LIBRARY 
 
 A CATALOGUE university of Illinois 
 
 op URBANA 
 
 RARE & CURIOUS BOOKS, 
 
 ILLUSTRATIVE OF 
 
 THE ENGLISH DRAMA 
 
 AND 
 
 EARLY ENGLISH LITERATURE; 
 
 INCLUDING 
 
 SOME CHOICE EDITIONS OF THE WORKS 
 
 SHAKESPEARE, ROBERT GREENE, BARNABY RICH, 
 
 AND OTHERS, 
 
 EARLY ENGLISH POETRY, NOVELS, 
 
 AND 
 
 OTHER RARE BOOKS. 
 
 WHICH WILL BE SOLD BY AUCTION, 
 
 BY MESSRS. 
 
 S. LEIGH SOTHEBY & JOHN WILKINSON, 
 
 AUCTIONEERS OP LITERARY PROPERTY AND WORKS ILLUSTRATIVE OP THE PINE ARTS, 
 
 AT THEIR HOUSE, 3, WELLINGTON ST., STRAND, 
 On Monday, 13th June, 1859, 
 
 AT ONE o’clock PRECISELY. 
 
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 PRINTED BY J. E. ADLARD, BARTHOLOMEW CLOSE. 
 
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 the Lot so disputed shall be immediately put up again, provided the seller 
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 IV. The Lots to be taken away, at the Buyer’s Expense, immediately after the 
 
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 and JOHN WILKINSON will not hold themselves responsible if lost, 
 stolen, damaged, or otherwise destroyed, but they will be left at the sole 
 risk of j;he Purchaser. If, at the expiration of One Week after the con- 
 clusion of the Sale, the Books or other property are not cleared or paid for, 
 they will then be catalogued for immediate sale, and the expense, the 
 same as if i'e-sold, will be added to the amount at which the books were 
 bought. Messrs. S. LEIGH SOTHEBY and JOHN WILKINSON will 
 have the option of re-selling the Lots uncleared either by public or private 
 sale, without any notice being given to the defaulter. 
 
 V. The Books are presumed to be perfect, unless otherwise expressed; but if, 
 
 upon collating, any should prove defective, the Purchaser will be at liberty 
 to take or reject them, provided they are returned within One Week 
 after the conclusion of the Sale, when the Purchase-money will be 
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 stained or short leaves of text or plates, w T ant of list of plates, or on 
 account of the publication of any subsequent Volume, Supplement, 
 Appendix, or Plates. All the Manuscripts, Autographs, all Magazines 
 and Reviews, all Books in Lots, and all Tracts in Lots or Volumes, will 
 be sold with all faults, imperfections, and errors of description. The 
 sale of any lot of Prints or Drawings not to be set aside on account of 
 any error in the enumeration of the numbers stated, or Errors of 
 Description. 
 
 VII. No Imperfect Books will be taken back, unless a note accompanies each 
 
 Book, stating its imperfections, w.ith the Number of Lot and date of the 
 Sale at which the same was purchased. 
 
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 faithfully executed by their humble Servants , 
 
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 Wellington Street, Strand. 
 
A CATALOGUE 
 
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 Defamem ^ V ' Sitati ° ne Cam. Sot «S 
 
 3 ,arf ^I^d ,n lSir Nobility £d 
 
 Ingenuity, of extreme rarity, but imperfect 
 
 4 Rogers (Francis) Sermon of Love, to 
 
 Maior Towne in Kent, Svo. 1613- Muses r»u» 
 
 Popery and Slavery, Poems, Satyrs, &c 9 
 
 A Sermon upon Hospitality, preached at Tunbnd D e in 
 
 Kent, Svo. 1708 , Q 
 
 5 Annotations illustrative of the 
 
 1819 — The Chester Plays, «oZ. 2— Wngnt^O 8 
 Saxon and other Vocabularies, text only, 1858 
 
 6 Andromana or the Merchant’s Wife, the Scmne^bem^by J. S. 
 
 # * “This copy (last leaf MS.) sold at Rhodes’ sale for 
 * £1 15, The only other copy cited by Lowndes (under 
 f hi ley) sold for k U. It is very scarce. ’-MS. note. 
 
 7 The S' Sr and D. Linoldes/ wherein all the 
 reasons that can be made for them are notably refuted, 
 17 V rare, but title and two or three leaves slightly 
 
 1 % 1 Ann The State of the Impenall Court of the 
 
 Em per our Ferdinand, 1 637— Salamandrologia, 1 683, p/to 
 — Heywood (Thomas) Fair Maid of the West, or a Gule 
 worth Gold, both parts, but wants title to 
 1 /? o 1 Tneasta a Tragedie from Euripides by George 
 Gascoigne andFrancis Kinwelmershe of Grayes Inne, 1566, 
 Gascoigne's Works ^ 
 
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 8 Weldon (A.) Court and Character of King James, 8 vo. 1689 — 
 
 A Treatise of Humane Reason 12 mo. 1675. 2 vol. 
 
 9 History of Little Goody Two-Shoes, otherwise called Mrs. 
 
 Margery Two Shoes, with the means by which she ac- 
 quired her Learning and Wisdom, front. 18mo. 1768 
 
 10 Short Account of the Proceedings of the College of Physicians, 
 
 1697 — Vindication of Dryden, 1673 — Reflections on the 
 Duke of Guise, 1683 — Occasional Paper, No. 9, on the 
 Danger of Going to Plays, 1698 — De Ratione Motus 
 Musculorum, 1664 — Causes of the Discontents, 1721 
 
 11 Hawes (W.) Account of the Late Dr. Goldsmith’s Illness, 1774 
 
 — De Medicorum, &c. 1726— Pompey, a Tragedy, uncut , 
 1663 — Love for Love, 1695 
 
 12 Beaumont and Fletcher’s King and no King, 1631, uncut — 
 
 Destruction of Jerusalem, 1703 — Massinger’s New Way to 
 Pay Old Debts, first edition, 1633— The Recruiting 
 Officer, n. d. 
 
 13 Old Plays, in quarto a 'parcel 
 
 14 Seasonable Warning to all Hardened Sinners, preached at 
 
 Newington next Hyth, in the County of Kent, 1702 — 
 Satyrs of Boileau imitated, 1696 — Impartial History of 
 Plots, 1696 — The Emperour and the Empire, 1682 — 
 Observations on the United Provinces, 1680 — Life and 
 Death of Sir M. Hale, 1682 
 
 15 Hey wood (Thomas) Foure Prentises of London, with the Con- 
 
 quest of Jerusalem, as it hath beene divers times acted at 
 the Red Bull by the Queenes Majesties with good ap- 
 plause, large wood-cut 
 
 very rare , but two or three leaves are slightly defective 
 
 4to. 1632 
 
 16 Observations on Sorbier’s Voyage into England, 1665 — Ward’s 
 
 Wit and Wisdom, 1673 — Journey to Naples, with the 
 Frauds of Romish Monks and Priests, 1691 — Man with- 
 out Passion, 1675 — Perswasive to Conformity, 1670 — 
 The Nomenclator or Remembrancer of A. Junius, 1585 
 
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 17 Observations on Homer and Virgil, 1672 — Reflections on Good * 
 
 Luck and 111 Luck, 1699 — Mathematical Magic, 1691- 
 Odes of Horace, in English verse, 1638 — Memoirs of 
 Christendom, 1692 
 
 18 Titus and Gissippus, the Banquet of the Gods, old English S ft ■ 
 
 Poetical Tales, believed to be perfect , but sold with all 
 faults — The Tragedy of Hamlet, reprint of ed. 1603 
 
 19 Pourtract of Old Age, 1676 — Cleaveland’s Poems, port. 1677 — 
 
 Elements of Speech, 1669 — The City and Country Pur- 
 chaser, 1680 — Walker (W.) Treatise of English Particles, 
 
 1663 
 
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 d yft£J*-.20 Honesty in Distress, in Verse, 1710 — Visits from the Shades, - 
 1 704 — Worledge (E.) Resurrection, a Poem, 1 7 1 6 — Count 
 Piper’s Packet, being a choice and curious Collection of 
 Manuscript Papers in Prose and Verse that were found 
 bundled under a bench upon Duke Humphrey’s Walk in 
 St. James’s Park, 1732 — Pope (A.) Temple of Fame, 
 
 1715 — Pope (A.) Essay on Criticism, 1713 — Preston ( — ) 
 iEsop at the Bear Garden, 1715 ; and others in 1 vol. 
 
 Qje 21 Hughes (W.) Flower Garden, showing how Flowers are to be . / 
 
 ordered, 1672 — The European Mercury, describing High 
 Wages and Stages, 1641 — Aristippus, a Discourse con- 
 cerning the Court, 1659 — Compleat Statesman, port. 1683 
 —The Life of Admiral de Ruyter, port. 1677 
 22 The Dreadful Character of a Drunkard, or the Odious and • /Q 
 beastly Sin of Drunkenness described and condemned, 
 blariMttttr, woodcut , Printed for W. Thackeray , 1681 — 
 
 A Warning-Piece to the Slothful, Idle, Careless, Drunken, 
 
 &c., blarfuletter, with A Perswasion to Temperance, in 
 verse , Printed for William Thackeray , in Duck-lane, 1678 
 
 12m>. in 1 vol. 
 
 
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 Very rare and curious. Perfect, but some of the margins 
 slightly cut. 
 
 23 Art-Union Prize Annual folio. 1845 
 
 24 Molyneux. An Account of the Family and Descendants of 
 
 Sir Thomas Molyneux, Knt., Chancellor of the Exchequer 
 in Ireland to Queen Elizabeth 
 
 privately printed , very scarce , a privately printed pedigree 
 of the Molyneux family inserted 4to. Evesham, 1820 
 
 25 Life and Death of Alexander, 1674 — The History of Isuf Bassa, 
 
 1684 — Help to English History, 1641 — The Voyage of 
 Italy, 1670 — Medulla Historise, 1679 — Comparison of 
 Eloquence, 1672 — An English Expositor, 1684 — Principles 
 of Law, 1 661 — The Guardian’s Instruction, 1 688 — The Life 
 of Donna Olimpia, 1667 — Letters from Switzerland, 1686 
 — Langbaine’s Dramatic Poets, imperfect , but with early 
 MS. notes , 1691 
 
 26 Richardson (C.) New Dictionary of the English Language, 
 
 4 vol. a few leaves defective Ato. 1835 
 
 27 Elliptical or Azimuthal Horologiography, 4 to. 1654 — Willis (T.) 
 
 Affections, portrait , 1670 — Divine History of Genesis, 
 1670 — Practical Divinity of the Papists, 1678 
 
 28 Romulus and Tarquin, 1638 — Downing’s Discourse, 1672 — 
 
 The Commonwealth’s Man Unmasked, 1694 — A Relation 
 of the Siege of Candia, 1670 — The Plot in a Dream, 1681 
 A Full Account of the Siege of Stretin, 1678 — Grotius’s 
 Annals, 1665 
 
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 29 Decker (Thomas) Dove and the Serpent, in which is contained 
 
 a large description of all such points and principles as 
 tend either to conversation, &c. prose intermixed with 
 verse 4to. T. C. for Laurence IS Isle, 1614 
 
 *** This curious tract, of which we can trace no other copy, 
 is signed by D. T., possibly Decker, who sometimes re- 
 versed his initials, but we have only conjecture to attribute 
 it to that prolific writer, who wrote in a serious as well as 
 in a comic style. 
 
 30 May (John) Declaration of the Estate of Clothing now used 
 
 within this Realme of England 4to. 1613 
 
 31 Shirley (James) Triumph of Beautie, as it was personated by 
 
 some young Gentlemen for whom it was intended at a 
 private Recreation 1 2mo. 1646 
 
 The Roxburghe copy 361 3s., and the Reed copy 361 6s., 
 are the only ones mentioned by Lowndes. 
 
 32 Jew, The Wandering Jew telling Fortunes to Englishmen, 
 
 large woodcut , imprint cut off circa 1640 
 
 An excessively curious book of characters. The present 
 was Reed’s copy, bought at his sale by Heber for 362 2s. 
 Only three copies are known. 
 
 33 Breton (Nicolas) Wits Private Wealth stored with choise com- 
 
 modities to content the minde, title in facsimile 
 
 4to. Tho. Creede for John Tapp, 1615 
 
 34 Mackenzie’s Moral Gallantry, 1669 — Boyle’s New Experiments, 
 
 1681 — Memoirs of the Duke de la Rochefoucault, 1683 — 
 The Drudge, a Piece of Gallantry, interspersed with verse , 
 1673 — Apiarium, or a Discourse of Bees, 1678, from 
 Worlidges Husbandry 
 
 35 Sanderson (R.) Lectures on Oaths, 1655 — Manchester al Mondo, 
 
 1635 — Reflections on Eloquence, 1672 — Mercury, or the 
 Secret and Swift Messenger, 1694 — Anacreon done into 
 English, 1683 — Massinger’s Roman Actor, 1722, and 
 other plays 8®o. 
 
 36 Nares (R.) Glossary, new edition 2 vol. Russell Smith , 1859 
 
 37 S. (W.) Instructions for the Increasing of Mulberie Trees, and 
 
 the breeding of silke-wormes for the making of Silke in 
 this Kingdome, woodcuts 
 
 scarce 4to. By E. A. for Eleazar Edgar , 1609 
 
 38 Gauden (Bp.) A Discourse of Auxiliary Beauty, or Artificiall 
 
 Handsomenesse 
 
 first edition, original binding 
 *** Ant. a Wood ascribes this work to Dr. Gauden. It is 
 often attributed to Bp. Jeremy Taylor, and occasionally to 
 Obadiah Walker, whose share in the volume was probably 
 limited to the “ Satyrical Censures,” as given in the 
 edition of 1662. 
 
 
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 dedication; 
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 EDITOR oe the times' 
 
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 a large description of all such points and principles as 
 tend either to conversation, &c. prose intermixed with 
 verse 4to. T. C. for Laurence E Isle, 1614 
 
 *** This curious tract, of which we can trace no other copy, 
 is signed by D. T., possibly Decker, who sometimes re- 
 versed his initials, but we have only conjecture to attribute 
 it to that prolific writer, who wrote in a serious as well as 
 in a comic style. 
 
 30 May (John) Declaration of the Estate of Clothing now used 
 
 within this Realme of England 4to. 1613 
 
 31 Shirley (James) Triumph of Beautie, as it was personated by 
 
 some young Gentlemen for whom it was intended at a 
 private Recreation 12mo. 1646 
 
 The Roxburghe copy 561 3s., and the Reed copy £1 6s., 
 are the only ones mentioned by Lowndes. 
 
 32 Jew, The Wandering Jew telling Fortunes to Englishmen, 
 
 large woodcut , imprint cut off circa 1640 
 
 An excessively curious book of characters. The present 
 was Reed’s copy, bought at his sale by Heber for 562 2s. 
 Only three copies are known. 
 
 33 Breton (Nicolas) Wits Private Wealth stored with choise com- 
 
 modities to content the minde, title in facsimile 
 
 4to. Tho. Creede for John Tapp, 1615 
 
 34 Mackenzie’s Moral Gallantry, 1669 — Boyle’s New Experiments, 
 
 1681 — Memoirs of the Duke de la Rochefoucault, 1683 — 
 The Drudge, a Piece of Gallantry, interspersed with verse , 
 1673 — Apiarium, or a Discourse of Bees, 1678, from 
 Worlidges Husbandry 
 
 35 Sanderson (R.) Lectures on Oaths, 1655 — Manchester al Mondo, 
 
 1635 — Reflections on Eloquence, 1672 — Mercury, or the 
 Secret and Swift Messenger, 1694 — Anacreon done into 
 English, 1683 — Massinger’s Roman Actor, 1722, and 
 other plays 
 
 36 Nares (R.) Glossary, new edition 2 vol. Russell Smith , 1859 
 
 37 S. (W.) Instructions for the Increasing of Mulberie Trees, and 
 
 the breeding of silke-wormes for the making of Silke in 
 this Kingdome, woodcuts 
 
 scarce 4to. By E. A. for Eleazar Edgar, 1609 
 
 38 Gauden (Bp.) A Discourse of Auxiliary Beauty, or Artificiall 
 
 Handsomenesse 
 
 first edition, original binding \ ^ 
 
 *** Ant. a Wood ascribes this work to Dr. Gauden. It is 
 often attributed to Bp. Jeremy Taylor, and occasionally to 
 Obadiah Walker, whose share in the volume was probably 
 limited to the “ Satyrical Censures,” as given in the 
 edition of 1662. 
 
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"THE DIVILS CHARTER.” 
 
 TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. 
 
 Sir,— In a letter which appeared in your 
 columns to-day concerning the copy of 
 Bamabe Barnes’s Divils Charter , owned 
 by the late Mr. H. F. House, Mr. Spielmann 
 suggests that I may be able to state whether 
 . 1 ? af Ayr wlth a dedication is found in the 
 British Museum and Bodleian copies of the 
 In T 1904 » , when 1 reprinted the Divils 
 Charter, I examined all the copies then in 
 those two libraries, and they agreed in having 
 the dedication which Mr. Spielmann quote 
 printed on the back of the title-page, as had 
 also the copy in the Victoria and Albert 
 Museum Is not the point about the House 
 copy that in this the dedication is not printed 
 on the back of the title, but on a separate 
 loaf • Yours faithfully, 
 
 r ’ € R. B. McKERROW. 
 
 Enderley, Little Kings hill, Great Missendeh, 
 Bucks, Jan. 24. 
 
 TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. 
 Sir,— Mr. Spielmann has not troubled to 
 ascertain the facts. The Dyce copy like 
 others previously known, contains , on the 
 verso of the title-leaf the dedication which 
 you reproduce in facsimile. In the House 
 copy the title-leaf has been cancelled, and is 
 replaced by. a half-sheet (two leaves), the 
 first leaf containing a reimpression of the 
 title from the same Setting (verso blank), and 
 the second containing an epistle dedicatory 
 in place of the more formal dedication (verso 
 blank). It is this cancel that makes the copv, 
 so far as I know, unique. 
 
 I am, Sir, yours faithfully, 
 
 W. W GREG 
 
 Park Lodge, Wimbledon, S.W., Jan. 24, 
 
“THE DIVILS CHARTER.” 
 
 TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. 
 
 Sir, — In a letter which appeared in your 
 columns to-day concerning the copy of 
 Bamabe Barnes’s Divils Charier, owned 
 by the late Mr. H. F. House, Mr. Spielmann 
 suggests that I may be able to state whether 
 the leaf with a dedication is found in the 
 British Museum and Bodleian copies of the 
 play. In 1904, when I reprinted the Divils 
 Charter, I examined all the copies then in 
 those two libraries, and they agreed in having 
 the dedication which Mr. ‘Spielmann quotes 
 printed on the back of the title-page, as had 
 also the copy in the Victoria and Albert 
 Museum. Is not the point about the House 
 copy that in this the dedication is not printed 
 on the back of the title, but on a separate 
 leaf ? Yours faithfully, 
 
 R. B. McKERROW. 
 
 Enderlev, Little Kingshill, Great Missendeh, 
 Bucks, Jan. 24. 
 
 TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. 
 
 Sir, — Mr. Spielmann has not troubled to 
 ascertain the facts. The Dyce copy, like 
 others previously known, contains , on the 
 verso of the title-leaf the dedication which 
 you reproduce in facsimile. In the House 
 copy the title-leaf has been cancelled, and is 
 replaced by a half-sheet (two leaves), the 
 first leaf containing a reimpression of the 
 title from the same Setting (verso blank), and 
 the second containing an epistle dedicatory 
 in place of the more formal dedication (verso 
 blank). It is this cancel that makes the copv, 
 so far as I know, unique. 
 
 I am, Sir, yours faithfully, 
 
 W. W. GREG. 
 
 Park Lodge, Wimbledon, S.W., Jan. 24, 
 
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 Arduous (Captain Norrie). aged. list. 111b. (J. Burns) 
 Fibber (Mr. L. Cribbin), aged, list. 71b. (J. Mahoney. 
 
 sen.) . . . . . . . . . . . 
 
 Lone Band (Mr. T. Clarke)., 6 yrs, list. 31b. (T. Costello) 
 Silken Prince (Mrs. D’Arcy Baker), aged, list. lib. 
 
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 Snae Fell (Mr. F. Wilraot), aged, lOst. 131b. (Lefehve) . . 0 
 
 Victor Noir (Mrs. Morris), aged, lOst. 121b. (D. Dick). . 0 
 
 Hackdene (Mrs. E. A. V. Stanley). 4 yrs. 9st. 91b. 
 
 (T. Duggan) 0 
 
 (Winner trained by F. Hartigan, at Weyhill.) 
 Betting. — 11 to 8 agst Ardgour, 6 to 1 Fibber, 7 to 1 Snae 
 Fell, 8 to 1 Lovely Bird. 10 to 1 each agst the others. 
 
 Won by three lengths ; four lengths separated second 
 l and third. Victor Noir was fourth, aiuMlackdene last. 
 
 3.30 (3.31). — The AMATEURS’ HANDICAP STEEPLE- 
 CHASE of 150 sovs. ; second to receive 25 sovs. and 
 third 10 sovs. Three miles. 
 
 MAXTOI, b h, by Santoi— Leastown (Mr. E. Platt) 
 t 6 yrs, 12st. 31b. (Mr. Tennant).. .. .. 1 
 
 CONDOR, ch g. by Carancho — Look On (Captain 
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 QUICKFIRE, br g. by Pop Gun — Go Bang (Mr. A. 
 
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 Perseverance (Mr. G. Whitelaw), aged, list. 101b. 
 
 (car. 12st. 31b.) (Owner) o 
 
 Peter Gink (Mr. Jayne), aged, lOst. 91b. (Owner) . . 0 
 
 (Winner trained by F. Hartigan, at Weyhill.) 
 Betting. — 3 to 1 on Maxtoi. 10 to 1 each agst the others. 
 Won by six lengths ; a bad third. Only three finished. 
 
 4.0 (4.0). — ’ The MIDDLESEX HURDLE RACE of 250 
 sovs. ; second to receive 35 sovs. and third 15 sovs. Two 
 miles. 
 
 BATTLE CRUISER, b c. by Mercutio— Pitti Sing 
 
 (Mr. G. Reed). 4 yrs, lOst. 12lb. (A. Smith) . . 1 
 
 ALL AWAY, bl c, by Stornoway — Almeria Bay (Mrs. 
 
 J. Howeson), 4 yrs, list. 6lb. (F. Rees) . . . . 2 
 
 VIC’S CHOICE, gr e, by Clydebridge — Almina (Mr. D. 
 
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 Isle of Wight (Major H. Freers), 5 yrs, list. 101b. (F. 
 
 Wootton) . . . . 0 
 
 Squarson (Mr. G. Johnstbne)-, 5 yrs, list. 10lb. (G. 
 
 Duller) . . • . . 0 
 
 Bonne Race (Mrs. G. R. Russell), 5 yrs, list. 10lb. (T. 
 
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 Telemachus (Mr. R. R. Jeffrey), 4 yrs, lOst. itJlb. (A. 
 Escott) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0 
 
 (Winner trained by Pope, at Royston.) 
 
 Betting. — 7 to 4 on All Away. 7 to 2 agst Squarson. 
 7 to 1 Battle Cruiser, 100 to 8 each agst the others. 
 
 Won by four lengths ; six lengths separated second and 
 third. Isle of Wight was fourth, and Squarson last. 
 
 (The above quotations are Sporting Life prices.) 
 
 CO © ©o 
 
THE SALE ROOM. 
 
 EDITIONS OP DBYDEN. 
 
 First and other editions bf the plays and 
 other works of John Dry den formed the prin- 
 cipal feature at the sale yesterday at 
 Sotheby’s of the • late Mr. H. F. House’s 
 library. The day’s total amounted to £1,245. 
 A good many of the finer and well-bound 
 copies of the plays came from the sale, a few 
 years ago, of the library of the late H. B. 
 Wheatley, who had a special Dryden book- 
 plate designed for them. Messrs. Maggs paid 
 £29 for “The Rival Ladies,” 1664, and Messrs. 
 Dobell gave £20 for “The Indian Emperor,” 
 1667 ; “Amphitryon,” 1690, an edition of the 
 greatest rarity, made £16 10s. (Dobell)' ; “The 
 Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards,” 1672 
 — £16 10s. (Maggs) ; and “The Wild | 
 
 Gallant,” 1669— £17 10s. (Dobell). 
 
 The highest price for a single play was £59 
 (Maggs), paid for The Two Noble Kins- 
 men, 1634, by John Fletcher and W. Shake- 
 speare, according to the title page. A good 
 large copy of the very rare anonymous play, 
 A Pleasant Comedie of Faire Em, 1631, 
 brought £51 (Marcham). 
 
 Other plays included:- — Sir George 
 Etheridge, The Comical Revenge, 1664, first 
 edition — £15 (Quaritch) ; W. Heminge, The 
 Jewes Tragedy, 1662, excessively rare — £21 
 (Maggs) ; two editions of King Edward the 
 Fourth, both very rare, by T. Hey wood, a 
 fine copy of the 1613 issue — £24 (Pickering),, 
 and one of the 1619 edition — £21 (Marcham) ; 
 and B. Holyday, Technogamia: or The Mar- 
 riage of the Arts, 1618, with an interesting 
 reference to tobacco— £21 (Edwards). 
 
played as well as we could, but that the 
 other fellow played better. A great pro- 
 fessional player whom I know well sud- j 
 denly fixed me the other day with a cold j 
 and penetrating eye, and said, “ How is 
 it that I have only played once with you' 
 in all my life ? ” I could but stutter in 
 ineffectual protest, and he took the oppor- 
 tunity to pour in a broadside. In this 
 particular case he was breaking a butter- 
 fly on a wheel, -but he spoke stem, sound 
 sense for younger players. . Amateurs 
 in this country, he said, did not play 
 enough with the professionals ; if they 
 did they would not only learn much about 
 the game, but they would learn not to 
 be frightened through discovering that 
 the very best are human and not relent- 
 less machines. I . pass on his -words to 
 those who have time to profit by them. 
 Friendly golf is the best and "friendly 
 foursomes better still, if that be possible, 
 but nothing but friendliness is enervating. 
 We must not always “ sit attentive to our 
 own applause or our partners’. Other- 
 wise when some nasty, unsympathetic 
 stranger insists on hitting the ball straight 
 down the course, regardless of our feel- 
 ings, and gazes at the sky when he ought 
 to be giving us that two -foot putt, we 
 shall awake from our complacent dream 
 to find our knees knocking together. 
 
 A Difficult Problem. 1 
 
 I have wandered some way from 
 my text that it is hard work “to win 
 when you are playing badly.”' Let 
 
13 
 
 THE SALE ROOM. 
 
 DRAMATIC LITERATURE. 
 
 The sale of the late Mr. H. F. House’s 
 extensive library of dramatic literature was 
 concluded at Sotheby’s yesterday. The total 
 for the 967 lots amounted to £6,286 18s. 6d. 
 Yesterday’s portion included the very numerous 
 editions of, and books about, Shakespeare, 
 many of considerable rarity, but none of any 
 great commercial value. The only one of 
 note was the sumptuous edition of Shake- 
 speare’s “ Works,” in 16 folio volumes, 
 edited by J. O. Halliwell, 1853-65, and strictly 
 limited to 150 sets. This one realized £48 
 (Maggs). The highest price, £88 (Maggs) was 
 paid for a fine copy of the anonymous play. 
 The Famous History e of the Life and Death of 
 Captain Thomas Stukeley , 1605, in red crashed 
 morocco binding; this was bought at the 
 Hath sale in 1918 for £68. A collection of 14 
 pjays by J. Shirley, nearly all first editions, 
 1632-55, brought £60 ; a very fine copy of 
 Sir John Suckling, “ Fragmenta Aurea,” 
 1646, first edition, in scarlet morocco, brought 
 £44— both bought by Mr. Dobell; another 
 copy of the “ Fragmenta Aurea,” same 
 edition, in old vellum — £39 (Quaritch) ; an 
 old play, Sxoetnam , The Woman Hater, 1620- — 
 £43 (Pickering) ; this was bought for £27 at 
 the Huth sale. Two unpublished MSS., that 
 of Mildmay Fane Earl of Westmorland’s 
 masque, Don Phoebo’s Triumph, 1645, and 
 Candia Bestaurata, 1640, with corrections in 
 the hand of the Earl, were bought by the 
 Rosenbach Company, of New York, for £50. 
 
A BOOK-COLLECTING 
 ROMANCE. 
 
 MR. HOUSE’S DRAMATIC 
 LIBRARY. 
 
 In The Time* of April 18 last there ap- 
 peared some particulars of the will of the late 
 Mr. Henry Frederick House, a retired Indian 
 Civil servant, who died suddenly at, the 
 Clmring Cross Hotel, and on whose body an 
 inquest was held at Westminster on March 
 At the time of the inquest a number of highly 
 imaginative stories were current as to "Mr. 
 House being the “ loneliest man ” in London. 
 The fact is that Mr. House was, like many 
 other men, past and present, absorbed in one 
 hobby — that of book-collecting — and con- 
 fined his friendship to a few book-collectors 
 and booksellers of tastes similar to his - own. 
 
 Mr. House was bom in 1864. and went from 
 Bristol Grammar School to Balliol College, 
 Oxford ; entering the Indian Civil Service in 
 1882, he retired in October, 1911, with 
 pension of £1,000 a year. For some years:?)© 
 was the Government opium agent at Benares. 
 He had been practically all his life — before, 
 during, and after his career in India — an 
 inveterate book-collector, specializing more 
 particularly in English drama ; and it was his 
 intention on retiring from India to take 
 country house and there properly to arrange 
 his bibliographical treasures. But his ambi- 
 tion was never realized. Large quantities of 
 books were dispatched to him while be was 
 in India, and these, with all his other pur- 
 chases, were warehoused in large boxes, the 
 contents of each box being well known to 
 him. Every now and then two or three of 
 these boxes would be sent to him at his hotel 
 and carefully gone through and notes made : 
 and then other boxes would be taken out and 
 returned to. the warehouse. No one but himself 
 knew the extent and variety of his literary 
 treasures. The sale of his library was left 
 to the discretion of one of his oldest friends, 
 Mr. Percy J. Dobell, of Bruton -street. Bond- 
 street. W.i who is now engaged in cataloguing 
 the books for sale by auction at Messrs. 
 Sotheby’s this year. 
 
 As a library of English dramatic literature 
 Mr. House’s collection will be the most exten- 
 sive and important to come under the hammer 
 for many years. It is especially rich in the 
 quarto plays, Shakespearian and other,, issued 
 during the seventeenth century. It comprises 
 practically all the first and other quarto edi- 
 tions of Dryden’s plays, as well as the 
 eighteenth-century editions of Shakespeare. 
 
 Among the outstanding rarities may be 
 mentioned Sir William Alexander, Earl of 
 Stirling’s Monarchicke T rage die, 1616. with 
 the portrait, which appears in only two or 
 three other known copies ; two editions., with 
 the date, 166*4, of Sir George Etheridge's 
 Comical Revenge, both editions unknown until 
 recent years ; Barnes’s Divils Charier , 1607. 
 probably unique with the dedication ; and the 
 excessively rare Eastward Ho ! 1605, the 
 joint work of Chapman, Jonson, and Marston. 
 
 Modern Plays. 
 
 The library is also rich in modern editions 
 of English plays, the cpllective editions issued 
 by many publishers, and nearly all in large- 
 paper sets. In books of reference, such as 
 Arber’s reprints of the Stationers’ Hall 
 'Registers, Fleay’s and other critical and his- 
 torical works on the English dramatists, the 
 library is also singularly rich, and there is 
 an extensive and varied selection of books 
 m the lighter phases of modem literature. 
 The auction sale will probably extend over 
 several days. ( 
 
 One of the clauses of the will, as stated in 
 The Times of April 18, is that all his 
 editions of Shakespeare, with his MS. notes, 
 shall be burnt. The probable reason for this 
 unfortunate clause is that others should not 
 avail themselves of his own notes and com- 
 ments or profit by his labours. Mr. M. H. 
 SpieJmann — who was well acquainted with 
 the late Mr. House — in a letter in The Times 
 of April. 21, expressed a hope that this clause 
 may be overruled ; it is true, a£ he pointed 
 out, that “a man has a right to do ns he 
 pleases with his own.” But, wisely or other- 
 wise, and for reasons which cannot now with 
 exact certainty be known, the late Mr. House’s 
 instructions would seem to be so definite that 
 there is no way of getting over them. But 
 j|part from these books with his MS. notes, 
 the sale will be full of interest. 
 
orOTTEN. — Disabled ex-Service men arriving 
 ham Palace, Where they had tea yesterday at 
 on of the King and Queen. The party was 
 lized by the Not Forgotten Association. 
 
 'E METHODISM. — Mow Cop, the hill 
 shire ’ border, which is threatened with 
 iced from an old print. Primitive 
 s founded here in 1807 
 
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 en on the Humber. On the left is 4 
 ring the tests. 
 
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 $t / Ji Grew (N*) Anatomy of Vegetables, 1672 — Baker’s Poems, 
 
 Hicathrift, Daellum inter Juvenem quendam fortissimum, 
 cui nomen Hicathrift, et gigantem ferocissimum qui 
 publicos Agros (vulgo Marshland Smee) occupaverat, 
 1697 — Grandeur of France, 1673 — Compendious View of 
 Tumults, 1685 
 
 40 Heywood (J.) Three Hundreth of Epigrammes uppon three 
 hundreth Proverbes, and a fifth and sixte hundred of Epi- 
 grammes ; black letter, imperfect, 1576 — Rights of the 
 Kingdom or Customs, &c. 4 to. 1682 
 
 41 Rusden (Moses, Bee-master to Charles II) Further Discovery of 
 
 Bees, plates Printed for the Author , 1679 
 
 42 Somner (William) Treatise of the Roman Ports and Forts in 
 
 Kent, portrait Oxford , 1693 
 
 43 Whitelocke (Sir J.) Liber Famelicus Camd. Soc. 1858 
 
 44 Holies (Lord) Grand Question and the Case of Thomas Skinner, 
 complaining of the East India Company, with MS. notes, 
 and made up with MS . 1669 — Vulgar Errors by Battell, 
 1683 — Tarlton’s Remedy for theWarres, 1648 — Discourse 
 of Parliaments, 1677 — Langford on Fruit Trees, 1681 
 
 45 Cooper (W. D.) Savile Correspondence, Letters from Henry 
 
 Savile, temp. Charles II, and from his brother, the Marquess 
 of Halifax 4 to. Camd. Soc. 1858 
 
 46 Cassandra, the FaWd Romance, 1652 — The Mysterie of Rhe- 
 torique, 1657 — Account of the Siege of Stretin, 1678 — 
 The Prince of Conde, 1675 — Milton’s Defence of the 
 People of England, 1692— Bartholinus de Unicornu, 
 1678 
 
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 /i Hopperi (J.) in Veram Jurisprudentiam libri octo, with more 
 
 than one autograph signature , two pages of MS. and 
 numerous marginal notes , in the handwriting of the cele- 
 brated Gabriel Harvey 8vo. Colon. 1580 
 
 The autograph on the title is, — Gabrielis Harvey, 1580. 
 
 48 Bell (R.) Poets — Wyatt, Greene and Marlowe, Surrey 3 vol. 
 
 49 Grimaldi Shakespeare, 1853, and other Shakespeariana— Piso’s 
 Conspiracy, a Tragedy, 1676 
 
 /C.f uitt 50 Decker (Thomas) Wonder of a Kingdome 4to. 1636 
 
 Lamothe (C. G.) Inspiration of the New Testament, 1694 — 
 Boyle’s Experiments, 1664 — Speculum Juventutis or a 
 Mirror of Youth, 1671 — Mun’s Englands Benefit by 
 Foreign Trade, 1698 — Two Letters of Advice, 1691 
 
 52 Playford (J.) Catch that Catch Can, or the Musical Companion, 
 Glees, Ayres, &c. 
 
 rare, but imperfect Mo. 1667 
 
 53 Way to True Happinesse leading to the Gate of Knowledge, 
 
 1642 — Sternhold and Hopkins’ Whole Book of Psalmes 
 collected into English Meeter, 1661. 8i>o. in 1 vol. 
 
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 ■3 U 54 Monk’s Hood Pull’d Off, or the Capuchin Friar Described, 
 front. 1671 — Boyle on Human Blood, 1684 — An Exact 
 Abridgement of the Trials, 1690 — Jenner’s Prerogative of 
 Primogeniture, 1685 — Boyle’s Origine of Formes and 
 Qualities, 1677 
 
 ' ' (o 55 Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature, vol VI, part l 
 
 — Precis Analytique des Travaux de l’Academie Imperiale 
 de Rouen, 1857 2 vol. 
 
 - 3 4 56 Ovid’s Metamorphosis by G. Sandys, 1678 — The Key of Historie, 
 
 1635 — Treatise of the Interest of Princes, 1641 — Cham- 
 berlayne’s Present State of England, 1679 — Taylor’s 
 Measures of Friendship, portrait , 1684 
 
 ' 3 . 57 Reflections on Varilla’s History, 1686 — Dialogue Between a 
 
 Popish Priest and an English Protestant, 1670 — The 
 Italian Convert, newes from Italy, 1639 — Heylin’s Help 
 to English History, 1671 — Colbert’s Ghost, 1684 — Corn- 
 pleat Politician, 1656 
 
 6~ . 58 Markham (Gervase) Souldiers Accidence, or an Introductorie 
 
 into Military Discipline, with the Cavallarie or Trayning 
 of Horses 
 
 scarce 4 to. 1625 
 
 ' U- . 59 Marlowe (Christopher) Troublesome Raigne and Lamentable 
 Death of Edward the Second, with the Tragicall Fall of 
 Proud Mortimer ; also, the Life and Death of Peirs 
 Gavestone 4/o. Henry Bell, 1622 
 
 J Zyt-i 60 Turnebull (Charles) Perfect and Easie Treatise of the Use of 
 the Cselestial Globe, for the unskilful in the studie of 
 Astronomie, uncut , slightly wormed 
 exceedingly rare Symon Water son, 1597 
 
 - 3- , 61 Burton (R.) Wars in England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1683 — 
 
 Adam out of Eden, 1659 — Treatise on the bitter Purging 
 Salt, 1697 — The New State of England, 1694 — The 
 Princess of Cleves, 1679 
 
 -5 62 Waterhous (E.) Apologie for Learning, 1653 — Zayde, a Spanish 
 
 Romance, front. 1678 — Boyle’s Experiments, 1674 — 
 Loyal Poems and Satyrs, 1685 — The Four Ages of England, 
 a Poem, 1675 
 
 • 4 6 63 Saul at Endor, 1692 — Doctrine of the Bible, 1 687 — Rawleigh’s 
 
 Marrow of Historie, 1650 — A Serious Proposal to the 
 Ladies, 1695 — Magna Charta, 1618 — The Cid, a Tragi- 
 comedy, 1650 
 
 3 -64 History of Catiline, 1684 — Raleigh’s Arts of Empire, 1692 — 
 Carter (M.) Honor Redivivus, or an Analysis of Honour 
 and Armory, 1655 — D. (J.) Polemicall Short Discussions, 
 1651 
 
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 65 Pasquin Risen from the Dead, or his own Relation of a late J( f ft- 
 Voyage he made to the other World in a Discourse with 
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 66 Heylyn (P.) English History, 1680 — Machiavel’s Discourses, • 
 1636 — The Ephesian and Cimmerian Matrons, 1668 — An 
 English Expositor, 1686 
 
 Essay in Defence of the Female Sex, in which are inserted the . 
 Characters of a Pedant, a Beau, &c. cur. front, of the 
 Compleat Beau 1697 
 
 Scarronides, or Yirgile Travestie, a Mock Poem, 1678 — History • 
 of Justin, 1664 — Ascham’s Discourse on Government, 
 1648 — The Mysterie of Rhetorique Unvail’d, 1657 
 Middleton (T.) Trick to Catch the Old One, as it hath beene 3' 
 lately Acted by the Children of Paules 
 a very fine copy 4 to. 
 
 At London , Printed by George Eld , and are to be 
 sold at his house in Fleete Lane at the signe of 
 the Printers Presse, 1608 
 
 # # # This is the only copy known with this imprint. 
 
 W. (I.) Charitable Physician and Apothecary 4to. 1639 • 
 
 Barrey (Lo.) Ram Alley or Merrie Trickes, a Comedy divers times % 
 heretofore acted by the Children of the King’s Revels 
 
 4 to. G. Eld, 1611 
 
 Travels through Flanders, Holland, &c., 1693 — Poems by a late ■ 
 Scholar of Eaton, 1689 — The Painters’ Voyage of Italy, 
 front, but no portraits, 1679 — The Patriarch Unmonarch’ d, 
 front. 1681 — Charter of Charles II to the City of London 
 
 5 vol. 
 
 War between the English and Dutch, 1671— A Treatise of - 
 Humane Reason, 1675 — Tudor Prince of Wales, a Novel, 
 1678 — The Siege of Antwerp, n. d. 4 vol. 
 
 The Abyssinian Philosophy, 1697 — Account of John the Third, - 
 King of Poland, 1684 — A Description of Candia, 1670 — 
 The Situation of Paradise, 1694 4 vol. 
 
 75 Europe a Slave, 1681 — The Faithful Analist, n. d. — The Modern , 
 
 Courtier, 1687 — Directions for a Godly Life, 1680 — The 
 French Gardener, 1672 5 vol. 
 
 76 An Augustine Friar his Epistles, 1673 — A Discourse of Con- ^ 
 
 stancy , front. 1654 — Seasonable Reflections on Scoffing, 
 1676 — Mathematical Magick, 1691 4 vol. 
 
 77 Wright (T.) History of Ireland, 27 parts 
 
 78 Butler (S.) Works, ed. Bell 3 vol. 1855 
 
 79 Butlers Ghost, or Hudibras the Fourth Part, with Reflections 
 
 upon these times, in verse 1682 
 
 80 Shakespeare. — The Universal Passion, a Comedy altered from 
 
 Much Ado about Nothing, two copies, 8 vo. 1737 — Henry 
 the Fourth, from a contemporary MS. Shah. Soc. 1845-r* 
 Account of the Incidents of the Tempest, 1809, from the 
 Variorum 
 
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 81 Shakespeare. Love Betray’d, or the Agreeable Disapointment, 
 
 partly taken from Twelfth Night, 4 to. 1703— The Jew of / 
 
 Venice, a Comedy, 4to. 1701 — Measure for Measure, or 
 Beauty the Best Advocate, altered from Shakespeare, 4to. 
 
 1700 r 
 
 82 Shakespeare. The Fairy Queen, an Opera represented at the 
 
 Queen’s Theatre, altered from the Midsummer Night’s 
 
 oo i Dream 4t0 ■ lg 9 2 
 
 83 Shakespeare. Seven preliminary leaves from the third folio (k 
 
 edition / 0 /. 1664 
 
 84 Fage (John) Speculum ^Igrotorum, the Sicke Mens Glasse, 
 
 whereunto is annexed a treatise of the four Humors 
 hlach Irtttr, with a curious Epilogue of the A.uthor in verse 
 4to. William Lugger upon Holhorne-bridge, 1606 
 *# # Another copy, in the Malone collection, is the only one 
 we can trace 
 
 85 Shakespeare. The Ingratitude of a Common-Wealth, or the Fall Jc 
 
 of Caius Martius Coriolanus, altered from Shakespeare 
 two copies 4t 0m 1682 
 
 86 Shakespeare (W.) Works, edited from ed. 1623, with various 
 
 readings, notes, &c., by Richard Grant White, vol. 2 to 5 , 
 all published % vo . Boston , TJ. S. 1857 
 
 87 Shakespeare. Hamlet, ed. 1603, reprint, uncut 8 vo. 1825 J l/LJjfctf 
 
 88 Shakespeare (W.) Julius Caesar as acted at the Theatre Royal 
 
 4/o. 1691 
 
 89 Shakespeare. Another edition 4 to. n. d. 
 
 90 Shakespeare (W.) Macbeth, a Tragedy, with all the Alterations, 
 
 Amendments, and New Songs 4 to. 1695 
 
 91 Troilus and Cressida, or Truth Found Out too Late, a Tragedy 
 
 as it is acted at the Duke’s Theatre, 4 *o. 1679 — Shadwell 
 (Thomas) History of Timon of Athens, the Man Hater, 
 as it is acted at the Duke’s Theatre, 4 to. 1688 
 
 92 Shakespeare’s Jests, no title 8vo. circa 1770 3 tU 
 
 * #* It is difficult to account for the extreme rarity of this 
 quaint but very gross collection, in which a number of 
 anecdotes are fathered on Shakespeare. Only two copies 
 besides the present have occurred to our notice, and one 
 of those also wants the title. It does not appear to be 
 noticed in any list of Shakesperiana. 
 
 93 Shakespeare. Facsimile of the Title-page of the First Edition of 
 
 Lear, 1608, two copies — Facsimile of the Anecdote re- 
 specting Shakespeare in Jocabella, or the Cabinet of 
 Conceits, six copies 
 
 94 Canary Islands. A Proclamation prohibiting the Importation of (P&. 
 
 wines of the Growth of the Canary Islands 
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 Shakespeare. An Excellent Ballad, intituled the Constancy of 
 Susanna, to an excellent new Tune, Licensed according to 
 Order, woodcut , the ballad quoted in Twelfth Night , an 
 early rude sheet copy, printed probably about 1670 
 Shakespeare. Sheet facsimile of the various autographs of the 
 poet, published by the late T. Rodd, two copies 1843 
 Bert (Edmund) Approved Treatise of Hawkes and Hawking, 
 divided into three Bookes, woodcut, corner of title torn 
 very scarce 4to. 1619 
 
 Shakespeare. Facsimile of the last page of the first edition of 
 Hamlet, 1603, two copies, one on India paper (only six 
 copies lithographed by Mr. Ashbee) 
 
 Bell (R.) Songs from the Dramatists 8 vo. 1854 
 
 Kirkman (F.) Wits, or Sport upon Sport, in selected Pieces of 
 Drollery, 8 vo. very imperfect , 1673; also, a fragment of 
 the same work 
 
 Shakespeare (W.) Whole Contention between the Two Famous 
 Houses of York and Lancaster, a fragment of twelve 
 leaves 4 to. 1619 
 
 Jackson (Thomas) London’s New Yeeres Gift, or the Un- 
 couching of the Foxe, see MS. notes by Dr. Bliss 
 extremely rare \to. 1609 
 
 Saltonstall (Wye) Picturee Loquentes, or Pictures drawne 
 forth in Characters, with a Poem of a Maid 
 a remarkably fine copy \2mo. 1635 
 
 This edition contains thirty-eight characters ; the poem is 
 printed with woodcuts, top and bottom, and occupies 15 
 pages 
 
 Kirkman (F) Wits, a large fragment 1673 
 
 Royal Charter of Confirmation granted by King James II to 
 the Trinity House, Deptford, front. 1685 
 
 Thieves. The Fraternitye of Yacabondes, as wel of ruflyng 
 Vacabondes as of beggerly, 1575, uncut reprint, 1813 
 Peacham (H.) Valley of Yarietie, no front. 1638 
 
 Treatise of Use and Custome, 4*o. 1638— Charlton (Walter) 
 Natural History of Nutrition, Life, and Voluntary Motion, * 
 4 to. 1659 
 
 Libri (G.) Catalogue of Manuscripts ; and others 3 parcels < 
 Ludlow (Edmund) Memoirs, portrait 3 vol. 1698 
 
 Prideaux (N.) Introduction for Reading Histories 
 
 4fo. Oxford, 1664 
 
 Act of Tonnage, 1675 — Reflections on Eloquence, 1672 — 
 Religio Stoici, by Sir G. Mackenzie, Edinburgh, 1665- 
 Satyrs on the Jesuits, in verse, 1681 4 vol. 
 
 Collection of the Debates in 1694 and 1695 4to. 1695 
 
 Fulbecke (W.) Abridgement, or rather a Bridge of Roman 
 Histories to passe the neerest way from Titus Livius 
 
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 Polybius, translated by Sir H. Shears 2 vol. 1698 
 
 Jorden (E.) Discourse of Naturall Bathes, especially of our 
 Bathes at Bathe in Sommersetshire, 1631 — The Schoole 
 of Salernes, black letter, intermixed with verses , 1617 — 
 Certaine Workes of Chirurgerie, newlye compiled and 
 published by Thomas Gale, black letter, 1586 — A Rich 
 Storehouse or Treasury for the Diseased, black letter, 
 1596 4to. in 1 vol. 
 
 Sutcliffe (M.) Practice, Proceedings, and Lawes of Armes, 
 described out of the doings of most valiant and expert 
 Captaines 
 
 black letter 4to. C. Barker , 1593 
 
 Culpeper (N.) London Dispensatory 8 vo. 1659 
 
 See an allusion to Banks’ Horse at p. 210. 
 
 Plat (Sir Hugh) Garden of Eden 12 mo. 1653 
 
 James I. Speech in Parliament, with the Discovery of the 
 Treason of the Gunpowder Plot 4/o. 1605 
 
 Meaux (B.) Maxims and Reflections on Plays 8 vo. 1699 
 Howell (James) Lexicon Tetraglotton, the part containing the 
 Lexicon, front, valuable for archaisms fol. 1660 
 
 Douce (F.) Illustrations of Shakespeare 1839 
 
 Mynshull (G.) Essaves and Characters of a Prison and 
 Prisoners, written by G. M. of Grayes Inn, gent., with 
 some new additions, woodcut 
 
 4to. M. Walhancke , 1638 
 Wadsworth (James) English Spanish Pilgrime, or a new Dis- 
 covers of Spanish Popery, and Jesuiticall Stratagems, 
 first edition 
 
 very scarce 4 to. 1629 
 
 This first edition was unknown to Wood or Watt. 
 Sherwood (R.) Dictionarie English and French fol. 1632 
 Long (T.) History of Popish Plots, 1684 — D. (E.) MachiavePs 
 Discourses upon the first Decade of Livy, 1636 — History 
 of the Managements of Cardinal Mazarine, tom. I, part 2, 
 and part 3, 1672-3 4 vol. 
 
 Norris (J.) Miscellanies, Poems, &c. 1692 — Two Discourses on 
 the Wits of Men, &c. 1669 — The Sage Senator, 1660— 
 Of Education of Young Gentlemen, 1673 — Wingate’s 
 Abridgement, 1666 
 
 State Mysteries of the Jesuites, 1623 — The Prerogative of the 
 Parliaments in England, 1628 — A Letter to Mr. T. H. 
 late Minister now Fugitive, 1609 
 Catholics. An Answere to Certaine Scandalous Papers scattered 
 abroad under Colour of a Catholicke Admonition 
 
 4to. R. Barker, 1606 
 
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 <3K CThOUX^ 138 
 (f$T 139 
 
 . i<#5C5zr:i40 
 
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 J. OIJI^ 142 
 °kc*Jzi 143 
 
 Kean (C.) Tempest, 1857 — Henry the Eighth, 1855 — Winter’s 
 Tale, 1856, two copies 
 
 Shakespeare. The Legend of Shakespeare’s Crab Tree, with a 
 descriptive Account showing its relation to the Poet’s 
 traditional history, illustrated with plates 
 
 4to. Privately printed, 1857 
 Pamphlets, some Shaksperian — Staunton’s and Knight’s 
 Shakespeare, various parts, &c. 3 parcels 
 
 Percivale (R.) Dictionarie in Spanish and English, enlarged by 
 Minsheu, with contemporary MS. notes 
 
 fol. E. Bollifant , 1599 
 Shakespeare (W.) Troublesome Raigne of King John, contain- 
 ing the Entrance of Lewis the French King’s sonne, with 
 the Poysoning of King John by a Monke 
 an unusually large copy, but incomplete in both parts 
 
 4 to. Aug. Mathewes for J. Dewe, 1622. 
 Shakespeare (W.) First Part of the Contention of the Two 
 Famous Houses of Yorke and Lancaster, with the Death 
 of the good Duke Humfrey, a large fragment 1619 
 
 Tobacco. James I’s Counterblaste to Tobacco 
 an early quarto edition , without title. 
 
 *** This appears to be a contemporary separate quarto edition, 
 unnoticed by bibliographers. 
 
 Gay ton (E.) Wil Bagnal’s Ghost, or the Merry Devil of Gad- 
 munton in his Perambulation of the Prisons of London, 
 in prose and verse, fine copy of a scarce and curious, but 
 exceedingly gross work 4 to. 1655 
 
 Bindley’s copy sold for £3 6s. 
 
 Twici (William) Art of Hunting, by William Twici, huntsman 
 to King Edward the Second, printed from MS. Phillipps, 
 with preface, translation, notes, &c. plates 
 
 4 to. Daventry, 1843 
 *%* Only 25 copies privately printed. The present is believed 
 to be the only one that has occurred for public sale. 
 Annotations of Johnson and Steevens and the various Com- 
 mentators upon Shakespeare’s Richard the Second, large 
 paper and uncut , 1787 — Reed’s Shakespeare, vols. II and 
 III 8wo. 1803 
 
 Gay ton (Edmund) Art of Longevity, or a Diselecticall Institution, 
 in verse, a fine copy , but slightly wormed, rare 
 
 4 to. Printed for the Author, 1659 
 *** Sold at Bindley’s sale for £4 12s. 
 
 Buchanan (George) De Jure Regni apud Scotos Dialogus, 4to. 
 1579 — Yenner (T.) Via Recta ad Yitam Longam, with a 
 Compendious Treatise of the famous Baths of Bathe, 1628 
 Divine Judgment and Mercy Exemplified in surprising instances 
 of John D uncalf of Kings Swinford, the Earl of Rochester, 
 front, and woodcuts 1746 
 
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 . / . 144 Shaw (S.) Words made Visible, a play represented in a Country 
 School, both parts 1679 
 
 .3 145 Holliband (C.) Treatise for Declining of Verbes ( useful for 
 
 archaisms) 12mo. 1641 — Stanbrigii (J.) Vocabularium 
 Metricum, in Latin and English 
 black letter, very curious for archaic words 4to . 1636 
 
 v <£ , 146 Vaughan (W.) Directions for Health, Naturall and Artificiall, 
 with two Treatises on the Eyes, 1633 — The Schoole of 
 Salernes Regiment of Health, with a necessary Discourse 
 of all Sorts of Fish in use amongst us, black letter, inter- 
 spersed with poetry , 1649 
 
 • Cd . 147 Carleton’s Tithes Examined, 1606 — Epistola ad Regiam 
 
 Societatem, 1693 — Apparatus, woodcuts , 1627 — Fennor 
 (W.) Compters Commonwealth, or a Voyage to the 
 Infernal Island, made up with MS. 161 7 
 
 • y L 14P Shakespeare. Facsimile, made by Netherclift for Mr. J. P. 
 
 Collier, of the letter of Lord Southampton (II. S.) in 
 which Shakespeare is mentioned a folio sheet 
 
 - / . 149 Collier (J.) Defence of the Short View of the Immorality of the 
 
 English Stage 1699 
 
 • lb . 150 Jonson (Ben) Fountaine of Self Love, or Cynthia’s Revels, as 
 
 it hath beene sundry times privately acted in the Black 
 Friers by the Children of her Majesties Chappell 
 first edition 4to. Imprinted for Walter Burre , 1601 
 
 *** There are a few worm-holes, but not into the letter-press, 
 and the bottom of sig. d 4 is slightly cut into one line 
 only, but on the whole it would make a fine copy in the 
 hands of a careful binder. It is, probably, the rarest of all 
 Jonson’s separate plays, and very seldom occurs for sale. 
 No copy is cited by Lowndes. 
 
 • 44 151 Old quarto plays a parcel 
 
 / 152 Fletcher (J.) Rule a Wife and Have a Wife, 4to. Oxford , 1640 
 
 — Massinger’s Renegado, acted at the Private Play-house 
 in Drury-lane, first edition 1630 
 
 . / 153 Rowley (William) New Wonder, a Woman never Vext, a 
 
 pleasant conceited Comedy, sundry times acted 
 
 4 to. 1632 
 
 . / 4 154 Rowley (William) Tragedy called All’s Lost by Lust, acted by 
 
 the Lady Elizabeth’s Servants 
 
 an old prompt copy , marked for acting 4to. 1633 
 
 1 55 Deloney (Thomas) Historie of the Gentle Craft, a most merry 
 and pleasant History, very fit to passe away the tedious- 
 ness of the long Winter’s Evenings 
 first edition, of extreme rarity , but very imperfect 
 
 Edward White , 1598 
 
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 <2)° 164 
 
 7v<Mi* 165 
 
 (fib cnj-L^je_ 1 66 
 
 ^.(R-(LWr 167 
 
 (fat. 
 
 168 
 
 Kyd (T.) Tragedie of Solimon and Perseda, reprint of 1599. 
 Hooper’s Reproof to the Rehearsal Transprosed 1673 
 
 Jordan (Thomas) Money is an Asse, a Comedy as it hath been 
 Acted with good Applause, one of the scarcest plays of the 
 time of Charles II 4to. 1668 
 
 Old quarto plays a parcel 
 
 Chapman (George) Monsieur d’ Olive, a Comedie, as it was 
 sundrie times acted by her Majesties Children at the 
 Blacke-friers 
 
 FIRST EDITION 4*0. 1606 
 
 Massinger (P.) Maid of Honour 
 
 FIRST EDITION 1532 
 
 Heywood (J.) Mery Play of Johan Johan, reprint , 1533 — The 
 Night Walker, or the Little Thief, MS. title , 1640 — 
 Kempe (A. J.) Loseley Manuscripts, 1836 
 Aristippus, or the Joviall Philosopher, presented in a Private 
 Shew', to which is added the Conceited Pedler 
 an unusually large copy 4 to. 1631 
 
 *** Although this play cannot be considered a rarity, yet it is 
 far from common in a fine clean state like the present 
 copy. Its curiosity, in a literary point of view, we do not 
 remember to have seen noticed. In addition to the allu- 
 sions to Mulde-Sack, Robin Goodfellow, Taylor the water- 
 poet, Banks horse, Scoggins’ fleas, Skelton, Fennor, &c., 
 there is a ridicule of the prologue of Shakspere’s Troilus 
 and Cressida, and at p. 18 is a line which Milton has 
 nearly verbally copied in his poem of 1’ Allegro. 
 
 Middleton (T.) Michaelmas Terme, as it hath beene sundry 
 Times Acted by the Children of Paules, newly corrected 
 
 4fo. 1630 
 
 Tighe (R. R.) and Davis (J. E.) Annals of Windsor, being a 
 History of the Castle and Town, with some Account of 
 Eton, 2 vol. plates 1858 
 
 Way (A.) Promptorium Parvulorum sive Clericorum. Lexicon 
 Anglo-Latinum Princeps, 2 vok with MS. notes and cor- 
 rections 4 to. Camden Soc. 1843-53 
 
 Recorde (Robert) Grounde of Artes, teaching the Worke and 
 Practice of Arithmeticke both in Whole numbers and in 
 Fractions 
 
 black letter, imperfect , but curious from containing a large 
 number of old pen-and-ink comical miniatures 
 
 Sir Gyles Goosecappe Knight, a Comedie presented bv the 
 Children of the Chappell 
 FIRST edition, fine copy 
 
 4*o. Printed by John Windet for E Blunt, 1606 
 
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 169 Middleton (Thomas) Inner Temple Masque, or Masque of 
 
 Heroes, presented as an Entertainment for many worthy 
 Ladies by Gentlemen of the same ancient and noble house 
 first edition, fine copy , but the head-line cut into 
 
 Ato. Printed for John Browne , 1619 
 *** The present copy, which is the Roxburghe, and sold at 
 that sale for £2 16s., is the only one cited by Lowndes. 
 
 170 Day (John) lie of Gals, as it hath been often playd in the 
 
 Blacke Fryars by the Children of the Revels 
 first edition, an impression of great rarity, fine copy , but 
 the last sheet mended Ato. John Hodgets, 1606 
 
 171 Nero. The Tragedie of Claudius Tiberius Nero, Rome’s 
 
 greatest Tyrant, truly represented out of the purest 
 Records of those Times 
 
 first edition, a fine clean copy of an impression almost 
 always found in bad condition , one edge of dedication 
 slightly cut Ato. Printed for Francis Burton, 1607 
 
 172 Marlowe (C.) Troublesome Raigne and Lamentable Death of 
 
 Edward the Second, King of England, with the Tragicall 
 Fall of Proud Mortimer, 1622 — Marlowe (C.) Famous 
 Tragedy of the Rich Jew of Malta, as it was Play’d at 
 White-hall and the Cock-pit, 1633 
 fine copies, morocco, gilt edges Ato. in 1 vol. 
 
 173 Hey wood (Thomas) Golden Age, or the Lives of Jupiter and 
 
 Saturne, as it hath beene sundry times acted at the Red 
 Bull by the Queenes Majesties Servants 
 large copy, with contemporary MS. notes, very scarce 
 
 Ato. Printed for William Barr eng er, 1611 
 
 1 74 Greene (Robert) Spanish Masquerado, wherein under a plea- 
 
 sant devise is discovered effectuallie the pride and inso- 
 lencie of the Spanish Estate 
 
 black letter, fine copy 1589 
 
 *** Following the dedication to Hugh Ofley, Sheriff of 
 London, is a sonnet in French by Thomas Lodge. 
 
 175 Lilly (John) Dramatic Works, edited by Fairholt, 2 vol. 1858 
 
 176 Palsgrave (J.) Dictionarie of Substantives and Adjectives, 
 
 English and French, taken from the reprint made by the 
 French Government Ato. 1530 
 
 177 Stephen (H.) World of Wonders, or an Introduction to a 
 
 Treatise touching the Conformitie of Ancient and Moderne 
 Wonders 
 
 first and rarest edition folio. Edinburgh, 1608 
 
 *** The phraseology of Shakespeare is better illustrated by 
 this work than by any other book existing. — Caldecott. 
 
 1 78 Fletcher (P.) Purple Island, or the Isle of Man, together with 
 
 Piscatorie Eclogs 
 
 large paper, wanting after p. 102 in the latter portion 
 
 Ato. Camb. 1633 
 
 
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 179 Harrison (W.) Historicall Description of the Hand of Britaine> . // f 
 
 with a briefe rehersall of the nature and qualities of the 
 people of England, and such commodities as are to be 
 found in the same 
 
 black letter, with the index , this curious treatise complete, 
 taken from Holinshed folio. 1586 
 
 180 Rowlands (S.) Martin Mark-all, Beadle of Bridewell, his De- S Jt 2 . 
 
 fence and Answere to the Belman of London, with the 
 long-concealed Originall and Regiment of Rogues, gathered 
 out of the Chronicle of Crackeropes, and the Legend of 
 Lossels (Gordonstoun, £5) 
 
 black letter 4 to. Printed for John Budge , 1610 
 
 181 Levins (P.) Manipulus Vocabulorum, a Dictionarie of English 
 and Latin Wordes ; a transcript of this very curious 
 rhyming dictionary , remarkable for its large number of 
 archaisms folio. 15/0 
 
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 182 Wirtzung (C.) General Practise of Physicke, conteyning all in- v 
 ward and outward parts of the body, by J. Mosan 
 black letter folio. George Bishop, 1605 
 
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 183 Mirour for Magistrates, wherein may bee seene Examples £2 . 
 
 passed in this Realme 
 black letter, poor copy , last leaf defective 
 
 Ato. Henry Marsh, 1587 
 
 184 Wodroephe (John) Marrow of the French Tongue, with . $ . 
 
 Phrases, Letters Missive, Sentences, Proverbs, Theames, 
 
 &c. a curious book folio. R. Meighen, 1625 
 
 185 Butler (S.) Hudibras, ed. Grey, 2 vol. wants one plate, 8 vo. • 
 1799 — Palsgrave (J.) Eclaircissement de la Langue 
 Franchise, publics par F. Genin, from ed. 1530, 2 vol. 
 imperfect, Ato. Paris, 1852 
 
 186 Imperfect Books, viz.: Kelway (Thomas) Astronomical Dis- « 
 course of the Judgement of Nativities, 1593 — Dariot’s As- ' 
 
 trologicall Judgement of the Starres, 1598— A Rich Store- 
 house or Treasurie for the Diseased, black letter, 1601— 
 
 The Secrets of Alexis of Piemont, black letter, 1614 — 
 
 Blun devil’s Exercises, with a Plaine Description of Mer- 
 cator’s Globes, and the two Globes lately set forth by M. 
 Molinaxe and Sir Francis Drake in his first Voyage into 
 the Indies, black letter, 1636 — Borde (Andrew) Breviarie 
 of Health, wherin doth folow remedies for all maner of 
 Sicknesses and Diseases the which may be in Man or 
 Woman, plate inserted, black letter, Thomas East, 1575 
 — Ovid’s Metamorphosis, translated by Golding, black 
 letter — Bulwer’s Man Transformed, or the Artificiall 
 Changeling, woodcuts, 1653 
 
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 187 L upton (Thomas) Sivqila, Too good to be true ; omen, — - 
 
 Though so at a vewe. 
 
 Yet all that I tolde you, 
 
 Is true, I upholde you ; 
 
 Now cease to aske why, 
 
 For I cannot lye. 
 
 Herein is shewed by way of dialogue the wonderfull man- 
 ners of the people of Mauqsun, with other talke not 
 frivolous 
 
 blark Utter 4 to. H. Bynneman, 1584 
 
 188 Tunbridge-Walks, or the Yeoman of Kent, 1703 ; and various 
 
 other Pamphlets and Plays 
 
 189 The Humour of the Age, 1701 —Dennis’s Liberty Asserted, 
 
 scene in Canada , 1704 ; and various others 
 
 190 Dover. Account of Dover Harbour, 1586, seven leaves 
 
 taken from the castrated portion of Holinshed’s Chroni- 
 cle, vol. Ill— Life of King John, from Holinshed— Wits 
 A, B, C, or a Centurie of Epigrammes, transcript MS. 
 
 191 Mustapha. The Tragedy of Mustapha 
 
 FIRST EDITION, very rare, imprint cut into (Rhodes, £2 2s.) 
 
 N. Butter, 1609 
 
 192 Johnson (R.) Second Part of the Famous Historic of the Seven 
 
 Champions of Christendome, likewise shewing the Princely 
 Prowes of St. George’s three sonnes 
 blarfi \zttzx,fine copy, but wantiny a few leaves at the end 
 4to. Printed for Elizabeth Burbie, 1608 
 *** This second part was published separately, and is of ex- 
 cessive rarity, only one other copy being known. See 
 Collier’s Bridgewater Catalogue. 
 
 193 Archseologia, vol. XXXVII, both parts 4 to. 1857 
 
 194 Chaucer’s Poems, ed. Bell, vols. I to III, the Canterbury Tales, 
 
 1854 — Wright’s Songs and Carols, 1856 — Singer’s 
 Shakespeare, 1826, vols. II and III— Langtoft’s Chronicle, 
 2 vol. imperfect, with obsolete words marked in MS. 1810 
 
 195 Halliwell (J. O.) Books of Characters, illustrating the Habits 
 
 and Manners of Englishmen from the Reign of James I 
 to the Restoration thick 4 to. Privately printed, 1857 
 The impression of this interesting and quaint work was 
 strictly limited to only twenty-five copies, each copy 
 attested by the printer. 
 
 196 Flecknoe (Richard) .Enigmatical Characters, being rather a 
 
 new Work than a new Impression of the Old 
 perfect , but a few pages having ink-lines drawn across them 
 12 mo. Printed for the Author, 1665 
 An unnoticed impression, differing altogether from that 
 of the same year described by Lowndes and Dr. Bliss. 
 
 
 
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 fc %i*xifcr 197 Hartlib (S.) Legacy of Husbandry 4*o. 1655 
 
 198 Mastive (The) or Young Whelpe of the Olde Dogge, Epigrams £ 
 
 f and Satyrs, woodcut on title , the printed portion of the 
 
 letter-press title and two leaves supplied in facsimile 
 morocco, gilt edges Tho. Creede, 1615 
 
 Published anonymously, but the piece is attributed to 
 Henry Parrot, respecting whom see Wood’s Athense, 
 
 Beloe’s Anecdotes, &c. &c. The present copy was priced 
 in the Bibliotheca Anglo-Poetica at £30. It is remarkable 
 for numerous jocose allusions to the manners and customs 
 of the time. 
 
 199 Nares (R.) Glossary of Words, Phrases, Customs, Proverbs, 
 
 &c., illustrating English authors, particularly Shakespeare 
 
 4*o. 1822 
 
 200 Machyn (H.) Diary, ed. J. G. Nichols 4*o. Camd. Soc. 1848 
 
 Q 0 201 Richard the Second. Original Text of the contemporary 
 
 French metrical history of Richard II, from Harl. MS., 
 from the Archeeologia, two copies Ato . 
 
 06° 202 Rymer’s Short View of Tragedy, with some Reflections on . 
 
 Shakespeare and other Practitioners for the Stage, the 
 earliest ShaTcsperian criticisms , two copies 8 vo. 1693 
 
 203 Pageant. Relation de ce qui s’est passe a la Haye au mois de 
 Fevrier, 1638, les Festins, Comedies, Bals, &c., auMariage 
 de Monsieur de Brederode 
 
 very scarce, fine copy uncut fol. 1638 
 
 ] .(R. tfLuttr 204 Emblems. Typus Mundi in quo ejus Calamitates et Pericula 
 necnon Divini humanique Amoris antipathia emblematic^ 
 proponuntur, 12mo. Antw. 1652 
 
 *** This curious collection contains the engraving of the ancient 
 game of Troll-my-dames, referred to by Shakespeare. 
 
 <gfo 205 Mary, Queen of Scots. Het Leeven van Maria Stuart, Konin- • - (, 
 
 ginne van Schotlant 
 
 fine copy , uncut Ato. Amst. 1647 
 
 'ScAlAadc 206 Fenner (Dudley) Artes of Logike and Rhetorike, plainely set . 
 
 foorth in the Englishe toonge, easie to be learned and 
 practised, with examples for the practise of the same in 
 the government of the familie 
 perfect , but a small corner of one leaf torn 
 
 Ato. No printer’s name, 1 58A 
 
 207 Lodge (Thomas) Paradoxes against common Opinion, debated / 
 in form of Declamations in place of publique censure, 
 onelie to exercise yoong wittes in difficult matters 
 
 4*o. London , Printed for Simon Waterson , 1602 
 *** This piece was published anonymously, but there is little 
 doubt of its authorship, and the present copy has a Latin 
 
 i 1 3 
 
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motto and the initials T. L. in Lodge’s neat autograph. 
 Compare the facsimile of Lodge’s signature in the 
 Shakespeare Society’s reprint of the Defence of Poetry, 
 introd. p. 76. This tract is undescribed by biblio- 
 graphers, and is probably unique, but it is unfortunately 
 imperfect. 
 
 / 208 Hexham (Henry) Journael ofte een ware ende kort verhael 
 
 van’ t verm aerde Belegh van de Stadt Breda, 4to. Delft , 1638 
 — Venus Minne-spel ende Cupidoos Boevery, in verse, 1647 
 — Laud (Archbishop) Een Oratie op de Censure van 
 Johan Bastwick, Henrick Burton, en Willem Prin 
 
 4 to. Delff, 1638 
 
 /O . 209 Powell (T.) Tom of All Trades, or the Plaine Pathway to Pre- 
 
 ferment, found out amongst the inchanted Islands of ill 
 Fortune, last leaf MS. 1631 — Decker (Thomas) English 
 Villanies, Lanthorne and Candle Light, and 0 per se 0 
 black letter, imperfect 1632 
 
 ^ 210 Heyns (Zacharias) Const-Thonende Juweel (the Jewel of 
 
 Dramatic Art), published by the Honourable City of 
 Haerlem in XII Emblematic Plays or Moralities, with 
 Prologues and Songs arranged according to the regula- 
 tions of the City Authorities, numerous plates of Theatrical 
 Figures arid costumes 
 a remarkably fine copy , with all the plates 
 
 4to. Zwol. 1607 
 
 *** This copy has also the additional play of Haerlems 
 Juweel, with plates, separately published in the follow- 
 ing year, 1608. 
 
 / (^ 211 Abel and Kilvert. Een t’ Samen-spraeck ofte voorghevalle CS 
 Discours tuffehen Mr. Alderman Abel ende Richard 
 Kilvert, curious woodcut 4 to. 1641 
 
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 212 Old Parr. Wonderlijcke Afbeeldinge van een Seer Oude Man, 
 genaemt Thomas Parr, welcke out gheworden is over de 
 152 Jaren, en heeft geleeft tot anno 1635, a broadside, 
 with an engraving of Thomas Parr. 
 
 213 Laud (Archbishop) De Oratie ofte Verklaringhe van John 
 Pym esquire teghens William Laud, with a remarkably 
 fine impression of a portrait of Laud , engraved by 
 Visscher Amst. 1641 
 
 
 214 Notices of Early Editions of Shakespeare, by J. O. Halliwell, J. 
 
 pp. 14, 8 vo., the remainder out of twenty -five copies only 
 printed, ten copies 1857 
 
 215 Greene’s Dorastus and Fawnia, (femru ^ 
 
 black letter, a large fragment of a very early edition 
 
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 qfa 224 
 225 
 
 Huloet (Richard) Abcedarium Anglico-Latinum, pro 49. 
 Tyrunculis, Ricardo Huloeto Enscriptore 
 FIRST edition, fine copy fol. Riddell, 1552 
 
 *** This first edition is, next to the Promptorium Parvulorum, 
 the most valuable early English dictionary known to 
 philologists. The second and only other edition, issued 
 in 1572, is so modernised and altered as to be almost 
 another work 
 
 Shakespeare. Title-page of the first folio edition of Shake- ^2 dr . 
 speare’s Works, 1623, with the portrait, an admirably exe- 
 cuted facsimile by Harris 
 
 Theobald’s Shakespeare, portrait and plates, 8 vols., one or _ / . 
 
 two of the volumes are mutilated 8vo. 1752 
 
 Bradshaw’s -Ghost, 1659 — One and Thirty New Orders of £? . 
 Parliament, and the Parliament’s Ghost, to the tune of 
 Mad Tom, 1659 — Your Servant, Gentlemen, or what 
 think you of a query, 1659 — The Red Coat’s Catechisme, 
 
 1659 — The Life and approaching Death of W. Kiffin, 
 
 1659; and various other pamphlets 
 
 Newcastle. Pye (John) True and Perfect Account of a , b Q 
 Strange and Dreadful Apparition, which lately infested 
 and sunk a ship bound for Newcastle 4to. 1672 
 
 Guthrey (James) True and Perfect Speech as it was delivered / 
 by himself immediately before his Execution at Edin- 
 brough 4to. 1661 
 
 D. (R.) True Relation of his Adventures in Affrica, Arabia, . 
 with a true Description of a City near the mountain 
 Gubell 4fo. 1672 
 
 London. True Relation of the Dispute and Bloody Conflict P . 
 between the Spaniards and the French at Tower- Wharfe 
 and Tower-Hill, September, 1661. — A Conference held in 
 the Tower of London between two Aldermen of the City, 
 
 1660 — Saint Paul’s Potion prescribed by Doctors Com- 
 
 mons, curious , 1641 — Baron Tomlinson’s Speech to the 
 Sheriffs of London, 1659 — The Outcry of the London 
 Prentices, 1659 4 to. 
 
 Tracts relating to Hugh Peters, viz., Peters’s Resurrection by 
 way of Dialogue between him and a Merchant, 1659. — 
 
 A Conference held between the old Lord Protector and 
 the new Lord General, truly reported by Hugh Peters, 
 
 1660 — Oliver Cromwell’s Thanks faithfully presented by 
 Hugh Peters, in prose and verse, n.d. 4to. 
 
 Cheshire. One and Twenty Chester Queries, 1659 — A Dia- . /g, . 
 logue betwixt Sir George Booth and Sir John Presbyter 
 at their meeting near Chester 4to. 1659 
 
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 226 Gainsford (T.) Glory of England, or a true Description of 
 many excellent prerogatives and remarkable blessings, 
 whereby she triumpheth over all the Nations in the 
 world 4to. Printed by Edw. Grifitn,\§2Q 
 
 *#* This is an un described edition of a curious work, which 
 contains many interesting and amusing allusions. 
 y J2 £ 227 Holinshed (Ralph) Chronicles of England, Ireland, and 
 ' Scotland, by Hooker, with the castrations, 4 vol. 
 
 BEST edition, black letter, fine copy, old calf gilt 
 
 fol. 1588 
 
 228 Napier (Baron, of Merchistoun ) Description of the Admirable 
 Table of Logarithmes, invented by that honourable Lord 
 John Nepair, Baron of Marchiston, translated by E. 
 Wright, with preface by Henry Briggs, dedicated to the 
 East India Company, with verses by Davies of Hereford 
 and R. Lever 
 
 very scarce 8vo. Printed for Simon Waterson , 1618 
 
 2 29 Montelyon Knight of the Oracle 
 
 black letter, wanting title and a few leaves , 4to. circa 1600 
 *#* This edition is earlier by many years than any other known, 
 a fact ascertained not merely by the character of the type, 
 but by the antique language and orthography, which 
 differ considerably from those of later impressions. 
 
 230 Durfev (T.) Tales Tragical and Comical, 1704 — A True and 
 Exact Relation of the Strange Finding Out of Moses his 
 Tombe, defective at end, 1657 
 
 231 Moore (Sir Jonas) Mathematical Compendium, or Useful 
 
 Practices in Arithmetick, &c., by N. Stephenson, un- 
 noticed by Prof . De Morgan 12 mo. 1674 
 
 232 Skeffington (Sir John) Heroe of Lorenzo, or the Way to 
 
 Eminence and Perfection, with address to the reader by 
 Isaac Walton, fine copy 12 mo. 1652 
 
 233 S. (W.) Instructions for the increasing of Mulberie Trees, and 
 
 the breeding of Silke-Wormes, woodcuts , poor copy, 
 1609 — The Art of Limning, which teacheth the order in 
 drawing and tracing of letters, vinets, flowers, &c., black 
 letter, /owr last leaves torn , 1583 4 to. in 1 vol. 
 
 234 Primaudaye (P. de la) French Academie, wherein is discoursed 
 the Institution of Maners 
 
 
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 FIRST EDITION 
 
 This first edition is of great rarity. 
 
 Decameron, vol. II, p. 2 75. 
 
 235 London. A Submissive Address and Humble Petition of the 
 poor decayed Freemen and Widows now Prisoners in 
 Ludgate, near 200 souls, and daily increasing, against this 
 time of Whitsontide, 1677, woodcut, a small broadside 
 extremely curious Printed by E. F. 1677 
 
 
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 S.(R. '^lAAA.tL 236 Deptford, Greenwich, Woolwich, &c. True Relation of the 
 great and terrible Inundation of Waters and Overflowing 
 of the Lower Town of Deptford, Greenwich, &c. woodcut 
 fine copy 4 to. Imprinted for George Horton, 1651 
 
 [ 23 7 America. Mr. Baxter Baptiz’d in Bloud, or a sad History of ^ 
 the unparall’d Cruelty of the Anabaptists in New England, 
 faithfully relating the Cruel, Barbarous, and Bloudy 
 Murther of Mr. Baxter, an orthodox Minister, who was 
 kill’d by the Anabaptists, and his Skin most cruelly flead 
 off from his body, with an exact account of all the cir- 
 cumstances and particularities of this barbarous Murther. 
 Published by his mournfull brother, Benjamin Baxter, 
 living in Fenchurch Street, London 
 
 4 to. Printed in the year 1673. 
 
 Oicmruji- Rich (Barnaby) New Description of Ireland, wherein is / 
 
 described the Disposition of the Irish whereunto they 
 are inclined, four leaves MS. 
 
 , scarce (Sykes, £5) 4 to. Thomas Adams, 1610 
 
 > 239 London. The London Chaunticleres, a witty Comsedy, full of g 
 
 Various and Delightfull Mirth, often acted with great Ap- 
 plause 
 
 a very scarce and curious play, the characters being London 
 criers 4to. 1659 
 
 J (ff \fuvudi. 240 Heinsius (D.) Laus Pediculi, or an Apologeticall Speech, ■ 
 directed to the Worshipfull Masters and Wardens of 
 Beggars Hall 
 
 very rare, but query title doctored or in facsimile 
 , Thomas Harper, 1 634 
 
 OcxJlJAtniuL, 241 Botero (G.) Treatise Concerning the Causes of the Magnifi- . 
 
 cence and Greatnes of Cities, in three Bookes, by R. 
 q Peterson 4 to. R. Ockould, 1606 
 
 ft 2-42 Smith (Richard) Trial of Trueth, or a Treatise wherein is . 
 
 declared who should be Judge betweene the Reformed 
 Churches and the Romists 
 
 black letter 4to. Robert Dexter, 1591 
 
 Qf 0 243 London. Sermon at the Election of the Lord Mayor, by A. 
 
 Burgesse, 1644 — Sermons earnestly enveying against the 
 Sins of this land, and in particular against the Sins of 
 this City of London , 1615 — Declaration concerning his 
 Majesties advancing with his Army toward London, 1642 
 : —God’s Appearing, preached at St. Paul’s, 1655 — The 
 
 Two Witnesses, Sermons preached at Lawrence Jewry, 
 1643 5 vol. 
 
 c£ 0 244 Massinger (P.) Bondman, first edition, large copy , 41 q % 
 
 1638 — Wars in Germanie, with the True Relation of the 
 Taking of the Towne of Aix, 1614 — Discolliminium, a 
 curious tract for odd vernacular phraseology, 1650 — A 
 Sermon Preached at Bristol, 1685 4 vol. 
 
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 . /:. 245 Johnston (J.) Inscriptiones Historicse Regum Scotorum, John : 
 
 Jonstono Abredonense Scoto Authore, title MS. and 
 otherwise imperfect 4 to. Amstd. 1602 
 
 ' 3 Cd 246 Cabinet of Mirth, or Comic Medley, front, n. d. — Life of 
 Matthew Lee, executed at Tyburn, 1752, Bristol, 1770 — 
 Merlin’s Life and Prophecies, view of Richmond Bark, 
 1755 3 vol. 
 
 3 fo , 247 L. (L.) Owles Almanacke, prognosticating many strang e 
 accidents which shall happen to this Kingdome of Great 
 Britaine this year, 1618, found in an Ivy-bush, and now 
 published by Mr. Jocundary Merrie-braines, large woodcut 
 
 4to. 1618 
 
 *** A facetious book, replete with curious allusions to the 
 manners and customs of the time. 
 
 (q 248 Jacke Drum’s Entertainement, or the Comedie of Pasquil and 
 1 Katherine, as it hath beene sundry times plaid by the 
 
 Children of Powles 
 
 fine copy 4 to. 1616 
 
 A/6~ 249 Day (John) Humour Out of Breath, a Comedie divers times 
 latelie acted by the Children of the Kings Revells 
 rare 1608 
 
 l 1° ■ 250 Chapman (G.) Gentleman Usher, fikst edition 1606 
 
 / /q. 251 Breton (N.) Post with a Packet of Mad Letters, newly im- 
 
 / printed, both parts 
 
 black letter, wants half-title to the second part, woodcut 
 4 to. Printed by E. Okes, 1669 
 
 * # * An extraordinarily fine copy, uncut edges throughout, 
 and in beautiful condition. The title is in so clean a state, 
 it was returned from Dr. Bliss’s sale as a reprint ; but 
 there can, we think, be no doubt of its genuineness. 
 
 * 3 la 252 Coles (E.) English Dictionary, 1685 — Earle’s Microcos- 
 mography, ed. Bliss, 1811 Svo. 2 vol. 
 
 ' /J" 253 Romeo and Juliet. Historias Tragicas Exemplares sacadas 
 
 de las obras del Bandello Verones ( Historia tercera , de 
 Romeo y Juliet a) 
 
 fine copy , extremely rare 8 vo. Salamanca, 1589 
 
 . 4 4 254 Walker on Shakespeare’s Versification, 8 vo. 1854 — Hudson’s 
 Shakespeare, 1851, vols. II and III — Singer’s Shakespeare, 
 1856, vols. I and II 
 
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 fO 255 Adam in Eden or Nature’s Paradise, by William Coles, 
 herbarist, fol. 1657 — Bullein’s Bulwarke of Defence, Book 
 of Simples, Dialogue between Soarenesse and Chirurgy, 
 black letter, woodcuts, wants a few leaves, fol. Imprinted 
 by Thomas Marshe, 1579 2 vol. 
 
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 256 Tusser (Thomas) Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry, . 
 
 as well for the Champion or open Countrey, as also for 
 the Woodland or Severall 
 
 black Tetter, large copy Mo. 1638 
 
 25 7 Shakespeare (W.) King John, reprint of first folio, pp. 3 to 
 
 22, with MS. notes and collations — Hayward’s Henry 
 the Fourth, Mo. 1599 — Lucius Junius Brutus, 1681 — A 
 Poem upon Tea, 1712 — Generali Demands propounded 
 at Aberdeen, imperfect , 1638 — Early Alterations in the 
 Text of Shakespeare’s Plays, pp. 12, inedited MS . — 
 Kean’s edition of the Winter’s Tale, 1856 — Troublesome 
 Raigne of King John, from the Miscellaneous Pieces of 
 English Poesie, 1764 — Cowley’s Poems, preface only, 
 noticing Shakespeare, 1656 
 
 258 Reeves (W.) Apologies of Justin Martyr, Tertullian, and 
 
 Minutius Felix, in defence of the Christian Religion, 
 
 2 vol. 8vo. 1709 
 
 259 Tertullian’ s Works, vol. I, all published, Oxford , 1842 — Giles* 
 
 Heathen Records, 1856 — Tatiani Oratio ad Grsecos (from 
 Otto’s Corpus Apol. Christ, vol. YI), 1851 — Bullet’s 
 History of Christianity, 1776 — Phlegon Re-examined, 
 1735 5 vol. 800. 
 
 260 Origen against Celsus, translated from the Original into 
 
 English by James Bellamy, Gent. 
 both parts, fine copy 8 vo. n.d. 
 
 261 Holinshed’s Second Volume of Chronicles, black letter, 
 
 imperfect , 1586, and four large fragments of Holinshed, 
 ed. 1587 — Peck’s Desiderata Curiosa, vol. I, port., 1732, 
 wants list of contents — Catalogue of Malone’s Library, 
 imperfect , but with MS. notes and numerous MS. references 
 to other copies of books in the British Museum, 1836 
 
 262 Book of Rates, 1675 — Cockeram’s English Dictionarie, one leaf . 
 
 defective, a rare edition, 1626 — Fulwood’s Castell of 
 Memorie, black letter, 1573, wants title and one leaf — 
 Bacon (Sir F.) Wisedome of the Ancients, 1619 — Wither 
 (G.) Abuses Stript and Whipt, Epithalamia or Nuptiall 
 Poems, Faire Virtue, the Mistresse of Philarete, imperfect, 
 1633 — Rules of Civility, or Certain Ways of Deportment 
 observed amongst Persons of Quality, leaf of contents 
 wanting, 1685 — Ray (J.) English Words, the earliest 
 work on English Provincialisms , a fine copy, but small 
 corner of p. 173 torn, 1674 — Kelly’s Scottish Proverbs, 
 imperfect 
 
 263 Markham (Gervase) Hunger’s Prevention, or the whole Arte of 
 
 Fowling by Water and Land 
 
 FIRST EDITION, ded. to Sir E. Sands, and Thomas Gibbs , 
 Esq., woodcuts 1621 
 
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 • $ h 264 B. (J.) Epitome of the Art of Husbandry, with Directions for 3t i . (r v UQ(n/%i 
 the use of the Angle, and the New Additions, 1675 — 
 
 Mun’s English Treasure by Forraign Trade, the first book 
 on free trade , 1664 — The French Schoole-Master, newly 
 corrected and enlarged with several quaint Proverbs, 
 
 1649 — Weldon’s Court and Character of King James, 
 
 1651 
 
 265 Massinger (P.) Fatall Dowry, 1632 — Chapman (G.) Ball, a Q° 
 
 Comedy, 1639 — An Excellent Tragedy of Mulleasses 
 the Turke, and Borgias Governour of Florence, full of 
 interchangeable variety beyond expectation, scarce, 1632 
 
 266 Grub-street. The Picture of the Observator (John Tutchin) 
 
 dfawn to the life, with large woodcut of Tutchin in the 
 pillory, superscribed, “ In 1 685 I was convicted in the 
 West, to be whipp’d in every market town once a year, 
 but now I find I must stand here,” 1704 — T — ch — n 
 (Tutchin) Touch’d to the Quick, or Factions Secretary 
 Whipp’d at the Cartsarse, large woodcut — Daniel de Foe 
 and the Devil at Leap-frog, being a Dialogue which pass’d 
 between them, as they were recreating themselves at that 
 Sport in an Eminent Tavern in Cheapside, large woodcut 
 of the devil, De Foe, and Pinkethman, 1706 — Smith- 
 field Groans, or the horrid Wickedness committed 
 and conniv’d at in Bartholomew Fair, inverse, 1707 — 
 
 The Seven Extinguishers, 1710 — A Trip to Kensington, or 
 that Town drawn to the Life, in verse, 1710 — A Catalogue 
 of Petitioners in the Long Parliament, from Mr. 
 
 William Prinn, 1699 — Paul Dick, or the Chat of the 
 Gods at their Tea-table — A Search after Knavery, or a 
 Visitation of the Bakers, woodcut of two in the pillory , 
 
 1693 — A Description of Scotland and its Inhabitants, 
 
 1705 — The New Socket-money Tax upon all degrees of 
 marriage, a piece of ribaldry, 1694 — The New West- 
 minster Wedding or the Rampant Vicar, licens’d 1693, 
 printed for the inhabitants of Ipswich — The Famous Will 
 of Madam Dorothy Fish, a maiden Gentlewoman, aged 
 Sixty Three, late of the Parish of Hackney, head-line cut 
 into — The London Virgin’s Vindication in a Letter from a 
 Young Lady of the Play-house, to the Executors of Mrs. 
 
 Dorothy Fish, late School-mistress at Hackney, dated in 
 Jf$.1694 — Proposals for Printing Emblems concerning 
 the Secrets of Nature, plates — Hocus Pocus, call’d the 
 French King to Life again, or Old Nick blew Wind, &c., 
 woodcut, 1705 — The Proceedings at the Tryal, Examina- 
 tion and Condemnation of a certain Scribling, Rhyming, 
 
 Versifying, Poeteering Hosier, and True-born English- 
 man, commonly known by the name of Daniel the 
 Prophet, alias Anglipoliski, alias Foeski, alias your 
 
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 %finnj6^vy 268 
 
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 Q!o 272 
 
 or® 273 
 
 #. 274 
 
 humble Servant De F. 1705, in 1 vol. an exceedingly 
 curious collection of fugitive pieces, chiefly those printed 
 with half titles on two leaves only, with dates, prices, and 
 suppressed names by the original Collector A to. 
 
 *** “ A curious Collection of Grub-street,” MS. note by J. 
 Bindley, 1787. It may be worth notice that, in the tract 
 respecting Dorothy Fish, the will of that lady, dated 
 1694, is witnessed by Jonson, Fletcher, Massinger, 
 Shirley, and Shakespeare ! 
 
 Shakespeare. The Fairy Queen, an Opera represented at the 
 Queen’s Theatre by their Majesties Servants (altered from 
 A Midsummer Night’s Dream) with the preface, some- 
 times wanting Ato. 1692 
 
 Wilkes’ General View of the Stage (including Criticisms on 
 Shakespeare), 1759 — Gilchrist (0.) Examination of the 
 Charges of Ben Jonson’s Enmity to Shakespeare, 1808 — 
 The Rape of Lucrece, written by Mr. William Shakespeare, 
 and Venus and Adonis, from Poems on Affairs of State, 
 1707 8 vo. 
 
 Shakespeare (W.) Winter’s Tale, reprint from the first folio 
 edition, interleaved, with MS. collations folio 
 
 Shakespeare. Henry the Fourth, with the Humours of Sir 
 John FalstafF, revived with Alterations 
 very scarce Ato. 1700 
 
 Zouch (R.) Sophister, a Comedy, 1639 — Hide Parke, a Comedie, 
 1637 — Hey wood (Thomas) Wise Woman of Hogsdon, a 
 Comedie, very rare, but title and one leaf MS. 1638 — 
 Jonson (Ben) Catiline, his Conspiracy, 1635 — The City 
 Night-Cap, or, Crede quod habes et habes, scarce 1661 
 Goffe (Thomas) Couragious Turke, or Amurath the First, a 
 Tragedie 
 
 FIRST EDITION Ato. 1632 
 
 *** Perhaps the most bombastic play in the English language. 
 The hero, addressing the stars, asks, — “Why put you on 
 those periwigs of fire !” 
 
 Rowley (Samuel) Noble Souldier, or a Contract Broken justly 
 Reveng’d, a Tragedy 4 to. 1634 
 
 Shirley (J.) Humorous Courtier, 1640 — Shirley (J.) Constant 
 Maid, 1640 — Davenant (W.) Witts, a Comedie presented 
 at the Private House in Blaclce Fryers, 1636 — Jonson, 
 Fletcher, and Middleton’s Widdow, a Comedie, first 
 edition, head line cut into, 1652 — The Tragedy of Nero 
 newly written, 1633 — The Fatal Contract, a French 
 Tragedy, 1653 — The Rivall Friends, a Comoedie acted 
 before the King at Cambridge, March, 1631, cryed downe 
 by Boves, Faction, Envie, and Confident Ignorance, 1632 
 
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 intended for the Nuptialls of the Lord Charles Herbert 
 and the Lady Villiers, large copy , 1638 — Shirley (H.) 
 Martyr’d Souldier, 1638 — The Dumbe Knight, an Histo- 
 rical! Comedy, two slight defects , 1633 — The Combat of 
 Love and Friendship, 1654 
 
 (p 275 Ford. (J.) Lovers Melancholy, acted at the Private House in 
 the Blacke Friers, and publikely at the Globe by the 
 Kings Majesties Servants 
 
 first edition, with MS. additions and alterations , some 
 pasted down over the text , others insertions , apparently 
 for acting 1629 
 
 / 276 II Sacrificio Comedia de gli Ingannati celebrato ne i Giuochi di 
 
 uno Carnevale in Siena ( origin of Twelfth Night) 
 
 Fenet. 1609 
 
 /2 - 277 Lacey (J.) Sauny the Scott, or the Taming of the Shrew 
 (altered from Shakespeare) 
 
 FIRST edition, very scarce 4 to. 1698 
 
 /£ - 279 
 
 280 
 
 281 
 
 Beaumont and Fletcher’s Wild Goose Chace, wormed , a re- 
 markably fine copy, probably large paper, 1652 — Proverbes, 
 English and French, from Howell’s Tetraglotton, 1660 — 
 Parkinson’s Paradisus Terrestris, a Garden of all Sorts of 
 Pleasant Flowers, one or two slight defects , and imperfect 
 indices , 1629 — Browne’s Pseudodoxia Epidemica, 1646 — 
 Sandys (G.) Relation of a Journey begun 1610, woodcuts , 
 1615 — Sydney (Sir P.) Arcadia, imperfect , but with very 
 early MS. notes 
 
 Shakespeare. The Waking Man’s Dreame, a fragment from a 
 book printed about 1630 Ato. 
 
 *** This fragment contains the whole of the story, which is 
 that of the Induction to the Taming of the Shrew. It is 
 supposed to be a reprint of the lost story-book of Edwards. 
 See the Papers of the Shakespeare Society. 
 
 Jonson (Ben) Every Man in his Humour, as it hath beene 
 sundry times publickly acted by the Right Honorable the 
 Lord Chamberlaine his Servants 
 first edition, very rare (Bindley, £ 1 14s.) wormed 
 
 Imprinted for Walter Burre, 1601 
 
 Microcosmus, a Morall Maske presented with generall liking at 
 the private House in Salisbury Court, 1637 — The Chronicle 
 Historie of Perkin Warbeck, a strange Truth, 1634 — The 
 Schoole of Complement, 1631 — Wit without Money, a 
 Comedie, 1639— Heywood (T.) and Rowley (W.) Fortune 
 by Land and Sea, a scarce play , but some of the letter- 
 press cut into , 1655 — May (T.) Old Couple, a Comedy, 
 1658 — Shirley’s Polititian, 1655 
 
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 Blundevil (Thomas) Art of Riding, Dieting of Horses, and 
 Order of Curing Horse-diseases 
 hlarhlctttr 4to. 1580 
 
 Gildon (C.) Reflections on Mr. Rymer’s Short View of Tragedy, 
 and an Attempt at a Vindication of Shakespeare, from 
 Gildon' s Miscellaneous Letters 8 vo. 1694 
 
 Wheler (R. B.) Historical and Descriptive Account of the 
 Birth-Place of Shakespeare, with lithographic Illustrations 
 by C. F. Green 
 
 scarce 4 to. Stratford-on-Avon, 1824 
 
 Defoe (D.) Vie et les Avantures surprenantes de Robinson 
 Crusoe, 'plates 
 
 an early and rare foreiqn translation of this popular work 
 
 8vo. Amst. 1720 
 
 Shakespeare. A Hand-List of Books, Manuscripts, &c. illus- 
 trative of the Life and Writings of Shakespeare, collected 
 between the years 1842 and 1859, by J. 0. Halliwell, 
 Esq. 8wo. Only 30 copies privately printed, 1859 
 
 This collection contains upwards of three hundred volumes, 
 entirely relating to Shakespeare. 
 
 Another copy. 
 
 Shadwell (Thomas) History of Timon of Athens, the Man- 
 Hater, as it is acted at the Dukes Theatre, first edition , 
 1678 — Macbeth, a Tragsedy, with all the Alterations, &c. 
 and New Songs, 1674 
 
 Bradwell (T,) Watchman for the Pest, teaching the true Rules 
 of Preservation from the Pestilent Contagion at this time 
 fearfully overflowing this famous Cittie of London 
 
 4to . 1625 
 
 Shakespeare (W.) Julius Caesar, a Tragedy, as it is now acted at 
 the Theatre Royal 4to. 1684 
 
 Middleton (Thomas) Two New Playes, viz. : More Dissemblers 
 besides Women, and Women beware Women 
 scarce Humphrey Moseley, 1657 
 
 •z+j 292 Ritson (J.) Cursory Criticisms on the Edition of Shakspeare 
 published by Edmond Malone 
 
 scarce 8vo. 1792 
 
 293 Hey wood (J.) Mery Play of Johan Johan, 1533, reprint — 
 Wright’s Songs and Carols, IVarton Club, 1856 — Cock 
 Lorelles Bote, Percy Soc. 1843 — Westward for Smelts, 
 Percy Soc. 1848 — Manifest Detection of Dice Play, Percy 
 Soc. 1850 — Pleasant Conceits of Old Hobson, Percy Soc. 
 1843 — Deloney’s Strange Histories, Percy Soc. 1841 — 
 The Interlude of the Trial of Treasure, Percy Soc. 1850 
 
 294 Royal Society. Philosophical Transactions, parts 2 and 3 for 
 1856, parts 1, 2, and 3 for 1857, and part 1 for 1858 
 
 6 parts , 4to. 
 
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 295 Shakespeare (William) Two Parts of Henry the Fourth, from 
 
 the reprint of ed. 1623, interleaved , with numerous MS. 
 collations , and a few MS. notes folio 
 
 296 Shakespeare (William) Antony and Cleopatra, from reprint of 
 
 the first folio, interleaved , with numerous collations — Life 
 and Death of Richard the Second, p. 23 to p. 44, from 
 the same edition, with MS. collations— Othello, p. 310 to 
 p. 338, from the same edition, with MS. collations 
 
 297 Shakespeare (W.) Hamlet, 1603. Diminutive photograph 
 
 from the copy wanting the title, but having the last leaf 
 unique, being the only copy preserved 
 *** Great pains were taken with this photograph, but, owing 
 to the discoloration of the original paper, some of the 
 pages are indistinct. It is believed to be a complete copy, 
 save the title, but will be sold not subject to collation. 
 
 298 Tate (N.) History of King Richard the Second, acted at the 
 
 Theatre Royal under the Name of the Sicilian Usurper, 
 altered from Shakespeare 
 
 scarce 4 to. 1681 
 
 299 Shakespeare. A Word or Two of Advice to William Warbur- 
 
 ton, a Dealer in many Words, by a Friend, with an Ap- 
 pendix containing a taste of William’s Spirit of Railing 
 extremely scarce 1746 
 
 300 Daniel (S.) Delia and Rosamond augmented, with the Tragedie 
 
 of Cleopatra, first title wanting , and otherwise defective 
 1 Gmo. Printed by Peter Short for Simon Waterson, 1598 
 *** An unique edition, unnoticed by all bibliographers. 
 
 301 Mucedorus. A Most Pleasant Comedie of Mucedorus, the <$ ■ fc ■ k $iaaaHa 
 
 King’s Sonne of Valencia, and Amadine, the King’s 
 Daughter of Aragon, with the Merry Conceits of Mouse, 
 very delectable and full of conceited Mirth, attributed by 
 some to Shakespeare 
 
 Ato. Imprinted at London for William Jones , 1613 
 
 302 Shakespeare (W. attributed to) Merry Divel of Edmonton, as 
 
 it hath beene sundry times Acted by his Majesties Ser- 
 vants at the Globe on the Banke Side • 
 
 second edition, fine copy, very rare 
 
 Ato. Printed by G. Eld for Arthur Johnson , 1617 
 *** The third edition is the earliest cited by Lowndes as sold 
 in sales. 
 
 303 Middleton (T.) Tragi-Coomodie called the Witch, long since 
 
 acted at the Blackfriers 
 
 privately printed, uncut 1778 
 
 304 Rimbault (E. F.) Nursery Rhymes, with the Tunes to which 
 
 they are still Sung, Ato. — Wright (T.) Narratives of 
 Sorcery and Magic, 2 vol. 8yo. 1851 — Soane (G.) New 
 Curiosities of Literature, 2 vol. 8 vo. 1849 
 
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 Shakespeare (W.) Tragical History of Richard the Third, 
 altered by Cibber, plate , 1745 — Julius Caesar, a Tragedy, 
 plate , 1741 ; and others in 1 vol. 
 
 Savile (Thomas) Raising of Them that are Fallen, a Discourse 
 very Profitable, with verses at the end 
 a very rare book Ato. Printed for William Welby,\606 
 
 Chateaubriand (F. A.) Travels, 2 vol. 8vo. 1812 
 
 Shakespeare. Galerie des Femmes de Shakespeare, collection 
 de Quarante-cinq Portraits 8 vo. Paris , n. d. 
 
 Davies (John) Microcosmos, the Discovery of the Little World, 
 with the government thereof, with the unpaged leaves at 
 the end Ato. Oxford, 1603 
 
 *** See at page 215 the curious and interesting allusions to 
 Shakespeare and Burbage, as actors, and their initials in 
 the margin. 
 
 Silvayn (Alexander) Orator, handling a hundred severall Dis- 
 courses in forme of Declamations, some of the Arguments 
 being drawne from Titus Livius and other ancient Writers, 
 the rest of the Author’s own Invention ; part of which 
 are of matters happened in our Age, Englished by L. 
 Piot (Munday) 
 
 fine copy Ato. Printed by Adam Islip, 1596 
 
 This interesting collection of tales includes at p. 400 the 
 story of Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice, “Of a Jew 
 who would for his debt have a pound of the flesh of a 
 Christian.” In a previous sale, a copy sold for £7 12s. 
 
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 311 Saviolo (Vincentio) his Practise in two Bookes, the first in- // 
 treating of the Use of the Rapier and Dagger, the second 
 of Honor and Honorable Quarrels, both parts , curious 
 woodcuts 
 
 FINE copy, morocco , gilt edges, by Bedford 
 
 Ato. Printed by John Wolfe, 1595 
 
 *** This work is generally believed, and with good reason, to 
 be alluded to by Shakespeare in As You Like It. It is 
 very illustrative of allusions both in Shakespeare and 
 Ben Jonson. As originally published, it contained eleven 
 leaves less than in the present copy. Afterwards, the first 
 leaf of sheet I was cancelled, and twelve additional leaves 
 inserted in its place, forming the complete book as in this 
 copy. The second leaf of sheet I is erroneously marked 
 H 2. In some copies, both the cancelled leaf and the ad- 
 ditional sheet occur, but the former is certainly out of 
 place, being repeated. There are, therefore, three differ- 
 ent kinds of copies, all virtually perfect. 
 
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 312 W. (W.) New and Merrie Prognostication, devised after 
 
 the finest fashion — 
 
 Made and written for this present yeare. 
 
 By foure witty Doctors, as shall appeare, 
 
 Spendall, Whoball, and Doctor Dews-ace, 
 
 With them Will Sommer takes his place ; 
 
 They have consulted all in deede. 
 
 To solace them that this shall reede. 
 in verse, woodcuts , fine copy 
 4to. Printed by Edward Allde , and are to be sold by 
 John Tapp at his Shop at St. Magnus Corner , 1623 
 *** Only one other copy of this somewhat coarse, but curious, 
 poem, is known to exist. 
 
 313 Rich (Barnaby) True and Kinde Excuse written in Defence of 
 
 that Booke intituled A Newe Description of Irelande, 
 pleasant and pleasing both to English and Irish 
 fine copy , very scarce 4to. 1612 
 
 314 Rich (Barnaby) Catholicke Conference betweene Syr Tady 
 
 Mac Mareall, a popish priest of Waterf'orde, and Patricke 
 Plaine, a young Student in Trinity College by Dublin in 
 Ireland, strange to be related, credible to be beleeved, and 
 pleasant to bee perused 
 
 fine copy, very scarce 4 to. 1612 
 
 315 Ben Jonson. Wit’s Academy, or Six Penyworth for a Peny, 
 
 being Ben Johnson’s last Arrow to all Citizen’s Wives and 
 London Dames, shot from his famous poetical Quiver, to 
 the general view of the courteous Reader, laid open by 
 way of Question and Answer, and interlarded with sundry 
 choice Conceits upon the Times, very pleasant and de- 
 lightful 
 
 morocco , gilt edges , by Bedford. 
 
 4 to. Imprinted at London by R. Wood, 1656 
 A very curious piece, believed to be unique. 
 
 316 Pantagruel’s Prognostication, certain, true, and infallible, 
 
 newly compos’d for the benefit and instruction of hair- 
 brain’d and idle Fellowes, by Mr. Alcofribas, Sewer in 
 Chief to Pantagruel, set forth long since by Francis 
 Rabelais, done in the way and by the Tables of an 
 Astrologer of the first Magnitude, and now translated by 
 Democritus Pseudomantis, imprint cut off 
 a fine, sound, clean copy , morocco 12 mo. 
 
 *** This early and curious chap-book is believed to be unique. 
 It is preceded by a dedication to William Lilly, and a 
 Skeltonical poem, entitled, ‘ Skelton upon Rabelais.” 
 
 317 Machiavel. The Uncasing of Machivil’s Instructions to his 
 
 Sonne, with the Answere to the same, in verse 
 very rare, morocco, gilt edges, by Bedford 
 
 4 to. Printed for Thomas Bushell, 1613 
 
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 t/^aJ 318 Heywood (Thomas) If you know not Me, you know Nobodie, 
 or the Troubles of Queene Elizabeth, woodcut 
 FIRST edition, fine copy , morocco , gilt edges , by Bedford 
 
 4to. Printed for Nathaniel Butter , 1605 
 
 *#* This was published a year before the date of any edition 
 recorded by bibliographers. Only one other copy of it is 
 known. 
 
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 319 Twyne (T.) Shorte and Pithie Discourse concerning the en- 3 // 
 
 gendring, tokens, and effects of all Earthquakes in 
 Generali, particularly that within the Citie of London, 
 which hapned upon Wensday in Easter Weeke last Past, 
 the Sixt day of April, almost at six a clocke in the evening, 
 woodcut , black letter, morocco by Bedford , extremely 
 rare 4to. Printed by Richarde Johnes , 1580 
 
 320 Knight of the Sea. The Heroicall Adventures of the Knight 2q . 
 
 of the Sea, comprised in the most famous and renowned 
 Historie of the illustrious and excellently accomplished 
 Prince Oceander, Grand-sonne to the mightie and mag- 
 nanimous Claranax, Emperour of Constantinople, and the 
 Empresse Basilia, and sonne unto the incomparable 
 Olbiocles, Prince of Grecia, by the beautious Princesse 
 Almidiana, daughter unto the puissant King Rubaldo of 
 Hungaria ; wherein is described his parents misfortunes 
 and captivities, his owne losse, strange preserving, educa- 
 tion, and fostering by Kanyra Queen of Carthage, his 
 Knighthood, admirable exploytes, and unmatchable at- 
 cliievementes, graced with the most glorious conquestes 
 over knights, gyants, monsters, enchauntments, realmes, 
 and dominions ; with his fortunate comming to the 
 knowledge of his parents in the greatest extreamitie of 
 their captivitie ; his combating, affecting, and pursuites in 
 his love towardes the rarely embellished Princesse and 
 lady-knight Phianora, daughter unto the invincible 
 Argamont, King of England, by the gracious Princesse 
 Clarecinda 
 
 black letter, prose intermixed with verse, pp. 239, morocco, gilt 
 edges, by Bedford 4to. Printed for William Leake, 1600 
 
 *** One of the rarest and most curious English romances 
 known, the only other copy being that which sold at the 
 Roxburgh sale for ^25. It is a mock romance, written 
 with the intention of ridiculing the tales of giants, 
 magicians, and dragons, and contains a vast number of 
 curious allusions. The present copy is substantially 
 perfect, but it wants part of a leaf at sig. C 3, and one or 
 two very slight defects. The name of the author is not 
 known. On the last leaf are some verses by one R. W. 
 
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 321 Shakespeare (W.) First and Second Part of the Troublesome 
 
 Raigne of John King of England, with the Discoverie of 
 King Richard’s base Sonne, also the death of King John 
 at Swinstead Abbey, both parts , but first title in facsimile 
 
 4to. 1622 
 
 322 II Pastor Fido, or the Faithfull Shepheard, translated 
 
 out of Italian into English 
 
 morocco, gilt edges , by Bedford (Evans’ in 1825, £\T) very 
 rare 4to. Printed for Simon Waterson. 1602 
 
 Prefixed are verses by S. Daniel, the poet. 
 
 323 W. (W.) Jewes Prophesy, or Newes from Rome of two 
 
 mightie Armies, as well footemen as liorsmen, the first of 
 the great Sophy, the other of an Hebrew people, till this 
 time not discovered, comming from the mountaines of 
 Caspii, who pretend their warre is to recover the Land of 
 Promise, and expell the Turks out of Christendome, trans- 
 lated out of Italian into English, 1607 
 black Icttcjf, large woodcut, part of imprint cut off, morocco 
 by Bedford 1607 
 
 Only one other copy is known. See at the end a curious 
 allusion to a Jew named Shylock. 
 
 324 Lupton (Thomas) Second Part and Knitting up of the Boke 
 
 entituled, Too good to be true, wherein is continued the 
 discourse of the wonderfull Lawes, commendable customes, 
 and strange manners of the people of Mauqsun 
 black letter, a fine copy, but with a very small hole in one 
 leaf of the Dedication, morocco, gilt edges, by Bedford 
 
 4to. Printed by Henry Binneman , 1581 
 *** This Second Part is quite a separate publication from 
 Siquila, and is much the rarer of the two. A diligent 
 search for it two years ago, for a literary purpose, failed 
 to discover a copy in any public or private library in 
 London. Its chief interest consists in its containing a 
 story similar to the plot of Measure for Measure. 
 
 325 Greene’s Ghost Haunting Conie-catchers, wherein is set 
 
 downe the Arte of Humouring, the Arte of carrying 
 Stones, and Blacke Robin’s Kindnesse, with the Conceits 
 of Doctor Pinch-backe, a notable Makeshift, ten times 
 more pleasant then anything yet published of this matter 
 blacklettcr, first edition, morocco gilt edges by Bedford 
 
 4 to. 1602 
 
 326 Greene (Robert) Defence of Conny-catching, or a Con- 
 
 futation of those two injurious pamphlets published by 
 R. G. against the practitioners of many nimble-witted and 
 mysticall Sciences, by Cuthbert Cunnycatcher, Licenciate 
 in Whittington College 
 
 woodcut , black Utter, fine copy, morocco by Bedford 
 
 4 to. Printed by A. J. for Thomas Gubbins, 1592 
 
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 327 Greene (Robert) Second Part of Conny-catching, con- / J , 
 
 tayning the discovery of certaine wondrous Coosenages, ' 
 either superficiallie past over, or utterlie untoucht in the 
 first, as the nature of the black Art, picking of Lockes, 
 coosenage at bowls, horsestealing, hooking at windows, 
 stealing of parcels, &c. with sundry pithy and pleasant 
 Tales 
 
 black letter, first edition, woodcuts , a beautiful copy, 
 morocco , gilt edges , by Bedford 
 4to. Printed by John Wolfe for William Wright , 1591 
 
 *** This first edition is believed to be unique, being un- 
 described by bibliographers, who derive their knowledge 
 of such an edition solely from an entry on the books of 
 the Stationers’ Company. No copy of it is mentioned in 
 any catalogue we are acquainted with, and it contains 
 several more woodcuts than are found in the next im- 
 pression, besides other variations. In contents, it may be 
 considered the most curious of all Greene’s works. 
 
 328 Greene (Robert) Most Excellent History of Dorastus and - /O 
 
 Fawnia, in verse , no title 
 
 *** Only one other copy of this metrical version is known. 
 
 The story is the foundation of Shakespeare’s Winter’s 
 Tale. 
 
 329 Greene (R.) Quip for an Upstart Courtier, or a quaint dispute A 
 
 betweene Velvet Breeches and Cloth Breeches, wherein is 
 plainly set downe the disorders in all Estates and Trades 
 woodcut , black letter, morocco gilt edges by Bedford 
 
 4 to. 1620 
 
 330 Greene (Robert) Notable Discovery of Coosenage, now /g 
 
 daily practised by sundry lewd persons, called Connie- 
 catchers, and Crosse-byters, plainely laying open those 
 pernicious sleightes that hath brought many ignorant men 
 to confusion 
 
 black letter, woodcuts, fine copy, morocco gilt edges by 
 Bedford 4to. Printed by John Wolfe, 1591 
 
 331 Greenes Newes both from Heaven and Hell, prohibited /J-jq 
 
 the first for writing of Bookes, and banished out of the 
 last for displaying of Connycatchers. Commended to 
 the Presse by B. R. (Barnaby Rich) 
 black letter, morocco by Bedford, 
 
 4 to. Printed Anno Domini 1593. 
 
 *** The extreme rarity of this piece is well known. Mr. 
 
 Dyce never could meet with it ; it is in no public library, 
 nor in any sale catalogue we are acquainted with. It is 
 full of personal matter relating to Greene and notices 
 of his numerous works, distinctly proving that the curious 
 tracts on coneycatching were really written by him. The 
 
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 purchaser’s attention is drawn to two very slight defects 
 in sig. B, but the volume may on the whole be fairly 
 described as a fine perfect copy. 
 
 Shakespeare (W.) , Late and Much Admired Play called 
 Pericles, Prince of Tyre, with the true Relation of the 
 whole History, adventures, and Fortunes of the sayd 
 Prince, written by William Shakespeare, 
 morocco gilt edges by Bedford , 
 
 4 J°- Printed by I. N. for R. B., without place of sale, 1630. 
 * Only one other copy is known with this imprint. All 
 other copies that have been examined have the im- 
 print in smaller type, as follows, — ‘‘London, Printed 
 by I. N. for R. B., and are to be sould at his shop in 
 Cheapside, at the signe of the Bible, 1630.” See the 
 next lot. 
 
 Shakespeare (W.) Late and Much Admired Play called Pericles 
 Prince of Tyre, &c., large copy 
 London, Printed by I. N. for R. B. and are to be sould at 
 his shop in Cheapside at the Signe of the Bible, 1630. 
 Shakespeare (W.) Wittie and Pleasant Comedie called the 
 Taming of the Shrew, as it was acted by his Majesties 
 Servants at the Blacke Friars and the Globe. Written by 
 Will. Shakespeare 
 First Edition. 
 
 4fo. Printed by W. S. for John SmethwicJce, 1631. 
 * A remarkably fine copy of an edition almost invariably 
 found in bad condition. This edition has lately become 
 of great interest, from a discovery made by Mr. Collier, 
 in his last impression of Shakespeare, that the text is 
 prior to that in the first folio. It thus forms one of the 
 series of first editions. 
 
 Shakespeare (W.) Chronicle History of Henry the Fifth, with 
 his battell fought at Agincourt in France, together with 
 Ancient Pistoll. As it hath bene sundry times playd by 
 the Right Honourable the Lord Chamberlaine his Servants 
 fine copy , morocco , gilt edges, by Bedford. Ato. 
 
 Printed for T. P. 1608. 
 Shakespeare (William) First Part of the true and Honorable 
 History of the Life of Sir John Oldcastle, the good Lord 
 Cobham, as it hath bene lately acted by the Right Honor- 
 able the Earle of Notingham, Lord High Admirall of 
 England, his Servants. Written by William Shakespeare 
 fine copy, morocco, gilt edges, by Bedford 4to. 
 
 London, Printed for T. P . 1600 
 Shakespeare (William) Whole Contention betweene the two 
 Famous Houses, Lancaster and Yorke, with the Tragicall 
 ends of the good Duke Humfrey, Richard Duke of Yorke, 
 
 
 
 
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and King Henrie the Sixth. Divided into two parts, and 
 newly corrected and enlarged. Written by William 
 Shakespeare, Gent, both 'parts complete 
 morocco , gilt edges Ato. 
 
 . Printed at London for T. P. n. d. 
 
 *** The date is supposed to be 1619. Loscombe’s copy sold 
 for £ll 5s. The present is a fine copy, but a few of the 
 head lines are slightly cut into. 
 
 338 Rich (Barnaby), Farewell to Militarie Profession, conteining yy 
 very pleasant discourses fit for a peaceable time, gathered / 
 together for the onely delight of the courteous Gentle- 
 women, both of England and Ireland, for whose onely 
 pleasure they were collected together, and unto whom 
 they are directed and dedicated 
 
 blad* letter, morocco gilt edges by Bedford 
 
 Ato. Thomas Adams , 1606 
 
 A collection of early English novels, of great rarity, in- 
 cluding one from which Shakespeare took his plot of 
 Twelfth Night. Only two perfect copies are believed to 
 be known, besides the present. 
 
 339 Shakespeare (William) Tragedie of King Richard the Second, Sfiro 
 
 with new additions of the Parliament Sceane, and the 
 deposing of King Richard, as it hath been lately acted by 
 the Kinges Majesties servants at the Globe, fine, clean, 
 firm copy 
 
 morocco, gilt edges, by Bedford Ato. 
 
 Printed for Mathew Law, and are to be sold at 
 his shop in Paules Churchyard, at the signe of 
 the Foxe, 1615 
 
 %* The finest copy we have seen of this edition, which is 
 generally found printed on thinner and inferior paper. 
 
 After the first edition of 1597, this one ranks the next in 
 literary interest, being that from which the copy in the 
 first folio of 1623 was taken. 
 
 '/d 340 Shakespeare (William) Excellent History of the Merchant of .2/, 
 
 Venice, with the extreme cruelty of Shylocke the Jew 
 towards the saide Merchant in cutting a just pound of his 
 flesh, and the obtaining of Portia by the choyse of three 
 Caskets 
 
 morocco , gilt edges, by Bedford 
 
 Ato. Printed by J. Roberts, 1600 
 
 This is now ascertained, from entries in the Stationers’ 
 Registers, to be the first edition. The present copy is an 
 exceedingly desirable one, large, firm, and without a 
 single defect. 
 
 
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 ^2 /8 341 Shakespeare (W.) Poems, the frontispiece a reprint 
 
 a clean sound copy Printed at London by Thos. Cotes, 1640 
 
 3 (O . 342 Shakespeare (W.) Tragaedy of Othello, the Moore of Venice, 
 as it hath beene divers times acted at the Globe and at 
 the Black-Friers, by his Majesties Servants 
 morocco , gilt edges , by Bedford 
 
 4to. Printed for William Leak, 1655 
 
 Ll 343 Shakespeare (W.) Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedie of 
 Romeo and Juliet, as it hath been sundry times publikely 
 Acted by the King’s Majesties Servants at the Globe 
 edges uncut, morocco, by Bedford 
 
 4to. Printed by R. Young , 1637 
 / / 344 Shaksperian Scraps. A large Collection of Shaksperian 
 
 Pieces, Original Cuttings from Books, Slips, &c. Old 
 Music, some of the Editor’s MS. of the new folio edition 
 of Shakespeare, Black-letter Fragments used in that 
 work, &c. &c. a very miscellaneous and curious collection 
 • /O L, 345 Shakespeare (W.) Merry Wives of Windsor, imperfect , 1619 
 — The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth, a fragment , 
 1617 — The First Part of the Contention of the two 
 Famous Houses of Yorke and Lancaster (part of the un- 
 dated edition of the Whole Contention) — The Second 
 Part of the Contention, same edition , imperfect — Hamlet, 
 no title , 1637 
 
 346 Shakespeare. A large Collection of Fragments of the first 
 folio edition of Shakespeare folio . Lond. 1623 
 
 34? A large Elizabethan Oak Chest, of the Shaksperian period, the 
 front carved. ‘‘An empty trunk, o’erflourished by the 
 devil.” — Twelfth Night. 
 
 /£> 348 Seal-ring, head of Shakespeare, temp. George II, an early, 
 
 perhaps the earliest, specimen of the conventional head of 
 the Poet being used in this way. 
 
 
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