22310 TOWNELEY MANUSCRIPTS; English Jacobite Ballads, Songs and Satires, edited from the original MSS. by A. B. Grosart, 4to. cloth, 31s 6d Only 100 copies printed for private circulation. TURBERVILE (George) Poet [about 1530-1600]. 22311 1877 Tragical Tales and other Poems: reprinted from the edition of 1587, 4to. blue morocco extra, gilt edges, £5. 5s Edinburgh, printed for private circulation, 1837 Including "Poems describing the places and manners of the country and people of Russia, anno 1568," written by Turberville in Muscovy when he accompanied Thomas Randolph, Queen Elizabeth's ambassador to the Czar, as his secretary. He was also the author of the celebrated work on Falconry. The volume contains his Tragical Tales, printed in 1587 (mostly from Boccaccio); Epitaphs and Sonnettes, with some Epistles sent to his friends, at his being in MOSCOVIA, 1569. TUSSER (Thomas) Agricultural Poet [1515-158-]. 22312 22313 22314 22315 Five hundreth points of good Husbandry united to as many of good huswiferie first devised and now lately augmented with diverse approved lessons concerning hopps and gardening, sm. 4to. title in facsimile, red morocco extra, gilt edges, by Rivière, £2. 2s (Richard Tottel, 1573) Five hundred pointes of good Husbandrie (in verse), sm. 4to. black letter, some leaves mended, calf, £2. 10s First complete edition Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry, with notes and glossary, by W. Mavor, 8vo. calf neat, 16s 1812 1580 the same, 4to. LARGE PAPER, olive morocco extra, £4. At the end is bound up Triphook's Reprint of the First Edition of 1557 issued in 1810. This fantastic rhymer, who mixes up much doggrel with a flow of pleasant and melodious verse, never succeeded in working out his own schemes. He died in poverty; but many a farmer in days of yore learned his book by heart, and throve upon the useful lessons it contains. TWYNE (Thomas) Poetical Translator [1543-1613]. see VIRGIL and PETRARCH. 22316 UTTERSON (E. V.) Select Pieces of Early Popular Poetry, 2 vols. sm. 8vo. woodcuts, olive morocco super extra, gold tooling on sides, gilt edges, by Hayday, £2. 2s 1817 22317 VAN DER NOODT (John) A THEATRE wherein be represented the miseries & calamities that follow the voluptuous Wordlings. . sm. 8vo. black letter, 20 curious woodcuts, no title, green morocco extra, by Bedford, £10. 10s H. Bynneman, 1569 The Bindley copy sold for £22; that in the Bibliotheca Anglo-Poetica is priced £25.-The pages of verse called Sonnets and Epigrims were the first work of young Edmund Spenser, although his name does not appear. Although he made considerable variations in their text when he embodied them in his Complaints in 1591 (Visions of Petrarch and Visions of Bellay), they were substantially the same both here and in the published works. He must have written them when only sixteen years of age. 22318 VIRGIL, the xiii. Bookes of Æneidos, the first twelue beeinge the woorke of the diuine Poet Virgil Maro, and the thirtenth the supplement of Maphæus Vegius. Translated into English verse to the fyrst third part of the tenth Booke, by Thomas Phaer and the residue finished . . . By Thomas Twyne . . sm. 4to. good sound copy, hf. bd. rare, £7. 7s Imprinted at London by William How, for Abraham Veale, 1584 22319 VIRGIL. The Thirteene Bookes of Aeneidos. The first tvvelue beeing the woorke of the diuine Poet Virgil Maro, and the thirteenth, the supplement of Maphæus Vegius. Translated into English Verse, to the first third part of the tenth Booke, by THOMAS PHAER Esquier; and the residue finished . . . By THOMAS TWYNE sm. 4to. russia extra, gilt edges, £4. 1607 The xii Aeneids of Virgil, the most renowned LaureatPrince of Latine-Poets; translated into English deca-syllables by Ion Vicars, 12mo. calf, 36s 22320 Jolley in 1844, £2. 15s. 1632 translated by Gawin Douglas-see post under Scotland. WALLER (Edmund) Poet [1605-87]. 22321 22322 22323 22324 Poems, etc. written upon several occasions and to several persons with several additions never before printed, sm. 8vo. ruled throughout with red ink, and a portrait inserted, in the contemporary English red morocco binding, covered with arabesque ornament in gold pointillé, £8. 8s 1668 Poems, etc. written upon several occasions and to several persons, seventh edition, with several additions, 8vo. portrait, old calf, gilt edges, £2. 28 Lond. Tonson, 1705 On the fly-leaf at the end of this volume is a copy of a letter written by Waller to Lady Lucy Sidney, upon the occasion of the marriage of her sister, Lady Dorothy (Waller's Sacharissa), to Lord Spencer (Earl of Sunderland). Works, in verse and prose, published by Mr. Fenton, 4to. portrait after Sir G. Kneller, monument and numerous vignette portraits, etc. by G. Vertue, bright old calf extra, yellow edges (autograph of "MARLBOROUGH 1768 "MARLBOROUGH 1768" on title), from the Sunderland library, £4. 4s 1729 Works in verse and prose, 12mo. portrait, old red morocco, 7s 1758 WALTON (Isaac)-see post in alphabet of Prose Literature. 22325 WARD (Adolphus W.) History of English Dramatic Literature to the death of Queen Anne, 2 vols. 8vo. (published at 32s), cloth, 18s WARNER (William) [cir. 1558-1609]. 22326 1875 Albion's England, a continued Historie of the same Kingdome, from the first Inhabitants to the Raigne of Queene Elizabeth, sm. 4to. russia, £4. E. Bollivant for G. Potter, 1602 The thirteenth book appeared in this edition for the first time. This copy contains bibliographical notes by the late Mr. Mitford. In his own time Warner ranked with Spenser; he has since suffered undue depreciation. Many writers have admired the ballad-like simplicity of his epic poem called " Albion's England," in which the legendary history of the country is embodied. 22327 WARTON (T.) History of English Poetry, edited from Price's edition of 1824, by Taylor, 3 vols. 8vo. portrait, cloth, 24s 1840 WEAVER (Thomas) or WHICHCOT (Thomas) Poet, Sec. XVII. 22328 Plantagenets Tragicall Story: or, the Death of King Edward the Fourth: with the unnaturall Voyage of Richard the Third through the Red Sea of his Nephews innocent bloud, to his usurped Crowne. Metaphrased by T. W. 12mo. fine portrait by Marshall, calf, £2. 2s WEBSTER (John) Jacobean Dramatist. 22329 1649 The White Divel, or the Tragedy of Paulo Giordano see Decker. WITHER (George) Poet [1588-1667]. 22330 22331 22332 A Satyre dedicated to His Most Excellent Maiestie, 12mo. russia gilt, £3. 10s George Norton, 1614 With rare blank leaf A 2. This copy has the word "dedicated" on the title instead of "written," as in the usual copies. It is said that this spirited defence procured the author's release from imprisonment in the Marshalsea, in which he was confined for writing the "Abuses stript and whipt." Shepherds Hunting: being certaine Eglogs written during the time of the author's imprisonment in the Marshalsey, 12mo. fine copy in red morocco extra, gilt edges, by F. Bedford, £2. 16s T. Snodham, 1615 These Eclogues are complaints against the wicked who had hunted the Shepherd Roget (Wither) into bondage. There are many fine lines in them, mixed up with a great deal of rubbish. But all Wither's early books are rare. WITHER'S MOTTO: Nec Habeo, nec Careo, nec Curo, 12mo. engraved title by R. E. (Estrake ?), hf. bd. from the Sykes and Corser libraries, £3. 10s 1621 A satire upon the times, in the form of a self-description, vigorously written in heroic verse. The manly spirit, the condensed strength, and the poetical merit of this piece are in striking contrast to the diluted babble of his later works. It was very popular in the seventeenth century, and is in consequence very scarce now. 22333 WOODSTOCK FESTIVITIES. The Queenes Majesties Entertainment at Woodstocke (containing the Hermit's Tale of Contarenus and Caudina, by GASCOIGNE, and a Play on the same subject in verse, probably by GASCOIGNE also), sm. 4to. wanting signature A, UNIQUE, being the only copy known, Thomas Cadamn, 1585 Of high poetical and intrinsic merit. The "Fayery Queen" is frequently mentioned, which may have suggested the name of Spenser's poem. £18. 18s WORDSWORTH (William) Poet [1770-1850]. 22334 Poems (Sonnets, Moods of my own mind, etc. etc.), 2 vols. in 1, 12mo. FIRST EDITION, russia extra, £3. 10s 1807 YOUNG (Edward) Poet [1684-1765]. 22335 22336 22337 Works (including Night Thoughts), 3 vols. sm. 8vo. frontispieces, bds. 6s 1792 the Complaint, or Night Thoughts, with Notes and Life, large 8vo. a fine edition embellished with portrait and 15 plates by CORBOULD, brilliant impressions, old English red morocco extra, gilt edges, 30s 1793 the Complaint, or Night Thoughts, 12mo. pretty frontispieces by Westall, calf gilt, 7s 6d 1817 AND BOOKS OMITTED IN CLASS II. 1. Manuscripts. 22348 ROBERT OF GLOUCESTER'S CHRONICLE of ENGLAND, from the earliest traditional record to the year 1264, small folio, fine English MS. on vellum, written in double columns, with numerous illuminated initials, and a border to the first page, in an old halfrussia binding, £25. About A.D. 1440 This is not the Chronicle which goes under the name of "the Brute," or "Caxton's," or the "St. Albans'," but a much rarer volume, and quite complete. The anonymous compiler may have intended to pass off the work as original, but it is really Robert of Gloucester slightly modified into prose. In fact there is little alteration beyond the suppression of the rhyme words, and a certain modernization in form. It should be known that, although Robert of Gloucester traversed the same ground as "the Brute," and followed Geoffrey of Monmouth, there is still a considerable difference in details between the two Chronicles, and facts are frequently stated in opposite ways. To the story of King Arthur, nearly 60 columns, with thirty-four lines a column, are devoted. The Metrical Chronicle of Robert, as published by Hearne, extends to the year 1266 (when Prince Edward took the cross to start for the Holy Land). This MS. ends with the victory of the Barons at Lewes in 1264, and the last words are: "And Sir Edward ran to the ffroiers menores," which correspond to the line in Hearne's edition "And to the frere minors in to toun Sir Edward fleu vaste." Robert of Gloucester flourished towards the end of the thirteenth century. MSS. of his Chronicle are very rare. 22349 Towneley MSS. LETTERS OF ADVISE, Aunsweares, Comendatory, Consolatorye, Expository, Gratulatory, Narratory and Supplicatory. Also Queen Elizabeth's Speech in Parliament, 15 March, 1576; Speech of the Lord Keeper to the Queene, 1563, at Grenewich; Petition of the Lower House, 2 March, 1575, and Answeare (respecting Church Discipline), etc. oblong roy. folio, MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM, hf. bd. £15. About 1600 Transcripts into a single volume of a great number of important Letters, ranging over more than thirty years, say between Henry VIII's death and the year 1578. It is difficult to understand how the originals had all come into the hands of the scribe or his employer, but the work was done probably for a personage of exalted position. One of the letters dated 1572, and unsigned, vigorously urges upon my lord the duty of bringing the Queen to command the execution of Mary Queen of Scots. There is not a single piece in the whole volume which does not possess high historical and literary interest. There are Letters of Q. Elizabeth, Roger Ascham, The Lord Keeper, Sir Toby Mathews, the Duke of Norfolk, Sir Thomas Wyatt, T. Norton, Lord Bacon, T. Heneage, Sir N. Throckmorton, Sir Fr. Englefield, Archbp. Grindall, Deering, T. Cartwright, etc. The "begetter" of these transcripts may have been connected with the Duke of Norfolk, who was executed in 1572, as the latter is familiarly mentioned simply as "the Duke" in some of the headings. 22350 BALLADS AND SONGS of the Elizabethan aud Jacobean period, with portions of the Passionate Pilgrim, poems by Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Raleigh, the Earl of Essex, etc. contained in the common place-book of Bishop Hall, the epigrammatist, whose signature "Joseph Hall" appears on one of the fly-leaves, stout 16mo. Manuscript on paper, beautifully and clearly written in a very minute hand, at intervals between 1620 and 1642, in the contemporary gilt smooth-morocco binding, with clasps, £84. 1620-42 A priceless treasury of old English poetry; much of which might have been copied from loose broadsides which have now perished. As far as Shakspeare and Ben Jonson are concerned, this little volume is the sole source of an emendation and an addition which have now been accepted. The great mass of the contents is poetical and literary, although the intention of the writer or writers was to make a common-place book of miscellaneous character. It was thought by Mr. Collier that some of the writing dated from 1600 and was in a different hand from that which wrote the ballads about 1640; but it is really not certain that the differences of handwriting are referable to anything more than negligence and the natural change of time. There are 83 Ballads, most of which are nowhere else found than here, except in so far as Collier printed some forty of them in his volumes of "Registers of the Stationers Company," some for the Shakspeare Society. 22351 POEMS AND EPIGRAMS, by Sir Philip Sydney, Kit Marlowe, Earl of Essex, Sir Walter Raleigh, and others, contained in a commonplace book, kept by some person or persons who lived during the reigns of Elizabeth, James I and Charles I, apparently by the same hand that compiled Bishop Hall's common-place book described above, sm. 4to. Manuscript on paper, in the original parchment cover, £20. About 1620-40 A few of the things in this volume are also found in the little calf-bound Manuscript, but each seems to be generally complementary to the other. In the little one, we find on one page, a note vide my other booke, which appears to refer to this one. 22352 BALLADS AND SONGS (58 Old English) of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, transcribed by JOHN PAYNE COLLIER, in separate leaves or sheets, sm. 4to. £2. 10s About 1860 Transcripts from the little MS. volume, written about 1620-42, which is described above. 22353 RALEIGH (Sir Walter). Collier (J. P.) Manuscript Collection relating to Sir W. Raleigh, nearly all in the handwriting of J. P. Collier, but including an autograph letter of Dr. Bliss, etc. in a small 4to. parcel, £7. 10s About 1850-60 These were notes for the biography of the great Devonian worthy, and were only partly used by Collier, for the articles which he printed in the Archæologia. 22354 BECKFORD (William) TRANSCRIPTS from the autograph Notes written by Mr. Beckford on the fly-leaves of various works in his Library, 7 vols. folio, MANUSCRIPT, very distinctly written, russia, from the Beckford library, Hamilton Palace, £180. transcribed about 1850 Beckford's Vathek, and the Visit to Alcobaca, are all his literary remains, with the exception of these MS. notes which supply a truer picture of his character and mental accomplishments than any printed work could do. In the marginal observations written on the books of his library, he indulged his natural bent and exhibited freely the great variety and richness of his intellectual furniture, |