1127 Wither, George. WITHER'S REMEMBRANCER, or Extracts out of Master Withers his Booke, Called Britain's Remembrancer. Small 4to. green mor. gilt. London, 1643 1128 1129 1130 1131 1132 1133 "This does not seem to have proceeded from Wither, who in it is publicly called upon to state the grounds of various of his proceedings." CAMPO-MUSE, or the Field-Musings of Captain George Wither; touching his Military Ingagements for the King and Parliament. Small 8vo. mor. gilt. London, 1643 "This poem," Wither tells us, was written while he was in the army for the King, and Parliament; to reunite and not divide them." It produced John Taylor's (the water poet) Aqua Musa. In the Bibl. Angl. Poet. £2. 2. THE GREAT ASSISES; Holden in Parnassus, by Apollo, and his Assessours. 4to. green mor. gilt. London, 1645 This tract is assigned to Wither by Dalrymple, though not registered as such, by the poet, or his biographers. Wither, in the tract, acts as foreman of the poetical jury. VOX PACIFICA. A Voice tending to the Pacification of God's Wrath, and Offering those Propositions, or Conditions; by the Acceptation, and Performance whereof in some good measure, a Firme and Continuing Peace May be Obtained. 12mo. mor. gilt, frontispiece. London, 1645 In Lloyd's Sale, £2. OPOBALSAMUM ANGLICANUM. An English Balme, lately passed out of a Shrub, and spread upon these Papers. 4to. half calf. London, 1646 "An inflammatory poem, full of keen invective, and written in the usual fearless style of Wither's satirical productions." In Bibl. Angl. Poet. £2.12.6. AMYGDALA BRITANNICA, Almonds for Parrets, A Dish of Stone-Fruit, partly shel'd, and partly unshel'd,. etc., 1647; WITHERS REDIVIVUS, in a Small New-Year's Gift, Pro Rege et Grege, and to his Royal Highness the Prince of Orange, etc., 1689; AN EPISTLE AT RANDOME, in Prose and Metre, to be delivered to all whom it may concern, 1659; A CORDIAL CONFECTION, to strengthen their Hearts, whose Courage begins to fail, by the Armies lately dissolving the Parliament, 1659. 4 works in 1 vol. 4to. calf. London, 1647-89 The "Amydala" was published anonymously, but Wither claims it in his "Fides Anglicanæ." PROSOPOPEIA BRITANNICA. Britan's Genius, or Good-Angel personated, Reasoning and Advising touching the Games now Playing, and the Adventures now at Hazard in these Islands. Small 8vo. mor. gilt. London, 1648 "This poem was one of the author's favorite performances, and has many striking passages, and poetic personifications."-Lowndes. In Townley's Sale, £3.13.6. 1134 WITHER, GEORGE. 1135 1136 1137 1138 1139 1140 1141 CARMEN EUCHARISTICON. A Private Thank-Oblation, exhibited to the Glory of the Lord of Hosts, for the timely and wonderful Deliverance, vouchsafed to this Nation, in the routing of a numerous Army of Irish Rebells before Dublin, by the sword of his Valiant Servant, Michael Jones. 4to. mor. gilt. London, 1649 Jones was the Parliamentary Governor of Dublin, the defeat so exultingly celebrated by Wither, took place August, 1649. VATICINIUM VATIVUM; or, Palamon's Prophetick Prayer, to which is annexed a Paraphrase on Paulus Grebnerus's Prophesie, with several Elegies on Charles 1st, the Lords Capel and the Lord Francis Villiers. 12mo. mor. gilt. Trajecti, N. D. (1649) A very rare volume, but Lowndes queries whether written by Wither. A TRIPLE PARADOX, affixed to a Countermure raised against the Furious Batteries of Restraint, Slander and Poverty. Small 8vo. mor. gilt. London, 1651 "Argued in verse with great dexterity of reasoning, and with great force of moral observation." The second of them is marked by many passages written with the nervous strength of Churchill." In Bibl. Angl. Poct. £2.12.6. SPECULUM SPECULATIVUM; or, A Considering-Glass; being an inspection into the present and late sad condition of these Nations. Small 8vo. mor. gilt. Another copy, mor. gilt. London, 1660 FIDES ANGLICANA, or, a Plea for the Publick-Faith of these Nations, lately pawned, forfeited, and violated, by some of their former Trustees, to the rendering it as Infamous, as Fides-Punica was heretofore. Small 8vo. mor. gilt. London, 1660 The above is a strong remonstrance in prose, upon church lands being resumed by the prelacy, upon forcible entry, and was probably the cause of his being again imprisoned. At the end of this volume is the Catalogue of his writings, by himself. AN IMPROVEMENT OF IMPRISONMENT, Disgrace, Poverty into Real Freedom, Honest Reputation, Perdurable Riches, Evidenced in a few Crums and Scraps lately found in a Prisoner's Basket at Newgate. Small 8vo. mor. gilt. London, 1661 "A melancholy, but very interesting medley of Metrical Scraps." This volume has eluded the search of Wood and Dalrymple. In Bibl. Angl. Poet. £2. MEDITATIONS UPON THE LORD'S PRAYER, with a Preparatory Preamble to the Right Understanding, and Use of this Pattern. Small 8vo. mor. gilt. In Bibl. Angl. Poet. £1.11.6. London, 1665 1 1142 WITHER, GEORGE. THE HYMNES AND SONGS OF THE CHURCH. 8vo. red mor. gilt. THE PROTECTOR. 1143 1144 1145 1146 1147 1148 1149 1150 1151 1152 London, 1623 A Poem briefly illustrat8vo, red mor. gilt. ing the Supereminency of that dignity. FUROR POETICUs, i. e. ick-Phrensie. 8vo. red mor gilt. London, 1655 Propheticus, A Poet- TUBA PACIFICA, wherein is sounded forth a Retreat from the War intended between England and the United Provinces of Lower Germany. 8vo. red mor. gilt. London, 1664 A MEMORANDUM TO LONDON; Occasioned by the Pestilence there, begun the present Year, 1665: Thereto is added A Warning Piece to the City of London, written in the Tower, 1662; also, A Single Sacrifice for Prevention of the Dearth Feared in June and July, 1663. 4to. red mor. gilt. London, 1665 These last five volumes are all uniformly and elegantly bound by McKenzie, in turkey mor. gilt, and in morocco case. ECHOES FROM THE SIXTH TRUMPET, Re- The second part never appeared. Wither died the following year, 1667. prayer, ANOTHER COPY. 12mo. mor. gilt, imprinted in the year chronogrammically expressed in this seasonable Lor D ha Ve Mer CIe Vpon Vs, 1666. SIGHS FOR THE PITCHERS; Breathed out in a Personal Contribution to the National Humiliation, the last of May, 1666. 12mo. mor. gilt. This, as well as the Tuba Pacifica, has, on the title, In Bibl. Angl. Poet. £1.9. London, 1666 an emblem of two If ye knock ye are A LETTER sent to George Wither, Poetica Licentia, Esq., by a plain dealing friend of his, to Prevent his future Pseudognaphy. 4to. half mor. Reprinted, London, 1834 This little tract contains some very curious facts relative to Wither, and bears internal evidence of being from the pen of his quondam friend Taylor, the Water poet. A Single Si Quis, and a Quadruple Quere, with the Occasions of them, etc. 8vo. paper, reprinted. 1840 AUTOGRAPH OF WITHER. Signature to Record of a Legal Document as Sheriff, or clerk, on parchment. 1655 1153 Wood, Anthony A. Athena Oxonienses, an Exact His- 1154 On the fly leaf, is a small printed slip from the catalogue of J. Nichols' Library, as follows: "Woods' Athene Oxonienses, 4 vols. imp. 4to. large paper, (only twenty-five printed) £45." แ "The work is an invaluable one and should be in every English Library." FASTI OXONIENSES, or Annals of the University of Oxford, with Additions and Continuation by Philip Bliss. royal 4to. red mor. gilt, uniform with the Athenæ. London, 1815 1155 Woodhouse, John. Catalogue of his Choice and Valuable Collection of Ancient and Modern Prints, with prices. 8vo. London, 1801 With Autograph letter of Mr. Woodhouse. 1156 WORDSWORTH, CHRISTOPHER, D. D. ECCLESIASTICAL BIOGRAPHY, or Lives of Eminent Men, connected with the History of Religion in England, selected and illustrated with Notes. Third edition, with new lives and additional notes, 4 vols. 8vo. tree-marbled calf. London, 1339 POETICAL WORKS. Portrait, 6 vols. Moxon, London, 1836 WILLIAM. 12mo. cloth. 1158 WOTTON, SIR HENRY. RELIQUIE WOTTONIANÆ, or a Collection of Lives, Letters, Poems, with Characters of sundry Personages, and other incomparable pieces of Language and Art, by the curious pencil of the Ever Memorable Sir Henry Wotton, Knt. Second edition, 12mo. old calf. London, 1654 1159 WOUVERMANS, PHILIP. WORKS. An Extensive Collection of fine Engravings after the Master, and by the Old French and Flemish Artists. Original impressions, atlas folio, beautifully bound in half crimson mor. full gilt, by Wright. Paris, 1737-54 This splendid volume cost £21. 1160 WROATH, LADY MARY, Countesse of Montgomerie. URANIA. Fine frontispiece by Pass, folio, calf. London, 1621 A pastoral romance, interspersed with songs, sonnets, and other little pieces of poetry, in imitation of her Uncle, Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia. 1161 WYL BUCKE, his Testament; the legacies palatably prepared for the Legatees. Small 4to. calf. Chiswick, 1827 Only forty copies printed, for private circulation, this one being No. 15. 1157 1162 ALBION'S ENGLAND. A Continued Historie of the same Kingdome, from the Originals of the first Inhabitants thereof, with most the cheefe Alterations and Accidents theare hapning, vnto and in the happie Raigne of our now most gracious Soueraigne Queene Elizabeth, first penned and published by William Warner, and now reuised and newly inlarged by the same Author. 4to. half calf. London, 1602 Extremely rare, this edition is priced in the Bibl. Angl. Poet. at £5.5. An exceeding fine copy of the first collected edition of the plays, edited by 1164 Biographical Dictionary of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. 6 vols. 8vo. cloth. London, 1842 1165 Book Catalogues, priced. The very choice and select Library of George Baker, Esq. London, 1825 Robert Heath. 8vo. 1166 · 1167 1168 John Field. 1169 1170 1171 1172 London, 1797 London, 1827 The Theatrical and Miscellaneous Library of 8vo. 8vo. The Extensive Collection of the Best and Rarest Books of Thomas Pearson. London, 1788 The Curious and Extensive Library, particularly Early English Poetry, of James Perry. 8vo. London, 1822 The Curious and Extensive Dramatic Library of B. W. Rhodes, Esq. 8vo. London, 1825 The Splendid, Curious and Extensive Library of Sir Mark M. Sykes. Marked prices. Portrait, large paper, 8vo. half mor. London, 1824 |