649 ELDON (Lord Chancellor) 1751-1838. Public and private Life with selections from his Correspondence; by HORACE TWISS. 3 vols. 8vo. with 10 plates, calf gilt

1844

0 12

650 ELIOT (George) [i.e. Marian Evans-Lewes-Crosse] 1819-1880. Romola, with illustrations by Sir Frederick Leighton, 2 vols. imp. 8vo. Edition de Luxe, with proof impressions on India paper of the plates from Leighton's designs; morocco extra, gilt edyes, with the bookplate of Robert M. Burrell

1880

28

650* Works, 21 vols. 12mo. hf. morocco

1899

60

ELIOT (Sir Thomas) - see ELYOT

651 ELIZABETH (Queen) AUTOGRAPH SIGNATURES. Documents addressed to the Lords Warden of the Cinque Ports, two of which bear her signature, as below; stitched in a folio cover

1546-1604 18 0

1. Letter to Lord Cobham, ordering restitution of a Dutch ship seized under letters of
reprisal at Dover

3 May, 1560

With the Queen's signature "Eliz " and seal; a copy of portion of the treaty of 1542 enclosed.

2. Wariant to give licence for private ships to attack and seize the pirate vessels in the
narrow seas. Signed in a fine bold hand "Elizabeth "
22 May, 1577
3. Henry VIII's order to obtain lists of men holding property to a certain value in the

Cinque Ports

30 November, 1546 4. Certificate from the Mayor of Rye addressed to Sir Thomas Cheney testifying no inhabitant within the liberties of that town was liable to assessment under the conditions of the King's summons. With seal

12 January, 1546-7

5. Extracts from Orders issued by Richard II and Henry IV relating to subsidies from
About 1577

inhabitants of the Cinque Ports

6. Letters from the Commissioners for the control of the subsidies from the Cinque Ports,
to the Constable of Dover, for the attendance of jurors on the matter 3 April, 1565
With the signatures of Thomas Wotton, Warham St. Leger, and Hugh

Cartwright.

7. Letter of the Commissioners to the Lieutenant of Dover Castle on the same subject,
signed by Cotton, Cartwright, and Hendle
10 April, 1565

8. Sir Thomas Fane's Letter to Lord Northampton, relating to the payment of the
garrison of Dover Castle, etc. Signed "Tho. Ffane" Buston, 17 October, 1604

652 ELIZABETH, FIRST PROGRESS. Title: THE QVENES maiesties
passage through the citie of London to westminster the daye before her
coronacion. Anno. 1558. Cum priuilegio. Colophon: Imprinted at
London in fletestrete within Templebarre, at the signe of the hand and
starre, by Richard Tottell, the. xxiii. day of Ianuary. Small 4to.
black letter, 20 leaves; the title within a woodcut border in which there
is Grafton's device; a fine copy, red morocco extra, by Bedford (1559) 55 0

EXCESSIVELY RARE ORIGINAL EDITION. There are several pieces of English and
Latin poetry interspersed through the text, being the addresses made to the young
Queen by children personifying various abstractions. The pageant took place on
Saturday the 18th of January, 1558-59, and on the following Thursday this book was
in print.

Collation: A-E in fours.

There was a reprint made in 1604, in which this original edition is described as being then very rare.

653 ELIZABETHAN TRACTS.

1. To the Quenes Maiesties poore deceiued Subiects of the North
Countrey, drawen into rebellion by the Earles of Northumberland and
Westmerland. Written by Thomas Norton. And newly perused and
encreased. Seen and allowed At end: Henrie Bynneman, for
Lucas Harrison.. 1569. 28 leaves.

..

2. A disclosing of the great Bull and specially the Monster Bull that
roared at my Lord Byshops gate Iohn Daye. 10 leaves.

3. A Bull granted by the Pope to Doctor Harding & other Iohn Daye

10 leaves.

4. An addition declaratorie to the Bulles, with a searching of the Maze..

5. The effect of the declaratio made in the Guildhall by M. Recorder
[Fleetwood]

ELIZABETHAN TRACTS—continued.

654

6. BUCHANAN (George). ANE ADMONITION DIRECT TO THE trew Lordes mantenaris of the Kingis Graces Authoritie . M. G. B. . Iohn Daye, accordyng to the Scotish copie . MDLXXI. 16 leaves.

7. [STUDLEY (Christ.)] TREASON Pretended against THE KING OF SCOTS . Out of Scottish into English . . for Thomas Nelson . . 1585. 12 leaves.

8. A warning agaynst the dangerous practises of Papistes . . Thomas Norton . . At end: Iohn Daye.. 57 leaves.

Written by

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another collection. No 1 as above, 28 leaves-ANE DETECTIOVN of the duinges of Marie Quene of Scottes . . Translated out of the Latine quhilke was written by. G. B. 88 leaves, the last leaf a blankNo. 8 of the preceding list, 57 leaves-The copie of a letter written by one in London to his frend concernyng the credit of the late published detection of the doynges of the Ladie Marie of Scotland. 8 leavesNo. 5 of the preceding list, 10 leaves-No. 6 of the preceding list, 16 leaves.

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1569-71 45 @ 0

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655 ELYOT (Sir Thomas) died 1546. THE BOKE NAMED THE GO-uernour
deuised by Sir Thomas Elyot knyght.. LONDINI. AN. M. D. LIII
This title within a woodcut border which bears the date of 1534.
Colophon: Imprinted at London in Flete strete, in the house of
Thomas Berthelet. . 18mo. 224 leaves (8 and 216); fine copy in green
morocco extra, gilt edges, with the bookplate of "The Honble Archibald
Campbell Esq 1708 "

This noteworthy English classic was first printed in the year 1534.
ENGLAND'S PARNASSUS-
S-see ALLOT

1553

656 EMERSON (Ralph Waldo) Complete Works, 11 vols. 8vo. LARGE PAPER, portrait; bds. uncut

000

1883 10 0 0

A fine and beautifully-printed set of volumes which will no doubt remain the standard edition of the great poetical philosopher of New England.

Only twenty-five copies were printed on large paper.

657 ENGLISH MINSTRELSIE, a National Monument of English Song; edited with notes and historical Introductions by S. Baring Gould; 8 vols. royal 4to., with 17 portraits of eminent singers; ornamental cloth binding

180

Essayists:

659 HERACLITUS RIDENS, at a Dialogue between Jest and Earnest, concerning the Times [by THOMAS FLATMAN.] 82 weekly numbers, COMPLETE, each consisting of one leaf, dated from Feb. 1, 1681, to Aug. 22, 1682.

In 1 vol., small folio, a few slight wormholes; hf. morocco neat VERY RARE. The British Museum possesses only a few numbers of the work, which was written by Thomas Flatman and is interspersed with pieces of poetry. 660 THE TATLER; or, Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq.; 4 vols. portrait of Steele on the titles, and frontispieces by Grignion, 1759;-THE SPECTATOR, 8 vols. vignettes by Grignion on the titles, 1757;—THE GUARDIAN, 2 vols. vignettes by Grignion on the titles, 1760-together 14 vols. 8vo. old calf gilt

1757-60

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662 [GORDON (Thomas)] The Independent Whig, complete, 53 Nos. in 1 vol. 8vo. richly bound in red morocco extra, gilt edges, the sides and back elaborately covered with fine gold tooling, a remarkable specimen of the art

1721 Dedicated to the Lower House of Convocation, and full of strong and rational argument for the subordination of the Church to the State. With the autograph of Thomas Chudleigh on the title.

663 RAMBLER (The) Nos. 1 to 49, sm. folio, bds.

ESSEX DIVORCE-see JAMES I

By Dr. Johnson.

£ s. d.

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0 12 6

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666 EVELYN (John) 1620-1708. Memoirs, comprising his Diary from 1641 to 1705-6; edited by William Bray; a new edition, 5 vols. 8vo. folding pedigree and portraits, calf

FAIRFAX (Edward) 15.-1632-see TASSO

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The Works . . Poems, Letters,
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669

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673

With the merry prankes of Moll Cut-Purse: Or, the humour of roaring: A Comedy full of honest mirth and wit. As it was acted at the Blacke- Fryers both by the PRINCES Servants and the Lady ELIZABETHS. . Io. Okes, for Math. Walbaucke.. 1639

tion

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675

676

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1749

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677

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down) inserted, 6 vols. 12mo. old calf
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400

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MDCCLII.

679

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1752

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090

089

The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon By the late Henry Fielding,
Esq.; London: Printed for A. MILLAR.. MDCCLV.

12mo. 142 leaves; red morocco extra, by Riviere, EDGES UNCUT 1755
First Edition of Fielding's last book; extremely rare in this condition.
COLLATION: 4 preliminary leaves; pp. i-xvii, 19-240, 193-228.

681 FISHER (John) Bishop of Rochester, 1459-1535. Here after foloweth
a mornynge remembraŭce had at the moneth mynde of the noble
prynces Margarete countesse of Rychemonde & Darbye moder vnto
kynge Henry the . vii. & grandame to oure souerayne lorde that nowe

is,
vppon whose soule almyghty god haue mercy. COLOPHON: Thus
endeth this lamentable mornynge. Enprynted at London in Flete
strete at the sygne of the sonne by Wynkyn de Worde. Here the little
Caxton mark. Small 4to. 12 leaves, black letter, with a woodcut on the
title, and the printer's device at the end; the text very neatly inlaid;
olive morocco extra, gilt edges, by Bedford

550

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683 FITZGERALD (Edward) Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, the Astronomerpoet of Persia, translated into English verse, sq. 8vo.

684

685

London, Bernard Quaritch, Castle Street, Leicester Square, 1859 Nearly the whole of this, the first edition, I sold (not being able to get more) at one penny each. Mr. Fitzgerald had made me a present of about 200 copies of the 250 he had printed.

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, SECOND EDITION, sm. 4to.

Bernard Quaritch, 1868 The second edition contains several stanzas and many readings which appeared only in that issue.

ib. 1872

the same, THIRD EDITION, sm. 4to. roxburgh binding
There is but little difference between the third and fourth editions.
At one of the quarterly dinners of the Omar Khayyam Club, a letter was read
from Swinburne, who had numerous interesting things to say of Fitzgerald's
immortal translation. As to the greatness of the Rubaiyat, he says: "I know none to
be compared with it for power, pathos, and beauty in the same line of thought and
work, except, possibly, Ecclesiastes,' and, magnificent as that is, I can hardly think its
author comparable to Omar either as philosopher or poet." In the same letter he
recounts how in 1860 he and Rossetti bought the first editions of this great work at a
bookstall (mine) for a penny each, they having fallen absolutely dead at the published
price of 1s.

686 [FITZGERALD (E.)] Rabaiyát of Omar Khayyam; and the Salámán and
Ábsáe of Jámi, rendered into English verse, sq. 12mo. half roxburghe,
gilt tops

1879

687

This is the fourth and last edition edited by Fitzgerald.
Heron Allen's Omar Khayyam, Persian and English, royal 8vo.

cloth

1899

"Mr. Heron-Allen's new volume on 'Edward Fitzgerald's Rubaiyat' is destined to set at rest for ever the vexed question of how far that incomparable poem is to be considered a translation and how far an original work.

"Mr. Heron-Allen prints Fitzgerald's quatrains on the left-hand page, and on the opposite side gives a literal translation of the Persian sources whence they were drawn. The result is a volume of extraordinary interest to the student, and a proof that besides being a great poet, Fitzgerald understood the difficult art of translation as it is, unhappily, understood by few.

"For the true artistic translation is not the most faithful rendering of the word, of the phrase, nor even of the illustration of the metaphor-often quite inappropriate to the genius of the language in which the translator works.

"The true artist sets himself to give the spirit of the original, and knows how to clothe it in metaphor and image of a corresponding, but not of an identical, felicity.

"Fitzgerald has thus produced a translation so essentially faithful, and at the same time an original poem of such exquisite beauty, that for English readers, he and Omar shine as stars of the same magnitude." - Literature, March 25th, 1899.

688 [FITZGERALD (Edward)] Euphranor: a Dialogue on Youth, 12mo. FIRST Pickering, 1851

689

690

691

692

693

694

695

EDITION, original cloth, uncut, VERY SCARCE

This was Edward Fitzgerald's first published production.
Euphranor, a May-Day Conversation at Cambridge "tis Forty
years since," 8vo. 69 pp. sewed
Guildford, Billing and Sons, s.a.
Only 50 copies printed for the author in May, 1882.
Polonius, a collection of wise saws and modern instances, 12mo.

07

22

22

1852 00

2 10

Six Dramas of Calderon, freely translated by Edward Fitzgerald, 12mo. FIRST EDITION, original cloth, uncut Pickering, 1853 Very scarce, as only 250 copies were printed. AGAMEMNON. A tragedy taken from Æschylus, sm. 4to. 1876 0 0 Sea Words and Phrases along the Suffolk Coast, No. 1, 8vo. blue morocco extra, rare

Lowestoft, 1869 2 12

Extracted from the East Anglian Notes and Queries, January, 1869; paged 347-
363, 1-12, and January, 1871, pp. 1-4.

READINGS in CRABBE: "Tales of the Hall," with Introduction [by
Edward Fitzgerald], 18mo. xiv and 242 pp.

1882 0 0

Ipswich, 1871 00

- JAMI. Salámán and Absál, an Allegory, from the Persian (in
English verse), first edition, sm. 4to. frontispiece
Memoir of Bernard Barton-see BARTON (Bernard)