TERCIVM. VOLVMEN. ... IMPRESSVM. PER. IOHANNEM. MENTELLIN . | MEN 4 vols in 2, large folio, beautifully printed in Roman lower-case type, except the headings which are in semi-Gothic capitals; 168, 205, 197 (of 201) and 213 printed leaves, double columns, 62 lines to the column; without signatures, catchwords, and foliation; a fine clean copy in modern stamped calf [Strassburg] J. Mentelin, 1473 28 Unmentioned by Hain; Proctor, 212. It was the first book printed by Mentelin to which he appended his name and a date; and is a remarkably fine typographical achievement. The only copies sold during the last thirty years, besides this one, was William Morris's and another which I sold last year. 161 VINCENTIUS BELLOVACENSIS. SPECULUM NATURALE. (Fol. la blank. Fol. 2a, col. 1 :) Incipit fpeculum naturale Vincentij be luacenfis fratris ordinis predicatoru. Et primo prologui de causa fufcepti operis et eius materia. . . | ... (Fol. 20 a blank, cut away. Fol. 320b, col. 2, line 20:) eo quo venerant agmine redeunt. (Vol. II, fol. 1 blank. Fol. 2a, col. 1 :) Cōtinētia deciminoni libri... (Fol. 9a, col. 1 :) De opere fexte diei. Et primo de animali | bus. Guillermus de conchis. C. I. | . . . (Fol. 281a, col. 2, line 55:) perpatefcunt Amen. (Foll. 2816 and 282 blank) 2 vols., large folio, Gothic letter, 320 and 282 leaves, double columns, 68-69 lines to the column; without signatures, catchwords and foliation; with painted and illuminated initials, one or two headlines in Vol. I slightly cut into; a good sound copy in a sixteenth century binding of oaken boards covered with stamped pigskin 0 [Nuremberg, A. Koburger, c. 1486] 18 18 Not in Hain; Copinger, 6257; Proctor, 2056. On the sides of the binding is impressed the armorial stamp of the monastery of Diessen in Bavaria. ENGLISH HISTORY AND LITERATURE 162 ADDISON (Jos.) THE WORKS (edited by Thos. Tickell). 4 vols. Roy. 4to., with portrait after Kneller by Miller, and plates after Hayman by Grignion, mottled calf gilt Birmingham, printed by John Baskerville, for J. and R. Tonson, 1761 With a complete Index. 163 Works... collected by Mr. Tickell. 6 vols., Svo., with portrait; sprinkled calf, fully gilt backs, a very nice 4 4 3 3 164 ALMANACKS FOR THE YEAR 1715, bound up in one volume (contents as below), 8vo., old English morocco, with the monogram of George I on buck and sides, gilt edges 1715 2.10 Ephemeris or a Diary, by Job. Gadburg. Apollo Anglicanus, by Richard Saunder. Poor Robin, written by Poor Robin, Knight of the Burnt Island. 165 ART OF COMPLAISANCE or the Means to oblige in Conversation. (The dedicatory Letter is signed S. C.) 12mo., calf 1673 0 18 66 BACON (Sir Francis). THE | ESSAYES | OR | COVNSELS, CIVILL AND MORALL, OF FRANCIS LO. VERULAM, | VISCOVNT St. ALBAN. | Newly en- 1625 24 0 0 FIRST COMPLETE EDITION and the last published during the author's lifetime. In his dedication Bacon says "I doe now publish my Essayes; which, of all my other workes, have beene most Currant: For that, as it seemes, they come home, to Mens Businesse, and Bosomes. I haue enlarged them, both in Number and Weight; So that they are indeed a New Worke." 67 BACON. The Two Books of Francis, Lord Verulam. Of the Proficience 0 18 0 58 BALLADS. THE ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH POPULAR BALLADS. Edited by FRANCIS JAMES CHILD. 5 vols., 4to., beautifully printed at the Riverside Press, with portrait; Roxburghe binding, gilt tops, uncut, Boston and New York [1882-98] 10 10 0 It took seventeen years to complete this wonderful and unrivalled compilation. The collection embraces every accessible independent version of every ballad, with the important variations of copies which appear to be of the same proximate derivation. Each ballad has a proper preface, and in the case of those ballads which the English have in common with other nations, an account is given of related traditions. At the end are a glossary, copious indexes, and a bibliography. 69 BASTARD (Thomas). CHRESTOLEROS. | Seuen bookes of | Epigrames written by TB. | Hunc nouere modum noftri fervare libelli, | Parcere perfonis dicere de vitiis. | (Here a device) | Imprinted at London by Richard | Bradocke for I. B. and are to be fold at her Shop in Paules Churchyarde at the figne of the Bible. 1598. | 16mo., old calf, with the bookplate of James Bindley, 1598 93 00 EXCESSIVELY RARE. As far as I can ascertain this is the only copy which has been offered for sale for very many years. Thomas Bastard, satirist and divine, was born in 1566, was elected Fellow of New College, Oxford, in 1588, but was expelled in 1591, owing to his having been thought the author of a libel on certain persons of note in Oxford. He then became chaplain to Thomas, Earl of Suffolk, and afterwards held two livings in Dorsetshire. His last days were sad, for, becoming weak-minded, he ran into debt, and was put in prison, where he died in 1618. "He was a person endowed with many rare gifts, was an excellent Grecian, Latinist, and poet, and, in his elder years, a quaint preacher. His discourses were always pleasant and facete, which made his company desired by all ingenious men. He was a most excellent epigrammatist, and being always ready to versify upon any subject, did let nothing material escape his fancy, as his compositions, running through several hands in MS., show."-Anthony à Wood. COLLATION A, 3 leaves; B-N, in eights. 170 BEAUMONT (Sir John). Bosworth Field, with a Taste of the Variety of other Poems, left by Sir John Beaumont, Baronet, deceased, set forth by his sonne, Sir John Beaumont. 12mo., calf 1629 Contains commendatory poems by BEN JONSON, Thos. Nevil, Michael Drayton, and by his brother Francis Beaumont, the Dramatist, etc. Hazlitt, Handbook p. 34, says, that in this vol. the leaf containing pp. 181-2 is nearly always missing (having been cancelled by the Author). It contained 2 poems : On the death of the Lord Marquess Hamilton.-On a Funeral. 4 0 0 171 BEAUMONT (Francis) and John FLETCHER. THE COMEDIES AND TRAGEDIES written by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Gentlemen, never printed before, and now published by the Authours Originall Copies. London, printed for Humphrey Moseley at the Princess Armes in St. Paul's Church Yard, 1647. Folio, with the portrait of Fletcher, surrounded by emblematic designs and laurels, engraved by Wm. Marshall, and with verses at foot by Sir John Birkenhead; the bottom of the border with the signature of the verses cut off, a few margins slightly imperfect; otherwise a sound and clean copy in contemporaneous calf. First Edition 172 1647 24 0 This first collected Edition of the works of these celebrated authors is dedicated THE Wild-Goofe Chafe. A COMEDIE. As it hath been Drammatifts, and JOHN FLETCHER, Gent. Retriv'd for the publick delight of all the Ingenious; And Private Benefit Of JOHN LOWIN, and JOSEPH TAYLOR, Servants to His late By a Perfon of Honour. LONDON. Printed for Humpherey Mofeley ... 1652. Sm. folio, a fine copy in red levant morocco, gilt edges, by Rivière; RARE 1652 18 18 FIRST EDITION. This brilliant comedy was first represented on the stage in 1632, but remained unprinted until 1652. In the Bookseller's Preface to the first collected edition of Beaumont and Fletcher's Works (1647) Moseley makes the following quaint apology for its non-inclusion: "One only play I must except (for I meane to deale openly); 'tis a Comedy called the Wild-Goose Chase, which hath beene long lost, and I feare irrecoverable; for a Person of Quality borrowed it from the Actors many years since, and (by the negligence of a servant) it was never returned." Lowin and Taylor were two Shakespearean actors at the Blackfriars theatre, for whose benefit, while the performances were suspended, the play was published. 173 BECK (Cave). The Universal Character, by which all the Nations in the 174 [BECKFORD (WILLIAM)]. VATHEK. (An Arabian Tale). Post 8vo., 175 Italy; with Sketches of Spain and Portugal. By the author of "Vathek." 2 vols., 8vo., half calf gilt 1 16 0 12 1834 0 7 176 BEDA (Venerabilis) Historiae ecclesiasticae gentis Anglorum libri quinque, una cum reliquis ejus operibus historicis, ed. Jo. Smith. Folio, with map and 2 plates; old calf Cantabrigiae, 1722 177 BELL (JOHN). THE BRITISH THEATRE. [A Selection of 100 of the most famous English Plays.] 20 vols., sm. 8vo., with vignettes and 100 fine character portraits after Smirke, Barry, Burney, De Wilde, Graham, and others, by Bartolozzi, Grignion, Heath, etc.; old calf 1776-78 This is a good working copy containing all the plays and plates, but lacking 2 engraved titles and 4 printed ones. 178 BRACTON (Henr. de) De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae libri quinque. Sm. folio, with the autograph signature of "Tho: Hutchinson' on title-page; russia gilt; FINE COPY Londini, apud Richardum Tottellum, 1569 1 10 2 2 4 4 179 BOCCACCIO. Amorous Fiammeta. | Wherein is fette downe a catologue Sm. 4to., black letter, some headlines cut into and date erased from title-page; purple morocco, gilt edges £ s. d. 1587 45 0.0 This copy EXCESSIVELY RARE, only one or two copies being known. It was translated by Collation :-*, A-Hh, all in fours; Ii and Kk in threes. 180 BREWER (J. S.). Death of Wolsey. Edited by James SCARCE Reign of Henry VIII, from his Accession to the 1884 600 181 BROWNE (Sir Thomas). (Engraved title by Will. Marshall:) Religio Medici. Printed for Andrew Crooke. 1642. 182 18mo., FIRST EDITION; a fine copy in brown morocco extra, gilt edges, by Bedford; VERY RARE 1642 20 0 0 First of the two unauthorized editions issued in 1642 prior to the Author's edition A true and full copy of that which was most imperfectly and 3 works in 1 vol., 12mo., an old portrait of Sir Kenelm Digby The above edition of the Religio Medici was the first issued with the author's sanction. In the preface he complains bitterly of the circumstances which compelled him to issue this "full and intended copy of that Peece which was most imperfectly and surreptitiously published before." 183 BROWNE (Sir Thomas). HYDRIOTAPHIA, | URNE-BVRIALL, | OR, | A Discourse of the Sepulchrall | Urnes lately found in | NORFOLK. | Together with The Garden of CYRUS, OR THE Quincunciall, Lozenge, or Net-work Plantations of the An- | cients, Artificially, Naturally, I Mystically Considered. | With Sundry Observations. | By Thomas Browne D. of Physick. | LONDON, | Printed for Hen. Brome at the Signe of the Gun in Ivy-lane. 1658. | 12mo., with 2 plates; a very fine and EXTRAORDINARILY LARGE COPY (611x4 inches), in the original vellum 1658 15 0 0 COLLATION: A-O in eights (including the two plates). This copy has the three last leaves, which are often missing: "The Stationer to the Reader," "Books printed for Hen. Brome," and a leaf on which is printed sideways in large letters, along its whole length," Dr. Brown's Garden of Cyrus." 184 BULLEN. Carols and Poems from the Fifteenth Century to the Present Time. Edited by A. H. Bullen. Post 8vo., cloth 1886 0 7 6 185 BUNYAN (John). THE Pilgrim's Progrefs FROM THIS WORLD TO That which is to come: Delivered under the Similitude of a DREAM. . . By JOHN BUNYAN, The Ninth Edition with Additions .. LONDON, Printed for Nathaniel Ponder . . . 1683 12mo, with a copperplate frontispiece of Bunyan asleep and dreaming, and 3 woodcuts; a fine, sound copy in olive-green morocco extra, gilt edges, by Rivière; VERY RARE 1683 25 Among the most noteworthy books of the world, this is one which no compiler of "centuries will omit. However tastes may vary, all critics agree to include Bunyan among the immortals.-This is a fiue copy of one of the earliest editions now procurable. COLLATION: Engraved frontispiece, on the back of which is an advertisement of 186 BUNYAN (John). The Pilgrim's Progress from this World to That which 1760 187 BURTON (Capt. [Sir] R. F.) ARABIAN NIGHTS' ENTERTAINMENTS, a Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights' Entertainments, now entitled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night," with Introduction, Explanatory Notes on the Manners and Customs of Moslem Men, and a terminal Essay on the History of "The Nights," by [Sir] RICHARD F. BURTON, 10 vols.; SUPPLEMENTARY NIGHTS, 6 vols. together lo vols., royal 8vo., cloth Σ. 0 0.10 1885-9 32 0 COMPLETE COPIES are now DIFFICULT TO PROCURE, the entire edition having 188 [BUTLER (Samuel)]. Hudibras, in three parts, written in the Time of the 1848-69 The eighth volume was published nineteen years after the seventh and is therefore often wanting in sets. 190 CARLYLE (Thomas) Past and Present. Post 8vo., FIRST EDITION, cloth, uncut, 15s; or, calf gilt, gilt top, uncut, by Tout 1843 191 CHAPMAN (George). CAESAR IND POMPEY: A Roman Tragedy, declaring their Warres. Out of whofe euents is euicted this Propofition. Only 192 a iuft man is a freeman. By GEORGE CHAPMAN. LONDON: Printed by Sm. 4to., piain inner margin of title restored, a few catchwords 0 18 4 0 16 1631 10 10 the same, with a variation of the title-page, which runs as follows: THE WARRES OF POMPEY and CAESAR. Out of whofe cuents is euicted this Propofition: Only a iuft man is a freeman. By G. C. LONDON: Printed by THOMAS HARPER M.DC. XXXI. Sm. 4to., a fine copy, with the blank first leaf; brown morocco extra, gilt edges, by W. Pratt 1631 21 0 FIRST EDITION. It was written some years before it was published. It is the play in which Charles Lamb discovered the ripest fruit of Chapman's genius. |