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THE PLAY OF MUCEDORUS.

2004 Rowe (John). Tragi-Comedia: Being a Brief Relation of the Strange, and Wonderfull hand of God discovered at Witny, in the Comedy acted there February the third, where there were some Slaine, many Hurt, with severall other Remarkable Passages.

Together with what was Preached in three Sermons on that Occasion from Rom. 1. 18; both which may serve as some Check to the Growing Atheisme of the Present Age.

Small 4to, half calf.

Oxford, Printed by L. Lichfield for Henry Cripps, 1653. £10 10s *** The Narrative of the Catastrophe occupies pp. 13, the rest of the book being taken up by three sermons. The play performed at Witney on this occasion was the comedy of Mucedorus."

The volume affords much information upon the Strolling Players of the Period. The Play of Mucedorus" was ascribed to Shakespeare by Kirkman in his Catalogue of Plays; by William Winstanley and Gerald Langbaine in their biographies of Shakespeare; and Payne Collier included it in his Privately Printed Edition of Shakespeare in 1878; he was confident that one of the scenes displayed Shakespeare alone could compass. It is certain, however, that it was acted at Court on Shrove Sunday night by Shakespeare's Company.

2005 Rymer (Thomas). A Short View of Tragedy; It's Original Excellency, and Corruption. With some Reflections on Shakespear, and other Practitioners for the Stage.

FIRST EDITION. Small 8vo, original calf (rebacked).
London, 1693.

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£2 15s

*** In this work Rymer severely criticises Shakespeare's "Othello." In his eyes "Othello was a bloody farce without salt or savour." He denies that Shakespeare showed any capacity in tragedy, although he allows him comic genius and humour.

2006 Shakespear's Garland; Being A Collection of New Songs, Ballads, Roundelays, Catches, Glees, Comic Serenatas, &c. Performed at the Jubilee, At Stratford-Upon-Avon. Written by Mr. Garrick, Mr. Bickerstaff, and Others. To which are subjoined, Testimonies to the Genius and Merits of Shakespeare.

With woodcut frontispiece-Shakespeare's Monument.

27 pp., small 8vo, half morocco.

Dublin, Printed by John Mitchell, 1769.

*** This Dublin Edition is extremely rare.

£2 10s

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2007 Shakespear Illustrated: or the Novels and Histories, on which the Plays of Shakespear are Founded, Collected and Translated from the Original Authors, with Critical Remarks. By the Author of the Female Quixote (Mrs. Charlotte Lennox).

3 vols., 12mo, original calf.

London, Printed for A. Millar, 1753.

*** With dedication to the Earl of Orrery, 10 pp., written by Dr. Johnson.

£1 1s

2008 Specimen (A) of a Commentary of Shakespeare, containing I. Notes on As You Like It. II. An Attempt to Explain and Illustrate Various Passages, on a New Principle of Criticism, derived from Mr. Locke's Doctrine of the Association of Ideas.

Svo, original boards, uncut. London, 1794.

8s 6d

2009 The Stratford Jubilee. A New Comedy of Two Acts as it has been lately, exhibited at Stratford upon Avon, with great applause, to which is prefixed Scrubb's Trip to the Jubilee.

FIRST EDITION. 8vo, sewn. London, 1769.

£4 4s

*** By Francis Gentleman, an actor of repute, as well as a dramatist. In this piece he ridicules Garrick, although the next year he dedicates to him his " Dramatic Censor."

2010 Taylor (Charles). The Picturesque Beauties of Shakespeare, being a Selection of Scenes, from the Works of that great Author. Engraved under the direction of Charles Taylor. Containing "As you like it," "Macbeth,' "" Hamlet," "The Merry Wives of Windsor," Ado about Nothing," and "Twelfth Night," etc.

40 plates in all, with text to each.

4to, original calf gilt. London (1783).

"Much

£2 5s

2011 Warner (R.). A Letter to David Garrick, Esq., Concerning A GLOSSARY to the Plays of Shakespeare, On a more extensive Plan that has hitherto appeared.

To which is annexed, A SPECIMEN.

8vo, new boards. London, Printed for the Author, 1768.

£1

WITH PARAPHRASE OF SHAKESPEARE'S SEVEN AGES.

2012 SHARPHAM (Edward). Cupids Whirligig as it hath bene sundrie times Acted by the Children of his Majesties Revels.

Small 4to, (some headlines slightly shaved by binder), full levant morocco, g. e., by Riviere.

London, Imprinted by Tho. Creede and Ber: Alsop and are to be solde by Arthur Johnson, 1616.

*** With Prologue, opening and closing scenes, in verse.

£52 10s

THIS COMEDIE CONTAINS A PARAPHRASE OF SHAKESPEARE'S SEVEN AGES

"For Life is but a Ring, beginning in our weakenesse, gound round, till unto weakenesse we returne againe; then to the ground.

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The World it selfe is but a skilfull game at Chesse, which being ended, Kings and Queenes, Bishops and Knightes into one bagge are throwne at last: So all of us both Poore and Rich, shall in the ende into the earth as into a bagge be cast; Mans Life is like unto a shippe that crost by Tempests and by Tydes, some thoughts of his like billows, swell him up aloft, another strikes him down-Thus man as on a sea is toste, in fairest weather feares a storme and in a storme the event, but in the end hee sinckes, when life is spent: grief hath no boundes in Teares, it ebbs and flows, Til it have drowned Life, and ended woes."

2013 [SHENSTONE (W.).] The Judgment of Hercules, a Poem; inscribed to George Lyttleton, Esq.

FIRST EDITION. Svo, full new mottled calf, g. e., by Riviere.
London, 1741.

Works, in Verse and Prose.

With portrait and frontispiece.

£10 10s

2014

3 vols., small 8vo, original mottled calf. London, 1773.

£1

2015 SHEPHEARD'S KALENDAR (The).

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Printed in Black Letter, calendar in red and black.

With numerous very singular woodcuts.

Folio, original calf. London, 1656.

£18 18s

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*** Of Shakespearean interest, illustrating "A Midsummer Night's Dream and Measure for Measure," and referred to by Halliwell-Phillipps, who reproduced some of the illustrations in his great folio edition of Shakespeare.

The work is in part a translation into English of the famous " Compost et Kalendriers des Bergiers," a work at one time of the greatest popularity, as is attested by the numerous editions of it, most of which are now of the greatest scarcity. The work is written in prose and verse, and, besides an almanack, directions for finding Easter and other movable feasts, the eclipses, etc., contains several curious pieces, e.g., The Trees of Vices," in verse; The Pains of Hell," in prose, with woodcuts shewing the torments of the damned; "The Lord's Prayer," The Song of Death," Shephard's Astrology," Signs of the Zodiacke,' etc.

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2016 SHEPPARD (W.). Of the Office of the Clerk of the Market, of Weights and Measures, and of the Laws of Provision for Man and Beast, for Bread, Wine, Beer, Meal, &c.

12mo, original calf. London, 1665.

15s

2017 SHEPPARD (Jack). The Prison-Breaker; or, the Adventures of John Sheppard. A farce, as intended to be Acted at the Theatre Royal in Lincoln's-Inn fields.

8vo, half calf. London, 1725.

£1 10s

2018 SHERIDAN (R. B.). The Duenna: A Comic Opera, in Three Acts. The FIRST AUTHORISED EDITION. 8vo, new boards. London, 1794.

14s

Sheridan (R. B.)--continued.

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The School for Scandal. A Comedy.

The excessively rare FIRST EDITION. 8vo, newly bound by Riviere in full levant morocco extra, g. e.

Dublin, Printed for J. Ewling (1778).

(SEE ILLUSTRATION, PLATE No. LV.).

£55

The School for Scandal. A Comedy, as it is performed at the Theatre Royal in London and Dublin.

Small 8vo, sewn. Dublin, 1780.

£4 4s

Probably the Second Edition. Extremely Scarce. The Hoe Copy, with date 1781, sold for $65.

2021 SHIPMAN (Tho.). Carolina; or, Loyal Poems; with address to the Reader by Thomas Flatman.

FIRST EDITION. 8vo, original calf. London, 1683.

£5 5s

Hazlitt ("Shakespeare's Library ") in his notes on First and Second Parts of King Henry IV., remarks: "Thomas Shipman mentions in his volume of Poems entitled 'Carolina,' p. 169, that he had composed a dramatic work on Henry IV., but it does not seem to have come down to us."

2022 SHIRLEY (Jas.). The Gamester.

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As it was Presented by Her Majesties Servants, At the private House in Drury-Lane.

FIRST EDITION. Small 4to, full morocco extra, g. e., by Riviere.
London, 1637-

*** The comedy was licensed Nov. 11th, 1633.

£10 10s

The following memorandum respecting it occurs in the office book of the master of the revels: On Thursday night 6 of Febru. 1633. (1633-4), The Gamester was acted at Court, made by Sherley, out of a plot of the King's, given him by mee; and well likte. The King said it was the best play he had seen for seven years."

The Humorous Courtier: A Comedy, as it hath been presented with good applause at the private house in Drury Lane.

FIRST EDITION. Small 4to, Fine Copy, bound by Riviere in full crushed levant morocco, g. e.

London, Printed by T. C. for William Cooke, 1640. £14 14s The Maides Revenge, a Tragedy. As it hath been Acted with good Applause at the private house in Drury Lane, by her Majesties Servants.

FIRST EDITION. Small 4to, full mottled calf. London, 1639. £6 6s

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