lowered, or even (too) nearly approached. "You need make no apology for long letters: I am even with you. — Many Happy New Years to you charming Clarinda! I can't dissemble were it to shun perdition. — He who sees you as I have done and does not love you, deserves to be damn'd for his stupidity. He who loves you and would injure you deserves to be doubly damn'd for his villainy ! Adieu ! " 20 J. Pearson & Co. CLARINDA TO BURNS. " I could not see you Sylvander, the' I twice travers'd the Square — I'm persuaded you saw not me neither — I met the young Lady I meant to call for first and returned to seek another acquaintance's — but found her mov'ti — all the time my Eye soar'd poetic heights, alias Garrets — but not a Glimpse of you could I obtain ! You surely was within the Glass at least — I return'd — finding my ' intrinsic dignity ' a good deal hurt — as I miss'd my Friend perhaps, I shall see you again next week — say how high you are. " Thanks for your enquiry about my child — his complaints are of a tedious kind — and require patience and Resignation — Religion has taught me both — by nature I inherit as little of them as a certain harrum scarrum Friend of mine — in what respects has Clarinda ' Converted you '? tell me. It were an arduous task indeed! — 'Your Ravings ' last night and your ambiguous remarks upon them, I cannot (nor perhaps ot4ght not) to comprehend — I am your Friend Sylvander take care, least Virtue demand ev'n Friendship as her sacrifice. You need not curse the ' tye of human laws ' — since what is the Happiness Clarinda wou'd derive from being Loosed? at present she Enjoys the hope of having Her Children provided for — in the other Case — She is left indeed at Liberty — but half dependant on the Bounty of a Friend . . . and who are the generous, the disinterested who "1"^ meet the world's ' dread Laugh ' — to protect her 3mA her little ones? perhaps a Sylvander like son of Whim and Fancy might (in a sudden fit of Romance) — but wou'd not Ruin be the Consequence? — perhaps one of the former — but if he was — not dearer to her than all the world — such are still her Romantic ideas she could not be His. " You see Sylvander, you have no Cause to regret my Bondage — the above is a true picture — have I not Reason to rejoice that I have it not in my power to dispose of myself, 'I commit myself into thy hands thou Supreme disposer of all Events! Do with me as seemeth thee good!' — who is this one Male Friend? I know your third Female. — Ah! Sylvander! many 'that are first shall be last' and vice versa. I am proud of being com- pared to Miss Chambers — I've heard how amiable she is. She cannot be more so than Miss N(immo) why not 'Register her also.' . . . She is warmly your Friend. Sure you are incapable of ingratitude? She has almost wept to me at mentioning your intimacy with a certain famous or infamous Man in Town — do you think Clarinda would anger you just now? I composed lines address'd to you sometime ago — containing a hint upon the occasion — I had not courage to send them then — if you say you'll not be angry I will yet. " I know not how 'tis but I feel an irresistible impulse to write you, the moment I read yours — I have a design in it — part of your interest in me, is owing to mere novelty — You'll be tired of my Correspondence ere you leave town — and will never /a^/; to write me from the Country — I figure you in a 'State of Celibacy'! Sylvander, I wish I saw you happily married — you are so form'd, you can not be happy without a tender attachment — Heaven direct you — when you see Bishop G . . . ask him if He Remembers a Lady at Mrs. Kemp's a Sunday night who listened to every word he uttered with the gaze of attention — I saw He observed me and returned that glance of cordial warmth, which assured me Ha was pleased with my delicate flattery — I wish'd that night He had been my Father, that I might shelter me in his Bosom. {Jtt. tyf^^; C~^ < ^^-^ //-.v^^^ i/r..__, >^— ^^ /'^^■^ 5, Pall Mall Place 21 " You shall have this as you desired, tomorrow — and if Possible none for 4 or 5 days — I say if Possible — for I really can't but write as if 1 had ' nothing Else to do' — I admire your ' Epitaph ' — but — while I read it my heart sivells at the sad Idea of its realization. Did you ever read Sancho's Letters — they woud hit your taste — my next will be on my favourite theme, Religion — Farewell Sylvander ! be Wise, be prudent and be happy. " Clarinda. " Let your next be sent in the morning. If you had been well I would ask you to meet me tomorrow at 1 2 o'clock. I go down in the Light Fly with poor — what a pleasant chat we might have! — but I fancy 'tis impossible — adieu — Friday i o'clock." The Bishop in question was Dr. Geddes. ^^ It is very many years since a Burns fnanuscript of anything approaching this in importance occurred for sale. The two letters, £z^$ See Illustrations 21 BYRON.— LETTERS AND JOURNALS OF LORD BYRON: with Notices of his Life, by Thomas Moore. Portrait of Byron. First Edition. 2 vols., 4to. Original cloth boards luith paper labels intact. Uncut. John Murray, 1830. This tTNiQUE COPY is of superlative importance because it contains 15 original and holograph (signed) letters of Lord Byron, which were not only unpublished by Moore, but were also unknown to even the very latest editor of the Poet's Letters (Mr. Prothero). In addition, these volumes contain the original holograph manuscript of Byron's very famous, " On the Death of Sir Peter Parker." It is a remarkable fact that we have here the only known letters from Byron to Perry, to Alborghetti, to Gilchrist, to Taafife, and to Alexander. (i) Holograph Letter signed "B," i page, 8vo. Oct. 2 1813; to John Murray. Concerning some lost lines (in " The Giaour "). (2) Holograph Letter signed "Byron," 3 pages, 4to Albany, Oct. 5 1814; to J. Perry (editor of the " Morning Chronicle"). A most important letter entirely relative to the denial of his engagement to Miss Milbanke (afterwards Lady Byron) which had appeared in the " Morning Chronicle." Byron states that the engagement is, however, a fact. (3) Holograph Letter signed "Byron," 3 pages, 8vo. Oct. 7 1813; also to Perry. This again relates to his approaching marriage. Byron acknowledges Perry's answer to above letter, and encloses the present original manuscript of his " On the Death of Sir Peter Parker " for insertion in the " Morning Chronicle " if Perry thinks it worth while. Byron adds that he does not care 22 J. Pearson & Co. for his name to be put to it, but has signed his initial to indicate the Author. He wishes Moore to bring out his work ("National Melodies"), but supposes he will wait till the first burst of Scott's newly announced one (" The Lord of the Isles ") is over. (4) The original Holograph Manuscript signed " B " of his extremely famous Poem " On the Death of Sir Peter Parker, 3 pages, 4to. This beautiful poem commences with the often quoted lines: " There is a tear for all that die A Mourner o'er the humblest grave But Nations swell the funeral cry And Triumph weeps above the brave." This manuscript, which has erasures and corrections, originally commenced "To the Memory," but Byron has scored these words through. On this same day (7th October) Byron wrote to Moore: " I have just been writing some elegiac stanzas on the death of Sir P. Parker. He was my first cousin, but never met since boyhood. . . . Our relations desired me and I have scribbled and given it to Parry who will ' Chronicle ' it tomorrow. I am as sorry for him as one could be for one I never saw since I was a child ; but should not have wept melodiously except at the request of friends." Parker's sister Margaret was Byron's first boyish love, and inspired his " first dash into poetry." (s) Holograph Letter signed "B^" 3 pages 8vo. February 26, 1816. To the same. Referring to a poem he wishes Perry to print as a translation from the French " if he dares." " It would not be bad fun to call it Chauteaubriand's — provided it be not detrimental to you or too unfair to him — the dog deserves no quarter." He wishes Perry to deliberate and be quite sure that the poem will not bring him into " the tender mercies of the Inquisition " before he ventures upon it. These are the only known letters to the famous Editor of " The Morning Chronicle." (6) Holograph Letter signed " Byron." 3 pages, 4to. Ravenna, July 1st 1819 to Count Alborghetti. A remarkable letter, in which he says "I am not the greatest poet, etc. as you are pleased to say." Byron also remarks that "good English prose is a better thing when well done than poetry at any time." This is the only known letter to Alborghetti. (7) Holograph Letter signed "Byron, Peer of England." 3 pages, 4to. Jiavenna, July 25, 1819, in reference to an English protdge of his (John Dodd) who "had nearly forgotten his own language." Apparently addressed to the English Continental authorities in general. (8) Holograph Letter signed "Byron." i page, 4to. Ravenna, Oct. 28 1820 to R. B. Hoppner relative to Scott's " ' Abbot ' which is not his best " and the " Monastery." 5, Pall Mall Place 23 (9) Holograph Letter signed. 6 pages, 4to. Haventia, Sept. ^Ih, 182 1, to Octavius Gilchrist. A superb letter. Entirely relative to the famous controversy between Byron and Bowles relative to the poetry of Pope. After replying to an attack by Bowles and eulogizing Pope, he criticises the present aspect of English poetry; " It is also a great error to suppose the present a high age of English poetry — it is equivalent to the age of Statius or Silius Italicus, except that instead of imitating the Virgils of our language they are ' trying back ' (to use a hunting phrase) upon the Ennius's and Lucilius's. . . . Those poor idiots of the Lakes too — are diluting our literature as much as they can — in short — all of us more or less (except Campbell and Rogers) have much to answer for — and I don't see any remedy." In another passage Byron makes remarkable comparisons between Pope and Milton and Pope and Shakespeare. No other letter from Byron to Gilchrist is known. (10) Holograph Letter signed, i page, 8vo, March 26 1822, to John Taafife (the Dante Scholar). (11) Holograph Letter signed, i page, 8vo, March 2%th 1822, also to Taafife. (12) Holograph Letter signed, i page, 8vo, April 2nd 1822. (13) Holograph Letter signed, i page, 8vo {April 1822). (14) Holograph Letter signed, i page 8vo {April 1822). These five letters to Taaffe refer to the well-known assault on Byron, Shelley, Trelawney, and Taaffe at Pisa in March 1822. No other letters to Taaffe are known. (15) Holograph Letter signed " N. Byron." 3 pages, 4to, /'/j'a, ^/c^. 1822. To the Hon''''' Douglas Kinnaird. Contains a remarkable reference to Don Juan. "... Is the Do7i [Juan] more obscene than Tom Jonesl There is more obscenity in the pious Richardson's pious Pamela than in all I have ever written. I have taken our nature as it is — and if the scrutiny of the world's foibles be disagreeable — either in its operation or in its effects — it need blame no one but itself. — Turdsworth [Words- worth] the great metaquizzical poet — called Voltaire ' a dull scoffer ' — I have no objec- tion to be in such good company. I am persuaded that Nero — Caligula — and such worthies as Caesar Borgia will — as well as our own Richard the Third and Co — come out much better characters at the Day of Judgment. . . ." (16) Holograph Letter signed "N. B." i page, 8vo, May 27//^, 1823, to Dr. Alexander, of Genoa. This letter from Byron was written at a very interesting period. He was then at Genoa, actively engaged in buying arms and ammunition for the Greeks. He writes: "I do not object to the quantity, provided the price is not much beyond the statement, which (if I rightly apprehend) is about 1,600 Genoese Livres — more or less — of course the articles 24 ]' Pearson & Co. chiefly required are for an army — will you give the necessary address, and I will be responsible for the rest." No other letter to Dr. Alexander is known. These letters being unpublished, for obvious reasons, only very brief extracts are given. TAc collection, ^800 22 BYRON (LORD). POEMS ] on | various occasions. | Virginibus Puerisque Canto | Hon Lib. 3, Ode i. Sm. 8vo. Newark: Printed by S. & J. Ridge \ 1807. Only 100 copies were privately printed. About half a dozen copies are NOW ext.'VNT. Published before the " Hours of Idleness." In November 1806, Ridge, a Newark bookseller, had privately printed for Byron a small volume of poems, entitled " Fugitive Pieces." His friend, Mr. Becher, a Southwell clergyman, remonstrated against the license of one poem. Byron immediately destroyed the whole impression (except one copy in Becher's hands and one sent to young Pigot, then studying medicine at Edinburgh). A hundred copies, omitting the offensive verses, and with some additions, under the title, " Poems on Various Occasions," were distributed in January 1807. The present is a remarkably fine copy in the original calf. 23 CANADA. CATECHISME DU DIOCESE DE QUEBEC. Par Monseigneur I'lllustrissime & Reverendissime Jean de la Croix de saint Valier, Eveque de Quebec, en faveur des Curez & des Fideles de son Diocese. i2mo. Paris, Chez Urbain Coustellier rue Saint Jacgues, au Cceurboii, 1702. A little volume of superlative rarity. There is no copy in the wonderful Church collection of Americana. This is one of several liturgical and devotional works prepared for the diocese of Quebec by Jean Baptiste de La Croix de Chevriers de Saint- Valier, the bishop. He was in early life a Knight of Malta and Canon of the Chapter of Grenoble, but in 1683 he sailed for North America in order to serve as a missionary among the Canadian Indians. Two years later he was consecrated Bishop of Quebec, and continued in that office until 1727, when he died in the hospital which he had founded in that town. He was a rigid, austere, and contentious prelate, and when he succeeded Laval as bishop had to meet the opposition of the Canadian priests with whom Laval had been most popular. At first on his arrival Saint- Valier gave a favourable account of the disposition of the people, 5> Pall Mall Place 25 especially as regards religion, but soon changed his views, and in a pastoral mandate issued in 1690 wrote: "Before we knew our flock we thought that the English and the Iroquois were the only wolves we had to fear; but God having opened our eyes to the disorders of this diocese, and made us feel more than ever the weight of our charge, we are forced to confess that our most dangerous foes are drunkenness, luxury, impurity, and slander." He was a rigid disciplinarian as regards religious education, and founded prosperous schools at Quebec. His Catechism is a comprehensive book, giving a complete manual of instruction in the foundations of religion, for the use of the priests in teaching, a very full Catechism for use with adults and families, and a shorter one for teaching children. He issued, besides this Catechism, a Ritual for the use of Quebec, printed at Paris in 1703, pastoral letters and ordinances concerning the quarrels and difficulties with the Indians, mostly directed against the abuses of the liquor traffic, at that time a burning question in Canada in 1702 and 1703, and a collected edition of Statutes, ordinances, and letters in 1703. The bishop also left a journal of his first travels in Canada, which has been published. The present is a remarkably fine copy in the original sprinkled vellum binding. 24 CANADA. NEHIRO-IRINIUI AIAMIHE MASSINAHIGAN, Shatshegutsh, Mitinekapitsh, Iskuamiskutsh, Netshekatsh, Misht, Assinitsh, Shekutimitsh, Ekuanatsh, Ashuabmushurnitsh, Piakua- gamitsh.Gaiemissi missi nehiro-iriniuiAstshitsh ka tatjits, kakueiasku aiamihatjits ka utshi. 8vo. Uabistiguiatsh, Massmahitsetiiau, Broun gaie Girmor. {Quebec, Brozvn and Girmor. 1767.) Only one other copy is known of this liturgical volume. Although books had been printed in other parts of North America for a considerable period, it was not until after the cession of Canada to England by the treaty of Paris in 1763 that printing was introduced into that country. In 1764 two printers, W. Brown and W. Girmor, set up a press in Quebec, and in January 1765 they issued the first number of the " Quebec Gazette," a weekly paper in English and French. Two years later they published the present volume, consisting of an exposition of the elements of Christian doctrine with certain prayers, in the language of the Montagnais. Under this general name the French included the scattered hordes of Papinachois, Bersiamites, Atticamagues, and other small tribes of hunters wandering between the St. Lawrence and Hudson Bay, though the tribe proper of the Montagnais occupied the country on the head waters of the river Saguenay on the north shores of the St. Lawrence below Quebec, reaching to the Labrador coast. They were nearly allied to the Sauteaux, and both rather degenerate offshoots of the great Algenquin family. K J. Pearson & Co. Books printed in the Indian dialects are now of excessive rarity; probably feiv were printed and very fnu would survive the rough usage to luhich they were put. Of such as were printed in the eighteenth century the present is the only one known issued in the MoNTAGNAis tongue. A second edition of this book, also of the very greatest rarity, was printed at Quebec by C. le Francois in 1817. Like the first it is a i2mo of 96 pages, but it contains in addition on the last page the official approbation in French of the Bishop of Quebec. In 1839 a book containing portions of the services, with prayers and hymns, with the title "Anamihe Masinahigan," was printed at Quebec. It is an iSmo of 210 pages. In 1848 a further work, " Aimieu Kukuetshimitun Misinaigan," a prayer and catechism book of 50 pages, i2mo, was also issued at Quebec, and these apparently comprise all the earlier books in the Montagnais dialect. The present copy is an exceptionally fine one, in the original sheepskin binding. The only other copy that can be traced is one which was in the Puybusque sale and passed into the Maison-neuve collection. -^125 25 CANNING AND THE MARQUIS WELLESLEY CANNING (GEORGE), the famous Prime MiJiister of George IV. A precious and extensive series of 108 HOLOGRAPH LET- TERS, SIGNED, of this celebrated statesman. All these letters (with the exception of 8) are addressed to his friend, the Marquis Wellesley (Governor-General of India, and brother of the great Duke of Wellington). Over and above these there are 63 HOLOGRAPH LETTERS, SIGNED, Manuscripts, and contemporary copies of important letters from the Marquis Wellesley, Spencer Perceval, the Earl of Liver- pool, etc., all of which are addressed to, or relative to. Canning. The majority of these highly important letters are marked " Private," " Private and Confidential," " Most Private and Con- fidential," etc. There are 172 Letters and Manuscripts in all. This unique correspondence refers to important political questions of the day, but chiefly to the War in the Peninsula, the death of Pitt, Sir Walter Scott's visit, and to Canning's indictment. The Canning letters date from 1798 to 1826, and the letters to Canning from 1809 to 1823. 5, Pall Mall Place 27 The Collection is most handsomely illustrated by 6i fine portraits, many of which are proofs. Inlaid to an uniform size, and bound in red morocco extra. 2 vols., large folio, i 798-1826. The entire Correspondence is wholly unpublished, and is, unquestionably the finest series of Canning letters extant. Of the 109 letters from Canning, the following may be noted: CANNING (RIGHT HON. GEORGE). Holograph Letter, signed. 2 pages, 4to, Downing Street, [une 4, 1798. To the Earl of Mornington (afterwards Marquis Wellesley). Returning some letters which he submitted to Lord Grenville. "... the Foreign Line being now full, and his (Grenville's) engagements already far exceeding any probable course of vacancies, he could not name M' Hill to any .Secretaryship of Legation," etc. etc. Holograph Letter, signed. 49 pages, 4to, Oct. 20th, 1799. To the same. This is the longest letter of Canning extant. It is extremely important and includes " a full and true account of the state of European Politicks." The postscript, also in Canning's autograph, 12 pages, 4to, and dated istNov. 1799, states that "the delay of the Packet affords me an opportunity of bringing down my history to a later period, and of giving you some light as to our plans for future operations." Holograph Letter. 5 pages, 4to, Nov. 8th, 1799. To the same. An addition to the previous letter (Oct. 20), referring to the ensuing campaign. Holograph Letter, signed. 6 pages, 4to, Aug. 2,0th, 1800. To the same. An interesting letter commencing " My dear Mornington (I say ' My Dear Lord Wellesley' in public private letters, but I cannot write it so in a real private one, and I find that I cannot write the ' Wellesley ' without the ' Lord ' until I have actually seen you under your new appellation . . .)." Thanks him for watching over his relation. The autograph postscript which accompanies this letter mentions affairs in Austria, and Bonaparte. Holograph Letter, signed. 2 pages, 4to, 4 Dec. (1802). Mentions Fox and Huskisson. Holograph Letter, signed. 5 pages, 4to, Conduit Street, 6 Dec, 1802. Relative to an important debate. Mentions Spencer, Perceval, and Fox. Holograph Letter, signed. Somerset-^ouse, Feb. 12th, 1806, 2 pages, 8vo. To Lord Wellesley. Mentioning " the subsequent calamitous loss which made even the death of Lord Nelson a subject of comparatively minor interest." This is in reference to the death of Pitt. 28 J. Pearson & Co. Holograph Letter, signed. South Hill, May 28M, 1806. To the same. He did not know that anything so interesting was coming on in the House, and he is prevented from returning to town that day. Holograph Letter, signed. 3 pages, 4to, Sept. igt/i, 1806. To the same. Relative to vacancies in the Cabinet. Mentions Pitt and Lord G{renville). Holograph Letter, signed. 2 pages, 8vo, March 21st, 1807. To the same. " The King (George HI) in conversation with Lord Eldon expressed himself in terms of the greatest anxiety for your favourable determination." Holograph Letter, signed. 5 pages, 410, March zxst, 1807. To the same. Excusing the attacks made on Lord Wellesley as to his unfitness for Public office. Holograph Letter, signed. 3 pages, 4to, Nov. 26, 1807. To the same. Referring to affairs in Sicily and the Mediterranean. Holograph Letter, signed, 6 pages, 4to, Sept. 21st, 1808. To the same. Referring to a member of the Diplomatic Service who wanted Canning's permission to go to Spain. Holograph Letter, signed. 4 pages, 4to, 2;i/une, 1809. To the same. Sending the Draft of General Instructions. Mentions an expedition and the reversion of the expeditionary force for the Peninsula. Holograph Letter, signed. 3 pages, ivo,/uly 10th, 1809. To the same. The instructions about the Inquisition were perhaps too peremptory, etc. Holograph Letter, signed. 3 pages, ?>vo,July 12, 1809. To the same. Marked " Private and Confidential." The levh and the Cabinet dinner w^ill prevent Canning from calling. Holograph Letter, signed, i page, ?>vo,/u/y 16, 1809. To the same. "I dine with H.R.H. the Princess of Wales," etc. Holograph Letter, signed. 4 pages, ?>\o,July 18, 1809. To the same. Referring to his resignation. Mentions Lord Granville and the Duke of P(ortland). Holograph Letter, signed. 4 pages, 4to, _/«/>> 21, 1809. To the same. Mentioning a visit, with Mulgrave, to the projected dockyard at Northfleet, taking leave of Wellesley, and wishing him a good voyage, etc. (Wellesley was about to leave to take up his duties as Ambassador to the supreme central junta of Spain.) Holograph Letter, signed. 3 pages, 4to, Aug. iT,th, 1809. To the same. Correcting a statement in a former despatch regarding the magnitude of the force under Sir Arthur (Duke of Wellington). 5, Pall Mall Place 29 Holograph Letter, signed. 4 pages, 4to, Sept. 21st, 1809. To the same. " The King has called upon Perceval to form a government. . . . My resignation is not yet accepted. But on contemplation of it I yesterday mentioned to his Majesty the promise which I had made to you," etc. HoLOGR.\PH Letter, signed. 9 pages, 410, Sept. 27, 1809. To the same. Referring to his wound received in a duel with Lord Castlereagh, a private letter of Wellesley's that was published, and the present state of the Government and politics in general. Holograph Letter, signed. 3 pages, 4to, Oct. 10, 1809. To the same. Sending a copy of some correspondence which had passed between him and Robt. Dundas relating to the Cabinet crisis of the period. T/ie correspondence alluded to is in Vol. II of this collection. Holograph Letter, signed. 4 pages, 4to, Nov. 4, 1809. To the same. Asking him to name the authority of some false intelligence. Holograph Letter, signed, ii pages, 4to, Gloucester Lodge, Deer. 5, 1809. To the same. Canning gives his reasons for resigning the Cabinet to make the Marquis Wellesley thoroughly and correctly acquainted with what had been his conduct in the transaction as Wellesley " had been so studiously misinformed." Holograph Letter, signed. 8 pages, 410, Hinckley, Deer. 18, 1809. To the same. Referring to Wellesley's Cabinet appointment. Mentions the late Duke of Portland. The appointment Wellesley accepted was Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, under the Perceval Government. Holograph Letter, signed. 4 pages, 4to, Hinckley, Dec. 18, 1809. To the same. Relating to the secret Pension List, and mentioning the name of a Russian Comte d'Antraigues, who acted as an European " agent " to the Foreign Office. Holograph Letter, signed. 3 pages, /^io,/any. 2,rd, 1810. To the same. Mentioning the Prince of Orange and the payment of .;^5,ooo to General Nigel, a Foreign Office Secret Service Agent. Holograph Letter, signed. 3 pages, 8vo, January 31, 1810. To the same. Relative to a Paper on Finance drawn up by Mr. Huskisson. Holograph Letter, signed. 3 pages, 410, Sept. 13M, i8io. To the same. " You say that you write to me at Perceval's desire. How much and what part of your letter am I to consider as written at his desire and his knowledge," etc. Holograph Letter, signed. 4 pages, 4to, Sept. z^th, 1810. To the same. Mentioning Lord Castlereagh and Perceval. 3© J. Pearson & Co. Holograph Letter, signed. 3 pages, 8vo, Oct. 19, 1810. To Culling C. Seaill. Thanking him for the despatch containing " the most welcome intelligence from Lord Wellington." HoLOGR.^PH Letter, signed. 3 pages, 4to, 26 Oct., 1810. To the Marquis Wellesley. Thanking Wellesley for intelligence of the Battle of Busaco, and for any news that might come from Lord Wellington. Holograph Letter, signed. 4 pages, 4to, Dec. ist, 1810. To the same. Referring to an adjournment of the House of Commons, and the Privy Council report upon the conduct of the House. Holograph Letter, signed. 4 pages, &vo,/any. ist, 181 1. To the same. Canning mentions his retirement, and assures Wellesley of his friendship. Holograph Letter, signed. 2 pages, 8vo, Fed. 14, 181 1. To the same. Mentioning Lord Melville's letter. " I wish you joy of your son's distinguished success." Holograph Letter, signed. 3 pages, 8vo. Seaford, 15 Aug. 1821. To G. A. Robinson. Relative to a letter received, regarding India, from Lord H. (Hardinge?) " Surely Ld. H. is one of the most wrongheaded of heroes and statesmen." Holograph Letter, signed. 6 pages, 4to, 31 Mar. 1822. To Marquis Wellesley. About a bill which Canning does not " see how it is possible to defeat by argument in the House of Lords." Holograph Letter, signed. 3 pages, 4to, Foreign Office, Dec. 12, 1823. To the same. Relating to a conference with Prince Polignac in regard to Spanish America. Holograph Letter, signed. 3 pages, 4to, Foreign Office, Feb. 20, 1824. To the same. Mentioning Spanish America and Catholic promotions in Ireland. Holograph Letter, signed. 8 pages, 4to, F{oreign) 0{ffice), 24 March, 1824. To the same. Relative to a despatch which before being made public should undergo a thorough investigation by the Cabinet. Mentions the Duke of Wellington. Holograph Letter, signed. 3 pages, 4to, 9 Sept., 1824. To the same. Relating to his visit to the King. " I took leave of my Royal Master on Sunday last." Holograph Letter, signed. 4 pages, 8vo, Sept. 29, 1824. To Col. Shaw. " I see, by Extracts from Dublin Newspapers that great offence is taken at my having sent a card to Dr. Murray," asking him to give an explanation. Holograph Letter, signed. 6 pages, 4to, Dec. 25, 1824. To Marquis Wellesley. Relating to the doings of the Cabinet; steps to be taken to define and establish relations between this country, Mexico and Columbia. Mentions the O'Connell trial. 5, Pall Mall Place 31 Holograph Letter, signed. 7 pages, 410, March 7, 1825. To the same. Relative to the Catholic question, and the marriage of his daughter to Lord Clanricarde. Holograph Letter, signed. 2 pages, 4to, Mar. ii, 1825. To the same. " Pray, Pray, be quite assured that Peel has throughout dealt honestly." Holograph Letter, signed. 18 pages, 4to, Aug. 25, 1825. To the same. Concerning the state of Ireland, the Catholic question. Discusses the effect of a dissolution immediately, or at the end of the next session, and asks Wellesley for his opinion. Holograph Letter, signed. 4 pages, 4to, Aug. 25, 1825. To the same. Mentioning Lords Clanricarde, Greville and Liverpool, and hoping an early vacancy will occur in the representative peerage for Clanricarde. Holograph Letter, signed. 3 pages, 410, Storrs Hall, Aug. 25, 1825. To the same. Referring to a visit from Sir Walter Scott, " I rejoiced to hear from Sir Walter Scott who passed a couple of days here on his way from Ireland, that he had found you and left you in high health." Holograph Letter, signed. 7 pages, 410, Sept. <)th, 1825. To the same. Relative to vacancies in the Irish and English Peerage, and who should fill them. Holograph Letter, signed. 4 pages, 4to, Sept. 18, 1825. To the same. Relative to the Irish Representative Peerage, mentions Lord Liverpool. Lords Mount Cashel and Farnham were the candidates for the peerage mentioned in this letter. Holograph Letter, signed. 4 pages, 4to, Welbeck, Sept. 18, 1825. To the same. Referring to the Catholic Question. " Right or wrong a multitude of voters for the Catholic Question have taken it into their heads that the fate of that clause will be sealed by an appeal to the popular feelings of England." Holograph Letter, signed. 4 pages, 410, Sept. 18, 1825. To the same. Also on the Catholic question. Holograph Letter, signed. 3 pages, 4to, Welbeck, Sept. 18, 1825. To the same. Mentioning Lord Liverpool, Lord Kingston and Peel. Holograph Letter, signed. 2 pages, 4to, Oct. 18, 1825. To the same. Congratulating Wellesley upon his marriage. An extremely pleasant letter. Holograph Letter, signed. 2 pages, 4to, Oct. 20, 1825. To the same. Mentioning the Grecian and Turkish question. 32 J. Pearson & Co. Holograph Letter, signed. 4 pages, 410, Dec. 15, 1825. To the same. Relative to votes. Mentions that the messenger with the Paris vote crossed the channel in an open boat as the packet was not running. Holograph Letter, signed. 5 pages, 4to, Aug. 25, 1826. To the same. On the state of Ireland. VOLUME II WELLESLEY (RICHARD, MARQUIS). The Original Autograph Draft of the Statement of the transactions between Canning and Lord Wellesley in 1809, expressing their views of strengthening the Government and referring to his appoint- ment in the cabinet. 18 pages, folio. The Original Autograph Copy (signed) of the above despatch, 18 pages, folio, Seville, Oct. ith, 1809., — The Autograph Copy (signed) of a Letter. 4 pages, 4to, \%July, 1809. To Canning Relative to Canning's resignation. " If you should resign you are already apprised of my determination not to enter the Cabinet." — The Autograph Copies of two of his letters (one signed) to Canning. Both dated, Seville, Oct. ith, 1809. 19 pages, 4to. Refers to Canning's resignation, and the friction between him and Lord Castlereagh, the expedition to the Scheldt, the Duke of Portland's resignation, etc. Autograph Copy (signed), of his letter to Canning. 6 pages, folio, Apsky House, 8 Dec, 1809. Referring to the controversial letters that had been passing between them with regard to Wellesley's position in the Cabinet. ARBUTHNOT (R. H.). Holograph Letter, signed. 4 pages, 4to, 5M Oct., 1809. To Marquis Wellesley referring to his invitation to the Office of Minister of Foreign Affairs, and saying that " the King expects you, and that the Country is loudly calling for you." BAGOT (CHARLES). Holograph Letter, signed. 3 pages, 8vo, Sept. 21st, 1809. To Marquis Wellesley describing the wound Canning received in his famous duel with Lord Castlereagh. BATHURST (HENRY, EARL). Holograph Letter, signed. 2 pages, 4to, Sept. 22nd, 1809. To Marquis Wellesley, instructing him to quit Spain and return to England immediately. Holograph Letter, signed. 4 pages, 4to, Oct. ^t/i, 1809. To Marquis Wellesley asking him to accept the Office of Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. 26 5, Pall Mall Place 33 PERCEVAL (SPENCER, PRIME MINISTER). Holograph Letter, signed, 3 pages, 4to, Sept. 2oth, 1809. To Pole. Mentions Canning and Wellesley. PERCEVAL (SPENCER). Holograph Letter, signed. 5 pages, 410, Oct. 5, 1809. To Marquis Wellesley inviting him to join the Cabinet as Secretary of State. Canning, Perceval, Duke of Portland, etc. Contemporary manuscript copies of the correspondence which passed between Canning, Perceval, the Duke of Portland, Lord Granville, Earl Grey, Castlereagh, Dundas, and W. H. Huskisson, consisting of some 45 letters covering about 150 pages, 4to and folio, dating from March 24th to Oct. 28th, 1809. AU these letters are relative to the Cabinet crisis of that time. The collection £'^^0 26 CATHERINE OF ARAGON. POLICRATICI DE NUGIS CURIALIU et vestigiis philosophoru Joanis Salesberiensis. Printed in red and black. 8vo. Calf. Bound for Catherine of Aragon, with her arms impressed on the front cover, and those of Henry VIII on the reverse cover. Paris, Berthold Rembolt et Jehan Petit, 15 13. A splendid example of Queen Catherine's library and an extraordinarily rare provenance. This binding is exactly similar to No. 6 in the British Museum binding catalogue. John of Salisbury was one of the most distinguished scholars of the twelfth century, and was born at Old Sarum about the year 11 20. The " Policraticus " was completed in 1159, and dedicated to Thomas h. Becket, the author's intimate friend. The author was one of those present with Becket in Canterbury Cathedral when he was murdered before the altar in December 11 70. John bequeathed his library and relics, amongst them a phial of Becket's blood, to the cathedral of his diocese — Chartres — whither he returned upon Becket's fall. The above work is a curious medley of philosophy and learning. The title " Poli- craticus " may be taken to mean " the statesman's book." It professes to deal with the principles of government, but it is full of digressions and reminiscences and all kinds of varied information; it affords a valuable index to the cultivated thought of the middle of the twelfth century. The book has been read by scholars and literary men with much appreciation, partly because it stands as the first fruits of the humanist learning of the Middle Ages, and preserves the remains of the classics then obtainable by students, and partly for the fragments of personal experience it holds in its pages. See Illustration 34 ]' Pearson & Co. 27 CATHERINE DE MEDICI (QUEEN OF FRANCE) Mother of Francis II, Charles IX and Henry III. THE SERIES OF SEVEN MAGNIFICENT HOLOGRAPH LETTERS, six being signed and one unsigned, covering 1 2 pages folio and i page 4to. Written between 1 560 and 1 5 70. They are addressed to her daughter Elizabeth Queen of Spain. Illustrated with fine contemporary por- traits, the whole inlaid to an uniform size, folio, and boutid in blue morocco extra. These truly remarkable letters not only contain sound advice as to her daughter's conduct towards her husband and her choice of favourites, but Catherine confides in her respecting matters of the highest State importatice. The earliest in date is written ap- parently soon after her daughter's marriage and the death of her own husband (Henry II) — "... And so my daughter, my dear, commend yourself to God, for you have seen me as happy as yourself, never expecting to have any other sorrow, except that of not being sufficiently loved by the King your father, who honoured me more than I deserved, but I loved him so much that I was always afraid, as you know, that he did not love me enough. And God has taken him from me, and not content with that has left me with three little children and in a strange kingdom, not having a soul there whom I can trust who has not some special passion. So my dear, think of me and let me serve you as an example not to trust too much in the love your husband bears you, nor to the honour and happiness you have secured, without commending yourself to Him who is able to con- tinue your happiness and also when He pleases to put you into the state in which I am. I who would rather die than see you so, for fear that you might not be able to bear so many misfortunes as I have had and still have; and which, I assure you, without His aid I could not bear." In another long and intensely interesting letter, written after the death of her eldest son Francis II (first husband of Mary Queen of Scots) she complains bitterly of the hostility of the Guises (Mary's uncles) and the trouble they are causing in the Kingdom. " . . . I wish to tell you what indeed is the truth, that all this trouble has arisen solely out of the hatred which the whole of this Kingdom bears to the Cardinal de Lorraine and the Duke de Guise, believing that I wished to reinstate him in the govern- ment, which I have assured them I will not do ; for I am not obliged to do so, for you know how he treated me in the time of the late King your brother. And yet he declares that I am their sole support. You know what they are doing against me about the marriage of your sister. However I have decided to keep watch in order that people may not do them any harm (?) and for the rest to see to the preservation of your brothers and myself and not to mingle any more their quarrels with mine. . . I was anxious to tell J "xm ftjjngtc^/ (^n^ atlc t§€ maf utJrtJ t§af |)dpm t^cn) fo ^d^ tbicH ccmapnc t^cn) to ccttco2?>aurtce/ hf^coftiK Si; rci«.x0 anftonomte ofatlfcfcT^ 6^ t6i6 fct cH:c ntap^ ttiquptt^ of t^jJn^cc of ?euc») g of ii)<^ii^f^ it) cfpccpatt of tbcrt) t^at fet) mace 6^ nature 3c»tb fctcc tfeat cgcp fc/Qitn^ tb?D 6notbct^ tbcl ^ ^n^crftan^t^ aftconomjcic, 5? cat) fcfj fe txfot) it) atle t^gngc6.;$02 out ccca^our tttacc altc t^pn gcd 6)? tcfot) (I gaf 5i« name to cucrp t^p,n(x!')^p t^tc an fe (2 fcicncc Ibctc f irft ctttpzpfc^ (: gotct) allc otf)cr fctcncccs cf ?iecttC6 g of ^jJuinp^c/Bp ibf^tc? att ctj^fttan^c tc coutt^ ^ t^c tt^bt fapt^ of our Co:^ go^ to Touc i)ptt)/ ^ to fcfue ^ fipngc almpoii^tp.fto tbljon) all gooccc wme an^ to tb$>ti) c Ga^cc ao ^ ^p»i) fc^f ti^at com/ fjofc^ aftt»nompc.t^3t fotntimc tbac (o (Itcondp f ccquctt^ ^ U?a6 ^lv«t) f<)2 a xx^t r^pc tbct^c.f^z tt t« a fcicncc of (o 5, Pall Mall Place 35 you all this at length in order that if he sends some message in his own name to the King your husband to make him believe that he was acting in the interests of religion or for some other object was strengthening his own hands by [Pan alliance with] him, that then you should tell the King the truth and not let him believe anything else, for people only wish them ill for the wrong they have done the whole world in making people believe that I was not a good Christian, in order to make me suspected by all, and by this means I should trust only in them, saying libellously that all wish me ill and that without them I should no longer remain in my present authority. Whereas I assure you that they see I allow the King of Navarre to be Lieutenant General of the King my son under me and that I know quite the contrary to what they have said." She then informs her that for the better preservation of her sons and the Kingdom she is going to have the King crowned at Rheims on the nth of May and on the 20th of June make his entry into Paris. In other letters she relates the attempt made by the Due de Nemours to carry off the Due d'Orlt^ans (afterwards Henry III) and to set him up against his brother Charles IX. The Queen also refers to Admiral Coligny, the Cardinal de Chatillon, etc. Altogether this collection of Queen Catherine's letters is probably the MOST IMPORTANT EXTANT. It was formerly in the archives of Villebon. 28 THE FIRST ENGLISH ILLUSTRATED BOOK CAXTON'S PRESS. THE MIRROR OF THE WORLD. Folio. William Caxton, Westminster ( 1 490). This is the First English Book with illustrations. Though the authorship of this book is frequently ascribed to Vincent of Beauvais the compiler of the " Speculum Majus," it appears to be the work of an earlier anonymous writer. In 1245 at the instiga- tion of the Due de Berri it was turned into French metre, and later into French prose. From this Caxton made his translation at the request of Hugh Brlce, an alderman of London, who wished to present the book to Lord Hastings. The illustrations are of two kinds. The first consist of small pictures, rudely engraved, of masters teaching their pupils, or single figures engaged in scientific pursuits. The second are diagrams copied from those in the MSS. of the work. Caxton speaks in his prologue of twenty-seven figures " without whiche it may not lightly be understande," but he did not understand them himself, for in the first part which should contain eight he misplaces the second and third and omits the fourth. The nine diagrams of the second are wrongly drawn and sometimes misplaced, while in the third part, though mentioning ten, he only gives nine. The second edition is printed in a different type from the first, and one illustration is changed. It was issued towards the end of Caxton's life, probably in 1490. The present copy wants eighteen leaves. When seen by Blades in 1863 it was in the 36 J. Pearson & Co. possession of Robert Glendiniiing. It came later into the possession of Sir J. E. Millais, the artist. It passed from Millais to Birket Foster (also a famous artist) and contains his book-plate. This edition is so extremely rare that the British Museum has never been able to acquire a copy perfect or imperfect. It is much rarer than the first edition. £500 See Illustration 29 CHAPMAN (G.). MONSIEUR D'OLIVE. AComedie, as it was sundrie times acted by her Maiesties children at the Blacke-Friers. Red morocco. 4to. Printed by T. C. for William Holmes, and are to be sold at his Shop in Saint Dun-stans Church-yard in Fleete-street. 1 606. One of the best plays of the scholarly and vigorous author of the first English transla- tion of Homer. The Hoe copy sold for ^37. CHOPIN (FREDERIC FRANgOIS). HOLOGRAPH LET- TER, SIGNED, 3 pages, 8vo. Paris,j2ily 29, 1841. To his publishers, Breitkopf and Haertel. Relative to the celebrated composition of Chopin, his " Tarantelle." On the third page the great composer gives several passages in music with notes concerning them. He indicates several important corrections to be made. A most superb example from the Meyer-Cohn Collection. This is the only known letter of the Composer's which contains original music. See Illustration 31 CHURCH OF ENGLAND. HISTORIA ECCLESIASTICA Gentis Anglorum. i* [GJLoriosissimo | regi. Ciolun | leo beda fa- I mulus cristi | et presbiter. | Historiage | tis angloru | eccl'iasti- cam I qua nup edidera libentissime tibi | desideranti rex et pri^ ad legendu ac | pbandii trasmisi [etc.]. 97* column 2, line 25. vicit '0. itiu^ ^~~?^ 'V'^ <^/ .^^ Jl^ 1^ /L^I ^ri<.^ ^ f'^^l '^- — ■ ("-'futr CHOPIN 3° 5, Pall Mall Place 37 necnon tn ibi regnum potuit | obtinere. Anno ab incarnatoe dni | xlvi. Claudius secundus romano | rum brittaniam audiens plurima | insule ptem i dedicionem accepit, | [2 line space] | Finiunt libri historie ecclesiastice | gestis Anglorum. | Folio. Strasburg, Hdnrich Eggesteyn, circa 1475. Editio Princeps of the History of the English Church. This precious volume is the absolute keystone of any English Liturgical collection. It is so hopelesly rare that, apart from the copy described in the J. P. Morgan catalogue, no other example is known to be in any private library. Heber's copy was acquired by Grenville, who bequeathed it to the British Museum. " The Editio Princeps, issued without name of printer, place or date, but printed by Heinrich Eggesteyn, of Strasburg. Printing was introduced into that town at a very early date, certainly before 1460, by Johan Mentelin, but the first dated book was issued by Eggesteyn in 147 1. Almost all the Strasburg books are undated, and have to be arranged in groups according to their type; this book is printed in his type No. 5, to which the date 1475 's given." — E. Gordon-Duff. According to Dibdin, "This book is at present a desideratum in perhaps every public and private library in England." CHURCH OF ENGLAND. HORE BEATE MARIE VIR- GIN IS ad usum insignis ac preclare Ecclesie Sarum | totaliter ad longum sine require \sic\ Cum pluribus suffragiis & orationibus i| Noviter impressis. Gothic letter. Printed throughout upon vellum. Illustrated with large printer s device, ott title, and 14 large and 18 smaller engravings, all in contemporary colouring and heightened WITH gold, and szirrounded by a gold border. There are also 7iumerous hand-coloured initials, and 2 contemporary full-length illuminations, representing SS. George and Ignatius. Old red morocco extra. Parisius per Germanuni Hardouyn \ comorantem inter duas portas Palatii Rigis \ ad inter signium diue Margarete {c. 1529). A UNIQUE COPY OF THIS EXCEEDINGLY RARE EDITION OF THE SaRUM HoRAE. The illumination of this beautiful English Prayer-book is ascribed by Professor Bradley to Hardouyn himself. Being intended for Sarum use, the Calendar, of course, contains the usual list of English Saints. In January. Wulstan and Batildis. 38 J. Pearson & Co. February. Blaise, Gilbert of Senipringham, Mildred, Oswald (here misprinted Coswald), king. March. David, Chad, Edward, Cuthbert, and Aldhclm. April. Richard of Chichester, Hugh of Lincoln, Oswald, archbishop, Alphege of London, George, Wilfrid of York, Erkenwald (or Erconwald). May. Dunstan, Aldhelm, Augustine of Canterbury, Beda. June. Petroc, Wulstan, Edmund, Blaise, Richard, Botulph, Edward, Walburga, Alban. July. Thomas of Canterbury, Oswald, Kenelm, Germain of Auxerre. August. Oswald, Cuthberga. September. Misprint of Exullatio instead of Exaltado {Sancfe cruets). October. Wilfrid, Edward, Etheldreda, Fridelwida, German. November. Winefride, Erkenwald, Edmund, Hugh, Edmund (archbishop). December. Thomas of Canterbury. The English rubrics are worthy of note. 1. "In thy goynge out of thy hous blesse the (thyself) sayinge thus: Crux triumphalis, etc." 2. " Wahn (when) the prest (priest) torneth (turns) after the lavato (levation, i.e., the elevation of the host)." 3. "At the elevation of our lord." "Whan thou takest holy water say thus: "Aqua," etc. " Whan thou begynest to praye thus begynne kenelyng (kneeling), Discedite a me." 4. "Wahn thou receyueth the pax say: Da pacem," etc. 5. "Whan thou shall recieuethe sacrament. Domino," etc. 6. " Whan thou hast receiued. Vera," etc. 7. "To gete grace for synnes, Exaudi," etc. 8. " Ayenst euyl thoughtes, Omnipotens," etc. 9. " For the kyng, Deus regnorum," etc. 10. " For ty (thy) frend lyuing, Deus qui," etc. 11. " For wayfaring men, Adisto," etc. 12. " For frendes in syknes or in necessite, Omnipotens," etc. 13. " For thy frende that is deed (dead), Suscipe," etc. 14. " For the lyuing and deest (dead), Omnipotens," etc. At page 115 is a prayer in English : " O gloryous Jesu O mekest Jesu O moost sweetest Jesu I praye the (thee) tat (that) I may have true confessyon contricyon and satisfaction or (ere) I dye and that I may see and receyve thy holy body god and man Sauoir of alle mankynde criste iesu withoute synne. And that thou wylt my lorde god forgyve me all my synes: for thy gloryous woundes and passion and that I may ende my lyfe in the true fayth of holy chyrche and in parfayte love and charite with all myn even crysten as thy creature and I comande my soule into thy holy handes through the glory- ous helpe of thy holy blessyd mother and of all the holy company of heven. Amen." This is followed by three other English prayers : 5, Pall Mall Place 39 " The holy body of Crist iesu be my soule of body and soule. The gloryous blode of crist iesu brynge my soule and body in the everlasteyinge blesse. I crie god mercy I crie god mercy I crie god mercy welcome my maker welcome my redeemer welcome my sauyour. I crie the (thee) mercy with herte contryte for my gret unkyndenesse that I have had to the(e). " O the moost swetest spouse of my soule crist Jesu desyringe hertely evermore to be with the(e) in my(n)de and wyll and to let no(n)e erth(y)ly thynge to be so nere my herte as t(h)ou Jesu and that I drede not for to dye for to go(o) to the(e) iesu and that I may evermore say to the(e) with a glade chere, my sauyour crist iesu I besech the(e) hertly (heartily) take me synner to the greate mercy: and grace for I love the(e) with all myne herte wyth all my mynde and with all my myghte and nothynge so moche in erthe nor above erth as I do the(e) my swete lorde Jesu Chryste and for that I have not loved the(e) and worshypped the(e) above all thynge as my lorde a(n)d Sauyour crist iesu I besech the(e) with mekenesse and herte contryte of mercy and forgyvenes of my grete un- kyndenesse for the greate love that thou shewed for me and all mankynde wath (what) tyme thou offerd up thy gloryous body god and man onto the crosse there to be crucyfied and wownded and out of thy hyart (heart) renny(n)ge (running) ple(n)tuously blodde and water for the redemption of me and all mankynde and this takayinge (taking) reme(m)bra(n)ce stedfastly in my herte of the(e) my sauyour crist iesu I doup(b)te not but thou wylt be full nere me an co(m)forte me both bodely and ghoostly with thy glory- ous presence. And at the last brynge me unto thyn(e) everlastynge blysse the whiche never have end. Amen." " O Blessyd trynite the fader the sone and the holy ghost thre(e) persones and one god I byleve with myn herte and confesse with my mouth all that holy chyrche byleved (believed) and holdeth of the(e) as moche as a go(o)d Catholyke and cristen man ough(t) to do and byleve of the(e) and I proteste here before t(h)y maieste that I will lyve (live) and dye in thys fayth and continue all my lyfe and in knowlege of the(e) my god fader and maker of all the worlde I thy poor creature subgette and seruante do make to the(e) fayth and homage of my body and of my soule whyche I holde of the(e) nobly as of my souveraine lorde and god with all the goodes naturall spirituall and temperall that I have and that ever I had and also that I intende to haue of the(e) in thys worlde here and in that other and with all my herte I remercy and thanke the(e); and in sine (sign) of the cognysance and knoelege I praye onto the(e) thys lytell tribute on morninge and on even- ynge thys that I adoure and worshyppe the(e) with herte and mouthe in fayth hope and in charite with thys lytell orayson (orison — prayer) and prayer wihyche (which) onely apperteyneth to the blyssed maieste sygnory (lordship) and divinite and humbly I require the(e) of thre(e) t(h)ynges. The fryst (first) is merci and gyvenesse of as many euyllys (evils) and wylayne (? villain or wilful) synes (sins) as I have done and commysed (com- mitted) i tyme passed agaynst thy will. The seconde please the(e) to gyve me grace that I maye serve the(e) and accomplysshe thy commaundementes without to tourne and fall into deedly (deadly) synne. The thyrde is: that at my dethe and my grete nede thou secoure (succour) me and gyve me grace that I have remembrance of thy blessyd passion and contrityon of my synnes and that I may dye in the holy fayth and fynally may come to thee (the) glory eternall with all the saintes of heven. Amen." 40 J, Pearson & Co. " O Lord God almyghty all seynge, all thynges knowynge wisdome and sapience of all I poore sinner make thys day in despite of all the f(i)endes of hell protestation that yf by a(d)venture ony temptation deciption (deception) or variation comynge by sorowe peine or sykenesse or by ony feblenes of body or by ony other occasion whatsomever it be that I fall or declyne in perill of my soule or preiudice of my helthe or in errour of the holy fayth catholike in whiche I was regenerate in the holy font (of)bapty(s)me Lord god in goost (spirit) mynde in whiche I holde me now by thy grace, wherfore with all my herte I thank th(i)ee of that errour with my power I resiste and here renounce and of the same me confesse in ptstynge (protesting) that I will lyve and die in the fayth of (h)oly Chyrche our moder and thyn epouse (spouse) and in wit(h)nesse of this confession and protestation and in despite of the (f(i)endes of hell I off(e)r(e) to the(e) Credo (' I believe ' hence the creed) in whiche all verite and trhyte (truth) is conteyned and to the(e) I command my soule my fayth my lyfe and my dethe. Amen." Finally, at page 223, in Eng/ish, "The contentes of this boke. Fyrst an Almanacke, and a Kalendar. " A prayer to say at your uprysinge, Auxiliatric sis," etc. " A prayer to say when thou goest fyrst out of thy hous. Crux Triumph(a)lis with the colet (collect) of the thre(e) kynges. To the crosse. Crucem tua. To answere the preest atte masse when he sayeth Orate j? me frates. O animo christi. In entrying the chirche and takyng holy water Dne in multitudine. Aqua benedicta. Discedite a me O bone iesu tu novisti. "A prayer for carnal delectation. " Another for tentation of the flesche. " Another for very (true) penaunce. " A prayer of Seynt anselme. " Pater noster. Ave Maria. Credo. " A confession general Suscipere digneris. " A prayer atte gyving of pax. " A prayer to fore thou receyve the sacrement. " Another whan thou hast reyceved it. "Certayn collectis for synnes. " For unclen thoughtis. " For the king. " For thy fr(i)end lyving. " For wayfary(n)g men. " For thy fr(i)end beynge seke (sick). " For thy fader and moder deed (dead). " For thy fr(i)endis deed (dead). " For alle lyving and deed (dead). " Matines of oure lady wyth prime and the houres wyth the houres of the passion of oure lorde And of the compassion of oure lady. Salve regina wyth the versis. Gaude virgo mater christi. " Gaude flore virginali. ^^^^ — ^^^ -' II 5, Pall Mall Place 41 " A prayer to our lady and seynt iohon the uangelyst. O intemerata. Obsecro. Another to thyen (?them). Sancta maria regina. Stella celi extirpavit. " Prayers to the Sacrament atte levation. " Ave verum corpus natum. " And another to the trinite. Sancta trinitas unus deus. Deus qui superbis. Deus qui liberasti. Two lytil prayeres wyche kyng Harry te (the) Sixth made. Domine iesu christe qui solus. " Ite3 two prayeres ii coilectis to the thr(e)e kynges of coleyn Rex iaspar, etc. And Trium regum trium munus. The XV Os of Saynte brigitte. Prayeres to the pyte (pity) of our lord. Adoro te dne iesu christe wyth indulgences. A deuote prayer to our lord crucified et (and) tho (to) thys (his) fyues woundes. O pie crucifi. The prayer of saynt bernardyn. O bone iesu. wyth anthem and colet. O rex gloriose. To the crosse. Sanctifica me. To the propre (own) angel. O sancte angele. Diverse commemorations to these sainctes folowing. To saynt iames the more (greater). To saynt iames the la(e)sse. To saynt Sebastian To saynt christofore. To saynt george. To saynt martin. To saynt anthoni. To saynt francoys. To saynt anne. To saynt barbara. To the XI. M. virgines. To saynt apolyn. To alle seyntes. Two deuout prayers in englissh to iesu. A devote prayeres to the fader. Another to the Sonne and the third to the holy goost. Aspicial prayer late(ly) shewe(n) to a monk of vynhan. " Two deuoute prayers in Englissh. "The seven Psalmes. XV Psalmes with the letanie and suffrages. " The VIII versis of sainct bernard. At the end is a full-page painting of an incident in the life of St. Ignatius Loyola, sometimes assigned to St. Dominic, it is not very clear which. The costume is that of a Dominican friar. This miniature, tvhich is very tveil painted, and by the same hand as the " St. George and Dragon," and probably all the rest, was executed in all likelihood by Ger- main Hardouyn himself, who was, in his own time, considered to be '■'■in arte litleraire picture feritissimus" as the subscription says in the copy of the Hours of the Virgin published in 1514. He began printing as successor to his father or brother Gilles in 1509. Previously he had employed Ph. Pigouchet. In 1524 he employed Pierre Vidoue. /250 See Illustrations CHURCH OF ENGLAND. HORE BEATE VIRGINIS MARIE SECUNDU USUM SARUM . . . Parisiis opa ac arte Nicolai Hygma. Impensis honesti viri Symonis vostre. (On the G 42 J. Pearson & Co. reverse an Almanack for seventeen years, beginning with 1520.) Morocco . Paris, 1520. A very fine copy of this English Prayer Book, including the excessively rare " Rosarium Beate Marie " (8 leaves) at end. Only one other perfect copy (with the " Rosarium ") can be traced. Consists of 120 leaves, with an engraved border to every page, 18 large illustrations (not including the title and the anatomical man). In addition to the 18 large and most splendid wood-engravings, there are a large number of small ones, including 87 illustrating "The Dance of Death" and 60 illustrating the Rosary of the Blessed Virgin. The large illustrations are: i. Worship of the Trinity. 2. St. John. 3. The Betrayal. 4. The Tree of Jesse. 5. The Annunciation. 6. The Visitation. 7. The Crucifixion. 8. The Nativity. 9. The Warning to the Shepherds. 10. Adoration of the Shepherds. 11. Adoration of the Magi. 12. Presentation in the Temple. 13. Flight into Egypt. 14. Coronation of the Virgin. 15. Death of Uriah. 16. David playing on the harp. 17. Dives and Lazarus. 18. The Raising of Lazarus. They are splendid examples of the wood-engraver's art. There are a great many pages in the English vernacular. One of the finest known examples of Nicolas Hygman's press and in faultless preservation. It is to Simon Vostre that is due the accurate and elegant editions of the printed Horae that were to become, during the next five and twenty years, the glory of the Parisian press. Of the Kalendar it may be said that while constructed in Paris, it is intended for English use and therefore contains the names of many English saints as Wulstan, Mildred, Oswald, David, Chad, Edward, Cuthbert, Richard, Guthlac, Oswald (Abp.), Alphege, George, AVilfrid, Erkenwald, Aldelm, Augustine of Canterbury, Beda, Petroc, Edmund, Walburga, Cuthberga, Editha, Etheldreda, Winefride, Edmund (Bp.), Hugh, Thomas of Canterbury, and perhaps others not noticed. Fol. 9. With this page begin the usual rubrics in English, but here they are not treated as rubrics literally and printed in red, but as directions printed in the ordinary type in black. The first is " Wan thou goest first ou(t) of thy hous blcsse thee (cross thy- self) sayeng thus: Crux triumphalis," etc. Fol. 9 v. Following the prayer to Christ, called Ad crvcem, is the second instruc- tion: "Whan the prest torneth (turneth) after the lavatorie"; and just below, "At the levation (th' elevation) o four (of our) lord." In the printing of this sentence we see signs of the printer's ignorance of English. Fol. 10. Instruction: "Whan thou takest holy Water say thus: Aqua benedicta," etc. Note the word takest, which shows that the French typographer had then no K, so it is imitated by putting 1 and r together. " Wha (When) thoa (thou) beginnest to praye thus begynne kcnelyng (kneeling) (literally Irenelyng)." 5, Pall Mall Place 43 Fol. 13. Rubrics: " Whan thou receyveth the pax, say: Da pacem," etc. " Whan thou shalt receive the Sacrement : Domine non sum dignus." " Whan thou has received: Vera perceptio," etc. " To gete grace for synnes. Exaudi quo." Fol. 13 V. (See border noticed below.) " Ayenst (against) euyl thoughts — Omnipotens." "For the Kyng (literally Iryng — for the reason before-mentioned), Deus regnorum." "For t(h)y fr(i)end lyving. Deus qui." "For wayfaring men. Adesto Domine." " For friendes in syknes (sickness) (literally " sylrnes ") or in necessite — Omnipotens sempit." Fol. 14. Rubrics: " For thy frende that is deed (dead). Suscipe piisime deus." "For the lyvyng and deest (dead). Omnipotens sempiterne Deus." An English Indulgence of 32,755 years of pardon. "To them that before thys ymage of pyte (pity) deuoutly say V Pater noster et V Aves at a Credo pytously beholdyng these armes of cristes passion, argraunted XXXII. m. VII hodred & LV yers of pardon." Fol. 66. A Prayer in English with Invocations. " O Glorious iesu. O mekest iesu. o most swetrest iesu. I praye the (thee) tat (that) I may haue trevv confession contrition and satisfTaction : or I dye and that. I may see et (and) receyue thy holy body god et man. Saviour of alle mankynde (here is a true k type) criste iesu vvythou te synne and that thou vvylt milord god foryeve me alle my sines for ty (thy) glorious vvoundes and passion et (and) that. I may ende my lif in the trevve (true) faith of holy chirch et (and) in perfipht (perfect) loue et charite vvyth my euyen (own) cristen as thy creature et I commende my soule in tho (into) thy hole [fol. 66 v.] (holy) (h)andes thurgh (through) the glorious helpe of thy blessyd moder of mercy our lady Saint mary et alle the holy company of heuen : amen. "The body (holy) bodi of crist iesu be my salvatio of body (body) et soule. Amen. The glorious blod of criste iesu bring my soule et bady (body) in tho (into) the euerlasting blisse. Amen. " I crie god mercy. I crie god mercy. I crie god mercy Wei commy maker (welcome my maker) Wei commy redemer (Welcome my redeemer) Wei commy Sauyour (Wel- come my Saviour). I crye the (thee) mercy wyth hert contrit of my gret vnkyndnesse that. I have had tho (to) the(e)." The following lines [Fol. 66 v.] show very obviously that the compositor was ignorant of English and unable to read his " copy." The most sjrvethest spose. of ny so v\'le crist iesu desiring belthy evermore for tho be vvyth te in mynde et wylle et tho le the non erthely thyng be soo nyph myn hert as thou crist iesu et that 4+ J. Pearson & Co. 1 drede not for to deie for to goo the the crist iesu and that. I may evermore saye tho the wyth a glade chere my lord my god my souuerain sauyour christe iesu. I byseche te hertly take me sinner vntho ty gret mercy et grace for. I love the wyth almy hert wyth almy minde et wyth almy mygth et nothing so moch in erte ne above erthe as idoo te my Swete lorde crist iesu and for that. I have not loved te and worshypped to aboue al thing as my lord my god sauyour Criste iesu Ibische te wtyt meknesse of hert contrit of merci and of forieuenesse of mi gret vnkindnesse et fo the grete loue that tou — sheddeth for me and alle mankinde wat tyme — thou offredet ti glorious bodi god and man unto te crosse ther to be crucified and wonded and vnto thi glorious hert a shapspere ther renning out plaatyuoully blood and water for the redeption and salvation ofme : and alle mankinde : & thus hauinge remembraunce stedfastli in myne herte of the my sauyour criste iesu I doubte not but thou wilt be ful nighe me et conforte me bothe bodely and goostly with thi glorious presence And at the last bringe me vnto thyn euerlastinge blisse ; the vvich shalle never haue ende. Amen. List of Contents of this book in English. Fol. 1 16. " The contentis of thys booke. " Tekalender. The foye (four) gosepell. And te (the) passion. A prayer to the trinite, auxiliatrix. Another. Piissime deus. Crux triumphalis wyth the colet (collect) of the thre(e) kynges. " To the crosse. Crucem tuam. To ansuere the preest atte masse whan he sayth Orat(h)e pro me fratres O anima Christi. "In entryng the chirche and takyng holy water. Domine in multitudine. aqua benedicta. Discedite a me. O bone iesu tu nouisti. "A prayer for carnal delectation. "Another for tentatio (temptation) of the flesche. " Another for very (true) penaunce. " A prayer for diverse oures (hours) of the day. "A prayer of seynt augustin in the nyge (night). " A prayer of seynt anselme. " Pater noster Ave Maria and Credo. " A confession general. Suscipere digneris. " A prayer atte gyvyng of pax. 5, Pall Mall Place 45 " A prayer to fore thou receyve the sacrement another whan thou hast reycevedit (received it). " Certayn collectis for synnes. " For unclen (unclean) thoughtis. " For the king. " For thy frend lyving (living). " For vvayfarygme (wayfaring men). " For thy frande beynge (being) seke (sick). " For thy fader et (and) moder deed (dead). Fol. 116 v. "For thy fredis deed (friends dead). For alle liuig (living) and deed Martines (Matins) of oure lady vvyth prime ang (and) the houres vvyth the houres of the passion of our lorde. and of the compassion of our lady. Salve regina wyth the versis. Gaude virgo mater christi. " Gaude flore virginali " De profundis for alle cristen soules, a prayer to our lady and seynt iohon th'evangelyst. "O intemerata. Another to thyen (them?) " Sancte maria regina. Stella celi. " Prayers to the sacrement atte leuacion (at the elevation) aue verum corpus, and another to the trinite Sacta trinitas unus deus. Deus qui superbis. Deus qui liberasti. "Two lytil (little) prayers vvyche kyng harry te (the) si.xth made. Domine iesu christe qui me creasti. Domine iesu Christe qui solus. Ite (item) two prayers ii collectis to the thre(e) kinges of coleyn (Cologne) rex iaspar (Jasper) etc. ang (and) trium regu5 trium munus. The XV houres of the passion of our lorde. Prayers to the pyte (pity) of our lord, adoro te dne iesu christe vvyth indulgences. " A deuoute prayer to our lord crucified et tho (and to) thys (his) fyves woundes. O pie crucifixe The prayer of seynt bernardyn : o bone iesu wyth anthem et colet O rex gloriose. " To the crosse. Sanctifica me. To the propre annhel (guardian angel) O sancte angele. Diuerse commemoracions to these sainctes folovving (following). " To saynt iames the more. To saint iames the lasse. To saint Sebastian To salt (saint) xpofore (Christopher). To saint george To saint martin To saint anthony. To saint anne To saint Barbara To XI thousand virgines Tho (to) Sait apolyn To elle (all) seintes Two deuout prayers i (in) englissh to iesu. Deuoute prayer to be said i (in) the agonie or (of) deth and olso (also) dayly. A deuote prayers to the fader, another to the sone and the third to the holy goost. A special prayer late she we (lately shown) to a monk of vynhan. Deus propicius esto wyth a colette to saint michel an(d) anteme wyth a colet to saint gabriel Another to saint raphael, a devoute blessing. " Tuuo devoute prayers in englissh. " The vii psalmes xv psalmes uuyth the letaine and suffrages. " The viii versis of saint bernard " The short prayers taught bi our ladi to seint brigitte. A prayer aienst thonder and tempeste she uued (shown) by an angel to saint edward (Edward) Titulus triumphalis 46 J. Pearson & Co. iesus Placebo dirige and comendacio. A deuoute praier to the crosse A devoute prayer to the trinite made by saint gregory an anthem uuith a colet of saint hiero (St. Jerome) Sail hieromis psaulter Psalmes of the passion." Finally, the almost unique 8 leaves of the " Rosare." See Illustration 34 CHURCH OF ENGLAND. HORAE AD USUM ECCLESIE CICESTRIENSIS. Written and illuminated in England by a Lancastrian Scribe and Artist between the years 1450 and 1460. HOURS OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY AND OTHER OFFICES "AD USUM ANGLIAE," with variations and additions intended for special use in the South Saxon Diocese of Chichester (formerly Selsey). This unique manuscript dates from the Episcopate of Reginald Pecock (1450-1459). The Bishop was the author of the famous "Repressor" and of the recently discovered and unpublished " Reule of Crysten Religioun " now in Mr. J. P. Morgan's library. No Prayer-book for the Diocese of Chichester has hitherto been known or described. The British Museum possesses a Chichester Psalter, but does not possess a Chichester Horae; no other, in fact, appears to exist. Fol I. Within three side borders the Lord's Prayer, preceded by an English alphabet illustrating the Gothic letters used in the writing of the present manuscript. A large Maltese cross forms the ornament of the page, the initial opening to the Paternoster being much smaller — a gold capital on a coloured panel. Fol. I V. The Ave Maria and the Credo, followed, on fol. 2 v, by the Confession of Faith and Absolution. Fol. 3 V. Rubric referring to certain prayers and graces for special days before and after dinner. Fol. 6 V. Another rubric for certain other days. Fol. 9. Similar rubric for Lent. Fol. 13. The Calendar which, though it might have been expected otherwise, is, nevertheless, a strictly Anglican Calendar but for the particular use either of Chichester Cathedral itself or for the Diocese of Chichester. The Diocese of Chichester is situated in the south-west of England reaching to the English Channel, and was erected in 1 115. The See has yielded two Saints to the Church and three Lords Chancellor of England. Among the red-letter English Saints' days are: Jan. 19. St. Wulstan. Mar. 18. St. Edward the Confessor. 5, Pall Mall Place 47 Mar. 20. St. Cuthbert. April 3. St. Richard, the Bishop and Patron Saint of Chichester. July 7. Translation of St. Thomas of Canterbury. Aug. I. St. Peter's Chains (or "Lammas Day"). Sept. 4. Translation of St. Cuthbert. Nov. 20. St. Edmund (St. Richard's patron and devoted friend; his altar is in Chichester Cathedral). Dec. 29. St. Thomas of Canterbury. Black-letter English Saints' days are very numerous. Jan. 5. St. Thomas. Mar. I. St. David. Mar. 2. St. Chad. April 19. St. Elphege. May 19 St. Dunstan. June 9. Translation of St. Edmund. June 16. Translation of St. Richard (Bishop and Patron Saint of Chichester). June 20. Translation of St. Edward. June 22. St. Alban. June 23. St. Etheldreda. July 15. Translation of St. Swithin. July 16. Translation of St. Edmund. July 17. Translation of St. Kenelm. July 28. St. Sampson (of St. David's). Aug. 5. St. Oswald. Aug. 31. St. Cuthberga. Sept. 15. St. Edith. Oct. 12. St. Wilfrid (the founder of the See of Chichester). Oct. 19. St. Frideswide. Nov. 16. St. Edmund (St. Richard's devoted friend; his altar is in Chichester Cathedral). Dec. 3. St. Birinus of Chichester. It will be seen that this is an absolutely unique English Calendar. The page following the Calendar proves the special Chichester " use." After enumerating a variety of special days which local usage required, it says that there are three days in the whole year that are to be kept before all the rest: viz., April 3, August I, and December 3. These give us red St. Richard of Chichester; red St. Peter's Chains (Lammas Day); d/aek St. Birinus. All these point to the place of their celebration as being either the Cathedral City of Chichester itself or somewhere else in the diocese of Chichester. In the Cathedral was the magnificent shrine of St. Richard until it was desecrated and carried off by order of Henry VIII, and to Chichester the memorial of St. Birinus, Bishop of Dorchester, was transferred, and where, we may conclude, on " Lammas Day " the famous relics of St. Peter were specially honoured. In the year 1478 48 y. Pearson & Co. the crowd of Pilgrims who visited Chichester Cathedral on St. Richard's Day (April 3) was so great, that Bishop Storey had to make stringent rules whereby the pilgrims might approach the shrine in a reverent manner. Heretofore the pilgrims had used their staves to fight with for places, in consequence bloodshed and even murder had taken place. These orders of Bishop Storey were published on the Sunday preceding the festival of St. Richard. The inventory of jewels, relics, and other valuables, taken when St Richard's shrine was desecrated by Henry VIII, still exists in the public Record Office. The manuscript is enriched with nine remarkable full-page miniatures, 140 tnm. x 87 mm. There are no less than forty-four charming borders composed of fruit and flowers. The whole from the brush of a fifteenth-century Lancastrian artist. The martyrdom of St. Erasmus (see illustration) is most remarkable, fol. 2 1 5 v. Such are the contents (summarized) of this handsomly written and richly illuminated Chichester Horae. The miniature paintings and the ornamental letters are in the finest style of Lancastrian English art, and the very quaint costumes are those worn by English- men and Englishwomen in the reign of Henry VI, who was the last king of the house of Lancaster. The date of this style of ornamentation is from the marriage of Richard II (to Anne of Bohemia) until the reign of Edward IV (1382-1461). The Indications in this MS. point to the reign of Henry VI, or area 1450. An illuminated Missal used in the Diocese of Lincoln, written about 1405, gives a Commemoration (but not a miniature) of St. Erasmus, but English devotion to him did not commence much before 1489. Thus his life is not given in Caxton's "Golden Legend" of 1483, but is in that of 1489. St. Erasmus seems to have come into the English calendar from the Dutch, as the representation of his martyrdom occurs in a Dutch MS. in the Fitzwilliam Library at Cambridge, in much the same form as the Lan- castrian miniature in this present manuscript. ^^'e have never met with any other English Horae containing a notice of St. Erasmus as early as the present. The Lincoln MS. alluded to above is a Missal, not a Horae. The variations in the Burial Service suggest the influence of Bishop Pecock, during whose Episcopate this present MS. was written. Bishop Reginald Pecock became Bishop of Chichester after the death of Bishop Molins. The very remarkable unpublished manuscript of Bishop Pecock's which recently passed into the J. P. Morgan library was edited by Dr. James Gairdner. The language of the English passages in this Horae is precisely the same as that of Pecock's " Repressor," and is more antiquated than either Lydgate or Chaucer. The " Repressor " is the earliest known example of the English vernacular of the times anterior to the Wars of the Roses. Notice, for example, the use of the gutteral z for g or gh. We give an illustration of one of the English vernacular prayers: Fol. 213. Huiric before the Commemoration of St. Erasmus. " Gode almygthi hathe grauntyd that wath mane woman or chylde that redyth this prayer that foloweth every sonday or zevyth (giveth) any almys to a power mane or a candyll of wax byrnnyng (burning) in the worship of gode and seynt erasme he shal have fyve yyftis (gifts) of god. The fyrst is that he schal have resonable goode to his lyves ende. The secunde ys that his enmyes shal have no powere to do him harme The \ oCr aliupgtln l|sti)c j guiuuti»o tijatmmij influcivomaTioidipllirpflt « \mtti.\ may Cbiitapot ;r iiifluf oi a csnibyii otv^m of ptr miD rf)>itt cniftttf (if gmiliauffpvcmtoofffDt Miicfrrfti$tijfltt)f friial liaiic itfoiia&Ic pott to in^ Hi at 1(1$ cinuiic? ftiai liaiic uo ^joiucrc to fo l|im (mrutt l)cti)nb)»$w(iatitfoMa _j 34 ^ a^ nntial)onnttinoftn Utdixpi -ji^ctcantaBlxucoiuuiuuimno (a ^/(•(pU6{itrmipmmDmiiUju6nx)bC* ' inica Xlnfe iriTon tolt f a^^ ail'.v. IcntCiifmnnmSaii^ eaUimti panantimnt rt^io^ Toagos (^ mDunnDoinmntiiani mniiu *. t)cn$ imt)i«n opi mini canian -^(4 timniiicbcCfxtis aitofeDomnuift -^^DtinwwtnisAnuii^. -ittinuctc. ,,^^^ nt immbmiunaimitm nu ^ - tmccK^i nu(matoil3oimnn5C(d <^^wtfmt, Agtmwfttim .praUnii'^ JWiiilmcifiumuun .auctttiirhc -". "Ca^ismlnitcttnspralnms ^" f -AUxoxma Ini&(cmn5um nia tgt\ani.<6lo2iapatu.>iaitaHt . 35 5, Pall Mall Place 49 thride ys what resonabile prayer that he askyth ytt schalbe grauntyd him. The fowrth ys that he schalbe delyveryd of al maner of his tribulacions and hys deseses boyth visable and vnvysable. The fyffte ys that at hys last ende he schal have so grete repentance that he shall not die withoute howsil and schryft {i.e. sacrament of the Lord's Supper, and confession to a priest) and other the sacramentis of holy chirch. And thys ys the prayer that foloyth. Oracio bona et devote valde." This unique and precious manuscript has been described by Professor Bradley, and a copy of his description, specially printed and illustrated, will be sent on application. -^1,250 See Illustrations 35 CHURCH OF ENGLAND. HORAE AD USUM ANGLIAE. Written and Illuminated at St. Albans, in the Reign of Henry V. Ofi Vellum. Small 410. B hie morocco. (Circa 10^20) The handwriting of the Manuscript is precisely similar to that of certain books written at St. Albans for Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester {e.g. Roy. MS. 2 B. I. British Museum). Duke Humphrey, who was a grandson of Edward HI, died in 1446. It may be thought that when one had seen half a dozen Anglican Books of Hours, it would be possible to say what all other English Horae were like both in contents and features. But experience teaches otherwise. There is always something noteworthy about every individual English manuscript. So it is with this Manuscript. It omits St. Swithin (17th July), and, of course, St. Osmund and St. Kenelm, which proves that, although Anglican, it is not a strictly Sarum calendar. The omission of Saints Dunstan and Osmund is quite evidence enough of this. Moreover, it is a very old mixed Anglican and Roman calendar. But as it includes St. Thomas of Canterbury it must be later than 1 1 73 as regards its antiquity as a calendar. The calendar itself is written in a fifteenth-century hand, about 1420. Then follow a number of prayers, etc., with rubrics in English, which are very rarely found at this early period. Fol. 8 V. Afore mete grac' on the flesch davis. Fol. 10. For alle Cristen soulis. Fol. 1 1. This gracis to be sayde on the fysche day afor mete. Fol. 1 1 V. This lesson to be sayde all ye Lente a-fore mete. Aftir mete. Alle the weke dayis in Lente this Psalmus. Fol. 12. This is the grace on Hester (Easter) Eve afore mete. Aftir mete on Hester (Easter) Eve. Fol. 12 V. Colette. On Ester (Easter) Day afore mete. Gracis. This is ye blyssyng for flesch on Hester (Easter) Day. H 50 J. Pearson & Co. Fol. 13. Aftir mete on Hester (Easter) Day. On Hester (Easter) Day. At Soper. Aftyr soper the same day. Fol. 13 V. This forsevde gracis to be sayde all the Ester Were. And this same grac' to be savde eui Souday frO Ester tul the Ascenciou. Aftyr Soper alle the zer (year) thorowe. Fol. 15. Prayer concerning the Holy Trinity, beginning the Commemorations of Saints, and having a handsome initial D of a style similar to that of Harleian MS. 3000, or the Queen Mary's Hours in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. There is also an all-round border in a French-like style, at that period common to English books of the time. 4 pp. Fol. 17. Memoria of St. John Baptist, with initial G by same hand as the preceding D. Full border of the usual French thorn-acanthus spray intermingled with natural flowers and fruits. It is really a Burgundian style of border. Fol. 37. Rubric: '■^ Here begin the Hours of the Blessed Virgin Mary according to the use of Sarutn." At Matins. Initial D and border. This commences the Hours Proper. Fol. 69. A series of Invocations addressed to the Blessed Virgin Mary, interspersed with, or interpunctuated by, words and phrases in red, being the commencing words, etc., of the groups of verses. These headings, however, read consecutively apart from the verses — a by no means unusual form of composition in mediaeval times and common in Oriental books — especially in Arabic. On looking more closely into this " Rithmus " we find it to be a well-known monastic Hymn or Invocation to the ^'irgin which sometimes occurs in Anglican Horae. It here begins with part of the fifth quatrain, and, moreover, with an error in the second word, where the copyist has written virgo instead of virga. Fol. 84 V. Rubric: Indulgence to such as say the following prayer between the elevation of the Host and the third Agnus Dei granted by Boniface VI for 2,000 years at the intercession of King Philip of France. Fol. 143. Here comes a long rubric relating to the so-called Psalter of St. Jerome, which consists of 183 verses selected from the whole Psalter; it is also found in the Eng- lish Horae printed in 1534 by Frangois Regnault. See Illustration 36 CHURCH OF ENGLAND. HORAE BEATE VIRGINIS MARIE SECUNDUM USUM ANGLIAE. Written on vellum and illustrated with 6 Miniature Paintings (in the Bohemian manner) by an English artist of the reign of Richard II. Small 4to. Old red morocco, richly gilt. Circa 1390 This Horae, which was formerly an heirloom in the Lyte family, cannot be assigned to any particular English diocese. February gives us English usage in Saints Vedast ^ 1^^ •v- *-. .- .Jfc 36 5, Pall Mall Place 51 and Amand on 6th and St. Milburga on the 23rd; also St. Augustine of Canterbury on the 27th. March is equally decided in showing an Anglican preference St. David (ist), St. Chad (2nd), St. Edward (i8th), Cuthbert (20th), Benedict (21st), not to mention Withburga on the i6th. April gives us St. Richard (3rd), in several English dioceses; St. Alphege (19th) here written Aelphe, and St. Erkenwald (30th), in Sarum and Chichester. May has St. Dunstan (19th) in several English dioceses, St. Augustine (26th), St. Germain (28th), but omits St. Hugh, showing it not to be of Lincoln. June IS strongly English. St. Edmund (9th), St. Richard (i6th), St. Alban (22nd), here Albin, Etheldreda (Etelthedre) (23rd). July, again, very English. St. Thomas of Canterbury (3rd), St. Kenelm (i6th). Here, on the 28th, is a family entry in red ink to say thaty>-- .^ ^^^»>f^«?~-: ^"J^/l^): ^L^jh m0m///mm/mmmiiimimm/mmmk .^^a ^wimnff NOVVM TESTA MENTVM OMNE, MVLTO QVAM ANTEHAC DI IiCTcntiusab erasmo roterodamo rccognicu.eme datum ac tranflatum.no folum ad Graxam ucricate.ucaim criam ad multoru ucriufcji lingua; codioim.corumqj uctcru fimul K cmedatorum fidcm , poftrcmo ad piobatilTimoiu automm dtationcm.cmedacionem 8i intciprctatione, prs/ cipuc Origcnis.Athanafii.Nadanrcni.Qiryfoftomi, Cy^ rilli.Thcophylacfti.Hicronymi, Cypi iani, Ambrofii, Hila^ rrj. Auouftini.una cu Annocationibus recogniris.ac magna acccflionc locupletaris, qua: leiflorem doccant, quid qua ra/ rionemucatu (it.Qiiifquis igimr amas nera Thcologiamjc gccognofcc.ac dcindeiudica.Ncq? ftatim ofFcndcrcfi quid mutatum ofFcndcris.fcd cxpcndc.num in melius mucamm (it.Nam morbus eft non iudidum, damnarc quod non vcv fpcxeris. SALVO VBIQ.VE ET ILLABEFACTO ECCLESIAE IVDICIO. Additafuntin fingulas Apoftolorum epiftolaS AroumencapcrERASMVM ROT. y.am[z.tl^ 5, Pall Mall Place 59 43 COLLINS (WILKIE). THE ORIGINAL HOLOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT of "The Evil Genius." Covering 293 leaves. 4to. Bound in red morocco. Quite complete. This is the Original Manuscript of one of VVilkie CoUins's best novels. It was first published in 1886, and a copy of the original edition accompanies this, the original manuscript. 44 CORNEILLE (PIERRE). LE MENTEUR, COMEDIE. 410. First Edition. Red morocco. Imp7-im^a Rouen, et se vend a Paris, Chez Antoine de Somniaville, en la Gallerie des Merciers, d fEscu de France. Et Atigustin CourbS, en la niesme Gallerie, a la Palme. Au Palais, 1644. " Les principaux traits de cette comedie furent empruntds par Corneille a I'inter- essante piece espagnole la Verdad Sospechosa, ainsi que le poete I'annonce dans son ^pitre, comme 11 avait avoue aussi avoir pris son sujet du Cid, k Guillem de Castro. Toutefois Corneille attribue k tort la Verdad Sospechosa k Lope de Vega, sous la nom duquel elle avait paru, il est vrai, avec d'autres, en 1630, mais par erreur. Cette piece fut bientot revendiqude par son veritable auteur, Don Juan Ruiz de Alarcon y Mendoza, et toujours reimprimde depuis dans les oeuvres de ce dernier." 45 CRANMER AND ERASMUS CRANMER (ARCHBISHOP). NOVUM TESTAMENTUM omne, multo quam antehac diligentius ab Erasmo Roterodamo recognitu, emedatum ac translatum, no solum ad Graecum veritate, verum etiam ad multorii utriusq^ linguae codicum, etc. Very fine woodcut borders, ornamental initials and ornameuts by Holbein and Urs Graf. Original sheepskin binding, enclosed in a morocco case. Basil, Froben, 15 19. A most precious relic of the great Archbishop, being his perso?ial copy of Erasmus's famous Latin and Greek Testament. His signature, Thomas Cantuarien, is on the title- 6o J. Pearson & Co. page, and 21 pages of the volume bear no less than 160 of his autograph annotations. The Archbishop has used red ink for his Greek notes, and black ink for the Latin notes. This volume was probably used by the Archbishop in 1540 when engaged in pre- paring his famous edition of the English Bible. Moreover, the volume is in its original binding of sheepskin, just as he handled it. It afterwards passed into the possession of John, Lord Lumley, the tutor and friend of Prince Henry, eldest son of James 1, and has his autograph signature on the title-page. " The majority of Cranmer's books fell into the hands of Henry Fitzalan, Earl of Arundel, who gave them to his son-in-law, Lord Lumley. Lord Lumley was tutor to Prince Henry (the unfortunate elder son of James I of England) who, on his tutor's death in 1609 bought a large part of his library which thus became part of the Royal Library, transferred to the British nation in 1757." It is impossible to conceive a more interesting relic of these two famous Tudor theologians. See Illustration 46 CRUIKSHANK, LIFE OF SIR JOHN FALSTAFF. With Biography of the Knight from Authentic Sources, by R. B. Brough. Frontispiece and fine plates by G. Cruikshank. First Edition. Imp. 8vo. Original gilt cloth. • 185^- An immaculate copy as fresh and clean as if just published. Copies in this state are excessively rare. 47 ARCHBISHOP WHITGIFT'S COPY DE BRY (THEODORUS). ADMIRANDO NARRATIO | Fida tamen, | de Commodis et | Incolarum ritibus Virginae, nuper | admo- dum ab Anglis, qui a Dr. Richardo | Greinvile, equestris ordinis viro eo in I Coloniam anno M.D. LXXXV. deducti sunt | inventae, sumtus faciente Dn. Waltero | Raleigh equestris ordinis viro Fodi- naru | stanni praefecto ex auctoritate serenissimae Reginae Angliae. | Anglico scripta sermone | a Thoma Hariot, eiusdemWalteri do- mesti- I CO, in earn Coloniam misso ut Regionis si- | tum diligenter observaret. | Nunc autem primum latio donata a | CCA. | Cum gratia & privilegio Caes Maiest. ad quadriennium. | 5, Pall Mall Place 6i Beautiful impressions of the finely engraved border to title and the 28 fine large engravings and tnap by De Bry and G. Veen. Folio. Original calf. Francoforti ad Moenum \ typis Joannis Wecheli, sumtibus vero Theodori \ De Bry atmo cioioxc (1590) | Venales reperiuntur in Officina Sigisnitoidi Feirabendii. 1590. The finest known copy of this famous and precious volume. This is the excessively rare First Issue of the First Edition of the "Latin America" of T. de Bry (see No. 140 in the Church Catalogue). From the library of John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury (from 1583 to 1604) with his arms impressed (in gold) on both sides of the binding, and doubtless sent to Queen Elizabeth's favourite Archbishop by the author. Apart from its excessively rare provenance, the present example is far finer than that in the Church collection having the original blank leaf D6 which in the Church example is " substituted." The present copy agrees with the description of the first issue given in the Church catalogue, except that plates III, V, VI, VIII, IX, and XV are assigned by Church to the second issue of the First Edition. Be this as it may, these six plates are extremely brilliant impressions, and the volume before us is certainly now in exactly the same con- dition as when originally bound for the great Archbishop's library. As regards size the present copy is slightly wider than the Church example. The " Privilege " is printed on a tiny slip (see Church) which is pasted beneath the title, and examples with this peculiarity appear to be of great rarity. The Church copy has the ordinary printed " Privilege." The superb full-page plate of Adam and Eve (T. de Bry's chef-d'«uvre) is in the " first state." The Dedication to Maximilian, King of Poland and Archduke of Austria, later Emperor of Germany, is preceded by a superb engraving of the King's Arms. The present volume passed some time after Archbishop Whitgift's death into the fine library of Sir Robert Abdy, of Albyns, Essex, and bears his ex-libris. Sir Robert was one of the first baronets created by Charles II (in 1660). £aoo 48 DEFOE (DANIEL). THE LIFE AND STRANGE SUR- PRIZING ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE. Frontispiece by Clark and Pine. Red morocco. 8vo. London, for W. Taylor, 1719. First Edition. The farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. Being the Second and Last Part of his Life. With a Map of the World. London, for JF. Taylor, 17x9. 62 J. Pearson & Co. First Edition. Serious Reflections during the Life and surprising Adventures of Robin- son Crusoe, with his Vision of the Angelick World. London, for W. Taylor, 1720. First Edition. 3 vols. 8vo, uniformly bound in red morocco extra. First Issue of the First Edition of all three volumes, with all " the points." .^250 49 DE HOYM (COUNT). The ''Polish Grolier" (1694- 1736). J. Pearson and Co. have for sale an unrivalled collection of 81 splendidly bound volumes bearing the arms of Count de Hoym. There are in addition a collection of Original Autograph Manu- scripts and Letters of Hoym, a priced catalogue of the Hoym librarjf, Baron Pichon's "Vie de Comte de Hoym," 2 vols., and the Grolier Club's translation of the same, i vol. — 86 volumes in all. A special catalogue of these will be sent on application. The " Life of the Count de Hoym," by Baron Jerome Pichon, was one of the most noted publications of the Grolier Club. Price of the entire Collection ^1,850 See Illustration 50 DE LA NOUE. INSTITUTION DE LA DISCIPLINE MILITAIRE AU ROYAUME DE FRANCE. Folio. Vellum, with Grolier's Autograph on the Title-page, and the arms of Grolier de Servi^re in gold on the sides of the binding. Lyon, 1559. An extremely precious joint-ppovenance. Grolier de Servifere was the grand-nephew of the famous bibliophile. Guigard gives an account of the only other example of Grolier de Serviere's library that can be traced. /120 See Illustrations 49 f 2\(^S Tl T V T r O 7^ DE LA DISCIPLINE MILITAIRE AV ROYAVME DE FRANCE. ^' Treshauh ^ Trefpuijfaift Pr'mce (tAntoine "Hoy ciff j\(^uarre- xA L 10 Ts!^ %>^ L tyf tJ?/ M //-▼ Z^' ss 5, Pall Mall Place 65 The only other Diderot Manuscript known to us is in Mr. J. P. Morgan's Library. The existence of the present Manuscript was unknown to Lord Morley when he published his well-known " Life of Diderot." ^500 See Illustration 56 "NELL" GWYNNE'S AUTOGRAPH DRAMATIC AND MUSICAL AUTOGRAPHS. A Collection of about 400 AUTOGRAPH LETTERS OF THE MOST EMINENT ENGLISH AND FOREIGN ACTORS AND ACTRESSES, MUSICIANS, DRAMATIC MEN AND WOMEN, etc., etc. There are in addition 242 portraits of the writers of these letters (chiefly choice proofs and many extremely rare), also a unique collection of 158 OLD PLAY BILLS, views and other illustrations. The whole arranged alphabetically in 5 large folio volumes, with Baron Heath's specially printed titles. Splendidly bound in ftill red morocco extra, g.e., with Baron Heath's ex-libris. The finest Dramatic and Musical Collection that has occurred for Sale within living memory. This unequalled collection was formed by Baron Heath between the years 1830 and 1865. It contains, inter alia, a letter from Humphrey Moseley to Sir H. Herbert, the Master of the Revels, respecting the Actors of the Red Bull and Cockpit Playhouses, and the Plays performed there, dated 30th August 1660; a. I. s. of Mrs. Abingdon, 2 pp., 410. J. Bannister, Spranger Barry (relative to Garrick), Miss Bateman, Master Betty, Mrs. Billington, John Braham; two theatrical documents with the joint signatures of Colley Cibber, Barton Booth and R. Wilks; Theophilus Cibber, a splendid a.l.s., 3 pp., large folio, to his wife (this is a most remarkable love-letter); Thomas Davis, W. Dowton, R. W. Elliston, Miss Farren (afterwards Countess of Derby), W. Farren, J. Fawcett, C. Fechter, Samuel Foote, a. I. s., 2 pp., 4to, excessively rare; David Garrick, a. I. s., 4 pp., 4to, to his brother George, and also an a.l.s., i p., 410, quoting Shakespeare; Joseph Grimaldi. The gem of the collection is the almost unique signature of " Nell " GwYNNE, (" E. G.") to a treasury receipt for ;^25o; as well as the original Treasury Document respecting her Annuity (granted by Charles II) of j[^W7 fLy(-<^ (TV c iC<^/6^^ 5, Pall Mall Place 67 57 DUMAS (ALEXANDRE, PERE). THE ORIGINAL HOLO- GRAPH MANUSCRIPT (SIGNED) of his "Henry IV." Covering no pages. Large folio. Botcnd in red morocco. This superb Manuscript is quite complete. It is signed no less than twelve times by Dumas. Inserted are very important Holograph Letters from Dumas to King Louis Philippe. 58 EDWARD I. THE ARTYCLES OF THE CHARTOURE and lybertyes of Englande called Magna carta that is to saye the great chartour, with the Chartoure of Foresta. {A rms of Henry VIII.) 1 2 mo. Bhce morocco. Robert VVyer, London (circa 1535) Unique. This little book contains an English translation of the Great Charter and Charter of the Forest issued by Edward I. Who the translator was is not mentioned, but the work has been done in a curiously careless manner. In the fifth article, which relates to the duties of guardians towards minors in England, the guardian is bound to maintain the "vineyards." The word in the original has been mis-read "vinaria" and translated "vineyards," when it is really "vivaria," otherwise "fish-ponds"! In article 29, the well- known mortmain act, the beginning is here given, " Be it lawfull from hensforth," etc., in place of " Be it unlawful," etc. It appears to be the earliest English volume relative to Fishponds. Robert Wyer, the printer, is mentioned as a printer in the lay subsidy accounts as early as 1524, but nothing is known from his press before 1530. He lived at the sign of St. John Evangelist in the parish of St. Martin-in-the- Fields, and from 1530 to 1560 issued a very large number of small, popular books. Of this particular volume we can find no trace, nor is it mentioned by Mr. Plomer in his bibliography of Wyer. 59 ELGAR (SIR EDWARD). THE ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH MUSICAL MANUSCRIPT SIGNED. loi pages. Folio. This is the original autograph manuscript of the full score of Op. 40, " COCKAIGNE." The autograph title-page reads: " Cockaygne {in London town), Overture for full orchestra. 68 |. Pearson & Co. Edward Elgar, op. 40. Dedicated to my many friends, the members of British Orchestras. Score. A gift to Henry Ettling, Nov. 5, iqoi, from Edward Eigar." The title-page bears besides, a third signature of the Composer with his address and his illuminated shield of arms. At the end: " Edward Elgar, Malvern Craeghsen, March, 1 901," and the motto: " Metelees and monelees on Maluerne hulles, Piers the plowman." This important auto- graph manuscript contains numerous corrections, sometimes on slips pasted over the corrected parts of the manuscript. Quite complete. An extremely important autograph tnanuscript of one of the most famous works of England's greatest living Composer. £200 See Illustration. 60 ELIZABETH (QUEEN). HER ROYAL SIGN MANUAL to a document on vellum, issued under her Privy Seal, with a fine impression of the Seal attached. Large folio. Dated from the Chapter House of Christ Church, Canterbury. February 16, 1582 This splendid document is of unusual interest because of the Queen's Royal Sign Manual being accompanied by the Great Seal; such an occurrence is unusually rare. Either documents were signed by the Queen, without an impression of the Great Seal, or they were issued in the Queen's name (but not signed by her), and bearing an impression of the seal. This is the only document with both the signature of Elizabeth and an impres- sion of her Great Seal that has come under our notice. The document itself is " An Indenture " between the Queen's Majesty, on the one part, and the Dean and Chapter of Christ Church, Canterbury, on the other. The Dean and Chapter agree to let unto Her Majesty, for the sum of ^100, to be paid before the sealing of this document, and a further ;^4oo to be paid to the Dean and Chapter in the manner set forth in this " Indenture " — the site of the Courtlodge of the Manor of Apple- dor e in Kent. The Indenture has two separate indorsements, one of which is as follows: " Counterpart of Lease from the Dean and Chapter of Christ Church Canterbury to Queen Elizabeth of the Scite of the Court Lodge of the Manor of Appledore in Kent for a Term of years. Expired in 1643." 61 ENGLAND. A BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND FROM THE REIGN OF EGBERT TO THE END OF GEORGE I, consisting of Characters disposed in different Classes, 5, Pall Mall Place 69 adapted to a Methodical Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits. This unique copy has been extended from 7 vols, to ^t^ folio vols, by THE INSERTION OF ABOUT 4,500 MEZZOTINT AND OTHER PORTRAITS, MANY BEING PROOF IMPRESSIONS. There is a specially printed title to each volume. Bound in old green morocco extra. A most superb set of books. Amongst the rarer of the remarkable collection of Mezzotint portraits may be men- tioned: Henry VI, by Faber; Margareta, mother of Henry VH; Henry of Monmouth, by Faber; Hugo de Balsam, by Faber ; and many others by Faber; Edward VI ; Thomas Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, by J. Smith; Martin Bucer, by Houston; John Hooper, by Houston; James I, by J. Smith; William Shakespeare, by C. Turner; Abraham Hondius, by J. Smith; Mrs. Tumor, after Kneller; Charles I, by J. Smith; another after Van Dyck, by J. Smith; Duke of Gloucester, by J. Smith; Mary, Princess of Orange, after Van Dyck, by Faithorne; Lord John and Lord Bernard Stuart, after Van Dyck, by McArdell; John Egerton, Earl of Bridgwater, after Kneller, by J. Smith; John Hampden, by A. Miller; Drummond of Hawthornden, by Finlayson; Van Dyck, by Watson; St. Agnes (Mary Villiers, Duchess of Richmond and Lennox), by J. Smith; Rachel, Countess of South- ampton, after Van Dyck, by McArdell ; Prince of Orange and Nassau ; Lady Elizabeth Cromwell, after Kneller, by J. Smith; James Harrington, by Marchi; John, Earl of Exeter, after Kneller; Andrew Marvell, by J. R.Smith; Sir Thos. Jones, after Claret; Sir John Chichley, after Lely, proof impression; Rembrandt, after the painting by himself, and another by C. Townley; Sir Peter Lely, by Becket; Sir G. Kneller, two anonymous portraits by J. Smith; Guil. Wissing, by J. Smith; Sir Christopher Wren, after Kneller, by J. Smith ; W. Vaillant, after the painting by himself; Isabella, Duchess of Grafton, after Kneller, by Faber; Henry Jenkins; Col. Blood, by G. White, proof impression ; Bp. Burnet, proof impression; Mr. and Mrs. Gibbons, after Closterman, by J. Smith; Rev. T. Parnell; J. B. Monoyer, after Kneller, by G. White; Diana Vere, Duchess of St. Albans after Kneller, by Faber; Frances Bennet, Countess of Salisbury, after Kneller, by J. Smith; Rev. John Moore, after Kneller, by Faithorne; E. W. Jeffreyes, after Dahl, by Sympson; Wm. Cowper, surgeon, after Closterman, by J. Smith; Joseph Addison (there are three portraits of this distinguished author); Mrs. Centlivre, after Firmin, by Pelham; Richard Blome; Major R. Snow, writing master, after Is. Whood, by V. Hacken, fine impression; T. Frampton, Royal Stud-Keeper, after Wooton, by Faber; Charles, Viscount Townshend, two portraits, one being a proof; Henry Clinton, Earl of Lincoln, with Thomas Pelham, Duke of Newcastle, after Kneller, by Faber; Lord Torrington, after Kneller, by J. Smith; Bp. Gibson, after Murray, by Gibson; Rev. T. Langdon, after N. Tucker, by Faber; Charles Dartiquenave, after Kneller, by Faber, fine; Peter King, by Faber; Sir Thos. Bury, after Richardson, by J. Smith; Sylvester Petyt, after R. V. Bleeck, by G. White; Wm. Hucks, after Vanderbank, by Faber; Alex. Pope, by J. Smith; Sir Richard Steele, after Richardson, by J. Smith; Christopher Wren, by Faber; William Stukely, after Kneller, by J. Smith; H. Wanley, after Hill, by J. Smith; A. de Moivre, after Highmore, by Faber; Tycho Wing, after Vanderbank, by G. White; R. Van Bleeck, after Ipse; John 70 y. Pearson & Co. Bannister, after Murray, by J. Smith; T. Walker (as Capt. Macheath), after Ellys, by Faber; Mr. Isaac (dancing master), after L. Goupy, by G. White; John Sturges, after Vanderbank, by Kyte, and another by White; Mrs. Gurney, "the Fair Quaker," after Houston; PhiUp Lockhart, by A. Johnston; Voltaire, after Sen; Owen McSwiny, after Vanloo, by Faber; Layton Smith, by Faber; Abr. Stanyan, after Kneller; Martin Folkes, after Vanderbank, by Faber; the notorious Buckhorse, proof impression. In addition to these there are numerous fine and rare mezzotint portraits after Sir Godfrey Kneller, Richardson, Wissing, Murray, Riley, Closterman, Schalken, Verelst, Dahl, Gibson, Russell, ^'anderbank, Grace, Ellys, Reynolds, Stevens, Highmore, Jervas, Ramsay, Hill, Hudson, Dandridge, Smibert, Hysing, Laffontaine, Bragge, Wollaston, Latham, Hicks, Vandersaart, Stubly, Parry, Knapton, and others. Amongst the portraits (other than mezzotint) will be found: William Shakespeare, by W. Marshall for the Poems of 1640 (extraordinarily rare); John Milton, after Marshall, with the sarcastic Greek lines beneath; Dr. Donne, by Marshall; J. Sylvester, by Vicars; Prince Rupert, after Van Dyck; Lodowick, Duke of Richmond, by Pass; Thomas Earl of Arundel, by Pass; Lord Montjoy Blunt, by T. Jen- ner; Francis White, by Cockson ; Andrew Willet, Hugo Broughton, by Payne; Sir Anthony Sherley; Francis Lord Bacon, by Marshall, also one by Hollar; Sir Henry Hobart, by Pass; Sir Horace Vere, by Faithorne, proof impression; John Milton, by Faithorne; Ben Jonson, by Holl; Henry, Earl of Nassau, by Pass; John Fletcher, an original drawing in sepia, by E. Bathurst; another portrait of Fletcher (engraved), by Marshall; Countess of Pembroke, by Pass; Sir Walter Raleigh, six scarce portraits; Aaron Rathbome, by Pass; J. Florius, by Hole; William Lithgow; Catharine, Marchioness of Buckingham, by Pass; Lucia Harin, by Pass; Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel, and Aletheia Talbot; James Stewart, Earl of March, by Voerst; Henry Rich; Jerom Weston, Earl of Portland; Wm. Gouge, by Faithorne; Wm. Fenner, by Hollar; John Rogers; R. Carpenter, by Marshall; Ranulph Crew; James Calthorpe; Sir B. Rudyerd, by J. Payne; Sir Mathew Lister; Sir John Suckling, by Marshall; R. Stapylton, by Marshall; George Withers, by J. Payne; Robert Baron, by Marshall; Henry Spelman, by Faithorne; John Dethick, by Lombart; John Tradescant (two portraits), by Hollar; Elizabeth, Countess of Kent; Jane, daughter of Arthur Goodwin, after Van Dyck; Mr. Hobson, by J. Payne; Moll Cut-Purse, three portraits; Giovanni Viconte Mordaunte, by Faithorne; Brian Walton, by Lombart; F. Roberts, by Cross; Arthur Jackson, by Loggan; Hugh Peters, three scarce portraits, one a proof, and a rare mezzotint; Robert Leighton; Sir Samuel Morland, by Lombart, a fine proof; Alex. Erskine, a proof before the numbers; John Bulwer, two rare portraits, one a proof; Francis Rous, by Faithorne; Prince Rupert, after Lely; George, Duke of Albemarle; Dr. Henry More, by Faithorne, another by Loggan; Thomas Killigrew, by Faithorne; Valentine Greatrakes, by Faithorne; Edward Waterhouse, by Loggan, proof impression; Sir George Wharton; Sara, Duchess of Somerset; Thos. Mace, by Faithorne; Anne, Countess of Chesterfield, after Van Dyck, by Faber, a beautifully executed sepia drawing by Le Belloman, from the rare print; Hortense Mancini, after Lely, by G. Valck; King James ye Second's Lord Chancellor endeavouring to save himself by flight; Timothy Hatton, by Burghers; John Smith (writing master); Thomas Baskerville; Oliver Cromwell 5, Pall Mall Place 71 (discovering his Chaplain on his knees, before his daughter), by Bartolozzi, after Cipriani; Granny, after Laroon, etc. There are also several rare portraits of Milton, Oliver Cromwell, Lord Fairfax, Queen Mary, and Queen Anne, portraits of the English Countesses by Lombart, the series of fine portraits by Houbraken and Vertue, etc. These 31 splendid voluiMEs form perhaps the most magnificently "Granger- ized " BOOK THAT HAS EVER OCCURRED FOR SALE — ITS ORIGINAL COST (ABOUT A HUNDRED YEARS ago) MUST HAVE BEEN AT LEAST jQ2,000. ThE PORTRAIT OF SHAKESPEARE BY Marshall is alone worth jC2oo, and many hundreds of portraits are, individually, of considerable value. The index volume, in 8vo, interleaved, with numerous MS. additions, accompanies the collection. /800 62 ESSEX (ROBERT DEVEREUX, EARL 0¥), favourite of Qzieen Elizabeth, executed 1601. A. I. s. in French, i page, folio, dated ce 10 de Jan. noiiveau stile (1595). To Henry IV of France, ivith seal. " Sire, " Having received the very favourable letters of your Majesty from the Sieur de Beaumont I consider myself obliged by the same to present, by letter, the very humble service that I have sworn to devote to you. Your Majesty well knows that my hand is very bad and my style in French very much worse, however, I need no excuse for having written a short letter. I have explained myself as best I can to the Sieur de Beaumont and love better the very royal virtues which I know Your Majesty possesses and that speech will be better able to express. " I will beseech the Almighty "Sire " To preserve Your Majesty in his holy and safe keeping and shall be eternally the very humble and very obedient servant of Your Majesty." \Signed'\ " Essex." [£>afed:] "ce 10'=°'= de Jan: nouveau stile." [Addressed:] Au Roy treschrestien. [Endorsed:] " Le Comte d'Essex, Januar 1595." Essex was a staunch supporter of Henri IV, and at this period (through Anthony Bacon) he was in repeated communication with all parts of Europe, his correspondents including Henri IV of France. " His house rivalled the foreign office in the quality and quantity of its ' intelligence.' " For many years Anthony Bacon lived with him. When the King of France was " Henry of Navarre," he sent Turenne to beg for the 72 y. Pearson & Co. aid of English troops in his struggle with the league. " An autograph letter from the French leader secured Essex's enthusiastic support, and he entreated the queen for the command of the expedition, against the advice of friends. With much reluctance Elizabeth granted him the commission and Essex left Dover for Dieppe at the head of four thousand men." Accompanying the letter is a document signed by Essex's wife (Lettice KnoUys), dated 20th Oct. 1606. Holograph letters of this distinguished man are of the greatest rarity. 63 THE FIRST EUCLID EUCLID. Preclarissimus liber elementorum Euclidis perspicacissimi in artem Geometric incipit qua foelicissime. Folio. Original stamped vellum. Erhard Ratdolt, Venice, 1482 This is the first edition of Euclid, and a book of supreme interest. It is also the very earliest book in which mathematical figures occur in any quantity — a few being found in the Ptolemaeus of 1478 — and these have been printed with great care and ingenuity. Many of the figures are built up from lines and rules, but a very large number are delicate wood engravings. Ratdolt, the printer, had a long career. He started in 1476 in partner- ship with Bernard Pictor and Peter Loslein. They continued together until some time in 1478, printing twelve books. From 1480 to i486 Ratdolt worked alone at Venice, issuing in that time upwards of sixty. After printing in Venice for ten years, 1476-1486, he returned to his native town, Augsburg, at the invitation of two of the bishops, mainly with a view to printing service books, and in the fourteen years to the end of the century he printed over one hundred different books. In Panzer's " Annales," his name is found as issuing books at Augsburg up to 15 16, thus giving him the long career of forty years as a printer. The reverse of the first leaf contains an interesting address from the printer to the doge John Mocenigo, in which he refers to his work in making the mathematical figures, without which it would not be possible to follow the text. The fine binding, which is undoubtedly original, is a very interesting piece of fifteenth- century work, for the style is German, while the execution is Italian. The thinness of the boards and the use of ties at top and bottom as well as in the front, are both very typical of Italian work, while the dies and their method of arrangement resemble German work of the period. Remembering that Ratdolt was a native of Augsburg, and worked in Venice, the explanation of this combination of styles is clear. An early owner has filled the margins of the first half of the volume with notes written in a beautiful minute hand. He was clearly a studious mathematician, and has added occasional propositions of his own devices from those of Euclid. Though the book can hardly be called extremely rare, copies in good condition are 5, Pall Mall Place 73 difficult to meet with. The first leaf is not infrequently missing, and the diagrams are often cut into. As regards the diagrams, these are not the same in all copies, and there are several varieties of issues. The present in its remarkable original binding is the finest copy knoivn to us. ^120 64 EUROPEAN HISTORY. THE POLITICAL AND SOCIAL HISTORIES OF ENGLAND, FRANCE, GERMANY, AND THE PAPACY. Told IN Autograph Letters, Historical Docu- ments, Manuscripts, and Portraits. ENGLAND. From Henry VII (born in 1457) to Edward VII (died in 19 id). This most extraordinary collection opens with the Sign Manual of Henry VII (who came to the Throne of England in 1485), and illustrates each and every succeeding reign right down to that of Edward VII. The period covered is thus 453 years of England's history. There is a complete and very exhaustive catalogue, and we would direct particular attention to the following : Henry VII. His unpublished letter to Philip " Le Beau," King of Castile. Dated from Richmond, 8th June 1506. The " Lion of the Tudors " has superscribed and signed this superb letter. In faultless preservation, written just after Philip's return to Spain from England. Henry's eldest son, Arthur, married Phihp's sister, Catherine, who afterwards became Henry VIII's first Queen. Philip died in September of this year when Henry at once offered to marry his idiot widow (Joan). Henry VIII. A splendid letter to Sir Richard Gresham, with a fine example of the King's signature. Dated Greenwich, 23rd April 15 12. Sir Richard was Wolsey and Cromwell's confidential correspondent. He was Lord Mayor of London (in 1537), besides being the father of Sir Thomas Gresham, who built the Royal Exchange. Edward VI. Signed not only by the " Boy King " but also by the whole Council of the Regency. Written upon vellum and in the finest possible condition. 0/ superlative rarity. L 74 J- Pearson & Co. Mary I. A splendid historical letter to the Earl of Shrewsbury, relative to Wyaffs rebellion. Mary's letters are of extreme rarity. Elizabeth. This is the Original Indenture completing the sale to the Earl of Leicester's (the Queen's favourite) of the Lordship of Denbigh. Not only is this superb document signed by Elizabeth, but it also bears the Great Seal of England — a most unusual occurrence. James L Signed as James VI of Scotland. This interesting document is also signed by Geo. Gordon, Marquis of Huntley (favourite of James I), and Sir John Maitland of Thirlstane, a devoted supporter of the unfortunate Mary Queen of Scots. James I. Signed as King of England. To his son-in-law, Frederick of Bohemia. Charles I. His superb holograph letter relative to the Irish Rebellion. Addressed to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (the Earl of Ormonde). Oxford, 12th March 1643. Historically most important. Henrietta Maria. Congratulating Gaston due d'Orl^ans (third son of Henry IV) upon his marriage with Marie de Gonzague (1629). A superb holograph. Henrietta Maria. The Translation of her heart to the Monastery of the Visitation of Mary. The Original Document, signed by Gautier de Montegut, relative to the ceremony. Cromwell. Relative to the Petition of John Watson master Gunner to the state. An unusual document, bearing a fine example of the Protector's bold signature. Cromwell's Funeral. Directing payment to the " Coferer of our Household " for the Funeral Expenses " of our most dear Lord and Father Oliver late Protector of Blessed Memory." Issued in the name of Richard Cromwell. Richard Cromwell. Richard was Protector for little more than a year. This official autograph of his is of extreme rarity, therefore. Charles II. Penned by Charles during the Commonwealth and whilst an exile. Holograph. Charles II. Written a few months after his restoration. Holograph. To his sister — Princess Henriette Marie d'Orleans. James II (when Duke of York). This fine letter is addressed to the Vice-Admiral of Norfolk, and is relative to the reprisals against the Dutch. Historically important. 5, Pall Mall Place 75 James II (a month after his accession). Entirely relative to his Coronation (23rd April 1685). Dated 23rd March 1685. James II. A superb historical holograph in French (signed "Jacques "). Entirely reminiscent of his efforts to regain the Throne 0/ England. Written just before the battle of La Hogue and mentioning his Irish troops. Mary of Modena. Entirely holograph ; dated from St. Germains (1704) after her flight (with James II) to France. Relative to her sorrows and mentioning the King (Louis XIV) and Mme. de Maintenon. It is addressed to the Abbess of the Convent of Chaillot, where the ex-queen was buried in 1718. Signed " M. R." Mary of Modena. Also dated from St. Germains (4th Feb., 17 15), but written in Italian. Entirely holograph and signed " Maria R." James Fitzjames, duc de Berwick. Natural son of James II. A fine letter with his seal. William III. A superb holograph to a King (in French). Historically important, referring to his success in repelling the French. Dated from La Haye in 1693. William Ill's Grandmother. A superb holograph, signed "Amelia d'Orange." William III. The historical receipt, signed by the States General of Holland, for jQ6,2CjO,for their assistance to William in gaining the British throne. Among the signatories is " W. de Nassau." William III. Historically important, being the Original Oath of Allegiance to the King, by the Freeholders of Wigtown. It is signed by no less than twenty-three signatories and was doubtless the outcome of Jacobite machinations to regain the throne. William III. This is the Original Answer of the Elector of Mentz to the King's letter notifying his arrival in Holland. Mary II. Relative to the payment of Royal Bounties. Countersigned by Godolphin and Halifax (the "Trimmer ") Anne. This is the highly important historical "Instructions" given by Anne to James Duke of Ormond on his appointment as Governor of Ireland. It covers 14 folio pages and is signed twice by the Queen. 76 y. Pearson & Co. George I. The Original Warrant confirming the Treaty of Peace and Commerce tvith Morocco and the Original Treaty sent with this Warrant to the Lord Chancellor. Historically important. Covering 15 pages folio. The Warrant is also signed by Lord Carteret and sealed with the Great Seal of England. George II. Appointing Lord Bathurst Captain of the Band of Pensioners. Sealed with the Royal Seal and countersigned by the Duke of Newcastle (Secretary of State). George III. A holograph letter to the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry relative to the death of the Bishop of Winchester, and appointing him Clerk of the Closet. It is addressed and sealed by the King. Charlotte. A holograph letter to a Lady of the Bedchamber. Addressed and sealed by the Queen. George Ill's last illness. A holograph of Spencer Perceval (who was shot in the lobby of the House of Commons by Bellingham) entirely relative to the King's illness. 31st October 1810. From this time until his death (in 1820) George III was incapable of transacting any business. [■ (i) Appointing an ensign to his own (Prince of Wales') Regiment of Foot. (2) A Peer's ticket of admission to his Coronation. (3) .Approving the i6th Lancers' embarkation for the East Indies. George IV (as Prince Regent). George IV's Coronation. George IV (as King). George IV's Death. A holograph letter of Sir Robert Peel entirely relative to the post mortem examination upon the King. (Deprecating the behaviour of the Earl St. Vin- cent and relative to the Duke of North- umberland's administration of Ireland (as Lord Lieutenant). William IV. A holograph letter of Lord (Chancellor) Lyndhurst, concerning the King soon after his accession. Adelaide. A holograph letter mentioning Queen Victoria, the Duchess of Kent, and the Prince of Hesse. Victoria. Appointing a Lieutenant-Colonel of Marines. Victoria. Illuminated Programme (21st June, 1871) of a Concert held at Bucking- ham Palace on the occasion of the festivities held in honour of the marriage of the Princess Louise (zyth March, 1871). 5, Pall Mall Place -j-j Victoria (as Princess and Queen). Holograph letters of the Duke of Kent, Leopold I (King of Belgium), the Duke of Wellington (2), Sir Moses Montefiore, and Lord Normanby. Entirely relative to the Queen's visits (both as Princess and as Queen) to Ramsgate with the address of the inhabitants of Ramsgate to the Queen (when Princess). Albert. A fine letter appointing the Baron de Washington a Knight of the Garter. Signed: "Albert, Acting Great Master." Edward, Duke of Kent. Father of Queen Victoria. Asking for the same privileges as are enjoyed by the Princess of Wales in regard to the delivery of letters. Victoria. Holograph letter of Lord Palmerston relative to the Queen. Edward Vn. Three fine holograph letters relative to (i) photographs of himself, (2) to " My dear Di," condoling with her upon the death of her father, (3) relative to Louis of Hesse and to the races. Comprising three forms of signatures : "Albert Edward," "A. E.," "Bertie." The entire Collection, ;^ 1,250 FRANCE. From Louis XI (born in 1423) to President pALLifeREs. These two volumes open with the autograph of Louis XI, who ascended the throne of France in 1461, and come down (ivithout a single hiatus) to President pALLikRES, the present head of the French State. The full descriptive catalogue, which accompanies the collection, gives an exact account of each and every autograph and portrait. We would, however, direct particular attention to the following examples as being very remarkable historical letters. Louis XL Concerning his Finances. YoLANDE DE FRANCE. To the Duc de Savoie. Anne de France. Regent during the minority of Charles VIH. Excessively rare. Charles VIH. To the Duc de Bar. Louis XH. Concerning the city of Lyons. Charles, Duc d'Orleans. He was the Hero of Agincourt. FRAN901S L Relative to the export of corn from France. Louise de Savoie. This is a superb holograph letter relative to Anne de Bretagne (the Queen of both Charles VHI and Louis XH). Henri IL Relative to his late father (Frangois I). Catherine de Medicis. A series of very remarkable documents. yS [. Pearson & Co. Francois II. Relative to the city of Metz. Tiiis is of superlative rarity as the King died when but a boy. Charles IX. Details of certain royal gifts. Montmorency. A superb letter to Charles IX. Henri III. Relative to Pope Sixtus V. Henri IV. A most splendid holograph letter to the Grand Duke of Tuscany. Marguerite de Valois. Relative to her garden. Marie de Medicis. One of her famous {holograph) letters to Cardinal Richelieu. • We here have the six famous Mistresses of Henri IV. Gabrielle D'EsTRiES. 'I HenrietteD'Entraigues. Marie de Beauvilliers. Diane D'Andouins. Charlotte de Beaune. Catherine de Balsac. The presence of these six excessively rare autographs, in any one collection, must surely be a unique occurrence. Montpensier. Addressed to Henri IV. Louis XIII. A superb holograph letter to his mot/ier, Marie de Medicis, written when Louis was only seventeen years old. Anne d'Autriche. To her Treasurer. Louis XIV. A truly remarkable and unique example, the boy king ivas only in his seventh year when he signed this State Paper. Madame de Maintenon. A splendid holograph letter relative to the Bishop of Chartres. Louis XV. An address to " His People." Madame de Pompadour. Relative to Louis XV and to her own bad eyesight. Madame du Barry. Relative to her Chateau de Louveciennes. Louis XVI. Signed by the King in the momentous year 1791. Marie Antoinette. We have here her autograph as Dauphiness. It was penned only three months after her marriage, and is believed to be her earliest existing autograph. Marie Antoinette. This is the priceless holograph letter which she addressed in the momentous year '91, to her devoted friend the Princesse de Lamballe. 5, Pall Mall Place 79 Louis XVI. Marie Antoinette. Louis XVIII. Charles X. AND 7 OTHER FRENCH ROYALTIES. This is a uniqtie and superb group o/' Signatures of no fewer than eleven Members of the Royal House of France affi.xed to a Mar- riage Contract. Napoleon I (as General). 1 ^, • , ,, . ,„. XT. ,^^-ti n A • /-u- f\ This very remarkable series of Signatures of Napoleon I (as Conimander-in-Chief). I , », i ■., ■ XT ^ „ T / T7- ^ r- i\ / the great Napoleon illustrates his rapid Napoleon I (as First Consul). • Napoleon I (as Emperor). J ' Josephine. Mentions Povey, who served Napoleon at St. Cloud. Marie Louise. Signed in the name of Napoleon. Napoleon II. To a Prince. Louis XVIII. Relative to the famous order of St. Louis. Charles X. Mentioning the captivity of his brother Louis XVI (written in 1790). Louis Philippe. Written in English. Napoleon III (before 1845). -> Napoleon III (as Prince-President). ( Quite as remarkable as the series ot Napoleon III (as Emperor). | Napoleon I signatures. Napoleon III (in e.xile). J Eugenie. Written when a girl. Eugenie. Extremely interesting, being addressed to the late Queen Victoria. 1. Thiers. 2. Macmahon. 3. Grew. 4. Carnot. 5. Casimir-Perier. 6. Faure. 7. Loubet. 8. FALLlkRES. The eight Presidents of the Republic. The splendid letter of Casimir-Perier is addressed to the Emperor of China, and is a truly remarkable document. The collection is tastefully illustrated with fine portraits, many being rare con- temporary impressions. The whole is inlaid to a uniform size and forms two splendidly bound red morocco folio vohimes. The entire Collection, ^900 8o J. Pearson & Co. GERMANY. This Collection begins with a splendid document signed by Frederick III (born 141 5) and closes with the Royal Sign Manual (to a document) of Wilhelm II (the present Emperor). There are no hiatuses — every Emperor being represented, as are also no less than fourteen of their Consorts. The Collection is tastefully illustrated with rare contemporary portraits. These precious Autographs and Portraits are inlaid to a uniform size and form a handsomely bound morocco volume. A concise typewritten catalogue can be had on application. The entire Collection, ^800 THE PAPACY. From Innocent IV (1243) to Piu.s X (the REIGNING Pope). A Unique and truly magnificent collection of 80 Letters, Documents, and Bullae, being either entirely in the autographs of the Popes, Signed by them, or Issued by them. This most wonderful Collection embraces a period of no less than 764 years of the world's history. It commences with the remarkably early document, dated 1250, signed with the rota and benevalete of Pope Innocent IV, who occupied the Pontifical Throne from 28th June 1243, till 7th December 1254. This precious document is also signed by Nicholas III as Cardinal; he became Pope in 1277. Included in the Collection is the autograph of Alexander VI (Borgia) which, outside one or two of the public museums and institutions of Italy, is probably unique. Besides this there are no less than four holograph letters, signed, of Pope Alexander VIII before his elevation to the Papal throne. The Collection {ichich is fully catalogued) terminates with the autograph of Pius X, the reigning Pope. The collection is tastefully illustrated with fine portraits, many being rare con- temporary impressions. The whole is inlaid to a uiiiform size and forms a superbly bound blue morocco folio vohcme. The entire Collection, ^850 N.B. — The special price of these four Superb Collections is 3,000 Guineas. 5, Pall Mall Place 8i 65 FERDINAND AND ISABELLA. LETTERS PATENT. Dated loth December 1477, to compel the Conde de Monte Rey to restore the fortress of Castro Verde with its vassals and revenues to Dona Isabel de Castro. With autographs of both the King and the Queen. This is an extremely early document, Isabella having only inherited the throne of Castile in 1474. " Don Fernando and Dona Isabel, by the grace of God King and Queen of Castile and Leon, of Toledo, Sicilia, Portugal, Galicia, Seville, Cordova, Jaen, the Algarves, Algeciras, Gibraltar, and of the province of Guipuzcoa, Princes of Aragon, Lords of Biscay and Molina, to the dukes, counts, marquises, prelates, ricos-hombres. Masters of the Orders, Priors, Commanders, Sub-commanders, Alcaydes of castles and strongholds fortified and unfortified, and to all the Councils, corregidors, assistant ministers, alcaldes, alguacils, regidors, knights, squires, officials, and good men of all the cities, towns, and villages of our kingdom of Galicia and to the deputies, alcaldes, quadrilleros, captains and men-at-arms within the jurisdiction of our said kingdom of Galicia, and to all other persons whatsoever our vassals, subjects and natives of whatsoever creed, credit, condition, pre- eminence or dignity they may be, to whom this our letter, or a copy thereof signed by a public notary shall be shown Grace and Greeting — Know ye that Doiia Isabel de Castro, wife of P° i9 no our vassal has sent us her petition setting forth that the Conde de Monte Rey has seized, taken and occupied unjustly and unduly against all right and justice her fortress of Castro Verde with all the vassals and revenues thereto pertaining, and that she has many times required the said count to restore and deliver to her the said fortress vassals and revenues, and that he would and will not do so, replying only with divers undue excuses and delays, and that if this is permitted to continue she will thereby suffer great damage and misfortune, supplicating and beseeching us, in grace to her, to command it to be remedied by means of justice, so that her said fortress vassals and revenues may be delivered and restored to her. Whereupon we send her these our letters and provisions by which we command the said Conde de Monte Rey to restore and deliver to her without delay the said fortress vassals and revenues freely and truly without any reservation what- ever. In like manner we command a letter to be given to the Conde de Ribado of our Council, and our Corregidor and Justice in our said kingdom of Galicia by which we command him, in case the said Conde de Monte Rey should fail to vacate, deliver, and restore to the said Dona Isabel de Castro her said fortress, vassals, and revenues to pass judgment and proceed against the said Count and his property wheresoever he may find it, according to justice, and therefore we command each and every one of you that as often and whenever you shall be called upon by the said Conde de Ribado, or by any other person acting with his knowledge and authority, that you assemble yourselves with all your men-at-arms to give and render to him such help and favour as for the abovesaid service M 82 J. Pearson & Co. he shall require of you or shall stand in need of, in order to enter and take from the said Conde de Monte Rey the said fortress of Castro Verde, and the vassals and revenues thereof, which he has thus taken and occupied in despite of the said Dona Isabel de Castro, that all may be wholly restored and delivered to her, and further by our said letter we will and command, and it is our will and pleasure that if by the refusal of the said Conde de Monte Rey to comply with our letters and commands and with the com- mands of the said Conde de Ribado our Corregidor in our said kingdom of Galicia, any costs expenses or losses should be incurred by us, they shall be made good, and the said Conde de Monte Rey and his property shall be bound and obliged to make payment thereof. And by this our letter we give full power to the said Conde de Ribado to enter, take possession and occupy all or any the towns, villages, fortresses, and possessions of the said Count wherever they may be, and by any such his possessions to satisfy and make payment to whatever forces of horse and foot shall have been summoned and assembled for this service, together with all the cost and losses incurred or suffered through his refusal to be brought to justice and to obey our commands. We command each and all of you to act thus herein and not otherwise upon penalty of the loss of our favour, deprivation of your offices and confiscation of all the property of those who shall contravene these orders to our Exchequer and Treasury. Moreover we command that any man who shall oppose or hinder you in this shall be summoned by you to appear before us wheresoever we may be upon the day by you appointed or within the thirteen days immediately following upon the above penalty, upon which we command any public notary who shall be called upon to do so to exhibit this our letter countersigned with his sign, that we may know that our commands are fulfilled. Given in our noble and loyal city of Seville on the tenth day of the month of December in the year of the birth of Our Lord Jesus Christ one thousand four hundred and seventy-seven. I the King. I the Queen. {Endorsed.) "That the Conde de Monte Rey shall restore Castro Verde and its land to Dona Isabel de Castro. "Provision by the Catholic King and Queen given in the year 1477, to compel the Conde de Monte Rey to restore Castro Verde and its lands to Dona Isabel de Castro." £70 66 FERDINAND AND ISABELLA. LETTER to the Duke of Milan. Dated 20th December 1497. With autographs of the King and Queen. " 1497, 20th Dec'. Most illustrious Duke, our dear and well beloved cousin. We the King and Queen of Castile, Leon, Aragon, Sicilia, Granada, etc., send you many greetings as to him whom 5, Pall Mall Place 83 we greatly love and prize, and wish that God may grant such long life health and honour as you yourself desire. We make known to you that Messer Juan Hieronimo, Viscount, your ambassador and bearer of this, all the time that he has been with us has borne him- self well and with much prudence in all things pertaining to the charge of his legation, and so likewise has the secretary who came with him, and as he is now leaving by your command and with our licence, we have spoken certain things to him which he will tell you and we affectionately beseech you to give them full faith and credence. Most illus- trious duke our dear and well beloved cousin may Our Lord have you ever in his special keeping. Given in Alcala de Henares on the 20th of December of the year 1497. I the King. I the Queen. Almaca Secretary.' {Addressed.) "To the Most Illustrious Duke of Milan our very dear and well beloved cousin." 67 FISHER (JOHN, Cardhial Bishop of Rochester). Here after ensueth two Fruytfull Sermons, made & compyled by the ryght Reverende father in god John Fysher, Doctour of Dyvynte and Bysshop of Rochester. TBIacfe %ZXXtX, Title within woodcut border representitig {a) Christ pi-eachiiig and [b) Christ giving St. Peter the Key. 4to. Original Vellum. Newly Enprynted at London by me IV. Rastell, the XXVIII day of June the y ere of our lorde 1532, cutn privilegio, these bokes be to sell at London in Southwarke by me Peter Treverys. 1532 A superb copy of this important and extremely rare book. It is beautifully clean, and is still preserved in its original vellum binding. Only one other copy of this edition is known. The printer was William Rastell the judge. He was the nephew of Sir Thomas More, whose sister Elizabeth had married John Rastell, the printer and father of William. The latter gave up printing in September 1532, two months and two weeks after he had printed the present volume. Bound up with the above is the first EDITION of Bishop Fisher's De Unica M.'^gdalena, Libki iKks, woodcut of the" Praetium Ascensianum." Colophon: Finis in aedibus Jodoci Badii Ascensii, ad Octavii Calendas Martias, MDXIX, cum gratia &= privilegia ne Alius in Francia in biennium proximu imprimat, ut authentica liquet instrumento {Paris) 1519. From the press of the learned Badius, the Poet-Printer. It was doubtless printed at Paris, where Badius settled in 1499 to re-establish the art of printing there. £A'2 84 J. Pearson & Co. 68 FLECHIER. HISTOIRE DU CARDINAL XIMENES, par Messire Esprit Flechier, Eveque de Nismes. 4to. Red morocco. Flechier's owti copy with his arms impressed on the sides. 1693 First Edition, printed on Large Paper for Fldchier's own library, and splendidly bound for him by Duseuil. Esprit Flechier (1632-1710), Bishop of Nismes, was the greatest pulpit orator in France during the reign of Louis XIV. See Illustration 69 GENEVA LITURGY.— HORAE AD USUM GEBENNEN- SIS DYOCESIS. A mag7iijicent matiuscript written on vellum and enriched with 79 important miniature paitititigs. 4to. Black morocco. {Circa 1440.) The De Maillard heirloom. This splendidly illuminated and remarkably important Horae was prepared for the special " use " of the diocese of Geneva — a " use " so excessively rare that we have never before met with another in manuscript. The extent and richness of the decoration is quite extraordinary, there being no less than SEVENTY-NINE VERY BRILLIANT MINIATURE PAINTINGS. These miniatures suggest the School of Tours, but their design is much bolder and more original, as their colouring is far richer than the miniature paintings of any one of the recorded " Masters " of the famous School of Tours. An extremely interesting feature of this de Maillard heirloom is that practically every miniature — both large and small — depicts the costumes worn on the continent of Europe by the different ranks of society (both male and female) whilst Henry VI (the last of the House of Lancaster) was on the Throne of England. We may, with confidence, fix its period as not earlier than the year 1420 or later than 1460. On the verso of the first leaf is an elaborate coat of arms, with the motto " Esse quam dici" — "To be rather than to be called." They are the arms of a late owner of the book. Prosper de Maillard, Comte de Tornon {i.e., Tournon). Beneath the arms are the lines " Pourtant de faveurs singu- liers I De mon Prince et mon bienfacteur | Que puisje offrir a sa grandeur | Sinon des voeux, et des Prieres. | 1610." Hence this gift of a Prayer Book which the donor evidently cherished very much. And he may well have done so, for it is a remarkably gorgeous volume. It begins with a full Calendar, and contains all the Offices usually given right through to the end, to the Office of the Dead. There is no omission or mutilation of the slightest description. The first proprietor of the manuscript and his descendants possessed it quite a century and CO - U 5, Pall Mall Place 85 a half before the Count of Tournon put his arms therein in 1610. This first proprietor also put his arms in it, which are entirely different from those of 1610, and unfortunately, with the exception of the last escutcheon, need some other clue to fix their exact identity. In the last, however (see " Hours of the Cross," fol. 106), the impalement of the rampant lion-leopard is almost identical with the arms of Eudes de Tournon, a Crusader of the twelfth century. This would seem to suggest that the first proprietor of the Manuscript was a direct ancestor of the Comte de Tournon of the early seventeenth century. It seems possible that this Count Prosper of the year 16 10 was the father of the Marquis de Tournon whose son was the distinguished Cardinal Maillard de Tournon (born at Turin 1668). Of this branch was Francois de Tournon, one of the most famous statesmen of the time of Francis I, a Cardinal-Bishop and founder of the splendid College of Tournon. Turning to the manuscript itself and its contents we find that immediately after the Calendar it begins with the Lesson sequences from the Gospels, and first with that from St. John — " In principio erat verbum." This is preceded by a miniature of St. John in Patmos, who, with the symbolic eagle by his right hand, holding his ink bottle, is writing his Apocalypse. He is confronted by a bird-beast, supposed to represent the seven- headed dragon, each head appearing to be offering some remark to the Evangelist. The illuminated border is in the later Burgundian style, having portions or panels of flowers and fruit on gold grounds, interspersed with the ordinary profile foliages which form the characteristic decorations of French fifteenth-century illuminations. This variety of the Burgundian style was produced by the influence of the Nether- landers who worked for the Duke of Burgundy. By the way, it should be noticed that the Calendar is page by page framed in the same style, a small painting of the Month-subject being put in the middle of each outer border, the rest of the border frame being on a gold ground. These side pictures are not only of pleasing character and bright colouring, but are also interesting and instructive as contemporary delineations of costumes and occupations. In one border we have the Zodiacal sign pictorially given, in the opposite one the characteristic occupation which generally represents the month (or the preceding month). In the narrow border at the top is usually found a brightly plumaged bird. In the broader border at the foot there is a vast variety of drolleries and grotesque beasts. The side picture to April of a lover and his lady is a charming illustration of the costumes worn in the days when Charles VII was King of France; nor could a better example be easily found. The picture for May is not so good. If the reaper in June is cutting hay, as surely he should be, he has come across a startling growth. The reaper's dress, how- ever, is worth a study. The lady (virgo) in August is an admirable figure. The grape- gatherers in September are also worth noting. On the verso of page 28 are the words (in Latin) " Here begins the Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary for the use of the Church of Geneva, and first at Matins." This inscription is most important, as it tells us for what " use " this remarkable Manuscript was intended. ;^800 See Illustration 86 J. Pearson & Co. 70 GEORGE I's ACCESSION GEORGE I. THE ORIGINAL PROCLAMATION BY THE PRIVY COUNCIL, dated \si August, 1714. It is in the form of a letter to the Earl of Northampton, directing him to proclaim George I King at the Tower. This precious State Paper is signed by the members of George I's first Privy Council, viz. : 1. The Duke of Buckingham. 2. The Duke of Ormonde. 3. The Duke of Northumberland. 4. The Duke of Shrewsbury. 5. The Earl of Dartmouth. GLADSTONE AS A CHURCHMAN GLADSTONE (WILLIAM EWART). THE EXTREMELY IMPORTANT SERIES OF 25 UNPUBLISHED HOLO- GRAPH LETTERS, covering 78 pages 8vo, all with but one exception addressed to the Right Honble. A. J. Beresford-Hope, M.P. (the famous Churchman). The first letter is dated from Hagley, Stourbridge, 16th February, 1847, and the last from 10, Downing Street, 15th May, 1882. The solitary letter not addressed to Mr. Hope was sent to the Rev. J. L. Ross, dated 28th December, 1852. It refers to the Ministerial crisis, and gives reasons for his difference with the Government. Writing on isth November 1847, Mr. Gladstone speaks of the sensational appoint- ment of Dr. Hampden to the see of Hereford, " a calamity the most formidable in kind which it is in the power of man to inflict on the Church." On 31st November 1856, he mentions occupying his time with a work upon Homer, and cannot " undertake a serious matter lying neither in the direction of my ordinary duties nor in the Homeric line." In the last letter, dated isth May 1882, Gladstone refers in high terms to the then recently murdered Lord Frederick Cavendish. Many of the letters deal with the famous Gorham and Hampden cases, Dr. Pusey, the Bishop of London, Gladstone's Church Rate Bill, and many other matters of current interest and importance to the Church of England. 5, Pall Mall Place 87 Accompanying the letters is one written to Gladstone by Beresford-Hope, 3rd May 1866, of 4 pages, entirely in reference to his Church Rate Bill. Letter i. 4 pages 8vo; dated Hagley, Stourbridge, i6th February, 1847. Written during the first year of his election to Oxford. " In truth it is rarely or never that opportunities of doing anything towards the settlement or advancement of clergymen present themselves to me. At Trinity College we shall have no accommodation for families, even when the buildings are completed, except those of the Warden and Vice-Warden. Refers to the Leicester Square case report, " in which Moxhay appears to have got the best of it." " The position of our scheme is nearly as it was with respect to funds : indeed the death of the Duke of Northumberland may have the effect of throwing us back; for he had promised us ^i,ooo in the Spring, which it pleased God he should not live to see. "The Irish case is awful. Cannot you get some stir made on the subject of some public and solemn religious observance to mark the most signal calamity recorded in our history for many generations? We had a fast for the Chelsea in 1832, but we sometimes hope the country has more sense of God now than then, and surely this affliction throws Chelsea into the shade. " There is a point in your letter I do not understand. You say that Government can only sell for a larger Church on the same site as Margaret Chapel, but I can hardly construe this to mean that they cannot sell for a refitting and maintenance of the same Church. " Pray read if you can get hold of it ' From O.xford to Rome,' a book many ways remarkable, and likely I trust to be of use in warning many away from the very serious peril." Refers to Lady Mildred's welfare, etc. Lady Mildred Hope was a sister of Lord Salisbury, the premier. Letter 2. 3 pages 8vo; dated Hagley, Stourbridge, 12th March, 1847. It will not be in his power to contribute more than ;^ioo to the new church. Refers again to the Leicester Square case. Letter 3. 4 pages, 8vo; dated 13, Carlton House Terrace, loth November 1847. Refers to the new chapel in Margaret Street (now the famous All Saints Church). " I am glad to say that thank God we are much mended in regard to health ; my daughter is nearly well and my arms getting fit for service again, we expect my wife's confinement daily." Letter 4. 3 pages, 8vo; 13, Carlton House Terrace, 15th November, 1847. " I understand that the Jewish question will stand over for a Bill. . . . You will be astounded by the news of to-day — the appointment of Dr. Hampden ; a (a/amity the most formidable in kind which it is in the power of man to inflict upon the Church. I am 88 J. Pearson & Co. afraid it will go near to kill our remaining Archbishop. (Dr. Howley died next year, aged 83.) " My wife still holds on awaiting her confinement which is overdue." Requests his friend to excuse this " churlish reply," " partly because of my penury, partly on account of haste." The appointment of Dr. Hampden to the See of Hereford raised a ferment through- out the whole Church of England. Letter 5. 4 pages, 8vo.; 13, Carlton House Terrace, 21st December 1847. About the appointment of Mr. Richards in Mr. Oakley's place. "Our infant (daughter) was baptized this morning, and to-morrow we hope to go down to Hawarden for Christmas and January." Refers to the sisters, who entered the Church of Rome. " I can readily believe that they were of diseased minds when they entered the House." " We are engaged in a Church plan," etc. Letter 6. 3 pages, 8vo; 6, Carlton Gardens, loth March, 1850. " It seems to me best that I should not urge the Bishop of London to publish," and gives his reasons. Letter 7. 4 pages, 8vo; 6, Carlton Gardens, 17th March 1850. " I am not a member of any body now moving about the Gorham business but I am in some considerable degree responsible for the Address to which Prosser was yesterday asking signatures." Speaks of backing the Bishop and strengthening his hands, etc. The Reverend G. C. Gorham's case aroused, if anything, more controversy in the Church of England than that of Bishop Hampden. The e.xact point at issue between Gorham and the Bishop of Exeter was the teaching of the Church of England on baptismal regeneration. Gorham's views were highly Calvinistic, and did not precisely agree with the teaching of either the high or the low church party. He held that the divine grace was not of necessity given in baptism nor in conversion, but that it might be conferred before baptism, in baptism, or at a later period in life. The bishop found Gorham a more learned and able theologian than he had expected to encounter, but nevertheless again refused to institute him. Gorham then instituted a monition out of the registry of the Court of Arches calling upon the bishop to show cause why he should not institute him. The judgement of Sir Herbert Jenner Fust in that court on the 2nd August 1849 was in favour of the Bishop, whereupon Gorham appealed to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council by whom, on the 8th March 1850, Fust's judgement was reversed. Letter 8. 2 pages, 8vo; 6, Carlton Gardens, 6th October 1850. Encloses jCioo subscription to the new Church in Margaret Street (All Saints). " We are going abroad for the winter seeking to re-establish in a warmer climate, if it please God, the health of a little daughter which has been torn to pieces by the whoop- ing cough. God grant the course of Church matters in the interval may be favourable, but the prospects are very dark and not growing lighter so far as I can see." 5, Pall Mall Place 89 Letter 9. 4 pages 8vo; Hawarden, Chester, 30 July, 1852. About Hope's temporary exclusion from Parliament. "We the poor 'Peelites' are sadly riddled, and double-decimated by the Elections, and yet with our attentuated numbers we seem likely still to be at the outset the hinge on which the movements of party are likely to turn. . . . The general prospects of the Church have not thus far been loosened but rather the reverse by the events of 1852," etc. This has reference to Lord John Russell's Ecclesiastical Titles Bill. Letter 10. 6 pages, 8vo; 6, Carlton Gardens, 28th December 1852. To the Rev. J. L. Ross. He is sorry that his views differ materially from his own in the present ministerial crisis. " Anxious that Lord Derby's government should do well, I could not undertake to support or to refrain from opposing it in measures which I thought deeply detrimental to the public interests. " It was not upon the question of Free Trade that I came to issue with them. That question I regarded as past by; and I did what I could to help it passing easily. " My difference with the Gov', was upon the merits of its Budget. Upon those merits I formed a deliberate and independent opinion." He (Gladstone) could not over- look them because the affairs of the Church were peculiarly safe in Lord Derby's hands. That would have been a sacrifice of principle to what is called expediency. His long experience of the wisdom, etc., of Lord Aberdeen convince him that the Church can be no loser, etc. Letter ii. 3 pages, 8vo; Downing St., loth August, 1853. To Hope. Is he (Hope) still desirous of entering Parliament? And could he support (generally) Lord Aberdeen's Government? There is a probable vacancy for Dungarvan,"etc. Gladstone became Chancellor of the Exchequer in Lord Aberdeen's Government. Letter 12. i page, 8vo; Downing St. 28th February 1855. Relative to a Bill which has been delayed. Letter 13. 4 pages, 8vo; Hawarden, 31st October 1856. Declining a proposal re a book, because he is busy with his well-known work upon Homer. The protest in the case of (Archdeacon) Denison is " logically at least premature, because the legality of the sentence is not yet established even for the Church Courts. But perhaps it was thought needful to save sensitive minds from the Roman delusion which has entrapped many. What I think would not be premature is, a complete, searching, and indignant exposure of the doings of the Archbishop since the evil day when he assumed that title," etc. Letter 14. 3 pages, 8vo; 11, Carlton House Terrace, 2nd February 1857. He would attach great weight to his judgement of Mr. Webb's qualifications but he thinks it best to take no part in the election of a successor to Mr. Bowdler. Desires to know if Maidstone No. 2 is still open, and suggests a Mr. E. Hamilton (brother to the Bishop of Salisbury). N 90 J. Pearson & Co. Letter 15. 3 pages, 8vo; 11, Carlton House Terrace. 15th May 1858. He is friendly in principle to his (Hope's) amendment. " It is with me, however, a most grave question whether instead of this simple liberation of the conscience ... we should not, especially after the terrible lesson we received last year, endeavour to make some terms that would practically better the con- dition of the Church," etc. Letter 16. 3 pages, 8vo; 11, Carlton House Terrace, 20th March, 1863. Regard- ing Mr. Stevens and his lack of power to give Hope a nomination to the Credit Office, etc. Letter 17. 4 pages, 8vo; Hagley, 28th October 1863. Accepts his protest but not as a protest, but as an addition to his own statement. He could himself " name branches of art in which we excelled during that awful war, and which have since declined or died." Refers to the decline in industrial art between the close of the last century and the beginning of this one. " I conjecture it to be the War. I think moreover it is a common phenomenon that in periods of decadence instances really due to the time of excellence survive, and that oftentimes good relics of an olden time synchronise with first efforts at revival after having bridged over the dreary interval between." Refers to festivities at Hagley. Letter 18. 2 pages, 8vo; 11, Carlton House Terrace, 23rd November 1865. "Your triumph is speedy and complete: the only question is do I owe you 5^. or 20i.? Both are mentioned. I hope you understand the service to be the bargain," etc. Letter 19. 3 pages, 8vo; 11, Carlton House Terrace, 28th April 1866. Referring to his paper of suggestions on Church Rates in the form of a Bill, etc. Hope (A. Beresford). A. /. s., 4 pages, 8vo; Arklow House, Connaught Place, 3rd May 1866. To Gladstone. Entirely relative to Gladstone's Church Rates Bill. Gladstone. — Letter 20. 4 pages, 8vo; Hawarden Castle, 6th April 1874. To Hope. " The plan seemed to me as unwisely framed as the medium of promulgation to the Clergy!!" " It is easy enough by rash and crude proposals to seal the doom of the Church as an Establishment," etc. Letter 21. 3 pages, 8vo; Hawarden Castle, 23rd June 1874. Relative to the death of Sir Stephen Glynne (Gladstone's brother-in-law). "Your hearty sympathy is very consoling to my wife and to us all in this trying hour." " The loss we have sustained has . . . created a void which never can be filled. We have, however, with the general and precious consolation derived from the knowledge of his habitual preparedness, also a special ground of thankfulness in his having been spared the stages of slow decay which in breaking up his habits might have constituted for him a severe trial. . . . To-morrow we consign his remains to their home." Letter 22. 4 pages, 8vo; Hawarden Castle, 27th November 1874. Relative to an Address. 5, Pall Mall Place 91 Letter 23. 4 pages, 8vo;Chatsworth, 24th November 1874. Objects to all fresh association with public bodies. Letter 24. 2 pages, 8vo; Downing Street, 27th March 1861. " The day of the last visible offices of respect and love to the dead has I find now passed, and I cannot refrain from writing to you a few words of most sincere sympathy under your heavy bereavement." Relative to the death of Lady Mildred Beresford-Hope. Letter 25. 2 pages, 8vo; Downing Street, 15th May 1882. About the murder of Lord Frederick Cavendish, etc. Lord Frederick Cavendish was murdered at Phoenix Park, Dublin, on 6th May, he is greatly eulogised by Gladstone in the above letter. Hope's devotion to the Church of England was (like Gladstone's) the leading feature of his life. Possessed of great wealth, he purchased in 1844 the ancient buildings of St. Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury, as a college for missionary clergy. In 1843 he published a volume of poems, and in the following year he translated the Hymns of the Church for popular use. Accepting the idea of the Catholic Church, he set himself to work on how the outward aspect of English public worship might be made most reasonably and intelligently to correspond to the ideals and to the best traditions of the ancient and historic Church. He built at his own expense All Saints' Church, Margaret Street, London. He also rebuilt and endowed the parish church of Sheen, Staffordshire, in 1852, and kept up the daily service at his own cost. All these letters are unpublished, only brief extracts are (for obvious reasons) given. The Collection is illustrated with five portraits of Gladstone. Bound in blue morocco. 72 GLADSTONE ON DIVORCE GLADSTONE (WILLIAM EWART), THE ORIGINAL HOLOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT (SIGNED) of his address on this subject. Dated, '' Hawarden Castle, Oct. 28, 1889." Six closely and legibly written pages, 4to. Quite complete. This is THE extremely important original manuscript upon Divorce and the Marriage Laws and their importance to America. Gladstone's bill upon Divorce and the Marriage Laws was introduced into Parliament in 1857, and the controversy upon the subject at that time was both fierce and long. Upon one occasion (14th August) Gladstone made no less than twenty-nine speeches thereupon. 92 J. Pearson & Co. But it was later that, as Lord Morley observes: "lie was shocked, as well he might be, at the grotesque excess to which the doctrine of ' mental cruelty ' has been carried in some states of the American Union." It was, presumably, this "mental cruelty " that Gladstone had in mind when he penned the present Manuscript, for he commences as follows: " I undertake though not without misgiving, to offer answers to your four questions. For I incline to think that the fi4ture of America is of greater importance to Christendom at large than that of any other country ; that that future, in its highest features, virtually depends upon the incidents of marriage; and that no country has ever been so directly challenged, as America now is, to choose its course definitely with reference to one, if not more than one, of the very greatest of those incidents." Continuing he writes: "... I have spent nearly sixty years at the centre of British life. Both before and from the beginning of that period absolute divorces were in England abusively obtain- able, at very heavy cost, by private Acts of Parliament; but they were so rare (perhaps about two in a year) that they did not affect the public tone, and, for the English people, marriage was virtually a contract indissoluble by law. In the year 1857, the English Divorce Act was passed, for England only. Unquestionably since that time the standard of conjugal morality has perceptibly declined among the higher classes of this country, and scandals in respect to it have become more frequent. . . ." Bound in red morocco. 73 GLADSTONE AND RUSSIA GLADSTONE (WILLIAM EWART). THE ORIGINAL HOLOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT (SIGNED) of his Political Address (written in May 1878) upon the Russo-Turkish War; consisting of 10 pages, Svo. Quite complete. This famous speech was delivered soon after the Russo-Turkish war, when the Russians were checked in their advance on Constantinople by the passage of the Dardanelles by the British fleet, and shortly before the Conference at Berlin when Lord Beaconsfield returned with " Peace with Honour." A congress of the Powers is advocated in this speech of Gladstone's, and he inveighs strongly against the frivolous objections to it made by the Government. It was unquestionably due to Gladstone's speeches that the Conference at Berlin was eventually held. Accompanying this most interesting manuscript is a letter referring to it. There is also another letter (on the subject of extending the franchise, which he favours) — to the same correspondent — Mr. J. W. Julian of Liverpool. Hound in blue morocco. £50 h^. J^^. njo , CWiLCJf)tiC\jltlr dU(r^ -rv" ^-^"^^ ^Z^^'' / 51^ r L^v ^C5t ^^ r. K ^^ Ju^ £iWftM~. >C>i*'^ - '"^s ■«► 5, Pall Mall Place 95 The existence of this recently discovered manuscript was unknown to Mr. T. W. Bourne (the greatest living authority on Handel) when he published his edition of " Nisi Dominus " ten years ago. The discovery of this, the original Score, sets at rest the vexed question whether or no the magnificent "Gloria" formed an integral part of Handel's ^r/^/«a/ composition, because the " Gloria " certainly is included in our manuscript. This is by far the most important Handel manuscript which has occurred FOR sale within LIVING MEMORY. Accompanying the manuscript are very interesting letters from Mr. T. W. Bourne and Mr. R. A. Streatfield (of the British Museum). Whilst in Italy, Handel invariably spelled his name " Hendel." See Chrysander's "Life of Handel," volume i, page 164. /60O See Illustration 80 HENRY VlirS "FIELD OF THE CLOTH OF GOLD" ANTIPHONARY. A superb Manuscript with lovely miniatures attributed to Fra Benedetto. This is believed to be absolutely the finest Renaissance binding in the luorld. It was bound by Roffet and almost certainly presented to Henry VIII by Francis I when they met at the " Field of the Cloth of Gold." A printed description, by Professor Bradley, of this wonderful volume with a full- sized coloured reproduction of the beautiful binding, can be sent upon application. /3.OOO 81 HERO ET LEANDRE. Poeme Nouveau en Trois Chants, Traduit du Grec, sur un manuscrit trouve a Castro, duquel on a joint des notes historiques. Royal 410. Frontispiece and 2> plates by De Bucoiirt. Red tnorocco, uncut. Paris, an IX (1801) The plates are beautifully engraved in colours. " Les belles estampes du celebre graveur en couleur De Bucourt." — Cohen, 475. A Splendid Copy, perhaps unique in uncut state. 96 J. Pearson & Co. 82 HEVY NEWS of an horryble Erthquake which was in the Citie of Scarbaria, Morocco. In this present yere of xlii. The xiii. day of June. And also how that a Citie in Turky is sonke. Title within a woodcut border. 1 2 mo. Blue morocco. Imprynted at London in saynt Sepulchres Parysshe in the Old Bayly by Rychard Lant, 1542 Unique. — This little volume, giving an account of an earthquake at Scarperia, a town lying a few miles to the north of Florence, is the earliest account of an earthjuake printed in England. The earthquake was a serious one, destroying the greater part of the town, and doing damage also in Turkey. It was noticed by two contemporary writers : Paulus Jovius in his " Historiae sui temporis," issued first at Florence in 1550-52, and by Giovanni Tarcagnota in his " Delle Historic del Mondo," 1562, who speak of the shock being felt at Constantinople. The present volume apparently unnoticed by writers on the subject, seems to be the only authority for the destruction of a whole town somewhere near Salonika. Two editions of this book were printed. One has the colophon " Imprinted in Aldersgate strete by Nicolas Bourman," and the only copy known is in the British Museum. The present edition, printed by Lant in St. Sepulchre's parish in the Old Bailey, was noted as early as 1749 by Ames in his " Typographical Antiquities," and has been quoted by succeeding bibliographers; but no copy has ever been referred to and the present seems to be the only one tiozv existing. It is curious to notice that in December of the same year another very violent earth- quake occurred which specially affected Sicily. It is chronicled by Tomaso Fazello in his "De rebus Siculis," first published at Palermo in 1558, and frequently reprinted. Among the principal towns to suffer were Syracuse, Leontini, Catagironia, and especially Catania, which was entirely ruined, an occurrence which was recently repeated. This book is the earliest printed by Lant, the " Book of Cookery " being dated 1545. Examples of Lant's press are of excessive rarity. £10 See Illustration 83 HIGDEN (RANULPH). POLYCRONYCON. (Translated by W. Caxton.) TSlacfe ICttCt. Large woodctU of St. George and the Dragon on title and last leaf, with autograph and MS. notes of 1 C^cup cOf anljo?tpbIccttU^ qual / ^i' lU i«-t.uU, ^"^ '/<^' •^Y /- KEATS (ist page) Pall Mall Place lOI 90 JOHNSON'S LIFE OF BOSWELL. Edited by George Birk- beck Hill. 6 vols. A very remarkable Extra Ilhistrated Copy, extetided to 10 vols., folio, by the insertion of 1500 Portt'aits, En- gravings, and Views. Together with 560 autograph letters and signed docume^its of persons mentioned in the text. The zvhole very carefilly inlaid and bound to a uniform size. Half red morocco extra; gilt leaves. Oxford, 1887 This is by far the most carefully and lavishly "Grangerized" copy of Boswell's immortal biography that has ever been in the market. It forms a graphic illustration of the literary and political life of the eighteenth century that can hardly be equalled. The illustration of these volumes was commenced in 1887 and only completed in 1899. The quality of the prints, portraits, and above all of the autographs, leaves nothing to be desired. Accompanying the "Life," and uniformly bound, is an Index volume to the illustrations, a deed signed by Johnson and Mrs. Thrale, besides the other executors of Thrale's will, and finally a unique copy (especially printed in 1796) of Shaw's " History of Lichfield" (Johnson's birthplace). A mere catalogue description of volumes of this character must necessarily be brief, hni full particulars will be sent on application. £750 91 JONSON (BEN.). THE WORKES of Benjamin Jonson. En- graved title by Hole. Folio. Original Sheepskin. IV. Stansby, 1616. The First Edition, ranking with the first folio Shakespeare. At the end of each play is given the list of " The principall Tragoedians." Amongst the names occurs that of Will Shake-Speare, who played in " Sejanus," and " Every Man in his Humour." The present is a superb Copy in its original Sheepskin Binding. 92 KEATS, "ENDYMION," AND SHAKESPEARE. KEATS (JOHN). HOLOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED. 3pages 4to. Hampstead, 2'jth February, 1818. To his friend and publisher, John Taylor (of Taylor and Hessey, the publishers of " Endymion "). I02 J. Pearson & Co. Relative to " Endymion," and pointing out certain errata. Written whilst that FAMOUS Poem was going through the Press. It was published in May, 1818. " Your alteration strikes me as being a great improvement (the page looks much better). And now I will attend to the punctuations you speak of; the comma should be at soberly, and in the other passage the comma should follow quiet. I am extremely indebted to you for this attention, and also for your after admonitions. " It is a (very) sorry thing for me that anyone should have to overcome Prejudices in reading my Verses; that affects me more than any hypercriticism on any particular passage. " In ' Endvmion ' I have most likely but moved into the Go-cart from the leading- strings. In Poetry I have a few Axioms, and you will see how far I am from their centre. " \st. I think Poetry should surprise by a fine Excess, and not by singularity; it should strike the Reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a Remembrance. " 2nd. Its touches of Beauty should never be half way, thereby making the reader breathless instead of content; the rise, the progress, the setting of imagery should like the sun come natural to him — shine over him and set soberly, although in magnificence, leaving him in the Luxury of twilight, but it is easier to think what Poetry should be than to write it — and this leads me on to another axiom. That if Poetry comes not as naturally as the Leaves to a tree it had better not come at all. However it may be with me I cannot help looking into new countries, with ' O for a Muse of Fire to ascend!' If ' Endymion ' serves me as a Pioneer perhaps I ought to be content. I have great reason to be content, for thank God I can read and perhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths, and I have, I am sure, many friends who, if I fail, will attribute any change in my life and temper to humbleness rather than to Pride — to a cowering under the Wings of great Poets, rather than to a Bitterness that I am not appreciated. I am anxious to get ' Endymion ' printed that I may forget it and proceed. I have copied the 3rd Book out and have begun the 4th. On running my eye over the proofs I saw one mistake — I will notice it presently, and also any others if there are any. There should be no comma in ' the raft branch down sweeping from a tall Ash top.' I have besides made one or two alterations, and also altered the 13 line P(age) 32, to make sure of it, as you will see. I will take care the printer shall not trip up my heels. There should be no dash after Dryope in this line ' Dryope's lone lulling of her Child.' " Remember me to Percy Street. " Your sincere and obliged friend, "John Keats.' " P.S. — You shall have a short preface in good time." A most superb Letter. It is not only the most Important of Keats' extant, but one of the most re.markable ever penned by any Poet. \st. Because it was written just on the eve of the publication of " Endymion." znd. Because it contains his confessio fidei as a poet. 3r(f. Because of his homage to Shakespeare. /650 See Illustrations ^^i^ Auc^.^' KEATS (3rd page) Pall Mall Place 103 93 LA FONTAINE AND LOUIS XIV'S QUEEN LA FONTAINE. THE ORIGINAL HOLOGRAPH MANU- SCRIPTS of his POEMS. 1. Relation de l'entree de la Reine Marie TniRfesE dans la Ville de Paris LE 26 AOUT 1660. 2. An ENTIRELY UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT (LETTER AND POEM) UPON THE "NifecEs DE Feu Monsieur Gripon." Both are addressed to the Superintendent of Finance, Fouquet. These extremely important and precious Manuscripts consist of 7 pages (186 lines) closely written on 410 paper. They contain several corrections in La Fontaine's autograph. The first Manuscript was only printed in the " Qiuvres posthumes " of La Fontaine, published in 1696. From the collection of Baron Pichon, who thus described them : " Precieux manuscrits autographe de La Fontaine. Cette ' Relation ' ^crite sous forme de lettre au surintendant Fouquet fut imprimde pour la premiere fois dans les 'OEuvres posthumes' de La Fontaine, publiees in 1696 (pp. 189-198). Elle a ^te reim- primi [^ i atons i^^m^ 5, Pall Mall Place 109 privileges. They might choose their own confessors who once in their lifetime could give them absolution for any offences other than those reserved to the Apostolic see. They were not to be denied ecclesiastical burial as one of the confraternity. Certain vows, as those of special pilgrimages, might be commuted for other works of piety. On their death- beds the priest could grant them plenary remission of all sins, if they were confessed and contrite, and ordinary remission as often as required. The service of Commendation of the Departed would be performed for them as if they had been professed members. At the end are the liturgical forms of absolution, both in ordinary and special cases, and "in articulo mortis." Of these letters printed by Richard Faques there are issues dated both 1519 and 1520. The British Museum possesses one dated 1519, and the Bodleian has two of the same year which differ from each other. The Bodleian possesses, also, this 1520 issue. This was presented to the library a few years ago at the tercentenary celebrations, by the authorities of the Royal library of Copenhagen. Another edition of these letters was printed by Richard Pynson of which there is a copy in the British Museum, purchased with other Indulgences at the Bright sale in 1844. Richard Faques was at work from 1509 to 1530 but only issued about twenty-four different books. For some reason almost everything he printed is of the greatest rarity, quite one half of his productions being known only from single copies or fragments. Some of his unique books are of considerable interest, as for instance the Ballad of a Scottish King in the British Museum; The Parliament of Devils, at Ham House; Hendred's Pilgrimage of Man in Queen's College, Oxford; and Skelton's Goodly garlande, in the British Museum. His first place of business was in St. Paul's Churchyard at the "Maidens Head," but in 1521 his sign was given as the "A.B.C." By 1523 he had removed to Durham Rents outside Temple Bar in the Strand. He printed nothing after 1530. He appears to have been a skilful printer and made frequent use of type borders such as are found round the present Indulgence. A copy of Faques' 15 19 issue is in the J. P. Morgan library. 103 L'ETOURDIE OU HISTOIRE DE MIS BETSY TATLESS, Traduite de I'Anglois. Ty parts in 2 vols. 8vo. Red morocco. Bound for Madame du Barry, with her arms impressed on the sides. Paris, Chez Prault I'Aind, Quai de Conti, a la Charity. 1754 Examples of the library of Madame du Barry are of the very greatest rarity. Jeanne Bdcu, Comtesse du Barry, born 1743, was guillotined in 1793. She was dominant at the Court of Louis XV from 1769 till the King's death in 1774; Louis is stated to have lavished thirty-five millions of francs upon her. Hi 1 10 J. Pearson & Co. 104 LOCKE'S MAGNUM OPUS. PRESENTATION AND ANNOTATED COPY. LOCKE (JOHN). An Essay concerning Humane Understanding. In Four Books. Quam bellam est velle confiteri potius nescire quod nescias, quam ista effutientem nauseare, atque ipsum sibi displicere! — Cic. de Natur. Deor. 1. i. First Edition. Folio, Cotitemporary fed tftorocco, back and sides tooled in gold. London: Printed by Eliz. Holt, for Tkotnas Basset, at the George in Fleetstreet, near St. Dunstans Church. 1 690 Unique. The finest extant copy of Locke's masterpiece. Presentation copy from the Author with the following inscription in Locke's autograph : " For Mrs. Duke Isabella Duke her Book given her by the Author." The volume is also annotated by the Author having no less than sixty additional errata in his extremely neat autograph. Locke's autograph Errata comprises no less than 233 words and numbers. " To none do we owe for a greater advancement in this part of philosophy," wrote William Molyneux in 1690, "than to the incomparable Mr. Locke, who, in his 'Essay of Human Understanding,' hath rectified more received mistakes, and delivered more pro- found truths, established on experience and observation, for the direction of man's mind in the prosecution of knowledge, which I think may be properly termed logic, than are to be met with in all the volumes of the ancients. He has clearly overthrown all those metaphysical whimsies which infected men's brains with a spice of madness, whereby they feigned a knowledge where they had none by making a noise with sounds without clear and distinct significations." See Illustration 105 LOUIS PHILIPPE, " King of the French." A unique Collection OF Holograph Letters and Manuscripts. There are 70 holo- graph letters dating from 1822 to 1838, covering 127 pages. 8vo, 4to, and folio, also 69 pages of manuscripts, notes, etc., in the King's autograph, 196 pages in all. In addition there are letters of his ERRATA. In the Dedic»tioii,^70 3§ fdeaj fo, which flttiioii .-_ 39 and vanifh !7J IS urg, from 308 ■.i (igniScation ? 14. abltrufe 41 no more 47 OIK, ajow. 0? 14 wvtl\tht Idea .• 44 the iwine Sio *1 wakiiig Man 91 44. apply it in 111 ,3 ings ., f^oufd an- 9; I ai 60; and 113 3 felvcs, tothrm fwer him 33 tnfimtum^ and in 3*1 3^ fcrtiun n 95 99 i4 abllrufis ^^— 7 v;hidiT.'e 31', <•• jod piOTtdJn 3 confufion ^ — «fr nodidind 317 ■'* iiiiapLcd « that end 48 the fecond fix ill 17 Numbers 318 *c Figures 114 46 others 'io their 33c 18 th;ix,four, and 100 Q than dircDurfc received 3ii . 5 pj.icc us in _ B04 16 enliirgiiig, it 117 45 them.- 9ut men II v/cret«?cla(ioa ctn . 130 5 idtra to be ■ iilcnt • — 37 .Extcnfion arc 3& of milUkm 534 :». dfe ; .,r!d that .H)t • Pretenders 3-l'> ai obfctlr.cy IcS '47 clear 311 MeJ 131 17 communicati- 351 4=t no room 109 41 Inltanccs c- on, it is 3^1 11 Qwbc* . f nougb of 133 1 1 thcLn. Wh.K "77 7 "^''y. 110 3* aU qur simple 134 151 of tiinfe ' Andftt tnt>r'- III 30 accoinpamcs 137. 49 obieivc fcvT.';! --■,3 ; .-y/..- 119 i-! Motion iKitM-g Pfopcrlics [ 1 Hi ft " >y iitit .. 140! S iniliii\\3y 1 3ot .IS <^ !««*- 2 ' tf tli*ruf i htw ,JJ p ,l.a,l,i,n „ .„ „^ ^^ en o«r 70 2 3 difiinct ladinc ^2 1-i. that: \^*n — 1+ — n • — ^1 iSomiltiiitiot ll*^^ ifx ■» .^TK./„(,i.i ,j^, <,3 i'.i.^.-^h^ ■ 52. oi^*i it haJ. - fl^ 7 thttu^M i ual^eing lU 33 )c«p. ,i_ .J i<3 3«- y.iHo». "' l> __..._ ^7 3(( •// '/ 8, ,» ,,I..„I> ■'« 1« "-■" •« ,- ot .inl^ru-J ISS -31 IS OJ ,, ,S ,»■■■( '""•"•'■•''1 "" '' ■'■'■"» ,»„ . ,i^,„ .„ ■. "■» ' —■■^"-T" ■'^'^"""^■•'s ::r: :t:^-T..,.^ 13 15 , ?. Wf !nart>e iT< 4J ■ '>«(Aice Weller, was the daughter of the Burgomaster of Freyberg. Her brother Hieronymus, to whom Luther refers (twice) in the letter, was known as Hieronymus Weller von Molsdorf, and was born at Freyberg in Meissen (now kingdom of Saxony), on 5th September, 1499. He went to Wittenberg in 1526 to study law, but relinquished the idea, on hearing an impressive sermon by Luther, in favour of theology. For eight years he was closely associated with Luther, who regarded him as a son, and in 1535 he took the degree of Doctor of Divinity. In 1539 he was appointed Superintendent of Schools in Freyberg by Duke Henry of Saxony, and was subsequently appointed Rector. He held similar appointments in other cities in Germany, but resigned them to end his days at Freyberg in 1572. Although much concerned in religious and theological controversies and discussions, he only preached once, at Naumburg. Our translation is an independent one taken from the letter itself. ^650 107 LUTHER. BIBLIA: das ist: die gantze Heilige Schrifft: DEUDSCH. AUFPS NEW ZUGERICHT. D. MaRT. LuTH. BeGNADET MIT KuRFURSTLiCHER zu Sachsen Freiheit, ILlt, ®Otl). Finely cngTaved woodcut title, portrait of the Duke of Saxony, mimerous woodcuts, and ornamental initials. 2 vols. Morocco, gilt leaves. Folio. Gedruckt zu Wittemberg, Durch Hans Luff t, 1544- 1545. This is the final text of his translation of the Bible which Luther lived to revise himself. On the afternoon of Saturday, 4th May 1521, Luther on his way back from the Diet of Worms was captured by Hans von Berlepsch and the Knight Burkhard Hund, both devoted servants of the Elector of Saxony, and carried to the Wartburg, an Electoral castle close to the town of Eisenach. Here in friendly captivity, which he used to refer to afterwards as his Patmos, he began his translations of the Scriptures. By March 1522 he had completed his translation of the New Testament, and on his return to Wittenberg it was submitted to Melanchthon for revision, and by the end of the year the various books had appeared in print. He then turned his attention to the Old Testament, and by November 1522 had got as far as Leviticus. The translation from Hebrew was, on 5, Pall Mall Place 115 account of the idiom, much more difficult than from Greek, and, writing to a friend at this time, Luther remarked: "How difficult and laborious the task to force the Hebrew writers to speak German, which they resist, just as the nightingale refuses to quit its delightful melody to imitate the coarse notes of the monotonous cuckoo." Between 1523 and 1532 various parts of the Old Testament were printed, and finally a complete Bible was issued. This edition represents Luther's last and most exhaustive revision, and is especially valuable on that account. He died a year after its publication. It is interesting to see that the reformer took considerable interest in the typographical side of the Bible production. The book is very handsomely printed in gothic type with a number of woodcuts and fine ornamental initials. 108 LUTHER AND HENRY VIH LUTHER(MARTIN). RESOLUTIONES DISPUTATIONUM DE VIRTUTE INDULGENTIARUM. 410. Original calf with Henry VIII' s arms on the side. 15 19 Henry VHI's copy, and probably used by him in his historic controversy with Luther in 1521. This is the second edition of the earliest collection of Luther's tracts, the first, according to Panzer, having been issued in October of the previous year. It was followed by a third in August 1519, and all are of the very greatest rarity. It was on the afternoon of the 31st October 1517 that Luther nailed on the door of the Castle Church of Wittenberg his ninety-five theses. These at once aroused a storm of criticism, to meet which he prepared his " Resolutiones," the first tract in this collec- tion. On the 22nd May, a manuscript copy was sent to the Bishop of Brandenburg, and by the middle of August 15 18, a separate edition was printed. This has no name of place or printer, but was almost certainly printed at Wittenberg by Johann Grunenberg. To put down the advanced views of Luther, the Archbishop of Mainz appealed to the Pope, and a papal champion was found in the person of Silvester Mazzolini, commonly known as Prierias. He, in three days, composed a treatise in the form of a dialogue between himself and Luther, and, considering the ninety-five theses in succession, attempted to demonstrate the heresy of their author. This forms the second tract in the volume, while the third is Luther's answer, of which several separate editions were published in 15 18 entitled " De potestate Pape." The fourth tract is the answer on Luther's behalf by Andrew Bodenstein orCarlstadt to a criticism by Johann Maier or Eck, apparently never published, of Luther's famous theses. This was written in July 1518. Then follow three sermons, " De Poenitentia," " De Indulgentiis," and " De Virtute ii6 J. Pearson & Co. Excommunicationis," of all of which separate editions were issued in 1518. The sermon " Of Indulgence " was preached almost immediately after the issue of the ninety-five theses, when he explained the subject, under twenty heads, to the people in the vernacular, but it did not appear in print until February or March 15 18. The sermon on the " Force of Excommunication " was preached at Wittenberg on a Sunday in May, and though the occasion was a purely local one, the sermon made a great noise, and excited much criticism. Exaggerated accounts of it passed from city to city, and Luther on a visit to Dresden was confronted and reproached with it. He therefore determined to print it, but not having a copy could only give an abstract. This must have been pub- lished between the 21st and 31st of August 1518, and was printed apparently by Johann Grunenberg at Wittenberg. The last tract in the collection, the " Decem Precepta," is in point of period the earliest. It consists of a series of sermons forming a commentary on the Ten Command- ments which was preached to the people of Wittenberg in Luther's more peaceful period previous to 151 7. It did not appear in print until after he became talked of, and then, in 15 18, editions were issued at Wittenberg and Leipzig. Where this collected edition was printed is doubtful. Panzer ascribes all three editions to Basle. In the " Bibliotheca Lindesiana" what appears to be part of one of the editions is ascribed to Mathias Schiarer at Strassburg. The type and initials appear like Cologne work, and it was probably printed either there or at Wittenberg. The binding is of black calf ornamented with impressions from two panel stamps each used twice on one side. That on the obverse has in the centre a shield bearing quarterly i and 4 tlie lilies of France, 2 and 3 the lions of England. Round the shield is the Garter bearing the inscription " hony • soyt ■ quy • mal ' y 'pence" and over all the English royal crown. On either side are two compartments, those on the right containing the turreted gateway and the fleur-de-lys, those on the left the Tudor rose and the pomegranate. Round all runs the inscription, divided at the corners by a fleur-de-lys, " Deus dit nobis suam pacem ct post mor- tem vitam eternam amen." The panels on the reverse are almost identical, but the pome- granate and fleur-de-lys have been transposed. This volume was in another royal collection, viz., that of H.R.H. the Duke of Sussex, and contains his bookplate. The present may be regarded as the companion volume to Henry VIII'sown COPY OF THE " ASSERTIO SePTEM SaCRAMENTORUM " (1521) NOW AT WINDSOR. 109 LUTHER. EPISTOLA ADVERSUS CONSTITUTIONEM DE CLERI COELIBATU. 410. Calf. Wittenberg, 1520 Not IN THE British Museum or Bodleian Library. " The reason for the appearance of the present tract is not far to seek. The question of the celibacy of the clergy was beginning to be agitated by the German reformers. 5, Pall Mall Place 117 Bodenstein issued in 1521 his 'Super coelibatu Monachatu et viduitate Axiomata,' and the year before had shown that he had at least the courage of his opinions by marrying, being the first priest to contract such a union. A very remarkable tract was issued on this event, ' Missa de nuptis Andreae Carolostatii [Bodenstein] et sacerdotibus matri- monium contrahentibus,' purporting to be Mass for Bodenstein's wedding, and for other priests contracting marriage. The freedom and coarseness of the language seems to show that the book was not intended to be taken seriously. In 1521 Luther's ' De votis monasticis ' was printed at Wittenberg, and Luther himself was married in 1524. A number of tracts on the subject were written about this period. The present tract may almost certainly be dated 1520-21, for in the latter year a German version was printed at Heganau by Thomas Anshelm. 'Sant Vlrichs des heiligen Bischofifs zer Augspurg ver- teutschte cristliche schrifft, oder antwort an Babst Nicolaum, der sich unterstund nit mit recht sender unbillich, nit ordenlich, sonder unbescheidenlich, den geystlichen eeliche weyber wider gottes ordnung Zuuerbieten.' "Considerably later, about 1550, an English version made its appearance with the following title: 'Aneiiistel of moche learning sent by saint Huldericus, Bisshoppe of Augusta, called Augsburgh, unto Nicolas Bysshoppe of Rome, the fyrst of that name: agaynst the unmarried Chastitie of Priestes.' Of this there are copies in the British Museum and Bodleian. " The Latin version would appear to be very rare and unknoivn to most bibliographers. Panzer only quotes it from a catalogue." — E. GoRDON-DuFF. no LUTHER. A briefe collection of all such textes of the scripture as do declare ye most blessed and happie estate of the that be upseted wyth sycknes and other visitations of God, and of the that be depart- inge out of this lyfe, wyth most godly prayers and generall confessions, verie expedient and mete to be read to all sicke persones, to make the wyllynge to dye. Wherunto are added two fruitfull and com- fortable sermos made by the famouse clarcke doctor Martina Luther, verie mete also, to be reade at the burialles, etc. 8vo. Calf. [Coiophofi :"] Impryntcd at London for Givalter Lynne, dwellyftge on Somers kaye, by Byllynges gate. In the year e 1549 The compiler of this little book (of which only one other copy can be traced) was Walter Lynne, the bookseller for whom it was printed. Of his early career little is known. In 1534 he was a bookseller in Antwerp where he had at least two books printed for him, but before 1540 he appears to have come over to London, probably on account of religious persecutions abroad. While Henry was on the throne he appears to have kept 1 18 J. Pearson & Co. quiet, but immediately on Edward's accession he began to issue books on the side of the Lutheran Reformers. In the three years from 1547 to 1550 he issued nearly thirty books, when, though he seems to have lived for a considerable time longer, his literary activity ceased. He was a clever man, able to translate several languages, and he tells us in one of his prefaces, he spent all his time in setting forth books in the English tongue. He appears to have been specially befriended by the family of the Duke of Somerset the Protector, as many of his books are dedicated to Anne, Duchess of Somerset. In the preface of the present book he refers to a great bereavement which he had sustained a year or two before, but what it was is not specified exactly. If it was his wife, he had married again by 1551 as he and his wife Anna are mentioned in the list of members of the Dutch Church of that year. In 1567 Walter Lyn and his wife occur in the returns of aliens, and as no children are mentioned, their loss may account for the reference in the preface. He probably died soon after, as an Annys Lyn, widow, is mentioned in 1571, and she is said to have been in England, and residing in Billingsgate Ward thirty years. Besides the miscellaneous texts and prayers gathered by Lynne, he has added translations of two sermons by Luther concerning burials. Lynne seems to have been a great admirer of Luther, and translations of other sermons are included in other works which he printed. The present book is very rare. There is no copy in the British Museum or Cambridge University Library, though there is one in the Bodleian among Bishop Tanner's books. ^63 1 1 1 LYNDSAY (ALEXANDER). NAVIGATION DU ROY JACQUES CINQUIESME du nom, autour de son Royaume et Isles Hebrides et Orchades soubz la conduicte dAle.xandre Lyndsay. Folding map and plate. 4to. Original Vellum. Pat-is, 1583 A Scottish volume of superlative rarity. This is believed to be the finest known copy of this excessively rare book. " It appears by the dedication to the Due de Joyeuse that Nicholay (premier Cosmographe du Roy) had made a map and a memoir on Scotland during his residence there, and that he printed this, together with a translation of Lyndsay's navigation of James V, at the request of Dudley, afterwards Duke of Northumberland, who was ambassador from Henry VIII to the French King in 1546. Lyndsay's Navigation was translated into English from this book in 1710." — Grenville Ca/a/ogue. Lyndsay was a celebrated Scottish pilot. The book was designed as a hydrographical guide, and was termed a Rutter (after Fr. Koutier). Pall Mall Place 119 112 LYTTON (SIR E. BULWER). The famous Novelist. AN IMPORTANT SERIES OF 54 AUTOGRAPH LETTERS, SIGNED, BEING THE ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE OF LyTTON AND Lady Morgan between the years 1826 and 1853. Of the fifty-four letters the following may be noted : Dublin, Sept. 4th 1826. " .... I dont know whether it is lawful for authors to do such things. But as you are not likely to meet with my book elsewhere, perhaps you will accept it from myself," etc. Probably referring to his volume of poems " Weeds and Wild Flowers," published in 1825. C{raven) Cottage, Aug. 7 1840. "... I continue very ill — the worse, I think, for the Cheltenham Waters and am going to Wiesbaden. . . ." Owing to excessive industry his health broke down at this time. Portman Sq. 1840. "... I am very much obliged to you for allowing me the con- solation of thinking my play may have beguiled a weary hour. ... I have been severely unwell, but am better," etc. 1840. "I hope for ever by the great Bentley the Phalaris not of New Burlington Street. . . .-' 1840. Praising T.ady Morgan's book. "I hear it most highly spoken of and look forward with much pleasure and interest to the quiet enjoyment of it at my Cottage," etc. 25 May 1841. Enquiring for the name of an Italian gentleman whom he heard sing at Lady Morgan's house. Lincoln, 21 June 1841. "Your letter finds me in a committee room. Babel around me. ... It is a most severe contest here. In this district Ministers are at a terrible discount." Referring to the Election in which Lytton lost his seat. 2 pages, 8vo., 6 May 1844. "You are as usual, most amiable in your allusions to Schiller." Lytton's " Poems and Ballads translated from Schiller" was published in 1844. Great Malvern, 31 July 1844. "Your agreeable letter found me conversing with you — at least in Print. I have just been renewing an old acquaintance with the charming ' Florence Macarthy!' . . . and what a relaxation it proved amidst the chilling rigours of the Water Cure. What a beautiful novel it really is," etc. 1844. Praising the memory of Sir Chas. Morgan who had recently died. "I have not turned to Epictetus for many long years. I shall now open his Stoic pages with a more reverent feeling." 120 J. Pearson & Co. 1844. "I seldom look at a newspaper when out of town, in total darkness as to Henry's collision with Mr. Cochrane," etc. 1844. "Disraeli's book seems very clever and brilliant, and I always liked him so much, during the time in which we were thrown together that 1 feel unaffected sympathy in his success. Your old friend Croker must find the lashes he received at your fair hands, smart again under the Coningsby discipline." Also relative to a riverside cottage he wishes to sell. 30 Aug. 1846. "I am not surprised at the warm reception the Irish meets with. I have not yet had the volume but shall no doubt on returning to town. I am not a little proud that the preface was partially composed at Knebworth." 7 Nov. 1850. "The Report in the Morning Post was an absurd electioneering exaggeration." Relative to his deafness and health. 185 1 . He is leaving England but he requested Bentley to send Lady Morgan a copy of his " Harold." 1854. "Disraeli and Milman ought to play into each other very prettily. The theologian of the jews and the Jew among the historians. That was a splendid idea of Dis's by the way that the cleverest Jesuits were disguised Jews ! What rogues he makes them." 1855. "I am chained by tyrannical business and early in October I propose going abroad for the winter," etc. The whole inlaid to a uniform size and bound into a folio volume, green morocco. The letters are enriched by the addition of Sir Thomas Lawrence's exquisite Original Drawing for his famous portrait of Lady Morgan. ^400 MADAME DE MAINTENON AND CHRISTIAN PERFECTION MAINTENON (MME. DE). Married to Louis XIV in 1684. THE ORIGINAL HOLOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT, SIGNED, of her entirely unpublished "DISCOURS SUR LA PERFEC- TION CHRETIENNE TIRE DE PLUSIEURS AUTRES" (Auteurs). Quite Complete, comprising 144 pages in all. This exceedingly important manuscript is preceded by a holograph letter (signed with her parafe) from Mme. de Maintenon to Mademoiselle de Monchy. 4 pp. i2mo. 5, Pall Mall Place 121 The manuscript is immediately followed by another in a different handwriting (prob- ably by the recipient of the above — Mademoiselle de Monchy) entitled: Ordre de Jour. This covers lo pages. In her letter to the Mademoiselle the Marquise de Maintenon says: " I will send you Mademoiselle, a book entitled ' Perfection Chr^tienne ' " (the present Manuscript). Etc., etc. This most precious unpublished Manuscript, which is signed no less than twelve times with the Maintenon parafe, afterwards passed into the possession of the Du Plessis family for whom it was bound in its present binding of red morocco — the Du Plessis arms appearing on the sides. Madame de Maintenon was one of the most wonderful women in history. Not only was she the mistress of the "Grand Roi," but his wife (after _the death of Marie Thdr^se). ^200 114 MARY STUART AND ELIZABETH MAITLAND (WILLIAM). Lord 0/ Lethington. HOLOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, i full page, folio; February 27/// 1561 (old style), 1562 (new style). To Robert Dudley (afterwards Earl of Leicester), Queen Elizabeth's famous favourite. An excessively important Mary Stuart document. " My veary good Lord. After my most harty Recomendations to yo' good L.(ord- ship) althogh I have no great subiect wherewith to trouble yo'' L.(ordship) for the pnt (present) yet having so good occaon (occasion) by this bearar the L.(ord) off, St. Colmes going thither to write somewhat onto yow I wold not neglect the same as well off duety to avoyde the suspicion off Ingratitude wch (which) I shold justly Incur if I did forget the great gentlenes and favor It hath pleased yow to shewe towardes me at all tymes when my chanse was to be In that Realme as also to Require yo"' L. y' (that) by your good meanes my service may be most humbly Recomended to the Quenes Maty. In soche good sort as It be not taken for presumption, whose benefites to us all and most bountiful humanity towardes my selff In pticular (particular) hath geaven me Juste occaon (occasion) to honor and Reverence her maty. In all services {that off the Quene my Mrs. {Mistress) and her Realme onely Reserved) to be ever at her comandement. I must also Require yow according to that demonstration o^ good will yow have already made towardes my maistress and the trust her hyghnes hath Reposed In yow to procure alwayes the continnvance {continu- ance) off amity and Increase off thintelligence begone {begun) betwixt their Mats. {Majesties) wch (which) I hope shall no less tend to the cofnen (common) wealth off both the Realmes then to the estimation and hon'"' in pticular (particular) off soche ministers as shall most ernestly travell (travail) thairin whereoff as yow have bene the principall so I dout (doubt) not but yow shall deserve and purchase thankes off both. As for my Airs. R 122 |. Pearson & Co. {Mistress) I know therbe not many off whome she hath a better opinion then off yoiv and will not faill to Requite that good offer yow have already done whensoever thoccaon (the occasion) shalbe offred. And so I take my Leave fro (from) the XXVII"" off february 1561. yo' good L.(ord's) assuredly at Coiriandement W. Maitland." Addressed: "To My veary good Lord My Lord Robert Dudley Maister off horses to the O.(ueen's) Ma''' off Engl."(and). In the history of Queen Mary no figure stands out more prominently than that of William Maitland of Lethington. Born about 15 28 he was the eldest son of Sir Richard Maitland and his wife Mary Cranstoun. He was educated first at the University of St. Andrew's and then on the Continent, and became renowned for his scholarship and literary gifts. After ser%'ing for some time with the Queen Regent, he became a strong advocate for an alliance between Scotland and England, and in 1560 went to London as one of the commissioners. After the death of Francis II in December 1560, a general desire arose in Scotland for Mary's return, and in 1561 Maitland used every endeavour to persuade Elizabeth to look upon the project with favour, and to enter upon negotiations for an alliance, and the recognition of Mary as heir presumptive. On ist September 1561, Maitland went to England to announce Mary's return to Scotland, returning in October, and he again went to England on 2Sth May 1562, to endeavour to arrange for an interview between the two queens. In the interval between these two journeys, on 27th February 1561-2, the present letter was written, and its whole tone indicates the writer's desire for a friendly settlement between the two kingdoms. With this object in view he spared no pains in writing conciliatory letters to all whom he thought might prove of assistance towards his end. Robert Dudley, to whom the letter is addressed, was the principal favourite of Queen Elizabeth, indeed for a considerable time it was considered probable that she might make him her husband. Dudley's wife, the ill-fated Amy Robsart, had been killed in 1560, and many thought that she had been put out of the way to allow of this marriage taking place. Elizabeth finally determined to remain single, and in 1563, when the question of Mary Stuart's marriage was discussed, suggested Robert Dudley. He was created Baron Denbigh and Earl of Leicester in September 1564, with a view to fitting him for this promotion, but the scheme was put an end to by the marriage of Mary and Darnley in 1565. Maitland's influence over Mary was considerably lessened by her infatuation for Rizzio, and there is little doubt that Maitland was a party to his murder. It seems also clear that he had a good deal to do with the murder of Darnley. Though later the Queen did not look upon him with her former favour, he persistently endeavoured as far as possible to do all he could for her. As one by one her friends fell away Maitland still remained faithful, and though very weak in health continued to do all in his power for his royal mistress. Maitland died in prison in Leith on 9th June 1573, just after delivering up Edinburgh Castle to the English Commander Drury. This was for him a happy release since it spared him the ignominy of a public execution. 5, Pall Mall Place 123 Maitland was certainly one of the most patriotic politicians of his age, and he spent his life and met his death in his attempts to serve Queen Mary. This appears to be the only Utter of Maitland' s relative to his Royal Mistress that has occurred for sale. /250 MARIE ANTOINETTE AND LOUIS XVI. The original Marriage Contract between tlie Vicomte de Coulaincourt and Mdlle. de Tilly Blaru, dated 14//;! September 1788. 22 pages, 4to, and folio. The signing of this Marriage Contract was witnessed by the following members of the Royal house: Louis XVI. Marie Antoinette. Louis Stanislas Xavier (Louis XVIII). Charles Philippe (Charles X). Elizabeth Marie (" Madame " Elizabeth, the heroic sister of Louis XVI). Madame Adelaide (Aunt of Louis XVI). Madame Victoire (Aunt of Louis XVI). All of whom added their autograph. Also many other signatures of witnesses to the marriage contract. " C'^tait un usage constant, aux derniers siecles, que les souverains signassent aux contrats de mariage des personnes qui les approchaient ; c'dtait un honneur fort recherchd." 116 MARRYAT (CAPTAIN). THE ORIGINAL HOLOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT of his very famous novel, "The Settlers in Canada." Coveritig \^o pages, {o\\o. B hie morocco. This is one of the most important Authors' Manuscripts that has ever occurred for sale. Only one other Marryat manuscript appears to have come into the market. " The Settlers in Canada " is by far the best of Marryat's stories. This, the Original Manuscript, differs considerably from the book as published. A copy of the original edition of the printed version accompanies the manuscript. ;^225 124 ]' Pearson & Co. 117 QUEEN VICTORIA AND THE PRINCE CONSORT MARTIN (SIR THEODORE). The Life of His Royal Highness the Prince Consort. Port7-aits and plates. First edition of each volume. ^ vols., original cloth. 8vo. 1 875-1 8S0 The unique presentation copy from the Queen to R. Loh/ein, the Prince Consort's devoted personal attendant. Each volume bears an inscription in the autograph of Her Majesty, in every instance covering the whole of the page it is written on. " R. Lohlein with the kindliest feelings from his life-long patron Victoria." The first volume being pub- lished before Her Majesty was proclaimed Empress of India, she has signed the inscrip- tion as Queen; in the other four volumes Her Majesty signed as Queen-Empress. These five volumes have been greatly cared for and are in spotless preservation. .^80 118 MARY STUART. HER ORIGINAL GRANT OF LANDS to Sir John Coloquhoun. Dated Edinbtirgh, April 21st 1567. " Mary by the Grace of God Queen of Scots. To all and sundry our lieges and sub- jects whom it concerns to whose knowledge these our letters shall come. Know ye us to have given and granted and by these our letters we give and grant to our beloved John Coloquhoun of Lus knight, his heirs or assigns one or more the ward and nonentres rents ferms profits and dues of all and sundry the lands of Letterowalmore Fynnart Porchapill Forlinbrek Strongarton Duirling Stukedow and Kilmardeme extending to fourteen pound land of old extent, with their appurtenances, lying within the Earldom of Lennox and our sherifdom of Dumbarton pertaining to the said John, heritably holding immediately of our sometime dearest spouse Henry King of Scots Duke of Albany Earl of Ross and Lennox etc. immediate superiourto the said John, of all the time begone that the same were in our hands as superiours thereof, by reason of ward and suchlike, of all years and terms to come that the same shall happen to be in our or our successor's hands by reason of ward or nonentry. And ever and until the lawful entry of the rightful heir or heirs thereto being of lawful age with the relief thereof when it shall happen. To be held and to be had the ward nonentries and relief of all and sundry the said lands and all rents, fines and dues thereof to the said John his heirs and assigns during the said space, with all and sundry commodities liberties profits and rightful appurtenances whatsoever pertaining or (that) rightfully may pertain thereto. IViih power to the said John his heirs and assigns aforesaid to inter meddle and take up the rents ferms profits and dues of all and sundry Pall Mall Place 125 the lands above written with their appurtenances at their own hands during all the tyme of the ward and nonentry thereof above specified together with the relief thereof when it shall happen. And to dispose thereof at their pleasure. And to occupy the said lands with their own goods or to set them to tenants as they shall think most expedient during the said space with court plaint heregeld, bloodwite and merchete, fines amercements and escheats of the said courts with all and sundry other commodities and liberties freely quietly well and in peace without any revocation or recalling whatsoever. Wherefore we charge strictly and command you all and sundry our lieges and subjects foresaid, that none of you take in hand to make any impediment, let or disturbance, to the said John his heirs and assigns in the peaceable possessing enjoying, taking up, intermeddling and disposing of the ward nonentries and relief of all and sundry the forenamed lands and all rents ferms profits and dues thereof, during the space foresaid. After the form and tenor of these our letters under every highest pain and charge that after may follow. " Given under our privy seal at Edinburgh the twenty-first day of April, the year oi God Fifteen hundred three score seven years. And of our reign the twenty-fifth year." Although this document is dated from Edinburgh, Mary was actually at Dunbar^ having been carried there by Bothwell two days previously. Issued at a most momentous period in the Queen's life, Darnley having been mur- dered just over two months previously. The Sir John Colquhoun " of Luss " to whom this grant of land was made was Darnley's first cousin, and it was presumably made in order to placate him. -^200 119 MATHER'S MAGNUM OPUS MATHER (S AM UEL),5^«^//«f;'^«.y^. HOLOGRAPH LETTER (SIGNED), 3 pages, folio. Witney, Oxfordshire, Jtdy 14, 17 12. To the Rev. John Walrond. A HIGHLY IMPORTANT LETTER of great length relative to the abridgment of his brother Cotton's invaluable Magnalia Christi Americana; and of writing a History of New England. A very long letter. " Besides which I proposed to give a short History of ye Puritans in England from ye Troubles of Frankfort, down to \kiQ first planting of New England. Then to give an account of ye State of Religion in ye Nation at that juncture and adding the reasons given by ye Ministers of Q. Elizabeth & King James ye first his reign. "... I brought down ye works to 1681." But, he continues, the gentleman who promised monetary support failed him and the work remains unfinished. ^60 126 J. Pearson & Co. 1 20 INCREASE MATHER AND CHRISTIANITY AMONG THE INDIANS MATHER (INCREASE). HOLOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, 1 full page, 4to (closely written). Boston, J amiary 10, 1710-11. To Sir William Ashurst. Entirely on the afHiirs of " ye colledge " and Christianity among the Indians, he mentions that some think that the Scholars should devote themselves wholly to the service of the Indians. " I conceive, if any hopefull young students will (with yc consent of your partner) promise (where they shall be duely quaHfied) to endeavour to promote Christianity among ye Indians altho they should also preach ye Gospels in English Congregations (as old Mr. Eliot did, and Mr. Danforth and Mr. Rawson and others now doth with great bless- ings to ye Indians)," etc., etc. The recipient of this letter was the Lord Mayor of London, the son of Henry Ashurst, the Treasurer of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. Henry Ashurst was deeply interested in Eliot's missionary efforts in North America, and that Apostle to the Indians termed him his worthy and true friend. Extremely important. 121 MEETING OF GALLANTS at an Ordinarie, or the Walkes in Powles. TBlacfe ILCttEt- In verse and prose. Morocco. 4to. Lo7tdo7i, Printed by T. C. and are to be solde by Mathezu Lawe dwelling in Paules Churchyard, 1 604. A superb copy of an Elizabethan volume of the greatest Shakespearean interest and of superlative rarity. It is also one of the very earliest of the Shakespeare allusion books. Only TWO OTHER copies have survived, and both are now locked up in National libraries (British Museum and Bodleian). Nearly fifty years ago the British Museum paid ;^8i for George Daniel's copy, which was thus described: " This very rare and curious work is not mentioned by Lowndes in the first edition of his Manual. It commences with a Poetical Dialogue between Warre, Famine and Pestilence. The Tales of my Landlord then follow, ' where the Fatte Host tells Tales at the upper ende of the Table.' Mine Host, however, has not all the conversation to him- self, the guests coming in for a very fair share. One of the interlocutors, Ginglespur, N THE Mcccing of Gallants at an Ordinarie : OR The Walkcs in Powlcs. LONDON Printed by T. C.andarctobefoIdebyMathcw Lawe, dwelling in Paules Church- yard. 1 6 o if. JietJi. 5, Pall Mall Place 127 alludes to one of Shakespeare's plays: 'This was a prettie Comedy of Errors my round host'; to which my Round Host makes the following reply: ' O, my bullies, there was many such a part/Za/'^c uppon the stage both of the cittie and the suburbs.' " The present is, indeed, the only copy that has ever occurred. It was purchased at the sale of George Chalmers' Library and is the only copy cited by Mr. Bohn in his new edition of Lowndes." Although Daniel did not know it, Malone owned Isaac Reed's copy (now in the Bodleian Library), and from it Halliwell-Phillipps made his well-known Shakespearean reprint in 1841. ^275 See Illustration 122 MELANCTHON AND THE "CONCORD OF THE CHURCHES" MELANCTHON (PHILIP). A. I. s., in full, " PhiHppus Melancthon," in Latin, with a Greek quotation from Pindar, i page folio, 26 March, 1540. To Dr. J. Lange. " Although I am sorry to read of your quarrel about de Fontibus and the ill will arisen thereupon, yet I know that acting wisely you study skilfully to heal such evils; by lesser offices I have studied to turn him of whom you write to the use and even the honour of the church. Concerning myself if he speaks a little lovingly, while yet repre- hending much in me, nevertheless as to this I think I can quote a Pindaric line [Greek quotation follows]. Certainly I have striven to maintain the concord of the churches and deem myself to be tolerably a philosopher in that kind of thing." Written at a most important period of the " Reformer's " life. On the 3rd March Philip " the Magnanimous " (of Hesse) had married his second wife. Marguerite de Saale, his first being alive — this bigamy was sanctioned by both Melancthon and Luther. 123 AN UNKNOWN AND UNPUBLISHED VERSION OF MENDELSSOHN'S "SURREXIT PASTOR" MENDELSSOHN. THE ORIGINAL HOLOGRAPH MANU- SCRIPT of his Motet (Musical Score) "Surrexit Pastor." Dated Coblentz, Aug. 14, 1837. Bound in red morocco. 13 pages, 4to. This version is unpublished, and is extremely important. 128 J. Pearson & Co. Written for the nuns of Trinite del Monti, Rome. With the music and words entirely in the Autograph of this great Composer. At the end of the volume is another Original Holograph Manuscript by Mendelssohn, being part of another version of " Surrexit Pastor," comprising variations of the last ten bars of Movement i; also No. 2, and the first nineteen bars of the last Movement. Manuscript Versions Compared with the Printed Version of 1838. The printed version consists of 4, not 3 numbers as in the present manuscript, viz. : (i) "Surrexit Pastor." Solos and Chorus (almost identical with No. i. Version I, of MS.). (2) "Tulerunt Dominum meum." Duet for Two Soprani. Slightly different in the accompaniment of a few bars when compared with MS. Version I. (3) 1 1 Bars of Solo for Alto. "Surrexit Christus in Chorale" style. (4) Chorus. " Surrexit Christus." Follows No. 3 of Version II with few divergences. A few bars omitted; a few slightly altered. The duet in Version II is entirely different from the one in the printed copy and from the one in Version I. Mendelssohn, therefore, in the copy sent to the publisher, Simrock, (in August or September 1838 before leaving Diisseldorf for the Birmingham festival, 19th September 1822) did not follow exactly either of the two versions. This was shortly after his marriage. In the printed copy of the three Motets forming the set composed for the Nuns of Sta. Trinita de' Monte, " Surrexit Pastor " is No. 3, but in this manuscript it is headed No. 2. Mendelssohn's Account of the Origin of "Surrexit Pastor" " When the Ave Maria sounds, it is time to go to the church of Trinity de' Monti, where French nuns sing; and it is charming to hear them. I declare to heaven that I am become quite tolerant, and listen to bad music with edification; but what can I do? the composition is positively ridiculous, the organ-playing even more absurd. But it is twilight, and the whole of the small bright church is filled with persons kneeling, lit up by the sinking sun each time that the door is opened; both the singing nuns have the sweet- est voices in the world, quite tender and touching, more especially when one of them sings the responses in her melodious voice, which we are accustomed to hear chanted by priests in a loud, harsh, monstrous tone. The impression is very singular; moreover, it is well known that no one is permitted to see the fair singers, so this caused me to form a strange resolution. / will compose something to suit their voices, which I observed very minutely, and / mean to send it to them — there are several ways of accomplishing this. That they will sing it I feel assured; and it will be pleasant for me to hear my chant per- formed by persons whom I never saw, especially as they must in turn sing it to the barharo Tedesco, whom they also never beheld. I am looking forward to it. The text is in Latin, a prayer to the Virgin . . . 5, Pall Mall Place 129 "The ' Hebrides ' is completed at last and a strange production it is. The chant for the nuns is in my head; and I think of composing Luther's chorale for Christmas. . . ." (See Mendelssohn^ s letter from Rome, 20th December 1830.) The motets of Mendelssohn, again, have but little afifinity with those of Haydn, Mozart, and Cherubini— indeed, they can scarcely be said to have any; for in spite of the dates at which they were produced, they may more fairly be classed with t/u great works of the Eighth Epoch {that of Bach and Handel) to which their style very closely assimilates them. We need scarcely refer to his three motets for treble voices written for the convent of the Tritiila dd Monti at Rome, as gems of modern art. . . — W. S. Rockstro. " The third motet, ' Surrexit pastor honoris,' is undoubtedly the best and best carries out the original conception. The first movement is antiphonal. The four-part chorus keeps repeating the strophe as it is given out by the solo-quartett. The conception of the ' faithful Shepherd ' gives to the whole movement the pastoral character which is so clearly expressed by the organ accompaniment. . . . The duet for two soprano voices, ' Tulerunt Dominum meum ' is certainly one of the best numbers of church music which Mendelssohn ever wrote. . . . This movement seems to have been composed expressly for the sweet voices of the two nuns; it is overshadowed by the mystical twilight of the church. Then the Alto gives out the theme ' Surrexit Christus spes mea ' once more in the style of the old chorale and the chorus takes it up in joyful exultation, and sings to the end with increasing breadth of style. " In these motets we find everywhere an endeavour to reconcile the old traditional conception with the spirit of a new epoch," etc. — August Reissmann. The three motets are published under the opus number 39, and English words were adapted to them by Walmisley, the distinguished professor of music at Cambridge. The motet, " Surrexit Pastor," is the third and most elaborate of tJie series and the variations in this manuscript are both important and interesting, being dated so long after the date when the Motets were written. The composer was noted for the careful recension to which he subjected his compositions. The holograph corrections throughout these manuscripts are very numerous. There is also a Holograph Letter, signed, of Mendelssohn, i page, 8vo, to Dr. Emanuel Geibel, Leipzig, 20th September 1847: "I find that there is no answer here to my last letter; as I am going to Berlin for a few days, to play some apparently very popular work, and as it would be very disappoint- ing to me if we did not meet there this year, I earnestly beg you to send to me by return of post (adr. Jasen Stratze 51, Berlin) and let me know where you will be staying in that town. It will be months before I can journey thither again, and I would clasp your hand if possible." Mendelssohn died at Leipzig on the following 4th November, six weeks AFTER HE WROTE THIS LETTER. The PRESENT IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT OF MeNDELSSOHN'S MUSICAL MANU- SCRIPTS EVER OFFERED FOR SALE. £200 130 J. Pearson & Co. 124 MEZZOTINT PORTRAITS OF LADIES after paintings by famous artists from Van Dyck to Reynolds. The portraits have been carefully inlaid and bound in 4 volumes, folio. Red morocco extra, gilt leaves. There are in all 331 Mezzotints. The following choice impressions may be noted: Her Royal Highness the Princess Ameli.\, etc. After Ph. Mercier, 1728, by J. Simon. First state. Maria, Duchess of Ancaster. After Sir J. Reynolds by J. Watson. Proof. Very brilliant and early. With the names of the artist and engraver etched in, and with an error in the inscription : " Ducthess." In this state it was unknown to J. Chaloner Smith (the compiler of the Catalogue of " British Mezzotint Portraits "). Elizabeth, Countess of Ancram. After P. Falconet by Val. Green, 1771. A brilliant impression. The Countess was the daughter of Chichester Fortescue of Dromisken, Co. Louth (Ireland), by Elizabeth Wellesley, daughter of the ist Lord Mornington (the family of the great Duke of Wellington). The Princess Royal (Ann, eldest daughter of George II). After Ph. Mercier, 1728, by f. Simon. First state. Her High.vess Princess Ann, eldest daughter to his Royal Highness George, Prince of Wales. After Sir G. Kneller, 17 19, by J. Smith, 1720. First state. Miss Eliz. Appleton. Early impression before the artist's and engraver's names. Unknown to J. C. Smith. The Lady Arlington. After Sir P. Lely by A. Browne. First state, without the engraver's name. Mrs. Baddelv (the famous actress). After Zoffany by R. Lowrie. A very early and beautiful impression. Miss Banks. After If. D. Hamilton by R. Lotvrie. Proof before the inscription. 5, Pall Mall Place 131 The Right Honele. Lovisa, Countess of Berkeley, daughter of Charles Lenox, Duke of Richmond and Lenox. After Sir G. Kneller by J. Faber. 1742. Early state with the name spelt " Lovisa." Her Grace the Dutchess of Bolton, etc. (Henrietta Crofts.) After Sir G. Kneller by J. Smith (1703). Second state. Madame Elizabeth Brownlowe (as a child). After W. Wissing by J. Smith. With " A Browne excudit," partly erased and " E. Cooper " written in a contemporary hand, over it. Unknown to J. C. Smith in this state. Mrs. Bull. Proof before all letters. Miss Cabeen. After G. Willison by V. Green, 1770. First state — before the name. With the artist's and engraver's names etched in. Lady Mary Campbell. Proof before all letters. Lady Mary Campbell (Miss Plunket). After Will. Hoare by Richd. Houston. " Printed for and sold by Robt. Sayer, opposite Fetter Lane, Fleet-street." Unknown to J. C. Smith in this state. Her Royal Highness the Princess Carolina, etc. After Ph. Mercier, 1728, by J. Simon. First state. Her Most Excellent Majesty, Queen Caroline. After J. Vanderbank, 1736, by J. Faber, 1739. First state. The Lady Cartteret {sic]. After Kerseboom by J. Smith. Second state. Miss Catley, in the character of Euphrosyne. " All I ask of Mortal Man Is but to Love me while he Can. Vide Comus. Act IL Scene ist.' After W. Lmvrenson by R. Dunkarton. \'ni. Charlotte, Queen of Great Britain, etc., etc. 1761. Before the artist's and engraver's names. Unknown to J. C. Smith in this state. 132 J. Pearson & Co. Her Most Excellent Majesty Charlotte, Queen of Great Britain, etc., 1762. Before the artist's and engraver's names. The Lord Churchill's two Daughters. After Sir G. Kneller by J. Smith. First state. Excessively rare. J. C. Smith says only three impressions are KNOWN. Mrs. CiBBER. After T. Hudson by J. Faber. 1746. The excessively rare First State, of which, according to J. C. Smith, only four impressions ARE KNOWN. Mrs. CiBBER. After Pine by Umfrey. 1772. A very brilliant and early impression. Unknown to J. C. Smith. The Dutchess of Cleaveland. After Sir P. Lely by R. Williams. First state. The Dutchess of Cleaveland. After Sir G. Kneller by J. Smith. Second state. Miss Rafter \sic\ (Mrs. Clive) in the character of Phillida \sic\ By G. Schalken. " See native Beauty clad without disguise. No art, t'allure a paltry Lover's Eyes, No stiflF, sett Airs, which but betray the Mind But unaffected Innocence, we find," etc., etc. The celebrated Mrs. Clive, late Miss Raftor in the character of Philida. En- graved by J. Faber. 1734. Second state. (Mrs. Clive.) " When Beauty pleads her own resistless cause. She not soUicits, but commands applause. Thro' ev'ry Eye convinces ev'ry mind, And in one Language conquers all mankind. A Language o'er the Globe like Day reveal'd. And only from the Blind, like Day conceal'd." Before the artist's and engraver's names. Unknown to J. C. Smith. " Beauty's Tribute " (Miss Cooper). After Sir P. Lely by W. Faithome. Proof before the inscription with the artist's and engraver's names etched in. Maria (Gunning), Countess of Coventry. Before the artist's and engraver's names. Unknown to J. C. Smith. 5, Pall Mall Place 133 The Rt. Honourable Lady Elizabeth Cromwell. Whole length standing. After Sir G. Kneller by J. Smith. (1702.) First state. Mrs. Cross. (1700.) Proof before the artist's and engraver's names. Unknown to J. C. Smith in this state. Lady Elizabeth Cutts (Mrs. Morgan). After Sir G. Kneller by J. Becket. (1698.) Before the inscription. Madam d'Avenant. After Sir G. Kneller by J. Smith. (1689.) First state. Madam Davis. Actress and mistress of Charles IL After Sir P. Lely by R. Tompson. Miss Salethea Dawkens. After J. Toer by P. Stee. The only mezzotint by Stee. Lady Ann Dawson. 6 x 4^ inches. Proof before all letters. Nancy Dawson. By C. Spooner. First state. Nancy Dawson. By J. Watson. Before the artist's and engraver's names. A brilliant impression. The Rt. Honble. the Countess of Dorset. Full length, standing. After Sir G. Kneller by Faber. First state. Sign*. Lisabetta Du Parc detta la Francesina. After G. Knapton by J. Faber. 1737- This celebrated cantatrice was especially brought from Italy in 1735 to sing in Handel's operas. Lady Erskine. After A. Ramsay by J. IVatson. "London: Printed for Robt. Sayer, Map and Printseller, at the Golden Buck near Serjeants Inn, in Fleet Street, Price 55." Unknown to J. Chaloner Smith with the above imprint. The Right Honble. Mary Feilding, sole daughter and heir of Barnha Ld. Vise. Carlingford. After Sir P. Lely by I. Beckett [sic]. Second state. Helena Forman (Rubens' second wife). Proof before all letters. 134 J- Pearson & Co. Mrs. Gibbons and Mr. (Grinling) Gibbons (the celebrated wood-carver). After Closterman by J. Smith. (1691.) Second state. The Duchess of Grafton. By Schenk. This particular plate by Schenk was unknown to J. Chaloner Smith. Lady Grammont (" La Belle Hamilton "). After Sir P. Lely by McArdell. An extremely brilliant impression of this charming portrait, one of the " Windsor Beauties." Second state. Lady Harriot Grosvenor. 1774. Before the artist's and engraver's names. Mrs. Grosvenor Landry \sic\ Woman to the Queen. Not mentioned by Bromley. Without the artist's and engraver's names. Miss Gunning. After Cotes by Spooner. First state. Eleanor Gwynn. After Sir P. Lely by V. Green. 1777. Mrs. Hackett. After J. Riley by J. Smith. (1690.) First state. Mrs. Hamilton. After M. Cregan by C. Turner. Proof before all letters. The Honble. M.\dame Constantia Hare, Twinn-sister \_sic\ to Montague Hare Esqr. deceas'd, Daughter to the Right Honble: Henry Lord Colerane, Baron of Colerane, etc. After H. Verelst by J. Smith. (1694.) Second state. Miss Harriote. Before the artist's and engraver's names. Unknown to J. C. Smith. Miss Hawley. By F. Coates. Proof before all letters. Unknown to J. C. Smith. Miss Hill. After Russell by J. Dean. Proof before the name. Very wide margins. Unknown to J. C. Smith in this early state. Mrs. Howard. After J. Peters by J. Fabtr. First state. Not mentioned by Bromley. 5, Pall Mall Place 135 Lady Hume. After Cosway by V. Green. \ 783. First state. Before the name, with artist's and engraver's names etched in. Unknown to J. C. Smith in this state. Very brilliant. Mrs. Arabella Hunt. Dyed December 26th, 1705. After Sir G. Kneller by J. Smith. 1706. First state. The Right Honble: the Countess of Jersey. After Sir G. Kneller by J. Faber. 1740. First state. A Jewess. After Rembrandt by C. Corbutt. Proof, before the name and address of the publisher. Unknown to J. C. Smith in this state. Polly Jones. After H. D. Hamilton by Jas. M'^atson, i-j-ji. First state with inscription etched in and before the name. Miss (Polly) Jones. Half-length, with open book. After C. Read by J. Watson. Before the artist's and engraver's names. Unknown to J. C. Smith in this state. Katharine [of Braganza], Queen Dowager. By J. Smith. Unknown to J. C. Smith in this state. Anne Killigrew. After herself by Blooteling. Unknown to J. C. Smith. Anne was Maid of Honour to the Duchess of York, and a celebrated wit and beauty. She was much praised by the poet Dryden. Mrs. King. After Hamilton by /. R. Smith. 1772. A very early state with inscription etched in. Unknown to J. C. Smith in this state. Mrs. Knight, a famous singer and favourite of King Charles H. After Sir G. Kneller by /. Faber. 1749. First state. Lady with Fan (said to be Peg Woffington). By Fry e. 1761. Proof before the inscription. Lady George Lennox. After Ramsay by Corbutt. A very early impression. Unknown to J. C. Smith. 136 J. Pearson & Co. Margaret Lady Bingham (Countess of Lucan). After Angelica Kauffman by /as. Watson. 1775. Brilliant trial proof. Miss LuMSDEN. After G. Willison by T. Watson. 1770. First state, before the inscription. With the artist's and engraver's names etched in. Very brilliant. Catharine Macaulav. Proof before all letters. This state was unknown to J. Chaloner Smith. Miss Flora Macdonald. Before the artist's and engraver's names. Serenissima Maria D.G. Angliae Scotiae Franciae & Hiberniae Regina, etc. After Sir G. Kneller by J. Smith (1703). Unknown to J. Chaloner Smith in this state. Serenissima Maria D.G. Angliae Scotiae Franciae & Hiberniae Regina, etc. After Sir G. Kneller, " Equcs pinx," by J. Smith. Unknown to J. C. Smith in this state. Very brilliant. Marie TnERksE Charlotte de France, Madame, Duchesse d'Angouleme. After Hiiet Villiers by C. Turner. 181 2. Unknown to J. C. Smith. Madam DoROTHv Mason. After W. Wissing by J. Smith. (1686.) Before " E. Cooper exc." Unknown to J. C. Smith in this state. Ortance Manchini, Dutchess of Mazarin. After Sir P. Lely by Carolus Allard. Unknown to J. C. Smith in this state. Hortense Mancini was the niece of the celebrated Cardinal Mazarin. She married the Due de Meilleraye, but left him and went to Rome; was afterwards under the protection of the Duke of Savoy, and finally came to England. Charles II allowed her a pension, and she lived at Chelsea for many years, esteemed by the witty, gallant, and poHte. She died 2nd July, 1699. Lady Middleton. After Sir P. Lely by McArdell. An extremely brilliant and early impression. Lady Ann Montagu. After Sir P. Lely by R. Thotnpson. Proof before all letters. The Honble. Lady Essex Mostyn. After Sir G. Kneller by J. Smith, i 705. Second state. 5, Pall Mall Place 137 Mrs. Mountain. After I.J. Masquerier by C. Tinner. 1804. Unknown to J. C. Smith. Mrs. Newcome. Without artist's or engraver's names. Elizabeth, Countess of Northumberland. After Sir P. Lefy by T. IVatson. 1779- An extremely brilliant and early impression. Elizabeth, Countess of Northumberland. After Sir J. Reynolds by Ji. Houston. First state. Elizabeth, Countess of Northumberland. After Sir/. Reynolds by E. Fisher. This plate was issued in two sizes. The present is the larger. Nelly O'Brien. After Sir J. Reynolds by Dixon. Proof before all leters. Unknown to J. C. Smith in this state. This lady was a great favourite of Sir Joshua Reynolds. Her Grace, Mary Dutchess of Ormonde, and Tho.mas, Earl of Ossory, her son. After Sir G. Kneller by J. Stnit/i. 1693. First state. Miss Osborne. After R. E. Pine by IV. Dickinson. Proof before all letters. In this very eakly state the plate was unknown TO J. C. Smith. Mrs. Parker. After IV. Owen by W. Say, Engraver to the Duke of Gloucester. Proof. Unknown to J. C. Smith. Mrs. Parker. After W. Oiuen by IF. Say. Proof in bistre. Teresia Constantia Phillips. Before the artist's and engraver's names. Unknown to J. C. Smith in this state. Lady Pitt. After M. W. Sharp by W. Say. 1802. Dedicated to Her Royal Highness Princess Elizabeth, with her crowned monogram beneath. Open letter proof. Very brilliant. The Countess of Ranelagh. After Sir G. Kneller by J. Smith. Before the artist's and engraver's names. Unknown to J. C. Smith. T 138 J. Pearson & Co. Miss Martha Ray. First state, with inscription faintly etched in. Mrs. Reid in the character of a Sultana. After R. E. Pine by W. Dickinson. A very brilliant and early impression. Miss Mary Lillias Scott. After A. Ramsay by J. Faber. 1748. First state. The Most Illustrious Princess Sophia, Electrice Dowager of Brunswick, Suc- cessor to ye Crown of England, &:c., after her Majesty Queen Ann & her Royal Issue. By J. Smith. (1706.) Second state. Her Royal Highness Sophia Dorothea, Princess Royal of Prussia, daughter to His Highness the Elector of Brunswick, and granddaughter to Her Royal Highness the Princess Sophia, Electrice Dowager of Brunswick, S:c. After J. Hirseman by J. Smith. 1706. Unknown to J. C. Smith. Miss C. Spencer. After H. D. Haviilton by Val. Green. 1771. First state with the inscription etched in, and before the name. Miss Stephens, of the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. After G. H. Harlow by H. Meyer. 1813. Proof, with the name etched in. Very brilliant. Miss Van Haecken (dressing a doll). After Jos. Van Haecken by Alex. Van Haecken. " Here Innocence and Youth are joyn'd. And Miss contented in her Mind Thus Happy may She ever be. And thus her Babes & She agree." First state? Unknown to J. C. Smith. The Lady Anne Vernon. 1824. A very brilliant impression. Unknown to J. C. Smith. Her Royal Highness Princess of Wales. After T. Stothard by J. Murphy. Proof before the inscription. The Countess of Westmerland \_sic\. By J. Beckett. From Horace Walpole's collection, with a biographical note in his autograph. Miss Sophia Weston. After T. Worlidge by J. R. Smith. 1771. Unknown to Bromley. 5, Pall Mall Place 139 Miss White, Clear Starcher to the Queen. Before the artist's and engraver's names. Unknown to Bromley. Lady Whitmore. After Sir P. Lely by T. Watson. 1778. An extremely brilliant impression of this charming portrait. One of the celebrated Windsor Beauties." Frances, Countess of Wicklow. After G. H. Harlmv by W. Say. Proof. WiLHELMiNA Amalia Roman Imperatrix Nata Due. Hannover. Before the artist's and engraver's names. Miss Charlotte Williams. 1771. First state. Unknown to J. C. .Smith in this state. Mrs. Margaret WoFFiNGTON. After J. Eccard by J. Faber. 1745. First state. Mrs. Yarborough. After Sir G. Kneller by /. Becket. First state. Unknown to Bromley. Her Royal Highness (Frederica) the Dutchess of York, i 794. Before the artist's and engraver's names. The above constitutes a fine and perfectly genuine old collection which COULD never be DUPLICATED, ^//the portraits are in mezzotint and all have good margins. /2,500 125 MILTON (JOHN). POEMS BOTH ENGLISH AND LATIN. Compos'd at several times. Printed by His True Copies. i2mo. Brilliant i^npression of the engraved portrait of the Author by William Marshall. Morocco, gilt leaves. London: Printed by Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Moseley, 1645 The excessively rare first Edition. This is the first book with Milton's name upon the title-page. The very brilliant impression of the Marshall portrait is likewise the first portrait of Milton ever engraved. This is a very tall copy (measuring b\ inches by 3 J inches). On page 27 is the well-known epitaph, " On Shakespear 1630." "What needs my Shakespear for his honour'd Bones," etc. " Marshall's portrait of Milton," says Granger, " was the first print of him ever pub- lished. Salmasius in his ' Defensio Regia ' calls it comptula Iconem, and says it gave him 140 J. Pearson & Co. a more advantageous idea of his person than he ever had before; but that this opinion ill-coincided with Milton's is sufficiently proved by the Greek verses under the portrait, of which the following sentence is a translation: 'Will anyone say that this portrait was the work of an ingenious hand; my very friends, looking at my own natural countenance, knew not whom it represents, but laugh at the awkward imitation of the idiotic artist.' This is probably too satirical."— i5/7V. Auglo-Poetica. It is quite plain that Salmasius spoke ironically, which the writer of this note failed to perceive. ^«5o 126 MILTON (JOHN). POEMS, etc., upon several occasions with a small Treatise of Education to Mr. Hartlib. Old calf. Small 8vo. 1673- First issue of the Second edition, but many of the Poems are here printed for the first time. £\2 \2S. 127 MILTON (JOHN) Das Verlustige Paradeis in unser Gemein Teutsch durch E. G. Von Berge. Small 8vo. Original velltun. Zerbst, 1682 The FIRST German translation of " Paradise Lost," and the only copy known to iis except that in the British Museum. Having been printed at Von Berge's expense, in all probability only a very few copies were issued for his friends. 128 MILTON (JOHN). Paradisus Amissa. Poema Anglice Scriptum a Johane Milton nunc autem ex Auctoris Exemplari Latine Red- ditum per M(athew) B(old). 4to. Original calf. TypisJ. C, 1702 An excessively rare edition. A few years ago a considerable sensation was produced by the announcement that a manuscript of the first book of " Paradise Lost" had been found and was to be sold by auction. This manuscript is so far curious, that it seems to indicate a project, which was not carried out at the time, for publishing the first 5, Pall Mall Place i + i book separately as an experiment. There is, however, a little more to be said, since in the present volume we have it distinctly stated, on one of the two title-pages, that the same book was translated into Latin by M. B. (initials amplified in coeval MS. into Mathew Bold on the title), from the author's own copy. The Latin and English are on opposite pages, and the question is whether this is not the same text as the MS. above mentioned. Lowndes had evidently never been able to see this edition as he describes it as being in &vo. 129 TONSON'S ASSIGNMENT OF THE COPYRIGHT OF "PARADISE LOST" MILTON.— TONSON (JACOB), the celebrated London Publisher, associated with Milton, Dry den, Addison, Pope, Sivift, and other literary men. His ORIGINAL ASSIGNMENT (to his son) of the Copyright of Milton's "Paradise Lost" and "Paradise Regained." Signed twice by Tonson. i page, large folio. On vellum. Sept. 17 18. Fine wax seal. This extremely important literary document, which appears to have escaped the researches of all Milton's biographers, is the original deed in which Tonson assigns his copyrights to his son. " And also all those three parts in four in the copy of a book intituled Milton's ' Paradise Lost,' in twelve books, and also all his share or part in the copy of a book intituled Milton's ' Paradise Regained,' with his other poems." 130 MILTON'S PROSE WORKS (EDITIONES PRINCIPES OF). This absolutely unique collection of 41 volumes was brought together by a devoted admirer of Milton who over a long series of years scoured the whole of England. Included is the well-known presentation copy of" The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce," which Milton gave to H. Jackson. Neither the British Museum nor any other Public Institution can approach this collection in extent or in importance. Every volume is complete — there are no imperfect copies. 142 J. Pearson & Co. The rarity of the First Editions of Milton's prose works (most of which were secretly printed) can be judged from a reference to the Cataloeiies of such famous libraries as the Huth, Church and Hoe. The First Editions of Milton's works — both verse and prose — having been printed on wretched paper, most of the existing copies are in but poor condition. Of Reformation touching Church Discipline in England: and the causes that hitherto have hindered it. 4to. 164 1 First Edition. Milton's first prose work. Published anonymously. Excessively rare. Of Prel.atical Episcopacy, and whether it may be deduc'd from the Apostolical times by Vertue of those Testimonies which are alledg'd to that purpose in some late Treatises; one whereof goes under the name of James, Archbishop of Armagh. 4to. 1641 First Edition. Milton's second prose work, also published anonymously and of equal rarity with the first. Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus. 4to. 1641 First Edition. Milton's third prose work. Published anonymously. The Reason of Church Government, Urged against Prelaty in two books. 4to. 1 64 1 First Edition. Milton's fourth prose work. Apology for Smectymnuus (An); with the Reason of Church-Government by John Milton. Small 4to. Printed for John Rothwell at the Fountain and Beare in Cheapside, n.d. (c. 1642) First Edition. Milton's fifth prose work. There is no copy in the British Museum and it was unknown to Leslie Stephen. A Reply to the Answer (Printed by his Majesties Command at Oxford) to a Printed Booke Intituled Observations upon some of his Majesties late Answers and Expresses. 4to. London., for AI. Walbancke, 1642 First Edition. Milton's sixth prose work. Only his initials are on the title-page. There is no copy in the British Museum and it was also unknoion to Leslie Stephen. The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, Restored to the good of both sexes from the Bondage of Canon Law. 410. 1 643 First Edition. Milton's seventh prose work. Published anonymously. Pall Mall Place 143 The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, Restored to the good of both sexes from the Bondage of Canon Law. 410. 1644 Second Edition, containing 40 additional pages. The preseniation copy to H. Jackson, the Oxford Divine, with inscription in the Autograph of Milton, also a few corrections in his autograph in the text. A most precious volume, the inscription reads " H. Jackson ex dono Authoris ". The Judgement of Martin Bucer concerning Divorce. Writt'n to Edward the Sixt, in his Second Book of the Kingdom of Christ . . . Wherein a late Book restoring the Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, is heer confirm'd and justify'd by the authoritie of Martin Bucer. 4to. 1644 First Edition. Milton's ninth prose work. Published anonymously. There is no copy in the British Museum. Areopagitica. An Order of the Lords and Commons for the Regulation of Printing and for suppressing the great late abuses and frequent disorders in printing many false, scandalous, seditious, libellous and unlicensed Pamphlets, etc. Black letter, half morocco- Small 4to. Printed for J. Wright in the Old Bailey, 164^, /une 16. 1643 This is the original " Order " which gave rise to Milton's celebrated " Areopagitica." Excecsively rare. There was 710 copy in the Tercentenary Alilton Exhibition. Its practical extinction is easily understood, as it consists of but four leaves. Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing. Small 4to. 1644 First Edition. Milton's tenth prose work. Of the very greatest rarity. Reprinted by the Grolier Club in 1890. Tetrachordon: Expositions upon the Foure Chief places in Scripture, which treat of Mariage, or Nullities in Mariage. 4to. 1645 First Edition. Milton's eleventh prose work. Only his initials are on the title-page. Colasterion : A reply to a nameless Answer against the Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce. 4to. 1645 First Edition. Milton's twelfth prose work. Only his initials are on the title-page. There is no copy in the British Museum. The King's Cabinet Opened: or, certain Packets of Secret Letters and Papers, written with the King's own Hand, and taken in his Cabinet at Nasby Field June 14, 1645 by Victorious Sir Thomas Fairfax; wherein many mysteries of State, tending to the Justification of that cause, for which Sir Thomas Fairfax joyned battell that memorable day are clearly laid open. 410. 1645 First Edition. Milton's thirteenth prose work. Published anonymously. There is no copy in the British Museum, and it was unknozvn to Leslie Stephen. 144 ]• Pearson & Co. The Tenure ok Kings and Magistrates: proving that it is Lawful! to call to account a Tyrant, or Wicked King, and after due conviction, to depose, and put him to death. 4to. 1649 First Edition. With portrait by Faithorne inserted. This tract, which appeared four days after the publication of " Eikon Basilike," was not included in any edition of Milton's Works until that of 1806. Milton's fourteenth prose work. Only his initials are on the title-page. The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates; proving that it is lawful! to call to account a Tyrant, or Wicked King, and after due conviction, to depose and put him to death. . . . Published now the second time with some additions. 4to. 1649 Second edition, with eighteen additional pages. Eikon Basilike. The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie in His Solitudes and Sufferings. Rom. 8 More then Conqueror &c. Bona agere, & mala pati, Regium est. Folding plate of the King kneeling, by Wm. Marshall. Small Svo. Calf. 1648 The exceedingly rare, genuine First Edition of the Kin^s Book, having the faulty pagination in signature G, and title (without printer's name) as copied above, of which only 7 copies were known to Mr. Almack (the bibliographer). The present copy also contains the hopelessly rare leaf of Errata. "The first issue appeared almost before the King's body was cold (i.e., on Feby. 9, 1649). Copies were eagerly bought and carefully treasured. Forty -six editions of it were issued in English during the first twelve months of its sale, as well as three editions in Latin, four in French, two in Dutch, and one in German." Eikonoklasties in Answer to a Book intitl'd Eikon Basilike. 4to. 1649 First Edition. Milton's fifteenth prose work. Only his initials are on the title-page. Pro Populo Anglicano Defensio contra Claudii Anonymi, alias Salmasii, Defen- sionem Regiam. i2mo. 1650 First Edition. Milton's sixteenth prose work. There was no copy of the first edition in the Tercentenary Exhibition. Eikon Aklastos. — The Image Unbroken, a Perspective of the Impudence, Fals- hood, Vanitie, and Prophannes, Published in a Libell entitled Eikonoklastes against Eikon Basilike. Sm. 4to. Printed anno dom. 1651 First Edition. This is the famous answer by Jane to Milton. Pro Populo Anglicano Secunda, contra infamem libellum anonymum cui titulis 1654. — Pro se Defensio contra Alexandrum Morum 1655. 2 volumes in i. i2mo. 1654-55 First Editions. Milton's eighteenth and nineteenth prose works. A Defence of the People of England in Answer to Salmasius's Defence of the King. Small Svo. 1692 The First Edition in English of "Pro Populo Anglicano." 1650-1654. 5, Pall Mall Place 145 Cabinet Council (The), containing the Chief Arts of Empire and Mysteries of State, by Sir Walter Raleigh, published by John Milton, Esq. Portrait by Vaughan. Small 8vo. T. Newcomb for T. Johnson. 1658 First Edition. Published by Milton from the original manuscript then in his possession. A Treatise of Civil Power in Ecclesiastical Causes: showing that it is not lawful for any power on earth to compell in matters of Religion, izmo. 1659 First Edition. Milton's twentieth prose work. Only his initials are on the title-page. Considerations touching the likeliest Means to Remove Hirelings out of THE Church, etc. The Author J. M. i2mo. T. N. for L. Chapman, in Popes Head Alley. 1659 First Edition. Milton's twenty-first prose work, and of the greatest rarity. Only his initials are on the title-page. The Readie & Easie Way to establish a Free Commonwealth. 4to. 1660 First Edition. Milton's twenty-second prose work, and one of the most famous. Only his initials are on the title-page. Accedence Commenc't Grammar, Supply'd with sufficient Rules, For the use of such (Younger or Elder) as are desirous, without more trouble than needs to attain the Latin Tongue. 12 mo. 1669 First Edition. Milton's twenty-fourth prose work. The History of Britain, that part especially now call'd England from the first traditional beginning continued to the Norman Conquest. 4to. 1670 Brilliant impression of the portrait of IF. Faithorne. First Edition. Milton's twenty-fifth prose work., Artis Logicae Plenior Institutio, ad Petri Rami Methodum concinnata, adjecta est Praxis Annalytica & Petri Rami vita. Libris duobus. i2mo. Portrait of the Author by W. DoUe. Londini, 1672 First Edition. Milton's twenty-sixth prose work. Of True Religion, Haeresie, Schism, Toleration, and what best means may be us'd against the growth of Popery. 410. Uncut. 1673 First Edition. Milton's twenty-seventh prose work. Only his initials are on the title-page. There was no copy in the Tercentenary Exhibition. Epistolarum Familiarium Liber Unus; quibus accesserunt, Ejusdem, jam olim in Collegio Adolescentis, prolusiones quaedam Oratoriae. i2mo. 1674 First Edition. Milton's twenty-eighth prose work. U J 46 y. Pearson & Co. LiTERA PSEUDO SENATUS Anglicani, Cromwei.ii, Reliquorumque perduellium nomine ac jussa conscriptse. izmo. 1676 First Edition. Milton's thirtieth prose work. There is no copy in the British Museum. Character of the Long Parliament and Assembly of Divines in 1641, omitted in his other works, and never before printed. 4to. 1681 First Edition. Milton's thirty-first prose work. There is no copy in the British Museum. A BRIEF History of Moscovia and of other less-known Countries lying eastward of Russia as far as Cathay. Small 8vo. 1682 First Edition. Milton's thirty-second prose work. Said by the publisher to have been written by Milton's own hand before he lost his sight. The Arts of Empire, and Mysteries of State Discabineted in Political and Polemical Aphorisms, grounded on Authority and Experience, by the ever Renowned Knight Sir Walter Raleigh, published by John Milton. Small Svo. 1692 First Edition. There was no copy in the Tercentenary Exhibition, neither is it in the British Museum. Letters of State to most of the Sovereign Princes and Republicks of Europe from 1649 till 1659, to which is added an account of his Life, several of his Poems and a catalogue of his Works. i2mo. 1694 First Edition. Milton's thirty-third prose work. It was edited by his nephew. There is no copy in the British Museum. The Secrets of Government and Misteries of State Plainly laid open, in all the several forms of Government in the Christian AVorld. Small Svo. 1697 First Edition. Milton's thirty-fifth prose work. There was no copy in the Tercentenary Exhibition, and it is not in the British Museum. The Works of Mr. John Milton. Folio. Printed in the Year 1697 The Editio Princeps of Milton's collected prose works. The Life of John Milton, containing, besides the History of his Works, several Extraordinary Characters of Men and Books, Sects, Parties and Opinions (by John Toland). 8vo. 1699 First Edition of the First Separate " Life " of Milton. There was no copy in the Tercentenary Exhibition. Price of the 4 1 volumes, ^ i , 500 CO W C/5 > o w W o:^ c^ t^ UJ W ►-H >— < N k— 2 o O ^ 2 UJ Q O J. ^ - Q X X 'o ua[S w lii U4 •-^i Q O ki >.-• ^ Cu o PQ o --■ 5>> OS 3 ri c^U -■ to 3 < -6 a u ^ u o u ^ 5, Pall Mall Place 147 131 MOLIERE'S CHEF D'CEUVRE UNCUT. MOLIERE. LES FEMMES SCAVANTES. Comedie. i2mo. First edition. Red morocco extra with a doublure of red morocco by Ctizin. absolutely uncut. Et se vend pour I'azitheur. A Paris, au Palais, & Chez Pierre Promi, stir le Quay des Grands Augustins, a la Charity. 1673 Unique, being absolutely uncut. No other uncut example of any of Moliere's Comedies is recorded. An ordinary cut copy in morocco by Trautz was sold as far back as 1875 for 2,500 francs. A supreme Comedy — considered by some critics to be Moliere's Masterpiece. See also, supra, Racine. ;^400 See Illustration 132 MOLIERE. LES CEUVRES. 7 vols. Small 8vo. A most beautiful copy, red morocco extra. Paris, Denys Thierry et Clatide Barbin, 1674 Excessively rare, and, according to M. Lacroix, "la veritable Edition originale"; it was revised by Moliere himself two months before his death. The Behague copy sold in 1880 for 5,300 frances, having been purchased at the Berlin sale in 1854 for 87 francs !!! MOLIERE. LES CEUVRES. Reveues, corrigdes & augment^es. Enrichies de Figures en Taille-douce. Frontispieces atid numerous plates by SauvS after Brissart. Contemporary red morocco, gilt on marble leaves. Bound for Philippe, Due D'ORLfiANS, " le Regent," with his chiffre stamped on the title-page of each volume. 8 vols. Sm. Svo. Paris, Chez Denys Thierry, Claude Barbin, et Chez Pierre Trabouillet, 1682 The "wicked" Regent's copy oi tJu first complete editioti olUi-oXxtxt. This edition was 148 J. Pearson & Co. published, in 1682, by Moliere's comrades La Grange and Vinot. Copies in con- temporary morocco are excessively rare; as long ago as 1869 the Grand Dauphin's example was sold in Paris for 4,610 francs. The Hoe copy, in a modern binding, sold for ^106. See Illustration 134 MOLIERE. CEUVRES. Paris, 1773. 6 vols. 8vo. Portrait after Mignard, engraved by Cathelin; 6 flejirons on the titles by Moreau, and 33 plates by Moreau, engraved by Baquoy and others. Contemporary calf. The finest illustrated edition. A UNIQUE example, having inserted a document signed by J. Poquelin, Moliere's father, and another signed by his wife, Armande Bejart. 135 MONTESQUIEU. LE TEMPLE DE GNIDE. Fleuron on title, vignettes and 22 plates engraved by Chapuy, Patas, and Nie, after Peyron and P err in. Folio. Red tnorocco, with a doublure of dark green morocco, watered silk fly-leaves. Uncut. Paris, 1824 The plates are all Proof Impressions, and comprise (chiefly) the set of seven after Peyron in 2, 3, 4, and 5 states, viz. : 1. The etchings. 2. A la mezzotint. 3. In bistre. 4. In line, Proofs before Inscriptions. 5. In colours. 136 MORE (T.). DE OPTI | MO REIP. Statu, Deque | noua insula Vtopia, libellus ue | re aureus, nee minus salutaris | quam festiuus, clarissimi disertis- | simiq, uiri THOMAE MORI in | clytae ciuitatis Londinensis ciuis I & Vicecomitis. I EPIGRAMMATA clarissimi I tN-|^ m A A s O o s -I I «lf ■ I ' I. 7" ^v " " ^ T^ t ifUkll r. i ! in '^ ' t *' ^ k t. til IM I ^ r% <^ -.^v 5, Pall Mall Place 149 disertissimq^ viri Thomae | Mori, pleraq^, e Graecis uersa. | Epigram- mata. Des Era- | smi Roterodami. Each of the three parts has a separate title within borders designed by Hans Holbein and Urs Graf, besides an engravitigofthe Isle of Utopia, a vignette containing represent- ations of Thomas More, Pet. Aegidius, Hythlodacus, and Jo. Clemens, also several ornamental capitals. 4to. Original calf [Colophon] Basilece apud lo. \ Frobenium men \ se Decembri, 1 5 1 8 It has not been generally noticed that there are two issues of this, the first editioti of the " Utopia " with the Epigrammata of More and Erasmus annexed. One appeared in November-December 1518, the other in March 1518-19; the present is the anterior or scarcer one. The engraved title to the " Utopia " was designed by Holbein, those to the Epigrams by Urs Graf, whose monogram they bear. This is one of the capital books of the world, and complete copies of the edition of 15 18, with all the three portions together, are most difificult to obtain in such state as the present. ;^45 ^37 MOZART (WOLFGANG AMADEUS). HOLOGRAPH LET- TER, SIGNED, I page, 4to; 1769. Addressed to his Mother. Written in German. Together with a Holograph Letter, signed, i page, 4to; 1769. Addressed to his sister and written in Italian. (This is on the back of the letter to his mother.) The Great Composer was only thirteen years old when these two letters WERE written. TheY ARE HIS EARLIEST KNOWN LETTERS AND WERE FORMERLY IN THE Bailly Collection. ^175 See Illustrations 138 MOZART (WOLFGANG AMADEUS). THE ORIGINAL HOLOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT of three Compositions, i page, folio. The first Composition, a fugue fragment in E flat, is an excellent illustration of the Composer's method. The date at which these twenty-seven bars were written is not exactly known, but it was about the year 1772. In the second edition (1905) of the Koechel T50 J. Pearson & Co. catalogue, edited by the late Count Waldersee, a copy of this fragment with completion by Sechter is mentioned, but the original autograph was then unknown 1 The second and third Compositions, each of two bars, consist of passages in canonic imitation; they are on the same page as the autograph mentioned, and are therefore, of course, net noticed in Koechel. From the collection of Aloys Fuchs. /125 139 ADMIRAL COLLINGWOOD'S THANKS TO THE FLEET THE DAY AFTER TRAFALGAR. NELSON.— COLLINGWOOD(CUTH BERT). HIS ORIGINAL GENERAL ORDER, SIGNED, TO THE FLEET. 2 pages folio. Dated on board the " Euryalus the 22nd October 1805." Addressed : " To The Right Honourable Rear Admiral the Earl of Northesk and the Respective Captains and Commanders." " General Order. " The ever to be lamented death of Vice-Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson, Duke of Bronte the Commander in Chief, who fell in the Action of the 2ist in THE Arms of Victory, covered with Glory, whose memory will be ever dear to the British Navy and the British Nation whose zeal for the honour of the King, and the Interests of his Country will be ever held up as a Shining example for a British Seaman leaves to me a duty to return thanks to the Right Honourable the Rear Admiral, the Captains, Officers, Seamen and detachments of Royal Marines SERVING on Board His Majesty's Squadron now under my command for their con- duct on that day — but where shall I find Language to express my Sentiments of the Valour and skill displayed by every Officer, every Seaman and Marine in the Battle with the Enemy, where every individual appeared an Hero, on whom the Glory of his Country depended — the Attack was irresistible and the issue of it, adds to the page of Naval Annals a brilliant instance of what Britons can do, when their King and Country needs their Service. To the Right Honourable Rear Admiral the Earl of Northesk to the Captains, Officers and Seamen and to the Officers, Non Commissioned Officers and Privates of the Royal Marines, I beg to give my Sincere and hearty thanks for their highly meritorious Conduct in the Action, and in their zeal and Activity in bringing the captured Ships out from their perilous situation in which they were after their surrender among the shoals of Trafalgar in boisterous Weather. And I desire the Respective Captains will be pleased to communicate to the Officers, \ \ \ \ >! K\> J / 'j:^. v.r ',^ ^/l^tC'^ ' f N 'X 7 x^^- x-^-^ ^--T^ Z.-« c: -I / />9 Z-- ^^ /^ /-^ y/^i^ D c ^^ ,-^ /' y-'S c^y.^ ..^-v^ e A ,-^^' ^^O- Z -'--<-' >/^ 2-^-^ ^- > - -;- -^^ u--^' C-- .1 ^^7 /) y>- ^- =^ ^'"-^^^ ^^-^C / ^ ^-^^ ^^' '-; ^' >>-^_^, ^ /a ^' -^^ ^c- ^£_ ^>-n^ /^^ / -i^T^ ^-, ^u.- <:?; >«- -i^- ,^ ?^,^J y /■ ^"7 rmmmmnfiii-a 140 Pall Mall Place 151 Seamen and Royal Marines this Public testimony of my high approbation of their conduct, and my thanks for it. Euryalus the 22nd October 1805." This most important and pathetic Nelson document was written the day AFTER Trafalgar. ^200 140 LADY HAMILTON TO GEORGE IV AFTER TRAFALGAR NELSON.— HAMILTON (EMMA, LADY). HER ORIGINAL HOLOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED. 3 full pages, 410; to George IV (when Prince of Wales), enclosing a lock of Lord Nelson's hair. The wrapper is addressed by Lady Hamilton: "To His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales." Dated Clarges St., 17 Feb., 1806. This is by far the most important and most precious letter of " Nelson's Emma " extant. Besides enclosing the Prince the lock of Nelson's hair, Lady Hamilton thanks him for his personal kindness to her. In a postscript she adds: " I have opened the paper with his dear hair for the first titne, and am most unhappy and agitated, and hope your R. H. will forgive the trembling scrawl, but think it my duty to send it emediately, as you exprest a wish for it," etc. The identical lock of Nelson's hair sent to the Prince of Wales by Lady Hamilton, is enclosed in a separate ivrapper, with the words "Lord Nelson's Hair," in her Ladyship's autograph. The wrapper bears the seal used by Lady Hamilton after Nelson's death. This seal bears the initial N surmounted by a Viscount's coronet, and the initial B surmounted by a Duke's coronet, signifying Viscount Nelson and Duke of Bronte. Around the edge of the seal the words " Lost to his Country, Oct. 21, 1805, Trafalgar," appear. This most remarkable letter, together with the lock of Nelson's hair which accom- panies it, was acquired after the death of George IV, by Messrs. Rundel and Bridge the King's goldsmiths, and remained in the Bridge family until last year. ^600 See Illustrations 152 J. Pearson & Co. 141 NELSON. THE " BARKER" COLLECTION OF NELSON'S LETTERS This unique collection of twenty-seven "picked" holograph letters of the great Admiral and his comrades was formed by the late F. Barker, the grandson of Matthew Henry Barker (1790-1846), the Editor of the "United Service Gazette." In addition to the Nelson letters there are fifty-six other Letters, etc., including: 1. An rt. /. .f., of the great Admiral's father the Rev. Edmund Nelson. Probably unique — the only letter we have seen. 2. An a. I. s., of Nelson's wife, from whom he separated. 3. An a. I. s., of Lady Hamilton. 4. An a. I. s., of Sir Wm. Hamilton, husband of " Nelson's Emma." 5. A./.S., etc., of all the Captains that served under Nelson at the battle of the Nile, known as " Heroes of the Nile," and whom Nelson called his " Band of Brothers." 6. A. /. s., of Nelson's great friend and Commander, Lord Hood. 7. A. I. s., of Cuthbert CoUingwood, Nelson's closest friend and colleague. 8. A. I. s., of Earl St. Mncent, Nelson's friend and colleague. 9. A. I. s., of other Captains who served with Nelson. 10. A. I. s., of Lord Stowell, the celebrated judge. 11. A.I.S., of the first and third Earl Nelsons, etc., etc., etc. Illustrated with an admirable series of portraits and views. The letters of Lord Nelson are of the greatest historical importance, relating as they do to the sieges of Bastia and Calvi (where he lost his right eye), and to many other important events in English Naval History. They date from February i8th, 1775, '" September 30th, 1805, three weeks before his death at Trafalgar. The series of letters, etc., from the " Heroes of the Nile " is probably unique: The full Catalogue can be sent on application. ;^650 142 PETRARCA (FRANCESCO). EPISTOLA DE INSIGNI OBEDIENTIA ET FIDE GRISELDIS. I^ Epistola dni. FrancI Petrarche. Laureati | poete. ad Dnm lohem. Florentinu poetam. | De Historia. Griseldis. mulieris maxime co | stantie et patietie. In preconium omniu lau | dabilium mulierum 'Z.^^^'^'Z,^ II^ Explicit Epistola [.sVf] poetam | de costantia Griseldis mulieris. 5, Pall Mall Place 153 maxime con | static z patiente . In preconium omniu lauda | biliu mulierum. 4to. 12 leaves (the last, blank, missing); 27 lines to a page. Type i, with both forms of the h. Hain, * 128 13. Morocco extra. Cologne, Zell, (1472) This is the famous Epistle from Petrarch to Boccaccio, and the first appearance in print of the well-known history of Patient Grisel. A little volume of extraordinary rarity. There is no copy in the magnificent and unrivalled Petrarch collection bequeathed by Grenville to the British Museum. The first page has an illuminated capital. Zell, whose first dated book was issued in 1466 at Cologne, but who probably commenced a year or two earlier, printed a very large number of small quarto tracts, but unfortunately rarely dated them. The greater number were all printed in one type, but these may be divided into groups by the earlier or later forms of certain letters. Those which, like the present book, contain two forms of " h " are grouped round the year 1472, but may be two or three years on either side, so that this edition may quite possibly be earlier than the German of 1471. /80 143 PITT (WILLIAM), the Younger. AN EXCESSIVELY IMPORT- ANT COLLECTION OF 23 AUTOGRAPH LETTERS AND DOCUMENTS SIGNED, besides six autograph letters of his father, the "Great" Earl of Chatham; one of his aunt Harriot Pitt and one of his eccentric niece — Lady Hester Stanhope. Two of the letters of William Pitt, the younger, included in this remarkable collection were luritten within a fortnight of his death. The whole inlaid to an uniform size, and enriched by the insertion of 22 fiyie portraits, etc. (some being brilliant proof s\ forming a splendid folio volume, bound in brown morocco extra. r. Holograph Letter in the third person, i full page, 4to; Harley Street, Sunday. (To Dr. Thos. Lawrence.) June -jth (1778). Requesting his attendance at the funeral OF HIS FATHER (THE " GrEAT " LORD ChATHAm). "A Place in the Proces.sion is destined for Physicians and the Family will have great Satisfaction in the Presence of Dr. Lawrence." The time at which the procession is to assemble is given and the dress to be worn for the occasion, stated. X i_54 I- Pearson & Co, 2. Holograph Letter in the third person, i page, 4to, HarUy Street, Monday. To the same (June 8tA 1778). Regretting that the doctor is prevented attending Lord Chatham's Funeral by an unfortunate cause. Dr. Lawrence was the friend and physician of Dr. Johnson. William Pitt, Earl of Chatham (the '"Great Commoner") died May nth 1778. He was buried in Westminster Abbey. 3. Holograph Letter Signed, i page, 4to, Downiyig Street, 1st March 1785. He will execute any commission he may receive from the Manchester Literary and Philo- sophical Society. 4. Holograph Letter Signed, 2 pages, 410, Deer. 17, 1794. To the Duke of Portland. On the subject of Lord Mansfield being President of the Council: " The King is prepared for his being declared to-day," etc. 5. Holograph Letter in the third person, Walmer Castle, Aug. 28th 1795. To Lady Holdernesse. He will pay his respects to her the next morning. The Highly Important Series of Ei even Holograph Letters Signed, covering 29 pages, 4to and 8vo, written by William Pitt between June 8, 1802, and Jan. 10, 1806. These letters are addressed to William Huskisson, M.P. (who was Secretary to the Treasury under Pitt from 1804 to 1806), and refer to Huskisson's candidature at Dover which constituency he contested in 1802, but was beaten by Trevanion and Spencer Smith, the government candidates. 5. 3 pages, 4to (initials). Pari Place, June 8th 1802. "... You may depend upon One Thousand or Fifteen Hundred Pounds, if you find that will be likely to secure your object — I should be very sorry that you should withdraw from a contest which your Antagonist has really no means to carry on, and I think, if he finds you are not wearied out by a day or two more, the mob will become quiet enough to let your most timid Voters come forward, etc." 7. 4 pages, 8vo, IValmer Castle, June iqth 1802. Referring to the Huskisson election: " You will have a very fair Prospect of a suc- cessful and (probably) a quiet Election." 8. 2 pages, 4to, Walmer Castle, June 20th 1802. " I am happy to tell you that the result of my conversation with Fector is very satis- factory. He has no doubt of your being perfectly acceptable at Dover, and thinks you will succeed with very little trouble or expense, etc." 9. 2 pages, 8vo (initials), 2iJune 1S02. 10. 4 pages, 8vo, Walmer Castle, 2^ June 1802. " . . . I do not think the Independent Interest, will in the end give you much serious trouble. There seems no chance of anything retarding the Dissolution. I will take steps to expedite the Writ." 5, Pall Mall Place 155 Ti. 3 pages, 8vo, IValmer Castle, June 26M 1802. He is going to Cambridge. Refers to the election. 12. 2 pages, Svo, IValmer Castle, zd June 1802. " The state of the canvass is certainly ver)- promising." Suggests a junction with Trevanion, etc. 13. 3 pages, Svo, Pembroke Hall, 7,0 June 1802. Hoping nothing will prevent the election taking place the next Monday. " I shall be impatient to learn the event," etc. " Our election here will to all appearance be perfectly quiet and unanimous." 14. 2 pages, 4to, with franked envelope, York Place, 28 Feb. 1804. Mentions Lord Eliot's proposal and he (Pitt) has recommended Huskisson as a candidate for Liskeard. " The state of things in Parliament at present certainly makes it likely that a seat may become more an object than it seemed some time since," etc. From the beginning of 1804 Pitt showed increased hostility to the Government. In February, when there was a strong probability of invasion, he condemned the ministerial measures for defence as inadequate. 15. 3 pages, 8vo (initials), Bath, Jan. ^th 1806. i6. 2 pages, 8vo (initials), Reading, Friday night, Jan. xoth 1806. These two last letters of the series being dated within a fortnight of his DEATH ARE OF PATHETIC INTEREST. In the first, writing from Bath on 7th January 1806, he says : " I am just recovering from a second fit of the Gout and hope in a day or two to move slowly towards Town, finding that the waters are no longer thought useful. I am sorry to say that my progress is so slow, and my weakness such, as I fear, begins to make it very doubtful indeed whether the interval of the next fortnight will be sufficient to make me at all equal to the meeting of Parliament." (On Jany. loth he arrived at Reading on his last journey to town), and in the second letter he writes : " I shall get to Putney Hill to-morrow evening, and shall be very glad to see you and Bourne there any time about the middle of the day on Thursday." He died on the 23rd. On 7th December 1805, Pitt found it impossible to go to Bath. While there the news of the battle of Austerlitz (2nd December) gave him his death blow. When he heard of the armistice that followed it, the gout left his feet, and he fell into extreme physical debility. He was removed from Bath on 9th of January 1806 (two days after he wrote the above letter. No. 15), and took three days on the journey to his house at Putney. As he entered the house he noticed the map of Europe on the wall. " Roll up that map," he said: " it will not be wanted these ten years." He took to his bed on the i6th, and was visited ministerially on the 22nd by his old tutor. Bishop Pretyman, to whom he dictated his last wishes. The following night his mind wandered, and he died early on the 23rd, his last words being, " Oh, my country! How I leave my country! " 156 J. Pearson & Co. 17. Holograph Letter (signed), 2 pages, 410, Downing Street, November 18///, circa 1788. To H. Bankes, M.P. Chiefly concerning political matters, refers to the King's (George III) health. " There are, however. Rumours of Opposition, meaning to propose something, which (though I do not credit them) make us wish for a full attendance. . . . The King cer- tainly gained ground in the course of Friday and Saturday last, but has made no progress since; and though there is no actual danger to his life, and no reason to despair of his complete recovery, his situation leaves us at present in great anxiety," etc. 18. HoLOGR.\PH Letter in the 3rd person, Sept. 2()th 1795, to Lady Holdernesse. Mentioning a visit from the Chancellor. 19. Holograph Letter (signed), 2 pages, 4to, Wimbledon, lothjuly 1796. To a Peer. Informing him that he will probably have to go to Windsor. 20. Holograph Letter (signed), i page, 4to, Downing Street, Aug. 2'jth, 1805. To John Bray. "... I shall be glad to know whether the Shooting Season is put off till the 14th as you expected." 21. Holograph Letter (signed), i page, 4to {undated). To a Peer. He is unable to dine with his correspondent that day, etc. 22. Letter (signed), i page, 4to, Doivning Street, 2-]tk Nov. 1804. Announcing the meeting of Parliament. 23. Pitt (William) Document (signed), 2 pages, folio, ii/^ Cc/. 1790. A Treasury warrant to pay to Chas. Townshend ^50,104 \()s. for interest on annuities. Signed also by Lord Bayham (later Lord Camden) and Lord Apsley. ALSO 24. Pitt (William, Earl of Chatham), Father of the Younger Pitt. Autograph Note (signed in pencil), i page. 4to, and a letter in German relative to Pitt 2 pages, 4to. 25. Holograph Letter (signed), 2 pages, 4to, Tuesday Evening, 6 o'clock. To his WIFE. Addressed by Lord Chatham and franked in full by him. " My Sweetest Love, Thanks most devout and boundless thanks to the Almighty Giver of victory ! We believe on the best grounds (no direct messenger being arrived) that our Hero King has gain'd a complete victory over the Russians and Austrians on the 12th near Frankfort, on the Oder. We have no particulars other than a battery of 50 pieces of canon taken, a great slaughter and Siedlitz in full pursuit. We feel impatience not to be described till we receive further particulars of this Providential, glorious Event. I send this happy news to Stow and Wotton, come my Angel, and compleat my joy by mixing yours with mine and blessing me with your sweet loved Presence. I shall expect you by Dinner, ever ever your blessed and adoring husband," etc. 5, Pall Mall Place 157 This is a love letter of the great Commoner. The battle referred to was first reported as a victory, but Frederick of Prussia was defeated by the Russians and Austrians near Frankfort-on-Oder, on the 12th August 1759- 26. Holograph Letter (signed), 3 pages, 4to, Friday {June 1757), to George Townshend. Relating to his negotiations with the Duke of Newcastle, which resulted in the formation of the famous coalition Ministry. "... Waited on him with my Brother & to our astonishment heard him avow the ridiculous & dishonest arrangement of Men which is now to take place." An important historical letter. Townshend, autograph draft of his reply is written on the fourth page of the letter, signed and dated 20th June 1757. After a ministerial interregnum of eleven weeks, the King found himself obliged to acquiesce in Pitt's return. On nth June 1757 Lord Mansfield was given full powers to open negotiations with Pitt and Newcastle. With the assistance of Lord Hardwicke as mediator, the alliance between the two statesmen was concluded, and on the 29th June Pitt once more became Secretary of State, with the supreme directions of the war and of foreign affairs. 27. Holograph Letter, 3rd person, i page, 4to, '^thjune {no year). To Lord John Murray. Asking him to call before leaving for Yorkshire. 28. Holograph Letter (signed), i page, 4to, March ^rd {no year). Asking for a circular letter to be sent to the Commissioners of Reference convening a meeting upon the Preston Pan Regiments. 29. Pitt (Harriot), Daughter of the Earl of Chatham. Autograph Manuscript (signed twice), dated \2th and 2Sth September 1769, 2 pages, 4to, i page in French and the other in Latin. This is a school exercise. It was written in her eleventh year. 30. Stanhope (Lady Hester Lucy), the Eccentric Granddaughter of the Earl of Chatham. Holograph Letter (signed), 3 pages, folio. The Convent of Mi. Ellas July ist 1 814. Relative to a tiger and some gazelles which have been sent to her. 31. Stanhope (Lady Hester Lucy). Copy of her letter to her cousin (in the autograph of Dr. Meryon), 4 pages, folio, Leyde, ^th Feby. 18 14. She has been suffering from what is called the " sister of the plague," but hopes to get quite well when she gets to her convent at Abra, etc. ^280 158 J. Pearson & Co. 144 THE DUNCIAD AND RAPE OF THE LOCK POPE (ALEXANDER). A Most Valuable and Interesting Series OF 21 Holograph Letters (Signed) of this eminent Poet's LETTERS, being the Original Correspondence with his Publisher, Charles Bathurst and others. These letters contain references to " The Dunciad," " Rape of the Lock," his " Miscellanies," and other Publications. Together with a letter from Bathurst to Pope, and another from Thos. Edwards. There are also Original Holograph Letters from Pope to Slingsby Bethel, Chas. Brinsdon, Mr. Buckley, Thos. Dancastle, W. Fortescue, Dr. Oliver, etc. Several are unpublished. There are in all twenty-one Autograph Letters of the Poet. Inlaid to a uniforfn size, forming a 4to volume bound in red mo7^occo. A. I. s., 3 pages, 410. Chiswick, Oct. 18 (17 17). To Thos. Dancastle. Entreating him to return the 14th book, which Dancastle has cop-ed. " But be pleas'd to keep by you the original, for fear of any accident. I have just ended the isth which must wayt a better opportunity and may perhaps by that delay grow the more correct. If it travels too young, it may come home again like most young Travellers, very unfinished and unentertaining," etc. Important. Referring to his " Ii.iad of Homer." A. Is., 2 pages, 8vo. Twickenham, Feb. \%th 1719/20, to John Hughes, praising his Tragedy, and begging him to let some ladies of Pope's acquaintance have a side box to witness it. The Tragedy referred to is Hughes' "The Siege of Damascus." Hughes died the night it was produced, 17th February, the day indeed before this letter was written. A.I.S., 2 pages, 8vo {June 1739), to Wm. Fortescue. "... I had been called for home on occasion of ye Fire in my neighbourhood." Details his movements. " I beg you to forward Mrs. Blunt's business," etc. Unpublished. Mrs. Blount was the mother of Martha Blount, the great friend of the poet, to whom he dedicated many of his Poems. " Pope bequeathed to Miss Blount ^1,000, three score of his books, his household goods, chattels and plate, the furniture of his grotto, the urns in his garden, and the residue after all legacies were paid." 5, Pall Mall Place 159 A. I. s., 1 page, Svo. Endorsed "Delivered 3 Feby. 1740-1." To Bathurst. Relative to the " Miscellanies." " I send you some additional pieces yet unprinted which might be inserted in ye two or three vols, of Miscellanies instead of Dean Swift's, and those removed into my volume." Mentions also Lintot and Knapton (publishers). Unpublished. A./.S., I page, Svo. /i/ne 15 (174 1). To Bathurst. Acknowledging a gift of minerals from Mr. Edwards and saying that he (Pope) is staying with Lord Bathurst and will put the " Miscellanies " in order as soon as he returns. A.I.S., I page, 4to. July ny/c 1741. To Bathurst (his publisher). Relative to the printing of his " Miscellanies." "... I wish you wd. resolve upon printing, in ye manner I mentioned, ye Miscel- lanies; for I am now perfectly at leisure, wch. I shall not be a month longer. I am sure it will turn out much to their advantage & as for mine, I have no Terms to make with you, but only to serve you, in the little improvement y' I shall make — -By putting all ye Verses into ye last Vol. (as was originally intended as you'l see by ye first Paragraph of Dr. Swifts and my Preface)." A. I. s., I page, Svo. Twic/;enham, 29 Aug. (1741). To Bathurst. "... I shall print some things more of Scriblcrus, & add to what is already done. But it will be in Quarto, & ye New Part of ye Volume be above two thirds of ye old . . . if ye have any mind to treat for ye Impression, I will give you ye refusal. I have endeavord to serve you as to a Volume of all Dr. Swift's Pieces, collected & more Selected than ye present: It wd. be for His Honour . . ." A. I. s., I page, oblong Svo. Twickenham Oct. 18M (1741). To Bathurst. Advising the delivery of "The Books of Miscellanies, with my note how to rectify several mistakes for ye future when you reprint." A.I.S., I page, oblong Svo. Twickenham Oct. 23 (1741). To Bathurst. Inviting him to dinner. A.I.S., I page, 4to. Nov. 15 (1741). To Bathurst. Mentions Knapton and Mr. Arbuthnot, who will not have his sermon printed. Unpublished. A.l.s. I page, oblong Svo. Arlington Street, Monday (1741). To Bathurst. Bathurst is requested by Pope to send him a line as to what Corbett says to him, " And if he persists in his design of pyrating, pray watch his motions & I'll file a Bill. Twill be best of all if you can find of what Press he does it." A. l.s. I page, 4to. 20 Nov. 1741. To the Rev. Charles Brinsdon. "... I find my Lord B(olingbroke) is extremely alarmed at the last account he had of your father. I wd. have come to see him this day, but must be satisfied to hear he is so much better (as they tell me he is)," etc. The Rev. Charles Brinsdon's father was Lord Bolingbroke's private secretary. Unpublished. i6o J. Pearson & Co. A.l.s. I page, 8vo. IVensday (1741) to Mr. Cole. " I wd. be glad to know what you did, or wt past with Corbet? I believe he will not proceed, having reed, since a Letter from him of Recantation, so yt I believe you need not file a bill, however I'm glad you spoke to him — If he plays cunning, I shall have him watched & inform you further . . ." Cole was solicitor to the Stationers' Company, and this letter was written in refer- ence to a pirated edition of Pope's letters which Corbet was going to have printed. A.l.s. I page, 4to. Aug. 4, 1742. To Mawhood. Mentions Warburton. " I am assured by Council there is no Pretence for his (War- burton) paying your attorney's bill. I therefore desire you to think better of it, and pay it to the Bearer. ... If not I can only acquaint Mr. W(arburton) to take any course he thinks proper." Unpublished. A.l.s. I page, 4to. Thursday, Sept. 2nd (1^42). To Mawhood. "If this should meet you in town I shall be glad to finish Mr. W's (Warburton) commission this afternoon. . . ." Unpublished. A. I. s. I page, 4to. Twickenham, February 20th, to Mr. Buckley. Regrets his inability to see him so soon as Thursday, as he is engaged with company, and "planting some things wch will otherwise be too late for ye season." He adds: "On my return to town I will meet you anywhere . . . tho the affair the Dr. mentioned to you I think will keep you cool," etc. Unpublished. A. I. s. I page, 4to. March 18, to Mr. Slingsby Bethel. "The bearer of this is my nephew, who has been long conversant in the West Indies, and used those parts as Master and Supercargo. He thinks he can acquaint you with some improvements that may be made in Sir William Codrington's Estates," etc., etc., etc. A. I. s. I page, 4to. Sunday, to Wm. Fortescue. Arranging a meeting at Chelsea. Mentions Mrs. Howard. Unpublished. Mrs. Howard (afterwards Lady Suffolk) was George II's mistress. A. I. s. I page, 4to. Sunday night, to Dr. Oliver. Pope wishes he could spend more time with his correspondent as his infirmities confine him too much. Mentions War- burton who has been ill. Unpublished. Dr. Oliver was the leading practitioner of Bath. His success was mainly due to the friendship of Pope, Warburton and the rest of the guests at Prior Park. A. I. s. (initials), i page, 4to. Sept. 20, to Richardson. Relative to his portrait which Richardson had painted. Unpublished. ■45 lUiDUCKl) Il.I.L'.sikAllON I4.S '45 REliUCKD IT. LUSTRATION 5, Pall Mall Place r6i A. i. s. 3 pages, 4to. Twick'nham, JVbi'. 1 7, inquiring about Ralph Allen, of Bath, about whom he has been unable to obtain any information except that he was seriously ill, and detailing the remedies he has adopted for his own complaints. Unpublished. Ralph Allen was the original of Fielding's " Squire Allworthy." Bathurst (Chas.). A. /. s. i page, 4to. To Pope. Asking if he (Bathurst) is to allow Lintot's claim to the key to " The Rape of the Lock." In reply to the letter from Bathurst, Pope writes (on the same sheet): "Mr. Lintot has had no Right to the Key to the Locke these many years, the Term expir'd in ye year 29 or 30. But till then I presume Mr. Motte allowed it. If not, you may set ag" it your Right to ye Small poems in ye end of Mr. Lintot's third volume of my Works 8vo, to which your Right from Mr. Motte yet continues." Unpublished. Edwards (Thos.) A./.s. i page, 4to. i8/«/v, 1741. To Pope. Relative to some Minerals which were late in arriving. 145 POPES' BINDINGS. A superb and unequalled collection of volumes (chiefly Liturgical), bound for the personal use of the Popes, com- mencing with Paul IV (1555) and coming down to Leo XII (1823), are offered en bloc. There are in all 16 distinct bindings, the earliest being dated 1558, and the latest 1818. As it would be impossible to convey an adequate impression of these gorgeously decorated volumes, we have had a series of photographs of them prepared, and these we will send for inspection to intending purchasers. The price of the entire collection is .^^500 See Illustrations 146 PREVOST. MEMOIRES | ET | AVANTURES D'UN HOMME I DE QUALITE, | Qui s'est retire du monde. | Vig- nette. "] volumes. 12 mo. Red morocco, by Lortic. Amsterdam, \ Aux depens de la Compagnie. \ i 731 First Edition. A superb copy — possibly the finest known. Y i62 J. Pearson & Co. " Edition originale veritable de ' I'Histoire de Manon Lescaut et du chevalier des Grieux.' Tout le roman est renfermd dans ce tome septieme des ' Mi^moires et Avantures.' II est meme parfaitement admis parmi les bibliophiles qu'on peut le posseder isol<$ment, et ne pas s'embarrasser des autres tomes, qui sent pour ainsi dire sans intdret. Celui-ci est pr^cieux et recherche." — Jules Le Petit. ^45 147 PSALTERIUM DAVIDIS. [et Libri Sapientialesj. Ad Exemplar Vaticanum Anni 1592. i2mo. Lugduni, Apud loh: et Dan: Elzevirios Anno 1653 Bound in red morocco for Baron de Longpierke with his famous device, the " Toison d'Or," impressed five times on each of the covers, and repeated in five of the six panels on the back. Gilt on marbled leaves. Books from the library of Hilaire-Bernard de Roqueleyne, Baron de Longpierre, are but very seldom met with. His copy of Livy sold, many years ago, for ^144. This present volume was afterwards in the library of Nol Salvert, and contains his ex-libris. Alphonse Willems in his book on the Elzevirs, says of this edition: "II est Evident que ce Psautier, oii Ton s'est attach^ a suivre le texte de la Vulgate, a €x.€ exdcut^ specialeraent en vue des pays catholiques. De la la suppression du mot Batavorum, aprfes Lugduni, dans I'adresse des imprimeurs. L'ddition est fort jolie, et les exemplaires bien conserves et grands de marges se paient fort-cher." /40 148 PYNSON. ABRIDGEMENT OF ENGLISH LAW CASES. l^ Accompte | etc. 3^ [E]N Accompte. le pleltifconta dun receipte en autre contie | etc. I90^ leyn verzb t^r &c. i5 quere &c. Folio. 190 leaves ; 50 lines to a page. With headlines but without pagination. Old calf. 1 490 At the end of the Table (2'') will be found the imprint in the ordinary large type of the book: " Per me R. Pynson." The first English Law book. "This book is of great interest in the history of early printing in England. Of W. de Machlinia, the first English law printer, nothing is known after i486, but it is probable that Richard Pynson, who was his successor, came to this country soon after that date. Pynson had studied at the University of Paris, and had learnt to print at Rouen pn t^iii (nmoa pioaifioi^ Pffnc Pictoi&l pctiktp pio(f(?ijcioii |QuaE«irKU&j4Ulf iOjldcrnonabmlflf £liiii[( elicit in^D f enninum . Repf icacioii (i ctio^^ RtpftMt K«fcOU4 RtCponnbp R««ip(« H'toutnt K(fc«» Xffoni ♦xrpff^iJiC Kfcdption HtSif|''m t1^ Utriitnfntofftauttwtnimncmipin^ - .^^^ tin (^mtojg^aatr tint mptmm^ ^ «;:«j ^^inf ^#7^ kjL ^)^^^ ^^#4 ^ V^?!!t^f.^:iJfT4C^ vi:ir-nr,».: ».'W" I 5, Pall Mall Place 165 152 RALEIGH AND ELIZABETH RALEIGH (SIR WALTER). HOLOGRAPH LETTER (SIGNED), I page folio, December 30, 1591; to Sir John Gilbert, HIS HALF-BROTHER. Boutid in vcd movocco. Extremely important, referring to the equipment of a Squadron mainly fitted out at Raleigh's expense in 1592. Thanking him on behalf of the Queen (Elizabeth) for his care in her service. Sir Walter remarks that things are much the same as of old. Sir Walter asks for " fifty toones of zider " and " ten thousand of dry Newfoundland fish " to be sent to Plymouth. Asks to be remembered to his sister. Holograph Letters of Sir Walter Raleigh are amongst the introuvabks. The example in the Huth library sold at auction for ^^520. Six months after this letter was penned Sir Walter was committed to the Tower for carryir J on an intrigue with Elizabeth Throgmorton, one of the Queen's maids of honour (whom he eventually married), while professing a lover-like devotion to the Queen. Sir John Gilbert, to whom this letter is addressed, was the elder brother of the famous navigator, Sir Humphrey Gilbert. He was also Sir Humphrey's chief executor, to whom the administration of the Kingdom of Newfoundland was left. "Sir Walter Raleigh was his step-brother by the second marriage of his mother, Catherine, daughter of Sir Philip Champernowne." ^350 See Illustrations 153 REIMS LITURGY. HORAE AD USUM ECCLESIE METROPOLITANE REMENSIS. A Book of Hours for THE " USE " OF THE METROPOLITAN DiOCESE OF ReIMS. PrOBABLY commissioned by the Abbess of St. Remy from the Illuminator, Pierre Herlin. Ilhtstrated with 6 important miniature paintings by Herlin. Enclosed in a richly tooled French morocco binding of the sixteenth century. {Circa 1470) It is often forgotten that Reims and not Paris is the Metropolitan See of France. It may also not be generally known that although Paris prayer-books are extremely common, Reims prayer-books are excessively rare. Before the Calendar in this handsome prayer-book are two leaves of vellum on which is written (in French), in a different hand from the rest of the volume, a prayer headed " Quat on veult recepuoir le corps nTe Seigne' " showing that it was meant to be recited i66 J. Pearson & Co. before receiving the Holy Eucharist. It begins in French fifteenth-century phrase: " Most sweet and sovereign bishop and father of our Souls " and ends " Contemplating the glory of Sovereign eternity and of your most glorious mother, and of all the saints and ' sainctes ' who are glorified with you in the glory everlasting. So be it." Below this (pasted on the vellum) is a book-plate containing the arms of some much later owner of the manuscript It is the book-plate of a noble owner who was not only an ecclesiastic but also a Member of the Order of Malta, or St. John of Jerusalem. On fol. 3 begins the Calendar, in a red and black formal Gothic text, and a perusal of the names of the festivals very soon points out the Reims provenance of the manu- script. For example, on the Ides (13th) of January we have in red, therefore a festival of the highest rank, the names of Remy and Hilaire. The latter is honoured in almost every diocese in France, and the former was the celebrated Archbishop of Reims (St. Remigius) who, born a younger son in the ancient castle of Laon, was placed in possession of the see of the city of Reims in his twenty-second year. On the conversion of Clovis, Queen Clotilde secretly sent to the Archbishop to come and receive the King into the Church, and on Christmas Day the King and three thousand of his followers received baptism in the Cathedral of Reims. The sacred amphora of oil used to anoint the King on this occasion was preserved for many centuries in the cathedral where the coronation of the kings of France was celebrated for ever after. With the lands bestowed on the Church by Clovis, St. Remy founded a number of new bishoprics at Laon, Arras, Cambray, Tournay, etc. Thus France was the first State of modern Europe to embrace Christianity, and hence the King of France is styled the " most Christian King " and the " Eldest son of the Church." The miniature paintings in this Reims Horae are considerably above the average. They are of the school of Touraine after it fell under Burgundian influence, that is, they are French, not Netherlandish, but the actual painter of the miniatures cannot be named with certainty. Its execution may be placed about the year 1470. The Dominican nun in the Miniature of the Annunciation suggests that the manu- script was executed originally for a member of that Order, probably for the Lady Abbess of St. Remy. The dress seems to be that of the third Order of Dominican nuns, called the Order of Penitence. The ruins of the old Abbey of St. Remy still exist in the south- west corner of the now modernized city of Reims. There may be doubt as to the identity of this figure, but there can be no doubt as to the skill of the artist, who seems to have been one of the family of the Herlins who worked for Jeanne, Duchess de Laval, second wife of Rene d'Anjou. It is remarkable that only the two chief miniatures, that to the beginning of the Hours of the Virgin and that to the Penitential Psalms, have the landscape background of the later Netherlandish Tourangian and Parisian schools. All the rest, to the Hours of the Cross, the Holy Spirit and the Office of the Dead are in the older manner with golden or coloured and diapered backgrounds. Manuscripts for the "Use" of the Metropolitan See of Reims are of Excessive Rarity. See Illustrations -^250 3iS>:3^^iev5K=v}i :/ ** * * A, «. * ^ , ■*r* **•-*■ «»*>*»# 4fc M^ ^ ^ ^'^ S, * '* * * * .».^ sgs'^ssssss5sss^^5s>^^>ji- : ; '53 5, Pall Mall Place 167 154 ROUSSEAU (J. J.). HOLOGRAPH LETTER (SIGNED). Relative to his " Dictionnaire de Musique." To M. Guy, in Paris. 3 pages 4to. Strasbourg, \tk Nov' 1765 Very Important. His late misfortunes have prevented him from answering his proposals sooner. He would like to come to Paris to superintend the correction of the " Dictionary," but is too ill at present, he may be better in a fortnight. There are many difficulties in the way. When he arrives in Paris overwhelmed with fatigue he may be ordered to leave it at once, he is used to being driven out from every place. If they would be content to arrest and imprison him he would not mind, but to force a man in such a state of health to travel at that season would be too bad. It is useless for him to come to Paris unless he can stay two months; has then arranged to go to England. Another difficulty is the travelling, — he cannot travel in a public conveyance nor afford to buy a post-chaise, though he is not in want of money. Explains the regulations which prevent him from hiring one, suggests that M. Guy should hire a chaise and horses in his name and send them to him. The greatest difficulty is to obtain permission; suggests that the Marquise de Verdelin should be asked to use her influence. If this fails he must give up the idea of Paris and go to England via Frankfort and Holland. To winter in Holland, or travel there in that season, would be terrible — he may have to stay at the cabaret where he is all the winter, in which case proofs could be sent for correction, but it would be expensive. Begs a prompt reply which he will await at the address chez M. Kamt7i a lafleur. Begs him to keep his pro- posed visit a secret as he wishes to be ignored while in Paris except by a few friends; does not wish to hide from the Parliament or Government but from importunate persons. ROUSSEAU. CEUVRES, Edition orn^e de Figures, at collationnee sur les Manuscrits Originaux de I'Auteur, deposes au Comite d'ln- struction publique. 18 vols. 4to. Portrait by Dcgault, engraved by Langlois, 5 frontispieces by Cochin and Monsiau, and 29 charming plates by Cochin, Monsiau, de Ghent, Pauquet, Regnault and Vincent, engraved by Choffard, Dambrtm, de Launay, etc. Red morocco, by Bozerian {signed). Paris, 1793- 1800 Probably the finest copy extant of the most magnificent edition of Rousseau. Printed upon Vellum Paper. The plates are in Proof State, being " avant la lettre." " Quelques-unes des compositions de Monsaiu, surtout celles des Confessions sont charmantes." — Cohen, 524. i68 J. Pearson & Co. 156 ROWLANDSON. THE ENGLISH DANCE OF DEATH, from the designs of Thomas Rowlandson, with metrical illustrations (by William Combe). Very fine itnpressions of the 72 coloured plates. In the 24 Original Parts, as issued, with Wrappers complete. Uncut. Enclosed in two red morocco cases. A ckermann, iS 14.- 16 Thp: first edition. Extremely rare in this pristine condition. 157 ROWLANDSON. THE SECOND TOUR OF DR. SYNTAX in Search of the Picturesque (by William Combe). 24 coloured plates by Rowlandson. In the 8 Original Parts, with the Wrappers intact. Uncut. Enclosed in a red morocco case. A ckermann, 1820 First edition. Extremely rare in this condition. ^50 158 RUSKIN'S AUTOGRAPHED PROOF COPY RUSKIN (JOHN). ALEXANDER (FRANCESCA) ROAD- SIDE SONGS OF TUSCANY, edited by John Ruskin, the 10 parts complete in i vol., with 20 full-page plates. 4to. Half green morocco extra, top edge gilt, uncut. Orpington, 1885 Ruskin's own Proof Copy with his Autograph Corrections and Additions, the title-page to Part X being in duplicate, and each corrected by Ruskin, and differing from the finished title-page. The Author's and Editor's Prefaces and the " Story of Lucia " also have Ruskin's Corrections and Additions. These are in red and black ink and purple pencil, and are very numerous. One of Ruskin's Autograph Additions extends to no less than sixteen lines, and another to eight lines. ^"42 ex {:yc>c'4f(Tf^f. i^. /. <^fak^aJfpt;/fa/{jt^h£ o- V/ ,«."w-'L / ^^ wu ^v^.3. ^^ ^^ c:i>»/.\ ^..tv 5, Pall Mall Place 169 159 SAINT-LAMBERT. LES SAISONS, POEME. 8vo. Fleuron on title, 4 vignettes by Choffard, and 5 plates by Moreau, engraved by Delatmay, Duclos, Prevost and Siffwnet. — Contes, Poesies fugitives et Fables Orientales. 2 plates by Moreau. Green morocco extra. Amsterdam, 1775 One of the most beautiful of the famous French illustrated books of this period. A superb and Unique Copy, the plates by Moreau being in Two States, with the letters, and Proofs Before Letters. The en-tctes by Choffard are also in Two States, ordinary impressions and Proofs " tirdes a part." An autograph letter of the Author is inserted. 160 SCHUBERT (FRANZ). HOLOGRAPH LETTER (SIGNED), I page, folio. Vienna, 18 16 This superb letter was one of Herr Meyer-Cohn's most treasured Pos- sessions. "Eingabe, auf Stempelpapier, an die ' Hochlobl. K.K. Stadthauptmannschaft.' Er bittet unterthanigst ihm die erledigte Musik-Direktor-Stelle zu Laibach in Gnaden zu verleihen. Nach Mitteilung iiber seinen musikalischen Lehrgang, seine Kenntnisse der Komposition etc. ' Gelobt er, die bestmogliche Verwendung seiner Fahigkeiten, um ciner gnadigen Bittgewahr vollkommen zu entsprechen.' Der Brief ist wie folgt unterzeichnet: Franz Schubert m.p. derzeit Schuleghiilfe der Schule seines Vaters zu Wien am Himmel- pfortgrunde No. 10." — Meyer-Cohn Catalogue. /20O See Illustration 161 "THE SIGNED COVENANT" SCOTLAND. A SOLEMNE LEAGUE AND COVENANT, for Reformation, and Defence of Religion, the Honour and Happinesse of the King, and the Peace and Safety of the three Kingdomes of Scotland, England, and Ireland. 4to. Old velvet binding with green morocco doublure. Edinburgh, Evan Tyler, 1643. The rarest, the most precious, and the most important Scottish Liturgical VOLUME that has OCCURRED FOR SALE WITHIN LIVING MEMORY. It IS SIGNED BY 97 OF the Covenanters. z 170 J. Pearson & Co. It is of superlative importance not only to the Church of Scotland, but ALSO TO THE ChURCH OF ENGLAND. Of the several covenants drawn up in Scotland for the defence of religion two stand out prominently, the National Covenant of 1638, and the more famous "Solemn League and Covenant" of 1643. The intense feeling aroused by Charles' repeated attempts to thrust the English service on the Scottish Church culminated in the great riot of St. Giles when the new Prayer-book was first made use of. The nation recurred to the precedent of 1 58 1 when James invited the people to enter into a covenant by which they renounced the doctrines of Rome and bound themselves to defend the Church of Scotland. The two ablest of the popular leaders, Alexander Henderson, minister of Leuchars, and Johnston of Warriston, a lawyer, drew up a new version of this covenant to oppose the Prayer-book. By this Covenant of 1638 the subscribers bound themselves to reject all innovations in religion which should not have been approved in free assemblies of the Kirk and in free parliaments, and secondly to uphold to the utmost the power of the Crown. How on earth a Presbyterian Church and a Stuart King could work together, as these two proposi- tions suggested, does not seem to have entered into their consideration. By 1643 affairs in England had undergone a vast change. The civil war had broken out, and while matters hung in the balance Scotland was doubtful what to do. If the Puritans were overcome the Scottish Kirk would not long remain Presbyterian, and the Parliamentary party were in a critical position for want of sufficient troops. England's extremity was Scotland's opportunity. WTien they found that the English commissioners required military aid they resolved to impose upon England their own system of Church government and discipline. For this purpose Alexander Henderson drew up a new covenant similar to that of 1638 and involving among other provisions the abolition of Episcopacy and a joint pledge to maintain the reformed Presbyterian Church of Scotland and to carry out such a reformation of the Church of England as would bring the churches in both nations to the nearest conjunction and uniformity in all respects. This was too sweeping a measure even for the English Parliament, but Vane, one of the commissioners, obtained a few modifications. There was to be a reformation of religion in England " according to the Word of God " and the " example of the best Reformed Churches." The Scots seemed to have had no doubt that this latter part of the sentence referred to themselves, and delighted with such homage to their superior sense and sanctity accepted the amendments, and the Solemn League and Covenant having been approved by the General Assembly was ratified by the Convention of Estates on r7th August 1643. Shortly afterwards it was sent to the Assembly of Divines at West- minster who objected to certain portions about the maintenance of the Church of Scotland and added other enactments concerning the establishment of Protestantism in Ireland. The Scottish Commissioners arrived in September and when all parties were agreed it was finally accepted by the Lords. On 25th September it was sworn to by the Assembly of Divines and a hundred and twelve members of the House of Commons. As finally issued the " Solemn League and Covenant for reformation and defence of Religion, the honour and happiness of the King, and the peace and safety of the three Kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland " really pledged its supporters to establish Presbyterianism throughout the three kingdoms, to preserve the rights of Parliaments SOLEMNE LEAGUE ^ AND A COVENANT, 33 FOR REFORMATION. Defence of Religion , The Honour ^ and Happineffc of the Kino, and the Peace and Safety of the three Kingdoraes OF Scotland^ England, and Ireland. EDINBURGH, Printed by ^vAti Tjler , Printer to the Kings moft Excellent Majcftie. 1^43. ^Ji^ -*<. . Jer.Jo. J. Come^let ut joyn our fetves to the Lord in a ferpetti- "^i aUCovenant^thMjhitllrtotbefargtttetf. ■ t i.'rov.25.5. Tal^ a^ay the wicked from before the King , ti»d hisThroneJhallbe ejiablifiedinrighteoufne^e. \ t. Chron.l 5.1 J. ^nd all ludah rejojced at the Oath^for thej had f^orn^ith all their heart , and fought htmVeith their vhole dejirey and he \\>a! found tfthem : and the Lord gave j them reft round about, ' 161 //■■/. &■ THE SUBSCRIBERS OF THE LEAGUE AND COVENANT. •M-^f^-C^ >] JC^M{;C^^^_- 1 i6i 5, Pall Mall Place 171 without any intention to diminish " His Majesty's just power and greatness " and to maintain the union of the kingdoms, and render mutual assistance for this purpose. In Scotland it was hailed with rapture, while statutes were passed for enforcing subscription throughout all the three kingdoms. Orders were issued by the Scottish Assembly that copies were to be printed without loss of time havi?tg blank leaves at the end for signatures and that a copy was to be sent to every parish minister, and heavy penalties were attached to refusal to sign. Three editions of this book were printed in Scotland in 1643. The present by Tyler, another at Edinburgh by R. Bryson, and the third at Aberdeen by Edward Raban. Of Bryson's edition no copy appears to be known at present. Raban's is known only from a fragment consisting of the first four leaves preserved in George King's Pamphlet Library at Aberdeen. A later edition by Tyler with the extra leaves was issued at Edinburgh in 1648, while an edition of the National Covenant together with the solemn league and covenant was issued anonymously in 16S9. The printing of it at that time was a dangerous undertaking so that the printer wisely withheld his name, but it was probably printed by John Reid at Edinburgh. The Covenant of 1638 was usually printed with the Confession of Faith. In England apparently the Solemn League and Covenant was not welcomed with the same enthusiasm as in Scotland, nor do similar books with blank leaves for signatures appear to have been printed for distribution to the various parishes. The present copy was sent for the use of the parish of Aberfoyle in Perthshire and the first entry is " Mr. James Kirk minister of Abrefyll." He was the father of the more celebrated Robert Kirk also minister of Aberfoyle, a profound Gaelic scholar, who com- posed the first metrical version of the Psalms in that language and also a very curious treatise on elves and fairies first printed by Sir Walter Scott in 181 5. Most of the names on the first page appear to be in the same hand, probably written down for those who could not write. The next page is headed by two lairds, W. Graham of Polder and John Graham of " douchray " ancestor of the present Graham of Duchray Castle, near Aberfoyle. Though the English Parliament and Westminster Assembly had accepted the Solemn League it was never liked by the Independents, and Scotland was consequently very antagonistic to Cromwell. When a party of his troops were marching through the Pass of Aberfoyle they were set upon by Graham of Duchray and defeated. The head of the Grahams in this district, William Graham, Earl of Menteith, was noted as a great perse- cutor of the Covenanters, so much so that Claverhouse wrote to him: " I rejoice to hear you have now taken my trade off my handes, that you are becom a terror to the godly." Graham of Duchray wrote an account of the troubles of this period which is still preserved in manuscript. Aberfoyle is the centre of the Graham country, and it is to be regretted that so few of the many Grahams that occur amongst these entries have added the names of their estate by which they could be identified. The practical extinction of copies of the Covenant with any names attached is due to the fact that when later on the Covenanters were outlawed such a register of signatures would afford damning evidence against them. It is otherwise hard to account for the almost total disappearance of a book of which a copy was sent to every parish in Scotland. Of the present edition there only exist the copies in the libraries of St. Andrew's Uni- 1/2 J. Pearson & Co. versity, in New College, Edinburgh, and the present. Of these three copies that in Edinburgh is imperfect, only seven of the leaves for signatures now remaining; it was used in the parish of Ed/.ell in Forfarshire. This precious volume which appears to have passed through Constable's (Sir Walter Scott's publisher) hands, is bound in red velvet with a doublure of green morocco tooled in gold, and with watered silk fly-leaves. It is doubdess the copy referred to by Sir Walter Scott in " Tales of a Grandfather," and loo years ago was sold for 30 guineas. See Illustrations 162 A UNIQUE SECOND FOLIO SHAKESPEARE. MR. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S COMEDIES, HISTORIES, AND TRAGEDIES. Published according to the true Originall Copies. The second Impression. Portrait by Martin Droeshout. London, Printed by Tho. Cotes, for Robert Allot, and are to be sold at the signe of tlie Blacke Beare in Pauls Church-yard. 1632. [Colophon at end.^ Printed at London by Thomas Cotes, for John Synethwick, IVilliam Aspley, Richard Hawkins, Richard JMeighen, Robert Allot, 1632. The Second Folio. A remarkably fine and entirely unwashed copy in red morocco. The present folio is corrected and augmented throughout, and presents certain differences in the printing from the ordinary copies as described by Mr. Pollard. Differences from Mr. Pollard's Collation. Head Title (leaf x) "to their first Originall " is here printed on a fresh line. Misprints. Signature bb is instead of cc. Pagination. \2 is unnumbered. P. 88 (in the repeats) printed correctly. P. 164 printed correctly. Manuscript Corrections and Augmentations. First pagination. Page 2, Col. I. " And (thou) his onely heire " — "Thou " written in. "To thinke oth' teene" — "teene " altered to "tune." " Though all the signories " altered to " Through all," etc. 5, Pall Mall Place 173 Page 3, Col. 2. " Yea, his dead Trident shake " altered to " his dread," etc. " Some tricks of desperation " — the first e in desperation has been added in ink. Page 4, Col. I. " Which is't thou canst demand?" — " hich " of " which " scored out. " Save for the sinne that he did littour " altered to " Save for the sonne that she did littour." Page 8, Col. i. "Which th-owes thee much to yeeld " altered to "which sh-owes thee much to yeeld." Col. 2. " The Man i'th Moone's too slow " enclosed in brackets. " (And by that destiny) " — second bracket added. Page 9, Col. 2. "had but his fish painted" altered to "this fish," etc. Page 10, Col. 2. " Cal(iban) " altered to " Ste(phanie)." " Delight in them set off" altered to " sets off." Page II, Col. 2. " Thy eyes are almost set in thy heart" altered to " thy head." Page 13, Col. I. Alteration to "vigilance." Page 15, Col. 2. " beyond yon cell " altered to " beyond yor cell." Page 16, Col. 2. Alteration to " I will have none on't." Page 1 7, Col. 2. " My Dukedome of thre " altered to " thee." Page 27, Col. 2. " lent me wit to plot his drift " altered to " this drift." Page 31, Col. 2. "then I prove loyall " — L written in. Page 38, Col. 2. " we will include all jarres " — i in include written in. Second pagin ation. Page 6, Col. 2. " And if yon " altered to "and of yon." " FranP altered to " Citr Page 206, Col. I. " Must fetch him in; he (?) Papers" altered to "his Papers." Page 207, Col. I. "To heare this of him; and could wish you were" — "you" corrected. Page 209 (120), Col. I. " For this to ruminate on this so farre " — the first "this" scored out. Page 216, Col. I. "Continue in my Liking; nay, gave notice" altered to "gave not notice." Page 228, Col. I. " To make your house our Towre: you a brother- of us" altered to "were you a brother of us." Third pagination. Page 7, Col. I. " If that he praise himself, bring the praise forth " altered to "If he praise himselfe, that brings the praise forth." Page 8, Col. i. " Our imputation shall be oddely poizd " altered to " Our reputation." Page 13, Col. 2. " Hel(ena) " written in. " Par(is) " scored through. Page 16, Col. I. " That through the fight I beare in things to love "— " in " and " to " transposed. Page 17, Col. 2. " That all the Greekes," etc. — " Greekes " corrected. Page 20, Col. 2. "Injurious time, which now with a robbers haste" — "which" written in. [74 J. Pearson & Co. Page 21, Col. I. " He cut thy thy throate" — the second " thy " scored through. Page 24, Col. 2. " Cressida come(s) forth to him "— s written in. Page 26, Col. 2. " For we would count give much to violent thefts" altered to " As to give much by violent thefts." These corrections are in a Stuart handwriting — they appear to be entirely original and unpublished . 163 SHAKESPEARE. MR. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S COMEDIES, HISTORIES AND TRAGEDIES. Published according to the true Original copies. Unto which is added seven Plays, never before printed in folio: viz., Pericles Prince of Tyre. The London Prodigal. The History of Thomas Lord Cromwell. Sir John Oldcastle Lord Cobham. The Puritan Widow. A York- shire Tragedy. The Tragedy of Locrine. The Fourth Edition. Portrait by Martin Droeshout, luith the verses by Ben Jonson under- neath. Red fnorocco, gilt edges, by Clarke and Bedford. Folio. London, Printed for H. Heri'ingman, E. Breiuster, and R. Bentley, at the Anchor in the New Exchange, the Crane in St. Pant's Church- yard, and in Russell-Street, Covent Gardeti. 1685 A beautiful unwashed copy bound by Clarke and Bedford (about the year 1840) for W. T. B. Ashley. Its size is most unusual, being 14 jV inches in height and 9 inches wide. The present copy is unique inasmuch that before the leaf of Dedication " To the most Noble and Incomparable pair of Brethren William Earl of Pembroke and Philip Earl of Montgomery " there are inserted original letters of each of these extremely famous men. The letter of the elder brother (the Earl of Pembroke) is entirely holograph, being dated 24th December 1625, and relates to the approaching coronation of Charles I. It is addressed to his uncle, the Earl of Leicester, and signed " Yo' Lo"" most affectionate nephew and servant Pembroke." The letter of the younger brother (the Earl of Montgomery) was written during the Civil War to Colonel John More (the Regicide). It is dated from Whitehall 5th August 1647, and signed "yo'. most affectionate and assured ffriend Pembroke and Mont*." (he had become Earl of Pembroke on the death of his elder brother in 1630). William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, not only has the enduring honour of the dedi- cation of the Shakespeare " Folios " but was also (according to Shakespeare's biographers) 5, Pall Mall Place 175 the famous " Mr. W. H." to whom the Poet dedicated so many of his "Sonnets." The autographs of both brothers are of extraordinary rarity. This is without doubt the most desirable copy of the famous "Fourth Folio "in existence. /250 164 SHAKESPEARE. THE WORKS of Mr. William Shakespear; in Six Volumes. Adorn'd with Cuts. Revis'd and Corrected, with an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author. By N. Rowe, Esq. Frontispiece containing portrait of Shakespeare to each volume attd plate to each play by Van der Gucht. 6 vols. 8vo. Original panelled calf. Prititcd for Jacob Totison, within Grays-Inn Gate, next Grays-Inn Lane. 1709. Volume the Seventh. Containing Venus & Adonis. Tarquin & LucRECE. And His Miscellany Poems. With Critical Remarks on his Plays, etc. to which is Prefix'd an Essay on the Art, Rise and Progress of the Stage in Greece, Rome and England. Frontispiece representing Venus regarding the wou?ided Adonis. 8vo. Original panelled calf uniform with the Plays, Printed for E. Curll at the Dial and Bible against St. Dunstan's Church, and E. Sanger at the Post-House at the Middle-Temple Gate. 1 7 1 o Together, 7 vols. 1709, 17 10 The First Complete Edition of Shakespeare's Plays and Poems. This precious edition also contains the First Life of Shakespeare as well as the FIRST CRITICISM of his works. It is, too, THE First Illustrated Edition. These illustrations are of the very greatest importance as they are the very earliest existing records of the manner in which the plays were mounted, and of the costumes worn by the early Shakespearean actors. Absolutely perfect copies, of the seven volumes (with all the plates) such as the above, are of the greatest rarity. 176 J. Pearson & Co. 165 SHAKESPEARE. THE PLAYS OF WILLIAM SHAKE- SPEARE, in fifteen volumes, with the corrections and ilhistrationsof various commentators, to which are added notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. Large Paper. 15 vols. 8vo. Old russia extra, bottom edges uncut. i 793 Only 25 copies were printed on large paper. This superb copy contains the ex-libris of Sir M. M. Sykes, at whose sale in 1824 it realized ^39 185. It is the finest copy extant of this edition. 166 SHAKESPEARE. WORKS, the text formed from a New Colla- tion of the early editions, to which are added the Original Novels on which the Plays are founded, etc., by J. O. Halliwell. Portraits, views, facsimiles, etc., and woodcuts by F. IV. Fairholt. 16 vols. Folio. Original half binding, vacvT. 1853-1865 Only 150 copies were printed for subscribers, each of which contain Mr. Halliwell's signed guarantee. Five very interesting letters in reference to this edition of Shakespeare are inserted. 167 SHAKESPEARE. THE BURBAGE PORTRAIT OF SHAKESPEARE. Painted on panel by Richard Burbage in March or April 1616. It measures 23 inches by 14 inches, and is in its original pure and untouched state. This remarkable portrait was reproduced (greatly reduced) for the first time in Mr. Hazlitt's "Shakespear. Himself and his Work," 1908, page 145. In a letter (25th November 1909) Mr. Hazlitt thus described it: " With regard to the Burbage portrait of Shakespear in your possession you may be aware in the first place that I am in the habit of working all round a question, before I come to a conclusion. In this case it was the most important, because, had I inserted it in my book without due inquiry and deliberation, I should have awakened a hostile cry, and exposed myself to ridicule. 167 5, Pall Mall Place 177 " I advisedly adopted a cautious tone in introducing this likeness, and in speaking of it, but my opinion is unchanged, and since I published my first description of it, I have paid two visits to Dulwich (College) to verify my original impression on the subject and have met with additional evidence in its favour. " I suppose that I may claim to have placed the personal history of Shakespear on a more satisfactory basis from every point of view than any of my predecessors or con- temporaries, and in fact I have done too much to please some folks. You may recollect that the Athenaeum devoted six columns to a favourable notice of my first edition ij^ife of Shakespear). "The points in favour of the authenticity of the head introduced by me are: "The correspondence with the two heads of Burbage himself, and W. Sly the actor, both admittedly painted by the former, in the unusual pose and style, including the rather tell-tale falling collar, allowing for the different conditions, the difficulty of getting a true focus, and the short time available, as the eyes bespeak a person artiailo mortis, and the Poet was more than probably propped up in bed. " The statement that the likeness was executed ' to oblige a much valued friend ' is ascribed to 1750, when there was not yet that inducement to misrepresent, which subse- quently existed. That is, I presume, the Poet obliged Burbage. "The absence of any one at or near Stratford capable of doing such a work and the unique relations between Shakespear and Burbage, the actor and artist. "The presence of the verses accompanying the portrait and the statement that they were originally in letters of gold, which leads us to a twofold conclusion, that they were composed by Burbage — and indifferent enough they are — and painted and gilt by him in the same way that it has been recently discovered, that he performed some work about 1613 for the young Earl of Rutland in association with Shakespear (my book, p. 57). Setting aside their quality, these verses substantially strengthen the case for the common date and authorship of the likeness and peculiar adjunct in the shape of the inscription. Burbage was not a poet or even a man of letters. " The correlation between the unquestionable portrait of 161 1 (engraved by me) with the hand in the hair, the form of the forehead, the beard, the shade of the eyes— making allowance for acute illness since 161 1 — though even at the earlier date there are symptoms of age. " At p. 393 of my volume I notice the facilities afforded in Elizabethan times for engraving and gilding on various substances. A Manual on the subject appeared in 1583." The inscription beneath the portrait, painted on another board, runs as follows : " How speake thatte Browe soe pensive yet serene The lucidde Teare juste startynge to thine eyne Dost thou nowe dwelle onne Romeo's ill starr'd love Or doth the tortured Moore thy passion move None so. Alasse no more shall phantsie's creatures Adumbrate or enshroude the Poete's Features To realle Illes hys Frame nowe falles a Preye A A 178 J. Pearson & Co. He feels approache the Ev'ninge of Lyffe's Daye — And e'er another Dawne arise to cheere Lyfe's busie Sonnes may droppe poore Wil Shakspere Sic cecinit Cygnus Avonice et obiit 23 Aprilis 16 16 JET 52 " On the back of the portrait is another inscription, written on paper, and bearing a seal of red wax. The writing is much faded, and in some parts is illegible, but, as near as can be made out, runs as follows : "There is a tradition that Shakspere shortly before his departure, and in anticipation of that event, did at length, for the gratification of a much valued Friend submit to sit for his Picture. That this was the identical Picture the lines beneath sufficiently evince the melancholy tone in which they are written corresponding so emphatically with the characteristic traits of the Physiognomy prove to demonstration that this must . . . Lymning (for Lymning it unquestionably is) and . . . infer from the Latin sentence ' Sic cecinit ' &c. that the prophecy contained in them was accomplished on the very day on which they were written. And . . . that this friend for whom the Picture was painted caused them to be inscribed in Letters of Gold under the Head. — J. H. 1750." This portrait was for many years the property of Mr. Kinton, who died at Paddington in 1865, aged 91 years, and who bequeathed it to his medical attendant. . . . Some years previous to his death, Mr. Kinton informed its late owner that it had been left to him some fifty years before by a friend, in whose possession it had been for many years. The former owner of this picture, the/. H. 0/1750, was possibly John Hathaway, of Stratford-on-Avon, who died in 1753, aged 73. /650 See Illustration 168 SHAKESPEARE AND ESSEX. The Original State Paper giving a list of Persons implicated in the Essex Rebellion, and stating where they were imprisoned. FoHo, February 1600. The prisons are given as follows : The Toweare, New Gaite, The Gard House, The Marshallseas, The Flete, The Counter in Wodstret, The Counter in the Poultrie, Ludgaite Feloninge. "In the Toweare Earlle of Essex. Lord Mountegello. Earlle of Rutland. Lord Cromwell. Earlle of Sowthamton. Ser Charlies Davies. {Shakespeare' s Patron.) Ser Christopher Blonte. Lord Saundes. Pall Mall Place 179 Ser Jhon Davies. Ser Gillam Merricke. Sir Hinerie Carie. In Newe Gaite Mr. Treshame. Mr. Doweall. Ser Jhon Hadame. Ser Robarte Veron. In the Gard House Ser Christopher Laydon. hi the Marshallseas Ser Edward Myckilborn. Mr. Bushell. Mr. Cosnall. Mr. Bucke. Ser Charles Perce. Ser Jhon Perce. Ser Edward Banshaind. Ser Edward Letilltowne. Iti the Flete Mr. Fraunces Maneres. Mr. Gregorie Brigge. Mr. Cashe. Mr. Thomas West. Mr. Man. Mr. Foster. Mr. Addine. Mr. Dasoune. Mr. Compton. In the Counter in IVodstret Mr. Arwell. Mr. Elleap Jonnes. Mr. Jhon Laid. Mr. Lawsonne. Mr. Richard Herferd. In the Mr. Ralphe Smeth. Mr. Williame Parratt. Mr. Thomas Blondall. Mr. Fraunces Kinersleaye Mr. Williame Grauntam. Mr. Edward Harte. Mr. Edward Harber. Mr. Richard Chamley. Mr. Auntheny Rouse. Mr. Jhon Ardinge. Mr. Jhon Trimpe. Mr. Fraunces Leaster. Counter in the Poultrie. Mr. Thomas Sandall. Mr. Thomas Tippinges. Ser William Constabill. Mr. Peter Redall. Mr. Williame Orme. Mr. Jhon Morries. Mr. John Parmell. Mr. Robarte Coote. Mr. John Binbrigge. Mr. Gregorie Sissill. Mr. Alexander Greshim. Mr. Jhon Robartes. i8o J. Pearson & Co. /// Ludgaife Felotiinge Mr. Jhon Wheller. Mr. Jhon Grainte. Mr. Thomas Wheeler. Mr. Jhon Wright. Mr. Thomas Medley. Mr. Christopher White. Mr. William Liane. " The Lorde of Sussiex in hould at Ser Jhon Stannope's. The Lorde of Bedford in houlld at AUdermane Holidaie's. " Captine Sallesberie slaine in Essiexe house." A few days before this State Paper was written Essex's friends visited the Globe Theatre (on Thursday, 5th Feb.), and paid forty shillings to the actors to perform Shakespeare's play of " Richard 11 " on the Saturday, so that the people might be excited by the representation of the deposition of a king on the stage. This document was first recorded by the Historical Manuscripts Commission in 1887. 169 SHELLEY, SHAKESPEARE, AND CALDERON SHELLEY (P. B.). HOLOGRAPH LETTER (SIGNED), 2 pages, 4to. Leghorn, 2 1 Sept. 1 8 1 9. To his friend Thos. L. Peacock (the Poet). A SUPERB LETTER relative to his " Cenci," " Prometheus Unbound," and containing his eulogy of the great Spanish poet, Calderon, whom he avers is second only to Shakespeare. " Leghorn, ' ' September 21, 1 8 1 9. " My dear Peacock, " You will have received a short letter sent with the Tragedy [The Cenci] and the Tragedy itself by this time. I am, you may believe, anxious to hear what you think of it, and how the manager talks about it. I have printed in Italy 250 copies, because it costs with all duties and freightage, about half what it would cost in London, and these copies will be sent by sea. My other reason was a belief that the seeing it in print would enable the people at the theatre to judge more easily. Since I last wrote to you, Mr. Gisborne is gone to England for the purpose of obtaining a situation for Henry Revely. I have given him a letter to you, and you would oblige me by showing what civilities you can, and by forwarding his views, either by advice or recommendation, as you may find opportunity, not for his sake, who is a great bore, but for the sake of Mrs. Gisborne and Henry Revely, people for whom we have a great esteem. Henry is a most amiable * .^.miiimmv . ... — - ^/ /''', 'y» d. ^.^ Mi^^^^ A \Ui^ ^^^.//f^^. .•--^«a',a -i '^ ^^^' ^^Jl^ ''-^ «^<5»^ ;^ 4/ i^.^ ^■^-A,'^/ ^f7^f^<^^^^^ 4^ V/^ 4^W«'x'^^^^^_-t<^ '*'-^-^^ 169 5, Pall Mall Place i8i person, and of great talents as a mechanic and engineer. 1 have given him also a letter to Hunt, so that you will meet him there. This Mr. Gisborne is a man who knows I cannot tell how many languages, and has read almost all the books you can think of; but all that they contain seems to be to his mind what water is to a sieve. His liberal opinions are all the reflections of Mrs. Gisborne's, a very amiable, accomplished and completely unprejudiced woman. " Charles Clairmont is now with us on his way to Vienna. He has spent a year or more in Spain, where he has learnt Spanish, and I make him read Spanish all day long. It is a most powerful and expressive language, and I have already learnt sufficient to read with great ease their poet Calderon. I have read about twelve of his plays. Some of them certainly deserve to be ranked among the grandest and most perfect productions o the human mind. He exceeds all modern dramatists, with the exception of Shakespeare, whom he resembles, however, in the depth of thought and subtlety of imagination of his writings, and in the rare power of interweaving delicate and powerful comic traits with the most tragical situations, without diminishing their interest. I rate him far above Beaumont and Fletcher. " I have received all the papers you sent me, and the Examiners regularly, perfumed with muriatic acid. What an infernal business this of Manchester! What is to be done? Something assuredly. H. Hunt has behaved, I think, with great spirit and coolness in the whole affair. "I have sent you my 'Prometheus,' which I do not wish to be sent to Oilier for publication, until I write to that effect. Mr. Gisborne will bring it, also some volumes of Spenser, and the two last of Herodotus and ' Paradise Lost,' which may be put with the others. " If my Play [The Cenci] should be accepted, don't you think it would excite some interest, and take off the unexpected horror of the story, by showing that the events are real, if it could be made to appear in some paper in some form? " You will hear from me again shortly, as I send you by sea ' The Cencis ' printed, which you will be good enough to keep. Adieu. " Yours most faithfully, " P. B. Shelley." ;^7A CAzC\/7r^t^HK. firry >«. 'ti/''' Cf f6'^^^C:<^ C/i'^, feet ■jcrwcp^f^ JfT^^^'^'^'^, t-^oc «^M, ^''^ c^i^t^ <^^- - / z^->>v ly^K-' :-^ L '73 RKDUCF.U II.I.USl RATION 5, Pall Mall Place 183 Siddons, Miss O'Neill, Miss Kelly, J. P. Kemble, A. Pope, J. Munden, C. Keinble, Ellistoti, J. Braham, C. Matthews, E. Kean, C. Dignum, W. Oxberry, J . Bannister, Madame Vestris, Miss Chester, Miss Foote, etc. All neatly inlaid or mounted to quarto size, atid bound in 24 vols. 4to. Half morocco extra. With special title-pages. Bath, 1832 Splendidly illustrated by the late Augustin Daly, but not sold with the rest of his books in 1900. /200 TASSO'S POETRY TASSO.— HIS ORIGINAL HOLOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT of an Original Sonnet. Unpublished, i page, folio. Accompanying this most precious manuscript is a unique and precious Collection of a Holograph Poem, Letters, etc., by the Tasso family and others, relative to Torquato Tasso, the immortal author of " Gerusalemme Liberata." The autograph of Tasso in any form is of the utmost rarity — but in the most desir- able form of AN ORIGINAL UNPUBLISHED POEM it is practically introuvable. In addition to Tasso's Sonnet there are : 1. Leonora d'Este. '■^ The Beloved of Tasso.'' Letter, with holograph superscrip- tion and signature, to the Duca di Savoia. i page, folio, Ferrara, i6th Oct., 1580, signed in full, " Leonora d'Este." 2. Tasso (Bernardo). Father of Torquato and Author of " L'Amadigi." Holo- graph Letter (signed), i page, folio, to Speron Sperone, loth June, Vinegia. 3. Tasso (Bernardo). His Original Holograph Manuscript of a Poem, i page, folio, " Soura la Segnora violante Visconta il Tassonico suo servatori," in 7 stanzas. 4. D'Este (Alfonso, Duke of Ferrara). Patron of Tasso. Letter, with holo- graph superscription and signature, i page, folio, to his sisters Lucretia and Leonora d'Este, Villa Cotre, 1552. 5. Clement VIII (Pope). Patron of Tasso. His Signature to a Document. I page, 4to. An excessively rare autograph. 184 J. Pearson & Co. 6. Longfellow (Henry Wadsworth). Holograph Letter (signed). 4 pages, 8vo, Cambridge, May 4, 1854, to J. H. Wiffen. Relative to his correspondent's transla- tion of the " Gerusalemme Liberata" of Tasso, a copy of which he has received, etc. 7. RusKiN (John). Holograph Letter (signed), i page, 8vo, Caf^ Fran^ais, St. Mark's Place, 30th May. Relative to Tasso, of whom he has not read six sUnzas in his life!!! 8. Tennyson (Alfred, Lord). Holograph Letter (signed). 3 pages, 8vo, Seaford, 9th Dec, to J. H. Wiffen. Relative to the translation of Tasso. 9. Morghen (Raphael). Celebrated Engraver. Holograph Letter (signed). I page, 4to, to G. Telsing(?), Firenze, 29 Genaio, 1829. Ten autographs in all. This collection of Letters, Documents, and Manuscripts by, and relative to, this most illustrious Poet was formed and bound into a volume {red morocco) about fifty years ago by J. H. Wiffen, the editor of Tasso, from whom it passed to Dr. Raffles, who has added a letter of Wiffen. See Illustration 174 TENIERS.— THIS ABSOLUTELY UNIQUE COLLEC- TION {formed by the famous Collector the Comte de Bourbon) comprises no less than 230 of the most brilliant impressions of engravings by famous artists, after the most celebrated of Teniers' pictures. The vast majority are m proof state. No less than seventy-five (75) of the finest impressions bear the full autograph signa- ture of the Comte de Bourbon on the back. This is believed to be by far the Finest Collection extant of Tenier's Engraved Works. David Teniers " le Jeune " followed in the same " genre " of the art as his father — David Teniers " le vieux," but whom he greatly excelled. The King of Spain desired to purchase all the pictures produced by Teniers and had a Gallery especially constructed for his works. In 1 644 he was named Director of the Academy at Antwerp. His pictures reveal a marvellous felicity of execution — natural and naive. Among the pupils of Teniers was the Prince — Don John of Austria. A complete typed catalogue of the engravings can be had on application. £300 Pall Mall Place 185 175 ANNOTATED COPY TENNYSON (ALFRED, CHARLES AND FREDERICK). POEMS, by Two Brothers. " Haec nos novimus esse nihil." — Martini. 8vo. Original boards, uncut. London: Printed /or W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, Stationers'- Hall-Court, and J. and J. Jackson, Louth. 1827. First Edition. Unique. This extremely interesting copy formerly belonged to Mrs. Alington, a friend and neighbour of the brothers Alfred, Charles and Frederick Tennyson, and has the owner's autograph signature on the fly-leaf. Each poem, in the present example, has the initial (A. C. or F.) of its author at the end, and five emendations in the handwriting of A. Alington, showing that the volume was gone through by the owner with the help of the brothers Tennyson, and each then acknowledged his authorship to their several poems, whilst Mrs. Alington initialed them. The corrections also were evidently suggested by the joint authors at the time — they are: I St. " Persia " (page 66). " Where Hyssus, rolling from the strand. Disgorges in the euxine sea — " being altered to " Near old Hyssus, rolling from the strand," etc. 2nd. " On Sublimity " (page 107). "Thy snow-clad peaks, stupendous Gunzotree! " being corrected to "Thy snow-clad peaks, stupendous Gungotree! " 3rd. " 'Tis the voice of the Dead " (page 1 13). Here there is no correction, alteration, or addition to the poem, but beneath it is written the words, " only one." This evidently refers to the poem, for it is initialed " F." (i.e., Frederick Tennyson) and is the " only one " in the volume by him. 4th. " The Fall of Jerusalem " (page 148). " Seven weary suns had brightened Syna's sky " altered to "Seven weary suns had brightened Syria's sky." B B i86 J. Pearson & Co. 5th. " On a Dead Enemy " (page 160). This was first signed " F." but afterwards altered to " C." 6th. "On the Moon-light shining upon a Friend's Grave." " Show not, O Moon ! with pure and liquid beam." altered to " Show not, O Moon ! with bright and liquid beam." Canon Rawnsley (who is connected with both the Tennyson and Alington families) was deputed by the present Lord Tennyson to examine the above volume. A note from him is inserted, as is also a letter from the present Lord Tennyson both anent this particular volume. 176 TENNYSON'S AUTOGRAPHED IDYLLS OF THE KING. TENNYSON (ALFRED, LORD). THE UNIQUE ORIGINAL SET OF DORE'S PROOF ILLUSTRATIONS TO TENNY- SON'S IDYLLS OF THE KING. 1868 Each of the eight Proofs has the autograph signatures of: 1. Tennyson. 2. Dord (the Artist). 3. The Engraver. These Proofs are on India paper and measure i6i by 12 inches. Mounted and bound in red morocco extra. The only set of Proofs or, indeed, of illustrations of any kind to his Poems SIGNED BY Tennyson that are recorded. The first proof is Dore's portrait of the Poet himself surrounded by numerous characters from the " Idylls." The remainder of these charming proofs illustrate the following passages from the "Idylls": I. "... It was the Time when first the question rose About the founding of a Table Round, That was to be, for love of God and men And noble deeds, the flower of all the World." — Vivien. 5, Pall Mall Place 187 2. "... and all day long we rode Thro' the dim land against a rushing wind, That glorious roundel echoing in our ears, And chased the flashes of his golden horns Until they vanish'd by the fairy well." — Ibid. 3. "... I found a fair young squire who sat alone And carv'd upon his knightly shield of wood . . . the scroll ' I follow fame ' And speaking not, but leaning over him, I carv'd a Gardener putting in a Graff, With this for motto, ' Rather Use than Fame." — Ibid. 4. "... Then rose Elaine and glided thro' the fields. And past beneath the weirdly sculptur'd gates Far up the dim rich city to her king . . ." — Elaine. 5. " Set in her hand a lily, o'er her hung The silken case with braided blazonings, And kiss'd her quiet brows, and saying to her 'Sister, farewell for ever,' and again ' Farewell, sweet sister,' parted all in tears. Then rose the dumb old servitor," etc. — Ibid. 6. "... And Lancelot answer'd nothing, but he went. And at the inrunning of the little brook Sat by the river in a little cove, and watch'd The high reed wave, and lifted up his eyes And saw the barge that brought her moving down Far off, a blot upon the stream. . . ." — Ibid. 7. " They found a naked child upon the sands Of dark Tintagil by the Cornish sea; And that was Arthur; and they foster'd him Till he by miracle was approven King. . . ." — Guinevere. These beautiful illustrations were designed by Dor^ for the 1868 edition. The " Idylls " of Tennyson are so well known wherever the English language is spoken that comment upon them is superfluous. Yet the following note, from the Dictionary of National Biography, seems appropriate : "The 'Idylls of the King' appeared in the autumn of 1859, and received a welcome so instantaneous as at once to restore its author to his lost place in the affections of the many. . . . The Duke of Argyll had predicted that the ' Idylls ' would be ' understood and admired by many who were incapable of understanding and appreciating many of his other works,' and the prediction has been verified. At the same time such poems i88 J. Pearson & Co. as ' Elaine ' and ' Guinevere ' became at once the delight of the most fastidious, and the least. Men so different as Jowett, Macaulay, Dickens, Ruskin, and Walter of the ' Times ' swelled the chorus of enthusiastic praise." According to Monsieur Claretie, the distinguished French author, Dora's illustra- tions to Tennyson's " Idylls " rank with his best inspirations, and are enough to secure the lasting fame of any artist. Dord was at home in Tennyson's exquisite dreamland. He revelled in the succession of pictures. Merlin resting against an old oak, the exploits of Lancelot, the heroic deeds of the Knights of the Round Table, the black shadows of the forest, the enchanting lakes. Poet never had daintier dressing than the I.,aureate had in the " Idylls of the King." It was said of them, " their issue has given wings to the muse of Mr. Tennyson ! These wings bore them to foreign lands and gave them new homes." — Blanchard Jerrold's " Life of Dor^." ^150 177 TENNYSON AND THE "SPITEFUL LETTER." TENNYSON (ALFRED, LORD). THE ORIGINAL HOLO- GRAPH MANUSCRIPT, with corrections, of his Poem "On a Spiteful Letter." Quite perfect, consisting of six verses, 2 pages 8vo, endorsed in the Poet's Autograph " For Once a Week," with Mr. Tennyson's compHments. Accompanying the Manuscript is a Holograph Letter (signed), of Lord Tennyson, i page 8vo, Decmiber 24, 1867. In this letter he says, " It is quite correctly printed, and I expect will bring upon me more spiteful letters. It is no particular letter to which I allude, I have had dozens of them from one quarter or another." Also an original example of the Order of Service, Hymns and Anthem sung at the funeral of Lord Tennyson. 12th October, 1892. This important manuscript differs very considerably from the version as published in the collected edition of Tennyson's Poems. The Poet Laureate concludes his letter as follows: " Tho' you are kind enough to say that I may make my own charge I must leave all that to yourself and Mr. Evans " (partner of Bradbury, Evans and Co., publishers of " Once a Week "). ^"120 See Illustration 5, Pall Mall Place 189 178 TENNYSON (ALFRED LORD). THE LAST TOURNA- MENT, by Alfred Tennyson, D.C.L., Poet Laureate. Small 8vo. Green morocco extra, top edges gilt, \jiiC\JT. Strahan, 1871. A Trial Copy issued before the First Edition (of which less than a dozen copies are recorded). This and Mr. Wise's example are the only two Tri.\l Copies known to us, (see " The Athenaeum " article enclosed in the volume). This excessively rare volume was unknown to Shepherd when compiling his Tennyson Bibliography. 179 THACKERAY'S ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH CORRE- SPONDENCE WITH HIS FRIEND MRS. JAMES (the wife of Lord Justice (Sir) William Milbourne James). Lady James was the daughter of Dr. Otter, Bishop of Chichester. This correspondence comprises : (a) Eight Holograph Letters, Signed, of Thackeray. ifi) Thackeray's Original Drawings for Lady James' Monogram. {c) An Original Drawing by Thackeray for "The Rose and the Ring." (d) An Original Valentine in Thackeray's most hu.morous style. The letters are most important and interesting. They refer: To his Lectures on the Four Georges, and to his departure for America. To the death of Henry Hallam (the subject of Tennyson's " In Memoriani "). To Drs. Pusey and Newman. To his return from Paris. To a quarrel with "The Times." To his daughters. To Maurice Marochetti. Etc., etc., etc. One of the letters is written in the celebrated " Yellow Plush " style, and another is written in a most curious " serpentine " fashion. Thackeray. A. I. s., 2 pages, 8vo. To Mrs. James, ;i6, Onslow Square, nth October {i?,:,:,). Important. Relative to his second tour to America and Lectltres on the Four Georges : 190 J. Pearson & Co. " I have been these many weeks past in an awful turmoil and perplexity. The famous lectures are only now J done: and I must trust to luck and the voyage and my previous knowledge of his heroic character for finishing George I\'. " My women are trying to put as brave a face on the matter as possible. Poor Maurice Marochetti can't go with me. His dear little brother, whom we all loved next door, is gone away to join God's little Angels: his mother is in dreadful grief: and Maurice must stay by her . . . and I go without a gentleman secretary, but with a very faithful useful servant my own promoted 'clerk ' in Maurice's stead." Etc., etc., etc. Written on the eve of Thackeray's departure to deliver his Lectures on THE Four Georges in America. Thackeray. A. I. s., i page, i2mo. Kensington, Friday {no date). Written IN " Yellow Plush " style. " Aving promiged to dine hout on Sattidy the 28th with Sir Robert Arry Hinglish Bart, M.P. I must with regret refuge your polite faviour for tomorrow and dine with Mr. Punch on that day. But has hour dinner is herly, I will with kind promishu look in in the hevening and request the refreshment of a aippatee." "P.S. I'm shaw my dear parince will like dining with you very considerabble." Thackeray. A.i.s., i page, 8vo. Palace Green, Kensington, "Saturday {but I own too /ate for post)." He has got into awful arrears with his work, and must go away " somewhere alone where I shall be forced to work, I know what it is. A Study and a Bedroom won't do. I should go to sleep on the bed and write nothing. I have done nothing for a whole year and I must go to my horrible pens and paper. Aha. What has W. M. J. been writing about to the Times? " The Infantas are under agreement to go to the I. of Wight, I am going to separate from them and be alone alone alone." Thackeray. A. I. s., 3 pages, Svo. No date. To the same. Highly Important, relative to the death of Henry Hallam — the subject of Tennyson's "In Memoriam," and written immediately after his death. . . . "As I was talking with Brookfield (Tennyson's "Brooks") last night about our dear kind gentle boy Henry Hallam who had the sweetest qualities and the most loving heart, and who when I was ill last year shewed me the most kind and delicate proofs of affection and sympathy — I couldn't help thinking of that awful blasphemy and that this Newman is obliged to condemn the best and purest of all of us, his own mother, friends, brethren, — everybody. Will we subscribe to that? Will we let that Lie go unquestioned among us? It seemed to me as if our very affection for that dear fellow gave the Doctor the lie and proved what we hope and believe for him. He came a hundred miles last year to offer me money in case I shd. be in want: he came down to see me at Brighton and gave me his arm for my first walk — and lo — he 's gone. This seems very incoherent — I don't know why the words came to me, and seem like an insult on poor Harry's grave — and I don't know why I shd. begin talking to you in this way answering a note to dinner but we dine and we 5, Pall Mall Place 191 die don't we? and we get suddenly stopped on the highroad by a funeral crossing it," etc., etc. The first part of this fine letter refers to Drs. Pusey and Newman. Thackeray. A. I. s., 8vo, Fe/>ruary 14, 1849, Vouni' St. Kensington Square. To the same. Extremely curious. Minutely written in serpentine form. He is sorry to hear that she has been ill. " I have been at Paris and have only come back just now and I should be so glad to dine with you on Thursday still if your project of a dinner party still holds good, but if you have filled your table please to let me know and to believe me my dear Mrs. James (without the slightest preparation or ruling of lines or any nonsense of that sort wh. any man who really can use his pen would think unworthy of him) I say I beg you to believe that I am without any circumlocution most sincerely yours and of course Mr. W. M. James, that popular but eccentric author and individual W. M. Thackeray Feb. 14, 1849." Thackeray. A. I. s., i page, Svo, Kensington, Thursday evg. {no date). To the same. "I have read the ways and means and think it what — shall I say? a masterpiece. It is the most admirable good sense— the most brilliant argument — the most lucid statement — upon my word I'm so delighted with it that I can't help breaking out into this lauda- tion ; and expect the author of that pamphlet will take I don't know what rank ere long as a statesman and a public benefactor. Present my compliments to him and remember if you please that I'm one of the first before all the world is talking about him," etc. With envelope addressed by Thackeray. Thackeray. A. I. s., i page, Svo, no date. To the same. Relative to a quarrel with the "Times." " Be so kind and let me off on Saturday. The ' Times ' has asked me to dinner for that day, and I have refused the ' Times ' ever so often before until he fancies I won't dine with him because he is not a Lord, and I have had a controversy a quarrel (in wh. I got the best I think, did you see it?) and should like a reconciliation; so that I hope you will see the propriety of my breaking my plighted vow to you," etc. With envelope addressed by Thackeray. Thackeray. A. I. s., 2 pages, izmo, 36, Onslow Square, 21 June (no year). To the same. He sends her the proof sheet of which they spoke " and the honorarium for Mr. Jansa in wh. I am indebted to him and you. I think I told you that I stopped at a fiddle- shop (Cocks &: Somebody) to buy tickets but they had none — otherwise my tickets would have been purchased in the regular way. And you mustn't think (as I \ fancy you will) of refusing the remittance, please. I am very glad to be able now and again to do a little to comfort and help the weak-hearted, being entre nous not a little grateful for my own good luck." Etc. 192 J. Pearson & Co. Thackeray. Original Drawing for "The Rose & the Ring," drawn by Thackeray and Signed by him. Thackeray. Eight Original Sketches by him for Mrs. James's monogram together with an Original full-length Drawing of three persons and an Original Drawing of the head of a girl. Thackeray. A very curious autograph Valentine containing a number of sketches. ^250 180 THACKERAY. AN ORIGINAL PORTRAIT. An oil-painting, measuring 24 in. x 20 in., appropriately framed and glazed. This recently discovered portrait, which is in perfect condition, was painted by L. Poyet (signed), an artist of note and a friend of Thackeray's during his residence in Paris about 1840. It is beautifully painted and very highly finished; moreover, it is a most pleasing portrait, showing Thackeray in his early manhood, with a healthy colour in his face and the dark hair just beginning to be streaked with gray. The spectacles are identical with those in the Lawrence Portrait, the broken nose is apparent, but without being at all obtrusive. The size of the canvas is 24 in. x 20 in., and it is life-size of the head and shoulders. This, in our opinion, is the most important " find " amongst Thackeray relics that has ever occurred. Moreover, apart from the Thackeray interest, it is a most excellent portrait of the great novelist. Again, it certainly fills up an important gap in the none too rich gallery of Thackeray portraits. This admirable portrait has been engraved (but very much reduced) in Dent's edition of Thackeray's collected works. It was exhibited at the Charterhouse, Thackeray Exhibition, in 191 1. /25O 181 THOMAS A KEMPIS. IMITATIO CHRISTI. Fol. la: In- cipit libellus consolatorius ad instructo3 deuoto?/. Cuius primu capitulu est de imitacoe xpi r otemptu damni vanitatum mundi. Et qdam totij libellum sic appellant scilicet libellum de imitatione xpT. sicut euan- gelium Mathei appellator liber generacois iKu xpT. Eo q^ in primo capitl'o fit mentio de generacone xpi scd'm carnem. Incipit primum capitulum . . . Fol. i6a: . . . E.\plicit primus liber de imitacione 5, Pall Mall Place 193 Xpisti et de contemptu omnium vanitatum md'i. Sequitur tabula huius libri primi . . . Fol. 16b: Sequit scd'a ps h^ libri q est de amonicoe Fol. 25a: . . . Incipit tercius liber de imitacone xpi qui tractat de interna osolacoe xpi ad aia3 fidelem Fol. 6ia: . . . Sequit nunc liber quartus de imitacoe cristi in q tractat de venerabili sacrameto altaris. . . . Fol. 76a: . . . Viri egregij Thome mentis sancte Agnetis in Traiecto regularis canonici libri de xpi imitatioe numero quatuor finiunt feliciter. per Gintheum 5ainer ex reutlingen pgenitu Uteris impssi ahenis. Folio. Gothic letter, 76 leaves, 35 lines to the page; without signatures, catchwords, or foliation. Pigskin, blind tooled. S.l. et a. Augsburg, G. Zainer. Circa 1470. Editio Princeps of one of the most famous books in the world. It is from the press of the first printer at Augsburg. The " Imitation of Christ " is, next to the Bible, the most universally translated book in the world. As long ago as the year 1828 more than two thousand distinct editions of the " Imitation of Christ " were recorded. 182 THOMAS AQUINAS. CATENA AUREA. A Superb Copy. Old calf. Folio. \Esslingen'\\(2onrad Fyner'\\\^']0 or earlier\ Editio Princeps. Believed to be e.\rlier than Zainer's undated edition. After the "Summa Theologiae," the "Catena Aurea" is probably the most important and well known of the works of Aquinas. In the guise of a commentary on the four gospels, it is a summary of the theological teaching of the fathers woven together with the greatest skill from the writings of over forty authors. Thomas Aquinas himself was born at Rocca Secca in 1225, and belonged to one of the most distinguished families of Europe. His father was Landulf, Count of Aquino, and his grandmother was a sister of the Emperor Frederic Barbarossa. He studied at Paris under Albertus Magnus, and during the rest of his comparatively short Hfe was ceaselessly engaged in teaching, writing, and ecclesiastical business. It seems almost incredible that one man could have accomplished so much. He died on March 2, 1274, in the Abbey of Fossa-Nuova. Of the " Catena Aurea" a very large number of editions were printed. Hain describes eleven editions, and Copinger a twelfth. There were two undated, the present printed by Conrad Fyner, and another printed by Giinther Zainer at Augsburg, probably about tlie same date. Conrad Fyner of Gerhausen began to date his books at Esslingen in 1472, though perhaps one or two of his ««dated books may be as early as 1470. He used two C C 194 J- Pearson & Co. types; the smaller and earlier having a strong resemblance to one used by Eggsteyn at Strasburg, and the books of the two printers are frequently confused. In 1473 Fyner issued the first book with musical notes, Gerson's " CoUectorium super Magnificat," and in 1475 ^^^ ^''s' book with Hebrew type, " Niger contra perfidos Judaeos." For a time Fyner moved to Urach but returned again /o Essltngen where he was the only printer during the fifteenth century, printing up to the year 1494. ^105 183 THOMAS AQUINAS. TRACTATUS DE SEPTEM SACRA- MENTIS. Folio. Old calf. {Cologjie, Ulric Zell), 1470 Editio Princeps of the First Christian Catechism. It was printed hy the first printer at Cologne. This work, in the form of a dialogue, is a compilation by an anonymous writer from the works of Thomas de Aquino and Pietro de Champagni, who wrote under the name of Petrus de Tarentasia and was raised to the Papacy as Innocent V. He lived at a slightly later date than Thomas de Aquino, whom he succeeded as Professor of Theology in the University of Paris. Little of his work was printed, though it has been almost conclusively proved by Quetif that he was the real author of the " Postilla super epistolas Pauli " ascribed to Nicolaus Gorranus and printed at Cologne by J. Koelhof in 1478. Zell, the printer of the present book, worked from 1465 onwards to the end of the century, producing over two hundred books. The majority of these were printed in quarto, but about fifty were in folio. These are later in date than many of the quartos and may mostly be assigned to the years c. 1475. The different editions of this book are not easy to trace as they are entered in bibliographies under various headings. The present edition is twice described hy Copinger (JVos. ^Tj and 5200) ioth times differently and incorrectly. Campbell describes an edition (No. 1491) printed at Louvain by J. de Westphalia about 1485. The two books referred to by Hain (15590-1) as "Tractatus resolvens dubia per modum dialog! circa septem sacramenta occurrentia," printed in 1492 and 1496, may be later editions of the same book. — E. Gordon Duff. This volume is so extraordinarily rare that it was iinmcntioned by Hain. /20O See Illustration tod cfac:fijmpt^ ^>: fesp^ie fan 3j Cbttic k Aqi^r.c^ ac fr>dri » ^Tbarotbafia cs&dgi sttobu mcnti cfftcatiatojbrnate ioqui bit* a fucan^c» In quo pctrud Eib cumfda t)iTaputinO]Cquc tit: a p ibrcgcciu cit£ vt a ma^? giflri vice ^fcrih: rcfpntx^^ €t ptno tc (aaameto i?apUf^ ini*lnapitMcifef ^?r^. &aptirm^ ♦Ca»pniu* 6ttus«^ucrd» ^^X qittt)9 confti i^baptifmifa anicntu.^ibfc gcwi9.€)cMcrbi^ fl rcb^ ficut a qJ^cuq} alwd fk cramcntu^jSctr^. CJ^uc\»:fba: que rGe.^E).(\c0 bicutur clcttic tum»^crbumuocatio tfmita tl9«6lcmetu eft mafena.'Vcf ba filt fbima fa(Tanicti»fS»(J5?5 ^Icmcntu.^&.foapttfm^cR- ab [uco rn aquan'txo aqua cH-^c materia fajramcri no vfnujip oku non ali9 Hquc«»t)»|Qonc b f»iomttiaqua.«'Jbro(Pon:rcd fn Tola aqua naturalifitbaphf titu0«jOatuiali bioo no mutata \t vznia que p3ti9 bunion c gp^ aqua natwmlis* aqua rofacca -^T&aptirim* fibmoinon^fatmfcdj gp^faod bismo2 eft Q^ aqua naturalis* ^ame c;c balnco (iViiao \«l aq l«co^(omf^ camiu a bmoi bnc potefl ficfi baptifm^cp fn cia n niutatur natura aquc»-^imili fer C)c ro2C colico fit baprtfmus quia b'at jjcncrc^crvap^zib^ n bumcoib^ terc: tn pci* vtut^ nature que it)2co2 eft arte:rTol tuturfrt natumni aquc qj5 ars no pt faccf c a fie ois aqua na tiimliBvniucrrah'ter c materia faaamentibaptifmi'JS.cnua^j c reina^ C)c aqua q^ ex alio clem tvfllb*bia^ m qvto (\^:iy.'(tu t)ica cas^qa ficut aqu^ mudat ioitxQ e^teri^; ita baptifm^ ppc catu mt«n9vniuraiitcr» "Jtc fi;? cut aqua p fri'giditati mitigaf calojcntabaptifm^ ^oipirccn tie ft>mit€.*]t^^tet* ^mumta^ tcm aque n ei^ babudanriam nc 4pt\?r cartnria ttiaterie po 15 qiuB ejccufare fc no p)flc bapti fart' JS. t>ic l3c fc^ina baptifmi* ^brcgO'^VerbaicclTendafpi b me bapftfmifinequib^baptif niu6 non fierct be filt* ^apH^ fo te fn noie pzis a fiin ^ (pii^ rand:i«%o fuffidenter fnf:eUii^ gitur m vho pzmic pfone a fie abfolute ego non c tK efiencia fi)2mevtpfttat^(uffiat q? mtd iigatur* Ame; q!5 plurce ticut in fine non c uceflenda (b2mc» / / .•x/f. ,V ^ - »- <: I -< f • /^ '■^ '^ >' ■ >V X c, z- *■ <^ r ^^f . ^V -'^ ^' 7- ^i -"^^^ y^/- .rt.^^ y' y Z' y* y' -^i ^ A ^ //yj.^'rr^^ <^Cr ^^^.i ^ /^. ^^■^ /z ^■. '^ ^^ ^^-2;^,, ^^^ ^^.jL..^;^^.. ./^^.^ /^ .^r ^^^Ts^':^^ / i.^-'h. ^^f/^ yi ^^ .^ ^•^ y ;>- 'S zk^^i^ Z*/!^/-. ^ ^ -^^^- ^''^y-^^.yfyy^ ^C^.^,^ ^^ ^L.^ ^..,^^/y^,^. 5, Pall Mall Place 195 184 TOPLADY AND "ROCK OF AGES." TOPLADY (AUGUSTUS). Famoiis Hymn writer, Author of " Rock of Ages." HOLOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, 4 pages, folio, London, July 30, 1776. TO THE COUNTESS OF HUNTINGDON. This magnificent letter — probably the finest extant— is exceedingly interesting. Besides the religious matters referred to therein it treats of all sorts of other subjects. The famous book-binder, Roger Payne, is described as " the best Binder in London and perhaps in Europe." Bon-mots of Samuel Foote (the actor), and Dr. Price are given. The former are most interesting as they refer to the shocking charges from which Foote had to defend himself in a Court of Justice. On his own works Toplady remarks : " My collection of Hymns (compiled for the use of the dear People at Orange Chapel) is now almost got through the Press. The Compilation ought to be a good one as I had no fewer than 40 or 50 volumes of one kind or other to collect from. I was prevailed with at last to insert six of my oivn humble efforts, which, after all, I more than fear do keep out six better ones. May the whole publication be so owned by the Holy Spirit, as to prove a blessing to Zion's Travellers in their way to the Mount of God." One of the " six of my own humble efforts," referred to by Toplady, was the immortal " Rock of Ages " — the most famous hymn in the English language, and first published at page 308 in "Psalms and Hymns for public and private Worship 1776." This letter is endorsed by the Countess of Huntingdon who founded the famous religious body known as "the Countess of Huntingdon's Connection." 185 TROLLOPE (ANTHONY). "NORTH AMERICA," the O R I G I N A L M A N U S C R I P T, in the autograph of the Author, of this well-known work, first published in 1862. // is quite perfect, and consists of 1,220 pages, 4to, of tmiform size, and is bound in two volumes, red morocco. An extremely fine Manuscript, without question the most important of Trollope's which exists. A copy of the original edition of the printed version accompanies the Manuscript. .^200 See Illustration 196 J. Pearson & Co. 186 MARSHAL TURENNE'S "GLORIOUS CAMPAIGN" IN GERMANY, 1643-1649. TURENNE.— The Superb Series of 100 LETTERS (SIGNED) OF Marshal Turenne, 36 of which are entirely Holograph. Written during his Victorious Campaign in Germany, and rela- tive to the same. There are also some 250 letters (many holo- graph) of Erlach gouverneur de Brisach, of Tracy, of Oysonville, of la Claviere, of de Chastenoy, of Brienne, of de la Touche, du Hallier, and de Longueville, etc., etc. Several of these letters are addressed to the famous Marshal. 3 vols, folio. In the original vellum binding, enclosed in red morocco cases. 1 643- 1 649 This UNIQUE and entirely unpublished collection of letters of the great Turenne was described by its former owner in the following words : "Le premier recueil (fevrier 1643 — fevrier 1649) contient 150 lettres, (/<'«/ 100 lettres de Turenne. Les autres, d'Erlach, de Tracy, du baron d'Oysonville, de Champlastreux, Brachet, Montausier, Wolff Dietrich de Feld, Bienvenuat, g(!neral major Rose, etc. Toutes ces lettres ont trait aux affaires d'AUemagne (et d'Espagne) et sont, pour la plupart, addressees au general major d'Erlach, gouverneur de Brisach en Brisgau. " Sur les TOO lettres de Turenne, 36 sont entierement autograpkes. "Le second recueil (Janvier — avril 1649) contient 210 lettres, a savoir la corre- spondance de MM. d'Erlach, de la Clavifere, Le Duchat, de Beaussan, de Tracy, de Chastenoy, de Brienne, Vte. de Courval, de la Chappelle, baron de Scey, de la Ferte, La Flotos, Duglas, de Lamet, de La Touche, Kormann, de la Renaudiere, de Saint-Colombe Smittberg, Granier de Saint-Jean, Philippe Bez, Taupatel, Rochlinger, etc. . . . Et plusieurs copies de lettres de Mazarin et du Roi (Louis XIV). " Ces lettres sont, toutes, relatives aux agissements de Turenne, au ddbut de la Fronde; elles nous exposent — dans leur ensemble, et par leur signification — la part que prit Turenne k I'insurrection du Parlement, pendant ce trimestre 1649. "Le TROisifewE recueil (1642-1647) contient 80 lettres de M. du Hallier et du due de Longueville, la plupart relatives aux negociations de Munster. La mauvaise volont^ des Espagnols pendant les negociations ressort manifestement de la coirespondance diplomatique du due de Longueville. " Ce tres precieux recueil de documents in£dits provient de la bibliotheque d'Erlach, a Spietz." The letters of Turenne date from the same year in which he received his title of Marshal — 1643. " Le due de Bouillon, toujours m&ontent, venait de quitter la France, et le pape ^nl •f^^* t^l .lae ct mc(iutccul}X' cccouncc; MKutc? ciu^umi^aunantr.cy Ar. in.ipucjrcbar cviun ai>inourin nnnrmun liuun cr lupi^oqe mm -^funi cc cr {1hi« ictclhbilc 1iiti« . ^oiTJime oypimngnlliuri Alnnam r IV cmtc fTninUanfTunmribinioiicc 1 p ucttiik) uur >muatic cr luilni i w ■ bniigiic tdpcur, ct ubw pic 1114 ( ginim,nnc»:a faambypicaitus-^ ->, c1VA7inun ctuutc multie cjiuar '^ ivtcbnnr ulnmooptcni ctofcn :^ <^ Digiiu; mdicuiu'.rup q? ainilo 1 1 OS cjucq? citixiiJiPin mtcUccr nc qii«> cc C4 li:jcdiratc qua; no iXMr aixlmuu^ Ainimr:ct.|pui' uu ciiUgce 1iinoucti64iniaplaiu ^^ cbmmclic UiDibum inlcccUiuny^ iv-pofito? ctpfciiti.b) vifligiintD? . " DiUgcaffunc !iacdib>ilUu6 crir ) iw ipc icrdiDir. £1iud Ixc loco m lT0udhu»3r*.uircpia^hui:*rciT,i tx)? ppli lum lui ciuui ccpriru^ I v mo lutu i^ucnb) otiuuo caiitiuuf icitrima uu:i6niuUautnn^ moitx. y^\]\'2' oclie i fp"n fhypmc^ bandit' ^ laxicnC' fcmnU Umi Uigillanpa i llbiTrfunipfii ~ ^ % ^^']Tifuinc6^ici qiub3ixcauri6 abfolu I^Tcplicir libcifcpninuc' u.ilcni. InniMrorfnnits. ut cqmoic Auuno anapitcv luoi ^aomm niotuetoUaaitu: \vcoxd: nuu muiDuUbountc^ qiub^rc caufio Aurabfoluufunr autr>am j(D7\itiie outme mtfi: pnau . ctcibzoiieainunc atiiUoitgcoa pium^ *iDyplmpuocato uir>iao 4brolnni<5 cft.quoniin Alfiun Atnxi f:\6nccienionuit.almmcaufAtlc \:it.quinun4nuuinuugim$amo:c kncic magis q^mpic punimmcr ilhrnabar-ltaq: fbmpunmcc Ulx /l^nitaf^ieixvnsa nhofaugiuncoi^ y nil cmcjc giic bannic pjniit . xac C ] fc pudianc nine cultoan .p.r.|vih:a ^ vlu^uifh?plaaTtiuuit>iccp:dhot. (jN7in a.p.Ulvncnibimoplcbie «.*ix':mu6 cpilbapiolbiiJ uclvnicnf inacpanniiuvliirinntouumagilii ni an inn m^xMlta fin: pn^i m bifpa m.i mtvunllcr acnoni q^nibunmc . iP.can? uinmcrcuccnm^ oionc uia quaiu nt ouf(inc n-miir ibfcu Ivtcr a'U'\prc inii md>il n-cuCin'' 187 5, Pall Mall Place 197 I'avait mis a la tete de ses troupes; Mazarin craignant de laisser Turenne si pres d'un frere irrit^ et entreprenant, lui confia la mission difficile de recueiller en Allemagne les debris des bondes weimariennes (3 ddc). II portait le litre de mar^chal de France depuis la prise de Prino (24 sept.) litre qui lui avail ete' confere le 16 mai 1643." /500 187 VALERIUS MAXIMUS. Leaf i, Valerii Maximi factorum dict- orum que memorabilium adTiberium Cesarem liber primus. Leaf 122, Explicit liber nonus Valerii Maximi Deo gratias Amen. Illumin- ated Manuscript on vellum. Gothic letter. 122 leaves, double cohimns, 35 lines to a cobunn. Enriched with 9 paintings by a Florentine ARTIST OF THE ScHOOL OF GiOTTO, besides a great number of orna- mented and illumijiated initials, and handsome wreatJiy Giottoesque borders. Folio. Morocco. Florence, 14 18 A most superb manuscript, written and ilhcminated at Florence for Bartolommeo PoPOLESCHi, a member of that great Florentine Family. The Popoleschi arms are emblazoned at the foot of the first leaf. The paintings — nine in number — are most perfect examples of the best period of the School of Giotto, and the gilding is exceedingly rich for paintings of this size and period. The first page of the text is ornamented with an elaborate border, enclosing a charm- ing picture of Valerius Maximus dressed as an Italian lawyer, writing his book, with three men below his desk waiting for his recital. The author wears a rich robe decorated with ermine. On the bottom margin is an escutcheon argent, bearing a cross gules, with an inescutcheon, quarterly, i and 4, gules, 2 and 3 fessy or argent and sable (the Popoleschi arms). The second painting also represents Valerius Maximus, but now dressed in a green habit covered with a brown cloak, consulting an Augury in the form of two while birds. Folio 29 is enriched with a picture of a young Florentine noble, with extraordinary golden hair and wearing a rich scarlet robe. On folio 44 is a most curious painting showing Valerius Maximus ordering the destruction of his house on the Capitol. The next painting is on leaf 58 and represents the release of four prisoners by order of the senate. The principal figure wears a red cloak and bears a wand of office. A truly remarkable representation of the " Suicide of Lucrelia " is painted on leaf 72. Her death is stated by historians to have been effected "with a dagger concealed beneath her robes." The Florentine artist here depicts Lucrelia in a splendid costume self-impaled on an enormous two-handed sword. The seventh painting may be entitled the "Felicity" of Metellus. Fortune, among 198 J. Pearson 8c Co. other gifts, graced him with the Honour of the Consulship— the Dignity of Im- perator, etc. An exquisite little picture occurs on page 96. It illustrates Livy's account of the acquittal of Horatius after the sudden murder of his sister for lamenting the death of her lover; the costumes in this painting are most curious — so, too, is the furniture of the Roman Court of Justice. One of the most extraordinary paintings that has ever come to our notice occurs on page 100. We were at first inclined to think it illustrated the infamous and obscene bath of Tiberius. An eminent classical scholar suggests that "it is rather the pensile or hanging bath of C. Sergius Grata as mentioned at the beginning of this book by Valerius Maximus. The bathers — at least two of them — are bearded. This rather upsets the idea of its being the bath of Tiberius." As regards the calligraphy of this volume, it is impossible to speak too highly — for it is as near perfection as human handiwork can ever hope to reach, being exceedingly regular, clear and beautiful. It is of the style called Bolognese, used all over Italy in the latter part of the fourteenth and the greater part of the fifteenth centuries, for important books. The paintings recall more especially the Decretals of Gregory IX and Gratian, the Commentaries on the Clementines, and outside of these, the Consolation of Boethius and the Avignon Bible. This Manuscript may have been engrossed in Florence, Siena, Bologna, Rome, or Avignon, but its most likely place is Florence, and then and there enriched with paintings by an artist of the School of Giotto as commissioned by the patron whose arms are painted in the lower border of the first folio of the text. There is a vast number of illuminated capitals throughout the book and others in blue and red penwork, another Florentine feature in the style. The subject of this volume seems to have been a very popular one, if we may call that popular which at most was confined to the wealthy and well-born, in the middle and later ages of manuscripts. It is an amusing book, full of the kind of anecdote which fifty or sixty years ago was always used to point a moral for the instruction of youth. The " Factorum Dictorumque Memorabilium libri " of Quintus Valerius Maximus were gathered by the compiler during the reign of Tiberius Caesar, and addressed to that astute cynic in a dedication of the most unparalleled servility. It is marvellous how Tiberius contrived to do the right things so often from the vilest of motives, and so made even Tacitus hesitate as to his true character. No wonder then that a weaker judgement and a more obsequious temperament should incline the writer of these collections to ascribe divinity to one of the most astounding hypocrites the world has ever known. As to the work itself, it is a collection of anecdotes most carefully classified and most judiciously arranged to suit the purpose for which it evidently was intended, that is, as a fund of examples from which an advocate might adorn the pleadings of the law-court, or the orator the speeches of the forum or the senate-house. The original purpose of the book, however, had probably nothing whatever to do with its being so great a favourite in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. In these latter ages the stories themselves were the attraction. And when, enriched like the present volume with a profusion of pictures, 5, Pall Mall Place 199 they came to be pored over by readers accustomed to such books as " The Fall of Princes " or the romances of Girart de Nevers and Lancelot du Lac, no doubt they would rank among the most cherished of "histories." The present manuscript of Valerius Maximus is textually extremely important, for, within the space of two folios there occur at least thirty various readings from the printed text of good editions, some of them of considerable importance, such as " disciplinam " for " discipulam," " Postumius " for " Publius," " Cellia " for " Cloelia," " servando " for " observanto," etc. ^400 See Illustration 188 VERONESE (PAUL). HOLOGRAPH LETTER (SIGNED) " Paulo Caliari " (his true name), i page, folio. Venice, December 29. To his pupil Gaudini. Translation. " Molto Magnifico S. Mio. " I am sorry to hear that you have such serious worries that you are obliged to come here and suffer inconvenience and the expense of lawyers, who are rabid for lawsuits, but I am sure that your good sense would not allow you to enter into litigation without good reason on your side, and that you will know how to make it apparent. As you say that you are about to come and take up your quarters with your illustrious friend S. Polli, I say that it would be well for your comfort, but as your business will necessarily bring you out of Treviso to attend to it, I invite you to come to me, as it will be more convenient for the lawyers and nearer the stairs, and you shall be absolute master of my house, which joyfully awaits you till it shall please you to come and favour me. And here con- fiding thus in him who is your comrade you may do for my benefit whatever may be required; you know that for my part I confide in you and you will do so much for me that I shall never have cause to do otherwise; you know what is for my good and that it is that of your comrade, and I am sure that whatever you can do for me will be well done, and such has ever been my mind since I have known you. I can say no more but that I am content that you will do all that you can for my benefit, and I will applaud it with a good will. Come straight here, to this your own house, at your convenience, and no one will hinder you, but at all hours and at all times you shall be its sole master. Awaiting you, from Venice, the 29th December. " Your servant, " Paulo Caliari." £^0 200 J. Pearson & Co. 189 VINCENT DE BEAUVAIS. LE QUART VOLUME de Vincent miroir hystorial. — Le cinquiesme volume de Vincent miroir hystorial. In one volume. Folio. Bound in a magnificent Mosaic bi^iding for Peter Ernest, Count of Mansfelt, with his arms on the sides together with his motto: " M Force m'est trop " and"' Mans- felt." Paris, 1 53 1 A most magnificently bound volume, from the library of the Count of Mansfelt, the celebrated general of Charles the Fifth ("the Emperor"). A note on the fly-leaf states that this book " apertient a Rene de Chalon et a vion ame Anne de Gros, 1607, 4'"' de Mars. De feu gran pere le prim et conte de Mansfelt Pier Ernest." Rene de Chalon has written his name upon the title-page. Later he gave the volume to the College of the Society of Jesus at Nivelles. The librarian of that college has written upon the title-page, " Collegij Soctis Jesu Nivellis. Dono Dnae de Chalon. Ora pro Ilia. 1627." This was one of the finest bindings in the Didot collection, and it is figured in the illustrated catalogue of that extraordinary collection. One of the most remarkable and most gorgeous bindings thai has ever occurred for sale. See Illustration ^■300 190 VOULTE (JEAN). Inscriptionum libri II; Xeniorum libellus Hendecasyliaborum libri IV, 2 vols, in i. i2mo. Original gilt calf. Paris. Simon de Colincs, 1538 Sir Thomas Hoby's copy. The present copy is in the original brown calf binding with gilt fleurons at the corners, and a Renaissance design in gold in the centre; in the upper part of either side are the initials T. H. On the fly-leaf is the inscription " 1553 mense Febr. Thomas Hobeus Anglus. Parisiis," showing that it formerly belonged to the celebrated Sir Thomas Hoby. He was born in 1530, and was the second son of William Hoby, of Leominster. He matriculated at St. John's College, Cambridge, in 1545, and, after going through his course, spent some years in travelling in foreign countries, especi- ally Italy and France, when no doubt he bought this book. He was knighted in 1566, and went as ambassador to France, but died at Paris in July of the same year. He was ■^:) .v^J' "■'( f ] 1 } ! 1 J f 1 "?^\ H ' IF^ IIJO 5, Pall Mall Place 201 greatly esteemed by his contemporaries for his literary knowledge and elegance of style, his most important publication being a translation of the " Cortegiano of Baldassare Castiglione," first issued in 1561, and frequently reprinted. See Illustration 191 WALPOLE (ROBERT). Memoirs of the Life and administration of Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Oxford, with original Correspond- ence and Authentic Papers, never before pubHshed, by William Coxe, M.A., F.R.S., F.A.S. Portraits of Walpole by Bovi, large paper, 5 vols, morocco, g.e. Queen Charlotte's (Consort of George IV) copy\ with her crowned cypher impressed on the sides of each of the volumes. 1 798 Queen Chartlotte's unique large paper copy. It was afterwards in the pos- session of the Princess Sophia (daughter of Queen Charlotte) and contains her bookplate in each of the volumes. £2% 192 WARTON (THOMAS). THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH POETRY from the close of the Eleventh to the Commencement of the Eighteenth Century. To which are prefixed Two Dissertations: I. On the Origin of Romantic Fiction in Europe. II. On the Intro- duction of Learning into England. 4 vols. 4to. Original calf . 1775 This is Edmund Malone's Important Copy. It contains no less than 139 MOST interesting CORRECTIONS AND ANNOTATIONS ENTIRELY IN MaLONE'S HAND- WRITING. Among these emendations and annotations a number are of great Shakespearean interest. A very long annotation by Malone in vol. iii, p. 435, is signed and dated. A long autograph letter (signed) of the Author, Dr. Thos. Warton, to Edmund Malone, mentioning Shakespeare's " Venus and Adonis," and relative to Shakespeare's Earl of Southampton, etc., is inserted. Malone has also pasted an autograph signature of the author on the fly-leaf and written with his own hand the date of his death "ob. May 21, 1790." Bound up at the end are Malone's copies of: I. Specimen of a History of Oxfordshire 1783. D D 202 J. Pearson & Co. 2. Ritson (Joseph). Observations on (Warton's) Three First Volumes of the History of English Poetry. 3. An original impression of Gillray's famous caricature of Ritson. Ritson bitterly attacked both Warton's and Malone's views of Shakespeare. 193 WASHINGTON AND HIS WIFE'S PROPERTY WASHINGTON (GEORGE). HOLOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, 3 pages, large folio (121 lines containing 1,129 words), Mount Vernon, December 26, 1774. To James Mercer. (Member of the Virginia Committee of Safety to whom were entrusted the unlimited powers of government.) An extremely long and interesting letter illustrating the care with which Washington superintended domestic affairs. It is relative to the discharge of John Mercer's debt to John Park Custis, whose widow Washington married. Informs him that he (Mercer) gave " £2^) for the Negro Kate, and that the whole of your purchase in Frederick amounted to ^£2385 14^. 2d." " I have heard nothing yet from Colonel Peyton respecting those lands which you appear charged with at the Loudoun sale — there is no doubt I presume of Combe or others taking them of your hands — if there be, the sums bid for them, will require to be added to your account. "He would have liked 1,224 acres warranted to him instead of your granting 1,200 acres more or less, for, as it was upon the presumption that the Tracts of Gray and Adams contained this quantity . . . that I agreed to give the price I did; so, if it falls short ... I shall not much like, or indeed think myself bound by it, and am inclined to think (as Mr. Carlyle does) that Hough must have made some mistake," etc. He has never been a day well since his return from Frederick nor a day without company. Has written a long letter to Mercer's brother. Refers to a quantity of wheat threshed at Marlborough and to the " HoUidays " and Christmas. " I have heard no person speak of the Sale of Cattle in Frederick but what thought it a great one — I have mentioned the average price to no one since, but what thinks I might buy for much less, & although I do not dispute, as I have never seen the goodness of your Cattle at Marlborough, yet give me leave my friend, to tell you that you are too sanguine in your expectations in matters of this sort. — It is not my intention to buy at high prices as I am in no immediate want — my design as I raise a great deal of provender, was to stock my plantations more plentifully than they are, if I could purchase upon such terms as I liked," etc. ■It* K ^. 'V ! \H<;- } I yiM4^^^^ ^ ^ ^' ^ ^ ■ ■II 111! 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