324 THACKERAY.-CRISPE (T. E.) THACKERAY, HUMORIST AND SATIRIST, his Works, Original Characters, and Comic Writings, a Lecture principally treating on Vanity Fair. Published by desire and subscription of several of the Members of the Marylebone Institution. London, W. Davy and Son, 1857. 8vo, original pink wrapper, £5 5s * A very rare Thackeray item, unknown to most collectors. 325 USURY.-MOSSE (Miles, B.D.) THE ARRAIGNMENT AND CONVICTION OF VSVRIE. That is the iniquitie and vnlawfulnes of vsurie, displayed in sixe Sermons, preached at Saint Edmunds Bury, in Suffolk. At London, Printed by the widdow Orwin for John Porter, 1595. Sm. 4to, text partly in black letter, small woodcut of King David on title, long wormhole in upper part to p. 30, injuring text in places, top corner of the blank margin from 02 to S1 wormed, otherwise a very fine copy, with many uncut leaves and all the marginal notes intact, paper wrapper, £10 10s * Extremely rare, and particularly so with the imprint John Porter instead of the usual one, For Thomas Man." The book itself is a remarkable and highly curious work against usury in all its forms. 326 VENETIAN STREET CRIES.-LE ARTI CHE VANNO PER VIA NELLA CITTA DI VENEZIA. London, Lackington, Allen and Co., 1803. Large folio, engraved title and 60 etchings of the various street-vendors of Venice, with two pages of descriptive verse in English, one to each cry, one leaf torn, old half calf, rebacked, uncut, £12 12s 327 VERSAILLES.-LES PLANS, PROFILS, ET ELEVATIONS DES VILLE ET CHATEAU DE VERSAILLES, avec les Bosquets et Fontaines, &c. Paris, N.D. (1716). Roy. folio, A SERIES OF 35 FINE LARGE ENGRAVINGS (a number double-page) of plans, views, fountains and gardens of Versailles after drawings by Menant and Girard, designed and engraved in 1714-15, half blue morocco, £8 88 *A fine and interesting series of plates, depicting, not only the gardens, statuary, &c., of the Chateau, but containing in nearly every plate, groups of figures of courtiers, showing the costumes and customs of the period. 328 VIRGIL.-THE XIII. BOOKES OF NEIDOS. The first twelue beeinge the woorke of the diuine Poet Virgil Maro, and the thirtenth the Supplement of Maphæus Vegius. Translated into English verse to the first thirdpart of the tenth Booke by Thomas Phaer Esquire, and the residue finished and now the second time newly set forth for the delite of such as are studious in Poetrie by Thomas Twyne, Doctor in Physicke. Imprinted at London by William How for Abraham Veale, dwelling in Paules Church yeard, at the Signe of the Lambe, 1584. Sm. 4to, mostly in black letter, title within a border of printer's ornaments, VERY FINE COPY WITH THE FINAL BLANK LEAF, russia extra, g.e., with bookplate of the Marquis of Downshire and his monogram on back of binding, £60 * EXCESSIVELY RARE, and the earliest edition in which the thirteenth book appears in English. Each book has at its end the date of finishing, the place where, and by whom. Dedicated to Robert Sackville, son of Thomas Sackville, Lord Buckhurst. [See Illustration.] G 336 WILLIS (Thomas, of Thistleworth (Isleworth), in Middlesex) VESTIBULUM LINGUE LATINE. A Dictionarie for Children, consisting of Two Parts, containing near ten thousand words, besides thrice that number derived from or known by them being the fruit of above forty years' experience in teaching School. London, R. Cotes for P. Stephens, 1651. Sm. 8vo, FINE CLEAN COPY, with the blank leaf for A1, original sheep, £10 10s * Very rare, most copies having been thumbed out of existence. The only other copy we can trace is that in the British Museum. Unknown to Hazlitt or Lowndes. The author was the son of Richard Willis, of Fenny Compton, co. Warwick, and was Schoolmaster at Isleworth for about fifty years. 337 WITHER (George) IVVENILIA. A Collection of those Poems which were heretofore imprinted and written by George Wither. London, printed for Robert Allott, at the beare in Paules Churchyard, 1633. Sm. 8vo, with fine engraved title (very slightly shaved on upper foremargin), printed title on two separate leaves with imprint Printed for John Grismond . . . 1633, engraved title to Wither's Motto with imprint London, printed for John Grismond, 1633, and leaf of explanation opposite, curious woodcut between pp. 248-9, separate title to nearly every piece, lower corner of signature N 2 misprinted, tiny wormhole (increasing to 3) at end, lacks final blank, FINE COPY, WITH THE BLANK LEAF FOR Z6, old red morocco extra, g.e., £15 15s * EXCESSIVELY RARE, WITH THE PRINTED TITLE ON TWO SEPARATE LEAVES. Hazlitt thought the Huth the only copy to contain this title. It is the third edition of the Juvenilia," with the Motto and Philarete" annexed, which were not in the issues of 1622 and 1626. Though the printed title mentions a second volume, it is not known to exist. The blank leaf Z 6 and the leaf of Explanation to the title of the Motto do not appear in the Huth collation. Inserted at the beginning is a brilliant impression of the beautiful portrait of Wither engraved by Will. Holle. 338 WITHER (George) A COLLECTION OF EMBLEMS, ANCIENT AND MODERNE Quickened with Metricall Illvstrations, both Morall and Divine And disposed into Lotteries, That Instruction and Good Counsell may bee furthered by an Honest and Pleasant Recreation. [In four books]. London, Printed by A. M. for Robert Allot, 1635 (separate titles to last 3 books, dated 1634). FIRST EDITION, sm. folio, with fine engraved frontispiece by W. Marshall, large engraved portrait of Wither by J. Payne, 200 circular vignettes by Crispin de Pass, and the double woodcut lottery-table index at the end, wanting the pointers as usual, some margins restored, lower corner of O o 3 with 17 words in facsimile, and a few slight stains, tall copy, old calf, rebacked, £14 *The margin line of the frontispiece in this copy is intact, which is very rarely the case. Opposite to it is the metrical "Proposition," often wanting. The vignettes were originally engraved for the Emblems of Rollenhagius, printed at Cologne and Arnheim in 1613-16. They were purchased by a London publisher, and Wither was employed to write illustrative verses to them. EXTRA ILLUSTRATED, AND CONTAINING A FINE HOLOGRAPH LETTER 339 WREN. ELMES (J.) MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE AND WORKS OF SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN, with a Brief View of the Progress of Architecture in England from Charles I. to the end of the 17th century, &c. London, 1823. 4to, with Portrait and Views of Churches, &c., built by Wren. EXTRA ILLUSTRATED BY THE INSERTION OF A FINE HOLOGRAPH LETTER FROM SIR C. WREN, PORTRAITS OF MEMBERS OF THE WREN FAMILY, VIEWS OF CHURCHES AND PUBLIC BUILDINGS CONNECTED WITH WREN, AND AN OLD MS. LIST OF CHURCHES, &C., BUILT BY HIM, half calf, £25 THE EXCESSIVELY RARE 1520 EDITION OF THE CHRONICLE OF ST. ALBANS PRINTED BY WYNKYN DE WORDE. 340 WYNKYN DE WORDES PRESS. CHRONICLE OF ST. ALBANS. The Cronycle of Englonde with the Fruite of Tymes, compyled in a boke. Imprynted by one sumtyme scole mayster of seynt Albons, vpon whose soule god haue mercy. Amen. And newly Imprynted i Fletestrete at the synge of the sonne, BY ME WYNKYN DE WORDE. In the yere of oure lorde god, M.CCCCC. and XX. (1520), Caxton's mark (McKerrow 1b) on verso of colophon, WITH A NUMBER OF QUAINT AND INTERESTING WOODCUTS, the title, Aa 4. f 1 to 3. f 6, and g 5 and 6 (8 leaves in all) are wanting and are supplied in manuscript, some early marginal annotations, small hole in Aa 2, injuring 2 words, 2 small holes in n 6, and several tears mended, in the table the words pope, bysshopes and Rome have been crossed out -THE DESCRYPCYON OF ENGLANDE. Here foloweth a lytell treatyse the whyche treateth of the descripcyon of this lande whiche of olde tyme was called Albyon, and after Brytayne, and now is called Englande, and speketh of the noblesse and worthynesse of the same. Fynyshed and Imprynted at London in Fletestrete at the sygne of the sone BY ME WYNKYN DE WORDE, the yere of oure lorde god M.CCCCC. and XX. (1520), large woodcut view beneath title and Wynkyn de Worde's re-cut tripartite device (McKerrow 20) on last page. The two parts in one vol, sm. folio, black letter, double columns, save for the defects mentioned A FINE LARGE COPY, WITH THE ORIGINAL FINAL BLANK LEAF TO THE CHRONICLE, vellum, £80 *One of the rarest productions of Wynkyn de Worde's famous press, and the most perfect copy that any collector can hope to possess. It is very unusual to find a complete copy of the Description of England as in the present instance. There is no copy of this edition in the British Museum, and that in the Bodleian is the only one quoted in the Hand Lists of English Printers. Only 4 other copies have occured for sale during the last 50 years, and all of them were imperfect. This copy formerly belonged to Joseph Haslewood (who supplied the missing leaves in MS.), and contains his bookplate. 341 WYNKEN DE WORDE'S PRESS. WHITTINGTON (Robert) GRAMMATICES PRIME PARTIS LIBER PRIMUS ROBERTI W. L.L. nuperrime recognitus. De nominum generibus [ex typis Winandi de Worden, vicesimo secundo verbi incarnati supra sesquimillesimum anno Pridie Cal. Septemb. [1522)]. Sm. 4to, black and roman letter mixed, title within an ornamental woodcut border of 4 pieces, the lower of which contains the printer's device (McKerrow 50), some old marginal annotations, wants last 4 leaves (sign. C), LARGE COPY, cloth boards, lettered on front cover with W. de Worde's device in gold, £20 * EXTREMELY RARE Only two other copies are known, one of which is in the John Rylands Library. Collation of a perfect copy: A 4, B 6, and C 4 leaves. There is no foliation. 342 WYNKEN DE WORDE'S PRESS. WHITTINGTON (Robert) VULGARIA ROBERTI WHITONTONI LICHFELDIENSIS, & de instutione gramaticuloz, opusculum libello suo de concinnitate grammatices accommodatum: & in quattuor partes digestum. Londini in edibus Winandi de Worde,? 1523]. Sm. 4to, mostly in black letter, ornamental woodcut border to title in 4 pieces, the lower containing the printer's device (McKerrow 50), some old marginal annotations, wants folio 4 (B1), folio 40 (H1) and last leaf (HS', LARGE COPY, un form with preceding, £20 * AN EXTREMELY RARE EDITION OF THIS POPULAR GRAMMAR, WHICH RAPIDLY PASSED THROUGH SEVERAL EDITIONS, ALL OF WHICH E ONLY KNOWN BY TWO OR THREE COPIES. A great part of the work is in English, including the translation of the rules of syntax and examples on them. Many of the examples are very curious, and among them are eulogies on Henry VII. and Sir Thomas More Collation: A, C, E and G in 4s, B, D, F, and H in 8s. 343 WYNKEN DE WORDE'S PRESS. WHITTINGTON (R.) ROBERTI WHITINTONI LICHFELDIENSIS LUCUBRATIONES. De synonimis . . . De epithetis... De variandi formulis tam pedestri q soluto sermone. Experientia de virtutis immortalitate. De veterum Romanorum magistratibus. [Londini in edibus Winandi de Worde, anno domini 1522]. Sm. 4to, chiefly in black letter, wants last 4 leaves (sign. E), LARGE COPY, uniform with preceding, £20 * EXTREMELY RARE. Only two other copies appear to be known. This copy might possibly belong to the edition of 1523, but even in that case the same remark as to rarity would apply. The collation of both editions is the same. Collation of a perfect copy: A and C 8-leaves, B, D, and E 4 leaves, no foliation. Text partly in English. Libraries Purchased for Prompt Cash in Printed by ROBERT STOCKWELL. Printer, Baden Place, Crosby Row, Boro', London, S. E. 1.; and published by MYERS & CO., 102, New Bond Street, London, W.1. No. 260.] AN Illustrated Catalogue OF FINE AND RARE Illuminated Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Etc. ON SALE BY MYERS & CO., (ALBERT MYERS) 102, NEW BOND STREET, LONDON, W. 1. [June, 1927. Telephone: Grosvenor 3042. Cables: "Myersliber, London." Telegrams: "Myersliber, Wesdo, London." (Two words). |