Flatman (Thomas)-continued. 651 652 653 A Pindarique Ode on the Death of the Right Honourable Thomas Earl of Ossory. FIRST EDITION. Folio, new boards. London, 1681. £1 14s *** It is said that the Duke of Ormonde on receiving this Ode on the death of his son, was so pleased with it, that he sent the poet a diamond ring. Poems and Songs. The Very Rare FIRST EDITION. Small Svo, full red morocco gilt, gilt edges. London, 1674. £6 6s A Song for St. Cæcilia's Day, Nov. 22, 1686. Written by Mr. Tho. Flatman: And Composed by Mr. Isaac Blackwell. FIRST EDITION. Folio broadside, new boards. London, 1686. 18s 654 FLAVELL (John). Husbandry Spiritualized; or, The Heavenly Use of Earthly Things. Consisting of many Pleasant Observations, Pertinent Applications, and serious Reflections, and each Chapter concluded with a Divine and suitable Poem. Small 4to, original calf, rebacked. London, 1669. £2 2s 655 FLEMING (A.). The Footepath to Felicitie, whiche everie Christian must walk in. Printed within borders, 12mo, in its contemporary binding of calf, covered with gold tooling. London, Printed by Peter Short, circa 1580. £3 3s An interesting example of 16th century English Lyonnese binding. The book is slightly imperfect. 656 FLETCHER (Giles). Christs Victorie and Triumph in Heaven and Earth, over and after Death; in verse. The Second Edition. Small 4to, half calf gilt. £1 10s 657 FLETCHER (John). The Elder Brother. A Comedie, acted at the Blacke Friers, by his Maiesties Servants. FIRST EDITION. Small 4to, full calf gilt, g. e. London, Imprinted by F. K. for J. W. and J. B., 1637. (Repair on last leaf.) £23 10s 658 FLETCHER (Phineas). The Locusts; or, Apollyonists. Locustæ vel Pietas Je suitica Per Phineam Fletcher Collegii Regalis Apud Thomam & Joannem Bucke celeberrimæ Academiæ Typographos. Anno Dom. MDCXXVII. THE FIRST EDITION, with the two title-pages (Latin and English). Small 4to. morocco gilt, g. e. Cambridge, 1627. £45 *** THIS IS FLETCHER'S FIRST BOOK, AND MILTON HAS CONFESSED THAT TO IT HE OWED HIS IMMORTAL WORK "PARADISE LOST." In this poem Fletcher uses the Fall of Lucifer as a device to explain the strength of the Church of Rome, whose machinations are made to culminate in the Gunpowder Plot. He writes with the bitterness that might be expected from an Engush clergyman of the time. Fletcher was steeped in Spenser's poetry, and carried on the Spensarian tradition. In his work is to be found Spenser's diffuseness, his use of allegory, many variants of his stanza and the echo, often a beautiful echo, of his music. Moreover, Milton knew the work of Fletcher as intimately as he, or Fletcher, knew the work of Spenser. And so one of the prettiest and most intricate problems that is to be found in literature arises on the question of what is known as influence. The best example of the affinity between the work of Milton and the work of Phineas Fletcher is to be found in a comparison between the way in which Milton treats that stock episode of the miracle play, the Fall of Lucifer, and the way in which Fletcher treats it. In The Apollyonists, the Fall of Lucifer is a prelude to an onslaught upon the Jesuits the great opening is narrowed to the confines of religious hatred. But the sympathy which Milton could not but feel for the rebel transformed the figure of Satan from a fine conception to one of immortal grandeur. Milton humanised the devil, Fletcher diabolised the priest. Their meeting-point is found in Fletcher's lines "To be in heaven the second he disdaines : So now the first in hell and flames he raignes, Crown'd once with joy and light: crown'd now with fire and paines." and in the Miltonic Better to reign in hell than serve in Heav'n." 659 FLLOYD (Thomas). Tartarian Tales; or, A Thousand and One Quarters of Hours. Written in French by the celebrated Mr. Guelletee; the whole now for the first Time translated into English by Thomas Filoyd. 12mo, full calf gilt (rebacked). London, 1759. 6s 660 FLORIO (John). Vocabolario Italiano and Inglese, A Dictionary Italian and English, formerly compiled by John Florio, and since his last edition Anno 1611, augmented by himselfe in his life time, with many thousand words, and Thuscan phrases, now most diligently revised, corrected and compared, with La Crusca, and other approved Dictionaries, whereunto is added A Dictionary English and Italian, with severall proverbs and Instructions for the speedy attaining to the Italian Tongue, never before published, by Geo. Torriano. Thick folio, original calf. London, 1659. £2 2s Frontispiece. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. 4 vols., 8vo, full calf. Contains the First Issue of several of the Plays. £1 16s 662 FORTUNE TELLING. Flamstead (Dr.) and Mr. Partridge. New FortuneBook; containing A Treatise of Moles; and their various Significations in all parts of the human body, explained. New-Invented method of knowing one's fortune by a pack of cards. The art of Palmestry, Physiognomy and the reading of dreams. Frontispiece, containing two curious woodcuts of an astrologer, and a card party, also many woodcuts in the text. 16mo, full morocco. London, 1729. ** Several headlines and margins slightly cut into. Scarce and curious. £2 2s 663 FOUGASSES (Thomas De). The Generall Historie of the Magnificent State of Venice. From the First Foundation thereof untill this Present. Collected by Thomas de Fougasses; Englished by W. Shute. FIRST EDITION. Thick folio, full calf (rebacked). £8 10s *** The most reliable of the early histories of Venice. Contains valuable illustrations of Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice and 'Othello." 664 FOX (George), STUBS (John) and FURLEY (Benjamin). A Battle-Door for Teachers and Professors to learn Singular & Plural; wherein is shewed forth by Grammar, or Scripture Examples, how several Nations and People have made a distinction between Singular and Plural. Small folio, full brown morocco gilt. London, 1660. £8 8s |