TYPOGRAPHICAL MONUMENTS.

ENGLAND:

12694 YEAR BOOKS. Edwardi III. Annus 47, R. Pynson, 1518-Ejusdem Anni 17 et 18, in a peculiar French-Gothic type, s. a. l. typ.-Ejusdem Annus 24, Redman, s. a.-Ejusdem Annus Annus 29, Redman, s. a.Ejusdem Annus 30, Redman, s. a.-Ejusdem Annus 38, Pynson, 1520Ejusdem Annus 39, Redman, s. a.-all in 1 vol. stout sm. folio, a few small wormholes at end, bound, £2. 16s 1518-20 Nearly all bear Pynson's mark. A curious | un bownde," and for the other, xii pence. The feature in the second and third year book is the language of these books is the old jargon called notice at end-"The price of thys boke is xvi.d. Law or Norman French. 12695 CRONYCLE OF ENGLONDE, with the Fruyte of Tymes, sm. folio, black letter, woodcuts, the table in facsimile, and 2 leaves in the book itself supplied from another edition, russia, £16. 168 VERY RARE. This is the same work as that usually called the "Chronicle of St. Albans." As this appears to be the only im

R. Pynson, 1510 pression of our Chronicles printed by Pynson, the work is well worth the attention of the collector." -Dibdin.

12696 FROYSSART (Sir Johan) YE CRONYCL' of Englad, Fraunce, Spayne, Portyngale, Scotlande, Bretayne, Flaunders, and other places adjoynyng, translated out of Frenche into our maternal Englysshe tonge, by Johan Bourchier knyght Lorde Berners, 2 vols. in 1, folio, black letter, wanting titles and several other leaves at beginnings and ends, half calf, £3. 10s

(At end of Vol. I.) Imprinted at Lñdon.. by Wyllyam Myddylton (1525) Vol. I. begins with leaf 18, and ends with leaf 2 and ends with leaf 300. A complete copy the colophon or leaf 322; Vol. II. begins with of this edition would be worth Forty pounds. 12697 GOWER (J.) DE CONFESSIONE AMANTIS, sm. folio, black letter, a few ancient MS. notes, otherwise a fine copy in old russia gilt, £6.

T. Berthelet, 1532 12698 GLANVILLE. Bartholomeus de Proprietatibus Rerum, translated by John de Trevisa, sm. folio, black letter, title inlaid and surrounded by an illuminated border in water-colours, representing view of Berkeley Castle, Arms of the Berkeleys, flowers, &c. very slightly wormed, else fine copy, russia extra, £5. 58 T. Berthelet, 1535

'Perhaps this work may be the chef-d'œuvre | tion, and the intrinsic value of the work, this of Berthelet's press. It is not very rare; but second impression brings rather a considerable from the scarcity of Wynken de Worde's edi- | price."-Dibdin.

12699 FABIAN'S (R.) Chronicle, 2 vols. in 1, sm. folio, black letter, large copy, in old leather binding, VERY RARE, wanting title, 2 leaves, and part of another, £3. 10s W. Bonham, 1542 12700 LELANDI (T.) Genethliacon illustrissimi Eäduerdi Principis Cambriæ, 1543-Cygnea Cantio cum Commentariis, s. a. (1545)-Laudatio Pacis, 1546-Assertio inclytissimi Arturi Regis Britanniæ, 1544—in 1 vol. sm. 4to. fine copies in morocco, gilt edges, by J. Mackenzie, £2. 28

A copy of the first article in this volume | pieces are rare and valuable. fetched £3. at Sir Mark Sykes' sale. All these

1543-46

12701 RECORDE (Roberte) The Castle of Knowledge, small folio, curious woodcut title, and numerous woodcuts and diagrams in the text, fine copy in calf, from Miss Currer's library, £4. 4s Reginald Wolfe, 1556

This curious book shews how far learning | Mary, and to Cardinal Pole; and treats of Ashad advanced and become popularised in Eng-tronomy and the System of the Universe. land at the time. It is dedicated to the Princess

12702 TYNDALL, FRITH and BARNES. The Whole Workes of W(illiam) Tyndall, John Frith, and Doct (or Robert) Barnes, three worthy Martyrs and principall Teachers of this Church of England, collected and compiled in one Tome togither, beyng before scattered, and now in print here exhibited to the Church, to the prayse of God, and profite of all good Christian Readers, 3 parts or 2 vols. in 1, sm. folio, black letter, with the Colophon representing Justice weighing the Bible, a very fine copy in dark morocco super extra, gilt edges, tooled in the antique style by Clarke and Bedford, RARE, £10. London, printed by John Daye, 1573 12703 GASCOIGNE (George) WHOLE WOORKES, newlye compyled into one Volume, that is to say, His Flowers, Hearbes, Weedes, the Fruites of Warre, the Comedie called Supposes, the Tragedie of Iocasta, the Steeleglasse, the Complaint of Phylemone, the Storie of Ferdinando Ieronimi, and the Pleasure at Kenilworth Castle, Abell Jeffs, 1587-The Droomme of Doomesday, G. Cawood, 1576-2 vols. in 1, small 4to. fine copies, red morocco extra, gilt edges, by Bedford, EXTREMELY RARE, £28. 1576-87 This old poet belongs to the class of writers marked £35. in the Bibliotheca Anglo-Poetica. connected with Shakespeare, as the great drama- Daniel's copy, without the Drum of Doomsday, tist borrowed and adapted much from him. fetched £22. Ellis' copy fetched £26. 10s; and another is 12704 GASCOIGNE (George) THE STEELE GLAS, A SATYRE, togither with the Complainte of Phylomene, an Elegie devised by the same Author, smallest 4to. portrait, brown morocco extra, gilt edges, by F. Bedford, large copy, but the leaves pierced at top, and a portion of the head-line restored in ink, £6. 68

Printed for Richard Smith, 1576 This work is so rare, that Lowndes was unable | copy offered for sale either in booksellers' or to point out any other copy than that of the Bib- auctioneers' catalogues. There is a commendaliotheca Anglo-Poetica (containing several leaves tory poem among the preliminaries, by "Walter MS.), priced at £12. 128; and I cannot find any Rawely of the Middle Temple." 12705 HEY WOODES (John) WOORKES: a dialogue conteyning the number of the effectual Proverbes in the English tongue, with (six hundred of) Epigrammes, smallest 4to. title within border and large woodcut portrait, black letter, red morocco super extra, gilt edges, by F. Bedford, RARE, £10. 10s Thomas Marsh, 1576 12706 HOLINSHED'S (R.) CHRONICLES OF ENGLANDE, SCOTLANDE, AND IRELAND, Vol. I, stout sm. folio, black letter, with many hundred spirited woodcuts, a few of the leaves at the beginning torn and slightly defective at the corners, otherwise perfect, in ancient calf binding, VERY RARE, £2.168

See also ante No. 12701.

1577 The first and genuine edition. In the later most desirable books in an English Historical editions the language was much altered, and the Library, but so scarce to be met with in a perfect woodcuts omitted. It is one of the rarest and state that few can boast of its possession. 12707 RECORD (R.) Castle of Knowledge, small 4to. black letter, woodcuts, autographs of Ro. Marbeck and Hospodii Pomiloii, £1. 5s V. Sims, 1596 12708 HALL (Jos.) VIRGIDEMIARUM, Sixe Books. First three Bookes, of Tooth-lesse Satyrs: 1. Poeticall; 2. Academicall; 3. Morall, FIRST EDITION, burnt by order of the Archbishop of Canterbury and Bishop of London, printed by Thomas Creede, for Robert Dexter, 1597-Virgidemiarum: the three last Bookes. Of byting Satyres. Corrected and amended with some Additions, by J. H. for Robert Dexter, 1599-Certain Worethye Manuscript Poems of great Antiquitie reserved long in the studie of a Northfolke Gentleman, and now first published by J. S. [Joshua Sylvester]: 1. The Statly Tragedy of Guistard and Sismond; 2. The Northren Mother's Blessing; & The Way to Thrifte, for R. D. 1597-3 parts in 1 vol. 16mo. COMPLETE, with note on fly-leaf by Mr. T. Park, green morocco extra, gilt edges, from Sir F. Freeling's library, £7.7s

1597-99 This same copy was sold from the Bibl. | 1841, Thorpe, £7.78; a later edition fetched at Anglo-Poetica for £25. Other copies priced, Utterson's sale, £6. 88 6d.Warton says,

"these Satires are marked with a classical | are touched with the masterly traits of genuine precision, to which English Poetry had yet humour. The versification is equally energetic rarely attained; they are replete with animation and elegant." of style and sentiment. Their discriminations

Dr. Hawtrey's copy fetched £4. 68.

12709 CHAUCER. THE WORKES of our Ancient and learned English Poet, Geffrey Chaucer, newly printed (edited by Speght, with prefatory Letter by Beaumont), folio, title within woodcut border, with full-length portrait of Chaucer, Genealogical Tree, Coats of Arms, etc. engraved on one leaf following title, fine copy in calf extra, carmine edges, by Aitkin, £4. 48 Adam Islip, 1602 12710 GUARINI, IL PASTOR FIDO, or the faithfull Shepheard, translated (into Verse by Dymock), smallest 4to. fine copy in green morocco extra, gilt edges, by F. Bedford, £3. 38 S. Waterson, 1602 12711 SIDNEY (Sir Philip) THE COUNTESSE OF PEMBROKE'S ARCADIA, now the fourth time published, with sundry new Additions by the same Author, sm. folio, dedicated to the Countess of Pembroke, with autograph and book-plate of James Adams, the Architect, morocco extra, gilt edges, by Bedford, £15.

Lowndes quotes a copy marked in a contemporary catalogue, £21.

Extremely rare edition, published eight years before the well known edition of 1613, which has been usually considered as the genuine fourth edition. For an account of this

London, for Matthew Lowndes, 1605 rare volume, see "A brief account of an unique edition of Sir Philip Sydney's Arcadia, by Mr. J. O. Halliwell, (printed) for private circulation only, 1854." A transcript of which is bound with this copy, at the end.

12712 NAPEIR of Marchiston (John, Lord) Plaine Discovery of the whole Revelation of St. John, whereunto are annexed certaine Oracles of Sibylla, sm. 4to. fine copy in calf neat, gilt edges, by Clarke and Bedford, £2.108 John Norton, 1611 12713 BURTON'S ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY, stout sm. 4to. first edition, fine copy in the original calf, RARE, £2. 16s

Oxford, 1621

The FIRST edition of this famous and sin- | object for acquirement by the collector. gular work must always be a very desirable

The opportunity now afforded of securing a fine copy of the first Shakespeare, is one that may not occur again for many years, and collectors should take advantage of it.

12714 SHAKESPEARE'S COMEDIES, HISTORIES and TRAGEDIES, published according to the true originall copies, folio, FIRST EDITION, A LARGE, SOUND, and FINE COPY in old calf neat, £345. Jaggard and Blount, 1623 The only defects existing in this copy are, stance the copy described is superior to almost that the fifth and sixth leaves (Names of the all others; and in height it has the advantage Actors, and the page of verses by L. Digges over the fine copy sold at Daniel's sale for upand J. M.) are at present wanting, and that p. wards of £700. That copy was 12 inches in 145 in Henry VI. is slightly injured. (This height, and a fraction over 8 inches in breadth; last leaf can be supplied from the copy described the present is 12 inches in height, by 8 in below). Otherwise it is in most desirable con- breadth. dition; the first leaf of verses by Ben Jonson, and the title with Droeshout's portrait, both of which are generally found defective or artificially restored, being here perfect, sound, and fresh in their original state. In this circum12715 (SHAKESPEARE'S Comedies, Histories and Tragedies), First Edition, sm. folio, imperfect as described below, hf. bd. Ritson's copy, £25. (1623) This fragment, which measures 127 inches two leaves (pp. 221-25) wanting; Histories, by 8, will be found useful as a specimen copy of pp. 1-232, wanting 49-50; and Tragedies, pp. the first Shakespeare, or for supplying leaves 1-304, with pp. 37, 112, 121, 131, and 152 imwanting in other copies. It contains:- Co- perfect; pp. 257-68 and 73-76 (these latter medies, pp. 13 to 303, with imperfect leaves at supplied from reprint) wanting. pp. 13, 37, 58, 57 E 5, 105, 159, 191, 201, and 12716 SHAKESPEARE'S Comedies, Histories and Tragedies, published accordding to the true original copies, the second impression, sm. folio, russia neat, £12. 10s

This good copy of a very rare edition wants | the leaf of verses facing title, also title and dedication, 2 leaves (supplied from reprint), and leaf N iv. (p. 151) in the first series of signa

tures.

1632 All the body of the book is clean and perfect, and the preliminary leaves in good condition.

12717 SHAKESPEAR'S COMEDIES, HISTORIES and TRAGEDIES, published according to the true Original Copies; and unto this Impression is added, Seven Playes, never before printed in folio, third edition, folio, portrait by Droeshout, with Verses underneath, russia, gilt edges, EXTREMELY RARE, £52. London, printed for P. C. 1664

By some this third edition is considered of greater rarity than even the first edition, on account of the greater portion of the impression having been destroyed in the great fire of London.

in the third – a certain proof of its great rarity even in those days.

With the exception of the leaf of portrait and verses being supplied from the fourth impression, and the last leaf mended, the above is a good, sound, and perfect copy of this valuable volume.

The publishers of the fourth edition in 1685, appear to have considered the destruction of the third edition so extensive as to entitle Harward's copy fetched in 1858, £31. 10s; them to treat it as a non-entity; and accord- another with the portrait on the title, £51. 98; ingly say on their title page, "unto which is Dr. Bliss', £51.; Miss Currer's. 1862, £43. 10s; added Seven Plays never before printed in 1864, Sotheby, £58.; 1866, Daniell' copy fetched Folio," though they had been previously printed above £125, and it is rapidly rising in price. 12718 SHAKESPEARE'S Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies, to which is added Seven Plays never before printed in folio, fourth edition, very fine copy, without the portrait by Droeshout and Ben Jonson's verses, also wanting last leaf, bound, £36.

THIS VOLUME IS FULL OF VALU-
ABLE MS. NOTES, IN A NEAT HANDWRITING
OF ABOUT THE MIDDLE OF LAST CENTURY,
-CONTAINING ILLUSTRATIVE NOTES, CORREC-
TIONS AND EMENDATIONS OF A MOST VARIED

CHARACTER. THE REFERENCES TO EARLY
ENGLISH BOOKS IN THE WRITER'S POSSES-
SION ARE VERY NUMEROUS, AND THESE, WITH
THE CLASSICAL QUOTATIONS, SHEW THE STYLE

1685

OF READING FAVOURED BY THE WRITER. IT
WOULD SEEM AS IF HE HAD CONTEMPLATED
THE PREPARATION OF A NEW EDITION, AND
TREASURED HIS MATERIALS IN THIS COPY. IT
IS NOT IMPROBABLE THAT THESE NOTES MAY
BE FROM THE HAND OF SOME WELL-KNOWN
COMMENTATOR; WHOEVER HE WAS, HIS
LEARNING WAS VERY EXTENSIVE, AND HIS
CRITICAL JUDGMENT GOOD.

12719 LAWRENCE (Leonard) A small Treatise betwixt ARNALTE and LuCENDA, entituled, the Evill-intreated Lover, or the Melancholy Knight, originally written in the Greek tongue by an unknown author, translated into Spanish, French, Thuscan, and now turn'd into English Verse by L. L. a well-wisher to the Muses, smallest 4to. FINE COPY, crimson morocco extra, bound by C. Smith, £5. 158

First Edition, extremely rare; Bindley's copy, in bds., £6. 16s 6d. copy sold for £16. 16s; and Thorpe priced a

1639

12720 CLELAND (James) Monument of Mortalitie upon the Death and Funerall of Lodovick Duke of Richmond and Lenox, sm. 4to. with the fine rare engraving of the Duke lying in state, morocco extra, gilt edges, £3. 38 W. Stansby, for R. Rounthwaite, 1624

Gough's copy sold for £4. 14s 6d.

12721 FLETCHER (P.) Purple Island, together with Piscatorie Eclogs and other Poeticall Miscellanies, 2 vols. in 1, smallest 4to. with the Verses, "to the Spencer of this Age," by F. Quarles, fine copy in purple mor. extra, gilt edges, by C. Hering, £3. 3s Camb. 1633 12722 WELBY. The Phoenix of these late Times; or the Life of Mr. Henry Welby, Esq., who lived at his House in Grub Street forty-four Years, and in that space was never seene by any. Aged 84. With Epitaphs and Elegies by T. Brewer, John Taylor the Water Poet, and T. Heywood, sm. 4to. full length portrait of Welby sitting at a table, by W. Marshall, uncut, very scarce, £3. 38 N. Okes, 1637

Bindley's copy fetched £3. 158; Sir Mark Sykes's sold for £5. 58. 12723 HAINAM. The WITTY ROGUE arraigned, condemned and executed, or the History of that incomparable Thief Richard Hainam, relating his Robberies, mad Pranks and Jests, smallest 4to. russia, gilt edges, RARE, £4. 10s

1656

Bindley's copy sold for £4. 128.