DEKKER (Thomas)—continued. 436 SHAKESPEARE IN SCARLET CLOTH WALKED IN THIS PROCESSION. THE WHOLE MAGNIFICENT ENTERTAINMENT: given to King James, Queene Anne his wife, and Henry Frederick the Prince; upon the day of his Majesties Tryumphant Passage (from the Tower) through his Honorable Citie (and Chamber) of London, the 15. of March, 1603. As well by the English, as by the Strangers, with the speeches and songs, delivered in the severall Pageants. And those speeches that before were publish't in Latin, now newly set forth in English. FIRST EDITION. Small 4to. Old dark blue morocco, g. e. London, Imprinted by E. Allde for Tho. Man the yonger, 1604. (SEE ILLUSTRATION, PLATE NO. XVI.) £65 This is a description of the Pageant upon the occasion of King James' State Procession in London, March 15, 1603. SHAKESPEARE AND EIGHT OTHER ACTORS OF HIS COMPANY WALKED IN THIS STATE PROCESSION FROM THE TOWER OF LONDON TO WESTMINSTER. EACH ACTOR RECEIVED FOUR AND A HALF YARDS OF SCARLET CLOTH TO WEAR AS A CLOAK ON THE OCCASION, AND IN THE DOCUMENT AUTHORISING THE GRANT (now in the Public Record Office) SHAKESPEARE'S NAME STANDS FIRST ON THE LIST. "The proclamation of James VI. as King of England having been announced on the death of Queen Elizabeth on the 24th March, 1603, he immediately proceeded to take possession of his new inheritance. After taking leave of his own countrymen in the Scottish metropolis, he set forward amidst the rejoicing and festivities of his new subjects to the seat of the British capital, distributing by the way a profusion of titles and distinctions, and conferring the honour of knighthood upon more than two hundred persons. The entertainments and hospitalities he received on his progress from his English subjects were so numerous and gratifying, that several weeks elapsed before he reached London. On arrival there he was welcomed with great joy and acclamations, and among other pageants prepared for his diversion was the Magnificent Entertainment,' the account of which by Dekker we offer for sale. This, owing to the dreadful plague which then prevailed in London, and to James's hunting and feasting in the country, had been much delayed, so that nearly twelve months had elapsed from the period of his accession to his public entry from the Tower, and was much curtailed in the representation as well as in its passage through the city. It commences with A Device (projecting downe, but till now publisht) that should haue serued at his Majesties first accesse to the Citie,' in which the genius of the place first salutes the King in some verses, and the Seven Arches of Triumph erected on the occasion are noticed. The approach of the royal monarch, for whose entertainment these preparations were made, is thus described: Behold, a farre off they spie him, richly mounted on a white Iennet, vnder a rich Canopy, sustained by eight Barons of the Cique-ports; (Continued over) DEKKER (Thomas): MAGNIFICENT ENTERTAINMENT-continued. 437 the Towre serving that morning but for his with-drawing Chamber, wherein hee made him ready: and from thence stept presently into his Citie of London, which for the time might worthily' borrow the name of his Court Royall: His passage along that Court, offering it selfe (for more State) through seuen Gates, of which the first was erected at Fanchurch.' "A description of this then ensues, and is succeeded by accounts of 'The Italian Pageant,' and 'The Pageant of the Dutch-men by the Royall-Exchange,' with all the inscriptions and speeches made, The Device at Soper-lane end,' with representations of the five Senses, the three Graces, and other subjects, a speech in verse by a Boy, one of the Choristers belonging to Paules,' and the song sung by two Boyes (Choristers of Paules) deliuered in sweete and rauishing voyces.'" (Collectanea Anglo-Poetica.) DELLA CASA (Gio.). THE REFIN'D COURTIER; or, A £2 155 A free paraphrase of parts of the "Galateo," by N.W., who dedicates it to the Duke of Monmouth. 438 DELONEY (Thomas). THOMAS OF READING; or, the Sixe Worthie Yeomen of the West, now for the sixth time corrected and enlarged by T. D. Printed in BLACK LETTER, interspersed with Songs. London, Printed by Eliz. Allde for Robert Bird, 1632. £52 10S "Thomas Deloney was a famous Ballad maker of his day. He appears to have drawn upon himself the indignation of Kemp (one of the original actors of Shakespeare). Kemp is celebrated for his miraculous morris-dance, performed in nine days from London to Norwich, but this feat having been misrepresented in the popular ballads, Kemp remonstrated against the author. Thomas of Reading contains many curious allusions to manners and customs now obsolete."-Thomas' Early Press Romances. DAVID GARRICK'S COPY. 439 DEMOSTHENES. SEVERAL ORATIONS, exciting the Athenians to oppose the Exorbitant Power of Philip King of Macedon. 12mo. Original calf. London, 1744. £6 6s From the Library of David Garrick, with his fine bookplate inside cover. 440 DENHAM (Sir John). THE SOPHY. As it was acted at the Private House in Black Friars by his Majesties Servants. FIRST EDITION. Folio. Fine copy in full dark green morocco gilt, inside dentelles, g. e. London, Printed by Richard Hearne for Thomas Walkley, and are to be sold at his shop at the Signe of the Flying Horse betweene York-house and Britaines Burse, 1642. £56 Denham's earliest publication. The plot-the scene of which is in Turkey— is drawn from Sir Thomas Herbert's Travels' (1634), and Robert Baron a few years later utilised the same story in his Mirza.' Waller said of Denham's performance He broke out like the Irish rebellion, three score thousand strong, when nobody was aware, or in the least suspected it.' 441 DENMARK. AN ACCOUNT OF DENMARK, as it was in the Year 1692. 442 8vo. Original calf. London, Printed in the year 1694. Dealing with the geography, customs, laws, trade, etc., of the country. 12s 6d DEBES (Lucas Jacobson). FOEROE, & FOEROA RESERATA : that is a Description of the Islands and Inhabitants of Foeroe, being seventeen Islands subject to the King of Denmark, wherein several Secrets of Nature are brought to Light. Translated into English by J. Sterpin. With curious folding map. 12mo. Original calf. London, Printed by F. L. for William Iles, 1676. £1 18s Includes the curious section "of Specters and Illusions of Satan in Feroe." 443 DENNIS (J.). LIBERTY ASSERTED. A Tragedy. FIRST EDITION. Small 4to. New boards. London, 1704. £3 IOS Canada is a vast "The Scene of this Tragedy lies at Agnie, in Canada. tract of land in Northern America, on the back of New England and New York. As New England and New York and the country about them belong to the English, a considerable part of Canada is possess'd by the French; and as the English and French divide the Country they divide the Natives."-Preface. DENNIS (J.)-continued. 444 445 446 A PLOT, AND NO PLOT. A Comedy, As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. London, Printed for R. Parker, N.D. (c. 1697). £335 This play was intended by its Author as a satire upon the credulity of the Jacobite party. THE USEFULNESS OF THE STAGE, to the happiness of Mankind, to Government, and to Religion, occasioned by a late book written by Jeremy Collier. of FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Boards. London, 1698. £2 18s Mentioning the first establishment of the drama in England, Dennis speaks so many suns at once appearing. The reader will immediately comprehend that I speak of Spencer, Bacon, and Raleigh, whose like had never been and never would be seen." Why Shakespeare should be ignored is not apparent, in view of the earlier and later writings of Dennis, unless the author's views underwent a temporary change. The omission was probably accidental; otherwise Dennis might rank as founder of the heretics who promulgate the Bacon-Shakespeare theory. (Jaggard's Shakespeare Bibliograph). DEVIL TO PAY AT ST. JAMES'S (The): or, a full and true Account 15 pp., small 4to. Half morocco. 447 DIALLING. BROWN (John). THE DESCRIPTION AND USE OF THE TRIANGULAR QUADRANT, being a Particular and General Instrument, useful at Land or Sea. With plates. London, Printed by John Darby, etc., 1671. HOROLOGIOGRAPHIA; or, The Art of Dyalling, being the DIALLING: BROWN (John): TRIANGULAR QUADRANT—continued. Second Book of the Use of the Triangular Quadrant. Also the use of the same Instrument in Navigation. 448 449 With numerous plates. London, Printed by John Darby, etc., 1671. Bound together. Thick small 8vo. Old calf. Shewing the Natural, Artificial, and Instrumental way of making of Sun Dials on any flat Superficies." etc. COLLINS (John). THE SECTOR ON A QUADRANT, or a Treatise containing the Description and Use of three several Quadrants; Each rendred many ways both General and Particular. Accommodated for Dyalling, for the resolving of all Proportions Instrumentally, and for the ready finding the Hour and Azimuth universally, in the equal Limb. Of great use to Seamen, and Practitioners in the Mathematiques. Also, an Appendix touching Reflected Dyalling, from a glass however Posited. With large cuts of each Quadrant. FIRST EDITION. Small 4to. Original calf. London, Printed by J. Macock, 1658. GUNTER (Edm.). £6 18s THE DESCRIPTION AND USE OF THE SECTOR: The Crosse-staffe and other instruments, for such as are With the elaborately engraved title-page and the printed one. FIRST EDITION. Small 4to. Original calf. London, Printed by William Jones, 1623-24. |