183 LILLY (Wm.). Monarchy or No Monarchy in England. Grebner his Prophecy concerning Charles Son of Charles, his Greatnesse, Victories, Conquests, The Northern Lyon, or Lyon of the North, and Chicken of the Eagle discovered who they are, of what Nation, etc. Small 4to. Full straight-grained morocco gilt, g. e., by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Very scarce, with the curious full-page woodcuts at end. The Copy in the Hoe sale brought $80. £6 6s This book by the famous astrologer, William Lilly, when published excited great attention. In it he asserted that England should no more be governed by a King.' At the end there are 16 hieroglyphical engravings, two of which he afterwards declared portrayed the Plague and Fire of London respectively. KING EDWARD VI. CATECHISM. 184 LITURGY. Catechismus Brevis, Christianae Disciplinae summam continens, omnibus Ludimagistris authoritate REGIA commendatus. 185 Huic Catechismo adiuncti sunt Articulì, de quibus in ultima Synodi Londinensi, Anno Dom. 1552, ad tollendam opinionum dissensionem, & consensum verae religionis firmandum, inter Episcopos & alios eruditos atque pios viros conuenerat: Regia similiter authoritate promulgati. Small 8vo. Calf, antique style. Excusum Londini, apud Reginaldum Wolfium, Regiae Maiestatis in Latinis Typographum, Anno Domini, M.D.LIII. (1553). £9 10s First Edition of King Edward the Sixth's Catechism in Latin. Two issues appeared in 1553; one having the 42 Articles numbered in the margins; the other (the present issue) without numbers and having the Colophon on a separate leaf, as described by Ames (Typog. Antiq., Ed. Dibdin, Vol. 4, pp. 19-20, 36, 38). Ditto. ANOTHER COPY. Editio Secunda. Small 8vo. Mottled calf extra, inside dentelles, g. e., by RIVIERE. Tiguri apud Andream Gesnerum F. Anno Domini, 1553. £3 3s The Second Edition of Edward VI's Catechism. The First was printed in London in the same year. 186 LOCKE (John). An Essay concerning Humane Understanding, in Four Books. FIRST EDITION. Folio. Bound by Riviere in new full mottled calf extra, gilt leaves. London, 1690. £5 5s 187 LONDON. ADAMUS (J.). Londinum; The Renowned City of London surveyed and illustrated in a Latine Poem by J. Adamus, a Transylvanian, and translated into English by W. F., of Grays-Inn. Small 4to. Calf. London, Printed by J. R. for the Author, 1670. £3 3s Very scarce. This poem, unnoticed by Gough, is reprinted in the 4th vol. of the Harleian Miscellany. 188 LONDON. Cheap-Side Crosse. The dolefull Lamentation of Cheapside Crosse ; or, Old England Sick of the Staggers, the dissenting and disagreeing in matters of opinion, together with the sundry sorts of sects now raving and reigning being the maine causes of the disturbance and hinderance of the Commonwealth. Woodcut of the Cross on title and another very curious cut on page 4. London, 1641. (Top of title just touched by binder.) An Answer to the Lamentation of Cheapside Crosse, together with the reasons why so many doe desire the downfall of it, and all such Popish Reliques, also the downfall of Antichrist by Samuel Lovedeay. Woodcut of the Cross on title. London (1641). The two tracts together in I vol. Small 4to. Half calf. Two very scarce tracts on Cheap-Side Cross; the second is partly in verse. £2 15s 189 LONDON. Cheap-side Crosse censured and condemned by a letter sent from the Vice-Chancellour and other learned men of the famous Universitie of Oxford, in answer to a question propounded by the Citizens of London, concerning the said Crosse, in the yeere 1600, in which yeer it was beautified. As also some divine Arguments taken out of a sermon against the Crosse by John Archer, sometimes preacher at Allhallows, Lombard-street. Small 4to. 14 pp. Half roan. London, 1641. 190 LYNDEWOOD (William, 1375 ?-1446, Bishop of Hereford). £1 5s Provinciale seu Constitutiones Anglie cum summariis atque iustis annotationibus: honestis characteribus summaque accuratione rursum impresse. Gothic Letter (2 sizes), double columns. Beautifully printed in red and black, with numerous fine woodcut initial letters. Folio. Full russia extra, gilt edges, by KALTHOEBER (with his ticket), VERY FINE COPY. Paris, Andree Bocard, 1501. £8 15s "The Provinciale' is a digest in five books of the synodal constitutions of the Province of Canterbury from the time of Stephen Langton to that of Henry Chichele, accompanied by an explanatory gloss in unusually good Latin, and is the principal authority for English Canon law."-Dict. of Nat. Biog. 191 LYNDSAY (Sir David). The Works of the famous and Worthy Knight, Sir David Lindesay, of the Mount, alias Lyon, King of Armes, newly corrected and vindicated from the former errors wherewith they were corrupted and augmented with sundry Works, etc. Small 8vo. Full morocco, g. e. Glasgow, Printed by Robert Sanders, 1696. £5 5s Small hole on title and blank margin repaired. 192 LYNNE (Walter). The Beginning and Endynge of all Popery, or Popishe Kyngdome. [Taken out of olde prophecies, more then thre houndreth yeres past to the amendemente of thys present Worlde. Set forth out of hye Almayne into Englyshe by Gwalter Lynne.] Large woodcut on title, repeated, and 15 curious woodcuts in the Text. Black Letter. FIRST EDITION. Small 4to. Full morocco, antique style, g. e., by Francis Bedford. Printed at London in Aldergate Strete, by John Herforde, at the Costes & Charges of Gwalter Lynne. N.D. [1548.] A fine copy of this extremely rare work. £14 14s Walter Lynne (fl. 1550), printer and translator, was an ardent reformer, and enjoyed the patronage of Abp. Cranmer, whose Catechism he printed the same year as the above. The work is dedicated to King Edward VI. 193 MACE (Thos.). Musick's Monument; or, a Remembrancer of the Best Practical Musick, Both DIVINE, and CIVIL, that has ever been known, to have been in the World. " Divided into Three Parts. With fine impression of the Faithorne portrait. Folio. Original calf, rebacked. London, 1676. £10 10s 'An adequate analytical description of the book, which is quaintly written, is given in Hawkin's' History of Music." Burnet calls it matchless, and Southey devotes four chapters of his 'Doctor to a discussion of its merits. The work is divided into three parts, of which the first treats of the condition of parochial psalmody and cathedral music, and the means of improving them; the second of the lute and lute-playing; and the third, of the viol and of music in general."-D.N.B. 194 MARSTON (John). The Workes of Mr. John Marston, being Tragedies and Comedies, collected into one volume. The Very Rare FIRST EDITION, with the interesting Dedication, only found in a few copies. 12mo. Old calf. In "What you Will" is a line taken from Shakespeare's Richard III. :— " A Horse, a Horse, My Kingdome for a Horse. Look the I speake play scrappes." |