The Library-Companion: Or the Young Man's Guide and the Old Man's Comfort, in the Choise of a Library, Volume 2Harding, 1824 - 434 pages |
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Page 593
... Steevens's copy was sold for 171. His Pierce Penilesse , Lenten Stuffe , Have with you to Saffron Walden , and Pappe with a Hatchett , ( here are titles for you , gentle reader ! ) are the most popular and generally known productions of ...
... Steevens's copy was sold for 171. His Pierce Penilesse , Lenten Stuffe , Have with you to Saffron Walden , and Pappe with a Hatchett , ( here are titles for you , gentle reader ! ) are the most popular and generally known productions of ...
Page 696
... Steevens's , was sold for 421. at the sale of Bindley's library . What then would the FIRST edition now sell for ? The Sonnets of our Bard were first published in 1609. A copy is valued at 30l . in the Bibl . Angl . Poet . A beau- tiful ...
... Steevens's , was sold for 421. at the sale of Bindley's library . What then would the FIRST edition now sell for ? The Sonnets of our Bard were first published in 1609. A copy is valued at 30l . in the Bibl . Angl . Poet . A beau- tiful ...
Page 697
... Steevens's library ; at that time they were stated to be " the completest collection of Gascoigne's works extant . How was this ? The Roxburghe copy of the edition of 1575 , to which the " Steel Glass " and the Complaint of Philomene ...
... Steevens's library ; at that time they were stated to be " the completest collection of Gascoigne's works extant . How was this ? The Roxburghe copy of the edition of 1575 , to which the " Steel Glass " and the Complaint of Philomene ...
Page 700
... Steevens's collection , for 177. has been long considered UNIQUE . As a poet , Marlow is chiefly known by his imperfect piece of Hero and Leander , first printed in 1598 - and continued by Chapman with unequal talent , and first ...
... Steevens's collection , for 177. has been long considered UNIQUE . As a poet , Marlow is chiefly known by his imperfect piece of Hero and Leander , first printed in 1598 - and continued by Chapman with unequal talent , and first ...
Page 783
... Steevens's library . The first was printed in 1538. But quære ? My interleaved copy of Herbert , p . 1094 , notices ... Steevens : his own , and that in the King's library . His own was sold for 12. It would now bring three times the sum ...
... Steevens's library . The first was printed in 1538. But quære ? My interleaved copy of Herbert , p . 1094 , notices ... Steevens : his own , and that in the King's library . His own was sold for 12. It would now bring three times the sum ...
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