FISHER (JASPER). 4053 Fvimvs Troes, Aeneid 2, THE TRVE TROIANES, being a Story of the Britaines Valour at the Romanes first invasion; publikely REPRESENTED BY THE GENTLEMEN STUDENTS OF MAGDALEN COLLEDGE IN OXFORD. London: Printed by 1. L. for Robert Allot, and are to be sold at the signe of the Beare in Paul's Churchyard, 1633. FIRST EDITION, small 4to, half morocco. £12 12s This is Fisher's most considerable work. It is a play of the University type, written in blank verse, and interspersed with lyrics. Druids, poets, and a harper, are introduced, and it ends with a masque and chorus. KYD (THOMAS). Con 4054 The Spanish Tragedy: or, HIERONIMO IS MAD AGAINE. taining the lamentable end of Don Horatio, and Belimperia; With, the pitifull Death of Hieronimo. Newly Corrected, Amended, and Enlarged with new Additions, as it hath of late beene divers times Acted. Augustine Mathewes, for Francis Grove. 1633. Quaint woodcut on title-page. Sm. 4to, a scarce play. £8 8s This is the EXCEEDINGLY RARE FIRST ISSUE WITH THE SUPPRESSED TITLE, before the dedication was added. [MASSINGER (PHILIP).] 4056 The Tragedy of Nero. Newly written. Sm. 4to, half calf, some pages cut into. Aug. Matthews, 1633. £2 2s This play is ascribed to Massinger, and is sometimes found bound up with collections of his works. Mr. Fleay is inclined to think that Thomas May was the author. PLAYFERE (THOMAS, D.D.). 4057 The Whole Sermons of That Eloquent Divine Thomas Playfere, Doctor in Divinity. Gathered into one volume, the Titles thereof are in the next page. The sixt Edition. John Norton, 1633. FIRST EDITION. 3 vols. in 1, 8vo, brown calf, gilt edges. PRYNNE (WILLIAM). £3 3s 4058 Histrio-Mastix, The Player's Scourge; or, ACTOR'S TRAGEDIE, divided into Two Parts, wherein it is largely evidenced, by divers arguments, by the Concurring Authorities and Resolutions of sundry texts. of Scripture, . . That POPULAR STAGE PLAYERS (the very Pompes of the Divell, which we renounce in Baptism, if we believe the Fathers) are Sinful, Heathenish, Lewde, Ungodly Spectales. . . And that the PROFESSION OF PLAY-POETS; OF STAGE-PLAYERS; together with the penning, acting, and frequenting of Stage-playes are unlawfull, infamous, and misbeseeming Christians. . . Besides sundry other particulars concerning Dancing, Diceing, Health Drinking, etc. E. A. and W. I. for Michael Sparke, 1633. FIRST EDITION. Sm. 4to, fine copy, old russia. £14 14s Dedication to the Masters of the Bench of Lincolns Inn. For the publication of this work Prynne was sentenced by the Star Chamber to pay a fine of £5,000, to be disbarred, and to lose his ears in the pillory. It is curious for the history of the early English stage and allusions to Shakespeare, amongst which it is stated, Shackspeere's Plaies are printed in the best Crowne paper far better than most Bibles." 66 BACON (FRANCIS, Lord Verulam). 4059 Francisci Baconi de Verulamio, SUMMI ANGLIÆ CANCELARII. DE SAPIENTIA VETERUM LIBER. Editio quarta. Londini, Excudebat Felix Kyngston, impensis Jocosa Norton & Richardi Whitaker. 1634. 18mo, old calf, A VERY RARE EDITION. FLETCHER (JOHN). £3 3s 4060 The Faithfvll Shepherdesse, ACTED AT SOMERSET HOUSE before the King and Qveen on Twelfe Night Last, 1633. And divers times since with great applause at the Private House in Blacke-Friers, by His Majesties Servants. Written by JOHN FLETCHER. THE THIRD EDITION with additions. London, Printed by A. M. for Richard Meighen, next to the Middle Temple Gate in Fleet-street, 1634. Sm. 4to, half calf. £8 8s Commendatory verses by FR. BEAUMONT, NATH. FIELD, BEN JONSON, G. CHAPMAN, SBACKERLEY MARMYON, Dialogue newly added was spoken by way of Prologue to bothe their Majesties at the first acting of the Pastorall at Somerset House, on Twelfthnight, 1633, by SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT (5 pp.). CASTARA, The Second Part, ib. 1634. FIRST EDITION. Sm. 4to, old half calf, FINE COPY OF THIS RARE BOOK. £35 AN EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE BOOK, DESCRIBED BY DR. BLISS, AS THE RAREST VOLUME OF POEMS of the period, and it is enumerated by John Payne Collier in his "Rarest Books in the English Language." There was no copy in the Bibliotheca Anglo-Poetica. This copy has no Errata, but collates with the Grolier and Locker copies "Of this wine should Prynne Drink but a plenteous glasse he would beginne A Health to Shakespeare's Ghost." HEYWOOD (THOMAS). 4062 A Pleasant Comedy, called A MAYDEN-HEAD WELL LOST. As it hath beene publickly Acted at the Cocke-pit in Drury-lane, with much Applause, by her Majesties Seruants. Written by THOMAS HEYWOOD. Nicholas Okes for John Jackson and Francis Church, 1634. FIRST EDITION. Sm.. 4to, interleaved, title defective in outer and lower margins and H3 in outer margin, half morocco, A CHEAP COPY. £8 8s TOMKIS (THOMAS). 4063 Albumazar. A COMEDY presented before the King's Maiesty at Cambridge. BY THE GENTLEMEN OF TRINITY COLLEGE. Newly reuised and corrected by a speciall Hand. London, Printed by Nicholas Okes, 1634. Sm. 4to, last page torn, but no text injured, half calf, SCARCE. £5 5s Dramatis Personæ, Prologue, Epilogue (3 pp.). Albumazar was revived in 1668, being previously acted in 1615 before King James, and Dryden wrote a new Prologue in which he said that Jonson has borrowed the character of Subtle in his Alchemist from Albumazar. This could hardly be, as The Alchemist was printed in 1612. 4063a Another. Ib. 1634. An entirely different issue, being reprinted throughout. The epilogue in this copy is missing, BUT HAŠ BEEN SUPPLIED BY SWINBURNE THE POET, ENTIRELY IN HIS HANDWRITING. Sm. 4to, half calf. £5 5s BRATHWAITE (RICHARD). 4064 Essays upon the Five Senses. REVIVED BY A NEW SUPPLEMENT; with a pithy one upon DETRACTION Continued with sundry CHRISTIAN RESOLVES, AND DIVINE CONTEMPLATIONS, full of passion and devotion, purposely composed for the zealously disposed. By RIC. BRATHWAYT, Esq. THE SECOND EDITION REVISED AND ENLARGED BY THE AUTHOR. Anne Griffin, 1635. 12m0, beautiful engraved front. by William Marshall, calf, Á £8 8s SCARCE BOOK. HEYWOOD (THOMAS). 4065 Philocothonista, or, The Drunkard, Opened, Dissected, and Anatomized. Robert Raworth. 1635. Curious engraving on title-page (see Reproduction), with rare leaf facing "upon the Frontispiece." FIRST EDITION. Sm. 4to, one or two bottom lines shaved, vellum. £16 16s Upon the Frontispiece The Author to the Book, Verses, The Book to the Reader, Contents (12 pp.). Contains a most interesting SHAKESPEARE allusion :-" Neither in the hottest of the battell, was hee ever knowne to venter further then within sight of his Bottle: To whom Sir John Falstaffe may not unfitly be compared, who never dared ride without a Pistoll, charg'd with Sacke by his side" (p. 11). JONES (JOHN). 4065а ADRASTA LOVES CONQUEST, Never Acted. Volet hæc sub luce videri, Indicis argutum quæ non formidat acument. LONDON, Printed for Richard Royston, and are to be sold at his 1635. FIRST EDITION. Small 4to, half morocco. THE POET SWINBURNE'S COPY, with his autograph notes on fly-leaf, VERY RARE. Dedication to his Friends and Musophilus, Prologue, Epilogue (6 pp.). Florence. £15 15s The Scene, This is a very rare play, and is unknown to Genest; it is founded on Boccaccio's Decameron Day 8, Novel 8, and the subject probably was the cause of its not being acted. |