Banks (John)-continued. 100 Vertue Betray'd: or, Anna Bullen, a Tragedy. FIRST EDITION. Small 4to, full straight grain morocco gilt. £3 15s **This tragedy, on the story of Anna Boleyn, was the most successful of all Banks' works, and held the stage until 1766. Mr. Halliwell-Phillipps, in his Outlines of the Life of Shakespeare," draws attention to the interesting notice of the poet and Stratford-on-Avon contained in the preface: "I say not this to derogate from those excellent Persons who, I ought to believe, have written more to please their Audiences, than themselves; but to persuade them, as Homer, and our Shakespeare did, to Immortalize the places where they were Born; and then, perhaps, I will sit down, and leave it to much abler Pens." 101 BARBOUR (John). The Life and Acts of the most Victorious Conqueror Robert Bruce King of Scotland. Carefully corrected from the edition printed by Andro Hart in 1620. 102 BARCKLEY (Sir R.). The Felicite of Man, or, His Summum Bonum. Engraved title-page by Marshall Small 4to. Fine Copy in the original vellum binding. London, Printed by R. Y., 1631. £5 5s A highly interesting Shakespearean volume. Quoted from by Hunter in his New Illustrations" of Hamlet, Twelfth Night, and Timon of Athens. It was originally written in 1598. "The book is a garner full of amusing histories and small narratives, including the foundation of the "Taming of the Shrew," "Antony and Cleopatra," "Pyramus and Thisbe." 103 BARCLAY (John). Argenis. 104 Thick 12mo, old morocco, with clasps. Elzevir, 1627. First of the seven Elzevir editions. £1 5s Eulogised by Cowper, the poet, as a romance. "It has merits of another kind worth looking into. In his characters the critic has gradually worked out Henry III. of France, Henry IV., Philip II. of Spain, Queen Elizabeth, the Guises, Pope Urban VIII., John Calvin, and many political celebrities."-Hill Burton. Barclay's Argenis. The Phoenix; or, the History of Polyarchus and Argenis. Translated from the Latin, by a Lady (Clara Reeve). 4 vols. in 2. Small 8vo. Fine copy, full calf gilt. A scarce translation of Barclay's famous Latin satire. £1 10s Barclay (John)--continued. Icon Animorum, 105 FIRST EDITION. 12mo, old calf London, 1614. 12s 6d 106 The Mirrour of Mindes, or, Barclay's Icon Animorum, Englished by T(ho.) M(ay). FIRST EDITION. Thick small 8vo, original vellum. £2 2s Treats of France, Germany, Spaine, Hungary, Polonia, Moscovia, Turkes, Jewes, etc. 107 BARLOW (Francis). Various Birds and Beasts Drawn from the Life. Complete series of 67 fine engraved plates, and with 14 additional engravings from the same artist inserted. Oblong folio, original boards rebacked. 108 BARON (Robert). An Apologie for Paris, 109 £4 10s For rejecting of Juno, and Pallas, and presenting of Ate's Golden Ball to Venus. With a discussion of the Reasons that might induce him to favour either of the three, occasioned by a Private Discourse, wherein the Trojans Judgment was carped at by some. FIRST EDITION. Small 8vo, full polished calf gilt, g. e.. by Riviere. Mirza, a Tragedie. Really acted in Persia, in the last Age. £13 13s Illustrated with Historicall Annotations, the Author R. B., Esq. ***This is Baron's best known work. £10 10s "The story of this play is the same as that which Denham made the groundwork of his Sophy,' and which may be found in Sir Thomas Herbert's Travels'; yet Baron has handled it in a different manner from that author, having finished three complete acts of this before he saw that tragedy; nor found himself then discouraged from proceeding, on a consideration of the great difference in their respective pursuits of the same plan. Baron has made Jonson's Catiline' in great measure his model, having not only followed the method of his scenes, but even imitated his language; and anyone may perceive that his ghost of Emirhamze Mirza is an evident copy of that of Sylla in Catiline.' It is, however, a good play, and is commended by five sets of verses by his Cambridge friends; but it does not seem to have been acted."-W. C. Hazlitt. 110 BARRET (Robert; flourished 1600) An Unpublished Poetical Manuscript of Robert Barret, being his translation of a considerable portion of Du Bartus' Divine Week, and in addition, the long Poem "The Judeth of William Salustius, Lord of Bartas, to the Queen of Navarre; doon into English by Robert Barret "; and a "Cantike upon the Victorie of Ivry, gayned by Henry of Bourbon, King of France and Navarre "; also, "The Lepantho of James the Sixth, King of Scots, done into French by William de Salust, englished by Robert Barret." 340 pp., (a little imperfect at beginning and end), signed in several places. Folio, vellum, circa 1600. £85 ***" Robert Barret was a Military and Poetical Writer; he spent much of his life in the profession of arms among the French, Dutch, Italians, and Spaniards. Before 1598 he had retyred to a rustique lyfe,' and addressed himself to literature His first work was entitled The Theorike and Practike of Modern Warres,' which was published in 1598 and dedicated to the Earl of Pembroke and his son William, Lord Herbert of Cardiff (to whom the first folio Shakespeare was dedicated). Some eight years later he completed a long poem, the longest epic poem in the language, which never found a publisher. SHAKESPEARE, ACCORDING TO CHALMERS, CARICATURED BARRET AS 'PAROLLES' IN ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL.' PAROLLES IS SPOKEN OF AS THE GALLANT MILITARIST-THAT HAD THE WHOLE THEORIC OF WAR IN THE KNOT OF HIS SCARF, AND THE PRACTICE IN THE CHAPE OF HIS DAGGER-WORDS WHICH MAY POSSIBLY ALLUDE TO THE TITLE OF BARRET'S MILITARY MANUAL." -(D.N.B.). The Poem itself is of considerable SHAKESPEAREAN interest as Du Bartas' Divine |