244 FORMS OF PRAYER, 1) A Forme of Common Prayer: To be used upon the 17th of November and the 8th of December: For the removing of the Plague. . 1640. 44 leaves-2) A Form of Prayer the same as No 7 in the preceding collection-3) A Forme of Common Prayer . . the same as No 8 of the preceding collection—4) A Forme of Common Prayer. . the same as No 6 in the preceding collection-5) A Fovrme of Prayer. . to be vsed. . the fift of August. Being the day of his Highnesse happy deliuerance from. . the Earle of Gowry. Robert Barker . . 1606 . . 27 leaves---6) A Forme of Common Prayer. upon the second Friday in every Moneth. . For the. ceasing of this present Rebellion Oxford by Leonard Lichfield. . 1643. . 26 leaves-7) A Prayer, to be vsed so long as His Maiesties Nauie and forces are abroade. A single folded leaf (printed about 1628)-8) Some Observations upon occasion of the Publishing their Majesties Letters. Oxford . . 1645. 8 leaves-9) The Kings Cabinet opened. . 1645. 32 leaves including a blank at the beginning in 1 vol. sm. 4to. old calf 1606-45 245 A FORME OF Common Prayer. . For the auerting of Gods heauy Visitation to be read euery Wednesday. Bonham Norton and Iohn Bill.. 1625. 54 leaves (identical with No 3 of the first collection ante, but without the two blanks)—A FORME of Common Prayer; to be used upon The eighth of July.. 1640. 44 leaves (identical with No. 8 of the first preceding collection). 2 vols. in 1, sm. 4to. calf 1625-40 246 QUEEN ELIZABETH'S PRIVATE PRAYERS. A BOOKE OF | Christian Prayers collected out of the aunciet writers, and | best learned in our tyme, .. | │· · │· ·↓· · | .. AT LONDON, | Printed by Iohn Daye, dwellyng ouer Aldersgate. | 1578. | Cum Priuilegio. This title within a woodcut border. On the reverse is a kneeling portrait of Queen Elizabeth, with the words Elizabeth Regina above it and a quotation from 2. PARALIPOM. 6. beneath it. Leaves 2-6 contain an address To the Christian Rea-der. . signed at the end by Richard Daye. Leaves 7-144 (foliated 1-137, by mistake for 138) contain the text of the book entirely printed within woodcut borders including a Dance of Death and various other compositions in imitation of the French Livres d'Heures. Leaves 145, 146 contain the Table with a colophon and woodcut on the reverse of 146. 247 248 249 Small 4to. the first fourteen leaves a little waterstained; a sound copy in old calf £ 8. d. 500 116 0 1578 27 0 0 the same, a large and fine copy in old black morocco, gilt edges, with the bookplates of W. Baynton and the Hon. P. Ashburnham 1578 33 00 This Prayerbook-which should be called by the name of its compiler, Richard Day-was first printed in 1569 in a single copy on vellum for the use of the Queen, which is still preserved in the Royal library. It was apparently not published till 1578, and copies with this date are extremely rare. the same reprinted in 1581. A BOOKE OF CHRISTIAN | Praiers. On the eleventh line below: AT LONDON, | Printed for the Company of Stationers. Colophon on reverse of leaf 148: AT LONDON Printed by Iohn Daye, dwel- lyng ouer Aldersgate beneath Saint Martines. | Anno. 1581. Cum gratia.. Small 4to. the title slightly waterstained, and the marginal note of one preliminary leaf slightly cut-into; large and send copy in blue morocco extra, gilt edges, VERY RARE 1581 22 00 This has all the woodcuts and borders of the preceding edition; and has two extra preliminary leaves, namely "A Prayer to be sayd both Morning and Euening," and "A Prayer to the Majestie of God." " the same reprinted in 1608. Small 4to. 118 ves; red morocco extra, gilt edges 1608 10 0 0 The preliminary leaves are identical with those of the 138 edition, with the sole exception that the date 1608 is added on the title, beneath "Stationers." The text of the book is entirely reprinted with some little redistrution of the woodcuts in the borders, and the final page has a different woodcut (tleark of the Stationers) with the date 1608 above it, and below: At London, Proted for the Companie of Stationers." 250 CRANMER'S CATECHISM. Catechismvs That is to say a short Instruction into Christian Religion for . . yong people . . Gualterus Lynne excudebat. 1548. Small 4to. cloth Privately printed, 1862 251 CALVIN'S CATECHISM. THE Catechisme, or maner to teache Children the Christian Religion. Made by the excellent doctor. . Ihon Caluin .. London, by Ihon Kyngston. 1582. 12mo. Black Letter, the title leaf written on; in the original stamped calf 1582 252 PSALMS. THE PSALMES of David in Meetre, With diuers Notes and Tunes augmented to them.. LONDON Printed for the Companie of STATIONERS. 1605. 12mo. with the Music; fine copy in calf gilt 1605 253 PSALMS. THE WHOLE BOOKE of Psalmes COLLECTED into English meeter by Thomas Sternhold, Joh. Hopkins, and others. LONDON Imprinted for the Company of Stationers. 1618. 32do. with MUSIC; bound in richly gilt calf of the period and wrapped in an embroidered chemise. worked with figures and flowers on silk 254 255 £ 8. d. 1 10 0 200 1 5 0 1618 30 0 0 THE WHOLE BOOK OF PSALMS: with the Usual Hymns and 1700 THE WHOLE BOOK OF PSALMS Collected into English Metre by morocco extra 1749 256 HYMNS. A COLLECTION OF HYMNS of the Children of God in all Ages. Designed chiefly for the . . Congregations in Union with the Brethren's Church . London . . MDCCLIV. 2 parts in 1 vol. 8vo. pp. xii, 380, 390, and 35; bound 1754 This collection of original English Hymns and of translations from the German is celebrated for its awkward expressions, such as Thy bright Back-parts, () God of Grace, I humbly here adore" (pt. 1, p. 304). The Moravians have destroyed many copies on account of the ridicule excited by them. 0 11 0 0 16 0 200 III.-ENGLISH PHILOLOGY: WORKS OF ENGLISH a. Latinists and Polyglottists 257 [BARBIER (J.)]. Ianva Lingvarvm, Qvadrilingvis. or a Messe of Tongves: Latine, English, French, and Spanish... Londini, excudebat R. F. impensis Matthæi Lownes. 1617. Sm. 4to., old vellum 1617 The author, Io. Barbier Parisiensis, signs the English address to the reader. He 258 BARET (John) of Cambridge, died 1580. AN ALVEARIE OR Quadruple Small folio, 424 leaves, mostly in double columns; slightly wormed, but fine copy in the original stamped calf, rebacked 1580 220 500 A dictionary of English explained in Latin and Greek, with two Indexes, of Latin and of French words. It is dedicated to Lord Burleigh. An owner in the sixteenth century was William Collier; another in the seventeenth was John Austen. 259 [BRINSLEY (John)]. Lvdvs Literarivs: or, the Grammar Schoole; 260 261 In this copy the date has been erased from the title-page. The Posing of the Parts: or a most plain and easie way of examining the Accidence and Grammar, by Questions and Answers, arising directly out of the words of the Rules. . . The Tenth Edition corrected, and inlarged . . . London. Printed by Robert Tong, 1639. Sm. 4to., old calf 1639 262 COMENIUS (J. A.). Latine Linguæ Janua reserata. . . The Gate of the Latine Tongue unlocked. Exhibiting in a natural order the structure of Things, and of the Latine Tongue... With an Etymolog ical Index of the words, gathered out of the Janual Lexicon, Varro, Scaliger, Isidore, Martinius, and other Classical Autors and alphabetically disposed by W. D.... 12mo., with portrait by Cross, and 2 woodcuts; russia, gilt edges 263 264 266 1650 Orbis Sensualium Pictus... Visible World: or, a Nomenclature, and Pictures, of all the Chief Things that are in the World, and of Men's Employments therein. . . Translated into English by Charles Hoole, M.A. for the use of young Latin Scholars. The Twelfth Edition, corrected and enlarged... 12mo., with over 150 curious woodcuts ; calf the same. 12mo., a neat copy in bright calf gilt 1777 1777 1 0 The work of Comenius won vogue in England at an early date, and soon became a popular mode of instruction. 265 ELYOT (Sir Thomas) 1495-1546. Bibliotheca Eliotæ. Eliotis Librarie. Small 4to. 306 leaves (out of 328); russia London, 1519 This first edition, issued in 1519, is said to bear, in complete copies, the name of Richard Pinson as printer. It is curious that much of the type in it is identical with that used by Wynkyn de Worde in his edition of 1530. 268 HORMAN. Fol. la, within a woodcut border: Volaria (sic) viri doctis. simi Guil. Hormanni Ca- | sarisburgensi. Apid inclytam LON- | DINI vrbem M. D.XXX. Here the printer's uk. In the border, at top and bottom, is Caxton's small mark. Fol. I convins verses by Guil. 70 310 8 8 Lilius, R. Aldrisius, and Io. Rightwich. Fol. 2a begins Horman's dedica- Small 4to. 328 leaves, portions of three leaves beautifully facsimiled £ S. d. 1530 20 0 0 269 HOOLE (Charles) 1610-1666. An easie Entrance to the Latine Tongue A work tending to the School-Masters's eas, and the weaker Scholar's Encouragement in the first and most wearisom steps to learning... 18mo., old calf 1649 1 0 0 270 HULOET, or HEWLETT (Richard) flor. 1500. HULOET'S Dictionarie, newelye corrected, amended, set in order, and enlarged, by John Higgins, late student of Oxeforde, small folio, fine copy in the original stamped Tudor calf binding Inside the boards are pasted leaves of earlier Liturgical books. 1572 7 10 0 The first edition had appeared twenty years earlier, but Higgins made a virtually new work of it. He was part-author of the Mirror for Magistrates. 271 JASZ-BERENYI. A New Torch to the Latine Tongue: So enlightned, that besides the easie understanding of all Classical Authours, there is also laid open a ready way to write and speak Latine well and elegantly By Paul P. Jasz-Berenyi, a Transylvanian . . . Stout 12mo., original calf ... The author was a Magyar Transylvanian. 1670 272 LILLY (William) 1468-1523. Leaf 1: Guillelmi Lilii Angli Rudimenta. I To make latyn | Whan I haue an englisshe to be tour- | ned into latyn, I shall reherse it twy | es, or thryes, and loke out verbe. . . 8 leaves, printed without a title or colophon as a school book (Pinson, about 1515) STANS PUER AD MENSAM. Iohannis Sulpitii Verulani. . de moribus pueroru . . Carmen.. At end: Impressum Londoniis per Richardum Pynson.. M.ccccc.xvi. 6 leaves. WHITINTON. Robert Whitintoni. . de octo partibus orationis ædito.. 3 vols. in 1, small 4to. hf. calf 0 10 0 1515-23 32 0 0 Three precious and well preserved examples of the school-book literature which prevailed in England in the early part of Henry VIII's reign. 273 STANBRIDGE (John), about 1450-1523-3. Title: Vocabula mgri Stabri-gi sua salte editione edita. Under this a woodcut of a teacher and three boys. Leaf 20 obverse: . . Finis. Imprynted at Londō by Wynkyn de worde in Flete strete at ŷ sygne of the Sonne. The yere of our lorde . M.CCCCC. and . xxix. On the reverse the Caxton mark used by Wynkyn. 20 leaves 1529 ANOTHER WORK. Leaf 1: Gradus comparationũ cũ verbis anomalis simul Leaf 8 NIGER. Ars epistolandi Fräcisci Nigri veneti doctoris clarissimi. 1527 On last 1501-29 21 0 0 274 (STANBRIDGE), Leaf 1: WHat nownys maketh comparison al | adiectyues vel nere that betokeneth a thynge.. Leaf 8 reverse, line 28: Finis. | Emprynted by Richarde Pynson, | prynter vnto the kyngs noble grace. Small 4to. eight leaves, 31 lines to the page; red morocco (About 1518) 275 WITHALS (John) flor. 1550-55 [A shorte Dictionarie for yonge begynners] Small 4to. First Edition, black letter; wanting four leaves (A1, P1, U2, Z1), and 1 leaf (Z3) defective; hf. morocco [Thomas Berthelet, 1553] 276 277 278 Only one other copy known, which is in Mr. Huth's library, and which has been Title: A shorte dictio- | narie, for yonge | be- ginners. Small 4to. 91 leaves, with some marks of writing cleaned away from the first and the last page; calf With dedication from Withals to Sir Thomas Chaloner. 1562 A SHORTE DICTIONA- | rie in Latine and English, verie pro- | fitabli for yong beginners. | COMPILED AT THE FIRST BY IOHN WI- thals: afterwardes reuised .. by Lewis Euans. | And nowe lastlie augmented . The seventh line lower down by Abraham Fleming.. Imprint : London by Thomas Pur- | foote...... | 1584. Small 4to. wanting the last sheet (four leaves) and consisting therefore of 116 leaves; vellum wrapper 1584 A SHORT DICTIONARIE in Latine and English, verie pro-fitable for young beginners. COMPILED AT THE FIRST BY Iohn Withals: afterwards reuised by Lewis Euans. And now lastly augmented. . by Abr. Fleming. Printed by Thomas Purfoot. 1599. Small 4to. 122 leaves; calf 1599 21 b. Teachers of Foreign Languages 279 BOYER. The Compleat French-Master, for Ladies and Gentlemen 280 CHAMBAUD (L.). The Rudiments of the French Tongue. 1699 0 281 COTGRAVE. A DICTIONARIE of the French and glish Tongves. Compiled by RANDLE COTGR E. London printed by Adam Islip. Anno 1611. Sm. folio, a good sound copy in calf (re, aired) 282 1611 A French and English Dictionary, with another in English and French, folio, calf 1673 2 283 ERONDELL (P.). The French Garden: for Erglish Ladyes and Gentle- 1605 21 61 |