་ Loggan, and of Horace by Dunstall.-CALF EX- 168. 77. BROOME (William).-Poems on several Occasions. By William Broome, Chaplain to the Right Honourable Charles Lord Cornwallis, &c. &c. Fine portrait by Vertue.-CALF EXTRA.— London, 1727. 78. BARNES (Barnabe).-A Divine Centvrie of Spiri tuall Sonnets. (By Barnabe Barnes.)-London, printed by Iohn Windet, dwelling at Poules Wharf, at the signe of the Crosse Keys, and are there to be sold, 1595. Dedicated "To the Right Reverende Father in God the Right honourable and my very good Lord, Tobie (by the grace of God) Bishop and Counte Palatine of Duresme and Sadberge;" then follows a prose address "To the fauorable and Christian Reader," after which the sonnets, in number one hundred, commence, and are succeeded by a " Hymne to the glorious honovr of the most blessed and indiuisible Trinitie." Between this and the colophon comes "A Table to find out any Sonnet herein Alphabetically." The volume is neatly printed with italic type, and has a border around each page. Ames remarks, that Windet was a good printer and used a pretty device, which he describes, but it is in no respect like the device in this very rare volume. The following is the opening sonnet; Sonnet I. No more lewde laies of Lighter loues I sing, Nor teach my lustfull Muse abus'de to flie, With Sparrowes plumes and for compassion crie, no succour bring. But my Muse fethered with an Angels wing, Diuinely mounts aloft unto the skie. Where her loues subjects with my hopes doe lie: His quenchlesse Torch foreshowes hell's quenchles fire Thy wounds my Cure deare Sauiour I desire To pearce my thoughts thy fierie Cherubinne, F (By kindling my desires) true zeale t'infuse, Thy loue my theame and holy Ghost my Muse. 79. BRICE (Thomas).—A Compendious Register in Metre, conteining the names, and pacient suf fryngs of the membres of Jesus Christ and the tormented; and cruelly burned within England, since the death of our famous Kyng, of immortall memory Edwarde the sixte: to the entrance and beginnyng of the raign, of our soueraigne & derest Lady Elizabeth of Englande, Fraunce, and Irelande quene, &c. (by Thomas Brice).-Black Letter.-Imprynted at London by Jhon Kyngston, Dedicated "To the righte honourable Lorde Par, Marques of Northampton: Thomas Brice, your lordshippes dayly Oratour, wisheth continuall encrease of grace, concorde, & consolation in hym that is, was, and is to come, euen the first and the laste." Then comes a prose address to the reader, and “ The maner how to vnderstande the letters and fygures."-Warton, who had never seen this book, says he knows not how far Fox may have profited by it, but thinks he does not mention it. 80. BUTLER (Samuel).-Hudibras, in three parts, written in the Time of the Late Wars: Corrected and Amended. With Large Annotations and a Preface, by Zachary Grey, L.L.D. Adorn'd with a new Set of Cuts (from the designs of Hogarth). 2 Vol. RUSSIA.-Cambridge, printed for J. Bentham, 1744.-The Genuine Remains in Verse and Prose of Mr. Samuel Butler. Published from the Original Manuscripts, formerly in the Possession of W. Longueville, Esq. with Notes by R. Thyer. 2 Vol. RUSSIA.-London, printed for J. and R. Tonson, 1759. Four vols. octavo. 81. £5. 5s. Hudibras, by Butler, edited by Dr. Grey.-LARGE PAPER, RUSSIA.-Cambridge, 1744. Two vols. royal octavo. Large paper copies of this edition are of rare occurrence. £12. 82. BUTLER (Samuel).-Hudibras, by Samuel Butler. -CALF EXTRA.-London, printed by T. Rickaby, This is Dr. Nash's beautiful and celebrated edition. It is illustrated by copious notes, and fine engravings taken from the designs of Hogarth; others from original designs, and from drawings by La Guerre; it also has a fine print of Oliver Cromwell's Guard-room, after a painting by Dobson.-A new Life of Butler is prefixed. 83. BARKSDALE (Clement).-Nympha Libethris: or the Cotswold Muse, presenting some extempore Verses to the imitation of yong Scholars. In four parts. (By Clement Barksdale.)-London, printed for F. A. at Worcester, 1651. Small octavo, pp. 108. . £20. It appears by Wood's Athenæ, vol. ii. col. 812, that this little volume, the rarity of which is so extreme that no other copy is known, was written by Clement Barksdale.-Opposite the title are some verses apologizing for the want of a frontispiece, and on the back of the title are two extracts from Pliny's Epistles, in apology for this volume, besides a preparatory motto to conciliate the reader's good will. Then follows "The Consecration of all. To my Lady Chandos;" after which are six lines addressed to the same. Latin verses and English compliments succeed, with the signatures of Sackvill, Stratford, Tounsend, and T. B. After a title page to Part I. he gives a short dedication to his complimentary friends" adoloscentibus bonæ spei ;" and also a list of the chief persons honoured by his muse. Each part has a separate title, and is prefaced by a dedicatory epistle in verse. From some verses "To F. A. Stationer," it is evident that the name of the Worcester publisher was Francis Ash, and that he was a noted Bookbinder.-The work ends as follows: To the Readers. My verse, because they are not hard and rare, I write, just as I speak, to be understood. Whose sense will not without much study come, 10 Let him, for me, be altogether dumb. No Persius be my Reader; but such may, - As He, who once threw Persius away. HAUCER (Geoffrey)-The Can- Folio. £25. This is Pynson's first edition, and is supposed by Mr. Tyrwhitt to have been printed not long after 1491, the year of Caxton's death. It is certain that the first book with a date, printed by Pynson, was" Dives and Pauper," which appeared in 1493. On comparing the two works it evidently appears that Chaucer was printed anterior to the other.-The present is not a perfect copy, as it wants part of the Prohemye," and several other leaves.-It does not appear that any title was prefixed to this edition, or it would have been given above, in full. -- 85. CHAUCER (Geoffrey). The workes of Geffray Chaucer newly printed, with dyuers workes whiche were neuer in print before: As in the table more playnly dothe appere. Cum priuilegio. Black Letter.-Imprinted at London by Wyllyam Bonham, dwellyng in Paules church yarde at the sygne of the reed Lyon (no date). £7. 78. Folio, pp. 726. Ritson assigns the year 1542 as the date of this edition: it is a well printed volume, and profusely decorated with ornamented capitals, many of which are executed with considerable taste. The dedication is to King Henry VIII. but the name of the editor is not mentioned. In this edition first appeared the Plowman's Tale, but Mr. Tyrwhitt says that as he cannot understand that there is the least ground of evidence, either external or internal, for believing it to be a work of Chaucer's, he has not admitted it into his own edition. 86. 87. The Workes of our Antient and lerned English Poet Geffrey Chaucer, newly Printed. In this Impression you shall find these Additions: 1 His Portraiture and Progenie shewed. 2 His Life collected. 3 Arguments to euery Booke gathered. 4 Old and Obscure Words explained. 5 Authors by him cited, declared. 6 Difficulties opened. 7 Two Bookes of his neuer before printed.-Black Letter.FINE COPY IN RUSSIA. Londini, impensis Geor. Bishop, 1598. Another copy, same edition.-HALF BOUND, RUSSIA (two last leaves wanting).—Londini, impensis Geor. Bishop, 1598. Folio, pp. 858. . £2. 12s. 6d. This edition was edited by Thomas Speght, and is dedicated "To the Right Honorable Sir Robert Cecil Knight, Principal Secretarie to the Queens most excellent Maiestie;" after the address to the reader, comes one to the editor from Francis Beaumont the Dramatist. The dedication to Henry VIII, in the edition of 1542, is repeated in the present, and called "The Epistle of William Thinne to King Henry the eight," |