(J. J. HOLDSWORTH & G. SMITH), 29, NEW BOND STREET, LONDON, W.I. Telephone: MAYFAIR, 3240. Inland Telegrams: "ELLSCRUT, WESDO, LONDON." CATALOGUE OF OF BOOKS English Literature 1 [ALLOT (Robert)], Englands Parnassus : or the choysest Flowers of our Moderne Poets, with their Poeticall comparisons. Descriptions of Bewties, Personages, Castles, Pallaces, Mountaines, Groues, Seas, Springs, Riuers, etc. Whereunto are annexed other various discourses, both pleasaunt and profitable. Imprinted at London for N. L. "C. B. and T. H., 1600. Sm. 8vo, fine copy of this excessively rare volume, margins of last leaf and some headlines restored, blue morocco extra, gilt edges, £90. ...།་་ A famous miscellany of Elizabethan poetry. It contains no less than 95 extracts from Shakespeare, as well as selected passages from the other stars of the poetical firmament of the time Spenser, Marlowe, Lodge, Greene, Gascoigne, Warner, Drayton, Watson, etc.-and has preserved some excellent verses which would otherwise have been lost to us.-See Miss Bartlett's "William Shakespeare," Contemporary Notices, p. 151. The present copy is of exceptional interest, as it possesses two original blank leaves before the title, the first of which bears the signature A, and also the original blank last leaf, thus proving that the book consists entirely of sheets of eight leaves each. These blank leaves are wanting in most of the known copies. It measures 5 × 3 in., and was rebound about 35 years ago from the original calf. 2 ADDISON (Joseph), A Letter from Italy, to the Right Honourable Charles, Lord Halifax. Together with the Mourning Muse of Alexis. By Mr. Congreve. To which is added the Despairing Lover. London, 1709. 8vo, sewed, 3 AKENSIDE (Mark, M.D.), The Pleasures of Imagina- tion, a Poem, in three books. Glasgow: Printed for A. Wilson, 1780. 12mo, wrappers, UNCUT, 78. 6d. 4 ANDREWES (Bp. Lancelot), Holy Devotions: with Directions to Pray, also a brief Exposition upon the Lord's Prayer, the Creed, the Ten Commandments, etc., together with a Litany. London, 1684. 12mo, with portrait by White, 5 ANTI-JACOBIN.-The Beauties of the Anti-Jacobin ; or, Weekly Examiner. London, 1799. 12mo, calf gilt, 7s. 6d. 5*[BACON (Sir Francis)], Certaine Considerations touch- ing the better pacification, and Edification of the Church of England; Dedicated to his most Excellent Maiestie. [Lon- don] Printed for Henry Tomes, [1604]. Sm. 4to, large copy, EXTREMELY RARE, brown morocco extra, gilt edges, £42. 6 BACON. The Historie of the Reigne of King Henry the Seventh. Whereunto is now added a very useful and necessary Table. London, Printed by R. Y. and R. H., 1641. Sm. folio, portrait of Bacon by Wm. Marshall, title within an ornamental woodcut border, old calf, with the SPENCER ARMS and crest in gold on the sides, £7 15s. 7 BACON. Of the Advancement and Proficiencie of Learning; or the Partitions of Sciences, Nine Books. Interpreted by Gilbert Wats. London, Printed for Thomas Williams, at the Golden Ball in Osier-Lane, 1674. Folio, with good impression of the engraved portrait, old calf, £3 15s. 8 BACON. Resuscitatio, or, Bringing into Publick Light severall Pieces, of his Works, Civil, Historical, Philo- sophical and Theological, hitherto Sleeping. According to the best Corrected Coppies. Together, with his Lordships Life. By Wm. Rawley, D.D., His Lordships First, and Last Chapleine. London, Printed by Sarah Griffin, for William Lee, 1657. Folio, FIRST EDITION, with engraved portrait of Bacon, contemporary calf, £3 18s. A valuable collection of Bacon's hitherto unpublished works, with the first authentic biography of him. 9 BALLARD (George), Memoirs of British Ladies, who have been celebrated for their writings or skill in the learned languages, arts and sciences. London, 1775. 8vo, old sheep, 18s. 6d. Contains interesting accounts of Mary Queen of Scots, Queen Elizabeth, Margaret Roper, Lady Jane Grey, Lady Bacon (mother of Francis), Mary, Countess of Pembroke, Lady Masham, Mary Astell, etc. 10 BASSE (William), Poetical Works [1602-1653], now for the first time collected and edited with introduction and notes by R. Warwick Bond. 1893. Royal 8vo, with coloured facsimiles of the author's designs for the frontispiece and title-page, cloth, uncut, 7s. 6d. Contains the Elegy on Shakespeare from the Lansdowne MS., "Renowned Spencer lye a thought more nye To learned Chaucer." 11 BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER. Comedies and Tragedies Written by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Gentlemen. Never printed before, and now published by the Authors Originall Copies. London, printed for Humphrey Robinson and for Humphrey Moseley. 1647. Folio, FIRST EDITION, brilliant impression of the portrait of Fletcher by W. Marshall in the FIRST STATE (remargined), corner of title mended, but a FINE COPY, in sound contemporary calf, £35. In the commendatory verses by Sir John Denham, James Howell, William Cartwright, Sir J. Berkenhead, George Buck, and T. Palmer, Shakespeare is referred to in high terms. 12 BEAUMONT and Fletcher. The Knight of the Burning Pestle. Full of mirth and Delight. As it is now Acted by Her Majesties Servants at the Private house in Drury lane, 1635. London: Printed by N. O. for I. S., 1635. Sm. 4to, half red morocco, gilt edges, £7 10s. 13 BEAUMONT (Sir John), Bosworth-Field: a Poem. With several Verses in Praise of the Author, and Elegies on his Death, by the greatest Wits then living. London, Printed and Sold by H. Hills, 1710. 8vo, sewed, 78. 6d. 14 BENSON (Joseph), The Battle of Flodden Field: which was fought between the English under the Earl of Surrey, and the Scots under their valiant King James IV. in the Year 1513. An Heroic Poem, in nine fits or parts, collected from antient Manuscripts. London, 1774. Sm. 8vo, old red morocco, 15s. On page 48 is a quotation from Shakespeare's Richard III with a note at foot. 15 BEDE (The Venerable), The History of the Church of Englande. Translated out of Latin into English by Thomas Stapleton. Imprinted at Antwerp by John Laet, at the signe of the Rape, 1565.-Stapleton (Thomas), A Fortresse of the Faith first planted amonge vs englishmen, and continued hitherto in the vniuersall Church of Christ. Imprinted at Antwerp by John Laet, 1565. 2 vols. in 1, sm. 4to, contemporary limp vellum, £9 9s. The FIRST EDITION of Bede's History in English. Stapleton is said to have been " the most learned Roman Catholic of all his time." He would not acknowledge the spiritual supremacy of Elizabeth, and subsequently joined the newly founded English College in the University of Douay. 16 BINGHAM (John), The History of Xenophon: containing the Ascent of Cyrus into the Higher Countries. Wherein is described the Admirable Iourney of ten thousand Grecians from Asia the Lesse into the Territories of Babylon, and their retrait from thence into Greece, notwithstanding the opposition of all their Enemies. Whereunto is added a Comparison of the Roman Manner of Warres with this of our Time, out of Iustus Lipsius. London, Printed by John Haviland for Raphe Mabb, 1623. Folio, panelled calf gilt, gilt edges, by W. Pratt, £7 10s. 17 [BLACKMORE (Sir Richard)], The Kit-Cats, a Poem. To which is added the Picture, in Imitation of Annacreon's Bathillus. As also the Coquet Beauty, by the Marquis of Normanby. London, 1709. 8vo, sewed, 188. 18 BOCCACCIO (Gio.), [The Decameron.] The Modell of Wit, Mirth, Eloquence, and Conuersation. Framed in Ten Dayes, of an hundred curious Pieces, by seuen Honourable Ladies, and Three Noble Gentlemen. Preserued to Posterity by the Renowned John Boccacio, the first Refiner of Italian prose: And now translated into English. Printed by Isaac Jaggard, for Mathew Lownes, 1625.-The Decameron containing an hundred pleasant Nouels. Wittily discoursed, betweene seuen Honourable Ladies, and three Noble Gentlemen. The last Fiue Dayes. London, Printed by Isaac Jaggard, 1620. 2 parts in 1 vol. folio, with beautiful woodcut titles to each part, and numerous woodcuts in the text, fine tall copy, (the last leaf mended and backed) handsomely bound in red morocco super extra, richly tooled, gilt edges, £55. The First Translation into English of Boccaccio's Decameron, of extremely rare occurrence in fine state. A reduced facsimile of the second title-page forms the frontispiece to this catalogue. |