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343 The Shoemaker's Glory; or, The Princely History of the Gentle Craft. 24 pp., 12mo, newly bound in half calf, uncut, t. e. g.

Printed and Sold in Aldermary Church Yard, Bow Lane, London. Circa 1750.

344 Simple Simon's Misfortunes and his Wife Margery's Cruelty. Began the very next Morning after their Marriage.

£2 2s

Which

24 pp., 12mo, newly bound in half calf, uncut, t. e. g.
Printed and Sold in Aldermary Church Yard, London. Circa 1750.

345 The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood. A Tale.

24 pp., 12mo, newly bound in half calf, uncut t. e. g.

£1

Printed and Sold in Aldermary Church Yard, Bow Lane, London. Circa 1750.

£1

346 Wanton Tom; or, the Merry History of Tom Stitch, the Taylor. Both Parts in one volume.

48 pp., 12mo, newly bound in nalf calf, uncul, t. e. g.

Printed and Sold in Aldermary Church Yard, London. Circa 1750.

£1 15s

347 The Witch of the Woodlands; or, the Cobler's New Translation. 24 pp., 12mo, newly bound in half calf, uncut. t. e. g. Printed and Sold in Aldermary Church Yard, Bow Lane, London. Circa 1750.

£1

Never 348 CHAPMAN (George). The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets. before in any languag truely translated. With a Comment upon some of his chiefe places: Donne according to the Greeke, by George Chapman.

Engraved title by W. Hole. London, Printed for Nathaniell

Butter. N.D.

Homer's Odysses.

Chapman.

Translated according to ye Greeke, by Geo.

Engraved title-page. Imprinted at London by Rich. Field for Nathaniell Butter. N.D.

THE FIRST COMPLETE EDITION OF THE ILIAD AND ODYSSEY. In one volume, folio, old half calf. Circa 1613-14.

(SEE ILLUSTRATION, PLATE No. IX.).

A Fine Copy, but has a very slight worm hole.

£35

The First Edition of the. Iliad and Odyssey ISSUED IN ONE VOLUME, before the general Title was engraved, and before the Memorial Plate to Prince Henry was designed.

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With engraved title to the Iliad as in preceding item.

FINE LARGE AND SOUND COPY (some insignificant worm holes in a few blank margins).

Folio, old calf, new back. London, Nathaniell Butter. Circa 1613-14.

(SEE ILLUSTRATION, PLATE No. IX.).

£31 10s

*** From the Library of John Linnell, the famous Artist, and given by him to his son in September, 1840. Linnell has executed an excellent Wash Drawing of HOMER which is inserted as a frontispiece. He has also inserted the Memorial Plate to Prince Henry, which did not appear until 1616.

This volume consists of the ILIAD and Odyssey as issued separately, but before the engraved title to the Odyssey was ready. The existence of the first two blank leaves intact in the Odyssey points to this, and confirmation is given by the Iliad having the Errata Leaf (afterwards cancelled).

We find no mention of the two blank leaves of the Odyssey in Lowndes, Hazlitt, Huth or Hoe Catalogues, Capell. British Museum, etc.

Chapman (George)—continued.

AN ATTACK ON HIS CONTEMPORARY DRAMATIST-PROBABLY SHAKESPEARE.

350

May-Day. A Wittie Comedie divers times acted at the Blacke
Fryers.

FIRST EDITION. Small 4to, levant morocco, g. e., by Riviere.
London, Printed for John Browne, 1611.

£125

One of the rarest of Chapman's Plays. George Chapman was the rival of Shakespeare for Southampton's Favour, and it is thought that he was the rival poet referred to by Shakespeare in the Sonnets.

There is a very interesting reference in this play to the habit of making old plays into new ones, which is probably an attack on his rival Shakespeare :

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For though it be the refuge of miserable Poets, by a change of a hat or a cloake, to alter the whole state of a Comedie, so as the father must not know his owne childe forsooth, nor the wife her husband."

'I cannot abide this talking and undoing Poetry, leave your mellifluous numbers."

351

Revenge for Honour. A Tragedie, by George Chapman.
FIRST EDITION. Small 4to. Half bound.

Printed for Richard Marriot, in S. Dunstan's Church-yard, Flect-
street, 1654.
£18 18s

*** This Tragedy was published for the first time in 1654, after the death of theAuthor. Charles Lamb was of the opinion that of all the English dramatists, Chapman approaches nearest to Shakespeare in the descriptive and didactic, in passages which are less purely dramatic.

352 CHARKE (Mrs. Charlotte). A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke; written by herself.

With frontispiece.

Small 8vo, original calf. London, 1755.

£2 2s

CHARLES I.

TRIAL OF KING CHARLES I.

353 The Charge of the Commons of England, against Charls Stuart, King of England, of High Treason, and other High Crimes, exhibited to the High Court of Justice, By John Cook Esquire, Solicitor General, appointed by the said Court, for, and on the behalf of the People of England.

8 pp., small 4to, unbound.

London, Printed for Rapha Harford, 1648.

KING CHARLES' VICTORIES AT EDGE HILL AND IN THE NORTH.

£5 5s

354 A Collection of Prayers and Thanksgivings, used in His Majesties Chappel, and in His Armies. Upon cccasion of the late Victories against the Rebells, and for the future successe of the Forces. Majesties Command. Published by His

14 pp., small 4to, unbound. Oxford, 1643..

£1 1s

355 Coronae Carolinae quadratura sive Perpetuandi Imperii Carolini ex quarto pignore feliciter suscepto captatum Augurium, With the curious Folding Frontispiece.

Small 4to, vellum. Oxford, L Lichfield, 1636.

£6 6s

This litle work consists of Poems in English by W. Cartwright, Dudley Digges, Edgar Bathurst, George Hall, and others, all of Oxford University.

Together with an Ordinance
Book of Common-Prayer.

356 A Directory for the Publique Worship of God throughout the Three Kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland. of Parliament for the taking away of the Small 4to, new boards.

London, Printed by G. M. and J. F. 1646.

£1 5s

357 Eikon Basilike. The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie in his Soltudes and Sufferings.

FIRST ISSUE (Almack No. 1). With folding plate by Marshall of the King kneeling in prayer, inserted.

Svo, fine copy in contemporary olive green morocco gilt, g. e. (London), 1648.

The actual First Issue of this famous book.

£14 14s

Englandes Mourning

Garment:

Worne here by plaine Shepheardes;
in memorie of their facred Miftreffe,

ELIZABETH, Queene of Vertue while thee
liued, and Theame of Sorrow,
being dead.

To which is added the true manner of her
Emperiall Funerall.

After which foloweth the Shepheards Spring-Song
for entertainement of King I AM E S our
moft potent Soueraigne.

Dedicated to all that loued the deceafed Queene,
and honor the living King.

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Printed at London by V.S. for Thomas Millington, and are
to be fold at his fhop vader faint Peters Church in Cornhil.

CHETTLE'S ENGLANDES MOURNING GARMENT. 1603.

(In this book Chettle reproves Shakespeare for not writing a Memorial Ode). See Item No. 400.

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