5 BLAKE (William). POETICAL SKETCHES. By w. B. LONDON: Printed in the Year MDCCLXXXIII. 8vo., the leaf of "Advertisement" in facsimile, otherwise perfect; green levant morocco, inside dentelles, gilt edges, by Zaehnsdorf £ 8. d. 1783 16 0 0 FIRST EDITION. This collection of juvenile poems, all written before the age of twenty, among much crude work, contains some of the poet's finest efforts. "The poetical essays of the years of youth and apprenticeship are preserved in the thin octavo, Poetical Sketches by W.B., printed by help of friends in 1783, and now so rare, that after some years' vain attempt, I am forced to abandon the idea of myself owning the book. I have had to use a copy borrowed from one of Blake's surviving friends. In such hands alone, linger, I fancy, the dozen copies or extant."-Gilchrist. so still The last two perfect copies sold fetched £18 and £40 in 1890 and 1896 respectively. THE GRAVE, a Poem. [By Blair]. Impl. 4to., with 12 etchings executed by L. Schiavonetti from the originals by Blake; half calf 1808 4 4 0 7 BOASE (F.). Modern English Biography containing many Thousand Concise Memoirs of Persons who have died since the Year 1850. 3 vols., impl. 8vo., cloth (pub. £6. 6s net) Only 250 copies were printed. Truro, 1892-1901 1901 By one of 2 2 0 0 10 0 3 BOULTON (W. B.). The Amusements of Old London. Being a Survey of the Sports and Pastimes, Tea Gardens and Parks, Playhouses and other Diversions of the People of London from the 17th to the beginning of the 19th Century. 2 vols., 8vo., with 12 hand-coloured plates from contemporary sources; cloth gilt, gilt tops [BOWLES (Rev. William Lisle)]. John in Patmos a Poem. the old living poets of Great Britain. FIRST EDITION. 8vo., half calf 1832 Presentation copy to the Re7. Peter Hall with autograph inscription. ) BRITISH POETS. The ALDINE EDITION of the BRITISH POETS. With original Memoirs and Notes by ALEXANDER DYCE, J. MITFORD, SIR N. H. NICOLAS. 53 vols., 12mo., with portraits; uniformly lound in calf extra, contents lettered; marbled edges; A FINE SET W. Pickering, 1830-53 33 10 0 Another set. 53 vols., 12mo., a fine clean set in the original cloth as issued 06 0 ib., 1830-53 30 0 0 each. MILTON, РОРЕ, SWIFT, COWPER, 8 BROWN (Thomas). WORKS, Serious and Comical, in Prose and Verse, 0 10 0 2 10 0 Hen. Brome at the Signe of the Gun in Ivy-lane. 1658. the same. 1658 15 0 0 COLLATION: A-O in eights (including the two plates). Both the above copies have the last three leaves, which are often missing: The Stationer to the Reader," "Books printed for Hen. Broome," and a leaf on which is printed sideways in large letters, along its whole length," Dr. Brown's Garden of Cyrus." BROWNING (R.). SORDELLO. 12mo., FIRST EDITION; polished blue morocco, gilt top 1840 1 16 0 187 BUNYAN (John). THE Holy War, | MADE BY | SHADDAI UPON DIABOLUS, For the Regaining of the | Metropolis of the World. | OR, THE Loiing and Taking Again | OF THE Town of Manfoul. | By JOHN BUNYAN, the Author of the Pilgrims Progrefs. | I have used Similitudes, Hof. 12. 10. | LONDON, Printed for Dorman Newman at the Kings Arms in the Poultry; and Benjamin Aljop at the Angel and Bible in the Poultry, 1682. | Sm. 8vo., with a portrait of Bunyan by R. White and a folding plate of the Town of Mansoul; this plate, which had been torn across, skilfully repaired; a fine copy in the original sheep binding 1682 125 0 FIRST EDITION; perfect copies with the portrait and folding plate are of excessive rarity. The present is a fine and exceptionally large copy (6 × 37 inches). It is quite complete, having the rare last leaf containing Bunyan's " Advertisement to the Reader" in verse, commencing Some say the Pilgrims Progress is not mine." "If there had been no Pilgrim's Progress, the Holy War would have been the first of religious allegories."-Macaulay. COLLATION A, 4 leaves; B-Cc in eights; portrait of "John Bunnyon" by R. White; folding plate of "The Towne of Mansoul." The three preliminary leaves are occupied by an address by Bunyan in verse, "To the Reader." 188 BURNET (Bishop). History of His Own Time; with the suppressed Passages of the first volume, and Notes by the Earls of Dartmouth and Hardwicke, and Speaker Onslow . . . to which are added the cursory Remarks of Swift. 6 vols., 8vo., EEST EDITION, with portrait; half calf Oxford, 1823 189 190 neat 116 the same. A new Edition based on that of M. J. Routh. Edited by Osmund Airy. 2 vols., 8vo., cloth ib., 1897-1900 0 17 Presentation copy from the editor with inscription on the half title. Supplement . . . derived from his original Memoirs, his Autobiography, his Letters to Admiral Herbert, and his private Meditations, all hitherto unpublished. Edited by H. C. Foxcroft. 8vo., cloth ib., 1902 191 BURTON (R.). The Anatomy of Melancholy. What it is, with all the kinds, causes, symptomes, Prognostickes, and severall cures of it... Philosophically, Medicinally, Historically opened and cut up By Democritus Junior . . . The Sixth Edition, corrected and augmented by the Author... Oxford Printed for Henry Cripps . 1651. Folio, with engraved title; calf gilt Manuscript corrections on the first few pages. the same. 2 vols., 8vo., boards 0 16 1651 1 1 1826 0 12 192 Sm. 4to., calf extra, gilt edges; RARE Oxford, 1599 15 15 FIRST EDITION published in England. Thomas James, Bodley's first librarian, was the editor. He dedicated the book, in a well-written Latin epistle, to his patron, the founder of the famous library. 194 BUTLER (Charles). The Feminin' Monarchi', or the Histori of Bee's 1634 4 4 5 BYRON (Lord). Works. 5 vols., 12mo., half calf neat 6 [ 1821 -] Don Juan. 2 vols., 8vo., FIRST EDITIONS of cantos III-XVI; half calf 1822-23 7 CARLYLE. FROUDE (J. A.). THOMAS CARLYLE: A History of the first 40 Years of his Life, 1795-1835. 2 vols., 1882-History of his Life in London, 1834-81. 2 vols., 1884;-together 4 vols., 8vo., with portrait; cloth 1882-4 8 CAXTON. THE RECUYELL OF THE HISTORYES OF TROYE. Written in French by Raoul Lefevre. Translated and printed by William Caxton (about A.D. 1474). The First English Printed Book, now faithfully reproduced with a Critical Introduction, Index and Glossary and eight Pages in Photographic Facsimile by H. OSKAR SOMMER. 2 vols., sm. 4to., boards 1894 9 CECIL (Hon. Mrs. Evelyn). Children's Gardens. Cr. 8vo., with woodcuts, and numerous photographic illustrations; cloth, gilt top 1902 This charming little book, the title of which conveys by no means a full idea of its real importance, is by the author of that celebrated work “A History of Gardening in England." 00 CHAPMAN'S HOMER. (Engraved title by W. Hole:) THE WHOLE WORKS OF HOMER; PRINCE OF POETTS In his Iliads, and Odyfses. Tranflated according to the Greeke, By Geo: Chapman. At London printed for Nathaniell Butter. . . 2 parts in 1 vol., with a printed title to the Odyssey, but without the engraved title (1616)--[the CROWNE of all HOMERS WORCKES Batrachomyomachia or the Battaile of Frogs and Mife, His Hymn's-and-Epigrams Tranflated according to y Originall By George Chapman. London, Printed by John Bill. . ] FIRST EDITION, the engraved title wanting (About 1624) 2 vols. or 3 parts in 1 vol., sm. folio, a very fine and large copy, sound, crisp, and clean, in a well-preserved old calf binding 8. d. 1 16 0 1 5 0 220 1 7 0 060 [1616-24] 31 10 0 RARE. This is the first edition with the portrait of Chapman (dated 1616) on the reverse of the title, and containing for the first time the fine plate to the memory of Prince Henry. COLLATION: Engraved general title by W. Hole, with portrait of Chapman on the reverse; engraved plate to the memory of Prince Henry and an anagram on his name; 12 preliminary leaves of which the last 2 are blank; The Iliad, 175 leaves of text and a blank leaf; --The Odyssey, 196 leaves (including the first and last blanks and the blank leaf in sig. R);-Batrachomyomachia, 98 leaves (the title wanting). The four preliminary leaves are in duplicate in this copy. 1 CHAPMAN (Geo.), BEN JONSON, and JOHN MARSTON. EASTWARD HOE. As It was playd in the Black-friers. By The Children of her Maiefties Reuels. Made by GEO. CHAPMAN. BEN: IONSON. IOH: MARSTON. AT LONDON Printed for William Aspley. 1605. Sm. 4to., the title and several headlines cut into; half calf 1605 "Eastward Hoe (printed 1605) may be unhesitatingly described as one of the liveliest and healthiest, as it is one of the best-constructed comedies of its age. Unlike the plays of Westward Hoe and Northward Hoe, with which in its Prologue any comparison is courteously deprecated, Eastward Hoe is something better than a coarse dramatic satire on the corrupting influences of Court fashions and vices upon City life. In a lucidly constructed plot it exhibits the opposite results of a modest pursuit of the path of duty, and of a wanton hankering after a sham gentility... The humour of the successive scenes in this play is extremely fresh and natural, and the characters are full of life and spirit."-A. W. Ward. 18 0 0 202 CHAUCER. 203 The workes of Geffrey Chaucer, newlie printed, with diuers addicions, whiche | were neuer in print before: with the siege and | destruccion of | the wor- | thy | Citee of Thebes, compiled | by Ihon Lidgate, | Monke of | Berie. | As in the table more | plainly doeth | appere, 1561. (The colophon is identical with that in the succeeding issue-see below) Sm. folio, black letter, printed in double columns, the title within a woodcut border; with woodcuts, and woodcut initials, besides 2 large genealogical tables; a few wormholes at the end, otherwise an exceptionally fine, sound, and clean copy; old calf 1561 48 00 First issue of the fourth collected edition, commonly called Stow's edition. The text is identical in both issues, but the preliminary leaves, containing the Prologues, etc., differ. The title to this issue is enclosed within a woodcut border, showing King Edward the Sixth in council, printed from the same block as was used by Grafton for the title of the issues printed by him of the first Book of Common Prayer (1549); and in the Prologues are twenty-six woodcuts printed from the same blocks (the borders of some of which were by this time much damaged and wormed) as were employed by Pynson for his edition of The Canterbury Tales. They were omitted in the succeeding issue. The edition is generally asserted to have been edited by John Stow, the chronicler, but he seems to have only added previously imprinted writings of the poet. At the end of the contents of Chaucer's works as they appear in the 1542 edition, fourteen leaves of Ballades, Court of Love, etc., are added in this edition of 1561. Lydgate's poem makes a further Supplement of twenty-three leaves. The other issue of the same edition. The woorkes of Geffrey Chaucer, newly printed, with diuers ad | dicions, whiche were never in printe before: èèlith the siege and deftruccion of the worthy citee of Thebes, compiled | by Ibon Lidgate, Monke of Berie. | As in the table more plainly | dooeth appere. (Here a woodcut of Chaucer's arms occupying about two-thirds of the page, and having the date 1560 in small figures under the helmet and the following two lines of verse in a compartment in the lower portion :) Vertue florifheth in Chaucer ftill, Though death of hym, háth wrought his will. | (Colophon :). Imprinted at Lon- | don, by Ibon Kyngston for Jhon | light, dwellyng in Poules | Churchyarde. Anno. 1561. | Folio, black letter, printed in double columns; with woodcut borders to the separate titles, initial letters, etc.; a fine and thoroughly sound copy in contemporary calf 1561 40 0 CHAUCER. THE WORKES OF OVR Ancient and learned English Poet, Folio, black letter, printed in double columns; the title within an elaborate woodcut border; with a copperplate portrait of Chaucer; a fine and perfectly sound copy in old calf 1602 Sixth Edition, and the second edited by Thomas Speght. The portrait of Chaucer, which is very often missing from copies, was the first engraved representation of the poet. It is surrounded by a genealogical chart and arms, headed "The Progenie of Geffrey Chaucer." "Francis Thynne [son of the editor of the Workes' of 1532] gave his aid to THE COMPLETE WORKS OF GEOFFREY CHAUCER. Edited from I. Introduction, Glossary, etc. GOOD WOMEN, ASTROLABE, etc. CONTENTS BOETHIUS, TROILUS. VII. V. HOUSE OF FAME, LEGEnd of Chaucerian and other pieces Canterbury Tales. To which are added, an Essay upon his Language and Versification; an Introductory Discourse; Notes and a Glossary, by T. Tyrwhitt. 5 vols., post 8vo., with a portrait; half blue morocco, by Morrell Pickering, 1822 7 [CHARLES 1.]. HIS MAIESTIES LAST DECLARATION To All his loving Subjects, especially the Inhabitants of the Citie of LONDON: Shewing his Royall intentions concerning the finall conclusion of these wars, and an agreement between Himselfe and his High Court of Parliament . . . 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HPO-HAIAEIA, OR THE INSTITUTION OF A YOUNG NOBLE MAN, BY Sm. 4to., FIRST EDITION; a remarkably clean copy in the original limp vellum; VERY RARE; with the bookplate of Julian Marshall Oxford, 1607 2 COLERIDGE. THE LITERARY REMAINS OF SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE. Collected and edited by HENRY N. COLERIDGE. 4 vols., 8vo., calf gilt Pickering, 1836-39 Portions of these four volumes were (with alterations) published later under various titles: "Notes on English Divines," "Lectures on Shakespeare," Essays on his Own Time," and "Notes Theological, Political"; but a great deal has never been reprinted. 99.66 0 10 0 4 15 0 4 4 0 28 Q |