Dryden (John)—continued. 655 Fables Ancient and Modern; Translated into Verse, from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, and Chaucer, with Original Poems. FIRST EDITION. Folio. Original calf, gilt back (worn at joints). £2 10s 656 The Kind Keeper: or, Mr. Limberham: A Comedy: As it was Acted at the Duke's Theatre by His Royal Highnesses Servants. FIRST EDITION. Small 4to. Fine Copy in full polished calf gilt, g.e. London, Printed for R. Bentley, 1680. 657 Marriage A-la-Mode. A Comedy. £8 10s FIRST EDITION. Small 4to, new boards. London, 1673. £12 12s The serious part of this drama is apparently founded on the story of Sesostris and Timareta, in the Grand Cyrus." The comic scenes are executed with spirit, and contain much witty and fashionable raillery, and the character of Melautha is pronounced by Cibber to exhibit the most complete system of female foppery that could possibly be crowded into the tortured form of a fine lady. 658 Edipus: a Tragedy. FIRST EDITION. Small 4to, new boards. London, 1679. £8 8s ** The first and third acts were written by Dryden, who drew the machinery of the whole; the remainder was by Nat. Lee. 659 Edipus. Another Edition. Small 8vo, boards, uncut. London, Printed for J. Tonson, 1734. £1 1s 660 A Poem upon the Death of his Late Highness, Oliver, Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland. FIRST EDITION. Sm. 4to, bound by Riviere in full crushed morocco extra, g. e. London, William Wilson, 1659. Fine and tall copy. The Hoe copy sold for £52 10s. £26 Dryden (John)—continued. 661 Prologue to His Royal Highness upon his first appearance at the Duke's Theatre since his return from Scotland. Written by Mr. Dryden, spoken by Mr. Smith. FIRST EDITION. Printed on one side of a folio leaf. Riviere in half levant morocco, g. e. London, 1682. An exceedingly rare poetical piece by Dryden. Bound by £10 10s 662 Prologue to the Duke of Cuise, written by Mr. Dryden: Spoken by Mr. Smith. FIRST EDITION. 4 pp., folio, half levant morocco, g. e., by Riviere. London, 1683. £10 10s ** Includes as well as the Prologue, the "Epilogue, written by the same Author. Spoken by Mrs. Cooke," and "Another Epilogue intended to have been Spoken to the Play, before it was forbidden last summer, written by Mr. Dryden." The Duke of Guise, A Tragedy," was written by John Dryden and Nat. Lee, its object was to serve the Duke of York, whose succession was opposed. Dryden was severely attacked for this piece, which was considered as levelled at the then enemies of the English Court. 663. The Spanish Fryar; or, the Double Discovery. FIRST EDITION. Small 4to, new boards. London, 1681. £5 5s *** Langbaine charges the author of this play with casting a reflection on the whole body of the clergy in the character of Dominick the Friar, and seems to imagine it a piece of revenge practised for some opposition he met with in his attempt to take orders. The plot of the comic parts is founded on a novel called the " Pilgrim," written by Bremond. 664 Tyrannick Love, or The Royal Martyr. A Tragedy. FIRST EDITION. Small 4to, half calf. London, 1670. £10 10s *** Nell Gwyn took the part of " Valeria," daughter to Maximin. At the end of the play Nell Gwyn in this character, lying "dead" on the Stage, the bearers come to carry her off, she says to one of them : "Hold, are you mad? You damn'd confounded dog I am to rise and speak the Epilogue." Curl says that King Charles II. was so captivated by the humorous manner in which she spoke the Epilogue, that when she had done, he went behind the scenes and carried her off that night. 665 Tyrannick Love. Third Edition, review'd by the Author. Small 4to, new boards. London, 1677. 15s PLATE XXII. NO-BODY, AND SOME-BODY. With the true Chronicle Hiftoric of Elydure, who was fortunately three feuerall times crowned King of England. The true Coppy thereof, as it hath beene acted by the Queens Maiefties Seruants. Printed for Iohn Trundle and are to be fold at his fhop in Barbican, at the figne of No-body. See Item No. 986. Dryden (John)—continued. 666 The Vindication or the Parallel of the French Holy-League, and the English League and Covenant, Turn'd into a Seditious Libell against the King and his Royal Highness, by Thomas Hunt and the Authors of the Reflections upon the Pretended Parallel in the Play called The Duke of Guise. FIRST EDITION. Small 4to. Fine Copy bound by Riviere in full polished calf gilt, g. e. London, Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1683. £4 4s Dryden, in this work, makes reference to Shakespeare as follows:"Am I tyed in Poetry to the strict rules of History? I haue follow'd it in this Play more closely, than suited with the Laws of the Drama, and a great Victory they will haue, who shall discover to the World this wonderful Secret, that I haue not observ'd the Unities of place and time; but are they better kept in the Farce of the Libertine destroy'd? 'Twas our common business here to draw the Parallel of the Times, and not to make an Exact Tragedy: For this once we were resolved to erre with honest Shakespear." Page 12. "But these Lyes (as Prince Harry said to Falstaffe) are as grosse as he that made them. More I need not say, for I am accused without witness." Page 21. "For your Love and Loyalty to the King, they who mean him best amongst you, are no better Subjects than Duke Trinculo. They wou'd be content he shou'd be Viceroy, so they may be Viceroys over him." Page 42. 667 Du Fresnoy (C. A.). The Art of Painting, with remarks; translated into English, together with an Original Preface containing a Parallel betwixt Painting and Poetry, by John Dryden. Engraved title. FIRST EDITION. Small 4to, original calf gilt. London, 1695. £3 3s With the very fine large bookplate of Sir Thomas Hanmer, dated 1707, on reverse of title. 668 Walsh (William). A Dialogue Concerning Women, being a Defence of the Sex. Written to Eugenia. With Preface by Dryden. FIRST EDITION. Small 8vo, old calf (rebacked). London, 1691. 669 Dramatick Works. £3 3s With portrait of the Author by Vertue (repeated in each volume). £1 10s |